25 years later and WE FORGOT 9-11?!

0:00906 super talk 997 WTN. Hey, how are you? My name is Chris Hand. Shows brought to you by Betterwater. You can get your water filtration system at betterwater.com. You can listen to our show anywhere. I heart radio tune in the FM dial. You can watch the show live. We are on YouTube, Brumble X, all the things, all the places. And today, today is a big day. 9-11, 25 years. And I just, I think the question that deserves to be asked is, did we forget? 25 years ago this morning, 746, our time, 846 in New York. They began reading names at a hole in the ground in Lower Manhattan. I believe that they're still currently reading names right now as I'm speaking with you. About three minutes before we came on air 25 years ago, United 93 hit a field in Pennsylvania. And in about 20-ish minutes,

1:06the North, the North tower is going to come down again in memory. And I know a lot of you were alive on September 11, 2001, but I know there's, there's some younger folks in this audience that weren't. And if you weren't born yet, or if you were like my producer Mason, you were, you know, in a high chair still rocking the pull-ups, I think that it's important to explain exactly what that day was like. And let me put you there. And I mean, a blast Mason, Mason gets it. He gets it. Just using you as an example. It's because I'm here. I'm happy to be here. It's because it's because he's here. But he was also four years old. So he was way too young to understand that on that day, the country made a promise in the absolute vow. And the promise, it wasn't just for bumper stickers, but it was everywhere. And it was on church billboards and it was on the sides of firehouses.

2:08My grandfather was a firefighter and I can't tell you enough how much admiration and respect I have for those first responders. But the promise was simple. The vow was was simple. Two words. Never forget. And I'll, I'll, I'll stand before you at nine, nine, nine, oh, eight, 25 years later. And I will boldly declare that we forgot. And I think a lot of cases we forgot on purpose. And some of the people who forgot are standing in those ruins this morning, whether it's at ground zero in New York or the Pentagon or Pennsylvania, and they're smiling and they're holding their press pass and they're calling it here a healing. It was a clear Tuesday morning, picture-esque weather, the kind of blue that they would put on postcards and not a cloud in the sky. No warning. And at eight forty six eastern seven

3:14forty six on our clock here in the central time zone. American Airlines flight 11 comes out of that sky and it cuts through floors 93 to 99 of the North Tower. All three stairwells above the 91st floor are completely gone. Hundreds of people are dead like that just in a flash. Hundreds more at the exact moment they're alive and they're burning in an oven. And, and the ones that aren't burning, they know it's coming. Now the the FDNY these patriots, these heroes, they're on the scene in seconds. They're moving within five seconds by eight 52, which is like six minutes later. The first engine and ladder companies are on the scene. Battalion chief Joseph Fifer later said it and I quote, so they picked up their hose, they picked up their tools and they went up the stairs, not down up.

4:15Hundred pounds of gear on their backs toward people that they would never meet into a building that was already at two. 903 Eastern 803 R time United 175 hits the South Tower. So this is the most famous skyline on earth and it's becoming a war scene live on TV. And many many people just froze and they were stuck in front of that TV for weeks. Like I said, I was in eighth grade. I'm not going to kid kid kid you and say that I understood the gravity of what was happening at the moment as they wheeled this TV into my eighth grade history class. But we were there and we watched it. And as that second plane hits the South Tower, the thought process of this being an accident, it dies in a fireball, right? At 937 Eastern,

5:21the third plane goes into the Pentagon. At 959 South Tower falls in 10 seconds. You got you got what? 110 stories turning to powder in seconds. At 1003 Eastern 903 Central, the plane goes down in a field outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania because ordinary Americans decided that's it's not going to fly. People say they save the Capitol. 1028 Eastern 928 Central, which is coming up in about what what's that 16 minutes. The North Tower comes down. 2977 people become names in an instant. Age 2 to 85. 343 New York City firefighters

6:23and police officers become memories in an instant. 23 NYPD officers, 37 port authority officers. And it is a war scene in New York. Concrete, jet fuel, glass, human bones. And then that dust that's thrown up in the air, it settles into the lungs of the men who stayed on that pile because somebody had to look for the dead. And our government told them that the air was safe. And it wasn't. It was essentially a second attack that just took a little bit longer. The numbers are wild. And I'll repeat them again. The planes murdered 2977 people in the 25 years since 9,677 first responders and survivors have died of illnesses tied to that

