Locals did not work again tonight but you can watch tonight's show for free on Rumble. I apologize. This is the 3rd time in a week that Locals has failed. I will be finalizing a new platform later this week. Hope you enjoy this show. We will be back on Rumble Wednesday.
It took both France & UK, working together, to intercept just 1 Russian oil tanker. Not good. Then Macron brags that it was a show of strength. It’d be hilarious except France & UK failed leadership has caused mass destruction & suffering of their people. https://t.co/BuEV67euJ4
For 8 years, people at Morgan Stanley called Rick Rescorla paranoid.
Then September 11th proved he was right.
Rick was a decorated Vietnam veteran who became Head of Security for Morgan Stanley at the World Trade Center.
In 1990, he walked through the underground parking garage and quietly warned:
“Someone could park a truck bomb here and bring this whole place down.”
Executives dismissed the concern as excessive.
Then came February 26, 1993.
A truck bomb exploded in the World Trade Center parking garage almost exactly where Rick predicted.
Six people died.
Over 1,000 were injured.
The evacuation was chaos.
Rick watched terrified employees stumble through smoke-filled stairwells for hours with no real preparation.
Afterward, he made a decision.
Morgan Stanley employees would practice evacuation drills every three months.
All 2,700 of them.
No exceptions.
People hated it.
The company occupied floors 44 through 74 of the South Tower.
That’s a very long walk down when you have meetings, deadlines, and places to be.
Employees complained constantly.
“He’s obsessed.”
“This is unnecessary.”
“He’s paranoid.”
Rick didn’t care.
He timed every evacuation.
Studied bottlenecks.
Adjusted routes.
Ran the drills again.
And during the drills, he sang old military songs to keep people calm while they descended the stairwells.
For 8 years, people rolled their eyes at him.
Then came September 11, 2001.
8:46 a.m.
The North Tower was hit.
An announcement in the South Tower told people to remain at their desks because the building was secure.
Rick ignored it.
He grabbed a bullhorn and ordered:
“Everyone out. Now.”
Then he personally directed employees through the stairwells floor by floor.
And he sang.
The same songs people once mocked during drills suddenly became the sound keeping frightened people calm as they escaped.
At 9:03 a.m., the South Tower was struck.
Rick was still inside helping people evacuate.
His coworkers begged him to leave.
He refused.
“As soon as everyone’s out.”
By 9:45 a.m., nearly all 2,700 Morgan Stanley employees had escaped safely.
Rick could have saved himself.
Instead, he turned around and went back up.
Searching for anyone left behind.
Before the tower collapsed, he called his wife one final time.
“If something happens to me, I want you to know you made my life.”
At 9:59 a.m., the South Tower collapsed with Rick still inside.
Final numbers:
Morgan Stanley employees inside that morning:
~2,700
Survived:
~2,687
Most of the 13 lost were in the direct impact zone where no evacuation could have reached them in time.
Rick Rescorla died alongside members of his security team while trying to save others.
But here’s the important part:
Rick didn’t save those people on September 11th.
He saved them for 8 years before it happened.
He saved them every time he forced another evacuation drill.
Every time people mocked him.
Every time he prepared anyway.
The coworkers who thought he was paranoid went home to their families because one man refused to stop taking danger seriously.
Sometimes preparation looks ridiculous until the day it looks like survival.
And sometimes the people everyone dismisses are the only ones truly paying attention.
Rick Rescorla died in the stairwell doing what he had trained for nearly a decade.
And thousands of ordinary lives continued because he never stopped preparing for the day nobody believed would come.
Barbara Walters writes:
Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during the Vietnam War.
The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat. In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF Survival School was a POW in Ho LoPrison, the "Hanoi Hilton."
Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ's, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American "peace activist" the "lenient and humane treatment" he'd received.
He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and was dragged away. During the subsequent beating, he fell forward onto the camp commandant 's feet, which sent that officer berserk.
In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying career) from the Commandant's frenzied application of a wooden baton.
From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the "Hanoi Hilton". . . The first three of which his family only knew he was "missing in action." His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and clothed routine in preparation for a "peace delegation" visit.
They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they were alive and still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his Social Security Number on it, in the palm of his hand. When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man's hand and asking little encouraging snippets like: "Aren't you sorry you bombed babies?" and "Are you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors?" Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper.
She took them all without missing a beat. . . At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and handed him all the little pieces of paper...
Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Colonel Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know of her actions that day.
I was a civilian economic development adviser in Vietnam, and was captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held prisoner for over 5 years.
I spent 27 months in solitary confinement; one year in a cage in Cambodia; and one year in a 'black box' in Hanoi. My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Banme Thuot, South Vietnam, whom I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border. At one time, I weighed only about 90 lbs. (My normal weight is 170 lbs.)
We were Jane Fonda's "war criminals."
When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi, I was asked by the camp communist political officer if I would be willing to meet with her. I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received. . . and how different it was from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as "humane and lenient."
Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched with a large steel weight placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane.
I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda soon after I was released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV. She never did answer me.
These first-hand experiences do not exemplify someone who should be honored as part of "100 Years of Great Women." Lest we forget. . . "100 Years of Great Women" should never include a traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so many patriots.
There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation in blatant treason, is one of them. Please take the time to forward to as many people as you possibly can. It will eventually end up on her computer, and she needs to know that we will never forget. See less
The Barnstable County Assembly on Cape Cod, mostly comprised of anti-White leftists, was forced to take public comments yesterday on a new measure that would hamstring ICE from enforcing immigration law in the area. A local patriot managed to show up between work shifts and delivered an incredible speech.