New York Perspectives on recent events
May. 4th, 2011 01:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatPosting from work again. Brief flutter of conversation at work about idiots in the city requiring varification of Bin Laden's death beyond what we have.
But...here's a rather good article by a woman who's pregnant daughter was killed in 9/11 Twin Tower Bombing.
http://www.metro.us/newyork/local/article/850030--mother-of-9-11-victim-reacts-to-death-of-bin-laden
Snippet: "As the mother of a young woman killed on 9/11, I have to say that neither I, nor would anyone in my family celebrate or revel at the death of another human being, even if that human being is Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden is dead and so, still, is my beautiful daughter."
And:" If we are uncomfortable now with the portrait of American people dancing at his death, we should not judge those caught up in the moment. Instead, we should be willing to take some responsibility for the crafting of this night. We should recognize the energy that came from the elimination of this criminal at the hands of the U.S. government and we should try to craft, instead, the end of the terror years.
As a family member of a young woman killed in the attacks, I want the response to the death of bin Laden to be one of somber reflection, one that marks how far we have come from the days of that attack and accounts for all we have lost—our civil rights, our trust in our government to act ethically. I want our civil liberties back, our reliance on the Constitution and the rule of law. I want, again, for my children to feel free."
-Donna Marsh O'Connor
(Donna Marsh O’Connor lost her pregnant daughter on 9/11.)
But...here's a rather good article by a woman who's pregnant daughter was killed in 9/11 Twin Tower Bombing.
http://www.metro.us/newyork/local/article/850030--mother-of-9-11-victim-reacts-to-death-of-bin-laden
Snippet: "As the mother of a young woman killed on 9/11, I have to say that neither I, nor would anyone in my family celebrate or revel at the death of another human being, even if that human being is Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden is dead and so, still, is my beautiful daughter."
And:" If we are uncomfortable now with the portrait of American people dancing at his death, we should not judge those caught up in the moment. Instead, we should be willing to take some responsibility for the crafting of this night. We should recognize the energy that came from the elimination of this criminal at the hands of the U.S. government and we should try to craft, instead, the end of the terror years.
As a family member of a young woman killed in the attacks, I want the response to the death of bin Laden to be one of somber reflection, one that marks how far we have come from the days of that attack and accounts for all we have lost—our civil rights, our trust in our government to act ethically. I want our civil liberties back, our reliance on the Constitution and the rule of law. I want, again, for my children to feel free."
-Donna Marsh O'Connor
(Donna Marsh O’Connor lost her pregnant daughter on 9/11.)
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Date: 2011-05-04 09:42 pm (UTC)http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/05/osama-death-celebrations.html
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Date: 2011-05-04 11:54 pm (UTC)The age of misinformation continues apparently. They did the same thing here they did during 9/11 - add fuel to the fire, with little regard to the consequences. The media has a lot to answer for. But...we also need to be more critical of what we see, and
take less of it at face value.
Sure there may be 100 people celebrating around Ground Zero, maybe even a 1000, but there's 9 million in NYC, so that's less than one percent. The media makes you think it's more. The vast majority of Americans greeted the news as I did, with weary relief.