Saturday, 13 October 2007
“Flight 77" The White Plane
Citizen Investigation Team picks up where the media has failed and presents to you more previously unknown eyewitnesses to the plane that allegedly hit the Pentagon. The people in the neighborhoods of Arlington saw a white jet fly tree top level over their homes seconds before the explosion presenting further evidence that fatally contradicts the official story. This testimony sheds light on why there was at least one other mysterious white jet that was called in to circle no fly zones minutes before and after the time of the attack.
http://www.thepentacon.com/Flight77.htm
Wednesday, 10 October 2007
Burning Man and WTC Thermite Residue Compared By Steven Jones
Electron microscopy reveals similarities to WTC thermite residue.
Dr. Steven Jones just turned in these electron microscope images of thermite residue from the September 2, 2007 TruthBurn demonstration at Burning Man. Iron rich spheres that look very similar to WTC iron spheres were revealed by the powerful microscope at Jones' lab. An analysis is forthcoming.
Image from Burning Man sample
A short video of the reaction that produced these samples can be found at http://911truthburn.blogspot.com The TruthBurn art event was a memorial to all 911 victims, an attempt to demonstrate the steel cutting powers of thermite, its probable use in the controlled demolition of all 3 WTC buildings and to foster more discussion on the important work of ae911truth.The sign is now having a second life as a magnet for 911 Truth ideas. We are open to outstanding ideas for its use.
This image is from a WTC sample submitted to Dr. Jones.
A short documentary on the TruthBurn story is now in the works. Architect Richard Gage, of http://ae911truth.org was there to talk about thermite and controlled demolition. The TruthBurn sign is very much alive and if workable, plans are underway to have a live web cam on it at it's temporary home on an art ranch in West Marin. Viewers of the cam will be invited to leave their truth messages under the image of the sign at http://911truthburn.blogspot.com .
Sunday, 7 October 2007
Total Info Radio October
http://www.total411radio.info/archives/2007/9-Sept/total.info.2007-10-01.mp3
This week's program features:
Dr. Ron Paul's weekly legislative update, about the health-care control grid
Check out http://www.total411radio.info
9/11 isn’t “over,” Mr. Friedman
9/11 Is Over by New York Times’ columnist Thomas Friedman is as ignorant if not as pernicious as its misguided view of 9/11’s tragedy. It is symptomatic of the worse elements at the Times, those writers who waffle between administration ass-kissing and stands for faux boldness like the above one, which is in effect from the mouth of a tinfoil hat, if not a voice of the CIA.
Friedman begins by quoting a send-up news story run by The Onion: “At a well-attended rally in front of his new ground zero headquarters Monday, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani officially announced his plan to run for president of 9/11. ‘My fellow citizens of 9/11, today I will make you a promise,’ said Giuliani during his 18-minute announcement speech in front of a charred and torn American flag. ‘As president of 9/11, I will usher in a bold new 9/11 for all.’ If elected, Giuliani would inherit the duties of current 9/11 President George W. Bush, including making grim facial expressions, seeing the world’s conflicts in terms of good and evil, and carrying a bullhorn at all state functions.”
Friedman continues, “Like all good satire, the story made me both laugh and cry, because it reflected something so true -- how much, since 9/11, we’ve become ‘The United States of Fighting Terrorism.’ Times columnists are not allowed to endorse candidates, but there’s no rule against saying who will not get my vote: I will not vote for any candidate running on 9/11. We don’t need another president of 9/11. We need a president for 9/12. I will only vote for the 9/12 candidate.” He sums it and himself up . . .
“What does that mean? This: 9/11 has made us stupid. I honor, and weep for, all those murdered on that day. But our reaction to 9/11 — mine included — has knocked America completely out of balance, and it is time to get things right again.”
9/11 has made Friedman Stupid
First of all, what’s important about Giuliani aside from his grim facial expressions is his grim record, making himself a millionaire by capitalizing on being the hero of 9/11, even though he’s been disowned by the International Union of Firefighters, first responders, and all those sick and dying from being pushed to clear the crime scene in eight months not the allotted 30 months. See my article, How low does Rudy go.
