As it happened

World Trade Towers and Pentagon Attacked
Posted by CmdrTaco on Tue Sep 11, 2001 09:12 AM
from the you-can't-make-this-stuff-up dept.

The World Trade Towers in new york were crashed into by 2 planes, one on each tower, 18 minutes apart. Nobody really knows who did it, but the planes were big ones. Normally I wouldn't consider posting this on Slashdot, but I'm making an exception this time because I can't get news through any of the conventional websites, and I assume I'm not alone. Update We're having server problems. Sorry. Updated info, both towers havecollapsed, pentagon hit by 3rd plane. Part of it has collapsed.

And as for all that talk about how 9/11 “brought America together” (only for it to be driven apart by Evil Bush):

We had it coming... • (Score:5, Insightful)
by takochan (470955) on Tuesday September 11 2001, @10:37AM (#2277494)

They hit tower one of the WTC and *now toppled both over*. And got the pentagon too..

Now, a couple things.. this is bad, this is really bad..

Apparently it was Palestinian terrorists that did it (so TV is reporting)..

If it really was Palestinians, as much as I hate to say this.. I sort of understand..

before I start, I am a normal American white guy, am open minded, and think every race in the world has a right to their own safety and piece (including Americans).. I have absolutely nothing to do with the Arab israeli conflict (I am not arab, or Jewish, or anything like that), nor do I know any of either side closely at all..

But I was in Isreal once on business, and I saw what the Israelies do to the Palestinians, and what I saw made me sick to be an American because of how our government supports what the Israelis do to those people..

Basically, the isrealis take palestinian land bit by bit to make settlements for Israelis only, and shoot/run over/kill Palestinians with the guns, helicopters and bullets that we, America give the Israelis.

We dont report these travesties on American news (though you can get it on the BBC, CBC and other foreign outlets, and watch Israelis shoot with machine guns, 12 year old arab kids throwing rocks).

It is worse than south Africa, and I go as far to say, that the Israelis have put the Palestinians in concentration camp like conditions for the last 20 years or so, bulldozing their houses for their land, shooting their kids, controlling their land, their economy and choking them off one by one..

And when other countries like the Africans try to tell the truth (yes, the Israelis are racists..absolutely, they have dual licence plates for Palestine cars, dont let them drive on the same roads as Israelis, and occupy their country).

And we, the United states government, give more money, bombs, guns and weapons to Israel than to any other country in the world in foreign aid.., knowing (and allowing0 the Israelis to shoot, maim and rob more palestians of there property, lives and freedom.

And we have been doing that for 20 years now at least..

What else should we have expected really?

This terrorism really sucks, .. but we should also look at what we have been doing too the last 20 years.. and why a people felt so driven to do this to us..

Good old moral equivalence. I wonder if “takochan” has rethought his position over the last seven years. Along with the folks who moderated him “+5.”

The entire thread (which contains many cut-and-pastes from various MSM sources, posted in real time) is here.

LATER: My point isn’t to attack “takochan” in particular (I’ve removed his contact info, although it’s available in the original post), but to demonstrate that the meme that the events of 9/11 produced instant unanimity is false. There were plenty of apoligists, excuse-makers, and blame-America-firsters, both in the Slashdot thread, elsewhere on the internet, and bloviating in the MSM. Most were shouted down, only to resurface when it became evident that America might actually attempt to do something about its radical Muslim enemies.

Many of those people excuse their positions by blaming George Bush.
They are liars.

Elsewhere:  9/11, Again

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