WILL PITT REVISITED: "I Believe"

[Beam Me Up]

RELEVANT NOW. FOLLOW THE PDF LINK. JUNE 2001

I Believe
http://truthout.org/docs_03/090803A.shtml
September 8, 2003 EXCERPT:

"I believe that, as fantastically masturbatory as the upcoming Showtime 'docu-drama' about Bush on 9/11 may be, it cannot come close to explaining the glaring deficiencies within the accepted mantra surrounding what happened on that day. One, only one, example: The professional golfer Payne Stewart died aboard his chartered jet when the cabin suffered explosive decompression. The plane continued to fly on auto-pilot. It took the ground controllers 21 minutes to summon an F-16 fighter to come in behind the doomed jet to investigate. On September 11, there was a squadron of F-16s and a squadron of FA-18s laagered up at Andrew's Air Force Base, which sits just 12 miles from the White House. The hijacked commercial planes were in the air, and were crashing into buildings, for almost two hours before one single fighter turned a wheel and took to the sky. Payne Stewart rated a fighter in 21 minutes. Hundreds of kidnapped civilians did not rate a fighter for almost 120 minutes, until the horror was already over. The mantra for this says, "Incompetence," yet no one has been fired or even reprimanded. I want to know why.

"If you are someone who finds questions like this to be dangerously incendiary and conspiratorial, I would direct you to look long and hard at this document: http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/cjcsd/cjcsi/3610_01a.pdf. This is a set of instructions issued from the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the 1st of June 2001, describing in minute detail the protocols and procedures to be undertaken if a plane is hijacked. Not one of these protocols, issued three months and ten days before the terror attacks, were followed. Why?"

I believe we as a nation are in the gravest of trouble. I believe our troubles have only just begun, and unless something is done, our troubles will come to undo this democratic experiment before too much longer. I also believe, however, in the words of Thomas Paine: "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."

[Beam Me Up]

1. Sunday morning kick

JUNE 1, 2001: They changed the SOP for dealing with commercial hijackings to route the command decisions through the office of Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense.

WHY DID THEY DO THAT? :mad:



:kick:

[JPJones]

2. Re. Payne Stewart

Note that there was a change in time zones. It took 1 hour and 26 minutes to intercept. It still was faster than on Sept. 11, a day when the FAA and NORAD knew that they had hijackings, not a plane with broken comms.