Secondly, we have become “The United States of Fighting Terrorism” thanks to the specific inciting incident of 9/11, which was sponsored by the government to accomplish the neocon mission of world hegemony, starting with attacking the oil-rich Middle East and the Muslim world.Take a minute or two and consider that, Mr. Friedman. It’s kind of like “The New Pearl Harbor --Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11,” the landmark book by theologian and scholar David Ray Griffin. I suggest, Mr. Friedman, that you read it, along with historian Webster Tarpley’s “9/11 Synthetic Terror -- Made in USA.”
But it seems as if Friedman is either colossally naive or a non-reader. 9/11 isn't over because its true perpetrators have not been revealed in the corporate media of America.
Friedman goes on to say, “It is not that I thought we had new enemies that day and now I don’t. Yes, in the wake of 9/11, we need new precautions, new barriers. But we also need our old habits and sense of openness. For me, the candidate of 9/12 is the one who will not only understand who our enemies are, but who we are.”
To that I answer, 9/12 can only become a clean slate for life in America and around the world when the haunting basic questions and anomalies of 9/11 are answered, as they are being done, here and now. Yet Friedman persists in his misdirected if not put-on naiveté . . .
“Before 9/11, the world thought America’s slogan was: ‘Where anything is possible for anybody.’ But that is not our global brand anymore. Our government has been exporting fear, not hope: “Give me your tired, your poor and your fingerprints.”
Yes, and get rid of our government that has been creating that faux enemy which is designed to protect the culpability of the real perpetrators, themselves. Why else, Mr. Friedman, why else?
But Stupid continues
“You may think Guantanamo Bay is a prison camp in Cuba for Al Qaeda terrorists. A lot of the world thinks it’s a place we send visitors who don’t give the right answers at immigration. I will not vote for any candidate who is not committed to dismantling Guantanamo Bay and replacing it with a free field hospital for poor Cubans. Guantanamo Bay is the anti-Statue of Liberty.”
Well hoopla, Thomas, what a patriot you are. But Guantanamo is part of the USAPATRIOT ACT, which is designed to subvert the freedoms of our Constitution and the rules of the Geneva Convention. It creates a police state, in which the government can spy on us, arrest us at will, or thinks we represent “a credible threat.” You can also have all your physical assets taken from you under the same provision. Where you have you been, Mr. Friedman? Guantanamo Bay is the signature of the fascist state.
What’s more, “Al Qaeda” was bought and paid for by the CIA, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to fight the “atheistic Russians” when they were drawn into invading Afghanistan in 1979. Osama bin Laden was recruited along with other leaders and strays to fight the Russians and were fully supported by US dollars, arms, and training personnel. “Al Qaeda” or the base was the title of a file on bin Laden’s laptop, which detailed worthy colleagues he met in his 10 years of fighting. “Al Qaeda,” bin Laden and the “hijackers” are the classic patsies for the false flag operation that the US government used to suck us into an all-out war, the War on Terror. Back to you now . . .
“Roger Dow, president of the Travel Industry Association, told me that the United States has lost millions of overseas visitors since 9/11 — even though the dollar is weak and America is on sale. ‘Only the U.S. is losing traveler volume among major countries, which is unheard of in today’s world,’ Mr. Dow said.” Yes, go on . . .
“Total business arrivals to the United States fell by 10 percent over the 2004-5 period alone, while the number of business visitors to Europe grew by 8 percent in that time. The travel industry’s recent Discover America Partnership study concluded that ‘the U.S. entry process has created a climate of fear and frustration that is turning away foreign business and leisure travelers and hurting America’s image abroad.’ Those who don’t visit us, don’t know us.”
These are half-truths consciously set forth. The US economic problems are not about tourism. They’re about reversing the tax structure from progressive to regressive, from providing huge tax cuts for the rich, while spending $1.3 trillion dollars on two wars, as reported by your own paper, Mr. Friedman. The article was “What You Can Do With $1.3 Trillion." Your buddy Bush is bankrupting us.
In addition, rampant speculation in the stock market, a lack of genuine collateral, and the persistent creation of economic bubbles to puff up the market and corporate returns, is also responsible for our fading dollar and drowning ship of state. Tell that to Roger Dow and yourself.
Some closing words from Stupid
“I’d love to see us salvage something decent in Iraq that might help tilt the Middle East onto a more progressive pathway. That was and is necessary to improve our security. But sometimes the necessary is impossible -- and we just can’t keep chasing that rainbow this way.”
