Been to New York City Lately? You don't know what you're missing:

Thanks to the likes of Barack Obama (and Mayor Michael Bloomberg), even the tourist trade has been censored with the taint of political correctness.

Nowadays, whenever a tour bus stops to pay homage to a vast emptiness once encompassing the destroyed Twin Towers, from the intercom, you'll hear..."This is the site where the 9-11 World Trade Center ACCIDENT occurred..."

9-11 World Trade Center ACCIDENT?

Of course! Two giant commercial airliners were mistakenly hijacked minutes apart; then in the most improbable fluke in all history of aeronautical navigation, each somehow managed to crash into both Twin Towers a mere 18 minutes apart.

Gee, what were the odds on that? 

So according to Obama & Bloomberg, it was sheer misfortune - an accident - that 3000 people died in America 's worst-ever homeland disaster. 

But one thing that's never been examined: how political correctness - and "follow-the-leader" stupidity - were actually responsible for at least 2500 of those that died - or possibly more.  

The World Trade Center actually consisted of seven buildings spread across 16 acres of land.

The Twin Towers - 1 WTC, or the North Tower , and 2 WTC, or the South Tower - contained 10.4 million square feet of office space. The 110-story buildings were each 1,350 feet high. On any given workday, up to 50,000 office workers occupied both towers,

After the first plane struck the north tower, workers in the south tower were told to stay put, making them sitting ducks for the second plane -already making its turn to attack.

Post 9-11 interviews with south tower workers - who had (sensibly) made it all the way down to the lobby - were mystified by an announcement that..."there had been an explosion in Tower 1", and because of falling debris, were told that Tower 2..."was secure, and to go back upstairs."

Hence, more people ended up dying in the south tower than the north.

In the eight years proceeding the Sept. 11 attack, the most contentious issue remains the contradictory public-address announcements made by an official in the south tower lobby, urging tenants to stay in the building, even though an intensely-hot, 3,000* fire was raging nextdoor.

Ironically, less than a minute before the south tower was struck, authorities changed their earlier instructions and THEN ordered an evacuation.

But who was it that had authorized the first announcement, which bore life/death consequences for at least 1500 people, according to the survivors who escaped from the south tower?

Survivors recall they had started to leave the building, but turned back when they heard those instructions. Many others never left their offices. About 600 people were needlessly trapped and died in the upper floors of the south tower after being struck. 

The instructions to stay inside the buildings were given not only over the public-address system, but also to individual tenants in both the north and the south towers who telephoned Port Authority police.

On the morning of Sept. 11, the first responses were directed by several civilian officials - known as deputy fire safety directors - stationed in the lobbies of each tower. In a radio conversation two minutes after the first plane struck, the south tower director - regarding an evacuation- could be heard: (quote)...''I'm not going to do anything until we get orders from the Fire Department.''

At several points during the next 14 minutes, the south tower lobby kept making announcements, declaring that "the building was secure." Some tenants said they were specifically told to return to their desks; others remember being told they could go to a cafeteria.

A tape recording shows that at 8:59, 13 minutes after the north tower was hit, a Port Authority Police captain, Anthony R. Whitaker, called for the complete evacuation of the entire trade center, but it WAS NOT communicated to either of the tower lobby desks!

An initial tape recording reveals that at 8:49, a deputy fire safety director in the south tower told his counterpart in the north tower , he would wait to hear from "the boss" before ordering an evacuation.

So just who were these deputy fire safety morons who ended up adding to the magnitude of the tragedy? Why haven't they been exposed or sued; or even subpoened for a hearing? Why has this been covered up; who was responsible for such sheer incompetence?

To this day, the New York Port Authority continues to defend the idiopathic foolishness of the south tower fire deputy, who told the occupants to "return to their offices," saying that "he made a correct decision, based on the information he had at the time," claiming - after the plane hit the north tower - if the occupants had been allowed to leave and go out onto the plaza, they would have been struck by falling people, plane parts, glass, and sections of the building facade.

Vincent Dunn, Deputy Chief FDNY (now retired) stubbornly maintains: "As a fire chief, I would have given the same instructions. I would not have ordered the evacuation of the south tower. No one could predict that a second plane would crash into the south tower, although in hindsight, the communication announcement to go back into the building cost lives." (Duh).

But after the EPA outlawed asbestos (1971) while the WTC was under construction, the replacement substitute proved to be tragically inadequate. Thus, were it not for the EPA's cockamimee proclaimation, the four-hour-window of an asbestos-coating on the beams could have limited casualties to only those on floors where the planes impacted.

The original concerns were that indoor air in skyscrapers would be contaminated by circulating air passing over asbestos fireproofing. As a result, it was only used up to the thirty-eighth floor of the first WTC tower, and not at all in tower 2, with horrific results.

But the chilling possibility will always endure that BOTH building collapses may have been preventable had asbestos been used, and would have prevented the spread of fire to the upper floors- possibly limiting casualties to as low as 200-300.

Even more ironically, local New York building codes in the early 1970's still had not been affected by the federal government ban, which would not have prevented asbestos being used on all floors in both towers. It was only because of pressure to be "politically correct" that the towers were constructed without the unique, time-proven substance.

Steel melts at 2,700* Fahrenheit, but with inadequate fireproofing, it will start to bend and buckle at temperatures as low as 600 degrees. It is increasingly clear that disproportionate, confusing environmental regulations at federal, state, and local levels cost a disastrous number of human lives on that September, 11 day of infamy.

Asbestos has qualities that set it apart from any other material.  It is virtually indestructible. It has been used since the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans, and is prized for its heat-resistant properties. The history of asbestos is its renowned reliability as an insulator and fire-stopper.

But since the EPA entered into the picture in the early 70's, and began its over-regulation concerning asbestos, it has yielded zero evidence of any benefit to human health.

And it was also in the early 1970's that commenced that woe-begotten American era of..."They don't make 'em like they used to:" This has included cars, houses, appliances, manufactured goods, and unfortunately - skyscrapers.