Glenn Beck: An Ex-Pat's View

Someone forwarded me this article, written in the U.K.'s Guardian newspaper. It is a piece by an ex-New Yorker who has, in the years since 9/11/2001, moved to Britain, written in reaction to Glenn Beck's 9/12 project.

Click through and read it, then come back and read my thoughts, below (if you're interested).

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Y'know, when I first heard Beck speak of the 9/12 project, I understood his point, but I thought he was being awfully selective. For every bit of unity we felt as a nation, there was a whole lot more shock, a whole lot more anger, a whole lot more fear and a whole lot more "damn the consequences, get the bastards", even though we as yet had no idea who "the bastards" were.

We were hardly the altruistic, fellow-man-loving people Beck romanticizes, we were a terrified mob, willing to string up whoever was responsible, and in the absence of any definitive proof as to who that was, happily ready to string up whoever we happened to find convenient, and willing to throw away our own rights and trample those of others in the thirst for vengeance and for a way to not feel quite so powerless and afraid.

I wish that I could believe something, anything, good came out of 9/11, no matter how small. But it didn't. It was an act of complete evil, and one which we merely managed to survive.

No one who truly loves this country would take us back to that day. No one.