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Post by michelle on May 7, 2006 14:01:08 GMT 4
Moussaoui A Psychotic Patsy Under FBI Control; Show Trial Is Unconstitutional, Experts Say Note: Experts quoted here are the Scholars For 9/11 Truthtinyurl.com/rrxvtThe Moussaoui Verdict Deals Blow To Bush Administration’s 9/11 Coverupby Patrick Martin May 5, 2006 The decision by an Alexandria, Virginia jury to sentence Zaccarias Moussaoui to life imprisonment, sparing him a death sentence, is a humane and intelligent action and a rebuff to the Bush administration. In issuing its verdict, the jury rejected the government’s demand for a death sentence and, by implication, its attempt to use the Moussaoui case to cover up both its inaction before 9/11 and its inexplicable refusal to put any of the principal figures in the 9/11 conspiracy on trial. By all accounts, the 12 jurors made a painstaking review of the evidence in the case, poring through their notes on the testimony as they filled out a complex 42-page form assessing the aggravating and mitigating factors argued by the prosecution and defense. Moussaoui pled guilty a year ago to participating in the conspiracy that led up to the 9/11 attacks, and the trial was confined to the choice between two penalties—life imprisonment without parole or death. The principal hurdle for the prosecution was the fact that Moussaoui was arrested in August 2001 on immigration charges, when his bizarre behavior after enrolling at a Minnesota flight school brought him to the attention of local FBI agents. He was sitting in jail during the 9/11 attacks, and obviously played no direct role in the worst terrorist attacks in US history, in which nearly 3,000 innocent people were murdered. The Justice Department, in seeking the death penalty, argued that Moussaoui’s silence about the Al Qaeda plot, and his false claims that he was merely interested in learning how to fly large airplanes, had prevented the federal government from taking measures, such as intensified airport security, that would have forestalled the suicide hijackings. This was a tenuous argument, one that, as Judge Leonie Brinkema pointed out, came close to challenging Moussaoui’s Fifth Amendment right to remain silent after his arrest. But after the jury seemingly accepted the prosecution’s argument, issuing an initial decision last month that Moussaoui was eligible for the death penalty, most courtroom observers declared that a death sentence was a foregone conclusion. Having determined that Moussaoui’s silence gave him a share of the responsibility for the deaths on September 11, 2001, the jury would necessarily impose the maximum sentence. Instead, however, as they reviewed the evidence, some of the jurors effectively reversed their earlier finding. Three jurors cited an additional mitigating factor on their form—one not argued by the defense because it had already supposedly been decided—declaring that Moussaoui should not be executed because he actually knew very little of the 9/11 conspiracy. While the jurors remain anonymous and it is not yet possible to determine their precise line of reasoning, some general considerations are clear. Nine of the 12 jurors found that Moussaoui’s upbringing and history of violent abuse by his father were mitigating factors. Three found that Moussaoui’s experience of racial discrimination in France as he was growing up was another mitigating factor. Although the jurors rejected claims by Moussaoui’s attorneys that he is a paranoid schizophrenic, they heard videotaped depositions from two of Moussaoui’s sisters, who suffer from that mental illness and are confined to French asylums. The jurors were undoubtedly affected by the extraordinary testimony of two dozen family members of 9/11 victims who agreed to appear as defense witnesses. Although they were not permitted to state an opinion about the appropriate penalty for Moussaoui while on the stand, their appearance clearly conveyed opposition to the government’s demand for a death sentence and undermined its claim that only the execution of Moussaoui could provide “closure” for the 9/11 families. Outside the courtroom, many of these 9/11 relatives declared their opposition to capital punishment and to making Moussaoui an Al Qaeda martyr. Among both the family members and the jurors, the growing public rejection of the death penalty has made itself felt. Although the Bush administration chose to bring the case in conservative Virginia, in a city near the Pentagon, rather than in more liberal New York, the jury pool in Alexandria has not been reliably pro-death. By one account, federal juries in Alexandria have declined to impose the death penalty in all six cases brought in that district since 1998. The jurors heard diametrically conflicting expert witnesses on Moussaoui’s sanity, but the defendant’s own performance certainly raised doubts about his mental capacity, both at the time of the 9/11 attacks and today. His repellent gloating over the deaths of innocent people and his baiting of his own lawyers—one of them Jewish—were combined with grandiose and clearly false declarations of his own central role in Al Qaeda. The most bizarre statement came when he took the stand and, under oath, declared that he was to have been the pilot of a fifth hijacked airplane, accompanied by