Where were you that morning?
I was in Russia at the time and there was a mixed reaction. So we did not get the Beeb coverage when that Jane someone oopsied about the “live” footage of WTC7, her reportage not matching the shots and ticker at the foot of the screen.
That restarted my political awareness, five years later starting my blog across the way. Russian reaction in our neck of the woods was predictable … these are virtually westerners, despite the best efforts of the west to demonise the ordinary Russian … they’re just as brainwashed by their MSM as we are here by ours.
Prevailing view was that if the US or NATO neocons were going to threaten Russia, as was the prevailing view at that time, still is, then this might stymie Washington for awhile. As for the deathculters hijacking the planes, there was obviously little sympathy as they were not loved, even with 2004 Beslan a few years away, the Russian theatre attack to be as well in Oct 2002.
The deathculters in our city were obviously delighted by the thousands of deaths at the WTC, with a smaller number not delighted. These latter were “moderates”, often having intermarried and it’s where my strong anti-fanaticism sprang from in 2001, whatever the religion.
At the personal level, the burgeoning Russian middle-class, the “white goods class”, plus the intelligentsia, welcomed me … not so the Russian working class male, who saw me as agent for US neocons. I was threatened a few times by males, not by the aspiring gals, whose attitude was the opposite.
As the males who met me saw someone who lived, worked and dressed “na polovina russkie”, half Russian, attitudes changed in my neck of the woods, as they did to local Indians here who entered the country the right way, way back when, and were more English than the English … in fact Sunak is most damaging to them in Britain, not someone to be celebrated, nor Braverman, Patel et al.
Online here, there was that incident of then blogger Chris Snowdon trampling into N.O. in his muddy boots over the carpet to say I was a whack job for believing any of that guff about conspiracy theories … it was his blanket rule … thereby illustrating to readers what the Brit ignorati were and still are really like … as bad as Russian, French, American, whatever normies.
911 itself? Well NIST did lie at the presser, that rubble at ground zero was cleared away with indecent haste, Silverstein did make his millions from 911, that Dutch CD expert did call it out and died a few years later in an accident … the ignorati still tenaciously cling to the narrative instead of thinking, reading and discerning.
The “Patriot” Act was about to be rushed through by Bohemian Grove Bush, under the ritual eyes of his 1000 points of light illumined CIA father and former President.
