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Where It's 9-11 All the Time...
various links | 09-11-02 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

Posted on 09/11/2002 3:30:23 AM PDT by backhoe

This is a small collection of links, organized into four consecutive categories:

1- A look back from now.
2- The 9-11 attack "as it went down, live..."
3- The aftermath.
4- Remembrance.

As with all such posts, there are links within links within links, and to fully remember and inform yourself, you need to follow them all- but be warned!
Some will take you to gruesome pictures and disturbing stories, so tread carefully.

I honestly believe that most Americans need to view these things, and never forget, or forgive, what was visited on defenseless and innocent people on that black day.

Use your own judgement, but look if you can.

-30-

backhoe


A look back:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/748240/posts
The Eve of Destruction - 9/10/2002
Free Dominion ^ | September 11, 2002 | Entropy Squared
"World War III started on September 11, 2001 as surely as World War II started with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. What you are seeing in these pictures is a sneak attack by enemies who want to destroy the freedom and liberty we enjoy, as surely as the Japanese wanted to destroy us and as surely as the Nazis wanted to destroy us."
 
 
The original  "as it happened" --
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/520255/posts
World Trade Center
CNBC ^ | 9-11-01 | self
"CNBC reports a plane has hit the World Trade Center in NY. No details..."
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/520265/posts
SECOND PLANE FLIES INTO OTHER TOWER!
FNC ^ | September 11, 2001 | Ms. AntiFeminazi
"This was no coincidence, but an act of war."
 
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/748464/posts
Associated Press newswire - September 11, 2001 - Chronology of news alerts, bulletins and flashes
Associated Press newswire | September 11, 2001
"The following is a mostly complete set of Associated Press articles, news alerts, bulletins and flashes that ran on the morning of September 11, 2001 - "
 
 
 
http://www.sierratimes.com/02/09/11/arjj091102.htm
The Sierra Times - One Year Ago
09.11.01 Report by J.J. Johnson
Published 09. 10. 02 at 21:36 Sierra Time

 
Then, the rest:
 
 
WTC link
Pentagon

 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/620413/posts
Remembrance Archive: Free Republic Threads From 9-11-01
Free Republic ^ | 9-11-01 | FReepers
 
 
SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: ATTACK ON AMERICA! (click here)
 
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/743032/posts
Gotta Hear This [ENYA.mp3 - 3 Megabytes]
Montage at Terrorism on our soil ^
 
 
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/599588/posts
911 Pictures -- Help -- so we won't forget

 
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/677190/posts
Where Every Day is Sept. 11 (Website shows gruesome WTC photos)
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 4/28/02 | Robert Salladay

 
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/560877/posts
How many jumped from the WTC towers?
 
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/743922/posts
Desperation forced a horrific decision
USA Today ^ | September 3, 2002 | Dennis Cauchon and Martha Moore
"The story of the victims who jumped to their deaths is the most sensitive aspect of the Sept. 11 tragedy. Photographs of people falling to their deaths shocked the nation...It was worse than people realize."
 
 
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/521979/posts
WTC IMAGES ONLY (slow thread)
internet ^ | 9.12.01
 
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/534198/posts
Why media coverage is circumspect over remains at WTC ( Media use FEMA footage)
USAToday ^ | September 27, 2001 | Peter Johnson

 
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/520273/posts
First Wire Reports on World Trade Center Attacks
UPI, AP, etc | 11 September 2001

 
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/520260/posts
*** PLANE CRASH - WORLD TRADE CENTER ***
CNN BREAKING

 
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/521077/posts
New York Digs Out of 'devastating, Unspeakable' Carnage Following World Trade Center Blasts
TBO.com ^ | 9/12/01 | Beth J. Harpaz
"Eyewitnesses recalled seeing people jump from windows of the tower high in the sky - including a man and a woman who held hands as they plunged to their deaths..."
 
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/631396/posts
Lest We Forget
Townhall ^ | Feb 20, 2002 | Michelle Malkin
Fair warning- there are gruesome pictures on this post. You have been cautioned!
 
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/745733/posts
A Stunned City's Collected Grief [Hundreds of Unpublished 9/11 Photos]
HereisNewYork. org (via Wash Post) ^ | September 6, 2002 | Sundry photographers
The site is set up for browsing. I looked at number 1484, a gripping photo of jumpers ...
"When the whining, sappy, head-in-the-sand idiots at work say we shouldn't go to war, we should put all this behind us (and believe me, they have been saying these things) I've pointed to that shot and asked if they would feel any different if that was their mother, father or child."
 
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/528622/posts
AMERICA ATTACKED: Online FReeper library - Post your links to memorial sites, photos, videos, etc.
Memorials, Photos, Videos, Graphics, Flash, Audio ^ | 9/20/01 | FR Members
 
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/536161/posts
Second-by-Second Terror Revealed in Calls to 911
New York Daily News ^ | 9/31/01 | Michael Daly
 
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/743489/posts
September 11th Radio Transmissions
9/11/01
 
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/742567/posts
What becomes of voice mails left by those facing death on Sept. 11?
AP via NJ.com ^ | 8/31/02 4:48 PM | DEBORAH HASTINGS
 
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/745678/posts
Miracles emerge from debris
USA TODAY ^ | September 5, 2002 | Dennis Cauchon and Martha T. Moore
 
 

 

And finally, remembrance:
Remembrance Archive: Free Republic Threads From 9-11-01

 


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9/11/2001 - Free Republic Archives
 
"Path to 9/11" Edited/Unedited Comparison

Allahpundit’s already comparing the edited and unedited versions of The Path to 9/11: “Path to 9/11” Update: Side-by-side comparisonlink: 298 comments   "An amazingly well done movie--low key, detailed, well scripted and acted--that will go far in educating the general public as to what happened and why during the 1990's."

