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Facing the American World We Created
We've just passed through the CIA assassination flap, already fading from the news after less than two weeks of media attention. Broken in several major newspapers, here's how the story goes: the Agency, evidently under Vice President Dick Cheney's orders, didn't inform Congress that, to assassinate al-Qaeda leaders, it was trying to develop and deploy global death squads. (Of course, just about no one is going to call them that, but the description fits.) Congress is now in high dudgeon. The CIA didn't keep that body's "Gang of Eight" informed. A House investigation is now underway.
We're told that the CIA -- being the president's private army and part of the executive branch of our government -- has committed a heinous dereliction of duty. In fact, not keeping key congressional figures up to date on the developing program could even "be illegal," according to Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin. (Not that Congress, when informed of Bush administration extreme acts, ever did much of anything anyway.)
This story, however, has a largely unexplored strangeness to it that has only been discussed on the fringes of the mainstream media (or in the press of other countries). After all, during the eight years this CIA assassination program was supposedly in formation, U.S. military special ops death squads were, as far as we can tell, freely roaming the planet conducting (or botching) assassination missions, and the CIA's own robot assassins, airborne death squads, were also launching operations -- sometimes wiping out innocent civilians -- from Yemen and Somalia to Pakistan. They continue to run such operations in the skies over the Pakistani tribal borderlands near Afghanistan. So we still await an explanation of just why the CIA spent close to eight years, under Vice Presidential oversight, getting its death squads almost operational, but never -- we're told -- off the ground.
If there seems to be something odd about this latest flap, if there's much that we don't know yet, we do, at least, know one thing: This particular small splash from the previous administration's deep dive into crime and folly will have its brief time in the media sun and then be swallowed up by oblivion, just as each of the previous flaps has been.
After all, can you honestly tell me that you think often about the CIA torture flap, the CIA-destruction-of-interrogation-video-tapes flap, the what-did-Congress/Nancy Pelosi-really-know-about-torture-methods flap, the Bush-administration-officials-(like-Condi-Rice)-signed-off-on-torture-methods-in-2002-even-before-the-Justice-Department-justified-them flap, the National-Security-Agency-(it-was-far-more-widespread-than-anyone-imagined)-electronic-surveillance flap, the should-the-NSA's-telecom-spies-be-investigated-and-prosecuted-for-engaging-in-illegal-warrantless-wiretapping flap, the should-CIA-torturers-be-investigated-and-prosecuted-for-using-enhanced-interrogation-techniques flap, the Abu-Ghraib-photos-(round-two)-suppression flap, or various versions of the can-they-close-Guantanamo, will-they-keep-detainees-in-prison-forever flaps, among others that have already disappeared into my own personal oblivion file? Every flap its day, evidently. Each flap another problem (again we're told) for a president with an ambitious program who is eager to "look forward, not backward."
Of course, he's not alone. Given the last eight years of disaster piled on catastrophe, who in our American world would want to look backward? The urge to turn the page in this country is palpable, but -- just for a moment -- let's not.
Admittedly, we're a people who don't really believe in history -- so messy, so discomforting, so old. Even the recent past is regularly wiped away as the media plunge us repeatedly into various overblown crises of the moment, a 24/7 cornucopia of news, non-news, rumor, punditry, gossip, and plain old blabbing, of which each of these flaps has been but a tiny example. In turn, any sense of the larger picture surrounding each one of them is, soon enough, lessened by a media focus on a fairly limited set of questions: Was Congress adequately informed? Should the president have suppressed those photos?
The flaps, in other words, never add up to a single Imax Flap-o-rama of a spectacle. We seldom see the full scope of the legacy that we -- not just the Obama administration -- have inherited. Though we all know that terrible things happened in recent years, the fact is that, these days, they are seldom to be found in a single place, no less the same paragraph. Connecting the dots, or even simply putting everything in the same vicinity, just hasn't been part of the definitional role of the media in our era. So let me give it a little shot.
As a start, remind me: What didn't we do? Let's review for a moment.
