9/11 didn't bring Americans together. In fact, it shoved them apart!

[Mercury]

Everyone has seen it on the news. Airplanes they say were hijacked passenger jets crashing into the twin towers of the World Trade Center. A huge explosion that brought down one of the sides of the Pentagon. The World Trade Center towers crumbling all the way down to their bare foundations. People jumping from more than 100 stories up, as they did at the Joelma building in Sao Paulo, Brazil when it caught fire, but didn't collapse to it's foundation. Gullible Americans told that jet fuel burns at 6,000*F and that the World Trade Center towers were cheap aluminum truss structures (actually, such a structure built that high would easily buckle in the slightest wind and eventually become all bent and buckled out of shape by the weather). And when the airports re opened, the only items you could carry on a plane were laundry, toothpaste, deodorant, toothbrushes, wallets, watches, cell phones, and keys. Even today, you have to watch what you say because even uttering certain words like "gun," "bomb," "hijack," and similar type words at the airport is sure to send you straight to jail. And being caught with a prohibited item at the airport is also the surest way to get arrested and thrown in jail.

9/11 ought to have taught people that life can be snatched away in an instant, including via terrorism like what happened at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. But what has 9/11 done? Cruel surprise! It has NOT brought Americans together. In fact, it has shoved them much farther apart! Before 9/11, trying to interact with strangers got you the cold, icy stare from other people and people telling you to go away. After 9/11, trying to interact with strangers got you arrested and thrown in jail. And post-9/11 Americans flee like mad even when nothing is pursuing them; even a windblown leaf sets them to mad stampeding flight as if fleeing from the pipe bomb. Their imaginations turn shadows into phantoms, male strangers into armed serial killers and rapists, neighbors into gang bangers and vandals, pedestrians into armed robbers, bags and suitcases into bombs, umbrellas and walking canes into shotguns and assault rifles, cell phones into pistols, and popping balloons and bubble wrap into gunfire. To make matters worse, American authorities even announced that any change in the American way of life amounted to a terrorist victory. And that is easily even when interacting with anyone outside the clique became a capital felony under Federal law.

9/11 has shown the rottenness of modern America and has shown that an act of terrorism actually makes Americans even more toxic, hateful, and paranoid! I can easily bet that if something of that magnitude happened in America again, America would be permanently institutionalizing all single adult men, and there would be no more large crowds allowed; even spring break would be crawling with armed FBI, Homeland Security, and military officers, all ordered to arrest anyone they see socializing outside the clique, enforcing a minimum of 100 feet between all cliques, use of deadly force authorized.