Monthly Archives: October 2006

OKC

I haven't mentioned the trip Hoyt and I took last weekend yet, but alluded to in previous posts. Saturday morning we decided at the last minute to go to Oklahoma City. It's about a five and a half hour drive, but we both needed to go somewhere. I had talked about going there for a while because a Six Flags is there and we have season tickets. When we arrived, we found Frontier City right on I-35. However, it is not considered an actual Six Flags… so I had to pay for tickets to get into this extremely worn and run down amusement park. We were both upset over the whole fiasco of charging us even if we had season passes, but we tried to have as much fun as possible. Too much country music being played though… oy…

We had enough fun there. The lines were very short, so we got on whatever we wanted. We can officially say we have kissed upside down in a loop while riding a rollercoaster though! lol How many people can say that…? We stayed the night, and on Sunday went to the National Monument dedicated to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The memorial was beautiful and left us both questioning why we don't have one for September 11… but read the previous post on that topic. :-) Several pictures I took are now posted to my DeviantArt account at kamuidestiny.deviantart.com.

We then walked around Bricktown, OKC's modernized friendly tourist attraction with brick roads, friendly shops, and an awesome canal with water taxis. Hoyt and I walked the canal instead leaving a favorable impression. Actually, a lot of OKC's downtown area is nice; the buildings are quite stylish. The art museum was next on the list. I was dying to see the British Museum's Egypt exhibit, something I had missed in Chicago and I believe Minneapolis. Ancient Egypt has fascinated me since third grade. I was surprised to see the most extensive Chihuly exhibit there as well! If only his glass artwork wasn't so expensive… *sigh* Check out his work sometime, it's awesome!

Sadly enough we were both exhausted with sore backs and feet after making our way through the museum, so we ended up scratching off the botanical garden as well. Bummer too because we drove right by it, but we made it back (after trying out a grand opening restaurant in Wichita, sushi!!) with enough time for me to get enough sleep for work the next day. I love traveling with Hoyt. :-D

Controversial to the Core

This may offend some, so if you are not interested in reading my prattlings on 9/11, please discontinue doing so now.

As of late a lot of the details of the September 11, 2001 incidents have really been bothering me. Not long ago I was telling Hoyt just how unlikely it would be that bin Laden would pull such an attack after so many years of working with our government. To suddenly find religion then use it as a blatant attack on the U.S. seems very odd and unlikely. So much information was retained, and a lot of it is spotty… I am really leaning towards it being a conspiracy set up by the administration set in the works for a number of years. I honestly feel, with hopefully not offending or hurting anyone who lost someone that day, that a group of officials in government and at the heads of several corporations planned and executed the attacks to create paranoia and fear in Americans to run their own agenda, say anything and do anything they wished, and make a lot of money in the process.

Maybe this isn't the first time those in power did something to subvert the “sheep” into fear and submission. The government uses libals to scare people into showing any discension, calling them names and threatening searches. The DHA was created to run these specific errands. I think airlines going into bankruptcy was not planned out, but look at how many people sold their stocks in the airlines one to three days before the occurence. So many aspects of what happened are so vague and just glossed over as unimportant… and the fact that no memorial stands is the administration's way of removing closure, a visual reminder to keep people in a perpetual state of paranoia to keep dragging out the attacks in foreign countries and on our Constitutional freedoms. We are giving them this power out of fear.

I honestly thought, when I saw the towers fall live that people had set it up for demolition because of the way it fell. If the towers were to fall from a large explosion, I would see the top toppling off and landing on nearby buildings, not the base of the tower coming out and the top caving in. Those monsters of towers were built to withstand just about anything, including airline attacks. A fire fighter even stated over the radio that he could contain the fire with no difficulties. It was a set up. A set up from the inside. Just so many things that don't add up. I am sick to death of the government thinking they are able to play around with our rights as U.S. citizens and keep us in perpetual fear – maybe that's why security was increased in airports – to live out their greedy goals. It makes me sick.

Only a few days ago I ran across a vidow on Google Video called Loose Change (3nd edition, recut). While I am skeptical of a few of their details – Hoyt was able to name one right away, they stated a B-52 flew into the Empire State Building in 1945 and Hoyt said they didn't exist until the early 1950s (this is true, it was a B-25 that flew into the Empire State Building, someone has dyslexia…) – but a lot of what I saw on live television confirmed, through my own experience, the same questions brought up. Especially about the Pentagon… I was there the year before, and that place is a fortress. Absolutely no way a plane could get within five miles of that building without it being spotted on radar, IDed, cross-checked, analyzed… I could go on and on, but I think my point is made. My disklike for government is ever increasing, especially the crack shot bills such as the PATRIOT Act and how easily it passed and keeps being passed. What a bunch of balogne. If this isn't a government ploy, why are they not giving any closure to anything? Why no memorial at the site? Why are we STILL in Iraq? In Afghanistan? Why is the PATRIOT Act still active? I venture to say it is to keep us in fear and submission. Clear and simple.