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Very Serious 9/11 Untruths
Every month I get a few e-mails from people who want to reveal to me the real truth about the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The truth, according to my correspondents, always involves some incredibly elaborate conspiracy theory in which the U.S. government staged the attacks to justify the so-called war on terror and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
These theories are invariably absurd on their face (for one thing, they assume a genuinely superhuman level of malevolent competence on the part of the Bush administration). Yet despite all their superficial absurdity, the claims of the 9/11 Truthers touch on a deeper truth, which is as ironic as it is disturbing.
That deeper truth is contained in their claims that the real meaning of 9/11 has very little to do with the standard account given by our government and media. While the 9/11 Truth movement is easy to dismiss as a product of various paranoid delusions, the irony is that the respectable version of what happened on 9/11 is itself a reflection of strikingly similar patterns of thought.
The respectable version -- the version that was more or less accepted by all Very Serious People at the time of the invasion of Iraq -- goes like this: The 9/11 attacks were merely an early strike in a war against the United States. This war is being carried out by something called Radical Islam, of which the al-Qaida terrorist network is only one small branch.
Radical Islam is a global conspiracy, made up of a significant minority of the world's more than 1 billion Muslims. It includes the governments of nations like Iran and Syria, and one of its key supporters was Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime.
The goal of Radical Islam is world domination through the creation of a global caliphate, which requires, among other things, the complete destruction of the United States and the conversion of our surviving population to the most extreme form of Islamic fundamentalism, as practiced in nations such as Saudi Arabia.
Iraq had to be invaded because Saddam Hussein was trying to build atomic weapons -- weapons that he might well give to terrorist groups that were his allies in Radical Islam's quest to destroy America.
This, I repeat, was (and to a significant extent still is), the respectable interpretation of the meaning of 9/11. When anyone questioned the evidence for this view, Very Serious Politicians like Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would say things like "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."
Meanwhile, Very Serious Opinion Makers like Charles Krauthammer of The Washington Post argued (and continue to argue) that America must also go to war against Iran because we could wake up one day to the news that nuclear weapons have been detonated in several American cities, by order of suicidal mullahs who turned over their soon-to-be-acquired nuclear arsenal to the vast shadowy global jihadist network.
That the respectable interpretation of 9/11 remains respectable in so many important places should not obscure the fact that it is a paranoid fantasy of the first order -- one as utterly unhinged from reality as the most extravagant imaginings of the 9/11 Truthers.
It's easy to lose sight of this because while the 9/11 Truthers remain quarantined on obscure Web sites, the paranoid conspiracy theorists currently in charge of American foreign policy continue to appear regularly on network television and on the opinion pages of our leading newspapers.
There, they make crazy arguments, such as that denying the president the right to throw people in prison for the rest of their lives without ever having to explain why exposes our nation to the risk of annihilation by terrorists. Meanwhile, almost nobody ever points out that these arguments are actually insane.
And that's the real truth about 9/11.
Paul Campos is a professor of law at the University of Colorado. He can be reached at paul.campos@colorado.edu.
© 2008 The E.W. Scripps Co.
394 Comments so far
Show AllBaosteel in china will recycle the evidence from the towers.
Step back people; nothing to see here!
Interesting...
So, if you post a view here that differs from the prevailing group-think... then that post gets removed?
Nice. Very progressive.
scheiber6923, thanks for the link. For those interested, the secratary for the demolition company tells the caller that the term "pull it" means "pull it down". This would be consistent with the use of the cable pulling technique I mentioned earlier. No where in the call are explosives mentioned.
Thanks again!
Some truth on 9/11, though incomplete.
Who will write the full story?
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/2/8/cheering_movers_and_art_student_spies
"In many countries you wouldn't have to worry about CD because it wouldn't be allowed and in many others if you said things that are said here, there would be a knock on the door and thats the last anyone would see of you."
Yep.
Just like in Chile or Argentina... administered by the CIA. American citizens are also threatened there if they speak about 9/11 or didn't you know that? I was warned... told I could be shot and there were many who would enjoy doing it.
What the "truthers" and official explanationists, etc., reveal is that we in the USA no longer believe or trust anything or anyone that says anything other than that which reinforces our "beliefs". This is political fundamentalism running parallel to belief in supreme beings, extraterrestrial encounters, channeling, psychics, homeopathy, etc. The Nuage has institutionalized "question authority" for all aspects of society except for what it substitutes for the truth. According to the philosophy of Nuage, what is, is the truth as I see it. It is "my truth". And your truth is the truth as you see it. Yeah right.
9/11 was due entirely to our unconditional support of Israeli war crimes and agression. I e-mailed our two Zionist Senators, Lieberman and Clinton, many times about this well before 9/11/2001.
