Terror Hits The United States

Spell to keep Osama Bin Laden in One Place
(This spell was taken from Silver Ravenwolf)
 

I borrow the power from the Lord and Lady
What I shall bind with pagan hands, shall be bound
All the manner of terrorists shall be spellbound by the power of the Lady
And not be able to walk foreward or backward until I see them with my
Own eyes and leave them with mine own tongue, except it be that they
Count for me all thy stones that may be between heaven and earth, all
Raindrops, all the leaves and all the grasses in the world until they are
Caught by the authorities and repent to thier God.
So mote it be!

(the word *terrorist* I put in there the original word was thieves :)

Iwojima, and flag at wreckage (by Thomas Franklin of the Bergen Record)

To see an incredible pictoral of the people around the world that were shocked by what happened here in the states, please click the button!! 

This was send to me from the Sacred Rose Website and thought I would put it up :)
 

(I don't know who wrote this, but its very true)
 

Dear Faceless Terrorist:
Thank you for attacking our country. You have done us a great service. Thank you
for restoring our economy. Our nation has been teetering on a recession, our
financial world unsure of itself and of our future.

While no one can predict what will happen when our stock markets open again and
of course they will reopen, despite the thousands of lives lost, the untold lost
data, and the destruction of computers, networks, and the offices themselves -
we do know that the financial world has ralliedaround America, and refuses to
make good on our loss.

Faceless Terrorist, the day after your brutal attack, our dollar STRENGTHENED,
not collapsed like the World Trade Center. Thank you for reminding us of our
great freedoms. We had become complacent about our ability to travel freely, had
let others mind our military, and forgotten that we are among the very
privileged who can openly criticize our own country without fear of retribution.
Our country is so open, we probably even trained you in war and trained you how
to pilot a jet. Is your nameless tribe so great that it openly embraces those
with differing views, and gives them welcome into their midst? Can your group of
terrorists teach others how to fly a jet, let alone BUILD one?

Our personal freedoms will be sharply curtailed because of your acts, and
although that saddens me, it also reminds us, vividly, of the dangerous world we
live in because of people like you. Thank you, FacelessTerrorist, for giving
that amorphous dread identity-your name.

Thank you for allowing us to show our bravery. One of your group was interviewed
for the TV program 60 minutes lately, and called us Americans "cowards". Cowards
because we would not give our lives up for a cause, or for our country. Cowards
because we had not suffered, and therefore, did not know the sweet taste of true
selflessness. Faceless Terrorist, the three men aboard Flight 93 who wrenched
control from your minions and purposely crashed that jet into the low hills of
Pennsylvania were not cowards. They willingly gave their lives for their
country, unbidden. Call us cowards now.

Call the 250 dead firefighters trapped in the WTC cowards. Call the thousands of
doctors and nurses and emergency workers who have flocked to New York to help,
to crawl over falling debris, walking under 'widow-makers' to find one more
survivor, cowards. This is truly the Home of the BRAVE, Faceless Terrorist, in
ways you have only begun to understand.

Thank you for restoring our patriotism. Caught up in bickering and us-vs.-them,
our government and our society has been bogged down in finger-pointing and
ideological debates, Bulls vs. Bears, Donkeys vs. Elephants, Hawks vs. Doves.
Thank you, Faceless Terrorist, for stirring our hearts, for calling our minds to
remember why we live in America, despite our differences. I raised my FLAG
today, proudly, as did many of my neighbors. Where is your flag, Faceless
Terrorist? Where is your patriotism?

Thank you for bringing us unity. We are standing shoulder to shoulder, ready to
protect our children, our families, and our neighbors. Our voices are clear and
strong, we are UNITED. Who supports you, FacelessTerrorist? No one, you live
among the fringe, hiding behind the skirts of others to protect yourself. The
Taliban has renounced you, no one wants to admit they are harboring you. No one
in this world stands behind you, or with you, other than your own group of
terrorists. You are outcasts in this world, and that will be your great undoing.
You underestimate the power of alliance among the world's free peoples.

Thank you for making us seek out and face our own intolerances. In a country
whose population reflects nearly the entire spectrum of the world, we do not
always treat our neighbors as we would have ourselves treated. Thank you for
reminding us how important it is now to reach out and LOVE our Arab neighbors,
our Afghan neighbors, our Pakistani neighbors, all of our neighbors, regardless
of race, creed, color, or ideology. For our neighbors are not you, Faceless
Terrorist, they have come to our country to seek out the same freedoms as the
original founders of this great country some 350 years ago, and we embrace them
gladly.

Thank you for reminding us of our humanity. While others in the world may be
focusing on the thousands lost, the bodies falling from buildings, the twisted
metal, the image of the jet slicing through the building, we here in the United
States are haunted by the final words of those who knew they were about to ie.
"I just called to tell you I love you, Mom." "I love you, honey." "Kiss the boys
for me." "I love you more than you will ever know." Final words from those
caught in this tragedy before leaving this world.

We are fragile. We are VULNERABLE. That's what makes us human. Thank you,
Faceless Terrorist, for reminding us to reach out today, to say 'I love you'
today, to embrace life today. We may not have tomorrow.