 
Live Thread of The Path to 911 (Part I) [8- 10:30 pm Eastern - ABC]
"Are there any men left in Washington?"
 
 
Live Thread of The Path to 911 ABC Part I (7pm AZ, AK 8pm CA, OR, WA)

The Path To 9/11

I'm going to sit down in a few minutes to watch this, but those in time zones further east are already blogging their take;

Austin Bay is watching it too: "I see why Clinton is afraid of it. The movie serves as a reminder of all of the terrorist attacks and attempted attacks. Clinton went eight years and Bush eight months playing cops and robbers while Al Qaeda was implementing unrestricted warfare."

Yes, the Democrats have shown their usual instinct for the capillary. While worrying about minor bits, they've missed that the real harm is simply the reminder of the terrorist threat, which they've tried to downplay, but which they've magnified in people's minds by making a stink. Going on the offensive like this just reminds people that they've been downplaying it for over a decade.

If they'd kept their mouths shut, this would be about the terrorists, which would be bad enough. Now it's about the terrorists and the Democrats.

[...]

Clinton looks very bad. So does Sandy Berger.

Posted by Kate at 10:20 PM | Comments (31)
 
"Even if much was taken out, this was the closest thing to the truth about Clinton and his disregard for our safety that I have ever seen on TV. Period. You are shaking with anger, as am I, because we got perhaps 30% of the truth. I'm guessing that if we got to see 60%, we'd have a stoke."...each of these edits is now preserved as a clip that will circulate through the Internet for an eternity. I think Billy pulled a real boner by protesting so stridently. http://www.redstate.com/911clips
 
It was Berger [the Happy Democratic Burglar] who for Hillary Clinton let bin Laden go
both from the Sudanese and was he was briefly vulnerable to missile attack.
[e.g. US News & World Report, Paul Bedard, 15 Mar 2003]

Berger repeatedly rebuffed Sudanese offers to hand Osama bin Laden
to the United States in a deal brokered by a $900,000 contributor to Democrat campaigns.
Source 1 - National Review, "Clinton & Khobar", Rich Lowry


Source 2 - Washington Times, "Miniter Responds", Richard Miniter


Berger allowed bin Laden and his top lieutenants to escape to Afghanistan.
NewsMax, "Aide: Clinton Unleashed bin Laden", Chuck Noe

Secretary of Defense Cohen, Impeached Bill Clinton, Albright, and too-long-accepted CODE-level thief
and accepted-document-destroyer National Security Adviser Sandy Berger,
holding "court" in the Ronald Reagan Building on April 25, 1999.
The Impeached Bill Clinton: "We were all making comments
we shouldn't have about how the meeting was getting very boring.
So finally we decided we had to make like the monkey. Cohen
started this 'hear no evil,' and then I was next so I spoke no evil,
then Madeleine saw no evil, so Sandy Berger said, 'I'm evil.
'"


Sandy Berger-Burglar was a key beneficiary of "Gorelick’s Wall"
TIME, "The Ubiquitous Mr. Fix-It", Adam Cohen


John Kerry was a key beneficiary of Berger's Burglaries
Rescued: Data the Kerry/Edwards Campaign Tried to DELETE from its site! (grandpa dave found cache)


Berger purloined all draft revisions of a key critique of the government's response
to the millennium terrorism threat, a document that detailed Administration knowledge
– and inaction – regarding al Qaeda presence in the U.S. in 1999
and 2000. Stolen were crucial notes in the margins of these drafts
which reveal the thinking and agendas of the
Clinton Administration relating to the mounting terrorist threat.
Washington Post, "Berger Quits as Advisor to Kerry", Susan Schmidt


Berger was not qualified as NSA.
He was a millionaire lawyer and lobbyist with a career centered on expanding trade with China.
Tom Laughlin, http://www.billyjack.com/jung/08_politics/articles/990515_spy.html


Former FBI Director Louis Freeh opined that
Burger “was a public-relations hack, interested in how something would play in the press” .
The New Yorker, per http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200311030753.asp


Dick Morris noted Berger “seemed to work overtime
at opposing tough measures against terror”,
advising vetoes of legislation aimed at crippling Iranian terror funding
and working to block antiterror sanctions.
Wall Street Journal, "While Clinton Fiddled", Dick Morris, http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=95001824


Berger was singled-out by UN Inspector Scott Ritter for the collapse of UN inspections efforts in Iraq].
"Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem - Once and for All" by Scott Ritter


Berger admitted that the Clinton Administration failed to develop a war plan to fight al Qaeda
National Review, "Warning B.S.", Rich Lowry


Berger was the "go-to" man regarding China policy
when Communist Chinese money was being funneled into Democrat Party coffers
in exchange for policy concessions, strategic nuclear technology,
and all pending patent applications at the US Patent Office.
The Hill, "Fundraiser resurfaces from 1996", Sam Dealey


Berger stonewalled the Energy Department about Chinese spying in Los Alamos for three years.

1,908 posted on 09/10/2006 10:10:17 PM EDT by Diogenesis
 
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Web Site Posts Full Pre-Sept. 11 Al Qaeda Video
 
Hot Air points readers to an excellent 43-minute documentary by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), hosted by Ron Silver, about the coverage and analysis of 9/11 in the Muslim world. Allahpundit also recommends this CBS site, which has unedited clips of 9/11 coverage.
 
