Five years later
Five years later, I look back, for the first time ever.
Honestly, I thought the dude was high on coke.
I know he looked at me like he was insane, with that stupid grin on his face that addicts give you when that old feeling has kicked in. I had just arrived at the bus stop down the hill from my apartment, en route to my second class, having missed the first one due to my occasional tardiness. He was sitting on the bus stop bench when I arrived, a brown brotha, somewhere between his late twenties or early thirties. He was dressed in a fast food uniform and work cap of some kind—I think it was Subway—but I don’t quite remember. As soon as I arrived, he stared at me with that crazy grin, and his words were: “Two planes just slammed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.†Like that. That fucking smirk-grin was on his face the whole damn time.
Fool, you’re high as hell, I thought. I got on the bus and made my way to school.
I went to class as normal. The professor and all my classmates were there. The classroom’s lights were turned off, and the TV was on. I wasn’t hallucinating, and neither was that brotha at the bus stop.
There would be no class that day.
Five years later. My mother has died, albeit the day before the second anniversary of the massacre, and two days before her fifty-second birthday. West Asia has been on fire in three different spots since late 2001, when the US invaded Afghanistan in the hunt to find the superevil infernal mastermind Osama bin Laden and bring him to US justice (the oxymoron of all time). Another prick actor has been elected governor of California. George W. Bush has been “reelected†to a second term; as to how this happened, the world may never know. The number of American kids killed in Iraq alone surpasses the 2,000 mark. The US military has been hit with scandal after scandal, from Abu Ghraib to various massacres to the sadistic slaughtering of a teenage girl and her family. Bush and the federal gov’ment allowed New Orleans to drown without so much as tossing a lifesaver. My ancestral homeland is gripped in the throes of an AIDS pandemic, with no end in sight. The decade anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death has passed, with the decade mark for Tupac Shakur only a couple days away. Cuba and the revolution are still holding strong after five decades, and Fidel Castro has just celebrated his 80th year on Earth. China has gone capitalist, which I struggle to understand.
And they still haven’t found Osama bin Laden.
Today, people remembered the victims, the people who worked in the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, the people on those four planes, the courage and determination of rescue workers who risked their own lives to save others, health care workers who tended the injured, and survivors who were caught up in the thick of all that mess that day. People are also mindful of the family, friends, and communities that the victims of September 11th left behind. We know that five years is not enough time to get over a trauma that huge, if there is ever enough time. For many Americans, September 11th was the worst act of violence that they remember, the first and the worst violent act that has even taken place on US soil.
But this isn’t true. 9/11 was not the first, nor was it the worst. When it comes to the most violent acts in US history, 9/11 isn’t even in the same room with them.
You may know this already, as do I, and some of our peers may know, but this fact never gets said enough: The United States of America sits on stolen land. Human beings were murdered in cold blood in order for this FULL COMMENTARY
Timothy R. Anderson:
Observations. I tell you what. I saw ” 60 Minutes ” Sunday evening. I kept wondering ” Uh, when are they gonna show the people who LOST THEIR HEARING ? OR , when are they gonna show the people who lost limbs , or some gaaaawd-awful combination of body parts ? ” That’s what I wanna know.
I saw the kids-without-parent(s) bit on ” 60 Minutes. ” And yes, without a doubt, it tugged on the ol’ battered heartstrings. I saw the rescue workers with breathing problems bit on ” 60 Minutes ” , too. Lying goveRnment craps on working people, film at 11. What I waited, patiently, to see and did NOT see in the ” coverage ” of the nine-eleven-TWO-THOUSAND-ONE-Thank you for INCLUDING THE YEAR !!!!! !!!
cowardly media screw-ups phony baloney let’s keep on killing and rapin’ and letting Iraqis die in a stench-filled ” hospital ” somewhere and not think about it terrorist event ……………. I did not see where we have changed, one little bit, about the Saudi Arabia thingy. Something could be done, and likely won’t be done, about the country Saudi Arabia and its ” government ” and the fact that a small amount of persons in Saudi Arabia control a whole big bunch of its wealth. Which means that if the Saudi rich people get along gooooood with the American powerful people then the Saudi Arabian regular (non-rich ) people get really, really, really, reallllllllllly angry about it. And they DO something about it , like what was done on September 11, 2001 .
