Anyone remember the REALLY dark days? Check in.

[senseandsensibility]

I'm talking about the days and months after 9-11, when there was literally a blackout in the corporate media on anything remotely resembling criticism of Herr Chimpy. I MEAN A BLACKOUT!

Even the likes of Bagala was spouting nothing but love and support for the idiot. No questions were being asked about why this administration had let this act happen. Cynthia McKinney was practically lynched for suggesting that this administration, the administration that was in charge on 9-11, could be responsible for it!

Through my grief and numbness, I had to witness this horrible "rallying around" the puppet who should have been protecting us. AND IT WENT ON FOREVER,

Any memories of that dark time? I know things seem hopeless now at times, but we have progressed since then. And it is due to activists like you, my friends. Don't let anyone discourage you.:-)

[Clark2008]

1. Oh, yes. It was miserable!

My son is half Arabic. My ex is Arabic. I know a lot about that culture. I would throw shoes at the television everytine some STUPID media type would mime the Bush talking points that were absolutely incorrect!

Here I was, a housewife at the time, sitting at home, knowing for DAMN sure that the Iraqis had nothing to do with 9/11 and would NOT throw flowers at us for "liberating" them. What PAP!

I was going through a divorce, couldn't find a job and trying hard to keep my wits about me to raise my son; meanwhile, these pompus asses on Capital Hill were getting paid millions to lie or misunderstand an entire culture of people. It was sickening.

[senseandsensibility]

5. This administration

and its lapdog media had no interest or respect for other cultures. They are willingly ignorant and wear it as a badge of honor.

[etherealtruth]

10. I can empathise...

Not only was I horrified by the events of 9/11, I had to worry about the safety of my beautiful (then) eight and six year old children, whose heritage is Irish Catholic (mine) and Indian Muslim. The truth of the matter is I am still more fearful of a racist attack against my children (especially when they are with my ex-husband) than I am any of us being a victim of any other type of terrorism!

[newyawker99]

24. Hi etherealtruth!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. I recall wondering what planet everyone else was on

I've never been fond of chest-thumping jiingoistic displays, and all the flags sprouting everywhere creeped me out, especially the idiots who felt compelled to put a flag on either side of their front windshield as if they were antlers or something.

After the reports of attacks on Muslims, I noticed that all the immigrant-owned businesses in my neighborhood suddenly had American flags in their windows or on their walls.

I kept hearing the talking heads rave about how "Bush has really grown into his role as president since 9/11."

I knew the seed had taken root when I was visiting my mother and stepfather at Christmas 2001, and a friend of my stepfather came over for lunch. All of a sudden, he said, a propos of nothing, "You know, Bush has really grown into his role as president since 9/11." AAAARRRRGGGH!

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

3. Yeah, I do.

I remember when * started to make his case about Saddam Hussein. I was so frustrated that the "media" couldn't or wouldn't see through the BS.

I ain't no Mensa candidate, but I knew that Saddam had absolutely nothing to do with 9-11. It was sooo frustrating.

[senseandsensibility]

6. That's the funny thing

I'm no Mensa candidite either. But I knew we were being scammed. That's when I realized the media wasn't stupid. It was whoring for * with an agenda.

[atommom]

4. Yes, it was excruciating! It's still bad, but not AS bad.

I still see and hear enough jingoism to creep me out, but the intensity has waned a bit.

[musette_sf]

7. you mean when Vanity Fair

had the hurl-worthy cover and article of the Bu$h Badministration, like they were actually legitimate?

I was one of those who thought on the evening on 9/11/01, that it could be entirely possible that Bu$hCo LIHOP. The True Crime fanatic that I am, the first thing I thought about was Who Would Benefit From This The Most. Sadly the only thing that came to mind was the BFEE and Associates. I say "sadly" not because they don't deserve every damn thing coming to them when and if the truth outs, but because America has been completely betrayed by those who swore to protect her.

I have to admit that I am still in the dark time. Now, I have added to my top reading interests, any and everything about the day, the building, the people, and what lead up to the day. My husband thinks I am kind of a kook and kind of obsessed by it. The way I look at it, it's no more of an obsession than his need to watch every possible program on Hitler on the History Channel. The difference is that we still have a chance to bring these criminals and their co-conspirators to justice.

In memory of
Juan Cisneros
2/16/77 - 9/11/01

[senseandsensibility]

9. Yes

I'd forgotten that cover. I'm also a true-crime fanatic, but that's not why I was suspicious of this regime from the beginning. It's because, by then, it was already obvious that they were evil liars and capable of anything.

