You know we can sit here and debate who knew what and when...and debate whether or not we could have actually done anything about it....but the argument that this was all "pre-9-11" so we have to excuse ourselves for not being security conscious just does not hold water.
It is this arrogance we Americans have , that small town mentality that crime doesn't occur in our neighborhoods until little Miss Minnie BlueHair the 86 year old widow next door is beaten to death with a broken broom handle and then what do we say..."I never thought it would happen here."
Then we spend the next few weeks running out and buying guns, new locks for our windows and doors...a big rottweiller named Demon and a new security system...only to relax again a few months down the road.
Well the fact is it can happen here...and it will happen here AGAIN!.
9-11 was not the very first terrorist act every commited on American soil..and certainly not the very first every plotted.
We should have learned way before 9-11. Shit there's been terrorist acts committed against Americans especially military personnel since the 70's. We had to know it would eventually reach our front doors.
And when it did the first time at the WTC we got lucky...but did we learn?
Hell No!
So don't tell me our government couldn't have done something.
When you have an FBI field agent emailing the main office telling them that there is an marked increase in middle eastern men taking flying lessons and the threat of a hijacking is being mentioned you can't automatically assume that they mean hijacking in the "traditional sense."
Hijacking in the "traditional sense" usually involved armed men taking the CREW and the passengers hostage..and usually didn't involve FLYING the plane.
When the one guy Moussaui (sp?) was arrested after telling an instructor he didn't want to learn how to land..he only needed to know how to fly the red flags went up again.
Now connect the first warning/report to this one and you start to see a pattern here.
In fact one of the agents questioning Moussaui (as stated on CNN) said to another agent that he was the kind of man who would fly a plane into the WTC...the fucking clues were right there in front of their faces.
But once again we sat back oh so naively and assumed..."it won't happen here."
After the 9-11 affair I was sitting in my doctors office. My doctor does pilot physicals for the FAA.
Well a bunch of middle eastern men show up..this of course caught my attention so I paid attention to what they were doing.
A number of red flags popped up.
#1 They were all staying in dirty old motel usually reserved for drug dealers, hookers etc. (I visually scaned the application as they turned it into the secretary.)
#2 One man was instructing another on how to fill out the application at the doctors office. This had nothing to do with a language barrier and not being able to understand what was being read...the other man was telling him exactly what to fill out word for word and they were all speaking in english.
I phoned the FBI and informed them of this...did I ever hear back from them? No...not even a follow up just to make sure that I gave them all the information I could.
Well I tell you what folks....I don't think you realize how scared our gov is right now.
I have a friend right now working his way thorugh the process to become a border patrol agent...he just finished taking the test and is awaiting the results.
He did alot research into the jobs of border patrol, customs agent, and air marshal...and the simple fact is they have dropped a lot of requirements regarding length of training, education etc in order to fill the positions because our law enforcement is soooo fucking Taxed right now...they can't handle it all.
I can't imagine what the future could hold for us. Because we all know these asswipes will succeed in out doing their last little affair.
I know it's lengthy...sorry for those who don't want to take the time to read
