Al Jazeera's journey across post-9/11 America - Buffalo, Oklahoma

Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo has been travelling across the United States to find out how the 9/11 attacks have affected the lives of average Americans - 10 years later.

In part four of his series, Elizondo drove from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Buffalo, Oklahoma, where stopped at a local diner to gauge opinion.

Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo reports from Buffalo.

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[wabdinur]

1:35 -That's so true!

[Born2Flesh]

Americans should celebrate like dancing Israelis on 9/11... Why cry for a bunch of sheep? PARTY AT THE WTC!!!

[FizzleYap]

why such an arbitrary place to ask people how 9/11 has affected their lives? why not ask people in a place that makes sense like New York City?

[santa3fe]

I'm an Oklahoman, and I remember Al Jazeera broadcasting (glorifying) terrorists dragging dead American troops thru the streets of Mogadishu. I remember the network showing terrorists decapitating troops in Iraq. Al Jazeera is a vehicle for Islamic hatred and filth. Damn you and damn your Islamic fundimentalist bullshit!

[mmedefarge]

@biscuithammer00 "It", the subject of this conversation - terrorist attacks. Bomb sniffing dogs, radiation monitors & cameras in the subways & tunnels don't inhibit my personal freedom in the least. If you feel that the presence of bomb sniffing dogs & radiation detectors "inhibit your personal freedoms" than perhaps you'd be more comfortable living somewhere where you can set off bombs to your heart's content, such as N.W. Pakistan.

[biscuithammer00]

@mmedefarge "You feel it's OK just to let it happen because you don't live where it might "

First, what do you mean by IT? Let WHAT happen? Second, what makes you think I don't live where IT might happen? I just happen to value our personal freedoms over an illusion of security.

[mmedefarge]

@biscuithammer00 I don't agree with the Patriot Act & I think that the nonsense that they put us through at the airport is totally out of line (El Al hasn't had a single hijacking in decades yet they use none of these invasive searches that we do.) I don't mind cops in the subways, cameras in the tunnels or the use of dogs & monitors to detect explosives & radiation; to me that makes as much sense as wearing a seatbelt.You feel it's OK just to let it happen because you don't live where it might

[biscuithammer00]

@mmedefarge

"either does anyone else leaving in or near a population center of any size."

Why? Because those spooky terrorists will get you? You know how many people die yearly from terrorist attacks? No many. So why worry about something that you can't control? This idea of fear before freedom is killing our culture.

[mmedefarge]

@biscuithammer00 Perhaps out in some small town in Oklahoma, he has the luxury of "forgetting it". I live in NYC & we can't simply pretend it doesn't exist either does anyone else leaving in or near a population center of any size.

[biscuithammer00]

@mmedefarge

I think by "forget it" he means "drop it". People need to stop being so afraid of terror and become more concerned about the freedoms they've lost trying to fight it.