7:25dust. 5,892 of them to cancer, 57,000 cancer certifications, 145,000 people still in the World Trade Center health program. The FDNY lost 343 brave firefighters that morning. They have now lost more than 600 to the dust. The dust has actually killed more people than the planes did. Michael Barash represents tens of thousands of them. He told the New York Post that they lose roughly two clients a day and that a new cancer certification comes in every 50 minutes. Lungs that will never be clean again. Coughs that started in September of 2001 that never left. The towers have finished falling long since. But the funerals have not. They haven't. And if you got some breath in your morning and your body this morning, pray for them. Pray for the widows. Pray for the New Yorkers that have been carrying that dust and their blood for

8:26the last 25 years. Pray for the sons who became firefighters because their fathers were and who are now sitting in oncology waiting rooms with the same last name on the file. I think that it's important to highlight this is the cost of that Tuesday. This is the cost. We said we would never forget the dead. But what we did instead was forget the reason that they died. 19 G hottest radical Islam. It's football season on polymarket trade your football predictions against other fans before and during the game. You can even combine multiple trades with polymarket combos from OCWC FB new customers deposit $10 and get $50 instantly to start trading. 18 plus C polymarket's terms of service for more information about restrictions and eligibility. The polymarket app is an independent affiliate of polymarket US and not CFTC regulated trading always involves risk complete loss can occur. The $50 offer is issued as not withdrawal trading credit for use on

9:28the platform offer exclusively available to first time depositors not available in all jurisdictions. Four planes 2,977 murdered in a single morning. A movement that said in its own videos its own words. It's own sermons. It's own martyr videos that it was doing this because we were infidels in a land it intends to claim. So then our political ruling class did two things at once and I'll tell you right now both of them are an absolute betrayal of the American people. First they decided it was a good idea to take our rights. 45 days after the towers fell Washington did what Washington does. They didn't seal the border. They didn't name the ideology. They passed the Patriot Act which at the time was dressed up in colorful language that everybody clapped for. Sneak peak warrants delayed notice searches

10:28of your homes still in the books use tens of thousands of times almost never for terrorism. National security letters the FBI can demand your records and gag the bank from telling you with no judge in the room. TSA forever. Shoes off belt off. It's a ritual humiliation of a free people and honestly it's just performance art. Treating a grandmother in Murphries, Burrow different from a student just back from a training camp would be such an intolerant feeling that the ruling class just can't bear. Then we have Pfizer 702 and they they told us they swore it was only for foreigners overseas. But you know the FBI is queried Americans communications millions of times. Congress let the statute lapse in June. Don't clap or celebrate. The secret court had already certified the program through March of 2027. Cameras haven't turned off. We gave the government a key to our house because 19 G hadis kicked the door in.

11:34We're not going to get that key back. I hope you understand this. And the people who flew the planes, they didn't lose the fourth amendment you did. That was the first half of the over correction from 9 11. The American people punished the American people. And the second half of this is even worse. After G hadis murdered almost 3,000 people that morning, the same exact political class expanded the pipelines from the same ideological world that produced these murderers. Then they told you that noticing the pattern was a hate crime. This wasn't like a comic book plot to import the hijackers cousins. They did something way more stupid. They traded, they treated political Islam as just another flavor in the salad bowl of American culture. And then they branded the word Islamophobia and they used that word in the same sentences as the grapes. Then they chastised the

12:37generation, the generation that firefighters came from that were brave, that the real lesson here that we needed to take from all of this was tolerance. They demonized the cop who looked twice. They demonized the veteran who said this theology doesn't make any peace with the Constitution. And then they walked the political project in the front door. And when the ideology has showed its face at City Hall, they have called it representation. Do you know what forgetting this looks like in 2026? I'll tell you and I'll use their words. Start this morning with ground zero. They're there right now. The mayor of New York, Zora and Mamdan, he first Muslim mayor of the city that they hit. They won an office. He started rewriting the city's memory of that morning. Last week, he signed the 9-11 Remembrance Orders at City Hall and he handed the pen that he used to