I’d love to see the Easter Bunny create world peace by Tuesday and stop the US from getting drunk on relatively cheap Middle Eastern oil. And I’d love for you to take a look at your prose: “But sometimes the necessary is impossible -- and we just can’t keep chasing the rainbow this way.” What the hell does that mean? Get out of Iraq because it’s another Vietnam, and we’re losing our shirts as well as our manpower and reputation in the world. Say it, man. Don’t finesse it. And look at this leap in logic, from the “rainbow” to our infrastructure.
“Look at our infrastructure. It’s not just the bridge that fell in my hometown, Minneapolis. Fly from Zurich’s ultramodern airport to La Guardia’s dump. It is like flying from the Jetsons to the Flintstones. I still can’t get uninterrupted cellphone service between my home in Bethesda and my office in D.C. But I recently bought a pocket cellphone at the Beijing airport and immediately called my wife in Bethesda -- crystal clear.”
If your boy Bush wasn’t hemorrhaging our assets, bridges wouldn’t be falling down in your hometown, Minneapolis, or anywhere. And LaGuardia wouldn’t look like a dump to you. It would look pristine, like Zurich’s ultramodern airport, so you wouldn’t feel like the cartoon Jetson you are or the Flintstone you should be with such a shoddy knowledge or world affairs and such an absence of consciousness. What’s more, if you like Chinese products so much, how about a Chinese toothpaste with coolant in it? It will brighten that smile in your head shot. But here comes the stupid wrap up . . .
“I just attended the China clean car conference, where Chinese automakers were boasting that their 2008 cars will meet “Euro 4” -- European Union -- emissions standards. We used to be the gold standard. We aren’t anymore. Last July, Microsoft, fed up with American restrictions on importing brain talent, opened its newest software development center in Vancouver. That’s in Canada, folks. If Disney World can remain an open, welcoming place, with increased but invisible security, why can’t America?”
Ralph Nader’s Unsafe At Any Speed wasn’t about the US being the standard of the auto business. But thanks to non-journalists like you, Thomas Friedman, who don’t know their ass from their elbow, and if they knew the truth would be to afraid to tell it, we’ve ended up in our present conundrum. After all, career comes first, then comes the truth, right? And also how does a dodo like you end up on The New York Times Op-Ed page unless he has friends in high places that enjoy his lies and guarantee his stupid success?
You capped it with: “We can’t afford to keep being this stupid! We have got to get our groove back. We need a president who will unite us around a common purpose, not a common enemy. Al Qaeda is about 9/11. We are about 9/12, we are about the Fourth of July -- which is why I hope that anyone who runs on the 9/11 platform gets trounced.”
Baby, I never lost my groove. I didn’t vote for Bush. I didn’t support his phony war. I never bought 9/11 as anything but an inside job, like millions of other smart people. I don’t plan on becoming a narcoleptic like you. And Al Qaeda is the CIA. Plus we won’t be about 9/12 or any of your paid for daydreams, including the Fourth of July, until we get rid of all the scurvy characters like you in the media, and those Elites behind them pulling the puppet strings.
And that’s why you won’t vote for anyone who runs on the 9/11 platform and want to see him/her trounced. Because you’re an asset, as in ASS-et, a stupid asset of a corrupt system, bought and paid for like the mujihadeen of Zbigniew Brezinski, Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor, who came up with the bright idea of a holy Muslim jihad in the first place, as well as the concept of a “Pearl Harbor-like incident” to pull the US into war.
Jerry Mazza is a freelance writer living in New York City. Reach him at gvmaz@verizon.net.
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2496.shtml
Ex-CIA Robert Baer Questions Use of Torture, Official 9/11 Story
From tonight's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:
(excuse the poor quality)
Link to video: http://www.youtube.com/v/90B-Ii4lz3Q
http://www.911blogger.com/node/11849
9/11: Family Members, First Responders & Experts Speak Out
www.911hartford.org
Join us for a powerful one-day symposium
Saturday November 3, 2007
Saint Joseph College,
West Hartford, Connecticut
Sponsored by Citizens for a New 9/11 Investigation
Co-Sponsored by: Architect & Engineers for 9/11 Truth - Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice - The Feal Good Foundation - Student Scholars for 9/11 Truth - 911truth.org
Join us for a powerful one-day symposium exploring the truth surrounding the events of September 11th, 2001. Our intention is to bring the suppressed stories, testimony and evidence concerning 9/11 into mainstream public discourse. It is our belief that an educated public will demand new independent investigations that will ultimately lead to our larger goals of justice and redress for the countless victims of 9/11 and its aftermath.