I think this way. It really tires me out, maaaaaaaaaaaan.
Happy birthday, Liam Gallagher . Timothy R. Anderson http://www.warisaracket.org
12 September 2006, 1:12 pmChris:
Stan,
Thankyou for posting this article. I am currently rereading your book Full Spectrum Disorder. Being an Australian activist, I was interested to see a New York friend of mine pass on the documentary “Loose Change”. Its thesis is that 9/11 was a government orchestrated attack and has relatively recently become very wide-spread with over 10 million downloads from the Google Website alone. I saw CNN did a story on the documentary and interviewed the producers of it. While it doesn’t go as far as proving its own thesis, it does show evidence and certainly pokes holes into the official story, although certain aspects of it need more research in my opinion.
I was wondering if you have seen it and whether or not you have an opinion on the film its thesis.
14 September 2006, 9:34 amStan:
http://feralscholar.org/blog/?p=59
14 September 2006, 10:46 amTimothy R. Anderson:
Relatives as emergency-room workers. This comment is dedicated to at least one of my relatives. This brave soul claimed that my comment about ” Five Years Later ” could not be found. That’s bull. Bullllllll. It reminds me of what I say about people who claim ” Oh, you know, I did everything I could. ” Oh, really ? And so, with President Bush working as an emergency-room worker, and yourself as the patient, and all President Bush does is lift up both his hands and promptly drop them right down again, that’s all HE COULD DO ? Bullllllllll. President Bush has FAILED to rally the militaries of the world to the Iraq War. He has failed to treat the soldiers of HIS OWN COUNTRY with compassion. He has FAILE D to do what he was sworn in to do.
He has not, at all, whatsoever, done all he could do. Much like the people of this crumbling country.
Here’s something for the doubters : ” Congress appears ready to slash funding for the research and treatment of brain injuries caused by bomb blasts , an injury that military scientists describe as a signature
wound of the Iraq war. ”
( source ) USA Today newspaper , article written by Gregg Zoroya , August 9 , 2006 .
Delays, betrayals, treating the defenders’ health as an AFTERTHOUGHT ; perhaps this is similiar to the complicated health problems that the ” first responders ” of the 9-11-01
terrorist attack found themselves with ?
And does the Democratic Party do much to keep the focus on these IMPORTANT issues ?
Well, in my opinion, no.
Because they suuuuuuuuck, and they get fed
by the same hucksters as the Republicans do. Meanwhile, real Americans such as Stan Goff who actually do something try to get something going and certain persons, who I am not at liberty to name, cannot find my comments at Stan Goff’s awesome website. Sheeeeeeeesh.
No wonder the whole country’s in such an awwwwwwwwful state.
http://www.iava.org http://www.warisaracket.org
Timothy R. Anderson
15 September 2006, 12:52 pmMarilyn Farhat:
Thanks Yolanda for that heartfelt piece. 9-11 is up there with a number of other violent world events in terms of its painful sense of desperation.
There has been a new form of rebellion brewing in the Middle East for the past 3-4 decades. It is a rebellion born out of the old Colonial world that set up the region the way we know it now. It was set up by the old empires immediately after WWII and right before the start of the Cold War. In that world, nations were formed and rulers instated based on the strategic interests of the European powers and, later, US and Israeli power. Artificial boundaries were created (Kuwait-Iraq, Syria-Lebanon, Israel/Palestinian people) and others were absorbed for the creation of bigger empires (Soviet Union).