[seabeyond]

8. no one is going to tell me to shut up again, evAH n/t

[Pastiche423]

11. For almost the entire month

following 9/11, I was afraid to speak w/people - afraid that my thoughts of who the 9/11 perps were might spill out of my mouth.

Then I found Ewing2000 and knew I wasn't alone.

[fliesincircles]

12. When Barbara Lee

Stood on the House floor and opposed the authority of * to use the military to fight "terrorism" I started dancing in front of the TV. That was the first glimmer of light. Dark days INDEED!

[senseandsensibility]

15. Why does it take a woman

to stand up to these bastids? Cynthia McKinney, Barbara Lee, Barbara Boxer....gentlemen, that's HOW IT'S DONE!!

[FrenchieCat]

13. Yes....I remember,

How such an horrendous tradegy slowly became the best thing that ever happened to the Fraud President. I remember feeling like I was from another planet as the presstitutes begin to manipulate us more than any other time in history.

I remember how * went on what was left of the area with his BullSh*t horn....and started chanting USA...and then his ratings shot up by, like, 20 points.

Yes, I remember the insanity.

The worse thing about it all....is that those times are actually still with us. We are still being manipulated on a daily basis. The media are still covering for the imbecile. The only difference now is that the ones doing the dying are not in New York, but in Iraq.

I can't believe that we have to live under this regime for another 4 years. The last 4 years took so god-doggone long to pass....I've aged like 10 years in the process of waiting for the elections....and all for naught! This is really taking a gigantic bite out of the prime of my life! I better stop thinking about it....cause it's starting to completely piss me off.....AGAIN!

[many a good man]

14. I remember all the WWII movies on cable

Suddenly they were on all the channels and our boys (and girls) were soon marching off to take vengeance on the Afghanis.

I remember naively hoping that the tragedy would lead to an awakening and reappraisal of our foreign policies that produce such devastating blow backs. Americans were asking for the first time "why don't they like us?" and all our fearless leader could say was "they hate us for our freedom."

The converse of the old saying "nothing succeeds like success" is gradually starting to take hold. Glimpses of the reality behind the scenery is slowly breaking the audience's illusion. We have to stop associating what's happening with **. Instead we have tar ALL those who helped make this all possible.

[Cheswick2.0]

16. I am part of the proud 10 percent

I didn't support bush after he was elected and I NEVER supported the war, not in Iraq, not on terror. Terrorism is a crime not a war.

Yeah and I remmember LOVING Robert Byrd for standing for us against the war and against the Patriot Act. For that he gets my undying respect no matter what else he does until he retires.

[hamerfan]

17. It was a week or two after 9/11...

And driving home from work I turned on the old Limbaugh show (to hear how the pig was spinning it) and Guiliani called in, and got right through of course. Guiliani said to Rush, "You are a great man, Rush". That's when I knew Rudolph was just full of crap. After hearing day after day how he single-handedly saved New Yawk from mass hysteria, to hear that just sent made my stomach turn :puke:

[senseandsensibility]

18. Rudy is such a sleaze

I think the reason he got so much positive publicity after 9-11 was his competence, at least compared to *. He could speak, he seemed to genuinely care, and he knew the city. He went to so many funerals and didn't seem to be afraid to get his hands dirty. Of course * makes anyone look good by comarison.

[mandyky]

19. Dan Rather rightly called it self- censoring

and comparinf it to "necklacing".

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

21. I believe that we are beginning to see a faint light

at the end of the tunnel though.

More and more people that I know are tuning out the corporate media and starting to think for themselves rather than being sheep.

The fact the search for the WMD's was called off, the obscenity of a 40 million dollar Inauguration while Americans are fighting and dying in Iraq and the "Crisis in Social Security", has gotten people thinking.

What was it P.T. Barnum said: You can't fool everyone all the time, or something along those lines.

I could be wrong, but I think the American people are starting to wake up from this nightmare.

[Greybnk48]

20. I remember more clearly what pulled me out of that funk

and gave me hope. The first ad I saw for Farenheit 911! When I saw the trailer for the first time I jumped up and hooted. Everything before that was a dark fog (except for a brief blip from Jeffords).

[JCMach1]

22. there are many 10%ers here

[senseandsensibility]

23. Yes, and we were SOOOOO

%%##@@*## RIGHT, weren't we?:toast: So now they should be listening to us...right? Right?:eyes: