Are you still terrified from Sept. 11th, 2001?

It was a terrible day, and what has happened to America since then has also been terrible. I was terrified on that day, we all were, are we still?

I am not however terrified of Osama bin Laden because he seems to be utterly forgotten, I am now terrified of dick cheney and his plans for us all.

Is the nine eleven mojo still working on you? Are you more terrified or less terrified now?

Heck, there really aren't enough hours in the day for all the things I need to be scared of.

Bryant
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Not just because it was more drawn out or more forseen, but for the fact that an entire city was destroyed. Terrorist attacks or other big disasters are one thing, but losing most of a major city's supposed to be one of those Things That Just Don't Happen In Developed Countries. Seeing that little back-of-the-head supposition proven false was more disturbing to me fundamentally than 9/11 was (even if the latter certainly shocked me more at the time).

so I don't get an answer?

that I wasn't missing anything...

It was like wildfire. I was terrified for weeks. Every time a plane passed overhead, I got a little anxious. My family all got together to make a plan in case of a major disaster. This is why when people talk of a conspiracy, I have to say "hmmmmmmmmm"..... Bush's word was gold. The government could do no wrong. Everybody flew the flag. It was a neocon's dream.

I was very annoyed with Bush for disappearing all day on 9/11. I was very annoyed with people who were saying, "Thank goodness Al Gore isn't president" as if he wouldn't have known what to do when Bush was AWOL! There were no planes flying overhead for several days.

We know for a fact now that Bush and his people were warned that Osama was planning to highjack planes and fly them into buildings. They did nothing to stop him. Those are facts.

Everybody I knew was scared sh**less. We were all wathcing CNN, etc., which just made us more scared. I don't recall ANY questioning being done back then. These were the days when comedians couldn't even make an offhand remark. Don't you remember that?

I was asking a lot of questions that day, like, where is the president?

My then-husband and I instantly knew that Osama bin Laden was responsible. Newsweek had had an article about him a couple months ago, noting that he was global "public enemy number one." We remembered that he'd bombed the World Trade Center once before.

I was very sad about all the people who died. It was horrible. But I was NOT afraid, and neither were 90% of the people around me.

to be honest, the whole thing never scared me that much. I didn't have a TV at the time either, which makes all the difference I think. I was in DC at the time, just a mile or so from the Pentagon. I watched everyone around me turn into raving paranoid nutcases, but without having the TV, I didn't get the subconscious programming that everyone else did, and I never got overly scared.

Hardly anyone in my community turned into nutcases, so maybe it was just where I live geographically.

It was an awful attack but it was hundreds of miles away. I never felt any fear for myself or my family. Terrorism happens all over the world on an almost random basis. I guess I never assumed we were immune here.

I was horrified, but not terrified. Shocked and sad, but never scared. I didn't get scared until POS Bush started to turn our country into asecretive, police-state agitprop-driven aggressor nation.

NT

frightened by the actions taken in response to it.

The only thing needed to do was to beef up enforcement of the watch list and get more Arabic interpreters and better communication of CIA findings to agencies in the US that might be able to use that information to prevent attacks. That's IT. Everything else done in the name of 911 is hogwash perpetrated by authoritarians seeking to use it to gain power.

I cried when I heard some of the stories just like I did with Virginia Tech and other tragedies, but I was never scared or angry. I knew it was a one-off thing and that no one was going to be trying to murder me in my bed, especially since I lived in the woods near a small town then.

I remember being touched by the display of sympathy from other countries. Remember when everyone didn't hate us?

One stupid thing I remember - I think that I had a bit of faith in the country and the government and thought there was a chance for a decent reaction, up until the bombs started falling on Afghanistan. I felt sick that day.

I expected that we'd contact the Afghan government and tell them that we were going after Bin Laden. If they interfered, we'd settle with them, too, but if they sat it out we'd get him and be gone in a few weeks.

