The Fairy Tale at Emma E. Booker Elementary |
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While millions of Americans were watching the horrific events in New York City and Washington DC on September 11, 2001 another revealing scenario was being played out in Sarasota, Florida, thousands of miles away. While the media coverage was naturally focused on the planes, buildings and human suffering, the President was visiting an elementary school with a group of children and their teachers. What happened that day and what didn't happen that day has been reported by mainstream journalists. However, it seems that they haven't put the pieces together to look at the pattern that unfolds. The facts speak for themselves, reported in mainstream news, unexplained.
The staff at Emma E. Booker Elementary was elated to hear in August that they had passed the first round in the selection of schools for a presidential visit. They were asked to keep it secret. Then on September 6 they were told that they had been selected to be one of several schools in the President's educational tour. President George W. Bush was going to visit their school on September 11. The lid of secrecy was off and the entire community was made aware of preparations for the visit. Phone lines were needed, communications antennae, office space for the Secret Service. Broadcast journalists needed electricity and phones. Fox News alone needed 49 phone lines. Offices had to be cleared. Barricades were set up. Hundreds of reporters and camera crews began setting up. Secret Service agents set up security for the visit. September 10, ABC News reported on the President's visit to Jacksonville and Sarasota elementary schools. "Bush is set to take part in a reading program demonstration and address parents and teachers at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota on Tuesday. Carol Long, EEB bookkeeper, wrote these memories for the school web site:
Immediately our front office was surrounded by Secret Service and White House aides. There was so much to do: new phone lines to put in, desks to clear, offices to "give up". There was a real thrill in the front office to watch first hand all the preparations necessary to prepare for our country's leader. Soon the media heard of our special visitor and immediately were on campus. I never realized all that had to be done.!!!!!! Our campus was surrounded by many people working on days, nights, and even the weekend setting up and "moving-in".
When the President of the United States travels, he brings a huge entourage: Secret Service, staff, and communications technicians. No one in the world has as much communication technology at his fingertips. Mike Allen, a Washington Post staff writer reported on Tuesday, September 11, 2001:
Bush had begun his morning at about 6:30 a.m., running 4.5 miles during a 42-minute stop at a golf course near the Longboat Key resort where he spent the night. It was dark when he started. He ran with a reporter, Richard Keil of Bloomberg News, and both were sopping wet after keeping a 7 minute 20 second pace. A Secret Service agent ran with them, and they were trailed by three golf carts-a reminder of the extraordinary apparatus that follows the president even at an ordinary moment. Meanwhile, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) "National Urban Search and Rescue Team was called into action for the days events. In an interview on national TV with CBS News anchor, Dan Rather, a member of the team, Tom Kennesey, said,
"We're currently one of the first teams that was deployed to support the City of New York in this disaster. We arrived on late Monday night and went right into action on Tuesday morning." [Hear it here: Dan Rather: FEMA in NYC Mon. 9/10]
At Logan International Airport in Boston and Newark International in NJ, and Dulles in Washington DC, passengers were arriving for their morning flights. They each presented their picture ID at the ticketing counter and again at the boarding gate. Before takeoff, the flight attendants in charge checked each of the seated passengers against the manifest as a final check. All was in order and with only 92 people on board, American Airlines Flight 11 took off from Logan at 7:59 a.m. bound for Los Angeles. It was not even half full. The previous day 4,516 put options were purchased on American Airlines as compared to 748 call options. A put option essentially is a speculation that the stock will go down. A call option is a speculation that the stock will go up. Someone knew that American Airlines stock was going to be in trouble. September 21; The New York Times; The Wall Street Journal
At 8:01 a.m., United Airlines Flight 93 took off from Newark International Airport bound for San Francisco with only 45 passengers and crew. The previous week, 4,744 put options had been purchased on United Air Lines stock as opposed to only 396 call options. This was a dramatic and abnormal increase in sales of put options. Such speculations only affected American and United stock. Somebody was betting that both American Airlines and United Airlines stock was going to fall. The US government has the capability to monitor the stock market and the National Security Agency normally does. September 21; The New York Times; The Wall Street Journal
At 8:10 a.m. American Airlines Flight 77 leaves Washington Dulles Airport, heading to Los Angeles with only 64 people on board. Four minutes later United Airlines Flight 175 took off from Logan International Airport with only 65 passengers and crew, also heading to Los Angeles. In the September 24 issue of Newsweek, the weekly magazine reported that on September 10 "a group of top Pentagon officials suddenly canceled travel plans for the next morning, apparently because of security concerns." San Francisco mayor, Willie Brown, was warned by his security agent not to fly that morning. The 266 people aboard these four flights were not warned.