Minnesota woman learns dad was 9/11 hero (United 93)
 
"That is when I noticed it. Maybe its a defense mechanism, maybe I was so emotionally drained that I wasn't thinking right. To me this was the strangest thing on a strange day.

It was quiet.... and it hit me: an enemy has attacked the very center of our military command. We are at war."
https://beta.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30928620&postID=9109824684820900237
 
911 Happened on Bush's Watch
 
The Path To 911: The Rage - Spit is Flying!
 
THAT SEPTEMBER MORN
 
How the Left Undermined National Security Before 9/11
 
WTC Tribute: New York Minute
 
Schoolchildren Spent 9/11 With the President
 
On Tape, Clinton Admits Passing Up bin Laden Capture; Lewinsky Played Role (Link to recording)
 
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=50052
"9/11: The Philippine Connection part 4
 
FReeper Canteen ~ Remembering 9-11 ~ Sept 11, 2006
 
CNN Pipeline offers free real-time stream of 9/11/01
 
Fox News to Stream Original 9/11 Coverage Monday 8:30 EDT

221 posted on 09/11/2006 6:12:12 AM PDT by backhoe
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See What The Terrorists Did To Us On September 11, 2001 (WARNING! Links To Graphic Photos)
 
Michelle Malkin has a great roundup here:  September 11, 2006 01:27 PM 9/11 pledge: "I will not submit"
 
Wizbang Has A Huge Roundup Of 9.11

Posted in WOT, History at 9:53 am by GCPundit

Five Years Later — We Will Not Forget

THERE'S A HUGE AND ONGOING 9/11 ANNIVERSARY ROUNDUP over at Pajamas Media. Just keep scrolling.

Arab and Iranian Reaction to 9/11

The latest Democratic/Islamist talking point making the rounds of the media is that the US (via the Bush administration) “squandered” the world’s good will after the 9/11 attacks, by fighting back against Islamic terrorism. But was this “good will” a reality, or is it another multicultural myth?

MEMRI Films has put together an eye-opening film on the Arab and Iranian reaction to 9/11, narrated by Ron Silver.  link: 87 comments  How George Soros And The Left Remember 9/11

9/11 Conspiracists Defile WTC Site

LGF reader Zach was at the World Trade Center site in Manhattan today, and he reports that the Truthers were out in force.

Oddly enough, almost everyone I walked past who was speaking loud enough for me to hear was talking about the so called “controlled demolition” and how it was all staged. These left wing nuts seem to have been out in large enough numbers to at least get people talking about it. They made me physically ill.

Indeed.  link: 95 comments

The world mourns 9-11

Path to 9/11 -- First Night Online NOW at ABC

The Path to 9/11- Unedited Clips Leaked

Able Danger Poster with 9/11/2001 image of New York City, New York Harbor (FReeper Poster)


222 posted on 09/11/2006 1:12:03 PM PDT by backhoe
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The Path to 911 Live Thread (Part II)
 
Ron Silver shines on 9/11 film
http://www.memrifilms.org/

The facts About Clinton and Terrorism (You don't need a movie too see his failures)

Worth repeating- from the Good People of Canada:

  911 MEMORIAL THREAD [ 1 ... 4, 5, 6 ]

http://ace.mu.nu/

Today, She Blogs With Fury [Jack M.]

– Ace

And a righteous one, at that.

Mary Katharine Ham takes no prisoners with today's post about the whack-job "Truthers" and their disgusting sycophants in the ivory towered halls of "academia" and the kudzu-covered walls of "modern liberalism".

Who are these "truthers" you ask? MKH has the answer:  Posted by Ace at 05:10 PM | Comments (22)


223 posted on 09/11/2006 3:38:45 PM PDT by backhoe
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9/11/2006: Bear Witness  " Let's finish this thing, before we have to watch Americans jumping out of another skyscraper."

I deliberately waited until after work hours to post this recently released video from YouTube, taken by a tourist couple from Seattle staying in a hotel 100 yards away from the World Trade Center on 9/11 ... because it shows many people jumping from the buildings, much more graphically than anything ever seen on mainstream media in this country.

Parents, this is your warning.

Here’s a story about it, from May 2002, at NBC’s Seattle affiliate: Exclusive: Couple Captures WTC Attack On Tape. Their tape was apparently used by the prosecution in the Zacarias Moussaoui circus. I have no idea how it ended up on YouTube.

The media has made a unilateral decision to be our collective nanny, and they’ve hidden all of their most disturbing footage away in archives. But as I wrote near the first anniversary of the attacks, if it were me standing 100 stories up, after breaking a window that was never meant to be broken, on a ledge that was never meant to be stood upon, making the nightmarish decision to die in a fiery inferno or leap into space, I’d want the world to bear witness to my choice.

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The world needs to bear witness to their choice.

UPDATE at 9/11/06 7:45:06 pm:

Here’s the second part of this video:

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06:39 PM PDT | link: 210 comments
 
September 11, 2001: What We Saw

A previously unreleased video from September 11, 2001, taken from very close to the towers as they collapsed: September 11, 2001: What We Saw. (Quicktime format.)

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9/11 As It Happened  "They even showed the Pali street celebration...after work when I got home on 9/11, still in shock, and saw that old Pali hag in Ramallah dancing around celebrating the carnage it all came crystal clear in one moment." http://www.chicagosuntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn10.html  "...on the streets of Ramallah, people filled the streets and cheered and passed out candy. They celebrated at Concordia University in Montreal, and in northern England and in Scandinavia, too..."