the failed shoe-bomber Richard Reid and other Al Qaeda supporters. Aside from the fact that Reid was not in the US in the summer of 2001 and had no known relation to the 9/11 plot, he also made Moussaoui the beneficiary of his will, an act which makes little sense if the two were to take part in the same suicide hijacking. Even the FBI conceded that there was no evidence to support Moussaoui’s claims. As well, there were depositions from those the CIA has named as the two leaders of the 9/11 plot now held in secret US prisons overseas, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshidh, both of whom testified that Moussaoui was considered too unstable and unreliable even to be a suicide hijacker, and had been relegated to a secondary role, if even that. This raises another aspect of the Moussaoui case, one that is of utmost political importance, whatever role it may have played in the jury’s deliberations. Why was the bit player Moussaoui on trial, and not those identified as the planners and organizers of the 9/11 attacks who are in US custody? Binalshidh was captured in September 2002, Mohammed six months later. Anything they may have known at the time about Al Qaeda’s operations has been extracted from them—certainly they can know nothing today of contemporaneous intelligence value. Yet they remain, perhaps indefinitely, in the custody of the CIA, facing no tribunal for their crimes. There are two likely reasons why Mohammed and Binalshidh have not been brought to trial. The first is that they have been tortured so systematically that they are physically or mentally unfit to participate. The second is that if accorded the opportunity of a public trial, with competent legal counsel, they might well reveal embarrassing facts about the longstanding connections between Al Qaeda and American intelligence agencies. It was, after all, the CIA which created Al Qaeda through its recruitment of Islamic fundamentalists, including bin Laden, to participate in the anti-Soviet guerrilla war in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Moussaoui is too young and too inexperienced to have personal knowledge of these connections, but not so Mohammed and Binalshidh, two of bin Laden’s closest lieutenants. There is reason to believe, moreover, that these connections did not suddenly cease after bin Laden’s declaration of war on the United States in 1996. There have been unconfirmed reports of CIA-bin Laden contacts as late as the summer of 2001. And the European media has reported US government surveillance of Mohammed Atta throughout the period that the 9/11 attacks were being organized. The fundamental unanswered question about 9/11 is how much the Bush administration and the US intelligence services knew of the plans for terrorist attacks, and at what level the decision was made not to interfere with these preparations, in order to obtain a suitable pretext for US military intervention in Central Asia and the Middle East. The jury verdict of life imprisonment for Moussaoui provoked bitter and frustrated comments from Bush himself, former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and such media outlets as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Daily News. Bush declared, in a typical non sequitur, “The end of this trial represents the end of this case, but not an end to the fight against terror.” He said that the jury had spared Moussaoui’s life even though that “is something that he evidently wasn’t willing to do for innocent American citizens.” Apparently, the president regretted the jury’s decision to act in a more enlightened fashion than the Al Qaeda terrorist. The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed column by former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan, headlined, “They Should Have Killed Him,” as though the jury should have strung Moussaoui up in the courtroom personally. In an accompanying editorial, the Journal declared that the verdict demonstrated the danger of routing terrorism cases through the court system, instead of the summary military proceedings sought by the Bush administration for those imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay—none of whom has been tried, more than four years after the concentration camp opened. The most irate comment came from the tabloid Daily News, which denounced the jury for considering mitigating factors like violent abuse in childhood. “The thought that U.S. jurors are capable of such muddled thinking is horrifying,” the News opined. “Any role in 9/11, any foreknowledge of the attacks, any aid and comfort given Al Qaeda is grounds for death.” If the ultimate crime is being forewarned about 9/11 and then taking no action, then former CIA Director George Tenet, a raft of FBI supervisors, as well as Bush, Cheney and Condoleezza Rice should all be facing criminal investigations and indictments. It was on August 6, 2001 that Rice presented Bush a CIA memo warning of Al Qaeda plans to hijack airliners inside the United States, with the possibility they could be used in suicide attacks. The vast machinery of the federal government ground on without taking a single action to forestall the attacks. In sharp contrast to the hysteria and cover-up from the White House and the media, many relatives of 9/11 victims have reacted to the Moussaoui case by