I am pissed that they used 9/11 as a prop for their ridiculous teabaggery. It's bad enough that they subvert the name of a fine sexual fetish for their own purposes.
Why on earth is a call for lower taxes, opposition to health care reform, a sudden interest in balanced budgets, a fear of big government headed by someone other than them, and a hatred for negroes in the White House part of a response to 9/11? They use the deaths of thousands of Americans as a prop, and they are vile, horrible people for doing so.
On 9/11, terrorists attacked the United States, but they also attacked New York City -- arguably the most liberal city in the United States, a city where most of what the teabaggers are peddling wouldn't get much support at all. It begins to make you wonder whose side the teabaggers would really be on.
There are many, many days on the calendar that have nothing to do with 9/11. They've already claimed April 15th, to claim any and all tax protestors as part of their "movement", they dragged themselves out on the 4th of July, and they are looking for more days to wave their little teabags.
Fine, whatever, they can wave their little teabags as often as they like, but they should stay the fuck away from 9/11. They hate unions, why can't they go teabagging on Labor Day?
I lived through 9/11. I watched the towers fall. I have friends who worked in those towers, and who were saved by dentist appointments, sleeping in, and other random stupid quirks of fate. I have friends who lost their jobs and lost co-workers that they were not particularly fond of but never wanted killed.
I lived through the terror of the following weeks, the realization of just how vulnerable we all are, the horror of watching civil liberties taken away for the appearance of security. I sat in a subway car, stuck on the Manhattan bridge, watching the billowing smoke still rising three days later. I still can't stand enclosed spaces.
I breathed in the dust and smoke of 3,000 dead Americans and millions of tons of smoldering ruins.
And these filthy fucking teabaggers have the audacity to use THAT as a prop because they hate taxes? How fucking dare they?
I hope they all die in a fire, and then burn in hell for all eternity.
I mean that in the best of all possible ways.