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Next Sunday is the 21st anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America. To people who were there and experienced the horrors of the day, the memory is just as raw now as it was then.
But that woman, who cries for the camera about teen suicides in NZ, was not fazed by the suicides of those who fell out of the burning skyscrapers on 9/11. Thousands of children lost their parents that day, but that didn’t faze her either. Her reaction was not one of profound sympathy, sadness, or compassion; she couldn’t understand the patriotism of the Americans that arose on 9/11. She has only shown callous disregard and indifference towards those who suffered.
Jacinda Ardern’s total lack of humanity towards those who are not one of “they-are-us” is deeply disturbing and horrifying. Her reaction seemed to side with the perpetrators and what drove them to do it – as if they were the victims or the attack might have been justified. She has since used the 9/11 terrorist attack to her own advantage to promote herself and to further her agenda
[08/07/2009 Guide2: From Murupara to Wellington via New York and London:]
She spent a semester in 2001 at Arizona State University and was there during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. “[The US] went from being a very conservative place to being an ultra conservative place,” Ms Ardern says. “It’s a level of patriotism that I’m just not used to, and I found it quite hard.” … When Ms Ardern dared to suggest during class, several weeks later, that people should look at why the attacks had happened, she was shut down. “My lecturer said `Well, are you telling me that if I understood why it happened I would be okay that 3,000 people had died?’ I thought well if that’s where the academics are going then I didn’t hold much hope.”
[11/09/2021 Jacinda Ardern Facebook:]
“Twenty years ago I was a student at Arizona State University when 9/11 happened. I remember it like it was yesterday – it felt like the whole world was going to change, and it did. I kept this newspaper from the following day. It travelled home to NZ with me, and has moved around different flats and houses ever since. Probably proof of the profound impact my history teacher had on me, but also a reflection of the impact of that day.
It is all about her.
[10/09/2021 Beehive: NZ Marks 20th Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks: Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern:]
NZ is expressing unity with all victims, families and loved ones affected by the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks, and all terrorist attacks around the world since, including in NZ. … “I was in the US on 9/11, and it’s a day I’ll never forget. I still have the front pages of the newspapers … I saw first hand the shock and fear that goes hand in hand with terrorism.”
“In NZ we saw similar motivations in the March 15 attacks in Christchurch. … That experience is why NZ has chosen to play a leading role in tackling online violent extremism. Our work on the Christchurch Call …. Ultimately our greatest defence against terrorism is to build diverse, inclusive societies in which we welcome and celebrate difference and where violent extremist ideologies of any kind are rejected.”
Again, it is all about her and her agenda, nothing about the trauma caused by 9/11. The only thing she had to say about 9/11 itself was that “NZ is expressing unity” – whatever that means – with those “affected by” the attacks.
Jacinda, thousands of people were much more than merely “affected by” the attacks! There are innocent human beings working at their jobs in these buildings, these are real people falling out of them. When the mosque attack happened in NZ, you asked President Trump to show “sympathy and love to all Muslim communities.” Yet, you, yourself, have never risen above your disdain for those ultra-conservative Americans to even pretend any kind of caring or concern for their suffering and trauma:
