A Foreign Visitors View

I want Americans to realize the INCREDIBLE outpouring of genuine support and love from the rest of the world that is NOT being reported IN America. You are hearing bits of it, like how Buckingham Palace flew the American flag and played the American anthem at the changing of the guards, both for the first time ever. .

Bill Clinton was in Australia when it happened (and ironically the Prime minister of Australia was in Washington, 600 feet from the Pentagon crash) and immediately the whole country was locked down in case there was an attack against HIM... all planes were grounded etc. Also in Australia firemen across the country have volunteered to fly here to help. One, Mehar Maku wrote a beautiful song for the American firemen to inspire and support them. It goes on and on. World leaders everywhere giving speeches and interviews with tears in their eyes. Millions of people coming to US Embassies everywhere to pray, leave flowers and show support. Understand that the world is seeing this as more than an American event but as a HUMANITARIAN disaster that must never happen again. The world is joining hands, even hard core Arab countries, in their condemnation of this atrocity against humans and humanity saying it can never happen again, that we MUST do life on Earth differently and that we must find new answers.

Meanwhile here in America almost none of this is getting through in the media... the main message is "business as usual" which means " we are at war and will now go and kill a lot of people".... there is no thought of new approaches. We are told that Bush is gathering, building a coalition of countries when in fact the world rushed to help.... bottom line the "story" we are getting IN America is VERY different to the rest of the world... which IS business as usual.

The thing that so saddens me is that America and Americans are missing the gift of PURE LOVE from the rest of the world - literally as part of the family of humanity - because they are not being told of it through media. What WE are being given is hard nosed facts and actions and NOT the huge heartbreaking world wide tragedy that this is and that we must cry, weep, scream and yell for and about so it does NOT happen again.... not by blowing the Arabs to hell but by finding NEW ways to work and live together. It is nothing less than the challenge of our New Millennium. If we just bomb and kill our hurt out we will keep the cycle going as it has been for so long. Sure, get the bastards who did it, but THEN heal our world. Find common ground or else NYC and DC will be the daily news from now on. The world is seeing America deeply wounded and is collectively coming to lick the wound and help the healing and you don't even know!

PLEASE tell your friends. Please copy and distribute this to others so THEY know. Your media is not telling you this. I WANT Americans to know that the world REALLY IS with you... like on the streets in Australia and Europe and New Zealand and Canada and our so called enemies even - god, Yasser arrafat was so heartfelt in his hurt and condemnation of these actions and then gave blood for the wornded. THINK ABOUT THAT!

The world is now literally in the New Age. It was baptized in blood, horror and shock and we must .... we MUST find a way to stop it everywhere....people are still, days later, openly weeping, hugging, talking in the streets, in stores. No one has gone to work for days. Australia is shut down as everyone mourns and sends love and support and the rest of the world is doing the same thing too. Let it in America. The world changed the other day. FOR EVER.

We are having a hippie moment of collective "we are the world" love and recognition that on planet Earth there are no passengers, we are all crew. The reaction to this in Australia is 10 times bigger than when Di passed away... it is huge everywhere! EVERYONE cares. You are not alone America when so often you have been. Get that, please. You are cared about, cared for and accepted and embraced by humanity as part of us all... by the whole world who weeps for you, and for itself, for the madness we have sunk to, collectively. Now lets end this madness we have been in for so long and find some REAL new answers to not just come together, but to stay together! - ©2001 - Tomas Gregory