Authored by Sarah Cowgill via LibertyNation.com,
How things have changed in 18 years and how they have scarily remained the same…
It has been 18 years, and for those Americans who watched the horror of Sept. 11, 2001, unfold on every major news market, the images are indelibly burned into their minds. Who could forget the day that changed the way US citizens lived as confident and secure to immediately afraid as high-value targets of terrorists, all in the name of Allah?
Most Americans had not experienced that level of hate in their lifetime. Our free capitalist society – heralded around the globe – lost the easiness of hard-earned independence with the minutes-long hijacking of four jetliners, fueled to capacity and weaponized into killing machines.
Nearly 3,000 died that day, more than 6,000 others were injured.
Among the victims were first responders – 343 firefighters and 71 law enforcement officers. Sadly, thousands of people who worked and lived in and around Ground Zero during the attacks and shortly thereafter are being diagnosed with cancer and other chronic diseases even to this day.
How Did They Get So Far In The US?
The Center for Immigrant Studies published a report one year after the attacks to enlighten the public on how the events were allowed to unfold:
“They have come as students, tourists, and business visitors. They have also been lawful permanent residents (LPRs) and naturalized US citizens. They have sneaked across the border illegally, arrived as stowaways on ships, used false passports, or been granted amnesty. Terrorists have even exploited America’s humanitarian tradition of welcoming those seeking asylum.”
Imagine! This country once experienced national security shortcomings that opened the door to the worst terrorist attack on US soil. And is America on the brink of yet another act of war from our enemies?
The Used And Abused Patriot Act
Democrats and Republicans – all Americans – demanded that 9/11 never be allowed to happen again. The late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was interviewed on Sept. 12 and warned the terrorists behind the downing of the four airliners: “May God have mercy on your souls because we won’t.”
The 107th Congress went into protective mode and drafted legislation – based on then Sen. Joe Biden’s (D-DE) 1995 Omnibus Counterterrorism Act. It labeled the legislation “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001” – commonly known as the USA Patriot Act – which passed easily with a vote of 357-66 in the House and 98-1 in the Senate.
In a nutshell, the Patriot Act provided federal agents the right to:
- Surveil and wiretap to investigate terror-related crimes.
- Request court permission for roving wiretaps in tracking a specific terrorist suspect.
- Seek federal court permission to obtain bank records and business records to aid in national security terror investigations and prevent money laundering for terrorism financing.
Sounds a bit more like former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s last two years of hunting Halloween characters and less like seeking the next suicide bombers’ whereabouts. And Mueller loves the Patriot Act. In his 2004 testimony before the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, he declared:
“The Patriot Act has proved extraordinarily beneficial in the war on terrorism and has changed the way the FBI does business. Many of our counterterrorism successes, in fact, are the direct results of provisions included in the Act …”
He certainly called that right.
The legislation has helped keep the country safe. The Heritage Foundation recently reported 50 terrorist attacks have been thwarted since 9/11, with 47 being the direct result of the investigative work of law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
As Mrs. Clinton Said, What Happened?
Why have Americans fallen so far from the sentiments, patriotism, strength, and courage of Sept. 11 in the mere 18 years since this nation was attacked so brutally?
We went from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) making an impassioned speech on the House floor for the first anniversary on Sept. 11, 2002:
“We have learned we are a vulnerable nation … what we learned on that day is that we could be attacked and that thousands of men and women could be killed. And we also have learned we must lead an international coalition against bigoted religious fanatics … who believe they have the right to kill innocent people in order to impose their reactionary ideology on others.”
To our frumpy senator and his open friendships with known friends of terrorist sympathizers today.
How do you reconcile McCain’s sentiments with those of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who recently discussed the attacks of 9/11 by coyly stating, “Some people did some things.”
Where did America go?
