BOP 9/11 Archive: Part Four
By BOP Staff
September 13, 2011
BoxOfficeProphets.com
"The danger that really scares me is that North America has always been such an open environment in terms of travel and personal freedom. something that no other country sees. This really makes it an easy target unless it takes some strong measures.
"I think the US mainland is the most ill-prpared region in the world for acts of terrorism and mass-destruction that's not named Canada.
"One thing i would like to say is that many people fail to consider that these people that undertake these actions do not consider them acts of terrorism. They consider them as acts undertaken in a continuing war. Most people in the Middle East see the Israeli/Palestinian situation as a war. (I can understand that too...two sides violently fighting over a piece of land is usually defined as war). And in war, you fight and you do what you do to win. This etiquette of war, these rules of war, are made and observed by
those who can win under those rules and therefore, if you can't win within the rules, you say fuck you to the rules.
"War is war. it's all out, it's balls to the wall. Always has been, always will be. In war, there are no rules, only winners and losers. It's about goddamn time the US realized that and kicked some ass and stopped playing fucking politics. there is no need to take turns firing guns. There is no need to observe 'rules.' There is no need to rest on Christmas day. The Americans learned that 250 years ago. They need to relearn it because this is these people's mentality and they need to be put in their fucking place.
"I wanna sleep in peace and now. Stop dilly dallying for fuck's sake.
"Sorry folks, it's been a really fucking rough day with the only good news is that all the people I know and their loved ones are fine. If i kept on ranting I wouldn't fucking stop, believe me. It's what happens when you are so aware of both sides of a conflict.”
David Mumpower: “CNN has just done a major financial update involving the major WTC corporations. Grim news included in it is that Cantor-Fitzgerald has over 800 employees on five floors. So few have checked in that the man would only say when pressed for survivors that "we are doing the best we can in extraordinary circumstances and still hold out hope for a miracle".
C. Hyde: “That if knives were the hijack weapon of choice here that what they used were those new-fangled zirconium carbide or oxide ceramic knives you can get now. I don't think those would set off a metal detector.
"Also, word is that at least one of the Boston hijackers flew down to Boston from Portland Maine after coming in through Canada on a UAE passport. I'd imagine we'll eventually find out that's how most of them got into the US.”
Lexy: “I suggested that to Bruno last night. Think they'll have to require that they be made detectable in the future. Can metal be mixed w/ the creamic at the time of production? Don't know how. Kind of like requiring the toy gun manufacturers to make their guns in hot pink and orange.
"Security is definitely not what it was just a couple of year's ago. When Bruno, Jr. was two or three we were forced to check the incredibly fake and flimsy plastic sword he got at the Tower of London. But I know that I've flown w/ scissors in my carry on a number of times recently. No one has even asked about them as I passed through the metal detectors.” - Editor’s note: Bruno and Lexy are husband and wife.
C. Hyde: “Actually, there are advanced detection systems (known i believe as 'millimeter wave' detectors) that can detect things like ceramic or plastic explosive.
"The rub, as usual, is that these systems are expensive and putting them in airports nationwide will cost an untold amount of money.”
Lafarrow: “You may recall that the US mounted Dolittle's raid to strike Tokyo very soon after Pearl Harbor. Served two purposes - to reassure the US populace that we were doing something, and to demonstrate that US power would be projected
around the world. I believe the same will happen today.
"As for striking at a country, I believe Bush has laid out his justification for hitting any country under a conspiracy theory of culpability. you are an accomplice if you do not give these folks up. It'll stand up.
"Gas pumps ran dry around town here. Prices were not gouged. I think it was a matter of folks seeing lines and thinking better to have some than not. Didn't hear about any reason until late last night. I predict a slight disruption in supplies while the tankers sit offshore for a while but then prices will fall back and those who gouged will be prosecuted.
"We have a couple of air bases here, Maxwell and Gunter. Jets all day.”
Ash: “Having not been able to comprehend the scale of the loss of life that occurred yesterday, my mind instead seems to be obsessed with damage of a more structural nature and other trivialities.
"I'm a bit of a tall building junkie and it's just weird that two of the tallest structures in the world have simply ceased to exist. It also means Escape from New York will no longer be historically accurate.
"Tom Clancy and Nelson De Mille will have to up the stakes a little in their novels as what they would have rejected in the past due to being too far fetched will now seem moderate and tame in comparison to reality.
"It took me about three hours yesterday to mentally aknowledge that there would have been people on those jets, for some reason I had convinced myself that only empty jets had been hijacked. It made some of the news footage easier to watch.”
Feathers McGraw: “I have to change the channel every time there's an interview with either an eyewitness to the event, or one from a person with an acquaintance/family member who's missing. It's too hard to watch. The reports of last-minute cell phone calls from people about to die is too terrible to contemplate.
"There are reports that there was a struggle aboard the flight which crashed outside of Pittsburgh. I hope that those aboard will be given heroes' burials.” – Editor’s note: Watch United 93.