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Editor says, what if a civilian milita had avoided unnecessary entanglement in overseas conflict? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s). This article is not intended to cause any offense to the families of the victims of the September 11th attacks, or indeed the subsequent War on Terror.
This story was published in the July 2012 edition of Changing the Times Magazine.
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In 2001, on this day United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in Washington D.C. destroying the White House (pictured) and killing Vice President Dick Cheney.
Patriot ActThe passengers had immediately grasped the full magnitude of the September 11th attacks from mobile phone calls placed to their friends and relatives. Appalled by the widespread and wholly predictable failure of Federal Agencies these brave Americans had acted independently, mobilizing into an unarmed civilian militia that stormed the cockpit of the Boeing 757-222. They did manage to quickly disarm the al-qaeda terrorists, but then decided to proceed with the mission in order to save the Republic from the tyranny of consolidated Government.
That improbable turn of events was the result of a human error. Patched through to the situation room, Dick Cheney had spoken into a "hot mike" that he was told had been disconnected to the Flight. The passengers clearly heard the Vice President describe the attack as a CIA Blowback Operation. The last words from the passengers were heard by operator Lisa Jefferson at 09:55 and attributed to thirty-two year old Todd Beamer ~ "Are you guys ready? Okay. Let's roll!". It was the unmistakable voice of the American battle cry, Let Freedom Ring!
This post is an article of our alternate American Heroes thread.
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: American Heroes Source: Wikipedia Labels: Flight 93, White House, War on Terror, America, Dick Cheney. Editor says, in the 2012 Presidential Debates, Ron Paul controversially remarked that it was the passengers, not the US Government, that had thwarted the terrorist mission on-board Flight 93.
~ Wow, okay. :-D Not that I really cared all that much for Bush and Cheney (or any President since Reagan, for that matter -- especially the current embarrassment in the Oval Office), but I'm not sure they had garnered enough hatred by September 2001 to have a impromptu civilian militia try to take them out.
~ Bracing for the hate mail. Anything about 9/11 always brought some for me back in the day...
~ Cutting off the head of the hydra might only make two more appear.
~ Ron Paul probably also thinks the earth's flat and OJ is innocent. :D
~ In defense of Ron Paul (who I usually don't bother defending), he never meant to suggest that the heroic Flight 93 passengers committed murder and treason, no matter what the cause might have been. Of course, their heroic action was motivated by a desperate effort to survive, which would hardly have led to the civilian militia action. Needless to say, some of the survivors would have objected heartily to the new project, and done their best to disarm the CM crowd.
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