Objectivist and libertarian warmongers often
erroneously claim that anyone stating that the U.S. bears some
responsibility for 9-11 are "America haters." As a general statement,
this is, of course, absurd. Despite the sophistry of some Objectivist
warmongers, to “understand X” is not the same as to “excuse X.” More
often, we seek understanding of how and why something bad happened so
we can correct the situation and avoid it in the future.
Compare what some freedom-lovers have said regarding past government
actions around the world with this from essayist Charley Reese about
the private use of guns (see
here):
The best self-defense tactic is to avoid putting yourself
in a position where you will need to shoot. The majority of violent
crimes are committed in certain neighborhoods. You know where they are.
Stay out of them. Don't mope about looking vulnerable. Secure your home
and secure your car. You don't have to be grim to be alert.
A peaceful person who is attacked or robbed is most emphatically
not
responsible for the attack itself, regardless of where he goes.
BUT...anyone who blithely blunders about in “certain neighborhoods”;
anyone who acts as though his innocence gives him a shield of
invulnerability; and, worse, anyone who
deliberately pokes at a
figurative hornets’ nest, daring the less-savory among us to indulge in
their irrational violence at our expense; any such individual
is most definitely responsible
FOR BEING FRAKKING STUPID. It is irrational and self-destructive to
ignore reality — even a reality that “shouldn’t be” — and pretend that one’s
wishes for peaceful coexistence do or will, in fact, create such a context. Willful ignorance
is immoral.
To that extent, the
governmental officials — and that segment of
the American public that supported them — who conceived and implemented
our disastrous foreign policies
are responsible for what happened on 9-11.
Even more immediately and more damning, those bastards who made it virtually impossible for pilots, crews, and passengers to
DEFEND THEMSELVES
as the Second Amendment guarantees should be convicted and executed for
the mass murders that their unconstitutional and immoral actions made
possible. A murderer is, indeed, solely responsible for the deaths of
those he kills. But
those who DISARMED those victims and robbed
them of their ability to withstand the assaults of these human jackals
and hyenas are equally at fault for their outrageous violations of
rights and common sense.
Freedom, rights, and morality do not require that we “project forward
force” or poke our armed noses into every pesthole around the world.
We need to “stay out of” those “certain neighborhoods.” Let them destroy themselves.
We need to “avoid putting” ourselves in situations where we “will need
to shoot.” Let the crazies of the world clash with their equally
nutsoid adversaries and destroy each other.
We need to “secure our home.” Let those bastards dare leave their cesspools of irrationality, and
we will destroy them.
The true “America haters” are those who equate the State with our
nation; who applaud and promote policies that bring ruin to American
lives and American freedoms; who eagerly spend the lives of our
soldiers and the wealth of others for less than nothing.
That, I do, indeed, hate.
(from
Don't Get Me Started!, 2-04-08)
