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I've gotten a selection of thoughts, views and general crap in my inbox over the past few days regarding the terrorist attacks in the USA. I have decided to give up my space to a few of these views.

As you can see, I have the latest news coming through via tickertape at the top of the page. They will remain there until I get bored of them, you people get bored of them or the news is no longer relevant. We will hope for the latter.

From: "Lane Guitzkow"
To: "dogbomb"
Subject: Tribute To America

This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
America: The Good Neighbor.
Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television Commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:
"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.
None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States. When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.

When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped. The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans.
I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10?
If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon - not once, but several times - and safely home again.
You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke. I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those. "
Stand proud, America! Wear it proudly!!
Lane

Lane also sent this picture along with this email. This the reason why he loves his country. I can only agree...

From: "Norsehawk"
To: "dogbomb"
Subject: this is off of www.lumthemad.net

Let me preface this by saying I did not write this, but it does speak from my heart on this matter, the original writer is from the site www.lumthemad.net
A few men- not more than fifteen, according the information available, armed with knives, with box cutters and threats of bombs. Four civilian aircraft. This, apparently, is all it takes to change the world. That, and hate.
I'm going to talk about love.
The kind of love that lets a man put his two-month-old child into someone else's arms so he can try to help make sure that the doomed aircraft he is riding on is not used as a flying bomb.
The kind of love that makes a firefighter run into a teetering skyscraper in the hope that he can rescue the people trapped inside, only to have that building collapse on him and more than a hundred of his brother firefighters.
The kind of love that allows another firefighter to shrug off his injuries, saying, "Whadya expect? I'm a New Yorker!" and then burst into tears, thinking of his fallen buddy, who has ten children.
The kind of love that creates a convoy of physicians and nurses heading for New York City, riding in Ambulances and their own vehicles, not knowing how much help they can be, but just wanting to help.
The kind of love that causes people the country over to stop and give blood, because that's the only way they can help.
The kind of love that permits a community like ours to put aside everything to come together and stand against those who would harm our own.
This country, and the free world beside us, stands shocked and dismayed. We are angry, and justifiably so. We have been attacked by people with no desire but to make us afraid, to make us hurt, perhaps even to make us hate the way they do. Maybe they do this because they know no other way; I personally do not care for thier motives. I know that whatever thier ultimate goals, they have failed already. They attempted to sow fear, and instead reaped heroism.
We are dealing with people who will die in order to kill, so great is their hate. But they are dealing with a people who will give their lives to save the lives of people they don't even know, so great is our love.
In the end, how can they possibly stand against that?

From: "Jeff Downing"
To: "Lane Guitzkow"
Subject: Re: Tribute To America

Here is my take on it:
I am proud to be American, but I think George W Bush is an idiot.
It is largely because of his policies like pulling us out of long-standing international treaties and agreements and his overall total ineptitude at foreign relations in general that draws these extremist attacks.
In six short months our relations with China, the Soviet Union, and all of Europe have gone to hell. The Arab world was never exactly the most receptive of American culture and politics, but GWB' s tendency to turn his back on them over the Arab/Israeli situation and his refusal to hear any criticism of Israel has been a catalyst for the terrorist activities to happen. We need to put a different face forward in the international arena, because GWB epitomizes everything much of the world (whether rightly or wrongly) perceives the US to be. The trick is to stay one step ahead by using diplomacy and tact while still achieving your goals. Israel was created by the UN (mainly Britain, and the US has kept it in existence) after WW2 in the middle east and there has been war there ever since. Now it has come home to us. I honestly don't know what the solution to the Israeli/Arab problem is, but I believe it will be a problem indefinately until it erupts into all-out war. It is the result of staunch, unyeilding religious fanaticism, of which extremists on all sides can be accused. I can't say for sure that Tuesday's events would not have happened anyway, but almost certainly not to the extent that it did had GWB and his advisors handled things differently.
The French? They have been getting bombed by Islamic fanatics for years now.
It pisses me off. It is fucking horrible waht happened Tuesday.
I hope we retaliate and annihilate those who are responsible for this, but it should never have happened in first place.
I still think that anyone who voted for GWB should be picking up rubble in NYC right now.
Jeff
Free speech is the greatest.

From: "Ron Nordwall"
To: "dogbomb"
Subject: no subject

Today a day like no other, where fear and anger, love and compassion combined to bring us all together in one place. Today we are neither people of nationalities nor people of ecnomic status, we are americans. As I sat here yesterday watching the amazing courage of every person in this country, looking for a way to help, a way to accept this horrible monster that has tried to distroy us all. As I sat here ,bound by an unbreakable link to so many families like me who have no peace, thinking of my friends wanting to believe that they are safe,to believe that in this incrediable evil there is hope, there is love, there is america, the best contry in the world, I had to find away to say how I felt, and as walked in to my garage to bring out my torn and tattered flag, faded from years of being displayed, ,I saw the greatness of this country, now having new meaning, tears streamed down my face as I thought of all the families lost, all the courageous emergancy personal who ran selflessly into a building that they knew would fall to save just one person. Thinking of the persons knowing that they were about to give there lives in a most unspeakable way as there plane headed to its final destination... Death . Reading the list of passangers and realizing this evil did not even spare the babies, who's lives had not yet begun, who's parents could not protect them,the horror the fear and realzation that they were all about to die. The tears I seem not to be able to control, one tear for each person who suffers today, one tear for every broken heart, one tear for the country that has been so torn apart,and yet in those tears is a pride for a contry that has pulled together to say NO MORE, we will come through this stronger, closer and in the end, the evil that tears my heart
apart will see that it has lost,that in this tragedy, in all of it's evil, it has united the world. We will shed no tears for evil because we are stronger than it can ever be. In the pride I felt for a county that like my torn and tattered flag, still stands for freedome.

Links And Pictures

I was also sent some other things regarding this. I got a ton of links to news sites and flash games which most of you will have already seen. I was sent a link to these incredible images, which are only surpassed by these incredible images. I was also pointed in the direction of getbinladen.com, which unfortunately has gone down since I first saw it, but the notice up there at the minute gives you the feel of what the site was about.

I was also sent this link so many times that it made me sick. I feel that the new version is much better. Take a look at this picture too.

I got some tasteless things sent to me too. The ones I care to print here are:
I got this from Ed
I got this and this from George Pollard

It is by no means over and while it still rages on, everyone will still have an opinion and I will still get opinions sent to me. I often get bad opinions and often get good opinions. I will always give someone a free voice at dogbomb.co.uk by allowing access to the message board or the live chat. I won't stop someone from saying something I disagree with.