It's obvious 9/11 victims' family members are still grieving so I don't want anyone to take this the wrong way but the screeching yesterday was a little hard to accept -- even if I do agree with what they're saying and feeling. I'm sorry for their loss -- but that doesn't mean that they can do or say anything they want. It reminded me of the endless rounds of appeasement during the selection of the 9/11 memorial. It was a painful thing to watch as the "victims' representatives" went overboard in their insistence that they should be listened to more than anyone else or some action should be taken because they've suffered.

You can't look at the last two days of testimony before the 9/11 Commission without fully understanding the historical relationship between the New York Police Department and the New York Fire Department. (I think it started as an anti-Irish thing - firefighters were native NYers, police were Irish immigrants but I could be wrong on that one.)

But anybody who's spent more than five minutes in NYC knows that in general these two "cults" hate each other. And of course that shouldn't be -- but that's been the way of it for decades and it's systemic and institutionalized. So address that before any talk about communication devices. Study NYC history and then put what happened on September 11 in perspective.