Kudos to CNN for replaying their 9/11 coverage, and kudos to Allahpundit for making his collection of clips available at YouTube:

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UPDATE at 9/11/06 4:04:22 pm:

Allahpundit tells me that he captured the video from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm, but did not see this infamous footage, pulled from the airwaves almost immediately on 9/11 after threats from Palestinians against Western news agencies. Did CNN also purge this from their video archives?

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UPDATE at 9/11/06 5:34:07 pm:

Allahpundit has posted parts 2 and 3 of his fascinating CNN clips:

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"I'm no stranger to the horror of sudden death. I've rolled up more than one brother in a poncho for a dustoff, but we faced our enemies and THEY FACED US, face to face. The cowards who did these things Hide behind women, children and wear masks all the while."
 
 
The West's choice : Courage or collapse (excellent article) --So where are the defenders of liberalism? Or, to put the question differently, why is liberalism no longer a fighting creed?...perhaps most of all, you see the mentality of appeasement reflected in the refusal of leftists and progressives who, in their embrace of cultural relativism, hesitate to denounce the Islamist ideology because, well, that’s being judgmental. Islamism promotes practices that are anti-homosexual, patriarchal in the worst sense, regards women as second-class citizens, and takes religious intolerance to new extremes. Yet, the progressives seem to think that if the West would only understand the "root causes" of terrorism, and then apologize for being the guilty party responsible for those causes, well then the terrorists would leave us alone. -- it seemed to me that the antidote for this infection is the memory of the firefighters and the police officers, the airline passengers, the woman calling her husband in San Francisco, the couple who held hands as they leaped from one of the flaming towers.
Video of WTC on 9/11
 

9/11/06: UN Reform?

This is my day. Sitting with Cliff Kincaid from Accuracy in Media. He was at the 9/11 Truth Movement last night. He said it's much worse than we know. The "9/11 was an inside job" movement is making inroads in the Democratic party and a third of Americans are buying into this. "How did America get so brainwashed?" he asked. "Jihad media" I replied.

More on 9/11 truth activist Bowman, Impeaching Bush Over 9/11 

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The 9/11 inside job is gaining steam. It's worse than you think I went down to Ground Zero this evening, as I do every year on 9/11. This year was different, though. There were more than a few conspiracy nuts and anti-American leftists in attendance: holding up offensive signs ("Bush lied," etc.); starting arguments with people; being generally obnoxious and disrespectful.

 
All of Small Dead Animals is worth reading:
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/
A sample: "Berlusconi was right -- assuming you think societies that allow religious freedom, free speech, human rights, etc. are "superior" to those that forbid the open practise of all religions, denounce non-believers as less that human and impose death sentences of those who dare criticize the faith. If you don't assume the former is better than the latter -- if you disagree with Berlusconi -- then you really need to ask yourself why you live in the West. To partake of its material benefits while denouncing its fundamental values is the life of a parasite."
 

"The calling of our generation."

President George W. Bush, September 11, 2006.

This struggle has been called a clash of civilizations. In truth, it is a struggle for civilization. We are fighting to maintain the way of life enjoyed by free nations. And we are fighting for the possibility that good and decent people across the Middle East can raise up societies based on freedom, and tolerance, and personal dignity.

"We are now in the early hours of this struggle between tyranny and freedom. Amid the violence, some question whether the people of the Middle East want their freedom – and whether the forces of moderation can prevail. For sixty years, these doubts guided our policies in the Middle East. And then, on a bright September morning, it became clear that the calm we saw in the Middle East was only a mirage. Years of pursuing stability to promote peace had left us with neither. So we changed our policies, and committed America’s influence in the world to advancing freedom and democracy as the great alternatives to repression and radicalism.

The full text is in the extended entry.Continue reading"The calling of our generation.""

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224 posted on 09/12/2006 3:44:56 AM PDT by backhoe
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bump for later


225 posted on 09/12/2006 1:00:35 PM PDT by 6323cd ("It is prohibited to make use of such emotional signs in a cellphone!")
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Thanks for looking- more is on the way.


226 posted on 09/12/2006 1:04:45 PM PDT by backhoe
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ANNOUNCING A MEMRI FILMS DOCUMENTARY ON 9/11

'Path to 9/11' producer sees ABC 'victory'

JIM MEIGS ON 9/11: "In every single case, we found that the very facts used by conspiracy theorists to support their fantasies are mistaken, misunderstood or deliberately falsified."

More here.

CONSPIRACY CRANKS. CREATING CRAZED '9/11 TRUTH'.

9/11 Conspiracy Monkeys at WTC

Tiffany Cufflinks has more photos of the Truthers at the World Trade Center, acting out their infantile delusions in public. link: 40 comments 

Building Demolition vs. WTC Falling - The Difference Is Obvious.

Here are more photos of the day, by the photographer described by Zombie on earlier threads as "the best citizen journalist photographer out there"  http://www.flickr.com/photos/imagesofperfection/sets/72157594280280187/

The Bush Regime Engineered 9/11

 Looks like we've got us an East Coast Zombie.

Former DC Islamic Center Head: 'The 9/11 Events Were Planned by the American Administration'

IT'S A WIDESPREAD MYTH that the Bush Administration "squandered the world's goodwill" after 9/11. Anne Applebaum reminds us that it wasn't that way:
 
ABC 9/11 Docudrama's Right-Wing Roots (Free Republic Mentioned)
 
Path to 9/11 available for online viewing
 
4 Horsemen Of 9/11 [Berger, Gorelick, Albright, Ben-Veniste]

227 posted on 09/12/2006 1:07:18 PM PDT by backhoe
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BUMP and THANK YOU!