I expected us to have 30,000 troops, boots on the ground, in Afghanistan in two weeks, focusing on the training camps and Bin Laden's hideouts.

I expected that we'd have satellites, drones and spy planes overflying Afghanistan 24/7 so we'd know exactly where the guy was, and then we'd chopper in a battalion of Marines and take him out.

Instead, we send in a paltry few special ops guys and help out the Norther Alliance in attacking the Taliban, who had nothing to do with the attack, while we ignored Bin Laden and the terror camps. When we started bombing, two months after 9/11, I felt sick.

:patriot:

And I'm pissed off at everyone who buys into their meme, wringing their hands and saying "whatever it takes to keep us safe."

Land of the Free and Home of the Brave?

Not anymore.

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Has anyone seen this movie yet? I thought it was very powerfull!

And I'm even more pissed off than ever now.

(Note that there's only audio for at least the first 4 minutes.)

THAT coup worries me a lot more than the dog and pony show of airplanes and buildings.

I was sad, and I was shocked, and I was concerned, but I never once felt terrified or even afraid - no more than usual. It's a dangerous world.

If I had known how bad things would get under Bush's fascist regime, THEN I would have been afraid. But the attacks of a handful of terrorists, while horrible, were not that unusual. We have seen this all over the world. Bombings, wars, genocide. It came to the United States on 9/11.

If I had been in New York City perhaps I would have been, but I was hundreds of miles away. I was at work and nobody knew what was going on but I don't recall anybody in my office as being terrified, just confused about the situation. I don't fear terrorist attacks now. I tend to go by what FDR said, "The only thing you have to fear is fear itself." The fear mongers are our government.

Jan 22 2001 and June 9, 1946

jets that crashed into the WTC. So for a couple of months, every time I heard, or my kids heard a plane, we would go out and watch it.

Once I came back to me, I woke up and realized that there was much more to 9/11 than met the eye.

I watched the whole thing on TV and then joined members of my small community on a high hillside to see the panorama of the City with the cloud of smoke emitted from lower Manhattan. I watched endless loops of the planes hitting both towers and the buildings collapsing during the day and the weeks after.

No, I wasn't terrified, wasn't scared, wasn't apprehensive.

What I felt was an unease of how the country was paralyzed and in the midst of contraction. I felt isolated as I drove across the George Washington Bridge the next Saturday in the morning -- and found myself in the company of only four other vehicles on the upper span. I found it all symbolic and a warning of things to come.

Unfortunately I wasn't incorrect.

He watched the towers burn and then fall. He sad it was overwhelmingly sad to see all those people die all at once. He was furious about the way the government immediately started using the even as an excuse to wage war. He was also disgusted with the adulation for Rudy Giuliani. He said, "It's important to remember that he's an asshole."

blocks away. I was horrified and in shock. Once that wore off I was angry and my first thought was that bastard George Bush was behind this.

However, I was very jittery for months afterward. We didn't know if this was a one shot deal or if it would just keep happening like in Israel. There were a lot of scares on the Subway, where it would stop and the lights would go off, a lot of little false alarms and fake outs here and there. One night, I was in an Indian restaurant with some friends and suddenly the lights went off and this strobe light went on and lights were flashing and it was very disorienting and people just panicked. It turns out it was someones birthday and this was something they did for birthday celebrations. It completely freaked us out.

I started walking 60 blocks to work unless it rained and actually got laid off a month after Sept 11(I was very happy about it - I hated my job and I kept thinking about all those poor people who probably were temps or went to jobs they hated and perished in the attacks on 9/11 and it really made me think about what I was doing w/ my life.) I wasn't really afraid of terrorists, I was afraid of our government. I knew they hated New York, and I just didn't know how far they would go to bring the country to it's knees.

I am petrified about what horrendous shit the evil fucking bastards occupying the white house are going to do to us next.

Is that what you meant?

though very anxious at the thought of 4-8 more years of Republican rule.

disdain for the bushco WH; moving forward with their impeachment and removal from office is all that matters.

We'd better make sure to keep republicans in the White House. Dig up dirt on dems, nominate the one least likely to win, vote for third party candidates or stay home on election day.:sarcasm:

and I'm still not

Now, I did worry about how Bush would react and exploit it.

Unless I think of climate change, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, unforeseen meteors and that shit.

:scared:

On the day it happened, I watched it and I just wanted blood. Afterward I started looking into it and my opinion didn't change. I still want blood but I no longer want to nuke the entire Middle East, now I want the blood of the so-called leaders we have who either allowed or orchestrated the events.


Whether it really was terrorists or a government scheme I refuse to live in fear of an attack. I've got too many other things on my plate, dealing with life, to worry about that.

I wasn't terrified. I was concerned. I was saddened. I was never terrified. People letting themselves overreact to this event is what got us into this disgusting state of affairs.
GAC

Still, i'm not sure i'd describe myself as terrified. Certainly, i'm very distrustful and wary. Angry too. But, not really scared. I still honestly believe the other shoe will drop.
GAC

My fear is we won't return to at least the democratic framework we had or to an independent investigative press.

I knew from the start that this was by design. If not, the US Government would have come out swinging. Empowering the people, begging them to be strong and brave, calling them to work locally to ensure the safety of every American. Instead it was BE AFRAID. So many fell to their knees in fear that day including my mother. She has not been right since. It is all very sad.

ran through me, but terror was no one of them

I would put, in no particular order, these emotions as the most powerful:

Anger

Shock

Dismay

Compassion

Sorrow

Remorse

It was a vast mix of emotions, but Fear & Terror were no among them. At first, I wanted revenge, this eventually came down to Justice, and I supported invading Afghanistan to get bin-Laden. I thought al of our high-tech stuff had him and his cronies pinpointed. I did not expect Afghans to be killed en-masse, they did nothing to us, bin-Laden just happened to be there, and I wanted him hauled before the world, in fact, I still do.

In the immediate aftermath, I have to say i felt pride...for several reasons. The worlds nations came together to express that, "we are all Americans on this day"; the nation quickly came together in a common cause to seek out the perpetrator; we showed the world we are resilient and could bounce back.

Shortly though, watching this administration screw up the entire situation, squander what support we had, and start blaming everyone but their own, I grew cynical. The brightest spot, and a profound moment in history, was when Richard Clark testified, and took responsibility for what had happened. I had tears in my eyes when he apologized to the American people for failure on his part. It was one of the Golden Moments of history, one of the few times I have been extremely proud to call myself an American since the war rhetoric ramped up. Clark epitomized all that the US stands for, truth, dignity and responsibility. Few others could have shown such courage and honesty under the circumstances.

Fear, terror, some thought that we were about to be invaded by a phantom army of Iraqi's and sl-Qaeda...ridiculous notions accepted as fact by people who sat in their own sweat rather than doing something.

As time has gone by, I have a new emotion on how all has developed. From the treatment of those who worked Ground Zero, to the way the 9-11 widows have been treated, the war in Iraq, the lies and obfuscations that have become the norm...and almost everything else that has come down the pike after 9-11, has ensured that hope is a dismal prospect, and I am filled with disgust at what my country has become. I place the mantle of responsibility where it belongs, on the criminal element that "leads" this great nation. I blame it ALL on bush and his cronies.

Yes, I was terrified. Not when the towers were hit, but when the Pentagon was hit. That was the coup de grace. All I could think was that if they could hit the Pentagon, they could hit anything.

I wasn't terrified for myself, I was terrified for my son who was in school that day. And for my husband who was working downtown. All I wanted to do was sit with them in bed and watch cartoons.

Wasn't long until my terror was directed towards our government and the citizens who were becoming sheeple right in front of my eyes.

I was in lower manhattan that morning, and though I did not see the planes hit, I heard them. It is a sound I will never forget.

But do I live in fear everyday. NO. BushCo has 18 months left, and I am an optomist and believe there will be better days ahead.

away from the towers and that was the worst part, trying to get in contact with her which we finally did at about nine that night.

implement Bush's executive order that gives him virtual dictatorial powers, and that his actions may well include cancelling the 2008 elections . . .

It is unlikely an event like that can be repeated short of direct state action. I felt it then and and believe it's true today.

GAC

and will continue to benefit from it. it was all in the PNAC plan.

...was that it would be used as an excuse for Dubya to unleash nuclear hell upon the world. I'm still slightly amazed that this didn't happen. Yet.

In the following weeks I also remember hearing planes fly overhead in a half-waking state and jolting out of bed in a panic, convinced it was about to crash through my window, grabbing my little dog and bolting into the next room before coming fully awake and then feeling vaguely silly.

In retrospect, it's the sneaky, silent erosions that have done more damage than the sudden impact.

When I have to beg SSI/Diasbility for money for being unfunctionally fucked up. I tuned in to the scene just as the second plane was hitting. I actually expected days of attacks. I figured if they, whoever the inevitable "they" ending up being, got thier shit together this much that they would go for the whole enchilada and start random cell attacks all over the country. I fear the inevitable attacks that are coming due to the ramifications of that day and the piss poor way our country, excuse me, our leaders handled it.

I wasn't "terrified" the day it happened. Hell, I wasn't even all that shocked that it happened. I was more shocked that people actually believed three buildings that caught fire happened to fall down perfectly in their footprints "by accident," but I was never terrified.

I was saddened, angered and upset - but not terrified.

hiding and Bush was in a stupor flying all around the country. The Pentagon incident was way too illogical and almost immediately covered up. And the Penn. plane, virtually no airplane parts, bodies, etc. I knew we were screwed Nov. 2000 from the election, living in Florida saw first hand the corruption and manipulation by Jeb and Katherine. And there's the issue of the administration not wanting investigations or a report, on any of it from either gov. or independent sources until forced. The 9/11 widows are suppressed at every turn. Another thing, we never hear anything from the families of those lost on the airliners that crashed. Were they paid off, threatened with their lives, or were there never any victims to begin with? What I am afraid of is the future if the people really in power (the behind the scenes world players) keep the ball rolling by installing another administration to do their bidding.

Horrified, shocked, saddened--sure.

Operation Northwoods

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At first I felt sadness that someone could despise us so much...then the sadness turned to Horror as I realized that someone WITHIN wanted this to happen...

I was pissed off, but most definitely not "terrified". The whole point of terrorism is to terrify the ones that it's brought against, so there was no way in hell I was going to feel even a shred of fear. I suppose I would have had I been in NYC or DC that day, but I was in Florida-so why be frightened? I watched the horrors unfold that morning on TV like everyone else, but once the towers fell I turned it off, said a prayer for the victims and their loved ones, and then went about my day. I had been trying to reschedule a noon flight to Norway-I never got there, of course- so I went to the bank to finish some paperwork on a loan. When I entered the bank lobby the entire staff was clustered around a TV and there were no other customers. One employee came over to me and said "what are you doing here? Don't you know what's happening"??? I said "Of course, but if you let it stop you from doing what you would normally do then they win. Is that what you want"? He helped me with my loan but was shaking the entire time. Pitiful. Yes, it was an awful attack, but terrorism has happened the world over for thousands of years. I don't know why we Americans ever thought it could never happen to us-they had tried to blow up the Trade Center before, so really the only big surprise is that they went from a van loaded with explosives to a highly co-ordinated attack using commercial aircraft. Seemed like a pretty big leap to me at the time, and it still does. I also remember being furious at BushCo that day for sleeping on the job and allowing it to happen-so I was really shocked when the rest of the country treated them like heroes for their stunning failure. It still boggles my mind.