"for one thing, they assume a genuinely superhuman level of malevolent competence on the part of the Bush administration"
NO! That is hardly the case! 9/11 was a contingency plan that was on the books (and under serious investigation and planning) almost two decades before the current Bush took office.
9/11 is typical of NATO false flag terrorism...
a GLADIO style operation writ large!
What's GLADIO http://www.copi.com/articles/guyatt/gladio.html
"The truth, according to my correspondents, always involves some incredibly elaborate conspiracy theory"
What people like Paul Campos always seem to miss is the point that they are willing to believe the official story involving "some incredibly elaborate conspiracy theory" run out of a cave in Afghanistan!
As usual, the world divides itself into two huge, radical, dynamically opposed camps. "Cheney Flew the Planes by Remote Control!" vs. "They did this unprovoked because they hate our freedoms!".
The truth lies in neither narrative.
But, with only .02% of the world's population willing to consider a perspective other than these two, what does the truth matter? Truth is indeed the first casualty.
if it walks like a duck..quacks like a duck...and looks like a duck...etc
3000 people died on 9/11
how many people die from asthma each day?
yet no war on asthma...no war on polution...no war on climate change..
no war on just about anything except...a war on terror..
the point is that the government used 9/11 to launch a global war on terror..
note the word used....exploited took advantage of...to further govermental policys..the like of which would make any sane person check their pulse to make sure they hadn't died and gone to hell..
if anything the idea that the CIA funded/scripted the 9/11 attacks is more believable by the day...not less believable..and you would have to accept that if enough people believed 9/11 was a staged event..the government would collapse just like the twin towers..and they would have to deal...
can't blame folks for interpreting the evidence as they see fit...
cause and effect
If the U.S.government hadn't stuck its collective nose into business in the Middle East YEARS ago and paid more attention to domestic policies HERE, there would still be four airplanes in the Commercial fleets, two iconic buildings standing, and 3,000 +/- humans still going to work in N.Y.C. Let's not be too quick to erase Rev. Wright's famous talk or the Professor from Boulder. Ya reap what ya sow, and the U.S. Government has PLENTY of shit seeds!
"It's easy to lose sight of this because while the 9/11 Truthers remain quarantined on obscure Web sites, the paranoid conspiracy theorists currently in charge of American foreign policy continue to appear regularly on network television and on the opinion pages of our leading newspapers."
If this attempt to discredit whistleblowers does not tell you who runs CD what will?
This is such a perfect example of disinfo tactic, that it leaves one breathless at such arrogant and deft execution! ('Truthers', a completely undeserved term of derogation, coupled with 'paranoid conspiracy theorists' and 'in charge of American foreign policy'? Seriously, CD, aren't you even a little bit embarrassed?)
This entire site is a place to spin events to progressives so that they will arrive at the very place the military police state has designed for them!
Such as :
1. Too many people (don't feel too upset about epidemics, starvation, it will all be for the greater good anyway… and it isn't your fault…it's all those poor people who should stop having children… so even if you begin to suspect that there are genocidal programs… is it really the fault of anyone but the poor…?)
2. Food is tainted, let's get more government regulators! (not less disinfo in health and education or less corporate and military control of university science departments)
3. The CIA is liberal and a valid source for info! Trust them, not the president!
4. Bush is at fault. He is ALL powerful! He planned the wars… not the military industrial complex and the traditional elite interests that rule operations.
5. Terrorists are real. They are poor because 'we' are selfish (meaning you and me not the corporate powers that run roughshod over their lives and deny them access to their own resources) and thus they dream of revenge… when, in fact; terrorists are generally mercenaries funded by the Euro elite and managed by such agencies as MI6 and the CIA.
I am not a "truther" though i still am perturbed by how exactly the 3 buildings fell and the official explanation for it, and what I saw. Yes I read Popular Mechanics and the like... not that I need a concpiracy theory, just more in depth questioning and plain spoken explanations that can stand up to the public's (my) scrutiny.
I would add that it doesn't have to be a conspiracy in the "Goverment".... be sure to be open for conspiracy among the corporate rulers. Truthers make us doubters look crazy.
Iraq had more to do with empire, and would have been leveled without 9/11, in fact we already did in t 90's.
But kudows to the (short) article.... the conscpiracy theory of an army of fanatics... well i don't doubt that there are many many people and groups that blame the US for many things, some warranted, some more of a statement... but they are not that organized and don't know each other, and certainly didn't know Hussein. best source on the subject I've seen so far: the book "Oil, Power and Empire"
If you want to read stuff to lead you farther from feeling like you can find any truths, Google WTC7.
"While the 9/11 Truth movement is easy to dismiss as a product of various paranoid delusions,"
This is quite untrue. The truth movement is simply that... an effort at exposing the facts that can be verified and that also prove that the claims of this government are impossible.
So here is a challenge. Let's put up some articles written by these 'truthers'... OK, CD? What are you afraid of? The truth? The fact that 'truthers' are not at all crazy but courageous, highly intelligent, absolutely accomplished, hardworking and dedicated professionals?
