Swompdonkey

A psychopath can be described as a person with an antisocial personality disorder, manifested in aggressive, perverted, criminal, or amoral behavior without empathy or remorse. Psychopaths tend to lack normal human emotions such as guilt. They are also often highly intelligent and skilled at manipulating others. Also, psychopaths seem to appear normal. You would probably never guess there was something wrong with them. Maybe the burly thug who slapped his son across the mouth with such force as to draw blood and grinned maliciously at the ticket agent at Logan, daring her to say or do anything was not a psychopath. But the man who gazed blankly at the passengers boarding American Airlines Flight 11, was. Maybe, as the last of the passengers shuffled down the gangway, he bought a coffee and newspaper, checked his watch, and strolled calmly behind the people he was going to murder, feeling NOTHING. That, to me, is a very scary thought.

Less than two hours later, shortly before 9 a.m this flight, carrying 81 passengers and 11 crew members, slammed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan. About 15 minutes later, United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston to Los Angeles, with 56 passengers and nine crew members on board, crashed into the south tower.

A half-hour after the second crash, American Flight 77 took off from Washington, D.C.'s Dulles Airport en route to Los Angeles, California, carrying 58 passengers and six crew members -- but crashed into the Pentagon instead. Less than an hour after the third crash, United Flight 93 en route from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, with 38 passengers and seven crew aboard. Those were the people who fought back. Just a few of the many people who became heroes that day. In this age of moral relativism, where everything seems to have an excuse or a root cause, I think it is useful to simply look at some facts. In the wake of the Madrid attacks and subsequent developments I find myself thinking back to the actions of the people who "kicked things off" as it were, just over two-and-a-half years ago. Were they psychopaths? How can we know? But we know what they did. The facts can be laid out in stark terms, as I have done below. I don't care what the "root causes" were, I don't care whether or not the young men who did this were being "manipulated", and I don't care why they hated the U.S. To me, these people, and all those of their ilk, have forfeited their humanity, and as I told a friend today, in the wake of the "martyrdom" of the "Tunisian" and his accomplices --on the bright side, that is five less pieces of shit to worry about.

THE FLIGHTS

American Airlines Flight 11
From: Boston, Massachusetts (Logan Airport)
To: Los Angeles, California
Lives: 92 people on board
Crashed into North Tower of World Trade Center at 8:45 AM

United Airlines Flight 175
From: Boston, Massachusetts (Logan Airport)
To: Los Angeles, California
Lives: 65 people on board
Crashed into South Tower of World Trade Center at 9:03 AM

American Airlines Flight 77
From: Washington, D.C. (Dulles Airport)
To: Los Angeles, CA
Lives: 64 people on board
Crashed into the Pentagon at 9:43 AM

United Airlines Flight 93
From: Newark, New Jersey
To: San Francisco, California
Lives: 45 people on board
Crashed into rural Pennsylvania (southeast of Pittsburgh)

VICTIMS

Victims came from more than 90 countries around the world.
The following are the number of people who died at each site:

World Trade Center: 2,823 presumed confirmed dead (includes airline passengers)
Pentagon 125 (not including plane victims)
Flight 11 92 people on board
Flight 175 65 people on board
Flight 77 64 people on board
Flight 93 44 people on board

I'll NEVER forget. Not in another 2 years, not in another 20. how could I... there are sure to be more attacks.