13:43sign it with to police commissioner Jess Tish and asked her to pass it. And she passed it to his chief counsel Ramsey Kassem. Now Kassem is the lawyer who represented Ahmed El Darby. Darby is an al-Qaeda operative who pleaded guilty in the bombing of a French oil tanker. Al Darby is the brother-in-law of Khalid Al-Midhar, the hijacker on flight 77. That's the plan to hit the Pentagon. Tom Von Essen, the FDNY commissioner who lost 343 of his men that morning told the New York post, Zorajid stay home. The families don't need the exed. Giovanni Galati's wife, Grace, she was 29 when they murdered her. He started a petition because of this to keep the mayor off the memorial. I think it was like 110,000 people side of the petition. Adam Levy, who's the son of Judge Judy, he was quoted saying this out loud, don't show up at this memorial when you've supported

14:44radical Islam in the past. Just stand up for what you believe in. Stop talking up both sides of your mouth. Rudy, Rudy Giuliani, America's mayor said, mom Donnie's presence offensive. George Bataki said stay away. Mom Donnie said he would stand in, stand in, remember and stand solemnly with the families. And the family said, we don't want you here. That's occupation of a memory. That's what we're seeing. And he's not a one off either. We're seeing this over and over again. This summer, Abba Abair Kowas won a New York state senate seat endorsed by Zorajan mom Donnie. She's with the Democrat social, he's with the Democrat socialists of America. Excuse me, she does. There's photographs of her in a Hamas style headband. She called 911 a terror attack that a couple people did. A couple people just as just a couple of people 19 trained jihadis four airliners coordinated hits on America, but her was a couple of people.

15:48She won a New York state senate, senate primary. It's insane. In the real outrage here is that Americans expected an apology. And in her words, there hasn't been an apology or reparations for genocides and slavery. She blamed 911 on capitalism and racism and white supremacy in Islamophobia. She said, all of those things have been used to colonize lands. And we're just seeing the manifestations of this of the continuation of this with 9-11. So the, just in case you're not keeping score at home, the firefighters running up the stairs were not victims of radical Islam. They were victims of the manifestation of white supremacy. That woman's going to Albany, by the way. The mayor of New York gave it his blessing. In New Jersey, Democratic congressional nominee Adam Hamaway, backed by Bernie Sanders and AOC,

16:52he got endorsed by Hassan Piker. And Hassan Piker said, America deserved 9-11, dude. That's a quote. America deserved it. Now, when he was asked about it, he said, well, he got put it all in perspective. He said he believes Piker regrets it. And then he said, I still love this guy, though. This is the man who took the stand as a defense witness of the 1995 trial of Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind chic convicted of plotting to bomb New York landmarks, the preacher in the orbit of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the dress rehearsal, a lot of people call it. Put it in perspective. Okay, I will. I mean, there's 2,977 people in graves, a field in Pennsylvania, a hole in the pentagon. Dude. In Michigan, Abdul El-Sahed wins the Democrat Senate primary. And if he wins in November, in the general, he's the first Muslim United States Senator. And in 2009, he told the New York

17:57Times that he didn't want to stand before God and say, he'd done it the easy way instead of the Sharia compliant way, not from fear, but because of obligation. This August, this campaign confirmed he still lives this way in his personal life. He follows Sharia law. His spokeswoman says he believes in a church and state rep separation. It's fine. Just put that in your record. Also just to clarify, Sharia isn't a yoga routine. It is a legal theological system. In its classical form, it doesn't share a neighborhood with the Bill of Rights. A guy, a guy's a lot to keep that in his kitchen, but I don't think we should be required to smile about this while the movement tries to drag it into our government. And in Dearborn, the Arab American National Museum, Dearborn Michigan, it's a Smithsonian affiliate at this museum. The national endowment for the humanities money goes to it, the Syriotech, dollars. They have an exhibit that will tell you who the real victims of September 11th were.

