As an American I think this petition is a good thing... in fact I am going
to start my own petition. Here in the states we use the phone number 911 to
alert the local police and emergency workers to a tragic event, car
accidents, robberies, a cat in a tree. Since the events of 911, I have not
been able to bring myself to call that number, and have been robbed six
times, and my have lost one cat. So.... I am starting a petition to change
the phone number 911 to 912.
Additionally I am starting another petition to remove the ninth and eleventh
floors from all buildings, as again I cannot stand to see these numbers used
so closely together... In fact...all calendars should be changed to remove
the 9th and 11th day, especially if they fall in the same week... Porsche
should recall all 911's and rename them to 912 or 910's it doesn't matter to
me as I am not as willing to upset Germans as we all know how bad that could
go... Clocks should be changed so that the combination of 9 and 11.....
Of course this post is about as serious as one should take these assine
petitions.
As a New Yorker I appreciate the thought, but it is a bit over the top. We
should do more to remember the day, and not try and stick our heads in the
sand and erase all mentions of it, no matter how hard some my try to make a
connection that just isn't there... Ignoring bad situations is what caused
these attacks to happen in the first place.
Thank You.
Brit
btgoss
> that awesome awesome book was written several decades ago, I read it when
I
> was 10 for crying out loud.
> > I recently came across a petition to rename the upcomming moving The
> Lord
> > of the Rings: The Two Towers to something less insensitive. When I
read
> > the petiion, the author made it sound like the producers etc had
> > deliberately changed the name to garner publicity from the tragedy of
the
> > 9/11 destruction of the World Trade Towers. That notion is both false
and
> > absurd.
> > While I am sympathetic to the pain and suffering resulting from 9/11,
> his
> > basic premise was written with such a lack of facts that it appears
> > malicious.
> > He, the petition writer, is either acting through ignorance or
attempting
> to
> > mislead people from all over the world.
> > I wrote him a fairly long email chiding him for distorting the motives
> and
> > history of the books and films. Does the fact I am challenging the
> petition
> > make me insensitive? Am I missing something?
> > dave henrie