calling once again for a more serious effort to uncover the truth about the terrorist attacks and punish their perpetrators. Rosemary Dillard, whose husband died at the Pentagon on September 11, told a press conference that she respected the jury’s decisions. “We showed the world what we do to terrorists,” she said. “We’ll show them respect no matter how much disrespect they show us. It makes us a finer society.” Such attitudes, expressed by relatives of the victims and acted upon by the Virginia jury members, demonstrate that no matter how much the media, not to mention the government, has attempted to debase popular consciousness, they have not been able to stamp out democratic sentiments and humanity in the American people. See Also: FBI agent testifies: Bureau resisted Moussaoui investigation before 9/11 attacks [22 March 2006] Bush administration hails Moussaoui guilty plea—continues 9/11 cover-up [26 April 2005] Source:www.wsws.org/articles/2006/may2006/mous-m05.shtml
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Post by michelle on May 8, 2006 15:55:48 GMT 4
Professor Says ‘Cutter Charges’ Brought Down WTC Buildings Evidence of Thermite Uncovered at World Trade Center By Christopher Bollyn PROVO, Utah —“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act,”said the British writer George Orwell. Orwell’s words aptly describe the situation of Steven E. Jones, a soft-spoken professor at Brigham Young University (BYU) who has turned his attention to the unanswered questions of the Sept. 11 attacks. Provo, the home of BYU, is America’s most conservative city in the most Republican county. With more than 85 percent of the population supporting President George W. Bush, Provo seems an unlikely place for any “revolutionary act”—unless that act were simply telling the truth. On the picturesque campus of the private Mormon university, surrounded by snow-capped peaks, Jones teaches physics and carries out research in the fields of metal-catalyzed fusion, solar energy and archeometry, or the scientific study and analysis of artifacts. As an archeometrist, Jones applies physics to explain events in the past. Since last year when he became aware of the unanswered questions of 9-11, he has focused his attention on the available data and evidence. The unexplained presence of molten metal at the World Trade Center (WTC) puzzled Jones and he contacted this writer to confirm the reports first published in American Free Press in 2002. These reports came from two men involved in the removal of the rubble: Peter Tully of Tully Construction of Flushing, N.Y., and Mark Loizeaux of Controlled Demolition, Inc. of Phoenix, Md. Tully told AFP that he had seen pools of “literally molten steel” in the rubble. Loizeaux confirmed this: “Yes, hot spots of molten steel in the basements,” he said, “at the bottom of the elevator shafts of the main towers, down seven levels.” The molten steel was found “three, four, and five weeks later, when the rubble was being removed,” he said. He confirmed that molten steel was also found at WTC 7, which mysteriously collapsed in the late afternoon. SERIOUS INVESTIGATIONLast November, Jones presented a draft which has since evolved into a 52-page paper. His paper begins with an appeal for “a serious investigation of the hypothesis that WTC 7 and the Twin Towers were brought down . . .through the use of pre-positioned cutter-charges.” Jones presents evidence that an “aluminothermic process” called “thermite” was used to weaken and sever the 47 massive core columns that held up the towers. The official version fails to explain how these critical columns failed. When ignited, thermite, a combination of finely ground aluminum and iron oxide (rust), cuts through steel like a “warm knife through butter,” Jones said, especially when mixed with 2 percent sulfur. The resulting combination, called “thermate,” lowers the melting point of steel. Thermite was patented in Germany by Hans Goldschmidt in the late 1800s. Extremely high temperatures are produced when the aluminum and iron oxide react. The reaction produces temperatures of more than 2,500 degrees Celsius (4,500 degrees Fahrenheit) as the ferric oxide is reduced to molten iron. Iron melts at 1,535 degrees Celsius. The reaction causes the oxygen from the ferric oxide to bond with the aluminum, producing aluminum oxide, molten iron, and approximately 750 kilocalories per gram of thermite. The aluminum oxide is a whitish smoke. AFP recently attended a presentation of Jones’s 9-11 research at BYU. Jones began with footage of the unexplained collapse of Larry Silverstein’s 47-story building, WTC 7, at 5:25 p.m. When Jones was interviewed by Tucker Carlson of MSNBC, the producers refused to air this short but crucial video segment.AFP observed thermite reactions in Jones’s physics class. As a colleague combined the powdered rust and aluminum in a mounted ceramic flowerpot, Jones filmed the reaction. A paper wick with magnesium ignited the sand-like mixture. The reaction was intense, nearly explosive, and white flames and pieces of metal flew out of the pot. From the bottom poured a white-hot liquid—pure molten iron. After a few seconds a glowing yellow-hot piece of iron was lifted with tongs and shown to the students. Because thermite does not require air and can react underwater, it may explain the