They tried everything in the Middle East: monarchism, nationalism, communism, socialism. Nothing worked for the people because this country never let them evolve peacefully. The creation of the state of Israel and the unconditional support of our government for that nation, even in times of extreme injustice, added to the frustration.
The Saudis are known as the “whores of the Middle East” and Beirut was the “whorehouse of the Middle East,” according to the ex Egyptian president, Jamal Abdunnasser. It was littered with CIA, KGB, Mossad, and every handler known to man. It was also the place where all the princes went to party away from their religiously oppressive countries.
The poor people in the Arab world were asking about their share of the oil wealth but, of course, nothing came their way. I have been to Saudi Arabia on a number of occasions and I tell you, talk about prostitution and porn; it is like Bangkok or Pataya behind closed doors.
There has been a large exodus of Arab, Muslim, and Middle Eastern populations to America, Europe, Australia, and Canada in the last few decades, most of them prompted by violence, war, and lack of jobs for the men.
There is a love-hate relationship in the psyche of Middle Eastern Muslims between the freedoms the West have given them and the disconnect to historical, political, and moral identities. It is always very difficult for first generation immigrants to fit in anywhere, especially in times of conflict.
Many of those people are affluent. Middle Eastern immigrants are some of the most educated and financially secure of any immigrant group. Despite that fact, they feel that they do not fit in because the problems that contributed to their leaving their homelands in the first place continue to exist and are escalating. They have everything in the world, but nothing to cling to and, when all else fails, they go back to the root, the source of what gives them a SEPARATE identity from the West, religion.
In their homelands, they tried peaceful protests and they were imprisoned, sometimes with the little bit of help from us. They tried to participate in government or run in opposition, they were murdered. They tried labor unions and asking for better jobs, they were crushed. The watched as government after government became complicit against them. They trust no one: not the US, not their governments. In the middle of all this also continued the colonial strategy of “divide and conquer.” Internal conflicts along religious, sectarian, and class lines only escalated as time went by, with the help of the West.
Israel grew bolder and more powerful; the Palestinian people became more oppressed with more dead and displaced; the USSR invaded Afghanistan; Israel initiated every single war after 1948; the US helped crush resistance movements and install tyrants; more Europeans immigrated into Israel; the Shah of Iran usurped power; the Saudis became richer and more distant from their brethren while their religion became more oppressive.
I think Arab Muslim men do have an identity crisis that has led some of them down the path of suicide bombings. Along with that crisis is their belief that the whole world has deserted them and their people. They have no government to turn to and they were betrayed by other nations. Religion and faith became the refuge. Islam, in their minds, represented the answer to their struggle with themselves, their culture, and the world. It is a struggle born out of the greed and shallowness of powerful nations and corrupt rulers. Unfortunately, when people use religion during acts of resistance, it can have terrible consequences. Religion holds the ultimate authority to many people. They derive their morality from it. Since religions are full of violence, it is very easy to justify the murder of innocents, including oneself.
9-11 was the ultimate strategic blow inside the largest empire in the world. The perpetrators of that criminal act viewed it as an act of sacrifice to the cause of their people and all oppressed Muslims. Innocent deaths were a necessity. Martyrdom during such actions achieves 2 things: strategically, it allows the perpetrator to inflict the greatest damage on the intended target; symbolically, it grants permission for the act since, in all wars, death is considered the ultimate and valued sacrifice. After all, we give medals to our dead soldiers too. Civilian casualties become incidental to the mission and the grievance.
Most people in the world operate from within that framework of thinking. After all, isn’t that what nationalism is all about? The State replaces God in a secular nationalist society.
I sometimes wonder if the people who witnessed the event from a distance did get a grasp of all that was involved from all perspectives. I wonder if people ever thought about those waiting to die on the planes and in the buildings and try to imagine what it was like for them. Anticipating a violent death is one of the most shocking experiences a human being can go through. Knowing you have a few seconds to live as you watch that which will kill you coming towards you must be horrible. Living through it gives you new hope. Experiencing it over and over is the ultimate form of blasphemy that is inflicted on a human soul because it destroys you forever.