19:00Not the people who jumped out of the towers because there was no other way. Not the firefighters who went up the stairs because that was what they needed to do. But Arabs, actually, the museum says, suffered twofold from 9-11 from the attack and then the government's unfair response. Cool. So the men who flew the planes disappear. The people who noticed who flew the planes, we become the problem. The dead have become a backdrop here. And again, the lesson is that you're the problem. And the media reinforced this over and over and over again. Over the last 25 years, we have seen a sampling of the exact same story. There's a backlash against immigrants. There's a bias against Muslim. There's a hostility. There's an unspoken tragedy. And you can find this sampling of headlines from 2001 to 2026 on the internet today. It's crazy. But back in New York,

20:05the graveyard has a mayor at it that the widow's asked to stay home who endorsed the people who said it was just a couple of people that did 9-11. It's happening all over the country. Everybody forgot. Ham Tramik Michigan, the first Muslim majority city in America. They have a city council, all male, all Muslim. And that city council, they voted to ban pride flags from city polls. And federal courts upheld it. Now I'm not going to defend pride month. But I will expose the hypocrisy here. The same left that screamed theocracy at Christians in Texas went quiet when Islamic social norms started writing the municipal code. So that's fine. In Minneapolis, the largest Somali community in America, the city changed this noise ordinance. So that way the call to prayer can be broadcast live at the crack and dawn in the morning.

21:09Now I don't want to be like every Muslim is Muhammad atah. But political Islam, we need to be on guard about this. And a lot of people forgot. The project that doesn't want a a pew in a plural country, they want the law. They treat the constitution as a temporary arrangement until the numbers are better. You understand that, right? And the subject is the American elite can't tell the difference or they don't care. And they'll tell people will be like, Oh, the founders would love this. We're the melting pot. I'll take you to March of 1786 in London. Jefferson and Adams sit down with the ambassador of Tripoli, a Muslim majority nation because American ships were being seized. And American sailors were being enslaved. And they asked a simple question. They said, by what right do you make war on a nation that has done you no injury? And the ambassador of Tripoli at the time, he didn't, he didn't talk about foreign policy. He talked about scripture. And Jefferson and Adams wrote it to John Jay. And I'll read it to

22:16the ambassador answered us that it was founded on the laws of their profit, that it was written in their current, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners. And that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found. And to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners and that every Muslim man who should be slain in battle was sure to go to paradise. That's, I mean, that's two of our founders of the nation in their own hand, recording the doctrine from the mouth of a man set to explain it. What are we supposed to do with this? The founders couldn't have imagined a museum that recasts 9-11 as an anti-Arab episode. And a mayor of New York walking onto the sacred ground this morning after the widows asked him to stay home. That's not what they built. It's what you get when the people in

23:18charge of the country are more afraid of being called names than they are of losing the country. And we need to call this out. They'll tell us it's inclusion and it's compassion. They'll say, don't paint with a broad brush. But we've been reciting that script for the last 25 years. And it hasn't produced peace. It's produced Abercawas in Albany and a museum in Dearborn that can't tell the truth about this Tuesday morning. And the real name, it's not compassion and it's not tolerance. It's suicidal empathy. It is a ruling class that can cry over a slogan, but they won't cry over a firefighter's autopsy. Empathy that is running downhill towards an ideology that murdered our fellow countrymen. And uphill against a widow and against a cop who still works the pile every time he goes to sleep.

24:20It hears America deserve 9-11 and they reach for context and here's a couple people and they want to they want to bring it to a panel. It hears Sharia as an obligation and then they want to lecture us about Islamophobia. They'll hear about a 9-11 pen pen handed to an al-Qaeda lawyer and say, what's the big deal? Big it. Toxic empathy isn't kindness. It's vanity and it needs to be seen. It's the need to be seen as the better person while someone else puts the bill. And it's why the same people who will not profile a jihadi will profile you at an airport. And it's why your Fourth Amendment has become a suggestion and their feelings became a protected class. The world that we were raised in doesn't exist anymore. Plain and simple. The country knew that by the way on September 12, 2001. They knew the who the enemy was and that that world is no longer here. That that country wasn't perfect

25:21and this country isn't perfect, but I can point back to that day and say at least the country is coherent. They were allowed to say that these men did this because of what they believe and what they believe is not welcome on this soil. So that's the reality of 9-11. And that's the reality of where we are today. We are talking about the 25th anniversary of 9-11. It is still wild to me. What was it? 13 minutes ago, 13 minutes ago, 25 years ago, the North Tower came down. We're supposed to still remember. So remember, I'm going to pick up where I left off and kind of end the last thought of the last break where I started. 343 firefighters right up the stairs.