And nothing has happened since to change my mind. If this wasn't an inside false flag job, with at least the full complicity of the administration in turning off all the normal protection systems in place, the I might as well accept the literal interpretation of the bible. If I'm going to be controlled by fairy tales, I might as well find one that holds out a slim chance of redemption. The 9/11 official story doesn't qualify.

And beyond the physical evidence, you have to ask "who benefits." And since 9/11 is the single catalyzing event that gave these scum the veneer of legitimacy, and which has provided cover for building a first-rate security state at home, as well as the excuse for launching "preemptive" wars that have murdered maybe 1 million civilians so far -- what other conclusion can one draw?

So they said fuck it! We'll take the casualties; better yet, they'll be great PR. A few thousand dead is a small price to pay in building the next 1000 year Reich.

They planned it (although they might have subcontracted it out to limit paper and electronic trails), they knew it was coming, they had so many warnings from international intelligence services they were showing up by Fedex damn near every day, they had all the internal intel (from people they proceeded to gag).

They even had patsies learning to fly Cessnas -- just fly, mind you, nothing about taking off and landing -- and we're supposed to believe that somehow that knowledge translates into flying an incredibly complex and huge piece of machinery precisely into a target that looks like a needle from the cockpit a mile away.



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And the GOP be damned for manipulating the public's heart strings like demented puppeteers.

What I am today is angry. But a righteous anger at the injustice that the GOP and the right perpetuate with their backward policies that belong in the dustbin of history.

Even if there is another attack on American soil, which will likely happen (we are a pretty big country after all with lots of soil), I refuse to sit idly by and allow the Constitution and everything progressives have worked hard for get destroyed.

Shit happens, especially when your government is in the business of overthrowing other legitimate governments. Someday those actions will come back to bite us on the ass, or in the CIA's own term "blowback". Hence 9-11. I have lived overseas, in the ME, so it did not surprise me at all.

Fear, no.
Daily life is far more dangerous.
Death comes to all, so why fear it.
9-11 just made me more stubborn.

I was horrified and enraged by the political use GWB Inc. put that tragedy to.

I've lived with an awareness of ongoing tragedy all of my life, though, fueled by human hate and fear. Frankly, the events of September 11th were not high on the scale of human atrocity in comparison.

I can grieve for losses and suffering without wallowing in fear and handing the keys to my freedom over to a crime lord because he's going to "protect" me.

So much for the "land of the free and the home of the brave". I've never heard such a bunch of weepy scaredy-cats. They sound like terrified little schoolgirls running from the thunder at a school picnic. This is America?

One of my client's husband worked in the Pentagon in the section that was hit. He went to the mens room, and that is where he was when the plane hit. They had to go to 19 funerals.

Am I terrified? No, what am I gonna do, live my whole life in fear?? Why, what will that acomplish? Was I a little nervous when we drove through Georgetown and there was a Ryder Truck with police tape around it parked about 10 feet away from us? Yeah, that made me a little nervous.

involved in a terrorist situation.

I am more terrified of bush & cheney, THE TRUE TERRORISTS!!

Every damn time Shrub and his evil minions decide to move this country just one step closer to total fascism, they use 9/11 as an excuse.

If it weren't for 9/11, they couldn't have gotten away with 99 44/100% of all the crap they've pulled since 9/12.

So yeah, I'm fuckin' terrified by 9/11. Every thinking American should be.

ain't terrified now.

Well not of the "threats" that those in power claim are there, but of those in power and their plans too.

I live in a major metropolis and an obvious target. I don't live in fear. I live smart, but not fearful.

The thing that scares me most in my life is the danger I face every day while driving.

less than 30 miles from downtown NYC.. I stopped flinching reflexively at air traffic about 3 months after the skies re-opened (less than 10 miles from JFK)

"Home of the Brave". . pfftah.

They are in the archives

because I knew Bush had let us into it.

:(
rocknation

...appalled, horrified, heartbroken, mad as hell, all of that. But terrified? No.