We never really saw the jumpers and those crushed in the rubble. Their story was a sanitized soap opera for the impending “War on Terror.” They were exploited twice: by their killers and by their government which used their suffering and death to justify doing the same to others.
16 September 2006, 1:36 amJulian Real:
And when will 60 Minutes follow up any reporting of terrorism with stats on how many women are terrorized each day, in, um, this “land of the free”, by male batterers, rapists, incesters, child molesters, pornographers, pimps, and johns?
We all know the term “terrorism” is often cloaking overt white supremacist/racist agendas, which can look like corporate agendas, or military agendas, and avoiding the not so little matter of misogynist/male supremacist/sexist terrifying violence and degradations altogether.
Here’s another set of thoughts, about the good ol’ United Rapes of Amerikkka and its legacy of sexist-racist atrocities:
Let us not forget, this Jew says now: in the U.S.’s 200-plus-year official white HIS-story, more people of color have been killed across this globe than by any other nation in a similar period of time, by white men. And let us not forget that approximately half of those killed were/are women, and that women are also targeted specifically, inside and outside of man-to-man combat, disproportionately, as women, for terrorism, other forms of dehumanization, and, of course, death.
16 September 2006, 9:49 amfrank:
An observation: when California began statewide cuts in education, here in the Bay area, specifically Oakland and Richmond, the first things to go were the libraries and the athletic programs; an outrageous set of actions, because they go against simple logic. People who cannot otherwise afford a computer at home and kids in school who need access to the computer to compete are instantly denied that access. And after school sports programs, which will at the least give a kid a chance to feel good about themselves in athletic endeavor, are gone. This blog is a reminder of what is clearly the reality: it is not only a problem of race here in the US, but poverty. Katrina was indeed the indicator of how folks will manage when the shit hits the fan. We are on our own. And when the whole thing comes down like a house of cards, we will be on our own, to take care of our families and our close friends. It’s friggin bleak is what it is.
18 September 2006, 11:16 am....:
“Why did 9/11 happen?”
Read The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives by Zbigniew Brzezinski. Then clue in on page 911 err..211.
“Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multicultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstances of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat. Such a consensus generally existed throughout World War II and even during the Cold War. It was rooted, however, not only in deeply shared democratic values, which the public sensed were being threatened, but also in a cultural and ethnic affinity for the predominantly European victims of hostile totalitarianisms.
In the absence of a comparable external challenge, American society may find it much more difficult to reach agreement regarding foreign policies that cannot be directly related to central beliefs and widely shared cultural-ethnic sympathies and that still require an enduring and sometimes costly imperial engagement.”
Free Copy-from the enemy
18 September 2006, 2:58 pmJorge:
There are some frustrated people out there. This appeared in today’s Counterpunch, as quoted in Cockburn’s article:
From: ann archy Sent:
Sep 23, 2006 6:43 AM
To: jwyp@earthlink.net
Subject: fuck you…
that’s EXACTLY what you said to me and approximately half the country…
so right back at you: FUCK YOU insufferably self-righteous, faux-progressive assholes who deny and dismiss nine one one skeptics with the condescending wave of your foreleg… (that also means matt rothschild, who evidently skipped all his physics classes, as well as any instruction in logic…)
jesus what children you are: WATCH the towers falling, and if you have the slightest recall of high school physics, if you have the barest understanding of strength of materials and building construction, then you would know that the ‘collapse’ of ALL the wtc towers was SOMEHOW not ‘right’…
geezus, YOU ignorant morons who ignore not only physical evidence which is IRREFUTABLE, but the circumstantial evidence which is breathtakingly consistent in pointing to an inside job either instigated or allowed to happen by the bush cabal, are -evidently- purposefully hiding from any/all indications of such… i think of you as nothing more than propaganda victims who are too afraid to follow the evidence to the necessary conclusions… you are useless…
fucking hypocritical chickenshits: i DON’T have to know the complete and totally accurate count of how many were involved, who they are, how they arranged matters, etc, etc, etc, to KNOW that something ain’t right, PERIOD… there is AT LEAST a superficial coverup of what happened, EVEN IF nine one one went down the way the (internally contradictory) accounts of the administration claim it did…
go ahead, be JUST LIKE your closed-minded conservative fiends (who odds are- have more of a sneaking susupicion of nine one one’s perfidy than you do), who deride their opponents (what, no facts to resort to ?), snort and roll their eyes (without ever debunking serious claims), and generally lump the fringe of the fringe with ALL nine one one skeptics so as to dismiss them all in one convenient lumpy conspiratorial clusterfuck…
i say again: FUCK YOU, douchebags of freedom…
it is so tiresome to hear the ONLY argument that anti-conspiracy morons make: “oh, you silly, lunatic sheeple, don’t you know the gummint/leaders are far too incompetent and slow to accomplish such a tremendous undertaking…”
anidiotsezwha?
