TNP LIVE 3 Year Anniversary Show 09/10/2024 Monologue
It's another Fall and we're back to 9/11 again on the calendar. The date had no significance to me until 2001 when I heard from my father yelling from downstairs at my parent's old house that the World Trade Center was hit by a plane, and then another. As I got ready that morning I heard that the 2nd tower had fallen and I punched the wall of the shower so hard that I thought I would break it and my hand. Luckily the made things better back then. And do to the propaganda that my father listened to back then coming from the so called Right, one of the first reactions I heard about the attack was that Osama Bin Laden was behind it all somehow.
Decades later and after wars that lasted decades and still have resulted in occupation of foreign countries in which the United States, under the guise of protecting freedom, has overthrown governments and put in puppet ones of their own...after killing millions of people of course. And all the while the Right was telling the American people, including me, that these actions were not only justified but it was our duty as the world's only superpower to do so. What a load of bullshit that was.
A couple trillion dollars later and we're still sending money to the middle east to fight the “terrorists”, we're overthrowing governments and installing our own, and we're still killing millions in the process. Life has moved on from the one tragedy to an existence that is in itself a tragedy, American life in the 21st Century.
I had imagined something a lot more hopeful growing up in the 80's and 90's. America under Ronald Reagan to me as a kid was the Hulk Hogan of the world. The undefeatable good guy that you could rely on, because good would always triumph over evil. In a naive and ignorant way, I still held a similar belief, even as an adult. I would watch the tv and would take what it said for granted as truth.
Knowing what this side or that side was saying about something, remembering it, and repeating it. It was a daily exercise. Believing in my country, in freedom, and that our culture was superior as our military might. And boy, did that allow some of the most heinous acts ever inflicted upon a group of people. A group of people I was taught to hate and fear, the foreign menace, the Islamic terrorists.
I'm fairly certain that in the 23 years now since 9/11 that I have never once been in contact, and for a person who's lead a life traveling and meeting people on a regular basis, I'd say I have better odds than most. I'll talk to anyone, and I'll eat most things, including kabobs that burn away any polyps you might be growing in your colon, and never once ran into any hate from the staff or fellow patrons for being a white guy that came from “Judeo-Christian” values.
In fact, I've been threatened most by women, and not the burka wearing kind but the G-String wearing kind. Maybe if I hung out in more strip clubs I woulda bumped into at least one terrorist?
Nah, still a bad idea.
But I guess what I'm trying to say was that rather the money stolen from me and the consent gained through lies has protected me better than any guard dog or best friend ever could or I and everyone in my generation have let a bunch of monsters run amuck over the globe?
The people that perpetrated 9/11 have already gotten away with it, their kids have probably spent the earnings by now. It's a crime with no justice from the thousands that died that day to the millions that perished after it. The United States government has robbed generations of wealth, prosperity, and life away from people who never targeted or threatened any of us. We rather bought their bullshit or we let it happen.
When I started this show during the threat of a vaccine mandate from the same government it was because I can't let another crime of that nature go unpunished again. And even if my victory isn't in my lifetime it will still come if the information I can capture from the best researchers of our time and the thoughts of the people living through this on-going crime is documented for future generations to see.
At 3 years into this, and with a shit ton of that time learning how to do this, I am blessed to work with such understanding and fundamentally wonderful people. I am also amazed to have gained such an uncanny audience that I can rely on to carry the conversations we have here onward.
To overcome the limits that channels like mine are burdened with, I have devised a plan that I now want to share with you. As of last week, I have officially filed for an LLC called TNP Productions. The goal of this entity is to create some of the best independent media we are all capable of making. Documentaries, Music, Movies, Books, and even video games.
I want to create something that lasts, longer than I even do, and the goal is to use the profits of the production company and its notoriety to start a foundation that will fund projects like this in perpetuity.
So cheers to 3 years of TNP and the start of TNP Productions, thank you all for being part of the crew.