Does humanity own the deed to the planet we know as Earth?...
Is it that they want to save us, or the world itself from us?...


No one would have believed in the last years of the earths peaceful days that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment

Looks very cool so far, keep up the good work as I will enjoy reading these.

3,000 People died (approx) in 9/11. This is indeed a tragic event, but I'd like to respectfully post my opinion on the matter.

9/11 is a media hype. People suck up tragedy; people watch it with horror and disgust, but the problem is, people don't stop watching. The more hype and drama, the more that people watch, the more ratings and money the media gets. So, one side of this is that the media has hyped this all up so that people will watch things that are 9/11 related. On one side, its a publicity scam.

Additionally, George.W. Bush Jr. used these attacks to prompt the invasion of Iraq, an uncalled for knee jerk reaction that belongs in the last centery rather than the modern day. He failed to see that the enemy was not one nation, rather a political group. The invasion had the same merrit as Russia invading the USA because of the KKK (Is a bit of an exadruation, but the idea is still there). George.W.Bush Jr. called upon the fresh cold war fear of neuclear weapons. People were still hung over from the cold war threat. People seriously belived any day that nukes would fall from the sky and they would die. For them, it was a matter of when. When he involked this fear again, saying without any supporting evidence that there was WMD's in Iraq (It must be stated that the UN did 2 sweeps or Iraq and not a single trace was found, GWB's argument was "They must be good at hideing). I could go on and on about how 9/11 caused one of the strangest and stupidest war's that history can provide, but I'd get off topic.

Lets go back to some facts then. 3,000 people died in 9/11. Every day, 25,000 people die of starvation. Every day, 155,000 people die. Yet we refuse, it seems, to honor their loss, we seem to pour millions of dollars honouring the loss of , what seems to be, the loss of a small minority. THe only reason that we seem to memorate these people is that it is closer to home; people can relate to isses like these because they are enabled to. When it comes down to trying to relate to third world countreis, it becomes a different matter. People seem to forget that much worse things are happening in the world today, but since it is not in our contry,  and has no effect on oour lives, it is fine to ignore and forget.

Now, on to my final point.This is a point more centering around counter terrorisum, but is still relevent. Its been predicted that the US has spent 3-5 Trillion dollars on counter-terroriusm, not incuding the rising healthcare for war veterns (That cost is yet to come). Ihard to visulise how much money that is. So, just a helpful hint, it is approximatly 10-15 Vagas luxor holels piled on to one another.That is how much money whthat has been spent. To compare and contrast, 1,875 people approximaty died in Hurricane Katrina, but only 100 BIllion approx was sepnt. THere is less spent on natrual disaster prevention than there is anti-terrorisum, yet there is 30X to 50X less spent on it, even though over time it has proven to be a bigger killer.

So, the big question now is, why is so much spent on counter-terrorisum? In the end, we are fighting fear. We are afraid of terrorisum now because we were tought to be afraid; GWB initiated this fear unknowing of how detrimental it would be. This fear is still here, and to try and get rid of this fear a price tag is slapped on our safty; a price tag so big that the number could not possibly fail us. And so, when something does go wrong, we just are told the price tag, and we feel as if everything will be alright. This is not true. Things do not go away if you slap a price tag on it, esspecally things that did not exist in the first place.

I want to say this before I wrap up. I give all due respect to the people who died in the 9/11 attackis, and all of the assosiated grief that has come about it. What I do not give respect for is how it has been abused to bring rise to a dictine of fear in America. In my opinion, this fear is what is causing its current downfall.

If you want to repsond to this, I would appriciate if it was a logical argument rather than rhetoric or flaming. I appriciate if you hav a different opinion, and do not wish to see thios thread descend into a pit of flame.

Thank you very much for reading,

Jacknife.

Thanks, it's nice to see people NOT trolling the thread, a post like this shows how people really do care. There was so many bad things that happened on that day, apparently some great heroes ran all the way up to the 88-89th floor and attempted to save the people on those floors. But, not all of them survived. Such a sad day that will be remembered for the rest time.

wut... obviously u don't know him because he's new... or maybe a spy but who cares. Anyways, sup.

Hello! Nice to see you finally done an intro post.

Hah, thanks. Don't know you... Well I guess I don't remember you then. But anyways, thanks

This effected the entire world to say the least. Even though I live in Canada does not mean I mourn the loss of those innoncent lives. Those terrorist we're indeed horrible people and the rest will face their consequences (The assassination of Osama Bin Laden for example). Also, for the people who say stuff like, "Boo hoo", I guess you do not realize people we're killed that day, and families we're devastated.

Rest In Peace my amigos.

I was reading this and since I don't know much about everyone here I probably shouldn't post but:

Ice, your ego is massive, I don't care what your excuse is, but it's just HUGE. Your acting like a jerk to everyone and your, mysterious over mature attitude gets annoying once you realize the prick this guy really is. From what I've heard from other people, and his posts himself I say you put Adam back as the leader. Ice, your tearing the CWU itself apart! Please if you want to fix the CWU leave it! Or atleast give your position to Adam!

You probably right though