Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003
A&E "7 Days in September"
Thomas M. Miovas, Jr.
I've just finished watching the A&E channel's documentary about
the terrorist attacks of 911 called "7 Days in September." The
filming was done by six or seven professional and amateur
videographers from the moment the planes hit to about a week later,
in and around New York City. The selection of the videographers is
very telling.
Sure, there were expressions of righteous anger, but these were
generally followed by the person expressing such anger hugging his
or her opponent once the arguing was over. The only proper verbal
response that was permitted to go on at length was that of a young
boy, who said, regarding Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein,
that "they ought to--quote un quote--be brought to justice"...but
added that "they should be hunted down and killed --just kill them."
I can't believe that in those seven days following 911 they didn't
come across one adult who insisted that we go to war and that we
go to war *now*. They did, however, find plenty of people who
said we ought to give peace a chance, and even filmed a group of
peaceniks singing the song by the same title.
Almost two years after 911, the group of videographers are sitting
around near ground zero talking about how 911 effected their lives,
and none of them showed any support whatsoever for the war
against terrorism or President George Bush. One of the
videographers happened to have caught former President Bill
Clinton on tape when he was in Manhattan, but evidently none of
them happened to have been in town when President Bush gave his
"We hear you...and soon the whole world will hear you!"
impromptu speech.
One of them, who during the documentary stated that the twin
towers of the World Trade Center represented the evils of America,
came out and said that he had been attending anti-war protests for
the past two years. One of them, from Haiti I think, even said that
sometimes he takes the side of the Americans and sometimes he
takes the side of the Arabs. Not one world of protest by their fellow
video makers was heard--nor a single gasp of shock.
Don't watch this documentary unless you want to know that our
greatest enemies are within this country--and they ain't Arabs or
Muslims.