228 posted on 09/12/2006 1:08:47 PM PDT by onyx (1 Billion Muslims -- IF only 10% are radical, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
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I appreciate your looking- thank you!


229 posted on 09/12/2006 1:13:22 PM PDT by backhoe
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http://proteinwisdom.com/index.php
Has it really been half a decade?

On the morning of September 11 2001, my wife and I were up early packing the car for a weekend stay we’d planned in Taos, NM.  We were watching “Good Morning America” while having our coffee when the report broke of a “small plane” hitting one of the Twin Towers—a report that was soon thrown into doubt by eyewitnesses who claimed the plane was much larger than the initial accounts were claiming. 

We decided to stick around for a bit until we knew what exactly was happening, and because of that, we watched live as the second plane hit the Towers.  It was at that point, I think, that we cancelled our trip.  Not long after, we watched the Towers collapse.

In the days and weeks following what we eventually learned were terrorist attacks, I became—along with millions of Americans, I suspect—a news junkie.  And it was during the second stage of the coverage—after the immediate 48 hours, when networks began “contextualizing” the attacks—that I found myself growing disillusioned with media outlets I’d previously watched fairly uncritically.  Pre-911, I wasn’t at all a political animal; but CNN and Peter Jennings turned me into one.

They also allowed me to find FOX News, which I had never before watched—and blogs, which I had never before read.  The rapidity of the updates on blogs, which were pulling stories from multiple sources and offering commentary, fed both my hunger for information and my desire to consider a broad range of commentary.  And in December 2001, I started my own site, which eventually became protein wisdom.

I also subscribed to a number of magazines within a month or two of the 911 attacks in order to read across the ideological and political spectrum.  Among these were The Nation, Harpers, The American Prospect, The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, The National Review, and Reason.  And it was through these periodicals that I was able to find my political bearings—which I’d always believed was more toward, say, Harpers -- but which in fact turned out to be some combination of the The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, and National Review on foreign policy, and Reason on social policy.

Which, I have to be honest, this came as quite a shock to a guy who’d spent the last 10 years of his life in the Humanities—though in retrospect, I don’t think it should have been, given the way I now believe one’s understanding of how language works (even if that understanding is entirely unconscious) either determines (or possibly is determined by) one’s ideological orientation, which then translates into a nodal point on the political continuum.

My own orientation—which I’ve come to identify as classically liberal—also exposed an ideological rift between me and many of my friends, one that had previously been a far more localized and discipline-specific dispute over hermeneutics, often argued vigorously over beer and bad 70s music.  Unsurprisingly (to me, at least), my friends who were of the postcolonial / new historical / post-structural (including reader-response) schools of interpretation theory turned out to hold “progressive” political views and were the most likely to embrace ideas about “blowback” and US imperialism / hegemony, which they often trotted out as a way to distance themselves from the crass nativists who had taken to wearing American flag lapel pins or decorating their cars with ribbon magnets, and had committed the unpardonable sin of having never read Pynchon or Delillo or Said or Walter Benjamin.

So for me, not only was 911 an horrific day of tragedy, but it was likewise the day that began my political awakening, and compelled me to think through and clarify my political beliefs, as well as endeavor to understand the philosophical underpinnings of my ideological inclinations in much the same way I’d previously gone about understanding, say, The Time Machine or The Prince.

Now, five years later, I’m completely comfortable with my politics; and I am firmly behind the current administration’s basic strategy for fighting the scourge of Islamic radicalism—even if I often disagree with particular manifestations of that strategy.

And at this remove, I find it rather pointless, now, to argue with those who have become entrenched in their views.  Nevertheless, I continue to write—sometimes to persuade, sometimes to crystalize my own thoughts—so that those who are perhaps new to an examination of politics, foreign policy, etc., can, if they’d like, add my observations and arguments to the mix that will eventually define their place on the political spectrum.

911 was a clarion call.  It told us we are indeed at war—that an enemy has sought us out, and that no amount of projection or denial or blame shifting or strained attempts to “understand” that enemy (ironically, often in completely western terms, this despite the constant suggestions that we need to understand them through the lens of their peculiar cultural beliefs) was going to change that fact.

Some of us have embraced that message and have decided to support a particular strategy for fighting the war; others (on both the left and the right) think our current leadership has chosen the wrong strategy; and still others deny that we are even AT war.

And so for me, today is a time to reflect not only upon the horrors of that sunny September morning—but it is likewise a time to take stock of where we are, what we’ve done since, and what we need to do going forward in order to protect our country and our way of life from those who would annihilate them.

I figure watching United 93 ought to be a nice way to jumpstart those reflections.  So if you’ll excuse me --

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What’s struck me over the past five years is how the veil has been ripped off the various prejudices of Americans.  The absolute venom with which the Left refers to the “NASCAR crowd,” or suburbanites, or people who shop at Wal-Mart, is something I’ve heard as background music for years, but I never really listened to the tune until post-9/11.  I grew up in a heavily bigoted area (South Side Chicago Irish), and the pure vitriol aimed at the parties mentioned above is akin to what I heard directed at blacks when I was growing up. 

Similar too is the increased tension among ethnic groups, mainly “people of color” against whites, but also between sub-groups of the melanin-enhanced.  I can’t help but think this is due to the decline in civics education in school, replaced by the claptrap of multiculturalism, “diversity” and victimology.  Stress everyone’s differences, and their grievances, and it’s not surprising that we focus more on our tribes than on our citizenry as a whole.  (More likely, these thoughts have been here all along, and now we’re just more open to saying them aloud.)

