Which F9/11 scene affected you the most?

[TruthIsAll]

[Kathy in Cambridge]

1. The soldiers, followed by the Black Caucus

Seeing those poor young guys in the VA hospitals made me cry...

[StandUpGuy]

52. The Soldier with Moore.

That scene should be on the poll.

The Brave brave brave soldier cpl Henderson, facing jail time, openly told Moore

"I will not let anybody send me back over there to kill other poor people. especially when they pose no threat to me..or my country......I won't do it!"

It made my stone heart break knowing that this guy was really putting his neck on the line for something so basic and truly just.

[ronabop]

67. It was an echo.

Few living today seem to realize that this was a cultural reference to Muhammed Ali refusing to go to Viet Nam.

-Bop

[mandyky]

2. speaking of scenes

What part of the movie was Conyers and not reading the Patriot Act? I watched a bootleg copy, and that scene was missing.

[Hokie]

3. The Black Caucus

Not one chicken sh%$ senator would sign their petition. Shame on the entire Senate, especially, the Democrats. hey just watched it happen.

[jus_the_facts]

9. Yeah...doesn't that speak VOLUMES.....

.....it's all a f'n farce...just hide and watch what happens this Nov...gonna make that look like the good ol' days! x(

[neverborn]

14. Heard

that the Repubs promised to give the Dems 50/50 on committees if they didn't sign.

[lanparty]

54. I was AMAZED at that scene ...

Everything else in the movie I kinda expected. I already knew all about James Baath and the Saudi connection. I knew about the theft of the Florida election for "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy". But I had NO IDEA that the scene at the Congress had EVER played out.

You can be damn sure that Senators will sign after this year if Bush steals another election.

[tom_paine]

61. I remember watching clips on Corporate TV Pravda

But nothing like that sustained presentation in F911.

Powerful. Perhaps history will show that moment to be the Final Moment of the Old American Republic.

I hope not.

[funkybutt]

75. THANK YOU!

I'm still very confused about this. Why the hell wouldnt ONE fuggin senator sign their petitions?? That scene brought me to tears and frankly I just don't understand it!

[GodHelpUsAll2]

77. Just where were

our two senators then who are now running for President and Vice President? That part of the movie made my blood boil. I don't care what they were promised, there is NO excuse. NONE!

[xray s]

4. The one that got me

The guys in the tanks blasting the song "Burn the Fucker Down" on their stereo while they attacked Iraqi positions.

[peekaloo]

39. Those two young kids more impressed with the stereo system

in their tanks/headphones juxtaposed with that other soldier(who said bomb-ed-ded) who was obviously distressed by the carnage encountered on the roadside was quite depressing.

[mellowinman]

5. Lila.

Oh Lila!

She spoke of her love for displaying the flag correctly.

She spoke of the alternative people have in the military if they can't afford college.

She spoke of so many Freeper talking points, but was obviously a woman with love in her heart, who actually tried to help people, and who tried not to judge.

She hated peace protestors because of her kids in harm's way.

And then she broke down and sobbed on the White House sidewalk.

Lila will be with me forever.

FOREVER!

Oh Lila!

[Bertha Venation]

6. Lila. I started crying from sadness when she read her son's last letter,

then couldn't stop crying until I left the theater -- my sadness turned to impotent, destructive rage, a rage I could do nothing with, and so I cried. That's all I could do.

[Mad As Hell]

7. My understanding of this

is that it was felt by Gore and his people that he was conceding and prolonging the whole thing was felt to have been too divisive. No good deed goes unpunished in Fascist MurKKKa. The CBC was right and brave and the disenfranchisement of those Florida voters is cheneying immoral and illegal.

[Mad As Hell]

10. Saw it last night.

I was shaking with rage leaving the theater and have been sick all day today. I thought the movie was a masterpiece.

[wryter2000]

15. Welcome to DU

I'm Mad as Hell, too. :hi:

[Mz Pip]

8. The corporate convention

where they were talking about how much money they were going to make off the war.

In WWII there was a bill passed against war profiteering. That would never happen today.