We are pleased to announce we have commitments from human rights attorney William Pepper, architect Richard Gage, physicist Steven Jones, filmmaker Sofia of "911 Mysteries", 9/11 first responder John Feal and family members Robert McIlvaine and Donna Marsh O'Connor.
Time:
10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. with lunch and dinner breaks
Program:
The program starts at 10 am with a showing of the first part of the documentary film "9/11 Press for Truth" introduced by Robert McIlvane, 9/11 family member who lost his son on 9/11 followed by presentations and panels through to 10 pm.
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Speakers:
William Pepper, International Human Rights Attorney - Commissioner of New York City 9/11 Ballot Initiative ( www.nyc911initiative.org )
Richard Gage, AIA Architect - Founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth
Steven Jones, Ph.D. Physicist - Founder of Scholars for Truth & Justice
Sofia, Producer & Director of "911 Mysteries"
John Feal, 9/11 First Responder - Founder of the FealGood Foundation, a non-profit organization advocating for 9/11 first responders
Robert McIlvaine, 9/11 Family Member - Father of Robert G. McIlavine, 106th Floor, North Tower
Donna Marsh O'Connor, 9/11 Family Member - Mother of Vanessa Lang Langer, WTC Tower II, 93rd floor and www.911truth.org Advisory Board member
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Thursday, 4 October 2007
September 11th and the New World Order
Morpheus: You're here because you know something.
What you know you can't explain, but you feel it.
You've felt it your entire life,
that there's something wrong with the world.
You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Neo: The Matrix.
Morpheus: Do you want to know what it is?
Neo: Yes.
Morpheus: The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes.
It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch.
A prison for your mind...
I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door.
You are the one that has to walk through it...
Wednesday, 3 October 2007
911 Mysteries
90 minutes of pure demolition evidence and analysis, laced with staggering witness testimonials. Moving from "the myth" through "the analysis" and into "the players," careful deconstruction of the official story set right alongside clean, clear science. The 9/11 picture is not one of politics or nationalism or loyalty, but one of strict and simple physics. How do you get a 10-second 110-story pancake collapse ?
911 Mysteries
New 9/11 Witness Saw Secondary Explosions and a First Floor Impact
"Once the plane hit the top, that's when the bomb's going off on the first floor. It's like the plane's actually hitting the floor...You was hearing Boom-Boom-Boom Boom Boom going down from the top floor all the way down to the first floor. It was frightening for everybody that was around...It was really, really scary," said Brown.
Dean Brown says he also talked to firefighters on the scene who witnessed the bombs, including one who was in tears about the explosions while other bombs were still going off.
Brown joins other witnesses including firefighter John Schroeder who saw or heard secondary explosions. Schroeder also claims there were explosions on the first floor.
"We got down to the lobby and everything was blown out, exploded, and we were the only ones in the lobby... everything was exploded, everything was gone, we're like what is going on here?" said Schroeder.
http://www.wearechange.org/WTC7: First responder heard countdown to demolition on official's walkie-talkie
First responder heard WTC 7 demolition countdown, was warned to "shut up" when he reported secondary explosions
Paul Joseph Watson http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2007/280907_new_revelations.htm | |
A 9/11 first responder has shed new light on how he heard a countdown before the demolition of Building 7, how he was told to "shut up" by superiors when he tried to report secondary explosions and why "vicious security" measures were enacted to prevent people from accessing certain areas of ground zero.
Former Air Force Special Operations for Search and Rescue expert, Kevin McPadden traveled to ground zero completely of his own accord and spent the next four days searching through the rubble and nearby buildings for survivors.
In a video interview with Alex Jones, McPadden describes the moments before the collapse of WTC 7.
"When we saw the firemen pick up their equipment and start bustling back and forth they were getting ready to do something, we started asking questions," said McPadden.