In
the name of everything reasonable, and in the face of acts of evil by
terrible people, we tortured wantonly and profligately, and some of
these torture techniques -- known to the previous administration and
most of the media as "enhanced interrogation techniques" -- were actually demonstrated
to an array of top officials, including the national security adviser,
the attorney general, and the secretary of state, within the White
House. We imprisoned secretly at "black sites"
offshore and beyond the reach of the American legal system, holding
prisoners without hope of trial or, often, release; we disappeared
people; we murdered prisoners; we committed strange acts of extreme abuse and humiliation; we kidnapped terror suspects off the global streets and turned some of them over to some of the worst people who ran the worst dungeons and torture chambers
on the planet. Unknown, but not insignificant numbers of those
kidnapped, abused, tortured, imprisoned, and/or murdered were actually innocent
of any crimes against us. We invaded without pretext, based on a series
of lies and the manipulation of Congress and the public. We occupied
two countries with no clear intent to depart and built major networks
of military bases in both. Our soldiers gunned down unknown numbers of civilians at checkpoints and, in each country, arrested
thousands of people, some again innocent of any acts against us,
imprisoning them often without trial or sometimes hope of release. Our
Air Force repeatedly wiped out wedding parties and funerals in its global war on
terror. It killed civilians in significant numbers. In the process of
prosecuting two major invasions, wars, and occupations, hundreds of thousands
of Iraqis and Afghans have died. In Iraq, we touched off a sectarian
struggle of epic proportions that involved the "cleansing" of whole
communities and major parts of cities, while unleashing a humanitarian
crisis of remarkable size, involving the uprooting of more than four million
people who fled into exile or became internal refugees. In these same
years, our Special Forces operatives and our drone aircraft carried out
-- and still carry out -- assassinations globally, acting as judge,
jury, and executioner, sometimes of innocent civilians. We spied on,
and electronically eavesdropped on, our own citizenry and much of the
rest of the world, on a massive scale whose dimensions we may not yet
faintly know. We pretzled
the English language, creating an Orwellian terminology that, among
other things, essentially defined "torture" out of existence (or, at
the very least, left its definitional status to the torturer).
And don't think that that's anything like a full list. Not by a long shot. It's only what comes to my mind on a first pass through the subject. In addition, even if I could remember everything done in these years, it would represent only what has been made public. Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was regularly mocked for saying: "There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."
Actually, he had a point seldom thought about these days. By definition, we know a good deal about the known knowns, and we have a sense of an even darker world of known unknowns. We have no idea, however, what's missing from a list like the one above, because so much may indeed remain in the unknown-unknowns category or, as with the latest CIA assassination story, a known curiosity whose full shape and depths remain to be grasped. If, however, you think that everything done by Washington or the U.S. military or the CIA in these last years has already been leaked, think again. It's a reasonable bet that the unknown unknowns the Obama administration inherited would curl your toes.
Nonetheless, what is already known, when thought about in one place, rather than divided up into separate flaps and argued about separately, is horrific enough. War may be hell, as people often say when trying to excuse what we did in these years, but it should be remembered that, in response to the attacks of 9/11, we, as a nation, were the ones who declared "war," made it a near eternal struggle (the Global War on Terror), and did so much to turn parts of the world into our own private hell. Geopolitics, energy politics, vanity, greed, fear, a misreading of the nature of power in the world, delusions of military and technological omnipotence and omniscience, and so much more drove us along the way.
Perhaps the greatest fantasy of the present moment is that there is a choice here. We can look forward or backward, turn the page on history or not. Don't believe it. History matters.
Whatever the Obama administration may want to do, or think should be done, if we don't face the record we created, if we only look forward, if we only round up the usual suspects, if we try to turn that page in history and put a paperweight atop it, we will be haunted by the Bush years until hell freezes over. This was, of course, the lesson -- the only one no one ever bothers to call a lesson -- of the Vietnam years. Because we were so unwilling to confront what we actually did in Vietnam -- and Laos and Cambodia -- because we turned the page on it so quickly and never dared take a real look back, we never, in the phrase of George H.W. Bush, "kicked the Vietnam syndrome." It still haunts us.
However busy we may be, whatever tasks await us here in this country -- and they remain monstrously large -- we do need to make an honest, clear-headed assessment of what we did (and, in some cases, continue to do), of the horrors we committed in the name of... well, of us and our "safety." We need to face who we've been and just how badly we've acted, if we care to become something better.
Now, read that list again, my list of just the known knowns, and ask yourself: Aren't we the people your mother warned you about?
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Show All"An American Hell: Don't Turn the Page" if you want to avoid the UNIMAGINABLE. The truth is sometimes too disturbing to accept.
“Collateral Damage” by E. P Heidner, part I and II.
