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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 11, 2017 10:26:29 GMT -8
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Post by Origanalist on Sept 11, 2017 18:41:26 GMT -8
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 11, 2017 19:51:17 GMT -8
Worth the click. This just the end part. An aside: I vividly remember the morning of September 11th in Washington, DC. It was sunny and beautiful, with no trace of August's oppressive humidity. Ron Paul’s staff arrived at his office in the Cannon building around 8:00, ready for a typical Tuesday schedule of rote “suspension” bills (e.g., bills naming post offices) and gearing up for the week ahead. The office had a TV to monitor C-SPAN and activity on the House floor. Although both the House and Senate were in session that day, as customary debates and votes would not begin until sometime in the afternoon. So we had CNN playing in the background when sometime after 9:00 they began to show footage of smoke billowing from one tower in the World Trade Center. CNN’s announcer wondered whether a small plane somehow had blundered into the building. When word filtered down that the cause was not a small plane, things became more tense both on CNN and in our office: was this terrorism? We began to flip channels to find more information, and that’s when we realized it would be no ordinary Tuesday. Around 9:45 the Capitol Police came through the building barking at us to evacuate. It became clear there was no “plan,” just a bunch of people shouting, running around, and pounding on doors. If anything, the underground tunnels beneath the House office building were safer than the streets outside-- especially if gunmen or bombs were lurking. Instead police herded us outside, to go nowhere. The lawns surrounding the buildings were full of incredulous staffers milling about, making calls on their flip phones. The streets around the Capitol were impossibly jammed with cars attempting to get out. Some pedestrians headed to the Metro stations, but the subway was overwhelmed too. Nobody would get home easily or quickly. The corner liquor store, Subway, and nearby Taco Bell wisely stayed open and did brisk business. About this time rumors began to swirl about the Pentagon being targeted, but of course we didn’t know what to believe. Urban legends grew and just as quickly were debunked: a car bomb went off in front of the State Department! Foggy Bottom is on fire! More planes are headed for the Capitol Dome! One can only imagine how social media would react today. Keep in mind the entire Capitol complex, consisting of the Capitol building itself, the House and Senate office buildings, the Library of Congress, and the Supreme Court is one or two square kilometers at most. Its daytime population, mostly staff, is about 25,000 people. Note also that the Supreme Court and Library of Congress have their own police. A typical town of 25,000 might have a force of 20 or 30 law enforcement officers. The US Capitol Police force, by contrast, has more than 2,000 officers. Its budget is larger than the Atlanta police department! And while the DC Metro police have plenty of real crime to deal with, the Capitol complex is quite safe. Capitol police really serve as the personal security force for members of Congress more than anything else. So, some animals really are more equal than others... mises.org/blog/what-we-lost-september-11th
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 11, 2017 19:52:31 GMT -8
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 11, 2017 20:06:04 GMT -8
This is what we all should've been doing on 9/11 eve.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2017 22:58:05 GMT -8
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Post by Origanalist on Sept 12, 2017 4:18:40 GMT -8
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