9/11 - 10 Years Ago

I remember 9/11 clearly. I had just moved to Halifax from Calgary and was working at a new company. Back then the internet wasn't as huge as it is today. I heard odd rumours that planes had hit the World Trade Center towers. We tried to stream from CNN but it was over-loaded. My team went to a coffee shop and watched in horror as we saw recorded videos of the planes hitting the buildings. Then news of the Pentagon was hit, followed by a final plane that went down in the fields. 

Gut-wrenching and sick to watch, those next few years were difficult to view, even remotely from where I lived. But slowly people rebuilt their lives. The image of hate and man's inhumanity to man is ever present. There are no depths to psychotic terrorists and religious zealots which will go to kill another human being. It has to be one of the lowest points of humanity, right down on the same level as Word War 2 and the German concentration camps like Auschwitz. Rending and killing people at base level and without regret or thought. It's unthinkable but in all honesty, we're a savage race. Given the choice to kill for sport or none, people will choose to kill. It's just the wiring of humanity. But is it? Besides fantasizing about being given the job of torturing the highjackers or Bin Laden until the end of time (I'd do it in a second), there's really not much to gain about doing revenge.

Why did 9/11 happen?

Because there are some really sick, fucking evil people in this world.

Did America deserve it?

Of course not. Nobody deserves this, not even the crazy anti-us people in the world.

Was there a cover-up? Was it a demolition planned by Israel and the US?

No and No. There is no evidence of a cover-up and no explosives were ever found. Ground zero was searched extensively and the only thing that was found was remnants of Boeing 747 jet air plane parts, building material, and organic compounds that were once people. That is all.

How can we protect our selves from another attack?

We simply cannot prevent ALL terrorist attacks everywhere and everytime. It's just not physically and financially possible. But what we can do is each one of us begin learning about the people that hate us. Begin learning about their tactics, how they operate, how you can observe without being observed. Would you know how to report suspicious behavior? What would qualify as "suspicious" behavior over "weird" ?  The Israeli TSA's have a great way of screening passengers. They ask questions and observe body language for lying and avoidance. They are very good at what they do. They have to be. Israel is #1 on the terrorist target list in the modern world. They are the hardest targets to infiltrate and destroy. They know exactly how terrorists operate simply because they live close proximity to their enemies and have decades of knowing how to work, detect, and use information. America and Canada are decades behind Israel. We know it. They know it. I just hope the governments act before it's too late.

I pray for 9/11 victims and their families. God help you all.