oh, that’s fucking brilliant: the most ‘advanced’ (sic) civilization, the most sophisticated war machine, the most finely honed, cruel, secretive, lying political organization in his story, and yet THEY can’t do what osama bin forgotten and a handful of cohorts managed to do… fucking brilliant…
did you even GET the gist of YOUR OWN (and others) IDIOTIC ‘argument’ ? ? ? don’t you understand that the plain-reading version of that ‘argument’ is FUCKING NUTS on its face ? ? ?
…and that’s all you morons have to ‘refute’ ALL nine one one ‘anomalies’, etc ? ? ? geezus h. kee-rist, you are one dumb bunny… you don’t even see how you resort to dishonest rhetoric and bullying reichwing tactics to make the bad thoughts go away… what a joke: kneejerk ‘lefties’ (*snort* weak tea, if you ask me) who resort to the same despicable tactics as conservative droids in order to dismiss nine one one skeptics… are you capapble of seeing the hypocrisy (not to mention denial) ? ? ?
just stay in the kiddie pool if you can’t swim in the deep end…
don’t forget your water wings, baby-citizen…
art guerrilla aka ann archy
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Ay, ay, ay!
25 September 2006, 8:53 pmLisa:
There are intelligent people who propound government complicity. See the recent article by Carolyn Baker:
9/11 CONSPIRACY PHOBIA AMONG PROGRESSIVES
http://carolynbaker.org/article/911-conspiracy-phobia-among-progressives
And Michael Chossudovsky, for example, has some material at: globalresearch.ca
25 September 2006, 9:20 pmJorge:
Forgot to include this other item at:
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=89&contentid=3933&page=2
9/11 Conspiracy:Cheney Ordered Military Stand Down (continued)
by LAURO CHAVEZ
From 1995 till 2002 I was a Sergeant in the United States Army. Not only this, but I was stationed at United States Central Command, which is located at MacDill AFB in Tampa Florida. I was on active duty when 9-11 happened.
In the days prior to the tragedies, we were involved in many exercises. Some of these exercises included the scenarios of hijacked planes crashing into, our building the world trade center, the White House, Sears Tower, and the Pentagon. These drills or exercises as we called them, where classified Top Secret.
Having a Top Secret rated clearance I was dumbfounded that they would ever push a training exercise above the level of Secret. Over my 8 years in the Army, I had participated in many exercises around the world, none of which were ever classified over the Secret level.
I’ll start by saying a few months prior it was announced by President Bush that Dick Cheney would be heading up operations over NORAD our North American Aerospace Defense Command.
Along with many of my peers, we were shocked. Over the years, if you research NORAD, it has always been under the command of a Military officer. It was done this way because the defense of this country has always been in the hands of such.
Prior to the months before 9-11 this was all of the sudden changed. Like I said, if you research NORAD and the command structure you will find that it was imposed long ago that the military should be in control of the order to scramble planes in the defense of American air space.
