The screen contains our public mourning. The names of the dead are read (again). The screen projects images of the dead. Nine years later how have the United States and the world been changed since that morning when planes used as weapons of mass destruction plowed into our collective psych and brought down along with The Towers ALL American’s “inalienable rights and liberty and pursuit of happiness.”

The political manipulation and exploitation of uncertainty has legitimatized hateful speak and division along racial and religious lines in speeches where “God” is code for White Christian (male). 

When will the vocal minority and White Anglo Saxon Protestants give up the delusion of proprietary divine right to this country and the interpretation of the Constitution as if it it was written as a mandate for their dreams and desires?

When will the vocal minority break free of Imperialist mindset carried over on the May Flower to become Twenty-First Century citizens of a democratic United States? True followers of Christian philosophy to love thy neighbor, turn the other cheek, and “give to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s” (separation of church and state)?

When will the vocal minority realize their hate speak is UN-American? The fairytale they are fed about the “Founding Fathers” intents is 234 years old? That to survive peoples and countries must adapt, and those incapable of adapting to change become extinct?

When will the vocal minority that there is NO difference between their misappropriation of the Bible and the Islamic extremist misappropriation of the Koran? That Christian fundamentalism is as hateful of truth as is Islamic fundamentalism.

When will the vocal minority realize that bearers of guns kill ideas and progress in the exact same way the tyrants they fear do? Guns are not a democratic tool.

When will the vocal minority realize that it is better to love than to hate—better to mediate than to threaten—better to look for the positive than the negative—better to celebrate similarities than disparage differences, best to embrace diversity?

When will the vocal minority, the politicians, corporations, and financial backers (billionaires Murdock & Koch brothers) come out from behind hate to participate in rebuilding this country for the future generations that will carry the burden of their parent’s political and commercial exploitation that will leave a morally and intellectually bankrupt country as inheritance?

When will  the vocal minority realize they cannot not take back what has not been—a democratic government that cares deeply for the welfare of its citizens but is hampered by greed and false prophets who have come out of the wilderness for their own glory and power lust?

September 11, 2010 we as a nation can best commemorate that day by remembering the national unity and overwhelming global solidarity that overflowed between the attacks on the World Trade Center and  the Pentagon and the war in Iraq. By tapping into the potential that existed in period of solidarity, not only to bring to justice the perpetrators, but to heal open wounds.

The names of the 3000 victims are called out. Their families and friends are nurtured. Maybe it is over the top to make a ritual of commemoration but if we must then shouldn’t we also include the names of Iraq & Afghanistan war dead, all the war dead including the hundred or more thousand Iraqi, Afghani, and Pakistani civilians?