I dare you CD! Anyone want to join me in daring CD to post some articles from these 'truthers'?
The "truthers" should, of course, be disregarded in favor of the offical story. The very idea that a bunch of ex-CIA employees in Afghanistan did not pull off this spectacle is absurd, We know that the Bush administration and the people behind it could not have done it because it was too big and complicated. Only a bunch of religious fanatics with no training in jet flight, no intelligence network, and no knowledge of construction dynamics could have possibly pulled it off.
Anyone see the pilot episode of the "Lone Gunmen" show?
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lone_Gunmen_(TV_series)
~~~Foreshadowing the September 11, 2001 attacks, the plot of the March 4, 2001 pilot episode of the series depicts a secret U.S. government agency plotting to crash a Boeing 727 headed for Boston into the World Trade Center via remote control for the purpose of increasing the military defense budget and blaming the attack on foreign "tin-pot dictators" who are "begging to be smart-bombed."~~~
So, some of the "outlandish" theories predate the actual event. How's that fit with your idea of the truth? Is it out there?
My link above broke (conspiracy?????) copy and paste including the brackets part to get to the page with the quote I used...
or maybe this'll work...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lone_Gunmen_%28TV_Series%29
from the article:
"the 9/11 Truth movement is easy to dismiss as a product of various paranoid delusions."
from me (doing my very best jakenewton impersonation):
"sources, please?"
hikerwoman, did you read this article? Your point is exactly the point he made.
itsaNaziWorldOrder, very well said, I think 9-11 was a CIA project, they planned it, funded it and covered it up, while Osama's boys carried it out. I do believe the idea they planted bombs and stuff is DisInfo meant to keep off the real trail which leads back to Cheney and Rumsfield thru the CIA.
Why didn't the alleged terrorists wait until they had a nuke?
The guru of civil engineering, Bazant, explains the "collapse" as having two phases: the crush-Down phase and the crush-up phase. Its actually more like a crush-up phase and a WTF? phase. Unfortunately, I dont' have my graphics handy.
"Radical Islam is a global conspiracy, made up of a significant minority of the world's more than 1 billion Muslims."
This is definitely true. Any idea who funded this radical development? A. Our very own CIA with much assistance from our ever stalwart companion, MI6!
If you are still unaware of the role of Brezinski in helping launch Osama's terrorism career or the millions paid to mercenaries from CIA coffers to fund and launch Al Quaeda, please read this:
"There was, though, a kind of method in the madness: Brezinski hoped not just to drive the Russians out of Afghanistan, but to ferment unrest within the Soviet Union itself. His plan, says author Dilip Hiro, was "to export a composite ideology of nationalism and Islam to the Muslim-majority Central Asian states and Soviet Republics with a view to destroying the Soviet order." Looking back in 1998, Brezinski had no regrets. "What was more important in the world view of history?... A few stirred-up Muslims or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War>"
With the support of Pakistan's military dictator, General Zia-ul-Haq, the U.S. began recruiting and training both mujahideen fighters from the 3 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan and large numbers of mercenaries from other Islamic countries. Estimates of how much money the U.S. government channeled to the Afghan rebels over the next decade vary, but most sources put the figure between $3 billion and $6 billion, or more. Whatever the exact amount, this was "the largest covert action program since World War II" - much bigger, for example, than Washington's intervention in Central America at the same time, which received considerably more publicity. According to one report:
The CIA became the grand coordinator: purchasing or arranging the manufacture of Soviet-style weapons from Egypt, China, Poland, Israel and elsewhere, or supplying their own; arranging for military training by Americans, Egyptians, Chinese and Iranians; hitting up Middle-Eastern countries for donations, notably Saudi Arabia which gave many hundreds of millions of dollars in aid each year, totaling probably more than a billion; pressuring and bribing Pakistan-with whom recent American relations had been very poor-to rent out its country as a military staging area and sanctuary; putting the Pakistani Director of Military Operations, Brigadier Mian Mohammad Afzal, onto the CIA payroll to ensure Pakistani cooperation."
(quoted text from http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Afghanistan/Afghanistan_CIA_Taliban.html)
Frankly, I think the radicalization program was not to oppose the Soviets as much as to lay the foundations for genocide throughout the region… which is policy much more consistent with Brezinski's expressed geopolitical viewpoint that only the poor threaten elite civilization and thus they represent the gravest threat to the state.
"It includes the governments of nations like Iran and Syria, and one of its key supporters was Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime."
Saddam was a proponent of secular government initially and in fact was as much a CIA puppet as other Middle Eastern 'leaders'. And, the 'revolution' in Iran was an MI6/CIA orchestrated program. Even the so-called US 'hostages' expressed gratitude for the help they had received during their spying operations from Gobsadegh, a key member of Khomeini's government and minister of cultural affairs. Others in Khomeini's government also worked directly for the CIA such as the foreign minister, Dr.Yazdi.
