Commentary
A mother's cry on the anniversary of her daughter's murder
By Jack Dalton and Donna Marsh O'Connor
Online Journal Contributing Writers
September 11, 2004—Fear and blind hatred; threats and spurious accusations; these appear to be the accepted "norms" of the Bush/Cheney cabal.
It is very apparent to this old vet that Bush, Cheney and the rest of the "Mayberry Machiavellis" surrounding them need high levels of chaos and instability to operate and to push their "agenda" of world dominance; their vision of Pax Americana. This they have turned into an art form. All one has to do is look at Iraq.
September 11 is exactly what they needed and were looking for to rally the great unwashed masses, us the people of this nation, behind the pre-existent Iraq invasion and war plans. This was right out of the Project for a New American Century's playbook when it stated the nation would need a "Pearl Harbor" type event to rally the nation behind invading Iraq.
The murders of 3,000 people on 9/11 provided Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz with exactly what they needed to push the "Liberation of Iraq" down the throats of not only this nation, but the rest of the world as well. It seems however, that the only people that fell for this "scam" are right here in the good old U.S. of A.
Well before 9/11, during Cheney's "secret" energy task force meetings, Cheney, Ken Lay, et al, had mapped out Iraq's oil fields, refineries and pipelines. They turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to all pre-9/11 warnings. They were too busy looking at Iraq's oil fields and drooling to concern themselves with the notion of a major "terrorist" attack on the U.S. Why worry about that when there are oil fields to "liberate?"
Why were all the warnings ignored by Bush/Cheney? For me that is an easy one to answer: they want their "New World Order" and will stop at nothing in their quest for power and domination. And that includes the deaths of 3,000 people on 9/11.
One of the innocents that was murdered on that day, Vanessa Lang Langer, was in Tower ll, 93rd floor, and was told to "stay at your desk, you are safe."
Vanessa's mother, Donna, who teaches Writing and Rhetoric at Syracuse University, has a lot to say about what happened on 9/11 and about Cheney's recent warning, threat, whatever you want to call it, when he told us a vote for Kerry is inviting a new 9/11. Outrageous is an understatement.
An open letter to Dick Cheney on the anniversary of my daughter's murder:
Thank you for warning me about my vote for John Kerry. In this version of America, the one you all have crafted, clarity is very difficult to come by. Let me make myself perfectly clear: my daughter was murdered on 9/11/2001, on an absolutely clear, late summer morning. She was four months pregnant and, that morning, five minutes after the first of two planes hit the World Trade Center, she was told she was "safe." She was told to "stay at her desk." She was found whole and intact ten feet from an alley between Towers IV and V. I cannot tell you how I would have appreciated such a clear warning before September 11th, or even on September 11th. Before that day, there were warnings, clear warnings, but they only reached the desk of George W. Bush. And I note he did nothing to stop the events of 9/11.
Nothing.
There were other warnings during Clinton's tenure in the White House (many I'm sure you don't need me to innumerate)—some, though they were perhaps more coded than your recent missive, came in the form of Ken Starr's investigation of Clinton. As a mother or a citizen of this country, did I read this as a warning then? No. I did not. Was this money well spent by the Republicans? Many of my Republican friends at the time did not think so. Could we Americans afford this kind of investigation, knowing now how much we needed Clinton to be free to pursue more pressing issues? No. Should I have read in my lack of understanding of the import of the Ken Starr investigation that there was something you people wanted to have occur? Was this a deliberate distraction? Has anyone in the media since, or, in fact, has anyone in any office of power in this nation asked any of you to, perhaps, answer for that?
Anyone?
I ask these questions now because the Bush/Cheney administration and all of your followers are the greatest beneficiaries of the events post-9/11, and I take your warning as an indication of what you guys will bring to America if Kerry wins. Get this clear, Mr. Cheney, what you guys will bring to America. I fear you, believe it or not, more than I fear another bin Laden attack and that is why I am asking you these questions now.
Because I take your warning as an admission of your ties to that event. Even, no especially, if that admission is not what you intended.
So thank you, once again. And, understand how truly thankful I am to hear you articulate what only I seem willing to articulate: That if Kerry wins, you will come back at us.
We are forewarned.
But know this: I will never again watch my values, and the values of my fellow Americans be trampled on by so much corruption, so much duplicity and so much unadulterated hate without speaking out. You are not a Republican. You have shamed Republicans. And many of them, I pray, will be voting with me, in hope as well as fear, for John Forbes Kerry.