>>> www.scribd.com/people/documents/2169400-ep-heidner <<<
the truth must always be accepted.
collateral=descended from a common ancestor.
I just read, in a source I consider reliable (Free Inquiry) that Bush told Jacques Chirac that we had to invade Iraq because of "Gog and Magog." Just what the world needs: a real-life, bleating Christ-tard running the place.
This was an excellent posting of the major outrages of the Bush years, but it hinted at another horror...the majority of American's heard rumors, read things about what the government was doing as a result of the attacks of 9/11 and the "War on Terror", for the most part people were silent, or buried their heads in the sand to avoid what our Government was doing, or worse were active in their support of that Government.
History is not a suit of clothes must Americans are comfortable in wearing, in fact, there is a collective malaise of remembering what happened in the past. We as a society still have not addressed issues from slavery, The Civil War, Jim Crow laws, the confinement of Japanese Americans during World War II. We ignored the issue of torture just like the majority of the German population ignored the removal of its Jewish citizens by the Nazi's, turned a blind eye to the cattle cars stuffed full of people on their way Eastwards, just as we have turned a blind eye as the articule states about Gitmo and offshore torture sites.
We American's turn a blind eye to the prejudice that cloaks our society, the manner and method of "solving" the issue of illegal aliens in this Country, seeing people as illegal rather than "undocumented" might be a clue to our thoughts on that particular touchy subject.
I hate to say it, but the statement that "those who do not learn from their history are doomed to repeat it", echo loudly in our America of today.
"for the most part people were silent, or buried their heads in the sand"
Was this the real reason for the invasion of Iraq?
The US faced: not a shortage of oil, but a shortage of sand.
BRILLIANT !
The US never faced up to what it did internally: a 125 year campaign of genocide, and major war in an attempt to perpetuate slavery. One of the most commonly distributed US government documents even celebrates genocide and slavery: the $20 and Andrew Jackson.
These projects did not begin with us, of course. See Jean-Luc Godard's second movie "Le Petit Soldat," filmed in 1960 in which Jean-Paul Belmondo becomes mixed up with a sympathizer for Algerian terror, Anna Karina. He is "extraordinarily rendered" to another country, Switzerland in this case, where he is waterboarded for information. Although we are not shown this in the film, the Anna Karina character suffers the same fate to the death to protect the others in the cause. Plus ça change....
I suppose that would depend on what the meaning of "us" is. In any case, pleas for expiation based on precedent are usually abandoned at an early age. The "Johnny did it first" excuse seldom works in the adult world.
Tit for tat for tots?
The best advice my father gave me concerned the "he started it" whine.
"Then you be the wiser, and stop it."
The Force is strong in your father . . .
What does it matter who started these horrors?
Or when.
It is up to all caring people to expose and try to stop them.
The time is now.
It matters because it was we who started the latest round of the getting even game. If we could acknowledge that it might help restore a sufficient measure of our moral authority to enable other countries to take us seriously.
in 1991 daddie bush claimed the Vietnam Syndrome was buried "in the sands of Iraq."
twelve years later his idiot kid had to go and dig it up again.
Here, as always,Tom Engelhardt writes powerfully and with moral intent on central issues, mincing no words. Yet I can't help wondering about the repeated use of what the great political sociologist C. Wright Mills called "the promiscuous pronouns", we, us and ours. These words can and often do serve to conceal from discussion and consideration the real deciders, policy makers, and creators of the murders, wars, tortures and mayhems. This is certainly not Tom's intent. Yet, nearly always, the central decisions in these matters are made in the deepest of secrecy, be they Cheney's still secret "energy task force" or what inhuman plans are developed in the CIA or Pentagon. To blanketly indict the whole population with repeated use of "we" raises the question of how individuals or a people can be responsible for plans and acts developed and often performed in secrecy. And isn't that a goodly part of the reason that the oligarchy of rulers has moved and acted in ever deeper levels of security and secrecy with some describing the Bush/Cheney cabal as "the most secretive administration in US history"? If everyone is equally gulity for these uncountable monstrous acts, then why charge anyone at the top where the acts and policies originated, with any crime?
