I hate victims. I hate everything about them. I hate the whining. I hate the attitude that they are entitled to special treatment just because they had bad luck. This is, of course, about this 9/11 crap. Yes, it was a tragedy. Yes, it was a national disaster, but really, get over it people. You don't deserve any memorial. No one who died that day deserves one other than the passengers who tried to stop the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. They are the only ones that did something heroic. The people in the WTC and Pentagon just went to work. You think they'd have gone in if they knew the building would fall down in a few hours? Nor are any of the rescue personnel heroes. THAT'S THEIR JOB. THAT'S WHAT THEY GET PAID TO DO. And don't think for a second that they would have been trying to evacuate people if anyone had told them there was a chance the building MIGHT fall.
But this thing of victims' rights doesn't just stem from the idiocy of the WTC thing. The justice system is just as guilty of it if not more so. I live in Oklahoma, and we had out own little terrorist thing and consequent memorial/trial bullshit here. I was just as angry over the assumption that there HAD to be a memorial here too, but that anger was somewhat mollified by the fact that we have plenty of free space in which to build one. Hell, that's all Oklahoma has, free space. But then came the trial, and all these survivors and people who lost family members absolutely believed that it was their inalienable right to be a part of every single detail of the trial and the sentencing and the execution of what's his name. They even had to set up this huge auditorium at the air force base so that all the whiny grandmothers could sit and watch a man die. Pathetic. YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO BE INVOLVED. Bad things happen every day on this planet. Just because it was on the news you think you're more important than me? My grandfather died of renal failure. That loss was just as tragic to me as anyone's in either OKC or NYC/DC. So where's my fucking memorial? Where can I go to pay my fucking respects to the great man who was my grandfather? Oh, that's right, THE FUCKING CEMETARY. that's why we bury people and stick this big rock next to their heads don't you know? It's done so I can drive by and say "Hi, Grandpa." THAT'S your memorial. Any other en masse monstrosity is nothing more than attention seeking bullshit. GO ON WITH YOUR LIVES, ASSHOLES. Do you realize that there STILL is no WW2 memorial? After 58 years? Do you hear veterans of that war complaining? Hell no you don't. It makes me ashamed to be a member of this generation that acts like spoiled babies who want their own memorial just for the firemen. Piss off, firemen. You've done nothing to help my family. Oh, yea, you did let my house burn to the ground TWICE while you stood around and ate fucking donuts. The automatic assumption that all firemen are heroes is complete and utter bunk.
But getting back to the justice system. When the hell did we start this letting victims' families testify during sentencing bullshit? A convicted criminal should get whatever sentence is required for whatever crime. Who says that the murder of a virgin cheerleader with 5 brothers and sisters and 2 parents who loved her is any worse than the murder of a homeless man with no family who lives under a bridge? I'll tell you who says so, everyone. And that, my friends, is hypocrisy, plain and simple. It's time we grew up in the country. If something bad happens, get over it. You shouldn't need someone to bend to your every whim in designing a memorial to make your life any easier. Think about a Jewish child in 1945 who has lost EVERY other member of his family or about the grandmother who was gang raped in Yugoslavia the next time you open your mouth to whine about the fact that your husband of 6 months' name doesn't look right in that font face, or that no one can read his name that high up on a marble wall.
If the owner of the WTC site wants to put a memorial up that's one thing. But to have a press conference and DEMAND that there be one... GROW UP AND GET ON WITH YOUR LIVES.
this site is not nor has it ever been a cracks site. why it's on so many pages as such is a mystery to all.