MzPip
:dem:

[Mandate My Ass]

11. Yes!!!!

I've never seen such avarice, the looks on their faces as they talked about the money to be made in Iraq reminded me of unbridled lust. x(

[ncrainbowgrrl]

28. I remember seeing this 'convention.' being covered on CNN- airport news

I was in La Guardia- US Airways terminal, and this came on the screens scattered through the terminal. The sound was off on the monitor nearest to me, so I got up and walked to the little tv monitor near the next gate. I plunked down in a chair, watched the segment and returned to my gate. When I got back, a businessperson-type, complete with a suit, tie and briefcase was shaking his head approvingly and talking on his cell phone. He said something along the lines of: "Good move- glad we got in on that- they just talked about the meeting on the news." Things that make you go "hmmm."

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

30. That part ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTED me

even more so the second time I saw it than the first.

There they are in their $1000 suits, standing around drinking expensive wine and beer and eating fine foods, smirking and laughing and playing grab-ass and working out deals to make money off the blood being spilled at that very moment.

Disgusting. Disgusting. I would have vomited had I been there in person. HOW, HOW can they sleep at night???? HOW?

[tom_paine]

55. How did the German Industrailists of the 20s and 30s sleep at night?

Answer: They slept very well indeed.

[billybob537]

12. I'm beyond words to describe HIM*

[Geo55]

13. Lila....

I dunno....hard to pick the most...
The regular Iraqi folks going about their business , kids flying kites......

It's hard not to hate this pretenderpresident...he's a twisted little prick.

[Spiffarino]

19. Yes, hard not to hate him...

...but why do it? Hate is wasted on the sonofabitch. He loves it. It fulfills his Christ complex.

[Geo55]

40. It fulfills his Christ complex....

Yeah...the little cretin will hopefully fulfill his Christ complex by being crucified this Nov.

[Spiffarino]

16. Lila, but WTC scene was a close second.

Lila was, unquestionably, the heart and soul of the film. But the WTC attack with the theater in total darkness, with only the sounds of the planes exploding and people screaming, was a masterful touch.

We've all seen the images a thousand times and Mike knew that its impact would be lost if were done visually, so he used the audience's ears to fill in the void. I was amazed at how powerful it was.

[wryter2000]

17. At the time, Lila

But what keeps haunting me is all those Congresspeople (including my own) begging for just one person in the Senate to do something! Wasn't one of them Asian? Or did I hallucinate that? It still brings tears to my eyes, like as in right now. :cry:

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

31. Begging! BEGGING!!!

I think that, combined what what I know has happened since then, is what just KILLED me about that scene. Just killed me. Watching Gore preside over it all was just twisting the knife.

That scene slayed me. Just slayed me.

[wryter2000]

33. And what happened to Corinne Brown this week

It was just as bad. Maybe worse. These bastards have to pay

[CBHagman]

71. Amen to that.

"These bastards have to pay."

Normally I'm a big one for bipartisanship and saying that I like individual Republicans but despise the current leadership. After last week's performance in the House, though, I am of the opinion that the GOP is about as desirable as a virulent, untreatable form of cancer and MUST be shown the door, the subpoena, the indictment and the orange jumpsuit. These are ruthless people lusting after complete power, and the sooner the American people figure that out, the better.

[Bjornsdotter]

34. Exactly!

Hi,

It was the same for me....Lila made me cry, but the image of all of the Congresspeople is burned in my brain. The second time I saw it, I cried as each one came up begging for help. It's still the part of the movie I think about the most.

Cheers,
Kim :toast:

[nostamj]

41. "Wasn't one of them Asian?"

Yes, the late Patsy Mink, Congresswoman from Hawaii



http://www.now.org/history/patsymink.html

The world lost one of its greatest citizens on September 28 with the death of Hawaii Congresswoman Patsy Mink. Girls and women also lost one of their most valiant and steadfast champions. Every woman today who is enjoying the fruits of her education and job opportunities, and every girl who has a chance to play sports in school, owes a nod of thanks to Mink who unremittingly and dauntlessly challenged old stereotypes about "women's place" and helped engineer the steady progress for women over the last four decades — parallel to Mink's career in politics.

Patsy Mink stood up and showed up for girls and women, often outnumbered and sometimes outmaneuvered. But she persisted, cajoled, humored and demanded of her colleagues that Congress attend to the business of over half its constituents. Among many accomplishments, she was a leader in shepherding the passage of Title IX in 1972 to promote educational equity. One of only two women ever to receive this honor, Patsy Mink was named a NOW Woman of Vision in June, 2002, in a ceremony honoring the 30th Anniversary of Title IX. In celebrating her life, we must rededicate ourselves to protecting her legacy by preventing the current efforts to dismantle this landmark legislation.