For some strange reason, Bush changed this and gave that power to a civilian person on his Staff team yes I know, very interesting.
Back to the morning of 9-11; the command was busy with this training exercise. We were instructed to bring all our gear in to prep for a mock (staged) deployment to the Middle East.
On the morning of 9-11 I had been on base prepped and ready to go since about 0400am. During my time at the base that morning, they were setting up barriers around the command and placing gun posts on the roofs.
When I questioned one of the security officers about the machine gun and shoulder fired rockets on the roof I was given the answer its a precaution for a plane attempting to crash into this building.
So, I was standing in the SCIF (Secure Compartmented Information Facility), which is basically this underground bunker command post for USCENTCOM, when the first plane hit. We were watching the fly patterns of all the planes on the aerospace grid. This contained not only all commercial flights at the time, but all military flights, and fake enemy planes that were supposedly put on there for the exercise.
Many of the planes sent to intercept the fake blips were scrambled from Andrews which is an air defense AFB for the East Coast. They were sent across the US and left very few planes to defend the capital.
After the first plane hit the tower we were all in disbelief. After the initial shock was over, our questions were what are the odds this could happen for real, during a training exercise thats covering the same scenario? We were all at wits end.
Then to top all of this off, Cheney gave NORAD the order to stand down scrambling jets to intercept.
A few moments later tower 2 was hit. Only after the Pentagon was hit, did he give the orders to scramble the jets to intercept the plane bound for the White House.
All of this is very interesting to me it sickened me so that I left the Army after coming back from an 8 month deployment to Afghanistan. There were just too many questions that no one could answer, too many things that did not make sense.
How is it possible to have a training exercise about planes hitting the WTC and then actually have planes hit the WTC? This kind of thing just does not happen unless its pre-planned.
What reason would there be to have this type of exercise on that morning, Ill tell you if you are placing fake planes all over the north American aerospace grid then you have no way of knowing which planes are real and which are fake. Then to thicken the plot you put a civilian in charge of NORAD so that the military does not have the power to initiate the order for jets to be scrambled to intercept.
If the military would have still commanded power over NORAD they would have scrambled jets because they would have simply followed the procedures that had been in place for this type of situation for years and years and scrambled jets.
To delve even further, as Im standing there watching the towers collapse, next to me is one of my good friends and a former commander of the Army Corps of Engineers. He is a demolitions expert. He was even more surprised than me.
When the towers collapsed he kept saying this isnt right, this isnt right. When I asked him what he was talking about he told me that steel buildings dont fall down that way. Even if they are struck by objects; he went on to say that in theory if the top 10 floors were hit, then possibly just that part of the building would fall over and off, but the rest would remain standing.
When I asked him, not understanding the implications of demolitions, he told me that it looked as if they were brought down by controlled demolitions. I was utterly amazed, but after he said that it did sort of appear that way.
I’ll tell you what gave this whole thing away was building 7. If they would not have brought this building down, then they probably could have gotten away with it all. It was the most amazing site I have ever seen. Not only was it amazing, it bore reality to the truth of the situation something was not right here.
Now, I’m going to tell you all I have learned, but I urge anyone to just spend 1hr reading about this incident on the internet and learning the facts. There have been numerous scholars, numerous physicists that have analyzed this over and over and over again. And they all come to the same conclusion, something does not add up.
Building 7 was never directly hit by a plane. Now it was stated that a piece of one of the towers fell onto the side of building 7 and caught one of the floors on fire.
A few moments later we all witnessed the most perfect example of controlled demolitions to ever be caught on camera. It could not be proved that building 7 fell due to fire. My friend and I standing there in the SCIF watching in uninterruptible awe with all those other military members; watching building 7 fall perfectly onto its footprint; my friend stating that it was beautifully done.