At 8:28 a.m. AAL Flight 11 suddenly made an unexpected hard left turn, heading not toward Los Angeles, but toward New York. At the same time, the transponder, which normally allows controllers to identify the plane, was turned off. Air Traffic controllers could nevertheless track the jumbo jets. Within moments, air traffic controllers noticed something was also very wrong with United Flight 175. Instead of going west to California, it took a U-turn over New Jersey and headed northeast to Manhattan's World Trade Center.
At 8:40 am, The FAA notified NORAD of the wayward flights. Normally, the Air Force on 24 hour alert, 7 days a week, and watches the same traffic as the FAA to avoid any conflicts with military traffic. Routinely, the Air Force would send up a fighter within 2.5 minutes. A fighter travels at Mach 2-2.5, 20-30 miles/minute and a heat-seeking missile has a range of 18 miles. McGuire Air Force Base is 71 miles from New York City. AAL Flight 11 flew over NYC, past the city and went to somewhere around Newark, NJ. At that point it did a 360-degree bank to fly back to NYC and collided with the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46 am. There had been no response from the Air Force.
In Sarasota, reporters were getting the news from their news desks. ABC-TV reported that before entering the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, a reporter asked President Bush if he knew what had happened in New York City that morning. He replied that he did and would have something to say about it later. Just after Bush arrives at Booker Elementary School between 8:55 - 9:00 a.m. he is briefly told of the WTC crash and he is whisked into a holding room and updated on the situation via telephone by National Security Advisor Rice. [Christian Science Monitor, 9/17/01, Time, 9/12/01] Rice later claims, "He said, what a terrible, it sounds like a terrible accident. Keep me informed." [ABC News, 9/11/02] School principal Gwen Tose-Rigell is then summoned to a room to talk with the President: "He said a commercial plane has hit the World Trade Center, and we're going to go ahead and go on, we're going on to do the reading thing anyway." [AP, 8/19/02 (D)]
At 9:03 am, Flight 175 nearly missed the South Tower of the World Trade Center and much of the jet fuel spilled in the crash exploded in a fireball outside the building.
At 9:20 am President Bush joined the teachers and students who had been waiting since 8:15 am for his scheduled speech in the media center. He spoke briefly and somberly about the terrorist attacks and left the school at about 9:30 am. The Manatee County's Sheriff's SWAT division was called in to clear Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport. Their mission: to ensure that the President got out of the state safely.
"It was critical that we got him in the airport and out of here," said Manatee County sheriff's SWAT commander Maj. Brad Steube. "Everyone in the country knew exactly where he was and we had to get him out of here."
Tom Lyons' of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in Memo: ACT OF WAR observed:
When a wave of then-unfolding, well-coordinated terrorist assaults commandeered his attention in Sarasota on Tuesday morning, President George W. Bush made a quick decision. He could and arguably should have left Emma E. Booker Elementary School immediately, gotten onto Air Force One and left Sarasota without a moment's delay. He could have forgotten all about a school media center full of elementary school kids and teachers waiting to see him. But he didn't. (Sarasota Herald-Tribune (FL), Bush hears of attack while visiting Booker, September 12, 2001 Page: A21)
Mr. Lyons went on to say that he was pleased that the President considered the children waiting and that he took the time to speak to them before he left. But to stay would be to endanger the children and their teachers..unless he and/or the Secret Service knew there was no danger in Sarasota.
At 9:43 am, when American Flight 77 (or a missile, according to Donald Rumsfeld in October Parade Magazine) crashed into the west side of the Pentagon nation's military intelligence headquarters, President Bush was on Air Force One headed for Barksdale Air Force Base near Shreveport, Louisiana, and Offutt AFB near Omaha, Nebraska. Passenger aircraft remained in the air long after the President left Sarasota and these could be considered potential threats. But not to an airborne Air Force One in an open sky and a potential hijacker without radar assistance to even FIND AF1. Also at Offutt, a secure Air Force Base, from 8:00 AM on, several CEOs were at a "charity event" sponsored by billionaire Bush-supporter, Warren Buffet. Several of the CEOs would have been at the WTC had they not been at Offutt. Is this a coincidence?