[in_cog_ni_to]

18. The Black Caucus

and our spineless Senate. Next, the elderly Iraqi woman who had just had 5 (?) funerals for family members and another family member had just been killed in an attack. THAT was so powerful. My heart cried for her and her family. Lila Limpscomb broke my heart too.

[LizW]

20. I voted for Lila, but there was another woman

who made me cry. The Iraqi woman crying and screaming about her street being destroyed by the bombing was incredible. I wish I had a full transcript of what she said. I only remember that she said her uncle's house was bombed and that they had had five funerals from the bombing. She became more and more distraught, sobbing and holding her face in her hands and ended crying, "Where is God? Where are you? Where are you?"

She broke my heart. She was just the same as any of us would be if faced by a cruel, devastating attack in a war we had nothing to do with.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

32. Then he cut straight to a gum-popping, tarted up Britney Spears

talking about how we should support the president, no matter what.

What a great contrast, Michael. He has the touch, he does.

[eridani]

78. To me, she almost looked like Lila's older sister

Would not have been out of place in an extended family shot at all. And the grief is so universal.

[0rganism]

21. I think it was the UNhospitalized wounded who got me the hardest

Hearing the screams of civilians and soldiers alike, as they lay on the ground with horrible wounds... that was tough. There's one soldier who keeps yelling "I'm hurting, I hurt real bad", for a while, and that was just haunting as all hell.

That and the Iraqi woman who had lost her children to a bomb, screaming "Where is God?" That was a heartrending scene of betrayal and rage.

[xxqqqzme]

22. gonna have 2 go w/

the pleas from the CBC. Both times I saw F9/11 the tension in the theatre was palpable. I have read Gore requested no senator sign-on but that was wrong...so very, very wrong.

For sheer effect - the screen blackout w/ the sounds of Sept 11, was just plain brilliant film-making. Everyone watches their own personal movie of that morning w/ only the sounds. From the very first decibel, I knew what was happening - I didn't need the pictures again.

[Melinda]

23. Where is the dead Iraqi child in her grandfather's arms?

THAT'S the scene that ripped my heart apart.

[liberalmuse]

24. The WTC attack...

everything just came back from that day. There are so many things in this film that affected me:

The Black Caucus, my heroes--this scene DISGUSTED me. Just seeing all those sneering white men who do not represent me or many Americans at all made me want to kick all their sorry asses out of D.C.. Fuckers!

Lila Lipscomb--what an awesome woman. She made me optimistic about our future. If there are more Americans like her, there is hope.

The Marine who said he isn't going back to Iraq--'I don't want to kill anymore poor people'. Jesus, that was hearthwrenching!

The lady crying for her uncle in Iraq--WE are the bad guys. Americans better do some serious self-examination, or we may one day surpass WWII Germany or Russia in evil.

Same with the scene of our soldiers breaking into an Iraqi household. There is NO cause for us to treat other human beings like this! Michael Moore put a face on the Iraqi people. Our media, for the most part, dehumanizes or demonizes them (ex: 'insurgents')

[lostnfound]

25. The 9-11 WTC attack; it was 'the end of the innocence'

Before that morning, I was a new mom with a 4 month old baby, disappointed that Bush had pocketed the presidency and rather worried about what he would do to the environment.

After that morning, I 'fell into the rabbit hole', sobbing in the first minutes as the idea of children orphaned (especially since many couples work in the same office building), and seeing the country turn militaristic and vengeful, and delving into Rasheed's 'The Taliban', then Chomsky, and others with a passion fired by the desire to protect the future, for my son. And friends becoming intense opponents.

Hearing those sounds on a dark screen compounded 3 years of agony into 2 minutes of tears streaming from a broken heart.

[gumby]

26. seeing the faces of New Yorkers

watching the towers on that horrible, horrible day.

[Solly Mack]

27. The CBC. The cry for help from a dying country

[many a good man]

29. The sobbing Iraqi grandmother

Whose house behind her lay in ruins, signifying yet more funerals to attend. She stared into the camera and began a tirade directed against the American people--all of us.

I felt like like I deserved that tongue-lashing 100 times more than any other I've ever received...