We all knew then we all realized that this was not some group of unorganized cave dwellers from Afghanistan orchestrating a perfect hit on American soil. It was impossible.
Shortly after the Pentagon was struck I called my close friend that I went to Basic Training with. All civilian lines were down and I had to contact him via STU which is a black line classified phone system. He did not answer, but one of his soldiers did. I asked if SGT Worthington was ok and he said yes.
I asked if the plane did severe damage and he told me I didnt see any plane. Then when I finally got to speak to my friend, he started acting strange saying he could not talk about the incident over this line. He was shipped off overseas a few weeks later and I never to this day have had the chance to speak with him.
The Pentagon crash tape was released a few months back after 5 years. You need to watch that tape nowhere can you see a plane strike the Pentagon. This is because it was not a plane. I cannot tell you exactly what hit the Pentagon, but its unanimous; it was definitely not a plane. I can assure you that there is more than one CCTV camera around the Pentagon.
On September 25, 4 days before my 25th birthday, I deployed to Afghanistan. Over the 8months I was there I had never seen one intelligent Afghani soldier. They were all tattered and scrawny and could barely shoot their weapons straight. This does not mean that there were not men that could fly a plane, but after what I saw it was extremely hard to believe they could be taught to fly a sophisticated piece of aeronautical equipment.
My point is that I spent 8 months in combat watching my brothers die in the name of Freedom. I killed, in the name of Freedom and to this day my brothers are still being killed for this illusionary war we call the War on Terror. Where the enemy has no face where there is no clear objective.
In this War, anyone with ill thoughts toward this country can be defined as a terrorist. Well, I guess that includes me in this group as well as everyone else who questions the events of 911, because we all hold ill thoughts toward the leadership of this country and I say the real terrorists in this world sit right in the heart of its capital.
I have bled for this country and would do so again in a heart beat but only to protect its people, the true Americans that live here. I would never again offer my life under the leadership whose real goal is oil and money.
The same ones who staged the most perfect illusionary tactic in our history that was a pretext to a war on terror that would never again go away. Their goal was to scare the American public into submission making it easier for the world powers to do their evil and get away with it.
Now that may sound like a typical conspiracy theorist I guess, but how many do you actually talk to? I’m not here saying that Aliens came down and used laser beams to bring the towers down or control the planes that were flown; I’m telling you as a sane, logical and intelligent individual, something does not add up about this.
Earlier this year I was watching the Discovery channel. They have a PBS program called Rebuilding America. This particular episode was about the WTC building 7. They interviewed Larry Silverstein (the owner) about building 7. He stated on national TV the following which is the direct quote and can be found here: http://www.wtc7.net/pullit.html
I remember getting a call from the…er…fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, “We’ve had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.” And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse.
I actually have the program recorded and you are more than welcome to come by my house and watch it. He actually stated this on national TV. I was so amazed that I almost shat myself. I could not believe he actually stated this on a nationally broadcasted TV program.
You can ask any person who has done controlled demolitions please interview someone they will tell you it takes weeks of planning to do this. We are expected to believe that this was facilitated and planned in a matter of hours for building 7, while the damn thing was on fire you have got to be kidding me. If that is not enough to make you believe something was fishy well then nothing ever will.
Since that time there have been numerous scholars, some of which have actually been publicly broadcasted on CSPAN. The latest program was called: Theories about 9-11. American Perspectives and you can watch this (which I advise you do) per this link: Theories about 9-11 (American Perspectives) or you can go to http://www.c-span.org and look under their video/audio section to find this title. It’s an outstanding video and encompasses the thoughts of not only the American public, but also Dr Steven Jones from Brigham Young University a physics professor that actually received a piece of the rubble from the WTC. Not only does he profoundly agree that building 7 was a controlled demolition he can prove it. After he analyzed the piece of debris they found; there were large traces of sulfur and Thermite found. If you did not know, Thermite is a chemical compound found in many explosives including C4 which I have used many times in the Army. It leaves a distinct smell and identifiable residue upon explosion. Dr Jones found large traces of this from the rubble.