Delta Flight 1862 arrived at Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport from Atlanta about 10:25 a.m. Tuesday, about 40 minutes after President Bush left on Air Force One. Sarasota Herald-Tribune (FL) "FAA decision to ground flights strands thousands nationwide." September 12, 2001
To summarize:
1. Before he entered the Emma E. Booker Elementary School, the President acknowledged that he knew that the first plane had hit the World Trade Center. 2. Vice President Cheney revealed on Meet the Press that from that moment forward, the Secret Service was on an open line to the FAA and would know that a second plane had been hijacked, transponders off, and heading for NY City. 3. Within minutes of entering the school President Bush was told that a second passenger plane had hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center. 4. The President remained in the school nearly 30 minutes longer. 5. Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport is only 5 minutes from Emma E. Booker Elementary School and Venice Municipal Airport is only 10 miles south of Sarasota. 6. Air traffic was not grounded until 9:40, the last flight landing at 10:25, and international flights were not diverted until after noon. 7. The President would logically be a prime target of terrorists. 8. By staying at Emma E. Booker Elementary School for over half an hour after the "attacks" began, the President was placing the children and staff in a situation of clear and present danger. 9. The Secret Service did not immediately remove the President from a situation highly vulnerable to attack. 10. All of this was reported in mainstream news.
Why weren't they worried? The FBI and counter-terrorism experts in the US
were forewarned in 1995 when details of 'Project Bojinka',
a plan to blow up 11 US airline flights over the Pacific and to crash airplanes
into the Pentagon and the CIA, were revealed after Abdul Hakim Murad and Ramsey
Yousef were apprehended. Undoubtedly this was sure to catch the attention
of the Secret Service. The Library of Congress report on The Sociology And
Psychology of Terrorism warned in 1999 about suicide hijackers. U.S.
and Italian officials were warned in July 2001 that Islamic terrorists might
attempt to kill President Bush and other leaders by crashing an airliner into
the Genoa Summit of industrialized nations. Such a threat would most
likely be taken seriously by the Secret Service since that's their job.
FAA suspected something was amiss at 8:20 AM and notified the National Military Control Center and NORAD at 8:40 AM. The normal procedure is to launch interceptors from the Air Force Base nearest to the wayward aircraft. No further orders are necessary. It's routine! It doesn't require further orders from anyone. Only orders from the highest authority could cause the Air Force to stand down from such a routine duty. This happened not just once but four times in the same morning! CBS reported that jet fighters were launched from Otis AFB on Cape Cod 300 miles away and arrived too late. But why not from McGuire AFB only 71 miles away or from Westover AFB in Massachusetts 147 miles away. Four planes at once with no transponder info on the FAA screens and Air Force screens, all of them just showing up as blips on radar. One plane is in a "NO FLY ZONE" which is constantly monitored, restricted airspace. Normally when a plane deviates just a little, the FAA will call and/or allow for course corrections. But these planes were miles off course. In these instances, the FAA reports it to the Air Force. However, in these instances, the Air Force has already locked onto these planes, because they monitor the commercial system as well as their own. That's 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year. They have to, so that we don't have military and commercial aircraft flying into one another. In a circumstance like Flight 11, this plane is far off course and not responding normally to communications. They did a hard bank (90 degrees to the south) somewhere north of Albany, NY. The Air Force is to scramble at least a recon aircraft to monitor. Why no reconnaissance on any of the first three flights?
Let's look at the second plane. It was 18 minutes until it hit the second building. This plane flew over NYC, past the city and went to somewhere around Newark, NJ. At that point it did a 360 degree bank to fly back to NYC. By this time both the FAA and the Air Force know that this is no accident happening. They know that they have hijacked planes in the air. An F-15 flies at 1850+ nautical miles per second, over Mach 2.5. A sidewinder with heat-seeking infrared guidance has a range of 18 miles. (Is it even necessary to mention the speed of this missile?) This aircraft, according to the USAF's own website, goes from "scramble order" to 29,000 feet in 2.5 minutes. New York City is 71 miles from McGuire AFB in NJ and 147 from Westover AFB in MA. At only Mach 2, this plane could travel from the ground in NJ to NYC, in under 7 minutes. Mach 2 is 20+ miles per minute and Mach 2.5 is 30+ miles per minute. This is 150 to 210 seconds (3-4 minutes) to cover the 71 miles. If we factor in the time for the scramble order, to being in the air; we are at 5 to 6 minutes for an F-15 to bypass flight 175, turn, and sit at the WTC to wait for the plane (175) to arrive. This is far less than 18 minutes, and Flight 175 had to fly back over the Hudson Bay to reach its target.