Obviously, the laws of physics must be a "superficial absurdity"...
Common Dreams has become (or always was) another MoveOn type organization, acting aa a shill for the Democratic Party Leadership.
Whether the conspiracists are correct or not is irrelevant because the conspiracy by the neocons (includes democrats) to use this event to oppress anyone dissenting against the corporate process is evident.
This is the greater crime- the Patriot Law, Homeland Security, eavesdropping, preemptive jailing of non-violent protesters before the event starts, etc.
Yes, it would be a even deeper betrayal if some component the US government was involved with the September 11 attack, but there is enough reason without that evidence to believe that Bush and Company committed treason against the American people.
I'm voting either Green Party or Nader.
Common dreams has continuosly failed to pubblish articles, other than occasional lip service, on those issues and candidates that actually support my common dream of ensuring liberty and justice for all people.
peace now, IMPEACH
"while the 9/11 Truthers remain quarantined on obscure Web sitesthe paranoid conspiracy theorists currently in charge of American foreign policy continue to appear regularly on network television"
I do not fully believe EITHER set of 911 conspiracy theories..the governments or the "truthers" ( that term really sets off my bias detector)
I have MANY questions about the events both before and after 911 that have never been safisfactorily explained. How did known Al Qaeda terrorists get US visas..in their own names? How did the US know all their identities after one day? (fireproof passports found on nearby rooftops?) Where was the US air force that day? Who were that Isreali Moving company that videotaped the entire thing? Why did the USA refuse to negotiate both A) bin laden in Afganistan and B) WMD in Iraq? why did the Isreali owner of the WTC have DOUBLE insurance on the buildings? What does "pull it" mean in relation to WTC 7? Why is GWB such an evil little shit? Why has bin Laden dropped off the radar? Why was bin Ladens family a) meeting with Daddy bush at the time of the attack and B) allowed to leave on the only jet allowed to fly on 9/12?
My personal feeling is the richest people in the world's richest nation are more likely to have the capability to pull off a grand conspiracy than some regigious nuts in an Afgan cave...espcially considering all the other US government conspiracies thast HAVE been proven in the past. these people have their greedy, manipulating fingers into every part of the world.
Likely the answer is somehwere between the two extremes, as it usually is.
An incompetent religious nutter in an afgan cave formed a conspiracy to attack the USA....the corrupt US(and Israeli) Government got wind of it and allowed (and encouraged, maybe even limited the possible destruction) it to happen to serve their own purposes. bin Laden got his jihad, Bush & Co got their excuse to invade the ME and enrich themselves, and the Israelis got the US Military to take out a few of their perpetual enemies.
Its the only answer that I can come up with that makes any sense. I dont know the actual truth, but that solution will have to do for now.
The one answer that I cannot swallow is that the US Government was an innocent victim (THAT particular ship sailed YEARS ago with Operation Northwoods and the Pentagon Papers, Iran-contra, etc, etc, etc,)
As if it's any harder to believe a tiny gang of greedy, ruthless, power-mad thieves wished for a New Pearl Harbor in order to implement their plan for domination of the world's resources and then, after rigging a national election, said gang of greedy, ruthless, power-mad thieves just happens to get said New Pearl Harbor all wrapped up nice and neat?
As if it's any harder to believe the government of The United States of America told thousands of lies - thousands! - to "sell" an illegal invasion and occupation of a sovereign nation (two, actually,) which then killed and maimed millions of innocents, US soldiers and contractors, and cost America three trillion dollars, all of which was borrowed...
As if it's any harder to believe the government of The United States of America routinely kidnaps people around the world, detains them indefinitely, denies them all rights both civil and human, and beats and tortures them...
As if it's any harder to believe that the corporations controlling 80% of the American information pipelines work directly in cahoots with the government against the will of We The People...
As if it's any harder to believe that American intel agencies have been illegally spying on We The People since before 911 for reasons still unknown...
As if it's any harder to believe the FBI cannot locate the "anthrax killer" after 7 years of investigation, as if there's more than a handful of Americans who were even able to pull off said attack...
The things the Cheney/Bush regime has done are so off the normal chart that a lot of it sounds like the ravings of a paranoid conspiracy nut when ya actually start talking about them...
Ok. This is going to piss some people off but here it is.
The fact that we still have to have a debate on this subject is ridiculous.
Government's not just ours have allowed things to happen in order to further and agenda since the beginning of time. But I am only going to speak about the country I live in the U.S of A
So…..
Yes the Gov't knew there were plans to attack the towers.
Why? They let it happen to further the agenda. War, weapons, Oil, Profits and Control.
Did they purposely initiate the attack? I couldn't say, because I don't know. But I wouldn't be surprised.