Despite numerous attempts to glean information from Red Cross officials, McPadden and other first responders were told nothing while one official, shortly after talking to firemen, held his hand over his radio and told them to "just sit tight" and "calm down" before admitting "they're thinking about bringing the building down."
McPadden and his colleagues were miffed as to what the official meant by this statement, initially thinking the building next to them was possibly being brought down.
"He took his hand off for the last three seconds of it - and you hear three, two, one," said McPadden, adding that the official then gave a heartfelt look and told the first responders, "just run for your life."
McPadden got the impression that the Red Cross official had been ordered not to give the first responders a warning that the building was coming down.
"And you heard - boom, boom, boom," said McPadden, describing the sound of bombs tearing down the building.
McPadden explained that the reason Democracy Now host Amy Goodman and others were captured on video (watch above) running from the scene and reaching stationary onlookers as the building started to collapse is that they were able to hear the full countdown on the radio further own the street.
Later in the interview, McPadden reveals how he witnessed up close steel beams from the twin towers that had been symmetrically cut at perfect angles as is shown in this image - a clear sign that explosives were used. McPadden said that officials were acting very suspiciously and subsequently prevented people from getting near the beams.
He also highlighted the fact that "vicious security" was quickly set up around certain areas of ground zero and that people were barred from accessing certain areas for no reason and also had their cameras confiscated.
When McPadden attempted to report that secondary explosions were heard by numerous people, he was harshly ordered to "shut up" and "don't repeat it" by superiors.
He also talked to numerous firefighters who acknowledged that they also heard secondary explosions, but said that "Obviously somewhere in their command structure, they were told to shut up."
Tuesday, 2 October 2007
The faker of 9/11: Survivor in dramatic tale of escape from World Trade Centre 'made it all up'
She told a dramatic story of how she was set ablaze when a plane smashed into the 78th floor of the World Trade Centre south tower as she waited for a business meeting.
It made her one of the chosen few, the 19 survivors who were at or above the floors where the planes hit. Another 2,974 people died as the towers collapsed - including her fiance.
Her account reduced many people to tears and inspired thousands more. At a memorial service last year she said: "What I witnessed there I will never forget. It was a lot of death and destruction, but I also saw hope."
Miss Head, 35, became president and a leading fundraiser of the World Trade Centre Survivors' Network, a charity set up to help victims, families and friends traumatised by the attacks. She gave guided tours of Ground Zero, vividly recounting her experiences.
But yesterday she was exposed as a fake.
The New York Times began to probe her background after she ducked out of three interviews to commemorate the sixth anniversary this month. Reporters who talked to people she had mentioned found none of them knew much about her.
As officials try to discover if she was actually anywhere near the World Trade Centre, even her name is now in doubt.
Until questions were asked, Miss Head had made a name for herself as a remarkable survivor. She had emotional meetings with senior politicians such as former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, current mayor Michael Bloomberg, and former state governor George Pataki.
Tour groups hung on every word of her accounts of the plane's impact and what followed. "The first thing you feel is a tremendous increase in pressure, all the air being sucked out of your lungs," she said recently.
"The next thing you feel is flying through the air."
As she crawled through the chaos and carnage, she said, she encountered a dying man who handed her his inscribed wedding ring, which she later returned to his widow.
Her life was saved by Welles Crowther, a hero who used his jacket to smother her blazing clothes - and later died rescuing others.
She said she had the strength to make it down the stairs to safety because she kept thinking of the beautiful white dress she was to wear at her wedding to her fiance David.
But as she recovered in hospital she learned that David, a financier, had died in the north tower. They had just started living together after a Hawaiian holiday, she told people.
For years, no one questioned Miss Head's story. Welles Crowther's mother Alison, who met her several times, said: "I felt it was too private and painful to her to ask questions."
In fact, as reporters established, David never had a fiancÈe and never went to Hawaii, said his family and his flatmate.
Bankers Merrill Lynch, for whom Miss Head claimed to have worked, say they have never heard of her.
There is no suggestion Miss Head profited financially from her story. But the Survivors' Network has voted to remove her as president and she has been sacked as a tour guide.
There was no reply last night at her home in Manhattan, but she has insisted she has done nothing illegal and never claimed government compensation.