During the attacks, the now bag-packing National Security Advisor John Bolton reminisced about his experience on 9/11. He was at the State Department across the Potomac facing the iconic Pentagon building’s western side when American Airlines Flight 77 hit. Whether or not one is a fan of the man, his words today should be heeded: “After 9/11, proliferation and terrorism were not problems to be managed. They were mortal threats to be stopped. They still are.”
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TIME Suggests Another 9/11 Is Necessary to Re-direct American Anger
America’s Anger Is Out of Control Jeffrey Kluger … After the September 11 attacks, TIME’s Lance Morrow wrote a powerful essay titled, “The Case for Rage and Retribution,” in which he argued: “For once let’s have no fatuous rhetoric about ‘healing.’ A day cannot live in infamy without the nourishment of rage. Let’s have rage. What’s needed is a unified, unifying, Pearl Harbor sort of purple American fury—a ruthless indignation that doesn’t leak away in a week or two…” – TIME
http://time.com/4353606/anger-…
I think it’s too far gone for that. A decent portion of ‘Americans’ would cheer now.
Half would assume that it wouldn’t been our own government – and would be right.
There’s no compromising with them any more. Perhaps the only good thing to come out of all of this rage is that some of the media are realizing they took it too far and are trying to back peddle.
Not gonna happen.
My children can no longer know something as simple as flying to their grandparents’ without being groped in an airport. If we are merely viewed as consumers and revenue generators, then what’s left isn’t worth defending.
Thermite caused the towers to fall.
Thermite was involved but it was much more involved than that
and controlled demolition.
That’s a funny way of spelling “Israeli-Saudi alliance”.
Yes and I blame Academia and the far left
“If I am elected, I’ll show you who was really behind the 9/11 attacks” ~ Donald Trump, 2-17-16
STILL WAITING ASSHOLE!
Perhaps above all else, we will be expected to brush under the carpet the fact that, twice in a single day, Trump accused Saudi Arabia of being behind the 9/11 attacks. “Who blew up the World Trade Center?” Trump asked his pals at Fox and Friends on the morning of February 17, 2016. “It wasn’t the Iraqis, it was Saudi — take a look at Saudi Arabia, open the documents.”
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/02/donald-trump-suggests-the-saudis-did-911.html
At a campaign event in South Carolina later that day, he again cited “secret papers” that could prove it was “the Saudis” who were in fact responsible for the attacks on 9/11. “It wasn’t the Iraqis that knocked down the World Trade Center … because they have papers in there that are very secret, you may find it’s the Saudis, OK?”
http://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-says-very-secret-papers-may-show-the-saudis-knocked-down-world-trade-center/
https://theintercept.com/2017/05/18/donald-trump-said-saudi-arabia-was-behind-911-now-hes-going-there-on-his-first-foreign-trip/
Whom ever was behind the attacks they worked. We’ve since lost untold amounts of freedom. Air travel has become pure drudgery with our airports police states in motion. Meanwhile foreigners are free to cross our borders with impunity and to be given all manner of resources courtesy of our taxes. 9/11 accelerated the loss of our freedoms and liberty…
Agents from Israel planted thermite in the towers. Planes did not cause the towers to free fall.
It surely wasn’t either Iraq’s, Afghans nor Saudis but you’re close geographically anyway
Kind of hard to read these “mainstream” articles now. Not very useful when the recent study confirming Building 7 could not have collapsed as it did from a fire…….
Yes, we have learned a lot since 9/11, mostly that our government is controlled by an unaccountable permanent/deep state that is willing to kill US citizens by the thousands to further its own agenda. We have learned that our so-called government is willing to use any means in its fearsome arsenal to stay in power. That the law no longer matters if are not aligned with the Deep State. That our blood and treasure are expendable in furtherance of a lie (Iraq) and our covert support for ISIS (created by Obama/Hillary/Israel/Saudi) before Trump decided to blow them to hell. Erdogan says we sent 30,000 truckloads of arms and material support to ISIS.
The USA we have learned is now a post-constitutional country and it is likely to get worse from here….that is what we have learned.