Certainly if the society was an open deliberative democracy, the charge of "we" being directly responsible would seem clearly correct. But with the present crippled and corrupted version of representative government, how are guilt and responsibility to be assessed? Or might the conclusion be, as it is for more and more, that the US is in fact ruled by an oligarchy whose public face is a group that does stand in elections, though often ones rigged by money or electronic manipulations and outright fraud produced amid a vast multi-billion dollar propaganda fest. Behind the facade of elected President and Congress is the invisible (to most) government of Goldman Sachs, CIA, NSA, Pentagon, the leaders and owners of various key mega corporations in the defense, media, healthcare, etc. fields, who are there irrespective of who occupies the elective offices. These shadowy power brokers and "players" wield far more power and control inside the present structures than the people in our presently disorganized and oppressed state. Indeed, they are mostly structured and operate as totalitarian, top down, command operations. And don't forget the 40,000 registered lobbyists in Washington, their money bribes and influence visibly, briefly, on display around the healthcare issue, with many Congress members performing like puppets. And the corporate/government oligarchy spends billions annually to smother the society in a mind numbing fog of distraction and distortion, the better to hypnotize and immobilize the mass of people who indeed, it is feared, had they known the truth, just might organize themselves to resist and rebel and thereby be responsible citizens. A population where studies show large percentages still cannot find Iraq on a world map despite a decade of sanctions following the first Gulf war, and the six years of war since 2003 is indeed a dumbed down and distracted people.
So pondering just what structure of rule actually exists and how it operates in fact, may help us then determine what actions and where might be effective or useful. Having been part of the multi-faceted resistance of the 1960s, it is easy to feel despair amid a vastly more distracted and deactivated population now. The ruling elites have a long standing global agenda of empire by military and economic force, which has self-created some deeply serious financial and military quagmires replete with criminal acts of the most heinous sorts. I can feel despair and irritation at the inert citizens, but I'm not sure it is right to tag them with moral responsibility in their dumbed-down and distracted condition. With many people who read and write here at CD, I'm doing what I can where I can to shout, as Dennis Kucinich did in his brief Democratic Convention speech, "Wake up America!! Wake up America"
Years ago, I once gave talks about the local Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons plant where the deadly plutonium disc triggers were made just 16 miles and upwind from the center of Denver. Talking to high school or college classes, I would say, "And, when WE decided to make nuclear bomb triggers at Rocky Flats . . ." One day, I caught myself thinking, "Hey, these young people didn't even exist when that decision was made and it was made in the deepest sort of secrecy, with the reality of what was going on there unknown to most for many years after it was established in the early 1950s." The plant's gone now, in no small part, due to vigorous and sustained citizen activism, but also due to the deadly negligence which had radioactive contamination scattered around with no care for the future. But the questions about the easy and very common uses of "we, us and our" have remained, even as I stumble and find myself using them again now and then.
Excellent post courtjester,
I think that part of the dilemma is that "we" are so huge now, and cut off from each other by the automobile and the stark suburb that we no longer get involved much in local politics let alone national ones. We waste all our time commuting. Each state government is remote and many times bigger than the original federal government was. These octopi have grown beyond anyone's control. Allowing monopolies to flourish has destroyed any hope of a level playing field. This Frankenstein federal government that "we" have created now sees all citizens as a threat, not just the ones in the laboratory who made such an abomination.
This is a very darwinian creature, operating at the lowest level of function: Kill everybody in the world or be killed. I'm not sure that even if every citizen knew what was going on in the laboratory, that they would have the fortitude to pick up torches and pitchforks and do something about it. This is a King Kong Frankenstien from hell that probably can't be cornered. Maybe we are going to have to use music instead.
We need to actively advocate a reduction in government size by 90%. The schools are so bad anyway, if they get swept away with the bathwater, so be it. We need to start over. This thing is corrupt by it's very nature, and thinking we can change it's brain and every thing will be alright is folly.
We should rally around the theme that since the federal gov is insolvent anyway (from hundreds of billions paid ANNUALLY to service the debt), that we demand as citizens to do emergency surgery on it. This is our right as taxpayers and voters to liquidate the excesses and refund them in the form of stimulus checks.
I would suggest a National Boycott followed by a National Strike to get the fed gov to allow a redress of grievances.
