I can't express in words how I feel about what happened in the United States on September 11th. My brother is an American as are his wife and kids living in New York and I'm selfishly grateful that they were not harmed, other than emotionally, from the events of this Tuesday past. I feel the whole gambit of emotions, from sadness and helplessness to fury and anger. As a Canadian, donations of blood and money to our American cousins just isn't enough, we need to do more. It's been said a thousand times, and by people much more eloquent than myself, but my heart, my thoughts, my love and my wishes go out to everyone affected by this incredibly cowardly and misguiding mass murder. I wish there was more that I could do.
That being said, I'd like your opinion, you being anyone that wants to respond to this! I'm having a hard time believing the American government regarding their 'official' stance on the plane that was brought down in Pennsylvania. The American government is denying any American military involvement in bringing down that particular plane and I for one don't believe them. I wouldn't hold it against them if they did bring it down and it's obvious from the public's response that neither would they. It just seems that there's a little too much evidence contrary to the official position to ignore the fact that this plane was most likely shot down by the military instead of the heroics of a few passengers.
A good friend of mine that is an ex US Navy Commander said to me when I raised my suspicions to him regarding this event, was that he didn't feel that military would have had time to scramble the fighters in time to have brought the plane down. I had to disagree. The plane was brought down at 10:10 hrs, which was almost a full hour after the second plane hit the WTC. The President had been informed of the first impact and subsequently informed immediately after the second, at 09:05 hrs. By 09:28 Bush has already boarded Air Force One and has decreed that "Terrorism against our nation will not stand". We know that an executive order had to have come out by this time or shortly thereafter that any suspect planes are to be shot down so as prevent them from being used as guided missiles.
In the time that it took to scramble the fighters (09:45hrs) another plane crashes, this time into the helicopter pad at the pentagon. If the order hasn't been sent out by this time, any able minded person knows that the order is now an urgent directive.
Now the government would have you believe that there were all sorts of calls made from the United flight 93 to family members, which is probably true. But the call that starts the cover-up ball rolling is the one that comes from the man locked in the bathroom who calls the emergency dispatcher at 09:58 saying that his plane had been highjacked. From this time until 10:10 when flight 93 crashes into Somerset County 12 minutes pass. Is 12 minutes enough time to divert the scrambled fighters from over Washington and Andrews to Pittsburgh.
My contention is that there was enough time. My contention is also that even before the plane crashed into the Pentagon, the fighters were in the air and they had already been given this order. At least 11 witnesses of the crash say before the plane came down, they heard an explosion. As a result, they looked up and watched in horror as flight 93 dropped like a stone to the ground. The plane didn't slide across the ground, or leave debris strewn over a long swath of torn up ground, it dropped like a stone from the sky.
Now again the government would have you believe that it was either the heroes of flight 93 that in their attempts to thwart the highjackers, nose-dived the plane into the ground, or that as a result of the heroic attacks of the passengers against the highjackers they murderers detonated a bomb on the plane which caused it to come straight down. I have a serious problem with the second explanation because I firmly believe that these murderers (highjackers) wouldn't have risked bringing a bomb on to the plane! I personally don't believe that there was a bomb on the plane, I think that is just a stereotypical threat and not a reality in this case. Why would you risk bringing a highly detectable weapon onto a plane when you can achieve your goals without more than threats of violence or the vicious use of a razor-knife? It doesn't make sense! I think there's more to it than the gov't is letting out with this one anyway!
Then there's the news reports. At 10:20, all over the news wire, reports of the Americans having shot down one of their own planes. Pilots on the grounded planes started talking back and forth about the plane that was just shot down. Reporters on TV and radio started reporting that a US plane had been taken out by the military. It wasn't until approximately 11:00 hrs that these reports were officially denied. Once the determination was made that there were no more suspect planes, the officials finally said that flight 93 was in fact not shot down! Then came the hero stories.
As for the cell phones conversations, were they taped? As much as I don't want to believe that something is amiss in this disgusting tragedy, I firmly believe that the US military took this plane out before it could be used as a weapon. I really hope that it turns out to be something heroic as opposed to the worst possible scenario for the US gov't and the best possible outcome for the murderers. But think about it from the murderer's point of view, what better poetic justice then to have American infidels killing other American infidels!
I think that symbolism and perception is more sacred at this point then the truth and that scares me! If they did shoot it down and I think as more evidence comes to light we'll learn that they did, they should come out and say it. No one would blame them for doing it. I don't even think that the families of the victims would hold them accountable. But I understand why they don't want to. Out of this tragedy, America needed to have active heroes. They needed to believe that their people didn't sit idly by and allow themselves to be led like cattle to slaughter. They didn't want the murderer's to know that because of them Americans had to kill other Americans.
I understand why they'd want to cover this up, but the longer they wait to release the truth, instead of waiting for it to come out on it's own, the less respect we can show for the decision to hide it in the first place. I'd really like to hear what other people have to say about this one incident and feel free to comment about the events and fallout about the other murders as well.
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