Posted on 09/11/2022 11:07:37 AM PDT by rktman
Twenty-one years on, and where are we? What do our children know about 9/11 and the Islamic terrorists who attacked our country in the worst attack on our homeland in American history? In a word, nothing. Or worse.
Why did the attackers do this? Discussing their motive today, twenty-one years later, is tantamount to a hate crime. The jihadis’ last letters have all but been scrubbed from the public record.
Read the “martyrdom” letters left by the Muslim terrorists. Allah is mentioned over ninety times. “Remind your brothers that this act is for Almighty Allah,” done for the cause of advancing Islam.
The post-9/11 war on truth and reality was the successfully implemented template for the propaganda and misinformation machine the Democrats have employed to destroy our country and dismantle our freedoms. Censoring the truth while smearing, defaming, and attacking anyone who dissented from the lie is now the daily business of the Democrat party and its running dogs in the media, academia, entertainment axis. The Democrats honed this approach in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, defaming and destroying anyone and everyone who dared even to get close to the truth of what happened on that day, and why.
And so almost the entirety of the post-9/11 generation has no idea why it happened, or what can and should be done to prevent it from happening again. And so on one terrible day in the not-too-distant future, it will happen again. For that, we can thank the left’s denial and willful ignorance, and its ruthless pursuit of its authoritarian agenda.
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Democrats think Bush blew up the twin towers the last I heard!
All I know is that whatever some people did on 9/11 wasn’t nearly as bad as what Trump supporters did on J6. /s
7:59 am – American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 with 92 people aboard, takes off from Boston’s Logan International Airport en route to Los Angeles.
• 8:14 am – United Airlines Flight 175, a Boeing 767 with 65 people aboard, takes off from Boston; it is also headed to Los Angeles.
• 8:19 am – Flight attendants aboard Flight 11 alert ground personnel that the plane has been hijacked; American Airlines notifies the FBI.
• 8:20 am – American Airlines Flight 77 takes off from Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, D.C. The Boeing 757 is headed to Los Angeles with 64 people aboard.
• 8:24 am – Hijacker Mohammed Atta makes the first of two accidental transmissions from Flight 11 to ground control (apparently in an attempt to communicate with the plane’s cabin).
• 8:40 am – The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) alerts North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)’s Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) about the suspected hijacking of Flight 11. In response, NEADS scrambles two fighter planes located at Cape Cod’s Otis Air National Guard Base to locate and tail Flight 11; they are not yet in the air when Flight 11 crashes into the North Tower.
• 8:41 am – United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757 with 44 people aboard, takes off from Newark International Airport en route to San Francisco. It had been scheduled to depart at 8:00 am, around the time of the other hijacked flights.
• 8:46 am – Mohammed Atta and the other hijackers aboard American Airlines Flight 11 crash the plane into floors 93-99 of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, killing everyone on board and hundreds inside the building.
• 8:47 am – Within seconds, NYPD and FDNY forces dispatch units to the World Trade Center, while Port Authority Police Department officers on site begin immediate evacuation of the North Tower.
• 8:50 am – White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card alerts President George W. Bush that a plane has hit the World Trade Center; the president is visiting an elementary school in Sarasota, Florida at the time.
• 9:02 am – After initially instructing tenants of the WTC’s South Tower to remain in the building, Port Authority officials broadcast orders to evacuate both towers via the public address system; an estimated 10,000 to 14,000 people are already in the process of evacuating.
• 9:03 am – Hijackers crash United Airlines Flight 175 into floors 75-85 of the WTC’s South Tower, killing everyone on board and hundreds inside the building
• 9:08 am – The FAA bans all takeoffs of flights going to New York City or through the airspace around the city.
• 9:21 am – The Port Authority closes all bridges and tunnels in the New York City area.
• 9:24 am – The FAA notified NEADS of the suspected hijacking of Flight 77 after some passengers and crew aboard are able to alert family members on the ground.
• 9:31 am – Speaking from Florida, President Bush calls the events in New York City an “apparent terrorist attack on our country.”
• 9:37 am – Hijackers aboard Flight 77 crash the plane into the western façade of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., killing 59 aboard the plane and 125 military and civilian personnel inside the building.
• 9:42 am – For the first time in history, the FAA grounds all flights over or bound for the continental United States. Some 3,300 commercial flights and 1,200 private planes are guided to airports in Canada and the United States over the next two-and-a-half hours.
• 9:45 am – Amid escalating rumors of other attacks, the White House and U.S. Capitol building are evacuated (along with numerous other high-profile buildings, landmarks and public spaces).
