9/11 Remembered

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1. I was trading equities at the time at a day-trading firm in Victoria, BC. I remember it vividly. I was there as usual at about 5:30 am and we always had CNBC on all the TVs going. I remember the screen quickly showing the WTC after the first hit and Mark Haynes speculating about it. Things were fairly calm in the pre-market actions as most of the thinking was that it was just a small craft accident. When the second plane hit I saw it live. Mark announced “We are under attack” and things got crazy. The futures dropped a quick few hundred points and the media went nuts.
   The markets were closed for the rest of the week and we all know the rest. For my generation (I’m 44) this was our JFK moment.

2. When the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s my coffee clatch bunch of about ten or so regulars at the coffee shop collectively thought, ‘Well, that’s it, the cold war is over and now the countries can divert defense spending on peaceful pursuits’.
   My reply was, not so fast, that there is a bigger threat on the horizon than the Soviets ever were during their last few decades, and we had better prepare for that. By this time there was constant trouble in the near ME in the Palestinian Israel areas. Then came the big explosion in the hotel in Lebanon, and a few hundred US marines were killed and injured. Later came the US Cole incident and others, which I cannot recall at the moment. But the west was more or less complacent about all this.
   Then, when 9/11 occurred I thought now the governments will get serious about the threat. Initially they did, and we saw the Iraq War when Saddamm was taken down and in hindsight not such a good idea, then the Afghan War in which the Taliban was sent packing. Then the effort by the west for regime change in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, which were all terrible ideas.
   All of this encouraged the growth of terrorist activity which had been largely dormant since the 1919 peace talks which failed to properly carve up the former Ottoman Empire into more stable tribal countries.
   Now we have Islamic terrorists controlling large areas in the ME and being threats in all western countries.
   And what is worse, and possibly disastrous for us, is that we are taking millions of these disaffected ME residents into our homes. Immigrants whose aims are to remake our countries into versions of theirs. Oh, they and our leaders say no, but never in the last fourteen centuries have Muslims not tried to remake their subject people states into Muslim states.
   Our leaders are singing from the kumbaya song book, and like Lemmings, leading us over the cliff. By and large our leaders are leftist and in their minds conservative Christians are the biggest threat.

3. Yuppers. And the “free” world learned absolutely nothing from the 3000 who died tomorrow. We still import the murdering bastards by the 1000’s. It’s the “social” thing to do. When did the survival instinct in North America die?

4. “When did the survival instinct in North America die?” When the Marxists took over all our institutions.

5. I was on my way to where I used to teach when the bus I was in was at a timing stop. The driver suddenly said something about a plane flying into the WTC. Most of the people on board disregarded it, but there were a few in the back who seemed to already know what it was about. I thought it odd at the time, but, later on, I wasn’t so sure.
   As things developed, and it became clear what had happened, many of us in the office talked about it. The one event that we compared it to was the assassination of JFK.
   Some of my students openly wondered about the situation and the best answer I could give them was that we were in for some hard times. I think I was overly optimistic.

6. Why on earth did Bush say “Islam is a religion of peace” in his first speech after 9/11? Those six words have haunted us ever since.
   Not seriously, but I say I’ve never forgiven him for that.

7. I was at work and my wife called to say that our daughter, in the basement watching TV, had just seen a plane hit the WTC. My immediate response “Deliberately?”
   Next statemnt was this is Bin Laden.
   I remember how absolutely shocked and incredulous people were. This shock is the reason for the “9-11 truthers”. They still cannot accept that there are evil people in the world bent on world domination and that Rag Heads were capable of organizing this.

8. At lunch time, I walked over to the food court in Place de Portage, in Hull. As all Canadians know, this is a federal government complex, but Joe Public can also enter because it is also a shopping mall and food court and where you get your passport.
   There were union strike picketers trying to prevent me from entering and I was in no mood to discuss. I was ready to punch the guy out for trying to deny me my rightful entry to the complex. Suddenly, liberty seemed important to me.
   Having purchsed my food, on my way out, all the picketers had gone. Emotions were high that day. I wanted mecca and riyaddh nuked right then. This possiblty explains Bush’s “handling of blood lust” but his “ROP” statement was still wrong … because it is a lie.

9. Gellen i agree. i thought it was ridiculous. since mohammad perverted the bible and called it the koran it has raged all over the world slaughtering christians jews atheists , gays , raping woman animals …it even condones sex with a dead body ….it is not peaceful the only thing that makes it peaceful is that most middle eastern muslims are just regular folks tryin to make a living and dont take the false fake religion seriously.

