There's a lot of theories behind 911. Especially the symbolic nature behind the strike. United America(n) or America(n) United, commercial airliners impacted the towers on a date that is the national emergency call number for help, 9-1-1.
Only God knows where the United 93 Pennsylvania flight was headed. American flight 77 struck the Pentagon.
United and American airliners, drop the n and it's either America United. Or United America 911.
United America national emergency.
I've watched the implosion of casino's and other buildings on Discovery Science channel from time to time. I love the precision of that fall.
I remember where I was on 9-11. And I swear when that first plane hit I thought the morning news show that was live downtown Manhattan was going to report that Hollywood was making a movie and we'd just seen a clip of the CGI they produced on that cutaway from the reporter.
Then the second plane hit and it looked like it almost had enough thrust to make it all the way through that second tower. To this day I can't imagine the horror those people on those floors where the nose of those planes barreled through felt. Would it even register they were seeing a commercial airliners nose coming right at them?
And the passengers on those planes. How many thought they must be having a nightmare and would wake if they screamed loud enough in that dream?
But when that pair of towers stood there smoking for so long and then all the sudden these explosions from inside but below the plane area sounded off, I swear it sounded just like those buildings that were imploded on TV. The rapid series of bursts and then that rumble as the towers collapsed downward like so much falling rubble and clouds of smoke.
And then the news that morning cut to George Bush. Sitting before a room full of little children holding "My Pet Goat" upside down as he sat in a chair before those little futures looking up at him from their cross legged place on the floor.
SS whispers in his ear and he sits stock still later after the book and for a full seven minutes.
The rumor I heard after all this was that the towers needed over 100 million in upgrades and repairs. And the owner decided it would be easier to demolish them than to invest.And the insurance would pay out.
Supposedly airline stock tanked near this time too. So much news was made by that one that they even wrote it in to a James Bond script many years later.
Bush, per Condoleza Rice before a Congressional inquiry said that they had intelligence months before. Bin Laden was planning an attack somewhere in NYC. Given the towers parking decks had been hit about 10 years prior with a bomb that had not that much effect how could it be a stretch to think the towers would themselves be the target? They were one of the largest skyline icons in all of Manhattan.
The conspiracies as they're called were born from good cause I think. Because when this all happened flights were shut down. We were all grounded and no one was flying out from anywhere in the U.S.
One flight did leave though. And it made the news because it was the only steel bird in the air so it would be impossible to hide her ascent from the panicked public looking upward for the next bit of terror.
The private jet of the Bin Laden family. Who had been vacationing in Manhattan.
He executes the attack supposedly and his family is there when it happens. And then they leave as one would when they just watched a movie and then exited to their car so as to go home.
And in those days and months later America's national security reality changed. The US Patriot Act was supposedly drafted, reviewed, pushed through the process in the Legislature, and signed into law in less than three weeks. Far less.
All the sudden and then also over time flying became a privilege not a right. Children in wheelchairs were being assaulted by a new entity called TSA. Created by a reactionary Congress.
Suddenly, you couldn't lock your check in luggage because it had to be able to be inspected out of your sight once it went on the turn style at check-in.
Dumb. Because a lot of people lost a lot of valuables and still do. And if a terrorist happened to be one of the throwers, the baggage handlers that throw the luggage on and off the planes, all they'd have to do is put a bomb in an unlocked suitcase and set its timer and throw it into the belly of a plane.
The plane explodes and if there's anything left to find the person who's baggage it was is dead. And labeled the terrorist that caused the whole thing.
People at security check points were losing their valuables too. One guy lost a gold toenail clipper because the agent said it could be a weapon.
An investigative news crew conducted a report on what happens to confiscated items that TSA keeps from passengers.
At the end of the year it's a grab bag among TSA employees. They can pick what they want from all that's been collected.
All the sudden that confiscated toenail clipper "weapon" charge made sense.
But not really.
I don't trust the Saudi's any further than I could spit ten penny nails while holding a mouth full of extra chunky peanut butter. Especially when it was said the terrorists were the sons of Saudi family's. But then again, I don't trust my own government either.
The mass murder of over 3000 people on American soil? Being the responsibility of our own government? Bush? Cheney? A collection of conspirators both foreign and domestic?
Dunno. But one thing I do know.
Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord.
I'm patient. God will repay. Whoever it is that is responsible for this evil. They will get what they gave.
And I'm OK with that.