• 9:59 am – The South Tower of the World Trade Center collapses.
• 10:07 am – After passengers and crew members aboard the hijacked Flight 93 contact friends and family and learn about the attacks in New York and Washington, they mount an attempt to retake the plane. In response, hijackers deliberately crash the plane into a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, killing all 40 passengers and crew aboard.
• 10:28 am – The World Trade Center’s North Tower collapses, 102 minutes after being struck by Flight 11.
• 11 am – Mayor Rudolph Giuliani calls for the evacuation of Lower Manhattan south of Canal Street, including more than 1 million residents, workers and tourists, as efforts continue throughout the afternoon to search for survivors at the WTC site.
• 1 pm – From a U.S. Air Force base in Louisiana, President Bush announces that U.S. military forces are on high alert worldwide.
• 2:51 pm – The U.S. Navy dispatches missile destroyers to New York and Washington, D.C.
• 5:20 pm – The 47-story Seven World Trade Center collapses after burning for hours; the building had been evacuated in the morning, and there are no casualties, though the collapse forces rescue workers to flee for their lives.
• 6:58 pm – President Bush returns to the White House after stops at military bases in Louisiana and Nebraska.
• 8:30 pm – President Bush addresses the nation, calling the attacks “evil, despicable acts of terror” and declaring that America, its friends and allies would “stand together to win the war against terrorism.”
Diana here: Lots of HEROES on 9/11, too. For example, all of the Air Traffic Controllers that re-routed thousands of incoming flights and landed them ALL safely elsewhere that morning. For as much carnage as there was, Military and Civilians really DID perform like a well-oiled machine.
And I don’t feel one TINY bit safer, 21 years in. Especially now. And we’ve lost a lot of FREEDOMS along the way, too. :(
Dems will be the death of a lot of folks.
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They already have been the death of millions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6yLQRF-cEU Have you Forgotten? Daryl Worley
Some of them, if they know anything, “know” all the wrong things.
Was at the firemen’s ceremony today where they read off the names of the 340 plus fire personnel who died from the attack, and a young woman went by behind the monument using the f-word because she couldn’t take the stairs to get down to Riverside Park.
I was glad to see the police show up just in case she came back.
It’s a long ceremony, and two marines in the marine band had to drop out.
I have been going to this or at least hearing it from my windows for 21 years now, and this time it seemed especially moving, I’m not sure why.
Tenants inside WTC 7 included:
⁃ Department of Defense
⁃ CIA
⁃ Secret Service
⁃ IRS
⁃ Securities and Exchange Commission
⁃ NYC Office of Emergency Management
Another 9/11 is coming and it will be much worse.
Immortal words of Rep. Ilhan Omar in 2019 about 9/11——
‘Some people did something’: Rep. Omar’s remark.
WE on FR as well as the conservative movement got weak and drunk from that "wE'LL PuTTa B0ot iN YeR A$$ it$ ThE UhMUrRICAn WAy" CONservative movement that distracted us from what needed to be done: a full lockdown on immigration, mass deportations, elimination of Chinese, Iranian, Russian, Pakistani, Iraqi, etc. foreigners from our schools and industries, and full-on no limits punishment of anyone involved in aiding and abetting the weakening of our security and poisoning of our culture.
but we blew it. Prepare to survive after we get taken down, everyone.
The tragedy of that day and the heroism displayed must never be forgotten. However it is also necessary to ask is America safer and as free as we were twenty-one years ago?
Can’t find anything to argue with in your statement
We should have hunted down known terrorists and killed them.
But the permanent unelected administrative security state (deep state) saw 9/11 as an opportunity to fear-monger, seize power and suspend our Constitutional rights and freedoms.
9/11 begat the Patriot Act - a vast expansion of government authority to surveillance private citizens.
The patriot act and other post 9/11 war-powers acts are the reason Obama’s DOJ could be weaponized against political opponents EVEN with a Republican in the White House.
They took advantage of Covid the same way - and “Climate Change - etc.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
I know billy Clinton was warned about the bojinka plot well before 9-11.
He went on to dumb down airport security and allowed the gorelik memo, stopping the FBI and CIA from working together, to be his policy
Probably being taught in your public schools now.
Then when forming the 9/11 Commission they put Gorelick on the commission rather than have her testify to it.
Radio news today mentioned the memorial services without reference to bloody, barbaric islam.
To discuss 9/11 without accusing islam is like remembering Pearl Harbor without citing the Japs.
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