[wryter2000]

35. And how about the guy

The Iraqi young man who said they were looking for more parts of his neighbor's body. She'd been a young woman in her 20's. How are we ever going to fix what that rat bastard has done in our name?

[StandUpGuy]

63. First you need to realize how long its been happening.

It's not just Bush Jr.

[TNMOM]

36. CBC scene brought back all the indignation...

of the 2000 fiasco for me. Recalled the frustration and the anger and the injustice of it all... the certain inevitability that I felt then, but wished I had ignored and protested more strongly.

[Bluzmann57]

37. Lila Lipscomb was a heart wrenching scene

Especially for those of us who have children in that age group. True story, my step son is in a National Guard unit around here, and he recently turned 21 so him and I went out drinking. He hade too many and was crying about how he should "be over there with his unit". A couple of days later, he went to see F/911, and he feels differently now, mostly because of the Lila Lipscomb scenes. He still feels remorse that his buddies are getting shot at, but he has changed his views about being over there. Incidentally, his natural father is a real piece of work, accused me and my wife of "poisoning" him against America, which, of course, isn't true. Sorry to ramble off subject, just thought I'd bore...er share that with DU.

[edhopper]

38. For me it was when Lila..

was in Washington trying to confront what had happened to her and her family. It felt like she was standing in for all of us.

[loftycity]

42. Black Caucus Solider explaining his pay compared to the Mercenary driver

The Iraqi woman crying about her neighborhood being destroyed.

[daleo]

43. "There are the haves and the have mores

Some people call you the elites. I call you my base."

GWB, speaking to a crowd of the uber-rich.

[Berserker]

45. The civilian casualties

of the children. They don't know what the hell is going on or why. They are the innocent ones. When I hear the rw say how proud they are to be and American it makes me sick. The America they speak of is not my America. I hope the smirk regime is proud of what they have done.

[gratuitous]

49. That was it

He was on screen for just a moment during the tour of the civilian hospitals, but there was a little guy about my grandson's age and size laying on his back, with his left arm flayed open like a red snapper in a restaurant. He was on for just a moment in a very crowded scene of dead and wounded civilians so I couldn't tell what his status was, but he was laying there very quietly.

These are people who never meant us any harm, didn't do anything to us. They were defenseless against the American wehrmacht, unable to fight back, and they couldn't get away. If you're selling war as a noble endeavor, please pass by my door. Hurting and killing those people was done indiscriminately and for no good reason. It was also done with my tax dollars.

I hate it, but I want to see what I paid for. Those deaths, those wounds, those screams are mine. They belong to me, and I want them. I don't want them "sanitized" because they're too graphic or horrific. I need to show them to a lot of 16-, 17- and 18-year-old boys who don't know what they're getting into.

[Boomer]

44. The grieving, enraged Iraqi woman

Her scene of raging grief, calling upon Allah to explain why this happened to her, moved me to tears both times I saw the film. Don't know why, but that's the only scene that really threw me in the theater.

[Kal Belgarion]

46. The stolen election

The documentation of the stolen election, with the cheery "matter of fact" music got me choked up. I was close to tears because I knew that, if only the chips had fallen in a slightly different fashion, the rest of the movie would not have happened.

9/11 might have been prevented.
The 800+ American kids wouldn't have died in Iraq.
We wouldn't be at war.
The 10,000+ innocent Iraqi civilians would still be alive.
Our President wouldn't be gearing up to invade Iran and Syria.
We wouldn't be faced with the very real possibility of a draft, sending thousands of more American children to their deaths.

...If only Al Gore were President.

I...can't imagine how much better life would be in the States if only Al Gore were President. It's mind boggling. I'm just thankful that this year I'll get the chance to join America in, once again, telling * that he was an accident.

[Astarho]

47. Just before his war speech

when he announced we were going to war. He kept smirking and grinning and finally stifled it before saying we;ve started bombing Iraq, although it explains why he was blinking so much.

The Stupid Chimp was overjoyed he was finally getting his war. (like executions only supersized!)

[Sugarbleus]

48. When the bombs started landing in Baghdad...right after the

scene of the children flying kites.............. :(

[gauguin57]

50. I cried through the whole film all FOUR times I saw it

I'd say the most moving, though, were

***Lila and the letter

***the Black Caucus (though I watched that, live, in 2000)

***the Iraqi woman screaming to God about how we'd destroyed her uncle's home and caused five funerals in her family and asking God to burn our houses (that was probably my loudest sob -- knowing that was DONE IN MY NAME)

*** the 9/11 sounds and scenes

*** Moore's eloquent expression of how the poorest people in this country are the first to step up to defend the very system that keeps them in poverty, and all they ask is not to be sent into an unjustified war.