Thank you for giving us hope in a very dark hour. While we are shaken, we will
not give up. Your brutality has galvanized us as nothing else has for over 50
years. It gives us RESOLVE to go on, rebuild, renew, trust again, reach out
again. That great indomitable American Spirit may be bruised, but it is not
dead, not even injured. We built this country on faith - in ourselves, in
each other, in whatever God we choose to pray to - and we will rebuild any part
you tear asunder. Over and over and over again. You cannot win this war. You
cannot conquer the spirit of this country,or of its people. We wish your soul
peace, but fear you will not find it.

You will never win, Faceless Terrorist. But thank you for reminding us why we
are here. Of who we are.
 

Bombing Afghanistan (This Message has been Taken from a Thread): I've been hearing a lot of talk about "bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone Age." Ronn Owens, on KGO Talk Radio today, allowed that this would mean killing innocent people, people who had nothing to do with this atrocity, but "we're at war, we have to accept collateral damage. What else can we do?" Minutes later I heard some TV pundit discussing whether we "have the belly to do what must be done." And I thought about the issues being raised especially hard because I am from Afghanistan, and even though I've lived here for 35 years I've never lost track of what's going on there. So I want to tell anyone who will listen how it all looks from where I'm standing. I speak as one who hates the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden. There is no doubt in my mind that these people were responsible for the atrocity in New York. I agree that something must be done about those monsters. But the Taliban and Ben Laden are not Afghanistan. They're not even the government of Afghanistan. The Taliban are a cult of ignorant psychotics who took over Afghanistan in 1997. Bin Laden is a political criminal with a plan. When you think Taliban, think Nazis. When you think Bin Laden, think Hitler. And when you think "the people of Afghanistan" think "the Jews in the concentration camps." It's not only that the Afghan people had nothing to do with this atrocity. They were the first victims of the perpetrators. They would exult if someone would come in there, take out the Taliban and clear out the rats nest of international thugs holed up in their country. Some say, why don't the Afghans rise up and overthrow the Taliban? The answer is, they're starved, exhausted, hurt, incapacitated, suffering. A few years ago, the United Nations estimated that there are 500,000 disabled orphans in Afghanistan -- a country with no economy, no food. There are millions of widows. And the Taliban has been burying these widows alive in mass graves. The soil is littered with land mines, the farms were all destroyed by the Soviets. These are a few of the reasons why the Afghan people have not overthrown the Taliban. We come now to the question of bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone Age. Trouble is, that's been done. The Soviets took care of it already. Make the Afghans suffer? They're already suffering. Level their houses? Done. Turn their schools into piles of rubble? Done. Eradicate their hospitals? Done. Destroy their infrastructure? Cut them off from medicine and health care? Too late. Someone already did all that. New bombs would only stir the rubble of earlier bombs. Would they at least get the Taliban? Not likely. In today's Afghanistan, only the Taliban eat, only they have the means to move around. They'd slip away and hide. Maybe the bombs would get some of those disabled orphans, they don't move too fast, they don't even have wheelchairs. But flying over Kabul and dropping bombs wouldn't really be a strike against the criminals who did this horrific thing. Actually it would only be making common cause with the Taliban -- by raping once again the people they've been raping all this time So what else is there? What can be done, then? Let me now speak with true fear and trembling. The only way to get Bin Laden is to go in there with ground troops. When people speak of "having the belly to do what needs to be done" they're thinking in terms of having the belly to kill as many as needed. Having the belly to overcome any moral qualms about killing innocent people. Let's pull our heads out of the sand. What's actually on the table is Americans dying. And not just because some Americans would die fighting their way through Afghanistan to Bin Laden's hideout. It's much bigger than that folks. Because to get any troops to Afghanistan, we'd have to go through Pakistan. Would they let us? Not likely. The conquest of Pakistan would have to be first. Will other Muslim nations just stand by? You see where I'm going. We're flirting with a world war between Islam and the West. And guess what: that's Bin Laden's program. That's exactly what he wants. That's why he did this. Read his speeches and statements. It's all right there. He really believes Islam would beat the west. It might seem ridiculous, but he figures if he can polarize the world into Islam and the West, he's got a billion soldiers. If the west wreaks a holocaust in those lands, that's a billion people with nothing left to lose, that's even better from Bin Laden's point of view. He's probably wrong, in the end the west would win, whatever that would mean, but the war would last for years and millions would die, not just theirs but ours. Who has the belly for that? Bin Laden does. Anyone else? Written By - Tamim Ansary
 
 

To bring this page to a close, a poem to touch all our hearts.

Miss Liberty

A tear fell from Miss Liberty's eye
When she saw that dreadful sight
Twin towers were falling in ruin
Manhattan was so full of fright
Smoke and haze obscure her view
Her heart sank with mortal fear
No way could this happen to us
Never, even in a million years
Dreadful that frightening sound
That pierced the clear bright air
Miss Liberty uttered a prayer
Innocent people were in there
Deep in her heart she knows
The USA will always be free
Freedom is the choice for us
This is the way it ever will be
Tears she has shed this day
Has caused us all much pain
We will go after the cowards
To them this must be plain
 
 

Jesse