We’ll probably never get a full accounting of what really happened leading up to 9/11 and who the real players are, but those of us that have gone down the rabbit hole far enough know that what the rulers tell us about that day just ain’t so. We’re now two generations into Afghanistan with no end in sight. We’re going to need a complete dollar collapse, but I’m not convinced that the power players of the world are already prepared for that too. So really all you can do is just realize it will get much worse before it gets better.
Who would downvote this Only a disinformation troll
Why would Martel downvote his own post?
“Flight 77 hit the Pentagon”…that’s a laffer….
I think it was 11 of the 19 “hijackers” got visas through a CIA run embassy in Jeddah. The CIA knew who these characters were and gave them visas to fufill their specific role.
Yeah, 19 hijackers with box cutters beat
the biggest global network of intelligence and military might the world has ever known. OMG, some people actually believe that nonsense.
Where is the plane that hit the pentagon?
It wasn’t a plane It was a cruise missile And all the video surveillance was not working just like with Epstein Ha what a joke They really think we’re dumb as a box of rocks
Steve Pretty sad commentary on the state of America’s intelligence if they believe the official story Or more likely they are in deep denial
Basically what I’m saying is the whole thing is bull shit. Of course Cheney was running the show…if we had honest and earned people it never would have been able to occur.
No airplane hit the Pentagon, because no airplane parts were found…it was a missile…
Correct Go to the head of the class
Interesting factoid about the Patriot Act: The only senator to vote against the act was Sen. Feingold (D) from Wisconsin. Probably cost him is seat in the Senate. At the time I remember neighbors actually bleating sheepish utterances like, “Well, if you have nothing to hide, why do you care? I don’t have anything to hide and they can look at my boring life all they want!” It was astonishing. Most Americans could not anticipate the pace of technology, much less that yes, there are actually some parts of your life you don’t want the overlords to know about.
I don’t disagree at all, but the pace of technology and the desire to have all data possible are sufficient to have brought about the all-knowing security state, as well as the all-knowing tech sector. It remains to be seen whether the state will dictate to the giant tech firms or vice versa – or whether there’s even a difference who’s nominally in charge of the other. The legality or illegality of the arrangement is just a quaint notion – an artifact of a bygone era. The giant NSA complex in Utah was facilitated by 9-11 and the Patriot Act, but Google, Facebook and Twitter (especially Google) amassing most of the same data would have happened anyway.
That’s very true. Not like any of the alphabet agencies out there give any consideration to the law.
Iska, I pasted a link to a Communication psychologist (yes! That is a job,. apparently) George Miller who was a pioneer with Durkheim and Chomsky and probably Nietzsche too.
I do not subscribe to his “theory’s” posits, but his discussion of”meaning” and how we convey meaning is interesting. Think about the game of charades-first clue? What is a thing NOT. Usually first clue unless Sounds Like is allowed.
So, If you look at Miller as a pioneer of MEDIA STUDIES you will discover how an industry decided education and entertainment were synonyms.
It was immensely profitable but infinitely damaging morally.
Advertising whores were sociologists and psychologists biggest fans. Still are.
Is what pays the bills and keeps trains running.
Herbert Marshall McLuhan CC (/məˈkluːən/; July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian philosopher. His work is one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory.[2][3] Born in Edmonton, Alberta, McLuhan studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his teaching career as a professor of English at several universities in the U.S. and Canada before moving to the University of Toronto in 1946, where he remained for the rest of his life.
McLuhan coined the expression “the medium is the message” and the term global village, and predicted the World Wide Web almost 30 years before it was invented.[4]
The lesson of 9/11 is that if you control the media as well as the state, you can literally get away with anything. Not only that, but upon your whim, you can get the majority of the oblivious proles of the society to stand up and bark like trained seals.
Please, they say, show some respect on this patriotic day.
Oh, the irony.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/460866-hong-kong-activists-pause-protests-in-remembrance-of-9-11
I can not listen to these lies all day long. I’m going outside.