Yes our Gov't allows our food to be poisoned by Corn Syrup, Trans fat, pesticides, steroids, lead, radiation, antibiotics, etc etc.
Why? It creates profits for the people producing the food, profits for the insurance company who get premiums then deny coverage, and profits for the Medical complex who "Cure" us. Also help more people die before retirement age.
Yes our Gov't sabotages the Airline industry with these new rules and regulations and NSA nonsense.
Why? Creates the illusion that we are being kept safe, adds more and more regular people to the no fly list insuring when shit hits the fan people can't flee to other countries. Also increase profits for the Alphabet Soup Gang (FBI, NSA, CIA etc). And allows the Gov't to control even more of the people.
I could go on and on and on. But I mean. Who doesn't already know this stuff?
If you think that the USA gives a flying crap about 3000 people you have been living a box. The USA doesn't give a crap about anyone. More people die from cigarettes, but cigarettes make old white guys a lot of money so who cares.
Millions die at our hands year after year. So 3000 people is a drop in the bucket. But if it can make the USA a lot of money. They will milk those 3000 people for all they can.
Screw nationalism, patriotism, and screw this God bless America fuck the rest of the world, we can do know wrong, we are the greatest country bullshit attitude.
We kidnap and torture people. It is what it is. Wake up and realize you live in the same USSA, Nazi, South African, British nations we have read about in "History" class.
It's our turn.
~Future~
if anyone can explain how Osama Bin Laden, Mohammed Atta et al caused the collapse of WTC7, then I will believe the official explanation.
What I find truly unbelievable to me, is that - in light of the overwhelming evidence suggesting a CIA/Mossad false-flag operation AND especially evidence of Larry Silverstein's culpability in this crime - he has never officially been named as a suspect or properly investigated. Why is he being protected? Is he not a greater "terrorist" than Osama Bin Laden? Those buildings - both the twin towers and wtc7 - could never have been demolished without his knowledge and complicity.
There once was an old man from Esser,
(or the University of Colorado)
Whose knowledge grew lesser and lesser.
It at last grew so small,
He knew nothing at all,
And now he's a college professor.
_____
I think that about sums up what professor Campos' article really has to tell us, don't you?
(poem copied from another lesser professor's website at http://nob.cs.ucdavis.edu/bishop/)
Big Money..you think bin laden is a Lone Gunmam/X-files fan?
Good job Paul. You have proved yourself to be a gullible idiot.
The simplest of the 9/11 conspiracy theories, that there was enough intelligence to have announced a warning and stepped up security at airports but instead the Bush administration did nothing to impede the attacks because their PNAC saturated administration needed a "new Pearl Harbor" to advance the radical PNAC agenda has not been discredited.
In the first week of July, 2001 President Bush attended the G-8 meeting in Genoa Italy. Never before had anti-aircraft defenses been deployed to a G-8 meeting. American anti-aircraft missile batteries were deployed to Genoa for the meeting.
Not enough? During the meeting President Bush was flown out to an American aircraft carrier surrounded by its attack group to sleep. An American aircraft carrier attack group is the most powerful anti-aircraft system on planet Earth.
Not enough? In the first week of August, 2001 Attorney General John Ashcroft stopped flying on commercial airlines for an undisclosed "threat assessment."
Not enough? google Odigo 9/11 e-mail
Does anyone remember that there was a strikingly similar "conspiracy theory" about, I think it was Churchill having advance knowledge of the Japanese attack on the American base at Pearl Harbour?
There was a comment by someone at the White House, some underling, saying something like "what we need is another pearl harbour" meaning an excuse to fully carry out their (the US government's) plans to invade Middle Eastern countries.
Beyond the glee they privately expressed when it happened, I don't know why so many of you are so convinced that Bush et al are directly involved. Did they need to be? Isn't there a simpler expaination?
How about this conspiracy theory?
the USA kindnaps people around the world and tortures them in their secret network of CIA black sites, including floating prison ships off the coast of Diego Garcia?
Too far fetched? How about this one then?
The US Government has been secretly recording all your phone calls and e-mails without the consent of the FISA court since 2000?
Could never happen? then how about this?
The USA government has its US Attorneys file frivolous election charges against its political adversaries prior to an election, and fires those that refuse to comply?
Absurd? Never could happen? Then how about this?
The US Government lies about the reasons to invade an oil rich Middle Eastern country, then leaks the indentity of one of its own CIA WMD experts who refuses to play along. When one of the VP's men is caught at it, charged and convicted, the President simply pardons them.
Man...who makes this stuff up?
"Yes the Gov't knew there were plans to attack the towers."
"Why?"
A. Those selected to participate were given instructions from NATO and MI6 based upon what specific roles they were each (by agency or involved personnel) being assigned.
