MSM has clearly packaged Giuliani as the heroic-acting mayor of 9/11. It's the impression promoted by the MSM outlets. For the masses with their gazes captivated solely by the hypnotic tube, Giuliani led New York through the worst terrorist attack on American soil. I bought it as well.

These protests in Florida are important to provide a more realistic appraisal of the former NYC mayor. Once, you look closer at Giuliani the heroic veneer peels away.

...don't believe them!

QUESTION: did Giuliani know one (or both) towers would fall??

QUESTION: Was it obvious to Giuliani that people were SUFFOCATING and DYING (not to mention the jumpers) above impact level in both towers??

QUESTION: Why were people not let onto the roof, by any necessary means? If it had been crystal clear for OVER AN HOUR that they could not breathe -- and were dying -- over many floors??

Something unspeakably awful -- something criminal, something horrible -- happens twice. It happens to over a thousand people.

No, I don't mean the planes or fire or the buildings falling down. Something even WORSE, for those affected.

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Let me paint a little picture here.

It is my hope that some day Giuliani will not be able to shrug this off.

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As Mayor, he is 'the' overlord of police and fire departments. The one man who could have given a certain order on that day at Ground Zero. The order even expected... but the Mayor of New York, overlord of NYPD and NYFD had gone 'missing' in the first hours of 9/11.

Many screaming voices had been heard. Giuliani is jacked into OEM. OEM is jacked into the dial-911 center and the DIAL-911 OPERATORS are contacted over and over by people who are saying basically, we must be able to escape to the roof -- or WE WILL DIE. FOR NEARLY 2 HOURS in North Tower... and the full hour from impact to collapse of South Tower... desperate, dying people contact '911' operators form both towers with the specific information

1. someone MUST do something so they can access the roof
2. unless they can escape their immediate surroundings, THEY KNOW THEY WILL DIE.
3. Many around them had already died. Some are (quietly) dying on the phone.

We're talking about HEAT exposure and SMOKE inhalation.

Now PLEASE take a moment to think about the roof condition: do not be misled by characterizations of so-called 'heavy' smoke conditions on the roof -- which was actually (cooling) SMOKE mixing with OXYGEN and WIND. Compared to what people were ENDURING inside the buildings... conditions on the roof would have been BEAUTIFUL, a WONDERFUL relief to be able to BREATHE -- to LIVE -- to SURVIVE. As to the final outcome, as yet: who knew??

Now if ANYONE is ready to imply -- or even state directly (and I'm oh so ready to hear Giuliani say this, he's beaten around this bush) that conditions on the roof were somehow too 'harmful' to let people up there... I SAY STRAP 'EM DOWN to a chair long enough to listen to Melissa Doi and Cosgrove's telephone calls, a few times.

Not only is "no roof sortie" something we all should feel a bit uncomfortable and ashamed about -- isn't is kind of odd also? That NYC-OEM, 'the' most incredibly prepared organization in NYC for *anything* ... by their own reckon ... does *nothing* about the roof, not even the obvious, as had been done in 1993. Nothing?

While I am NOT trying to suggest that an actual "roof landing" could or would have been possible on 9/11 --- I DO NOT HAVE TO. types of operations that need not require helicopters to land: airlift of the critically wounded AND the 'insertion' or 'pickup' of PERSONS on SORTIE to SAVE LIVES: to POP OPEN BLOCKED, LOCKED DOORS.

Yes, the people with the little gobs of C4 that can use them to get into anywhere... it's their job.

It would not have been the first time a roof drop order was given; but in 1993 they didn't need to blow the door.

Roof access was (amazingly, somehow) ruled out. MEANWHILE -- disappointed people have ascended the stairs and beat on the locked roof-doors in vain (they hear helicopters surrounding the buildings: HUH? not on the roof already??)... then ... eventually... to DESCEND the SMOKY STAIRWELLS ONCE AGAIN to CHOKE and DIE one way or another. And for one reason or another Giuliani disappears to the North.