[Lindsey]

57. I saw it for the third time yesterday....

The last two times I've seen it, I've basically cried from the very beginning when the cbc were f'ing heroes up there on that terrible, terrible day. I saw it as it was happening in real time too. There were so many scenes that I'll NEVER, EVER forget. I cried espcecially when:
Lila described in detail how she got "the call" telling her that her son had been killed and how she fell to the floor and had to crawl because she simply couldn't walk;when she read his last letter;when she sobbed outside of the White House - so many things about her story left me heart broken.

The woman in Bagdad who was hysterical and asking God why this was happening.

The family in Iraq whose home was invaded on Christmas Eve and they were sobbing saying, "he's only a college student." and that kid was on the floor with his hands tied behind his back....jesus christ....did anyone else feel like the U.S. was acting like the Nazi's when they saw this particular scene?!?!?

The young men in the army hospital who'd lost their limbs...it simply made me sick..sick to death..

The marine who said he wasn't going over there to kill more poor people like him.

The children and babies who's bodies were in the back of that truck and that man screaming.."who did they kill."

and, yes, the ending when Michael's voice was so incredibly eloquent when he said that our young men and women in the military only ask that we put them in harms way (or something like that) if it's absolutely necessary.

No other film has EVER effected me the way this one has. I sometimes feel like the words Michael used in the very beginning, "was it all just a dream." I honest to God pray some nights that I'll wake up and it really will have all been a dream...or at the very least...I've been in an alternate universe for the past few years and one morning soon I'll wake up and be in the other universe....the one that where up is up, down is down, and I'm proud of my country again. :-(

[shingashong]

51. I finally saw it, and I'm mad as HELL

Here's what affected me the most:

-that one bitch who said Lila and the other woman protesting in DC were "staging" it. Normally I'm not a violent person but I wanted to smack her upside her damn head

-the Marine recruiters trying poor neighborhoods in Michigan to recruit new Marines, the black men that they showed saying they knew of people, the mere fact that POOR people are targetted to be recruited (ARGHHH does NOT speak enough for my hatred right now for the Marine recruiters)

-Lila's breakdown in DC

-the baby

-9/11, especially the one moment where they showed the old man crying

[Moloch]

53. For me it was Lila at the national mall

being confronted by an ignorant heartless freeper woman. I could not believe the callousness of these people and it speaks volumes about their ideology.

[gauguin57]

59. Yes, she was a heartless Freeper woman ...

... but both Lila and Michael have noted that that woman later came up to Lila and hugged her and apologized. So at least she knew she was being a jackass.

[StandUpGuy]

64. Or realized

Shit that is Micheal Moore. I better try and fix this or I'm gonna look like a bitch.

[IrateCitizen]

56. The scenes of the maimed US soldiers, followed by...

... the scenes of the business roundtable talking about when the money begins flowing in Iraq. I could hardly contain my fury for that prick businessman who was talking about how they all "support our troops" and what they're doing in Iraq.

Of course they "support our troops". They stand to make truckloads of money off of their blood and suffering. I wonder how much those maimed troops stand to make off of it.

The scenes with Lila Lipscomb were heart-wrenching as well, especially her at the National Mall.

[tom_paine]

62. Yes, that scene was grotesque and awful

It was indeed...

:grr:

[theivoryqueen]

58. the old man crying after 911 attack

his look of complete grief - I could literally FEEL his pain and bewilderment at what had happened to his country.

[TrogL]

60. US troops harrasing the student and his family

[stevielizard]

65. THAT"S a hard question

I was only genuinely surprised once- when Moore said that 7-8% of US income is Saudi money- which has given me pause--

The rest, sadly, was more of a confirmation-

[Hekate]

66. CBC--because that was at the genesis of this tragic farce

The Congressional Black Caucus, who in my opinion were pleading the case on behalf of every American citizen regardless of race or creed. That scene affected me all the more deeply because I don't think I ever saw it on television at the time, and I believe the newspaper gave them only a few lines.

From the Senate's refusal to give them a hearing -- and from the Supreme Court's appointment of Bush -- followed all the rest.