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=23893
You dont even need to guess who she is working for
clearly obvious!
New 911 Footage Shows Demolition Truck Near WTC
Previously unseen street level footage from 9/11 "coincidentally" shows a demolition truck near the WTC.
Thursday, 6 September 2007
Painful 9/11 Truth
| Many technical analyses cast doubt on the official explanation of the collapse of three World Trade Center buildings, including those presented by an impressive new group: Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. More difficult than discovering the truth, however, is convincing most of the public to accept the bitter truth. Americans easily block out painful truths. Powerful societal forces keep much of the population distracted and uninterested in complex issues. Entertainment-oriented mainstream media contribute to mass ignorance. And the political establishment often buries the truth, uses propaganda and manipulates citizens. Intelligent, strong-willed people can fight all these. But on a deeper level, many truths are blocked psychologically, because they produce too much pain. This results when truths sharply disagree with strongly held beliefs. The conflict produces cognitive dissonance that can block full acceptance of the disturbing truth. People fall victim to self-manipulation and self-delusion. Truths are dismissed and false beliefs remain embedded. When it comes to 9/11, we face the strong belief that only Al-Qaeda caused 9/11. But analyses by many experts reveal the collapse of three WTC buildings was not caused by the two airplanes exploding into the two towers. Without getting into details that one can spend many hours examining on a number of websites, the general view is that the buildings were brought down by controlled demolition. If correct – IF – the immediate reaction is like a cosmic big bang. It would have taken considerable effort by a number of people with expertise and access to the buildings to rig them so that they could be intentionally collapsed when the two jets hit the towers. Tough questions flood in: Who could have engineered all this? Could foreign agents accomplish such complex actions – and if they did, why not take credit for it? If Americans did it, why would they intentionally inflict inevitable mass death and devastation? Worse, they seemingly knew about the plan to fly the jets into the towers. Post-9/11, why have the government and official investigations not come to the same controlled demolition conclusion? This might be explained if the government was involved. Pull one string and the whole 9/11 story unravels as your imagination triggers unending questions. Can Americans support a reinvestigation and rethinking of the 9/11 event? Or would they rather avoid even more pain and preserve the official account that places all blame on Al-Qaeda? So easy to criticize those who offer different explanations as conspiracy nuts. After all, the new truth would be so shocking that we would have to question our political and government system. Could there have been such malevolence somewhere in our government? Did a monumental conspiracy push us into attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq? Did petroleum and corporate interests shape 9/11? Like other groups, Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth wants a new, honest and comprehensive study that considers all the evidence for controlled demolition. First, let the technical truth emerge. Then, if necessary, cope with the inevitable political, conspiracy and other questions. But let us not allow a possible painful truth block the primary task of determining once and for all what caused the collapse of the WTC towers and building no. 7. If there were non-Muslim forces – possibly U.S. government ones – that played a major role in the WTC catastrophe, then let us have the courage to face the truth. Suppose some element of our government played a secret, awful role. If we do not uncover it, then we are vulnerable to repeat nefarious and unimaginable activity in the future – possibly to impact the 2008 presidential election. Discovering 9/11 truth would enshrine the wisdom of the old adage: the truth hurts. That means suffering the pain of revealing lies and cover-ups. Mourning over the deaths of building victims and heroic first responders would expand with new anger. And another reason to hate and oppose the Iraq war would surface. If those that believe the official 9/11 story – especially elected officials – trust their views, then let them support a serious investigation to test the validity of the controlled demolition hypothesis. If they fear and reject doing so, then let us see that as suspicious and unacceptable. As a former engineering professor with growing skepticism about the official WTC story, I joined Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth; you can learn about the controlled demolition findings and other similar truth-seeking efforts at www.ae911truth.org. You choose: seek the truth yourself or take the easy way and just criticize those who question the official story. To sum up, horrific possible answers can cause us to shun a question. But clearing our minds of fears of painful truths is essential to clearing our nation of destructive lies. Otherwise, we stay stuck in a delusional democracy. _____________ Joel S. Hirschhorn was a full professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a senior staffer at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and the National Governors Association; he is the author of Delusional Democracy – Fixing the Republic Without Overthrowing the Government at www.delusionaldemocracy.com and co-founder of Friends of the Article V Convention at www.foavc.org. |