Later, too late, jetfighters were launched from Langley AFB 129 miles away. Why were there 4 hijacked passenger planes in the air for nearly 2 hours and no response from the Air Force to defend the nation's Capitol? Who gave the order to stand down? Someone was both committing treason and murder or was hopelessly negligent and incompetent. I haven't heard of any investigation to find out who had given that order or to punish or demote them. Wouldn't you wish to know who was responsible for the horrible death of nearly 3,000 of your fellow Americans? And hundreds of thousands, millions who were directly or indirectly affected? I would!
I'd really prefer to think that the President of the United States would never wish to harm a single American. That's the way I grew up. That's what I was taught. I'd also prefer that the President of the United States would not endanger children by remaining in their elementary school at a time when he is a likely target of a terrorist attack. Either way, I'm not very comfortable with the apparent answer. Tell me it isn't so, Mr. President! This is a crazy world. What can be done? Amazingly, we have been mislead. We have been taught that we can control government by voting. The founder of the Rothschild dynasty, Mayer Amschel Bauer, told the secret of controlling the government of a nation over 200 years ago. He said, "Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation and I care not who makes its laws." Get the picture? Your freedom hinges first on the nation's banks and money system. Freedom is connected with Debt Elimination for each individual. Not only does this end personal debt, it places the people first in line as creditors to the National Debt ahead of the banks. They don't wish for you to know this. It has to do with recognizing WHO you really are in A New Beginning: A Practical Course in Miracles, an informational study. Disclaimer - The posting of stories, commentaries, reports, documents and links (embedded or otherwise) on this site does not in any way, shape or form, implied or otherwise, necessarily express or suggest endorsement or support of any of such posted material or parts therein. I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. (attributed to Voltaire), but certainly embodies what the 1st amendment of the constitution refers to as the freedom of speech Bill of RightsAmendment 1Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
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President Bush was first scheduled to listen to Mrs.
Daniels' 18 second-graders read a story about a girl's pet goat.
He sat with his hands folded and his legs crossed, with a bemused look. At 9:05
am, without interrupting the lesson, Andrew Card, Bush's chief of staff,
whispered comments about the tragedy into Bush's ear. Still the President
remained to listen to the children read. The second-graders read so well that
Bush said, "Really good readers! Whoo! This must be sixth-graders." Before Bush
left the classroom, reporters asked him about the World Trade Center incident.
"We'll talk about it later," he said. (Sarasota
Herald-Tribune (FL), Bush hears of attack while visiting Booker, September 12,
2001 Page: A20)
Now that I've asked the hardest questions, maybe you
could help me with a few other troublesome questions. When were the plans
developed to attack Afghanistan? Such an operation cannot be assembled in less
than a month. Other governments were in attendance at the meeting in July when
we threatened to attack Afghanistan in October. And there's an American man who
seems to be an officer in Naval Intelligence who told his Canadian jailers in
August about the impending attack on the Pentagon, the World Trade Center, and
several potential targets.
How would Naval Intelligence know? And that videotape of bin Laden, the one
that showed a man with a short, chubby face and short nose! We all know what
bin Laden looks like! And it's not Bert! Even a B-movie would do a better job
of casting! And now, are we really looking for Osama bin Laden in Iraq, North
Korea, and Iran? Iraq is a secular Arabic state, anathema to bin Laden. North
Korea is isolated from everybody. Iran even helped us launch Operation Enduring
Freedom against Afghanistan to help us "find bin Laden." And aren't al-Qaeda
members helping us train the former KLA in the part of Kosovo that we are to
protect? I'm confused how an enemy can be our ally and close associate at the
same time in different parts of the world? 
Queen
Victoria