I must have missed something….the author doesn’t seem to understand that 9/11 was a (((Neoclown))) production, with all the lies having been debunked…
It’s just admin, stirring the pot a little.
Shills get payed to shill
Its really hard to learn much of anything from such overt fraud.
Was the linked article the correct one? There was no mention of any lessons in the text so how would the reader be able to discern whether they were lost on Americans today?
Very weak piece.
TPTB learned long ago that they can slowly let the sheep realize the original narrative was a lie and there will be no retribution or outcry by the masses. The average Merikan can’t spell inside job nor do they want to believe they are lied to on a daily basis. Therein lies our biggest problem, stupidity.
There is really no chance that the sheep will ever stop falling for FF mass shootings or fake news stories or actors parading as government officials. Israel might as well move the US capital to Tel Aviv, nothing would change because………stupid.
OK let’s just point to the elephant (or donkey) in the room. The government of the United States of America is no longer legitimate and should, therefore, be removed. The government does not abide by the rule of law and is not accountable to the people of the USA. Now what…..?
Open you mouth and vomit forth MASS CONDEMNATION, good luck getting the sheep to join in to ANYTHING. That is the owners’ ace in the hole. We need a good case of Hong Kong attitude.
The “attacks” were NOT in the “name of Allah,” they were in the “name of Dollar.” And just look at how many have been transferred into the hands of the arms cartel, not including the $2.1Trillion that was lost and covered up with the Pentagon explosion on 9-11.
Absolutely correct Insurance fraud insider stock trading, gold theft That “terrorist attack” was mighty profitable wasn’t it
Indeed. Like the alchemy of old and the philosopher’s stone, the lessons for most are lost in ways most will never realize.
A few of my previous pieces posted here for posterity purposes:
2001: A Space Odyssey of Transcendent, or Transcendental, Evolution? – The Burning Platform
And
Towers to Heaven: The Alchemy of Prophecy, Terror, and Unity – The Burning Platform
Planes did not cause the towers to fall……….thermite did the job…..planted by agents from Israel.
The whole deep state, including Mossad ….
Mossad M16 And CIA are the deep states enforcement wing We get that
What lessons and what’s the point of bringing it up again? To debate symptoms add nauseam?
Any attempt to identify the source as Israeli Central brings out every Jew loving obfuscationist on the web.
Agreed.
There is no benefit in beating this “red headed stepchild” of a story around much further.
Too bad Bolton wasn’t working in the Pentagon That day
9/11: A Conspiracy Theory
Everything you ever wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in under five minutes.
One of the best from James Corbett.
YouTube has buried it, but at least it’s still there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuC_4mGTs98
Jim is always out in front of things.
He does some really excellent work. To find the truth on YouTube, you have to follow all of the “de-monitized” content creators.
Prayers for the dead.
“Just another prayer for the dying”…Skrewdriver….with a great cover by Saga….everybody’s favorite Swedish hairdresser chanteuse!
Interesting link with some clips I hadn’t seen before:
Regarding 9/11, NATO went to war 7 years prior and everyone outside of the USSA took serious notice.
Too bad nobody in the USSA paid much attention.
9/11 was indeed cover for much larger actions and permawars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banja_Luka_incident
Still waiting on the Sandy Hoax autopsy photos.
Israel did 9-11. Enough said.
After the attack. By Saudi citizens, we attacked Afghanistan. Then we get the freedom killing Patriot act.
I think in a way the terrorist won. The idea that you can stop things from happening, strange. We live with a society of people who basically have similar morals and values. except for Muslims. being PC about Muslims is a mistake.
https://dailyarchives.org/index.php/reports/2636-fbi-takes-guns-from-man-who-vowed-to-slaughter-antifa-in-self-defense?utm_source=BenchmarkEmail&utm_campaign=September_10_2019&utm_medium=email
9-11 was a false flag Black Swan!
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