If you doubt such large scale terrorist operations can be orchestrated without public knowledge then the creation of the Taliban should be studied, the secret war in Laos, Gladio, COINTELPRO, programs of torture throughout the Americas, etc.
Canuckchuck, to what you wrote, I would comment that Americans are doing enough absurd, outrageous crimes around the world, some of which we are still ignorant of, so much so that we don't even need to go out on a limb to look for "conspiracies". There is so much low hanging fruit on the tree of unconstitutional and illegal offences perpetrated by the US government.
And let us not forget the unusually large volume of put option stock trades on American and United Airlines stock in the days just before 9/11...Trades that trace back to a bank with CIA ties...Trades now seven years old with the trader's identity still unknown.
AND AGIAN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN I SAY....AND YOU ARE PAYING FOR ALL OF IT..
WHO BENEFITS/ WHO WINS? THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS...NO IT WASN'T AN "ELABORATE CONSPIRACY' THAT PLACED TRADES THE DAY BEFORE THE EVENT..NO..THAT DID NOT HAPPEN...IT IS AN INTERESTING POINT MADE BY CAMPOS..BUT...IT IS AGAIN...PERSONAL ATTACK RATHER THAN A SYSTEMATIC EXAMINATION OF THE ACTUAL...YES ACTUAL....FACTS!
THERE ARE MANY..MANY..MANY FACTS IN THIS SITUATION...TOO MANY TOO SIMPLY ACCEPT THAT THIS PERFECT EXCUSE..THIS PERFECT REASON FOR EVERY EVIL COMMITTED BY BUSH AND WE NOW KNOW...DESIRED AND HOPED FOR BEFORE HAND...SUCH AS THE "CHENEY OIL MAPS" ETC...NO..THEY HAD TO HAVE THIS..AND IS REALLY...ACTUALLY..TOO DIFFICULT A CONCEPT FOR THOSE WHO SCOFF TO IMAGINE THAT THE EVENT MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN "CRAFTED" BY THE SHADOW GOV. BUT SIMPLY "ALLOWED" TO GO AHEAD? AND PERHAPS GIVEN ALLOT OF "WIGGLE ROOM"..IS THATREALLY TOO HARD FOR THESE ASSHOLES (PERSONAL ATTACK IS ADMITTEDLY DUMB..IS IT NOT!) TO FATHOM...IS IT REALLY..?
OF COURSE THEY LET IT HAPPEN....OF COURSE THEY DID...THESE WERE NOT "INTELLIGENCE FAILURES" IT WAS AN INTEL VICTORY...THEY JUST CHOSE NOT TO ACT...THEY HAD TO AHEV THE WAR, TO HAVE THE REASONS TO GO AND STEAL THE CONTRACTS SADDAM HAD JUST SIGNED WITH CHINA..TO FORCE..(KILL) THE TALIBAN WHO HAD JUST MADE A DEAL FOR THE "BIG PIPE" WITH BRAZIL...THIS COULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN...AND SO...INTEL TOLD OF THIS PLOT..TO USE PLANES AS WEAPONS..AND...VOILA..IT HAPPENS..IT WAS ALLOWED TO HAPPEN...IT IS THAT SIMPLE,....JEEZIS CHRIST JUST FOLLOW THE FUCKING MONEY CAMPOS...YOU ARE AN INDIVIDUAL TOO AFRAID TO FACE THE ACTUAL REALITY THAT YOUR "GOVERNMENT" ALLOWED THIS TO HAPPEN..THAT THIS REALLY IS IN FACT THE BEGINNING OF A GOVERNMENT WITH SO MUCH MORE POWER THAN IS ACCEPTABLE IN THE CONSTITUTION...THAT IS WAHT YOU ARE REALLY AFRAID OF..AND IN YOR FEAR..YOU ALSH OUT AT THOSE WHO SCARE YOU...THE "TRUTHERS" AND THEIR.................TRUTH!
FOLLOW THE MONEY..SEE WHO BENEFITS..WHO LOSES...THAT IS ALL THE "EVIDENCE" ANY COURT OF LAW NEEDS WHEN A HUSBAND MURDERS HIS WIFE...DUHH..CAMPOS...GET OVER YOUR FEAR AND REALIZE YOUR GOVERNMENT IS OUT OF CONTROL..AND IS SET ON TAKING YOUR FREEDOM WITH THIS COVER OF 'GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR..(W.A.T?..AS IN WAT DID YOU SAY? ARE YOU KIDDING?)
IT IS HAPPENING...GLOBAL CORPORATE FASCISM...DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! HOW MUCH MORE "EVIDENCE" DOES ANYONE REALLY NEED?
