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                                                        by The Corpse
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        Someone knew what was going to happen.

        I'm convinced that something of Tuesday, September 11th's, magnitude
 could not escape the increasingly wide vision of the world's governments and
 so-called "intelligence" operations.  If it did, it speaks poorly of the
 mechanisms which are supposedly in place to watch the movements of any and
 all aiming to upset national stability.  If, however, the plans of the
 terrorists involved were known to anyone, then there is a far greater
 problem at hand.

        I do not trust authorities of any kind, especially those claiming to
 work under the auspices of "the people."  As far as I am concerned, the
 government is beholden only to itself and the vastly wealthy powers that
 supply it with funding.  As wars have continually proven, both of these
 groups care only for profit and power, disregarding the fate of common
 humanity as easily as Great Cthulhu itself.  Ergo, I do not find it the
 slightest bit unlikely that the government and its sponsors would be willing
 to sacrifice a few thousand innocent lives for the sake of personal gain.

        Even as I write, President Bush declares that military actions will
 be undertaken.  Giant sums of money are being channeled into antiterrorism
 and the rebuilding of the twin edifices that were such great bastions of
 capitalism.  Americans nationwide scream mindless, racist, militaristic
 phrases at their families and any nearby cameras.  Wal-Mart stocks its
 shelves with plastic American flags, waiting to reap the monetary harvest of
 a tragedy that hasn't even been completely dealt with yet.  Despite so many
 media reports to the contrary, things in the United States haven't changed,
 and I doubt they will.  A brief spell of public unity -- by a partially
 misguided cause, I might add -- will not change the fact that the rulers of
 this nation, and the world in general, will not cease to take every step
 possible in order to further their own goals.

        Many will call me a cynic or a conspiracy theorist.  I will not argue
 with them.  Others will call me unpatriotic.  I will laugh at them, because
 they cannot discern the differences between patriotism and nationalism.
 More still will find my desire to look past the mountains of splintered
 concrete, the charred limbs, and the call to arms and find the real reasons
 behind this incident ghoulish and inappropriate.  To those people, who may
 very well be the same as the ones that might call me a cynic and
 unpatriotic, I have nothing to say, because they do not want the truth.
 They want Muslim heads on pikes and carpet bombs.  Reason does not apply to
 people who want such things, nor does it apply to a group that would
 sacrifice almost anything for the sake of power and money.

        I am truly sorry that the events of September 11th occurred, but I am
 even sorrier that I distrust my fellow man enough to believe that the
 situation was engineered.

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