Who's really responsible for 9/11 and are we safer with all these new measures that takes away all our freedom

Answer 1

The government was responsible and now the world is less safe, because they are confident that they got away with it, so are likely to do it again.
In addition they have annoyed a whole lot of Muslim people with their cover story, and some of them are likely to seek revenge.

Answer 2

Tough question. Tough answer. Bin Laden is responsible for the organisation, but better security and it could have been prevented. If you have watched farenheight 9/11 then you would know that there was a security report two weeks before the incident. Unfortunately it has happened and we can only hope for the best under the new guidelines although restrictions on freedom of speech are what the terrorists wanted anyway. How ironic

Answer 3

When President Bush was visiting a school and reading to grammar school children, one of his men came and told him of the attack. Bush did not react like a person who had just heard the unbelievable attack for the first time; he simply kept reading to the children as if it was not a surprise. On top of that incident the government has refused to clarify obvious questions asked by the survivors, survivor's relatives and people who want to know. There are some glaring inconsistencies that the government refuses to clear up. Out of this the Patriot Act (killer of the Bill of Rights) and the Homeland Security (with no checks and balances) was created. Be sure of this. The Patriot Act and Homeland Security will be abused. Terrorist can be defined to mean anyone who disagrees with the rulers. The Real ID Act is going to be implemented, and I dare say that not one American in a thousand knows anything about it. Slowly but surely, in the name of terrorism, the controls are being put in place. Once the controls are sufficiently in place, look for an economic collapse (FDIC fails) and a food shortage caused by GE food supply. The object is CONTROL. Brave new world coming up. Maybe not in our generation, but what about our kids and grand-kids?

Answer 4

Who is responsible depends on your viewpoint!

There are two sides (or more) to every argument, and it could be fairest and most objective to say that all sides are responsible.

The second question is even tougher and more philosphical. Are safety and freedom mutually exclusive? Is it right or proper to trade freedom for security?

In my mind we need to strive for freedom, not just for 'ourselves' - but for all sides/people - in which case no one will need to threaten anyone else's security!

In order for everyone to have freedom and for all to feel secure we must have dialogue and compromise. We have to understand why anyone feels a sense of injustice and we need to apply objective and just criteria - not partisan prejudice - to resolve these perceptions. No one owns 'the truth' and God is not on anyone's side - except those who truly desire peace and commit to living together harmoniously and not being guilty of greed or exploitation.

9/11 constituted terror and murder on a grand scale. Why would anyone resort to such an atrocity. But, "let whoever is without sin cast the first stone". Why are so many people so outraged that they will resort to such actions? Are they mad, are they bad, are are they just like us, but with a burning feeling of injustice, and , if so, why?

It's too easy to assume that "we" are right and "they" are wrong. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

Are we safer with measures that take away our freedom? Maybe that's the wrong question. Perhaps we ought to ask whether more freedom for all would lead to more security for all!

Answer 5

The question here is safer from what? Terrorism is an idea that has existed for ever and will exist well after Chimp has gone. You strike the nail with the fact that all our freedoms are being eroded to facilitate the new world order.

Answer 6

I think the terrorists who flew the planes into the buildings are responsible for 9/11 and I can't really answer the other question because I am not sure. At least I am honest.

Answer 7

well, responsibility is on the sides of terrorists, like AL-Quaida, and on the highes ranks of government. Terrorist are fighting for freedom, to be independant from others, americans are fighting for safety of all civilization, but the way they do it ,the both sides is terrible. Tension is increasin rapidly and then comes 9/11. This is a result of political war.

Answer 8

The answer seems to be more complicated than some people want us to believe. Certainly, the terrorists who were there are directly responsible. But I wonder why nobody seems to be asking the question - why young, healthy people, who had all the lives ahead of them, decided to commit such a horrible deed and lose their lives in the process. IMHO opinion the people, who simpy dismiss it as "being brainwashed" (as most politicians seem to do these days), do not deserve to be even part of the leading elite in a modern, developed country, let alone its prime minister or president.

And the reasons for people to go to such extreme measures and to attack Western democracies seem to plentiful: the inequality in the global market (e.g. from one pound spent on a banana as much as 40 p goes to the supermarket, 56 p goes to traders and and Western taxes, and only 4 p to the actual producer), economical exploitation of the Third World (global yearly figures from a yesterday paper: ca. 570 bln pounds spent on weapons, ca. 280 bln owned by developing countries to Western governments, only ca. 33 bln given back to them in aid), Western support for governments which break human rights and use torture (Saudi Arabia, China, Russia, Israel, Egypt).

Not investigating this question properly is, I believe, a single most important reason why our world these days is even less safe than it was 5 years ago. Ok. There will always be crazy fanatics, people full of hatred that you cannot reason with. But the mistake Western politicians are doing is that they are pushing even moderate people more and more into the hands of the fanatics, by dismissing the causes which fuel the hatred of the extreme elements.

Are we safer? I'm sure that since you ask the question you realise that the answer is a negative one. One cannot escape the feeling that quite a lot of so called "safety measures" put in place are simply propaganda moves trying to show us that our governments are doing something. Examples? Why a bottle of coke and a small nail-clipper are more suspicious than a pack of matches, a lighter and a glass bottle bought in duty free, which could easily be broken and turned into a sharp weapon. Why at one moment we are chasing this "most dangerous guy in the world" and the next day we are supposed not to care too much about him, and send after him less solders than we would use to police a part of New York.

We go, not convincingly, for just few dangerous individuals, but in doing so, we allienate and break more and more rights of moderate people, and completely ignore the things which fuel their hate, strengthening every day their ideological weapon. And the results - we can all see them around us.

Answer 9

The fellows flying the planes into buildings. Of course you are safer, what freedom has been taken away? You still can complain about everything right/

Answer 10

USA Foreign Policy is responsible... And we're ALL in much greater danger now - thanks to US/UK war-mongering...!

Hey...! - for 10 long years - BEFORE 9/11 - Iraq was crippled by US-imposed sanctions that caused the deaths of thousands of Iraqis, while US jets patrolled the skies and bombed Iraqi villages...! Meanwhile, Israel continues to ride roughshod over the dispossessed Palestinians - plus every other nation in the Middle-East - on America's say-so...!

The only surprise about 9/11 was that it took so long coming...!