AND FINALLY...DO YOU THINK..IN LIGHT OF THE DRUG WAR...THAT THESE GUY'S..FINANCED AS THEYA RE BY...OF ALL FOLKS..THE SAUDI'S...COULD NOT SIMPLY BUY THEIR OWN FUCKING PLANES? SO WHY ARE WE STRIP SEARCHED? IT IS CONDITIONING..LIKE EVERY HIGHSCHOOL IN THE NATION AFTER THE FEDS TOOK OVER EDUCATION..PIGS WITH DOGS..RANDOM SEARCHES...CAMERAS..ETC..THIS IS THE REASON 911 WAS ALLOWED TO HAPPEN...THE REASON..THE REQUIRED "REASON" THAT EVERY IDIOT NEEDS TO GO.."OHHHH..OKAY..THERE'S AN ENEMY OUT THERE..SO I HAVE TO GIVE UP MY RIGHTS AND BE VIEWED AS A CRIMINAL...OKAY..I THINK I'LL GO ALONG WITH THAT...GEE WHIZ..TOSE HEROE IN BLUE..WELL...BLACK THESE DAY'S...THUGS THAT THEY ARE...) YEAH..THE REASON IS..911...FEAR..FEAR..FEAR..FEAR..FEAR...WHO DOES THAT BENEFIT? FREEDOM LOVING PEOPLE? NO! SCARED PEOPLE..LIKE CAMPOS..SCARED AND TOO AFRAID TO LOK IN THE MIRROR AND SEE THAT THEY ARE ACTUALLY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DEMOCRATIC LOOKING GLASS...
LIVE FREE OR DIE...
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Why the official story might be correct...
The other day, I was walking down the street... Big Building Street actually...
And just when I looked up and saw the biggest building I had ever seen; it suddenly blew up! Right before my eyes! I was nearly drowned in fine dust... so much dust that I could barely see my stop watch as it recorded the crash of the top floor from its initial height to the ground ... IN FREE FALL SPEED!
My first thought was that there must have been a fire on one of the top floors to cause such a sudden collapse.
Don't believe me?
You wanna make something of it? What are you? A TRUTHER or something? Get out of my way, I've got a war to fight you loser commie conspiracy nutjob... jihadist sympathizer!
We can believe our own eyes, that witnessed three buildings reduced to rubble by no conceivable means other than controlled demolition, or we can live in neurotic denial, as this author recommends. The excuse that George Bush isn't smart enough to execute such an atrocity is illogical.
"SO WHY ARE WE STRIP SEARCHED? IT IS CONDITIONING..LIKE EVERY HIGHSCHOOL IN THE NATION AFTER THE FEDS TOOK OVER EDUCATION..PIGS WITH DOGS..RANDOM SEARCHES…CAMERAS..ETC..THIS IS THE REASON 911 WAS ALLOWED TO HAPPEN…THE REASON..THE REQUIRED "REASON" THAT EVERY IDIOT NEEDS TO GO.."OHHHH..OKAY..THERE'S AN ENEMY OUT THERE..SO I HAVE TO GIVE UP MY RIGHTS AND BE VIEWED AS A CRIMINAL…OKAY..I THINK I'LL GO ALONG WITH THAT…"
Yep!
I'm not part of the "9-11 Truth Movement". I am pretty doubtful that the entire thing was planned and plotted from within the Bush Administration. However, I'm equally doubtful that the Bush Amin was caught completely by surprise. I think they allowed it to happen.
Here's what I experienced, personally, on September 11, 2001.
At the moment that the first tower was struck, I was on an airplane on a runway at LaGauardia, right about to take off. While the pilot waited for instructions, the second tower was hit. Now it was obvious we weren't going to be flying that morning. While we waited for instructions to deplane, the pilot invited us passengers to each come up, in pairs, to the cockpit to view the burning towers, which we could see clearly.
After I got off the plane, I called my Dad to tell him I was OK. then I went and retrieved my luggage. Then I went to the desk and reserved (naively) a flight out for the next day. Then I exited the airport and found a shuttle bus to take me to a nearby motel. Then I waited in line with other frantic travelers at the motel desk and finally checked into a room. Then I went up to my room, called my girlfriend and called my Dad again. Then I started watching the news on TV, seeing the two towers struck again and again in replay. THEN BREAKING NEWS --- the pentagon had been hit.
How did I accomplish so much during that time, and yet the Air Force was not able to get planes defending all major obvious targets, including the Pentagon?
I just can't see it any other way.
That's why psychopaths are dangerous. Cheney, Bush, Rice.. et al .. all look normal on the outside, behave normally. But inside, they're effed the hell up. Something is twisted in their collective souls.
And the fact that all these people found each other at this certain point in time makes me wonder about the larger picture that's in play...
Well, we fought Communists in Vietnam so we wouldn't have to fight them here, or so the reasoning went. There will always be some group to give flesh to the internal anxieties of certain people. The problem is that we keep putting them in power over us.
The road to 2012 is a crippling road. The truth is on a slow road to emergence. We are facing our dark realities and unable to change them. We are haunted by truth and stalked by death. We wail and no one hears.
