Quote Originally Posted by Vincent, Thunder God View Post
This is going to get some people angry, but...

I'm not going to acknowledge the 9/11 anniversary, even though many innocent people died, including people from my country, and I'll tell you why. 9/11 has been publicized massively because the media is basically controlled by America. What we didn't see, and will never see on television are the horrible things that America itself has done. If we saw more footage of American soldiers in the Middle East, now and in other disputes there, we all would really realize what devastating things the Americans have done. I mourn over those, not 9/11, because, in the end, America has done much more to other countries than 9/11 did to them.

And of you're not quite convinced yet, how about the passive agression America has created. The American government continues to do very little towards Africa, were thousands die every day. And, as seen in the film Hotel Rwanda, the American peacekeepers left when things were getting violent. They evacuated all Americans, but they didn't care about the innocent non-American lifes there.
I very much agree with you on all parts.

But in the back of my mind 9/11 will always be one of those things, that I will never forget. Like some people never forget where they were, when JFK was murdered. USA has done a lot of bad things around the world, but no one deserves to die that way... no matter what. And therefore I'm gonna do what I've done every year since. Light a candle for the people that died and once again try to figure out, why the world has turned out the way it has... from time to time - it's a sad, sad place