persistent hot spots that were unaffected by a continuous dousing from fire hoses. The white-hot molten iron and slag can itself prolong and extend the heating and incendiary action. “As of 21 days after the attack, the fires were still burning and molten steel was still running,” Leslie Robertson, structural engineer responsible for the design of the WTC, told fellow engineers. Footage taken by WABC-TV of the burning South Tower at 9:53 a.m., immediately before the building collapsed, reveals large amounts of white-hot molten metal, presumably iron, pouring from the 81st floor of the east corner. The amount of spilling molten metal suggests a pool of molten iron was in that area of the building. While some have suggested that the molten metal was aluminum, this is easily disproved by the fact that molten aluminum appears silver-gray in daylight. The only possible explanation is that the white-hot metal gushing from the South Tower was molten iron and had been produced by a very large amount of thermite. The amount of molten metal seen falling would indicate that tons of thermite had been used on that floor. From the video footage it appears that several cubic yards of molten metal fell, which, if iron, would have weighed over eight tons. Jones’s explosive paper is accessible on his web page (physics.byu.edu) and will be published in a forthcoming book by David Ray Griffin and Peter Dale Scott. Reading Jones’ paper on-line allows the reader to review the photographic/video evidence. “I consider the official FEMA, NIST, and 9-11 Commission reports,” Jones writes, which claim “that fires plus impact damage alone caused complete collapses of all three buildings.” He challenges the official explanation and provides evidence to support the controlled-demolition hypothesis, which, he says “is suggested by the available data, testable and falsifiable.” Jones notes that the hypothesis that the towers were demolished by explosives “has not been analyzed in any of the reports funded by the U.S. government.” Ignoring the evidence of the controlled-demolition hypothesis, the FEMA-sponsored study of 2002 concluded, “The specifics of the fires in WTC 7 and how they caused the building to collapse remain unknown.” Furthermore, the official report found that the fire-induced collapse hypothesis “has only a low probability of occurrence.” The engineers concluded that “further research, investigation, and analyses are needed to resolve this issue.” “That is precisely the point,” Jones says, “further investigation and analyses are indeed needed, including serious consideration of the controlled-demolition hypothesis which is neglected in all of the government reports.” The fact that the 9-11 Commission report does not even mention the collapse of WTC 7 “is a striking omission of data highly relevant to the question of what really happened on 9-11,” he said. FURTHER INVESTIGATIONFurther investigation is what Jones is trying to get other scientists to do. One would think that the mainstream media would be interested in a highly respected physicist answering questions about 9-11, but that has not been the case. The controlled media and supporters of the official version completely avoid Jones. Like a modern-day Galileo or Luther, Jones has exposed the flaws in the official version, “a myth,” he says, “which has taken on religious proportions.“There is a clear disconnect between what the official reports say happened and what actually happened,” Jones says. “A scientific theory has to be falsifiable. It must be able to be tested and challenged. “The data stands on its own. Where are the honest scientists?” Jones asks. “Take the blinders off and find out what happened.”The official 9-11 reports are what Jones calls “pathological science,” in which investigators ignore all evidence that contradicts the conclusion they have been asked to prove. AFP contacted three scientists who support the official theory to ask if they would review Jones’s paper. Thomas W. Eagar of MIT refused to even look at the paper and said there is no evidence of molten metal pouring from the WTC. Challenged with the evidence, he hung up the phone. Zdenek P. Bazant of Northwestern University submitted his fire-induced collapse theory to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) two days after 9-11, without examining any evidence. Asked if he would review Jones’s paper, Bazant also refused, “I have seen Jones’s fiction before. If you want my private opinion, it is nothing but sensationalism,” he said. “His purported refutation of my analysis is baseless.” Asked to simply look at five photos in an e-mail showing the cascading molten metal and core columns, which appear to have been cut with thermite, Bazant responded, “I do not have time.” Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, an Iranian-born professor at Berkeley, who was a member of the ASCE team studying the WTC collapse, also refused to look at Jones’s paper. “I will not be able to find time to review the material that you have sent me,” said Astaneh-Asl. (Issue #18 & 19, May 1 & 8, 2006) SOURCE: tinyurl.com/zwkjh
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Post by DT1 on May 9, 2006 21:16:13 GMT 4
