Quote of the Day

by Brian Pierce • Sep 11th, 2007 at 9:45 am • 5 comments

I’ve been pretty busy starting law school (and will be for, you know, a while), so I haven’t posted anything substantive, and I’m not about to now, but I thought this was an appropriate quote to commemorate the sixth anniversary of 9/11 given the current circumstances:

9/11 has been robbed of its significance. It no longer lights up the neurons recalling an American tragedy, but those that understand political strategy. I hate them for that. So this isn’t a 9/11 remembrance. We’ve never been allowed to forget 9/11. Not for an instant. What we have been allowed to forget is 2,974 individuals who perished in that attack,who didn’t die because they wanted to invade Iraq, or because they thought Republicans were insufficiently competitive in elections, but because they were murdered. Remember them.
-Ezra Klein
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  1. Comment by Brenda Kay on 11 September 2007 at 11:48 pm:

    Nice quote Brian.

    If you follow the link and read Klein’s blog, one commenter wrote about how 9-11 is the Bush Administration’s Reichstag Fire.

    A fascinating and frightening concept, don’t you think?

  2. Comment by kofi the if you're too white or too rich you can always be on 12 September 2007 at 12:48 am:

    Hey Brian, how’s being admitted over your head?

  3. Comment by kofi the if you're too white or too rich you can always be on 12 September 2007 at 12:48 am:

    Hey Brian, how’s being admitted over your head?

  4. Comment by kofi the if you're too white or too rich you can always be on 12 September 2007 at 12:48 am:

    Hey Brian, how’s being admitted over your head?

  5. Comment by Jon on 12 September 2007 at 11:07 pm:

    Methinks the envy is palpable.

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