I really don’t see where things are going to get better any time soon.  I can see a situation where a massive calamity hits a major city, and the suburban/rural response would be a collective shoulder shrug - not my people, not my problem. 

On the flip side, just think about what the response would be in certain circles of the Boston-NY-DC corrider if Oklahoma City got hit by a WMD.  I can see the Kossacks crowing right now about how “those damn Christian Nazis deserved it.”

Mr. Merry F'in’ Sunshine, that’s me.

"It was the 9/11 attacks which started me looking seriously into Islam.  Before that I had just looked at them as being just another religion.  As I checked out the Koran to see what it actually said, I started to realise that here we have a death cult totally dedicated to wiping out western civilization, no holds barred.  It is so obvious that I find it mind-bending just how many PC people in our govts and our indoctrinated populations are unable and unwilling to see the truth. "

ULTIMATE VANITY: DOES ANYONE HAVE A DVD OR VIDEO OF 9/11 SHOW?
 
Scientists and engineers simulate jet colliding with World Trade Center
 
Gorelick's Wall - She belongs in the witness chair (from 2004)

230 posted on 09/12/2006 4:27:33 PM PDT by backhoe
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Before and after 9/11--Flipping through channels on Sept. 11 was like rummaging through a box of old photographs. You see things you hadn't noticed before and ordinary images seem suddenly extraordinary.--In that moment, we are all transformed.

The Mind of a Truther

It’s “How I Spent My 9/11 Vacation,” Truther-style, penned with great effort and sincerity by “Treez:” I’m back! - FearBush Forums. (Hat tip: ChenZhen.) 

I think a new term needs to be coined for these lunatics... "Truther" gives them far too much legitimacy.

Perhaps "raver", "batters", "looners"...

Reprinted in full because, well, it’s just so freaking hilarious that it should be preserved for all time. ( Maximum Idiocy Moments hilited in fushcia... )

Well, the day started at 4 a.m. when me and my boy got up to catch the 5:52 a.m. train to NYC from Philly. We arrived at Penn Station in Manhattan at 7:15 a.m.. As soon as we got up to ground level, 2 other dudes our age came over to us to bum a ciggerette. They noticed our custom T-shirts(as SOOOO many people did throughout the day) that we had gotten airbrushed the day before in Philly. Black T-shirts with “Investigate” in cursive writing accross the top of the shirt, then below that, a huge 9 and next to that the two towers forming an 11. But the dudes obviously didn’t read above the 911 where it said “investigate”, and the one with the dreadlocks looked at us in utter confusion and asked “ya’ll dont REALLY beleive terrorists brought those buildings down, DO YOU????” “Hell no dawgs, that’s why it says ‘INVESTIGATE’.” After realizing we were both citizens of Reality, we stood around and talked for a few minutes, smoked our Newports, then parted ways.

Great start to the day. Then we flagged a cab, got in, told him “Church and Fulton” and we were off to ground zero. He dropped us off a few blocks away because traffic was blocked off for a few blocks radius of GZ. We walked up to GZ and arrived around 7:50 and began looking for fellow “black shirts”, which weren’t hard to find. The 9/11 Truth Movement all wore black T-shirts that said “Investigate 9/11” on the front and had some other stuff on the back including a link to the LooseChange website. But immediately they started taking notice of me and my boy’s custom T-shirts and asking us to pose for pictures. I must’ve posed for at least 10 pictures if not more, the shirts were a huge hit. Then a lady with a microphone came up and asked for an interview, and we agreed, but I just let my boy handle the interview and answer her questions.

Everyone was just standing around and there was a guy assembling a huge sign consisting of two huge wooden poles and a banner stretching between them. The banner said “9/11 was a US Black Op” on one side, and “USA did 911” on the reverse. Needing a helping hand, he just said out loud “any 9/11 Truth people can give me a hand?”. Since I was standing right there, I offered my assistance in holding one of the poles while he stapled the banner together. After the banner was erected, I guess that I was automatically assigned to holding one of the poles.

I guess during the process of putting up the sign, the Truth Movement had been told to relocate, because I looked around and suddenly the black shirts were no where in sight. Then the hate began. Some Jew looking dude in a suit came up to me and asked “where are you from?” I said “PA”, and he said “you should go back to PA, asshole” and walked away. It took me by suprise, and I started laughing, I thought about saying “you should go back to Israel” but instead just shouted to him “you have a nice day too sir” and smiled. Then some lady walked by the huge sign and said something dimented about “you guys will pay in hell”. Easily laughed at. Then as I’m holding up the one end of the sign, I felt the sign being literally pulled down, lol, and looked and some idiot had grabbed the other pole and was wrestling to pull it down, I kept my end up and the cops grabbed the flaghead (literally, he was wearling a flag bandanna) and the other guy got control and the sign was back up.

Then some guy in a brown trechcoat with a notepad came up to me and asked if he could ask me some questions. I said sure. What’s your name? I gave him a fake name, then he asked who I was with. I told him I was with the 9/11 Truth Movement, he asked what that was and I told him it’s a loose knit group of people from all over the country who have unanswered questions about 9/11 that the official story doesn’t answer and that we want a new, serious investigation into the attacks by people who aren’t biased like the original committee. He was about to ask another question, but I was approached by a police officer who said that we had to relocate with the sign. So we began walking up Church street carrying the sign. At one point I had given my end of the sign to my boy to carry and was walking along with them. Some lady came up and said something about “asshole this or that”, I said “Maam, we’re not the ones being disrespectufl and hateful, we’re only asking question, like why did WTC 7 fall down?” She walked away mumbling about assholes.