26:27Passengers on flight 93 said, let's roll and a field in Pennsylvania today is being recognized because Americans, ordinary civilians, decided that fighting what was happening was worth the cost of their lives. You got cops and ironworkers and nurses and priests and clerks from New Jersey, that morning, who saw what was going on and they got on a train and headed toward the smoke. And I think it's important to remember that those people, those people make up this country. A lot of these people still have dust in their lungs. A lot of these people are still waiting for a cancer diagnosis. The funerals are still being scheduled every weekday while the political class still argues on TV. It's football season on polymarket trade your football predictions against

27:28other fans before and during the game. You can even combine multiple trades with polymarket combos from OCOWCFB new customers deposit $10 to get $50 instantly to start trading. 18 plus C polymarket's terms of service for more information about restrictions and eligibility. The polymarket app is an independent affiliate of polymarket US and not CFTC regulated trading always involves risk. Complete loss can occur. The $50 offer is issued as not withdrawal little trading credit for use on the platform over exclusively available to first time depositors not available in all jurisdictions. And just to carry over my thought from last break, never forget wasn't supposed to be a branding exercise. It wasn't dreamed up in a marketing meeting. It was a vow. And as we're here 25 years later in the nation is marking these attacks. And I'm here to tell you the majority of the nation forgot. I think it's important to remind you that a vow has terms. And I think that we need to we need to be honest about those terms. I think we need to continue telling the truth about

28:31who did this and why we need to stop confusing the first amendment with a suicide pact when it comes to our nation. We need to stop stripping the innocent to flatter the guilty. And we need to stop electing people who talk about a couple of people as if 19 radical Islamists and almost 3000 people dead were a a mishap. It was just an accident or it was a manifestation of white supremacy. The world we were raised in is gone. And I'll tell you why it's not even necessarily to do with the radical Islamist. It's gone because the people in charge they were more infatuated with their own reflection than how much they loved the country. That can be reversed too, by the way. We we talking about this a little bit yesterday on 910. How do we win the country? We we do it by raising good kids. And we do it by raising our kids

29:38to love the country that we're in and to love the ideals that it was founded on. But it's not going to be it's not going to be saved by a moment of silence that Mayor Zoran Mamdani is going to use as a photo op. It's going to only be saved by having a very long memory but a memory with a backbone. So if if you were a kid who was born after 911 or you were too young to understand 911, I hope that you take some time today to understand it for what it was. Because the guys that ran up the stairs understood and the guys that are still dying because of the dust in the air still understand. But the question is whether the rest of us are going to be over with being lectured about compassion and tolerance and we're done being lectured out of continuing to remember the dead.

30:47So I won't forget and I'm not going to forget this morning and I'm not going to forget in front of this microphone ever and I hope that you won't forget either. And as we see this radical Islamic ideology taking over towns in this country and we we call it out for what it is, I hope that you will call it out too because it's not it's not something that we can do here alone. We we all need to do it. Every single one of us unashamed, not afraid of the names that we're going to be called because they will. So I mean they'll label you everything. Do you either remember Islamophobia being a thing before 2001? No, neither do I. And again, I mentioned this in the last break. But for the last 25 years, the media has been in been complacent and a co-conspirator in the

31:49whitewashing of the history here. And they have reinforced this message that the real victims through all of this have been the the Arab community. They have them every one every one of these media outlets. They are just as guilty. And that's that's not an understatement. I have the headlines here. Here, can you put this on the screen for me? If you're watching on YouTube, you'll see the headlines. I'll read them to you though. September 19th, this is just a week, just a week after the terror attack. September 19th, 2001 CNN immigrants fear backlash to terror attacks. Chicago Tribune. This is the day after the terror attack. Muslims brace for misplaced blame.

