2004-09-09
from Jack Dalton
A Mothers Cry: On the Anniversary of my Daughters Murder
by: Jack Dalton and Donna Marsh O’Connor
Fear and blind hatred; threats and spurious accusations;
these appear to be the accepted “norms” of the Bush/Cheney cabal.
It is very apparent to this old vet that Bush, Cheney and
the rest of the “Mayberry Machiavelli’s” surrounding them need high levels of
chaos and instability to operate-to push their “agenda” of world dominance;
their vision of Pax Americana. This they have turned into an art form. All one
has to do is look at Iraq.
9/11 is exactly what they needed and were looking for to
rally the great unwashed masses, us the people of this nation, behind the
pre-existent Iraq invasion and war plans. This was right out of the Project for
a New American Century’s play book when it stated the nation would need a
“Pearl Harbor” type event to rally the nation behind invading Iraq.
The murders of 3,000 people on 9/11 provided
Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz with exactly what they needed to push the
“Liberation of Iraq” down the throats of not only this nation, but the rest of
the world as well. It seems however, that the only people that fell for this
“scam” are right here in the good old U.S. of A.
Well before 9/11, during Cheney’s “secret” energy task
force meetings, Cheney, Ken Lay, et al, had mapped out Iraq’s oil fields,
refineries and pipelines. They turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to ALL pre
9/11 warnings. They were too busy looking at Iraq’s oil fields and drooling too
concern themselves with the notion of a major “terrorist” attack on the U.S.
Why worry about that when there are oil fields to “liberate.”
Why were all the warnings ignored by Bush/Cheney? For me
that is an easy one to answer: they want their “New World Order” and will stop
at nothing in their quest for power and domination. And that includes the
deaths of 3,000 people on 9/11.
One of the innocents that was murdered on that day,
Vanessa Lang Langer, she was in Tower ll, 93rd floor, was told to “stay
at your desk, you are safe.”
Vanessa’s mother, Donna, who teaches Writing and Rhetoric
at Syracuse University, has a lot to say about what happened on 9/11 and about
Cheney’s recent warning, threat, whatever you want to call it, when he told us
a vote for Kerry is inviting a new 9/11.
Outrageous is an understatement.
An open letter to Dick Cheney on the anniversary of my
daughter's murder:
Thank you for warning me about my vote for John Kerry. In this version of America, the one you all
have crafted, clarity is very difficult to come by. Let me make myself perfectly clear: my daughter was murdered on 9/11/2001, on an absolutely clear,
late summer morning. She was four
months pregnant and, that morning, five minutes after the first of two planes
hit the World Trade Center, she was told she was “safe.” She was told to “stay at her desk.” She was found whole and intact ten feet
from an alley between Towers IV and V.
I cannot tell you how I would have appreciated such a clear warning
before September 11th, or even on
September 11th. Before that day, there were warnings, clear
warnings, but they only reached the desk of George W. Bush. And I note he
did nothing to stop the events of 9/11.
Nothing.
There were other warnings during Clinton's tenure in the White House (many I’m
sure you don’t need me to innumerate)--some, though they were perhaps more
coded than your recent missive, came in the form of Ken Starr's investigation
of Clinton. As a mother or a citizen of this country, did I read this as
a warning then? No. I did not.
Was this money well spent by the Republicans? Many of my Republican friends at the time did not think so. Could we Americans afford this kind of
investigation, knowing now how much we needed Clinton to be free to pursue more
pressing issues? No. Should I
have read in my lack of understanding of the import of the Ken Starr
investigation that there was something you
people wanted to have occur? Was this a deliberate distraction? Has anyone in the media since, or, in fact,
has anyone in any office of power in this nation asked any of you to, perhaps,
answer for that?
Anyone?
I ask these questions now because the Bush/Cheney administration and all of
your followers are the greatest beneficiaries of the events post-9/11, and I
take your warning as an indication of what you guys will bring to America if
Kerry wins. Get this clear, Mr. Cheney, what you guys will bring
to America. I fear you, believe it or
not, more than I fear another bin Laden attack and that is why I am asking you
these questions now.
Because I take your warning as an admission of your ties to that event.
Even, no especially, if that admission is not what you intended.
So thank you, once again. And,
understand how truly thankful I am to hear you articulate what only I seem
willing to articulate: That if Kerry
wins, you will come back at us.
We are forewarned.
But know this: I will never again watch my values, and
the values of my fellow Americans be trampled on by so much corruption, so much
duplicity and so much unadulterated hate without speaking out. You are
not a Republican. You have shamed Republicans. And many of them, I
pray, will be voting with me, in hope as well as fear, for John Forbes Kerry.
Donna Marsh O'Connor
Mother of Vanessa Lang Langer, WTC, Tower II, 93rd floor