TJ
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." - Thomas Jefferson
The "Bad Guys" you detail and the actions of "The American Government" are every bit as heinous as you say and possibly more so. They are the "fruit" of the White Majority population. WE made them. We brewed them in a cultural stew of Authoritarian Patriarchy, (White) Male Supremacy, Gender Slavery, Constant War and Rights of Conquest as the only force that gives our lives meaning, and Feral Bestial Oligarchies of inherited wealth. They are what we produced. When other voices, dissident voices and even mass movements for economic and social justice rose up - forces that would destroy Patriarchy, Male Supremacy, Constant War, and Oligarchy - the White Majority DEMANDED they be crushed and destroyed. Thus restoring the wealth and privilege of the Oligarchy and maintaining the rest. Oh yes, WE MADE GWB. Melanin deficient, White America chose EXCLUSION, and now White America is doomed and unfortunately most of the rest as well.
Very good.
There's a lot of potential power in this refinement. Many progressives hammer on what Americans gain from their government's depredations when they might just as accurately and more productively point out what they lose.
The only "we" I recognize are my friends and family - and the rest of humanity.
There is not one inkling of national identity, or "team support", in my being.
Liberate yourselves - inwardly denounce "your" nationality - join the world.
Excellent post. I agree except that I would have said 'the rest of the planet'.
"The only obligation I have any right to assume at any time is to do what is right."---Thoreau
An American Poet :
"we americans carefully nurture an attitude of detached indifference to the suffering of others........even if WE are the cause of it".
As far as American History is concerned, EVERY page has been falsified since its inception. After all, they who control the government, control how "history" is presented.
Fortunately, there are others who have preserved and documented the real truth, and it will ALL come out eventually.
"If we don't face the record we created, if we only look forward, if we only round up the usual suspects, if we try to turn that page in history and put a paperweight atop it, we will be haunted by the Bush years until hell freezes over.... Because we were so unwilling to confront what we actually did in Vietnam - and Laos and Cambodia - because we turned the page on it so quickly and never dared take a real look back, we never, in the phrase of George H. W. Bush 'kicked the Vietnam syndrome.' It still haunts us."
The collective "we" in Tom Englehardt's context refers to the citizens of the United States in general - the American national conscience. And Englehardt is right. There is a straight line running from our shameless retreat in the early 1970's from the carnage we created in southeast Asia, and the sabre rattling militarism and torture of the Bush/Cheney era.
Those of us who took active part in the tumultuous civil rights and antiwar movement of the 60's did, by and large, heave a sigh of relief and turn away from political activism for awhile when the light was finally turned off at last in the Saigon embassy. The aptly named silent majority did the same thing.
But the insider architects of the Vietnam War, and the red-white-and-blue true believers, did no such thing. Rather than turning that blood stained page, they quietly and steadfastly labored to edit and rewrite the text. Thus, within a decade, Americans who saw Vietnam as proof that war was both futile and fundamentally evil were said to suffer from a "syndrome" needing therapy. New wars - successful ones to be certain - were to be the remedy, empowering the nation to "exorcise the ghosts" of Vietnam once and for all.
Time to take the toys away from the boys.
Bill from Saginaw
Mr. Englehart is partially correct.
The 'Vietnam Syndrome'----had (has) two 'faces'.
One 'face' readily admits that the USA should never have been there. The other will only admit that the USA should not have left without 'winning'.
The fact that the USA is deeply involved in two very similar wars of aggression is clearly a direct indication that the USA is a living example of the 'wisdom of the ages'. The statement that 'to ignore the lessons of history will assure the repetition of the same mistakes'. In the case of the USA, the 'voters' that is the 'majority' either failed to learn from those mistakes or simply ignored the lessons with the arrogance that ignorance often spawns and ran head long into another disaster. They voted for an unqualified inept social parasite and his 'cronies' and now THEY will suffer. The fact that the 'majority' in this case were represented by the 'conservative thinkers' should not escape the observer. Conservatism 'requires' ignoring the lessons of the past in order to survive as a conservative. Whether the conservative thinkers are convinced that the USA is so unique that it is not subject to the 'laws of logic' or they simply believe that the USA is 'exempt' from the consequences of ignoring the lessons of history; the end result is the same.
The USA is in a very serious dilemma and they may not survive.
The latest reports of lawlessness at the very top of the leadership, the highest office, the 'peak of achievement---is no surprise to those of us who have been students of the USA. For myself, when you loose your own 'future' even after winning it in an open war of defense against a blood thirsty aggressor you have little left to you but to 'accept your fate' (which many of my fellow NatAms have done) or instead, you study the enemy (the USA) and wait for the 'next time' a chance arrives.
Even a 'giant must sleep'.
Our chance may be simply a matter of time now.