Anywayz, that was the most hectic it got, the walk up the street, we were feeling the hate big time, all the suits and ties were pissed at us for questioning things, they hate Arabs so bad that anyone asking questions that might lead to Arabs not being responisible might as well be Arab. Disgusting, and to think that these are the same type of people that worked in the towers and were killed who I travelled from PA to speak up for, it’s sad.

Anywayz, we were led by the police up to Trinity and Cedar. At Trinity and Cedar, the entire park there was full of black shirts, throughout the day, Trinity and Cedar became known as Camp Freedom, because it was nothing but the Truth Movement there.

So we’re holding this big ass sign on the pavement at Trinity and Cedar, and one of the best moments of the day for me happened. A police officer approached me and said “I think you guys are doing a great thing, I support you guys. I don’t think you are the bad guys at all, like I said, you’s are doing a good thing here. But I need you to take down that sign because it’s a crowded area and if it were to fall, people could be injured.” I said “no problem sir, and thank you for the kind words.” Then I told the dude who’s sign it was that the cop said it had to come down because of the safety concern, he protested, but I put my end down and went into Camp Freedom to mingle with the other Truth members.

So I’m standing there with my boy, and I look over, and I notice Corey Rowe (one of the guys who made Loose Change). I said “Corey Dylan!!” then corrected myself...“yooooooooooo Corey Rowe, what’s up!!” he shook my hand and said thanks for showing up and complimented me on my shirt. Then me and my boy went to this place called “Pinnina Bread” or something to get some food. When we came back to Camp Freedom, we started talking to these other dudes (the boy my age was from NYC and his dad was a firefighter that got his lungs fucked up working at ground zero) and he said that Alex Jones was there. So I started looking for him (Alex). And there he was.

Now, the worst moment of my day happened. I went up to Alex, and said “Alex, could I get a quick picture taken with you?” He said he had to make a phone call real quick, I said hey take your time man. So boom, he got off the phone and came over to me. I told my boy to get ready to take the picture. Me and Alex shook hands for a few seconds and then we parted ways.

I was happy and wanted to smoke weed now, so me and my boy took a walk and found an empty alleyway to smoke in. Then when I was lighting up, my boy started freestyling and said “I hate to see how Trees heart’s gon’ be breakin/ cuz him and Alex parted ways before the picture was taken”

What he just said sank in and I said “NUH UH!!?!?” “STOP PLAYIN!!!!!” He had taken too long bringing up the camera options on his cellphone and didn’t get the shot!!!!! I was pissed at him, for a long time. Still kinda mad at him. After we smoked, we walked by a bar and I said he had to buy me a double of Jack Daniels for fuckin my picture up, so we went in the bar and got a little buzz on. Then we headed back to Camp Freedom at Trinity and Cedar. Word was that at 2 pm, after they finished reading the victims names at Ground Zero, Alex was gonna go down and speak on the megaphone at GZ. So me and my boy went to get something to eat.

When we came out, the boy I seen earlier that told me about Alex said “yo, you’re boy Immortal Technique is here somewhere, he’s down by Ground Zero”. This would’ve made up for the lost Alex Jones picture, but I never ran into Imortal Technique. Anywayz, we chilled in Freedom Park for an hour or so before 2 pm came and we headed to GZ.

By now, the flagheads rolled out and the 9/11 Truth Movement controlled Ground Zero. The police showed up with big rubber bullet firing machine guns and lined both sides of the street. Both sides of Church Street, maybe it was Fulton, but anywayz, BOTH SIDES of the street were filled with Black Shirts and Alex Jones took the Megaphone. Alex spit facts and led the crowd in chants of “9/11 was an inside job, 911 was an inside job, 911 was an inside job!!” The Truth movement was massive, and the media completely DISAPPEARED. At one point, an ABC news van drove down the street in front of us and were BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOed and screamed at to “do your job!!!”.

Anywayz, that went on for a while, and then the movement began walking to 120 Broadway, where Larry Silverstiens office is. The police blocked off 2 lanes of traffic and the Truth Movement gathered in the middle of the street. Alex Jones got on the megaphone again and started speaking about WTC 7 and other things. In the hour or so we were there, we chanted “Pull it! pull it! pull it!” and “murderer! murderer! murderer!” among other sayings like “911 was an inside job, we have the proof, so face the truth!” After that, the Truth Movement marched to Police HQ, but me and my boy were both tired as shit and beat, so we decided to head back to Penn Station.

It was a great experience all together. One thing I took away from it was the fact that something so massive could take place, so many people from all over could gather and voice an opinion, and the media could black it out as if it never happened. It’s upsetting. I was there, it was massive, and no one I know that watched the news yesterday seen it.

Another thing I couldn’t help but notice was the respect, concern, and love that the 9/11 Truth Movement represented. And on the other side, the hate and anger and wickedness of the so called “ordinary” people. They could not debate one fact, they couldn’t talk without cursing or offending whoever they were talking to. To think that if it were them who died in the towers, and I had been there fighting for truth and wanting to know what happened to them, how unworthy they would be to protest for. I’m absolutely sure that there were good people that died in the towers, and not all evil hateful monsters like those there yesterday pretending to mourn. I dedicate my protest to any good person that died in the buildings, but it’s sad to say, those people I encountered yesterday in mass, are not worth protesting for. Next time they’re government kills them, I might just stay home and be quiet.

08:48 PM PDT | link: 500 comments
 Take a peek into the horrible moonbatish mind with Michelle Malkin's Vent, very good as always, and quite strong today, about murdering the POTUS.
9/11 Conspiracy Monkey House

The 9/11 conspiracy monkeys really were out in force yesterday at Ground Zero. LGF reader El Marco has a great (well, “great” isn’t really the word) collection of photos showing these odd self-deluding primates in their natural habitat: 9/11 Five Years After - a photoset on Flickr.