How 911 Really HappenedBy Douglas Herman Exclusive to Rense.com5-7-6 Some time after the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) composed their manifesto, referring to a "New Pearl Harbor" attack on America, an ultra-secret group of powerful government insiders outlined a series of plans that would attempt to fulfill every facet of their agenda. They considered and rejected many plans. The plan they finally selected was ingenious and enormously profitable for everyone involved. The plan called for airliner hijackings that were in fact not hijackings at all. Instead pre-selected, early morning commercial flights would be electronically commandeered and crashed into redundant structures. Why early morning? Predictably a media blizzard would commence while stunned Americans rubbed the sleep from their eyes. The emotional overload would continue for the entire day and well into the next. During that chaotic first day, disinformation (government-concocted stories) would be released, informing the shocked citizens exactly who perpetrated the treacherous deed. In the days that followed further "News" releases would inform Americans of the identities and backgrounds of these religious fanatics. Within a week we would know everything about the 19 Muslims who allegedly hijacked four airplanes and killed 3,000 Americans. As for the targets, a pair of architectural white elephants were chosen, the massive, soaring, iconographic "Twin Towers." In addition another electronically controlled airplane would plow into a remodeled section of the Pentagon (occupied by Office of Naval Intelligence). That fiery impact would signify an attack on America's stronghold, in the public consciousness. The attacks were masterminded by a select few of interconnected insiders who, not surprisingly, remain in power today. Certain key members of Congress, the CIA, Mossad, Pentagon, and the White House organized the plan to perfection. Secrecy was no problem. Anyone with foreknowledge of the plan, who considered revealing the daring operation out of guilt or misgiving, would be either threatened personally, have their family threatened and have their story ridiculed and denied. After all, who in the media would have believed 9-11 before it happened? Media complicity, among top directors of the US media, was understood well in advance. How many were involved you ask? Probably not more than a couple dozen. No more than fifty perhaps at the upper levels of planning. A few Pentagon generals, a handful of US and Israeli intelligence insiders, a half dozen White House ideologues, and certain corrupt Congressmen and Cabinet members compromised by blackmail or debased patriotism. Beneath them, a cadre of true believers, loyal footsoldiers and mercenaries actually did the dirty work. The flight school drop outs belonged to this later group. A joint team of CIA and Mossad shadow warriors supervised contract laborers who planted the explosives in the weeks and months prior to the controlled demolitions. At the same time, electronic guidance systems were tested and retested on large airplanes. Nothing was left to chance. The NORAD stand down was one key element. Whether White House or Pentagon insiders over-ruled top generals Eberhart, Myers, Weaver et al, or whether these generals betrayed their country and their sworn duty is debatable. Perhaps each general was compromised by overt physical threats and or tempting, lucrative promises. Indeed, we should recall that one such top general, General Richard Myers, was rewarded with a promotion within days of the successful attack. Since the attack, you will have noticed that those rumored connected to the attack have been amply rewarded. But how, or why, did so many millions of otherwise rational and intelligent people, with no stake in the event, agree to ignore the massive and overwhelming suspicious evidence that indicated a conspiratorial crime rather than a terrorist attack? Because to disagree with the official government version of events (the planners version) would expose the dissident to ridicule, recrimination or physical threat, or loss of job, career and, particularly, social respect. Consider those patriotic whistleblowers and dedicated American public servants who did attempt to alert their soon-to-be-promoted superiors of the danger. Like FBI agent Colleen Rowley, Sybil Edmonds and John O' Neill, anyone who opposed the plan could be killed, contained or controlled. The reasons for 9-11 were diverse and extremely rewarding. While the risks were great, the rewards were far greater. Planners achieved enormous personal fortunes, dictatorial power and a furtherance of a debased nationalism. Israel, which supplied various Mossad loyalists (demolition experts?) months in advance, gained the destruction of her enemies. Pentagon generals achieved promotions. Wall Street masterminds achieved billions in profits with the complete destruction of SEC records (When WTC-7 was demolished). Silverstein, the WTC landlord, achieved hundreds of millions in damage claims. Intelligence orgs achieved massive influx of money, tens of billions, as did the Pentagon. Religious autocrats achieved a new crusade. While the risks were great---for all involved---the rewards were far greater. How 9-11 actually happened is self-evident. Why 9-11 happened is clearer still. Everyone involved had a personal reason, an agenda, whether personal gain or a depraved sort of patriotism. Truly 9-11 