Donna Marsh O'Connor, Mother of Vanessa Lang Langer, WTC, Tower II, 93rd floor
A mother's cry on the anniversary of her daughter's murder
By Jack Dalton and Donna Marsh O'Connor
Online Journal Contributing Writers
September 11, 2004—Fear and blind hatred; threats and spurious accusations; these appear to be the accepted "norms" of the Bush/Cheney cabal.
It is very apparent to this old vet that Bush, Cheney and the rest of the "Mayberry Machiavellis" surrounding them need high levels of chaos and instability to operate and to push their "agenda" of world dominance; their vision of Pax Americana. This they have turned into an art form. All one has to do is look at Iraq.
September 11 is exactly what they needed and were looking for to rally the great unwashed masses, us the people of this nation, behind the pre-existent Iraq invasion and war plans. This was right out of the Project for a New American Century's playbook when it stated the nation would need a "Pearl Harbor" type event to rally the nation behind invading Iraq.
The murders of 3,000 people on 9/11 provided Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz with exactly what they needed to push the "Liberation of Iraq" down the throats of not only this nation, but the rest of the world as well. It seems however, that the only people that fell for this "scam" are right here in the good old U.S. of A.
Well before 9/11, during Cheney's "secret" energy task force meetings, Cheney, Ken Lay, et al, had mapped out Iraq's oil fields, refineries and pipelines. They turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to all pre-9/11 warnings. They were too busy looking at Iraq's oil fields and drooling to concern themselves with the notion of a major "terrorist" attack on the U.S. Why worry about that when there are oil fields to "liberate?"
Why were all the warnings ignored by Bush/Cheney? For me that is an easy one to answer: they want their "New World Order" and will stop at nothing in their quest for power and domination. And that includes the deaths of 3,000 people on 9/11.
One of the innocents that was murdered on that day, Vanessa Lang Langer, was in Tower ll, 93rd floor, and was told to "stay at your desk, you are safe."
Vanessa's mother, Donna, who teaches Writing and Rhetoric at Syracuse University, has a lot to say about what happened on 9/11 and about Cheney's recent warning, threat, whatever you want to call it, when he told us a vote for Kerry is inviting a new 9/11. Outrageous is an understatement.
An open letter to Dick Cheney on the anniversary of my daughter's murder:
Thank you for warning me about my vote for John Kerry. In this version of America, the one you all have crafted, clarity is very difficult to come by. Let me make myself perfectly clear: my daughter was murdered on 9/11/2001, on an absolutely clear, late summer morning. She was four months pregnant and, that morning, five minutes after the first of two planes hit the World Trade Center, she was told she was "safe." She was told to "stay at her desk." She was found whole and intact ten feet from an alley between Towers IV and V. I cannot tell you how I would have appreciated such a clear warning before September 11th, or even on September 11th. Before that day, there were warnings, clear warnings, but they only reached the desk of George W. Bush. And I note he did nothing to stop the events of 9/11.
Nothing.
There were other warnings during Clinton's tenure in the White House (many I'm sure you don't need me to innumerate)—some, though they were perhaps more coded than your recent missive, came in the form of Ken Starr's investigation of Clinton. As a mother or a citizen of this country, did I read this as a warning then? No. I did not. Was this money well spent by the Republicans? Many of my Republican friends at the time did not think so. Could we Americans afford this kind of investigation, knowing now how much we needed Clinton to be free to pursue more pressing issues? No. Should I have read in my lack of understanding of the import of the Ken Starr investigation that there was something you people wanted to have occur? Was this a deliberate distraction? Has anyone in the media since, or, in fact, has anyone in any office of power in this nation asked any of you to, perhaps, answer for that?
Anyone?
I ask these questions now because the Bush/Cheney administration and all of your followers are the greatest beneficiaries of the events post-9/11, and I take your warning as an indication of what you guys will bring to America if Kerry wins. Get this clear, Mr. Cheney, what you guys will bring to America. I fear you, believe it or not, more than I fear another bin Laden attack and that is why I am asking you these questions now.
Because I take your warning as an admission of your ties to that event. Even, no especially, if that admission is not what you intended.
So thank you, once again. And, understand how truly thankful I am to hear you articulate what only I seem willing to articulate: That if Kerry wins, you will come back at us.
We are forewarned.
But know this: I will never again watch my values, and the values of my fellow Americans be trampled on by so much corruption, so much duplicity and so much unadulterated hate without speaking out. You are not a Republican. You have shamed Republicans. And many of them, I pray, will be voting with me, in hope as well as fear, for John Forbes Kerry.
Donna Marsh O'Connor, Mother of Vanessa Lang Langer, WTC, Tower II, 93rd floor
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