There are many things that I never wanted to know for one that the government that is supposed to be caring for the American people could be corrupt. This was the last thing that I ever wanted to be true but its time we wake up and smell the bullshit because its permeating throughout the American public and we are all starting to realize whats really going on.
If your news station actually did a similar Zogby type poll here in Cincinnati, I think you would find that a lot more than 1/3 of the people believe this. I know tons just in this area.
I could literally write you 100 pages of truths that could prove that 9-11 was an inside job, but Id probably just be passed off as some crazy conspiracy theorist.
Instead I want to give you the tools to look for yourself because the quest for wisdom is a journey we must all take alone. So, to you I add the following links and if you just spend a small portion of your day reading and watching some of this footage, who knows you may wake up and stand along side the rest of us in utter amazement.
Respectfully,
Formerly:
SGT Lauro Chavez
United States Central Command
Currently:
25 September 2006, 9:27 pmLauro “LJ” Chavez
Director of Information Security
Domin-8 Enterprise Solutions
513-492-5831
lchavez@domin-8.com
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Marilyn Farhat:
After reading the last post and other information and news like it coming out in the last year, I ask the question again: to those in the military and the government who knew something was amiss, why were they and continue to be silent? There comes a time in a person’s life when he/she has to take a stand for honesty and integrity, especially where the lives of people and welfare of nations are concerned. After all, they are in those position for “public service.”
Any person who willingly signs up for this global war now is acquiescing at some level in the murder and destruction of people and the world. Anyone who sends money to support the machinery that kills poor people around the world is guilty of the same whether they realize it all not. The fact is most of us are guilty at some level.
We are so terrified of losing our pensions, our status and rank, our ego within our particular groups, that we are immobilized by this fear and “towing the line” becomes the most secure (at least in the very near future). We wait till there is enough dissent before we get the courage to speak out but, by then, it is too late for many. The dead have died, more countries are irradiated with Uranium, more women are oppressed by “friendly” regimes and the businesses we helped create, and Caci, Blackwater, and Halliburton are in business heaven.
I am sorry to say but all these commissions and enquiries are a bit too little too late (they are important though, but they should have been done much earlier). The invasion has begun and fundmentalism and terrorism are on the rise among states, groups, and individuals. It has become a clash of civilizations whether we like it or not. I remember the days 5 years ago, and even before then, when many were saying it was wrong to occupy the lands of the Palestinian people and to treat Arabs like animals. I remember the days when military families would call us names and give us the finger and call us traitors (go back to Afghanistan or Iraq) when we said we wanted the troops not to go to the Middle East (that was before the “Bring the Troops Home” slogan). I also remember the days soon after that when the mothers would come up to us as yell at us “why aren’t you doing anything to bring my son home instead of just calling for peace all the time?” But that last plea is an indication of the apathy of a nation and its leadership on all levels. You feel for the plight of the parents, but what could one say? So you listen to them vent and hope that after their grief has ssubsided, they might join you or stand up on their own for what is right for a change.
People only get involved when troubles impact them personally. As long as our morality does not transcend our immediate selves, all the “activism” and “commissions” and “fact finding missions” and books and reports become one more source of fuel in the muck of problems we have created that we do not know if we’re coming or going.
I believe that this system is too broke to fix. It is a system that is affecting us and the world in detrimental ways as time goes by. We’re damned if we leave Iraq, we’re damned if we don’t. We’re damned if we have a “righty” or a “lefty” in power. Both have their baggage amidst a system that lets them get away with thier stunts.
I am a pessimist. I hope I am wrong, but I see no hope for this “democracy,” for the poor, for women and children, and for all the non-heterosexuals non-Christians out there. This system will have to collapse before it can be rebuilt, but it will come at a terrible price. I just pray I am around long enough to help my son live through it.
26 September 2006, 12:57 pm