was all about power, profit and yes, patriotism. The deaths of a few thousand citizens would have been considered a small price to pay. To those readers who possess a moral compass, who cannot conceive of such seemingly bizarre rationales, and vehemently disagree with my scenario, I offer one final statement. Compare the motives of powerful men to serial killers. The depraved serial killer, like a lone predator, kills for no intelligent aim. Jeffrey Dahmer for example. Yet a conspiracy of powerful government insiders achieves far greater ends than hundreds or even thousands of serial killers. They change the course of history, seize the ship of state and steer it in the direction they choose, and enrich themselves and their cronies. If several thousand people must die in the process, that is unfortunate but the end does justify the means. No ideologue considers his methods immoral. A secret, powerful, state society of serial killers may even be considered rational to themselves. Their agendas and objectives-the furtherance of the state regime---may seem unselfish and even patriotic. And if huge fortunes are to be gained, that becomes a suitable reward for their risk. USAF veteran and amateur historian, Douglas Herman writes for Rense regularly and is the author of The Guns of Dallas. Contact him at douglasherman7@yahoo.com
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Post by michelle on May 13, 2006 14:27:57 GMT 4
RALL 5/9/06 The Railroading of Zacarias MoussaouiNEW YORK--It's official. 9/11 has driven America utterly bat-guano mad. Don't believe it? Consider the following: American citizens, liberal and conservative alike, have become self-deluded, fervently certain of "facts" that are indisputably false. "By a margin of better than two to one," according to the May 9th New York Times poll, Democrats--who have become so ideologically invisible that they're meeting to decide what, if any, ideas they ought to develop for this fall's elections--"were seen as having more new ideas than Republicans." At the same time, most voters believe that Republicans--who are losing two catastrophic wars because they failed to send enough troops or supply them with adequate equipment--"would do a better job at maintaining a stronger military than Democrats." Meanwhile, the CIA--whose mission is to sabotage popularly elected democracies and replace them with right-wing torture-dictatorships--has become the liberal branch of government. According to insiders, Porter Goss was fired as the agency's director because he failed to purge its "soft leakers and liberal Democrats." A former senior CIA official with continuing links to the Bush Administration and the agency told the Baltimore Sun upon Goss' appointment in 2004: "The CIA is looked on by the White House as a hotbed of liberals and people who have been obstructing the president's agenda." CIA liberals. Right. Finally and most terrifyingly, George Orwell's "thoughtcrime"--the equating of mental disloyalty with actual sedition--has gone mainstream. Media discussion about the recent trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, accused of possibly maybe thinking about becoming the "20th hijacker" on 9/11--or was it the second 20th hijacker?--spanned a vast spectrum of acceptable political discourse. The "conservatives" demanded that Moussaoui be executed, the "liberals" that he be sentenced to life in prison. Nowhere in the press or on the air could anyone be found who was willing to ask the most obvious question: Why was the guy on trial at all?Lest we forget, Moussaoui didn't do anything. He couldn't have. He was in jail on immigration charges; he had already been behind bars for nearly a month on 9/11. The government charged him with six counts--not of committing a crime, but of conspiring to participate in 9/11. Count Four, Conspiracy to Use Weapons of Mass Destruction, relied solely on Moussaoui's alleged membership in Al Qaeda. If Al Qaeda ever tried to acquire WMDs--evidence of this is sketchy to non-existent--it's absurd to imagine that Osama bin Laden might have involved a demented third-stringer like Moussaoui. Moussaoui probably didn't know about 9/11, either. (Failing to notify the authorities about the terror plot formed the basis of his prosecution.) Neither Khalid Sheikh Mohammed nor any other Al Qaeda prisoner held in U.S. torture camps had heard of him. Even federal prosecutors admit that Moussaoui fabricated his claim that attempted shoe bomber Richard Reid was supposed to help him hijack a fifth plane and crash it into the White House on 9/11. But innocence isn't Moussaoui's only defense. He's also insane. Only a loon would refuse to cooperate with his own lawyers, testify against himself and shout "You will never get my blood! God curse you all!," "God curse America and save Osama bin Laden! You'll never get him!" and "I am Al Qaeda! I'm the enemy! This trial is a circus!" while on trial for his life before a jury of 12 Americans. After the jury sentenced him to life, he filed a motion for a new trial--a right he waived when he plead guilty to the original trumped-up charges. The man needs Zoloft, not a prison cell. Contrary to Bush's promises, it's beginning to look as if none of the criminals behind 9/11 will ever be brought to justice. Fortunately for him the American people seem to be