32:52September 27th, 2002 Los Angeles Times frustrated US Muslims feel marginalized again. San Francisco gate 2004. Muslim finds Bay area leans toward tolerance. But even here, many experience some 9 11 backlash. NBC September 10th, 2009 for Muslims, backlash for your builds, each 9 11 September 5th, 2016 WB. You are in New York, American Muslims grieve 9 11 attacks and the backlash. September 8th, 2016, 15 years after 9 11 unwelcome spotlight returns to Islam. Vox September 11th, 2016, 9 devastating revealing stories of being Muslim in post 9 11 America.

33:57September 7th, 2021, the AP. Two decades after 9 11, Muslim Americans still fighting bias. ABC news September 9th, 2021 Muslim America's confront legacy of 9 11 Islamophobia unspoken tragedy. Detroit free press September 9th, 2021. 20 years after 9 11 Metro Detroit Muslims tired of apologizing, being viewed differently. September 10th, 2021. Muslim Americans still face hostility, 20 years after 9 11. That was CBS. And here's a more recent one just from last week, September 6th, 2026, the Detroit news. 25 years after 9 11, many Muslims fear a new backlash. So who's the real victim here? Is it the American citizens who were murdered by a political ideology?

35:03Or is it the Arab community? Because it seems to me like for the last 25 years, the mainstream media and the political ruling class have decided who the real enemy is. And like I said, when it comes to the Fourth Amendment and the things that we've lost, our rights, it seems like they decided the real enemy was us. Maybe I'm wrong. Bob on the road, your next on Super Talk. How you doing, man? Good Chris. How are you? Good. What do you got? Hey, you know, I agree with everything you're saying here, but I come back to, you know, everybody, not everybody, but a lot of people upset that President Trump was doing this with Iran, you know, the gas prices. But to me, we should have learned our lesson that we have got to be aggressive with these people, especially Iran, because if we just sit back and say, oh, well, they're not hurting us. They're not doing anything right now. Eventually, we're going to have

36:06another 9 11. And so although, you know, we're suffering through high gas prices and things like that, I'm willing to pay the price for a little bit to put down a regime like that, who has been telling us since 1979 that they want to get rid of America. And I don't want another 9 11. So I'd rather be the aggressor and go after them and to sit back and say, well, since they're not doing anything to us, you know, we should be good. I just wanted your thoughts on that. Well, I would just I would flip it and I would say, are we are we stronger protecting the homeland when our troops are overseas? I'd rather be there fighting than here fighting. But I mean, we would just a couple weeks ago, there were radical Islamists throwing a bomb outside of the mayor's mansion in New York City. Yeah, the fight the fight's still here. Yeah, I agree. I mean, I do agree that it is here, but not to the level that it could be if we

37:10just keep turning, you know, blind eye to what's going on with these countries that are trying to get nuclear weapons that are have professed that they want to annihilate the United States. I mean, I agree. I think we need to deport a lot of these people that are anti-American and trying to hurt us. But my my whole point is and I'm not saying up being in Iran is perfect and wars never perfect. But I would rather suffer a little bit with gas prices for a time being and set those people back for years than to have another 9-11 happen. And I just I just get fearful that we're forgetting and we're just saying, well, let's just sit back and since we're not doing anything, we're not going to do anything. And I just think that's the wrong way to go about it. There's there's there's new reporting out and we're going to talk about this later on in the show. But there's new reporting out of this this war could last till 2029 after President Trump leaves office. Are you good with another forever war? Well, I don't believe that. I don't believe it will happen because I don't

38:16believe a rank and hold out that long. I really don't. And my son, myself, we were in the military. I know if we if we need to, we can, but the problem is we need to get our politicians out of, you know, fighting these wars for us and let our people do what we need to do to anything's quicker. That's another story for another time. But I hear you, man. And then I think that this is this is a nuanced conversation and I'm down to have it. And Bob, I do appreciate your call and I appreciate you and your son's service. Thank you, man. All right. Thank you. Take care.