Frankly, there was NOTHING as HEROIC Mayor Giuliani could have done on 9/11 ... as issuing the order to send someone to blow the doors and let people onto the roof. TO BREATHE, TO LIVE. And oddly it's the one thing he did not do.

People tend to become drawn into some sort of apologetic spiral of controversy that erupted between PD and FD following the stunt-like glory of the few helo rescues in 1993. The fire department had a real beef and wanted their own air division; they never got it. BUT it was kind of suspicious that a PD/FD spat is even being fronted as 'explanation', for anything! After 9/11 FDNY other things happened too. Fireman were edged out of GZ, their character was being 'attacked' with other first responders as *looters* with the 'Gap Jeans accusation', a SMEAR CAMPAIGN involving Atlantic Monthly Magazine, an author unworthy to name, and those fronting the campaign whom we some day WILL discover. Organized, paid harassment. NONE of the "FDNY vs. NYPD" beefs surfaced on 9/11. Firemen, cops -- were professional, brothers in arms -- from start to finish. ONLY one missing was the Mayor, and just a bit of roof-access.

A situation so obvious even a panicked citizen blocks away -- wide-eyed into the Naudet brothers' camera says desperately

"The stairways are blocked! Those people are cut off! What are they going to do??"

NOTHING.

*** Perhaps all of New York is waiting for one of those helicopters to swoop down long enough for someone to jump down. It would happen in just a moment, as soon as the wind changes...

*** Perhaps trapped people (who had begged for help, and not yet jumped) were COMPLETELY SURE they'd hear a 'POP!' from above -- what a welcome sound -- a voice from above from the smoky stairwells: "Come UP the stairwell, the roof is open. Come out NOW, to BREATHE, and to LIVE!"

*** Dial-911 callers were being told "someone was on the way." Forgive these poor trapped people if they thought help would surely come from above... since they were DYING, a roof rescue had pretty well been their last dying wish... and is such a NO-BRAINER. Was someone missing a brain on 9/11, or are there other reasons?

*** Some extremely eager, skilled people ((( they might not shout out, but ask one and you might get a nod, some real tears ))) were there and waiting -- standing by to do something. Waiting for the 'GO' order.

*** UNTIL South Tower's collapse... everyone was waiting for some kind of roof operation to occur, even a simple sortie. FDNY was in command, of the scene, but NYPD had the helicopters (and the better radios), an ESU or Nat'l Guard team might be the instrument for roof injection, so they're actually WAITING on an order from the Mayor via his OEM advisors. Should arrive any time now, right?

*** WRONG. WHEN South Tower FELL AT 10 O'clock the world changed: rescuers might think twice...

*** BUT UNTIL 10 O'Clock... for ONE and a QUARTER HOURS from first impact... PEOPLE ARE DYING, and NOT ONE PERSON will be permitted jump onto the ROOF to pop those locked doors.

*** WHAT is Mayor Giuliani waiting for??

Questions.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Goodbye, Rudy -- Tuesday?
The St. Petersburg Times headlines its blog item tonight: "Bye-bye Rudy?" The reason -- its new poll shows America's Mayor a distant third in the Florida race, and sinking. It states: "Among Florida voters likely to vote in Tuesday’s primary, 25 percent are backing McCain and 23 percent Romney, a statistical tie, while Giuliani and Mike Huckabee were tied for third place with 15 percent each." The polls was sponsored by the St. Pete Times, The Miami Herald and a local TV outlet. "Giuliani's decision to pull out of the early states is going to go down in history if he finishes out of the money in Florida as one of the worst political decisions,'' said pollster Tom Eldon.

I've seen a September 11, 2001, ABC News broadcast film on which Giuliani tells Peter Jennings beforehand that Towers 1 and 2 will collapse. Oddly, Giuliani has since denied saying that. What might be his motive for such a denial? Maybe the cameraman didn't film Rudy's good side?