satisfied with Soviet-style show trials of political patsies and scapegoats, of which Moussaoui is merely the most recent in U.S. history. During World War I, Socialist Party general secretary Charles Schenck was arrested for passing out pamphlets opposing the draft. The Supreme Court affirmed his sentence of 15 years in prison for sedition, although he ended up serving only six months. And in 2002 21-year-old "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh was jailed for 20 years after lengthy homoerotic torture at the hands of American soldiers. Lindh had joined the Taliban many months before 9/11, while the Bush Administration was financing the fanatical Afghan regime and conducting negotiations for an oil and gas pipeline with its officials, in order to fight the Northern Alliance. There is no evidence that he drew his weapon against U.S. forces. Lindh and Moussaoui are clearly guilty of dumbassery. But if that's a crime worthy of life in prison, we're going to need to build millions of new cells. Too many Americans seem to have been taken in by the present Administration's rhetorical strategy of blurring the general with the specific. "My brother had his throat slit with the very kind of knives that Moussaoui secreted on his person," said Debra Burlingame, whose brother was the pilot of the flight that crashed into the Pentagon. "It is ridiculous to say that because he was sitting in jail that he was somehow not responsible." How is it "ridiculous" to say that a man who couldn't commit a crime didn't do it? Shall we imprison everyone who owns the same type of knife? Whatever happened to common sense? The trial and sentencing of Zacarias Moussaoui has been an embarrassment to the United States, unmasking both our disrespect for the rule of law and glaring disregard for the purpose of jurisprudence: the search for the truth. We have exposed our willingness to scapegoat anyone with a skullcap and a beard for crimes committed by men our government is too stupid, inept or corrupt to capture. "America, you lost!" Moussaoui yelled when the verdict came down. The man is a lunatic, but he's not as far gone as our judges and juries. (Ted Rall is the editor of "Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists," a new anthology of webcartoons.)SOURCE: www.uexpress.com/tedrallAlso of interest:Moussaoui Comes Out Fighting Againby Jerry Mazza onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/printer_796.shtml
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Post by michelle on May 15, 2006 15:41:17 GMT 4
9/11 Opinion Lands Teacher In Hot Watertinyurl.com/g6urbNOTE: This teacher was giving his OPINION to another teacher
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Post by michelle on May 27, 2006 16:37:28 GMT 4
9/11 mystery for humankind
Nate Arthur - Columnist April 05, 2006 issue The Daily Beacon University of Tennesseee
“The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.”
— Joseph Mengele, Nazi scientist
Americans don't love a good mystery. We prefer an action drama with an explosive, reassuring ending, even though it's nuclear.
In some ways, 9/11 is the most important unsolved mystery that will ever be faced or ignored by humankind. It involves ultimate questions of human trust in governance, of trust in the power of state both to manage generally, and to manage public perception of realities big and small in a time when the public has unprecedented information it could access.Of course the most expansive mystery our own country has ever not solved is the 1960s.
Context is everything. How is it that a government could become so debased it would blatantly participate in the murder of 3,000 of its people, and most importantly, how did the people ever grow so capable of digesting a totally insufficient if not impossible official explanation, when so much reasonable evidence points to the so-called terror attacks being simply a classic "false flag" operation, spawned from within?
Attacking oneself and blaming it on another country or faction is an old, proven tactic, like it or not.
The self-mutilation we saw in New York, Washington, D.C, and now elsewhere is designed to make an otherwise unacceptable militarist agenda appealing to a scared, angry, demoralized public. The curiously unsolvable anthrax attacks (using weaponized anthrax stock attributed to U.S. military labs) and the subsequent "John Mohammed the angry Black Muslim" sniper attacks all went a long way to cement this public trauma, fear, and dissent. Context is everything.
To some, it's obvious that American leadership always had a godless, racist, murderous, venal streak. Several centuries of kidnapping African human beings, forcing them through the middle passage, and breeding them for profit and pleasure indicate to me that something was wrong with our forefathers, and with the New World philosophy in general. Indians were exterminated and controlled like wolves; our government paid well for scalps and pelts.
In Vietnam, we napalmed and defoliated our allies the South Vietnamese, saying it saved them from Communism, just as forced labor and rape (as well as the rape, or at least the whoring of religion) were used by slave-masters to save Africans from savagery. The same remorseless ingenuity is evident today in a lot of what our rulership does, and in what we accept.