10. Second hand story from a fellow electrician I worked with on a project. He was working at Celestica at Don Mills Road and Eglinton in Toronto (This was a former IBM facility) when the attack happened. A lot of the people who worked there were muslims. When the news of the attack became known a huge party broke out and people were singing, cheering and dancing on the tables in the cafeteria. He left the building fearing for his life and took the rest of the day off.

11. The 9/11 documentary by the French Naudet brothers is the best documentary about that day. CNN is broadcasting it twice. The brothers were originally doing a film about a rookie fireman and were filming when the first plane hit. I hope CNN doesn’t wreck the documentary as they now have the rights instead of CBS.

12. The 9/11 documentary by the French Naudet brothers is the best documentary about that day. CNN is broadcasting it twice. The brothers were originally doing a film about a rookie fireman and were filming when the first plane hit. I hope CNN doesn’t wreck the documentary as they now have the rights instead of CBS.

13. my friend told me he was at the calgary airport waiting for a friend and when the news broke several cabbies started cheering and shaking hands and screaming jubilantly…he was discgusted and opened his eyes to islam.

14. Minuteman’s relayed story of Muslim workers in an IBM workplace in Don Mills overtly celebrating Al-Quaida destroying the W.T.C. towers on September 11, 2001.
    Paul relates the same celebrating being done by Muslim taxi drivers in Calgary.
    This was on Sept. 11, 2001, many Islamists were that entrenched.
    The Muslim population in Canada has doubled since then.
    Some are refugees fleeing Sharia law, Islamic Supremacism and jihad.
    Others are here to support the imposition of Sharia and jihad, overtly or by stealth.
    Do not be angry with then Pres. George W. Bush referring to ” a religion of peace.”
    The U.S. State Department(et al) has M.B. infiltration since, at least, the 1980s.
    Executives take advice from the employees hired to give it on a particular area.
    Back then, only a few had a sophisticated analysis of Islamic jihad.
    15 years of growing global jihad, internet coverage and access to a handful of experts who can explain Islam to non-Muslims via youtube is a recent phenomena.
    President Obama’s administration, (effective Jan. 2009 to Jan. 2017) has no such excuse.
    The Obama administration’s choice to suppress military intelligence analysis about Islam and jihad gathered 2001-2009 has been a deliberate decision.
    One resulting in “Catastrophic Failure”(Coughlin) since then.
    The M.B. infiltration, even in Canada, is extensive and growing. This due to the running of interference by the (cultural) Marxists.

15. Yes, a fellow I know was working at Skytrain.
    When 9-11 happened,a bunch of the “ethnics” there started to cheer loudly.
    One of the techs yelled at them to shut the fu** up”.

16. In the institution where I used to teach, one of my departmental colleagues was from the Middle East and I believe he was a citizen.
    However, when the attacks occurred 15 years ago, he seemed rather quiet. I thought that, perhaps, that he didn’t want to draw attention to himself or, perhaps, the ire of his co-workers because of where he was from–guilt by association and stereotyping and all that.
    In the years since, I’ve learned about certain practices, such as deliberately deceiving one’s enemy if it advances the cause of Islam. Looking back, I’ve often wondered just where his loyalties really lay.

17. Not PC …The missus decided for the first time
    to wear a Burka for a week just to see what the reaction would be.
    The first morning she was sworn at, punched on the nose,
    kicked up the arse, and received death threats.
    Heaven knows what’s going to happen when she leaves the house!
    ****
    yeah ok, bring it.

18. Larry;
    A good summation. I certainly remember the news clips of the celebrations going on throughout the ME.
    Perhaps my understanding is limited but radical Islam seems to center around Saudi Arabia and the Sunni majorities in most of the ME. The MSM and the USA government like to refer to Iran as the evil force in the ME. I have never understood this take as Iran has a functioning democracy that has successfully changed government leadership. The Shiites of Iran were attacked by Iraq which was controlled by Sunnis and funded by Saudi Arabia. 2 million Iranians were killed.
    The ME is complex enough but a western understanding of the true teachings of the Koran should be mandatory. Radical Islam is more than ISIS it is the backbone of Saudi Arabian foreign policy. If that country did not have the oil riches it has the threat would never have materialized to the extent it has.
    If my take is wrong about the Iranians then the west should realize that Iran will soon by producing 4 million bpd of oil. Lots of money coming in to fund what ever imperatives they might have.