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.
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:
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.)
(Click picture to play video. Requires QuickTime.)
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:
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?
UPDATE at 9/11/06 5:34:07 pm:
Allahpundit has posted parts 2 and 3 of his fascinating CNN clips:
"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.
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
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:
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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