Now with extra monks.

04:20 PM PDT | link: 286 comments

"A question for our looney friends:

If BushMcHitlerHalliburton engineered 9-11, who engineered the first WTC bombing, Khobar Towers, the African embassies, and the USS Cole? "

#231 6patrick6  9/12/2006 07:14PM PDT
 

As for the ridiculous idea of the "controlled demolitions" of WTC1, WTC2, and WTC7...a basic lesson in physics:

Gravity works every time it's tried. Ask any parachutist, pilot, or kid throwing a ball into the air. Gravity is what it is.

Fire weakens steel. It does not have to be molten to fail, but weakening through cracking and tearing (impact of the aircraft), heat (JP-8 is a fuel, and when added to the building materials, office eqipment, human bodies, makes for a hot-ass fire, right?), weight (gravity, remember?), and all conspire quite well on their own to cause the collapse of both towers. The collapse began on the floor directly above the impact points on both towers! This fact alone should prove the crash and resulting heat and fire collapsed the towers. Nothing more needs said. This is common sense, pure and simple!

WTC7 was damaged by the tower falling on it, collapsing in as manner similar to the front of the front of the Murrah Building in OKC did. The building was weakened significantly, and was also on fire. It, too, collapsed because of the damage caused from the tower falling ON TOP of it.

And lastly - When, exactly, was there an opportunity by ANYBODY to put approzimately 1,500# of high explosives in each tower, set the myriad of charges needed in exactly the right places, all without workers in the buildings not knowing what was up? Plus, how did both aircraft crash in just the right spot in both buildings to allow all of these events to conspire perfectly? Or, yet, how was this explosive placed in the buildings AFTER the crash, if that's your angle? Controlled demo, my big, bright, shiny white ass! Come on, conspiracy goons, certainly you can explain just exactly how this came to pass, right?

/crickets

Sorry gang, the 9/11 conspiracy f0cktards need to be euthanised. Put their stupid asses out of their collective Borg misery.

September 11, 2001: What We Saw--The video has already been posted on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn-y4NCgncY

BBC Did Not Know Of 9/11 Film's Link To Religious Right (Path To 9-11)--Umm, so, umm.. *scratch head* The BBC is supposed to vet filmmakers on their religious and political values?

DID CLINTON CAUSE 9/11? ASK SANDY BERGER

231 posted on 09/13/2006 5:30:51 AM PDT by backhoe
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9/11 Conspiracy Theories: The 9/11 Truth Movement in Perspective [A comprhensive rebuttal]

Popular Mechanics Takes On 9/11 Conspiracy Nutjobs! (VIDEO)

http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/NCSTAR1-6ExecutiveSummary.pdf

The Path to 9/11--A Postmortem(Victor Davis Hanson)


232 posted on 09/13/2006 1:08:54 PM PDT by backhoe
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Video: 9/11, as it happened Update: Amateur video added (NEW)
233 posted on 09/13/2006 4:05:37 PM PDT by backhoe
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Hear 'The Path to 9/11' Writer-CLINTON WILLFULLY FAILED TO NAIL BIN LADEN A DOZEN TIMES: CIA

The whole of Path to 9/11 is on ABC's website (http://www.pathto911.abc.com), and other networks are supposedly going to be following the lead.

234 posted on 09/14/2006 5:00:12 AM PDT by backhoe
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Path to 9/11 Aussie Feed available on BitTorrent
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUMSdv3GfFk
War On Terror: Progress for America Commercial

235 posted on 09/14/2006 7:20:39 AM PDT by backhoe
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"My brother died on 9/11, you creep. Don't make this political!'
236 posted on 09/14/2006 4:09:49 PM PDT by backhoe
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Coverage Of 9/11 Was Too Wimpy (Mark Steyn On The Feminized 9/11 Remembrance Fetish Alert)

237 posted on 09/17/2006 4:37:54 AM PDT by backhoe
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9/11 Five Years Later

Posted in Middle East, WOT at 12:34 pm by nbpundit

A must see compilation of MEMRI’s translations from around the middle east, showcasing the arab reaction to 9/11. 9 Comments

 
Another 9/11 Memorial Hijacked By Leftists

Arizona’s 9/11 memorial is a testament to leftist “diversity” speak, and a disgrace to the memory of the Americans murdered that day: The Moonbat Arizona 9/11 Memorial.

UPDATE at 9/20/06 9:08:13 pm:

Also see: Espresso Punditlink: 99 comments ...what Expresso Pundit found...

Tucson High teacher opposes 9/11 memorial (this article reports the left bias regarding the memorial)

Arizona 9/11 Memorial is dedicated (this article quotes some of the phrases that are on the monument)

-the scary thing is, they have lesson plans for children regarding 9/11 and the monument. I sure would like to see those plans. Any guesses what they contain?

"This isn't a memorial, it is a commemoration honoring the success of the terrorists."

Shock and Awe [9/11 Memorial Sculpture in Phoenix Bashes America, Military, and Bush Administration]--It's outrageous and  I just despair for the country. I've never seen so much  hatred.


238 posted on 09/21/2006 3:24:54 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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US - Flight 77 Simulation Demolishes Lunatic 9/11 Theory (Must See Simulation Video!)
239 posted on 09/22/2006 1:25:50 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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9-11 Was a Conspiracy... VIDEO

240 posted on 10/01/2006 5:10:47 AM PDT by backhoe
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