The fact that the USA is now on the very 'rim of the great abyss', poised to fall, head first and when it hits the 'bottom', 'spatter like an insect on a windshield'.
The USA has proved to the world that they were a 'fluke' an 'accident of history'. A 'great idea' but the 'people' were not strong enough to make a success of the 'great idea'.
Taking this (opinion) into consideration, the USA may still have a place in history. One that can serve a very important lesson for humanity and one that if observed by others in the future; will never be repeated.
That is simply this: The USA may serve humanity (and the other life forms on the planet as well) simply by being the "Negative Example" that history needs to have in order not to repeat the 'example'----but learn from it.
For those '12 decent Americans' I speak of often, this may be little consolation. For all of those others; they seem to me so dysfunctional that they may very well 'take pride' in having 'participated' in "The", 'Negative Example' for all of humanity.
As for me and my people, we can already claim, with legal and scientific proof, that we are rare people on this Earth;
we 'survived the Americans'---very few across the Globe can make that claim.
We were never 'defeated'--- we never 'surrendered'.
On the other hand, what a wonderful opportunity the USA now has. They could make the necessary changes---swiftly---and show the world that 'anything is possible'. The USA would immediately move into a true position of leadership; that is leadership by 'example'---the strongest form of leadership.
Whether the USA has the ability to rise to the occasion is no doubt, the USA 'truly can do anything': but WILL they?
Good Luck America, you really need it.
Hi NativeSon --
deeply thought comments as always.
I saw a documentary/interview with some native americans...and a tribal leader - a very old man - said something that stuck with me:
something like this:
"yes we had our land and lives taken from us by the white man ..and we have been turned into strangers in our own land...but there is a very old indian wisdom that says that there is a time for the spirit of the bear to sleep ...and this has been that time...during that time...it will even be thought that it has died and gone away...it might even mean that we its people die away....but that is still just sleeping....for when the RIGHT time arrives - it will wake up once again to take its rightful place...and that is a hope that remains alive in our hearts because that is what we believe the world around us has given to us as a gift".
I am one of those that deeply await for these things and all good things such as these.
Thank you, that quote made my day.
And all other comments.
Hopefully our conviction will lead to some convictions.
Thank you.
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Recommended: “Collateral Damage” by E. P Heidner, part I and II.
>>> www.scribd.com/people/documents/2169400-ep-heidner <<<
This particular small splash from the previous administration's deep dive into crime and folly will have its brief time in the media sun and then be swallowed up by oblivion . . .
It is the United States that is being "swallowed up by oblivion".
"...We need to face who we've been and just how badly we've acted, if we care to become something better..."
- Yes, we "need to." But we won't. As Tom says in his article, we never faced up to what we did in Vietnam, nor to any of our other crimes. We won't face up to any of this more recent stuff, either.
And almost everyone will go along with it, because going along with it is much easier than resisting it.
If Germany had won WWII (or had wangled a stalemate-type armistice), precisely the same dynamic would have resulted in German society essentially forgetting all the bad stuff they did. Anyone who even tried bringing it up in polite society would have been relegated to society's fringes.
Lockstep # 34
Jim Shea
In other words,
WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY, AND HE IS US !
POGO
Again, not a mention of 9/11 as part of history that is being forgotten. Have we forgotten already? It's being well orchestrated...just remarkable. I will not forget and will continue to fight for a re-investigation. Support NYC CAN. Please, it is imperative that as a nation we bring the truth of 9/11 to the surface.
An excellent first post to this article!
I couldn't agree more!!!!!!!
You are so damn right about that!
Our entire current national consciousness revolves around the attacks at WTC, and based upon fraud and deceit.
As a nation we are in deep denial about reality.
Chupacabra July 24th, 2009 10:41 am...And the third article since Monday about torture, war and the enevitability of such...without a mention of 9/11. As I had said in commenting on the previous articles, the NSA is really putting down the hammer on these articles re 9/11....Orwell would be proud.
No doubt the towers didn't just fall straight down. Dast I mention the Soloman Building? Americans have been lied to and brainwashed their entire lives. You can start with the hand over heart pledge said by six year olds, include everything taught in history classes, on television, especially the news and finish with anyone that believes in either of the two parties, still sing the war song before ball games, say the pledge and look shocked if told it's never been a democracy. Orwell lived it, was revolted by it, and tried to warn the future. Go team.