We live in evil times.

Hekate

[TruthIsAll]

68. The young mother at the WTC with the picture of her husband

and children, asking if anyone has seen him.

[CBHagman]

69. None of the above.

The encounter Lila Lipscomb had with the nasty, unsympathetic woman in Lafayette Park worked me up ("What a bitch!" I muttered to my favorite movie-going buddy). I also lost it completely when they showed the footage of the Blackwater Security contractors burnt corpses being dragged about and hung from the bridge in Fallujah. It took me a solid month to get over those images when I first saw them, and they took me by surprise this time.

I had been warned about the beheading scene and averted my eyes till it was over.

Aside from that, the WTC audio and the images of the weeping, praying people were very affecting.

The sequence concerning the stolen election, though, just got me furious. I am not going to be satisfied until that injustice is healed. When I heard the latest from Congress -- i.e., that the GOP had, to a person, opposed bringing U.N. monitors in for the next election, I thought: That's it. The Republicans have made an enemy of me, period, and they've shown their nasty true colors.

And bless Corrine Brown for speaking the truth to those vicious curs.

[redqueen]

70. Other: Iraqi families having fun together, and the median age of Iraqis

right before the footage of all the bombs WE paid for and OUR DEMOCRATIC representatives APPROVED of being dropped all over their country.

[Razoor]

72. the CBC

The CBC at the start of the movie. I couldnt beleive what I was hearing no senator would sign on and then Gore would say has a senator signed on yet and all of them would say no. who was clapping at the end when Gore said the chair has decided cant really remember that part I was so mad.

Lila reading the letter from her son

the marine recruiters. that just burned me up watching them try to recruit poor people.

the meeting of the contractors about how much they were going to make off the war.

heck the whole movie had me effected.

[Mordecai]

73. Lila Lipscomb reading her son's last letter.

That really got to me. :(

Another one that bothered me was the Black Caucus at the Senate with the Senate refusing to help them out. :(

[lapislzi]

74. "I call you my base"

bush addressing a big-ticket fundraiser of "the haves and the have-mores."

It drove home the point that bush doesn't even PRETEND to care about ordinary Americans, nor does he believe that he needs to.

There's not even a word to describe how furious that made me.

[Lisa]

76. Lila weeping in front of that ugly White House barricade

There were so many devastating scenes in the movie, but that kind of summed it up for me.

[IndianaGreen]

80. I agree with you, Lisa

Of all the scenes in F911, the one of Lila in the park when she is confronted by that other woman saying that Al-Qaeda killed her son, not Bush. Seeing Lila doubled up in pain was quite tough to watch.

[Swamp Rat]

79. Congressional black caucus protesting in the Senate and NOBODY

came to their aid! I was sooo angry, yet it made me cry at the same time.

[Cleita]

81. All of the above, but something no one mentions is the CD

about "kill them" that the soldiers play all the time when they attack. Now I haven't really listened to popular music for about twenty years, so I found it rather shocking.

[undergroundpanther]

82. What got me

Was the juvenile Ali Baba shit, done by soldiers to a prisoner who was naked,hooded and made pretty helpless and these fucking middle school maturity,emotionally dead jar heads showing their ASS like that just because they think they can and no one will stop them.Typical fucking bully losers.
Damn it was all DISGUSTING.
I despise dominator culture ,that sick elitist,empire colonialism abusive garbage.

Also seeing the lady who's son had died in Iraq,as she wanted to walk up to the white house ( now a fortress)and drop to her knees in despair at the barriers.The stupid bimbo arguing she was "faking" her son's death.
The Iraqi woman who was crying saying what had she done to deserve getting bombed,and she said had gone through 5 funerals,I can't imagine losing 5 people in my family that I love,grew up with in a such a short time. I feel so bad.
Sometimes I just hate people,I just hate humanity. We are so damn blind,so damn hypocritical,.We are freaking insane and we think we are so moral and normal.. We suck up to bully assholes and look away when they hurt people and play make believe that responding to other's or your own pain is weak and showing emotional compassion is weak.We stand by as atrocities go on and wait for others to fixit.We have no soul as a nation.We lost it before we ever had one.In the sixties citizens started to have a social conscience,but that was systematically crushed by the gimme generation,the upward mobile who wants to be a millionaire,our culture fell into rich worshiping fools for Reagan's voodoo..