I was worried sick about my friends, I was in shock at the shear horror of it all, I was angry (still am)but I was never really scared, not for myself anyway.

i thought, "controlled demolition?"

I realized that something really :wtf: had happened, and that somewhere along the line a whole bunch of "higher-ups" had dropped the ball BIGTIME.

That it was terrorism, was EVIDENT..

I just realized that finally someone had been able to outfox our cadre of "experts".

I also realized that the guy we had in charge would mess it up even more than the terrorists had..

I DID think that Rice would be fired..and so would Rumsfeld and the head of the CIA and maybe even the FBI.. I expected a BIG shake up..



I never feared for my own life..not even once.

Even in Israel, I'm sure your odds are higher of slipping in the shower.

I was somewhat terrified of an American people so terrified they couldn't get a grip.

I was even more terrified that they were falling lockstep behind a madman.

But I'm more scared of being hit by a car than a terrorist bomb.

Call me a tin-foil hatter, but I believe Bin Laden has been on our payroll for years. You can take that line of thought anywhere you want.....

Because A) I work in DC; B) The anthrax mailings that happened soon afterwards went through the PO that handles mail for my workplace; and C) Those sniper shootings -- even knowing the chances were extremely low that it could happen to me, it was just a frightening thing.

It was just unnerving that those three things happened in quick succession. BUT -- I decided life is for living, and kept going to work and doing everything else I normally would have.

I'm more scared at what is happening to our beloved Constitution ( DICK CHENEY )

I almost never watch TV or listen to radio.

On the morning of 9/11 my daughter called me in a major panic.

Her husband was in the Marines at the time and she was absolutely convinced he was going to war.

He was an E4 supervisor in the helicopter blade shop and I assured her that if he did go to war he would be in little danger, since helicopter mechanics would have more than enough to do and they are REMFs.

I probably spent two hours on the phone with her and never turned the TV on until after I got off the phone.

By then I was prepared for the sight and it probably didn't affect me nearly as much as people who just clicked on as soon as they heard about it.

What truly scares me is the irrational reaction by the government.

never was...i had a gut feeling that it was an inside job from the very first. the whole event didn't pass my bs test.

which means they need to take all the tricks to win. And I think they've missed a few already. Which means they aren't going to win, but they will do as much damage as possible before they flame out.
It is their nature.

And I still believe that.

N/T

knowing the Bush Crime Family would use it as an excuse to commit unspeakable crimes. I'm not happy to have been proved right.

and those lunatics in the White House.

Most terrifying memory of that day, was the look on Dubya's face in that class room, then finding out all the clues they had and all were ignored.

September 11th only proved my fears correct.

I was immediately scared of what I thought BushCo would do in the name of 9/11, which has sadly proven to be very true.

I think we all learned a lot on that day and the days to come about our "security."

As for everyone on here who's pooh-poohing the idea that they were terrified - some of them may be correct, but I bet if we could rewind time, we'd see a lot of them were pretty scared on 9/11/01. Time has replaced the fear with anger and that's all they remember now (or want to remember now).

these guys would do anything to stay in power and I fear they will try something before the next election. I just want to get past it before I will relax a little.

and what they been allowed to get away with.

The only thing that scares me is this out-of-control administration.

Bwak, bwak, bwak!

It was kind surreal and interesting. And I lived inside the beltway. You could see the smoke rising from the Pentagon from the top floor of my office building.

I can't understand the fear. Seriously. Less than 3,000 people died. They don't have nukes. Dirty bombs and anthrax have limited scope. Americans are such a bunch of cowards.

our response to the attacks. The success of the attacks was an undeniable demonstration of the rampant incompetence of our whole government and the military that we have paid dearly, for generations, to create.

i wasn't scared then either. i was mortified by the toLL, but i never feLt scared that i couLd be next.

to our world.

I've always been far, far more sad than terrified of 9-11.