President Obama, Sept 11, 2010

In President Obama’s address on September 11, 2010, President Obama said in reference to the September 11, 2001 attack, “And on this day, we recall that at our darkest moment, we summoned a sense of unity and common purpose. We responded to the worst kind of depravity with the best of our humanity.”

“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.” -Bertrand Russell

After 9/11 the U.S. Tribe was in frenzy for blood. They were waving the flag and standing at public events and singing the National Anthem with idolatry. They cheered when the mightiest military the world has ever known invaded a small country less than one tenth the size in population as the U.S.

Does the president really think by using the largest military in the world to invade, occupy, bomb, and kill thousands of Iraqi and Afghans that had nothing to do with 9/11 was responding with the “best of our humanity?” Does he think the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo was the best of our humanity? Does he think establishing the Department of Homeland Security and depriving us of our individual privacy and rights that “We” responded with the best of our humanity? Does he think his having assumed the power of a tyrant by claiming the right to assassinate U.S. citizens that he is using the best of “our” humanity?

I’m sure the president would answer these questions in the affirmative. That’s how narcissist demagogues always act. They never assume nor admit they are wrong.

The president said, “For if there is a lesson to be drawn on this anniversary, it is this: we are one nation – one people – bound not only by grief, but by a set of common ideals.”

I disagree Mr. President. Your ideals and mine do not bind us. My ideals and your ideals are common, but they are different. My ideals are common with Locke, Jefferson, Bastiat and Ayn Rand. Your ideals are common with Marx and Lenin and other collectivist who think they know how to run my life.

President Obama also said, “And that by giving back to our communities, by serving people in need, we reaffirm our ideals.” This is the usual exhortation to get the sheep to go along with the central planners by being meek and cooperative. The central planner’s message is do not resist, just submit and we will all be better off. These words are designed to get you to submit to taxation, rules, and regulations that implies your taxes and production confiscated by the government employees will then be returned to “our” communities and serving people in need. This gives us a comfortable feeling that the tribe will always take care of us in our time of need. It plays to our genetically wired fears that we need others to survive and we are willing for our tribal leaders to make sure others cooperate.

Charles Tolleson, September 11, 2010