Sep. 12th, 2003

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Who is more likely to destroy the essence of what the U.S. stands for?

People who hijack planes and destroy buildings, killing several thousand people in the process,

or

A President who refers to civil rights as "unreasonable obstacles?"

or

Both, if they are allowed to run roughshod throughout the world, unopposed by people of compassion and conscience?
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Instead of commemorating Sept. 11, I want to be mindful of comments made two days afterwards by Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.

Expandif you're reading this, chances are it was directed at you. )
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As of this posting, maximum sustained winds of Hurricane Isabel are 160 miles per hour. It is now Category 5.

When Hurricane Andrew hit south Florida in 1992, it literally wiped whole cities off the face of the earth. The "official" death toll was 61, but there were widespread stories being passed around of deaths in the hundreds among undocumented people.

I visited Homestead several months after Andrew. I had never before been in a place that felt literally God-forsaken. The trees that remained looked as though they had been tortured and frozen mid-scream, like something from a nightmare. The land itself felt cursed.

Isabel is already more powerful than Andrew. At the moment it is projected to aim roughly for the Georgia coast over the next five to seven days.
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"Who says redistribution of wealth is un-American? We just do it the wrong way around."
-- James Gill, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Sept. 12, 2003

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