Ther is no worldwide Islamic conspiracy. Ther are only muslims who want to be left alone and free from US bullying and military bases on their lands. With the crushing of socialist pan-Arabist movements in the 1970's - 1980's, the fundamentalist religious extremists - which were the US/CIA suppored because they were "good guys" against "godless communism" moved in to fill the vacuum.
But, this was the old myth, exactly like the new myth, that every movement of national liberation were "the communists (or Soviet Union) wanting to take over the world". No, Vietnam, Chile, or Nicaragua etc...etc...etc. just wanted to be free of US bullying.
The first myth to smash about the terrorist actions themselves is that the were undertaken from some desire to randomly kill a lot of people. There are other targets or methods where they could have killed many more people. They picked the targets and methods they did for maximum symbolic impact with the rather limited resources they had available. So, they chose symbols of US Economic hegemony in New York, symbols of US military hegemony in Arlington, VA, and if the fourth plane succeeded, the symbol of US political hegemony in DC. And from their methods (Stanley knives, flying lessons and some plane tickets), it seemed pretty obvious to me by the afternoon of Sept 11, that these criminals were no kind of "exitential threat" to invade a country over, rather they could have been pursued by international diplomatic means.
And oh! what utter nonsense is all that stuff if they "attack us because "they hated (or sometimes "envied") our freedom"! They would have attacked Sweden or France if that were the case. I found it quite humerous when Bin Laden said this himself a while later.
The attacks against these symbolic targets was the tactic, but what was their strategy? The strategy was to provoke a ferocious US war of agression which would elevate the status of these marginal extremist organizations to the status of popular freedom fighter in their home countries. That the US government whith all it's advisers and think tanks paid many millions to think about such things could not see this remains for me the most stunning aspect of this whole sick drama.
I disagree wholeheartedly with calling the conspiracy theories on 9/11 absurd. I mean for crying out loud half of the Bush Crime Family sat around the Ritz Carlton watching it go down. It is sooooo blatantly obvious to me that the Bush Crime Family orchestrated 9/11. You dont need conspiracy theories only common sense. Ask the question that everyone fails to. WHY? Why did Nixon authorize the Watergate break ins if he was so far ahead of McGovern to begin with. Why did Bill Bellicik need to cheat if his coaching staff and players were so superior, (okay that ones a joke) but WHY did Bush sit in a classroom not knowing how to react? Because he knew it was happening. Norad scrambles a rescue escort for Payne Stewarts Lear Jet after it goes off the screen for 20 minutes, yet after 2 hours does nothing about two supposedly hijacked commercial airliners. We know everyone was ordered to stand down. thats old news. WHY? Come on idiots, REICHSTAG FIRES. ring a bell. anyone know their history. Karl Rove and company literally recreated Hitlers playbook page by page. Buy all the media outlets, have ministers pf propaganda, distract the people with nonsense, create a boogeyman to blame for something you staged, create a fascist dictatorship, do i really need to go on. To the author of this story go fuck yourself you naive piece of shit. I'm guessing that you dont believe all of the evidence Bev Harris worked to provide about the rigged elections either. George W gets no credit for any of this by the way. He is a brain dead puppet as are most republicans. pick a figure that can get elected and work behind the scenes. Eisenhower, Nixon was an employee of the Bush Crime Family, he answered a newspaper ad in California placed by the Bush Consortium for an electable political hack, Reagan was a hack his VP first tried to have him clipped then ran things, just like now, he and cheney and rove and the rest, while the idiot drank beer snorted coke and played with dogs on his ranch. they had to wire him for the debates because he's so inept he cant string together a couple of sentences. This was something that the Bush Crime Family had been organizing since Clinton was in office in the 90's. The evidence surrounding 9/11 is so overwhelming, and I am not referring to the jet fuel cant melt the girder stuff although enough engineers have attested to that, but just the circumstantial stuff, its piled to the sky, more than just coincidence, all the stuff about stocks being sold short, the right one purchased the day before, the phone calls warning certain people to cancel their flights the day before, the timeline itself, man all of this stuff has been on the net for years at various sites, there are lists of hundreds of pieces of circumstancial evidence and you have to say to yourself, if one or two things like that were there okay maybe a coincidence by not that much, and those that benfitted how convenient. I definitely believe that The Bush Crime Family was entirely behind 9/11. Not to mention that BinLaden to this day never took credit for it. Which is part of their M.O they boldly took credit for other things they did, you figure something like this they would have been proud of and yet to this day deny it.....
as long as we ignore evidence and stifle investigation, one can create or dismiss any theory...all I know is what I saw...airplanes striking and lodging within very tall buildings that were then subsequently very precisely demolitioned, and humans dying in the process...Occam's Razor...the research has been done, it has simply been dismissed...determined to be 'off the table', like impeachment...now what?