anniversary of 9/11 your take/thoughts....

[danceswithwolves]

So, it's the 10 yr anniversary of 9/11 and there have been a tremendous amount of programs on the subject. Some have been rebroadcast on PBS, with additional info etc.

One of the most interesting was on this FBI agent and how years before 9/11 (around the first bombing) he discovered this small organization called something like Al Queda and this financier named Bin Laden. After years of work and interviews etc he discovered a full blown world wide terror organization with major funding. Yet due to his brash ways, every though he warned, requested more resources etc everyone poo poo'd him and he was finally let go. Where did he get a job? In charge of security at the WTC.

He also discovered (and this one was actually arrested) one of the terrorists taking flight training and knew about 2 others from his investigations on the Cole bombing. He also knew these two terrorists were IN the US on legal visas.

The frontline story went on to highlight how the CIA had information but wouldn't share it with the FBI and even how the attorny general to the president used to call on O'Neil for advice and information (another fact that rippled the feathers of those in power at the FBI).

One thing with many of these programs that made me realize that the terrorists will always find a way. This is a given when you have people in positions of power, positions that can prevent things like this from happening, who are more concerned with politics, procedures, and the like than actually doing what needs to be done. I tell you, if I was Obama? I'd be convening a senate committee on just who had ignored O'Neil's warnings and if they did, simply because of personal differences, I'd be having them up on charges of dereliction of duty.

There was another special on a crew filming a probie fireman assigned to Ladder 1. They were IN the stairwells in tower 2, and had footage of the firemen inside the buildings. It was presented by state farm with no commercials. It was an amazing story of the first responders and how they made it out alive with only seconds to spare.

One other fact that came up when they all went down to dig for survivors: The EPA came on and Gugliani came on to assure everyone that there were no health risks yet thousands of firemen, police, emts, etc all have severe health problems, cancers, and are dying left and right. Once again, those in power shouldn't have been and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that when you have asbestos dusts, pulverized plastics, chemicals, fireproofing, etc and gases in the air, and you breathe that air, there's going to be trouble. Again, if I was Obama I'd be having an investigation into this matter and if the head of the EPA bullshitted, heads would roll.

 

[YAY my Eggo is Preggo!!]

My thoughts are the same today as they were 10 years ago

To all those who lost loved ones and friends on 9-11, my thoughts and prayers are with you, everyday.

 

[Another Massage Therapist]

Which is exactly what I think the powers that be WANT you to be thinking about...instead of the ineptitude, politics, and the fact that that whole day probably could have been prevented....easily.

 

[wadeypops]

And since then many events have been prevented.

9-11 was a wake up call. Yet today the powers that be as you put it, want us to be less vigilant, less prepared and less able to respond.

Keep those who were lost in your thoughts.

 

[dontheturner]

To put a slightly different spin on this, what a horrible decade it's been for the US. 9/11 and the resulting wars paid for by borrowed money, the financial crisis and all of the problems that caused, the deepening of the US debt. I don't think they'll ever fully recover from that. Maybe I'm a pessimist but I think that things are going to get worse down there before they get better.

 

[grania_3]

The US powers that be would have to be very short sighted to let their guard down now. The terrorists are aching to succeed in another mass murder catastrophic September 11 repeat scenario.

 

[NoPro]

They can just go ahead and print more money :neutral: :go:

 

[Amira]

9/11: The 25 Most Powerful Photos


http://ca.news.yahoo.com/photos/9-11-the-25-most-powerful-photos-1315611364-slideshow/

 

[vacant]

Thanks Wank, there were some there I hadn't seen before. The one overlooking the wreckage from up above looked like something out of a hollywood set.....

A couple more things I remembered from the program on the fire company:
When the firemen went into the lobby, all the windows were blown out. They determined it was from exploding jet fuel shooting down the elevator shafts.....that's almost 800 ft.....

Even though 3000 lost their lives, the firemen saved 20,000.....that isn't mentioned very often....

One thing that always bothered me (other than the obvious):

After the first bombing they put all kind of blocking devices on the roof to prevent any terrorists from landing a helicopter on it and gaining access to the building that way. I'd like to find out whose bright idea that was, he too should be taken out in a field and shot. Hundreds of people could have been saved if they'd been able to make it to the roof and be picked up by helos......

 

[Ed J]

Of the long read, this made me wonder.

http://www.activistpost.com/2011/09/911-anniversary-only-celebrates.html

9/11 was a tragedy. It was not only horrific; it was the result of the thoughts, actions and plans of a sick people wanting only to control the world. I am not speaking of the terrorists, though. I am speaking of governments who only wish upon the globe a total surrender of freedom to serve the regime of its collective, corporate evil.

Our politicians speak daily of the evil of Islam from atop their bloodstained ivory towers of greed and want, nay; expect, all of us to blindly follow like drunken pawns to our deaths; mental, spiritual and physical.

How long before you decide to face the reality that this is all just one big deception? How long before the truth is told? How long before real Patriots understand that 9/11’s anniversary only “Celebrates” America’s destruction?

9/11 Anniversary Only “Celebrates” America’s Destruction​

 

[Pompal 09.]

Seeing the direction this thread is taking I humbly request the mods move it to the political area.

Those who wish to post can do so there.

 

[RyanMAN]

but it's such a lonely section. No one goes there much.

 

[13th Thief]

My point exactly