Where is the Anger? -

Where is the Anger? - I'm not the first pundit to ask this. But I'll join the chorus.

Where is the anger?

As we creep up on the first anniversary of the attacks, the picture of America you see in the media is...what?

Solemn? Still in deep mourning? "Coming to grips" and "seeking closure" with the events of a year ago? We've got sorrow, oh, yes. Some of it is intense and important - Springsteen's The Rising is incredible - and much of the rest is mawkish and self-serving, and in between there's every other shade, from poignant to absurd. It's also natural - except that it is everywhere!

Wnere is the anger, indeed?

We were attacked! 3,000 Americans and people from other places who regarded America highly enough to come here to live and work, died. They - bond traders, junior high children going on school outings, Hollywood producers, firemen, cube inmates - were immolated, thrown 1,200 feet to their deaths, crushed - by people whose sole goal was to cause terror to further their goals; erasing Israel and turning the entire Middle East into an islamo-fascist commune.

But if you use the American media to gauge perceptions, you'd never know that that still angered any of us. In fact, the US media seems to be doing its best to stop the anger, to curb any urge for retribution - also called Justice - in this country. They will apparently not broadcast the images of the planes striking the World Trade Center. They will apparently not broadcast anything that could tap into the anger that people in the hinterlands (anything west of the Hudson) feel, still.

And the National Education association, as reported in this space a while ago, has told teachers to not merely skim over the notions of anger and retribution - but to equivocate about the causes of the attacks; to share the blame!

This space will have nothing to do with that. I'm no media figure, and I know that phone calls to the media, the school board, the institutions that control who hears what, all will go into the great void. But I'm going to do all that, anyway.

And on September 11, this space will be done mourning. It'll be about justice, and revenge, and yes, anger.

My blood still boils, a year later.