It profits the historically unconcerned American to leap from slavery directly to the shadow history of WWII. It's devious, but at its core it's simple.
Wall Street and American industrial interests generously funded the Nazi war machine, from the years of the I.G. Farben/Krups/master-race military build-up all the way into U.S. participation in the war. It's a matter of fact that DuPont, General Motors, the dregs of Standard Oil, IBM and various financial houses all traded directly or indirectly with the evil ones, and some traitors were reprimanded and had assets seized. One major financier of Nazi industrial/military power was Prescott Bush, progenitor of no less than three U.S. presidents, (Nixon's political patron) and ranking member of the cryptic Skull and Bones fraternity of Yale, the social club which allegedly drew its seed money from investments in the early Opium Wars theater, and its philosophic principles from German death cults and high-Nietzschean eugenic pride.
There are deep and priceless connections here worth far more than just consideration (though The Media is allergic to them, even as the 2004 contestants both expressed coy allegiance to this mysterious fraternity, and snickered openly at half-hearted inquiries.) For further ugly international connections, try Googling "H.W. Bush campaign and East European fascists," or "Operation Paperclip/CIA and Nazis."
From this dark lesson in the real bylaws of American capital investment the crypto-historian travels to Dealy Plaza, Dallas, where the first of the Kennedy brothers was publicly executed in a conspiracy. Future CIA director George H.W. Bush was in town, as were some of his anti-Castro comrades, and Nixon, too. Secret Service guardians were withdrawn from the president's limousine as it slowed to a near crawl, in violation of security protocol and foreshadowing other mysterious security distractions that took place 38 years later on September 11, 2001.
From Dallas, it is but a direct flight to "H.W." administrations full of suppressed scandals, drug explosions, assassination attempts, and illegal invasions. And then to our current terrorist mysteries.
Charlie Sheen didn't let the cat out of the bag about 9/11. The cat is kind of in the bag at the bottom of the Potomac. Some reputable scholars have consistently said just what Sheen did, and they've appeared on C-SPAN and CNN, also with no great effect. Perhaps if Captain America himself were to come forward and state unequivocally that President Yosemite Sam and Vice President Fudd should be in Moussaoui's position, we might pay attention.
- Nate Arthur can be reached at >narthur@utk.edu
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Post by michelle on Jun 10, 2006 11:38:06 GMT 4
The following was written by columnist and fellow group member of RapidResponse, Mary MacElveen, in response to the recent outlandish statements made by Ann Coulter. Mary is tireless in her mission of speaking out against frequent lies fed to us in our society. She also has told me that her niece and nephew are being cared for by an excellent and loving mom. It is a shame that these two children had to grow up so quickly......Michelle Jesus Christ was one of the first liberal activistsBy Mary MacElveen Tonight as I watched the Lou Dobb’s show in which he interviewed Ann Coulter, I was hoping for a different kind of interview. I was hoping that he would slam into her as Keith Olbermann lambasted her on his show. Yes, there was a difference, since she was not actually on Olbermann’s show, but he was able to expose her hate to the viewers and stand up for the 9/11 widows. In the past, Lou Dobbs has laid into Bush and Cheney without mincing any words and I wondered why the kindness towards Coulter. Perhaps, only he can answer that question. Coulter stated on the Lou Dobb’s Show that only liberals hate and relayed to the show’s viewers that she has a body guard; well given her bad behavior I can understand why she would need one. But, it is not only hate as she stated coming from the liberal camp, and I want her to get real here, it also comes from the right. Just look at the way the Westboro Church pickets the funerals of our fallen soldiers and you tell me if it is only the left that hates. Let us get real; Ann when people like Jerry Falwell have stated that 9/11 was a result of our sins. I would call that a venomous statement. Instead of trying to help heal a wounded country, he passes a judgment of why the attack happened. He did not know Christ in opining that and it showed his ignorance. Aren’t preachers supposed to bring about a healing process instead of dividing a people? You did not hear similar statements coming from Jesse Jackson. Coulter stated of the 9/11 widows that the attack that befell our country was not about them, but about an attack on our country. While it was an attack on our country in which the world changed, that day affected some more than others. I remember taking a trip to Colorado two years ago, and a woman from Nebraska told me that John Kerry would not know what to do should another attack occur like 9/11 and called him a ‘girlie man’, I just could not let that one go. I told her that while she was pretty much safe in Nebraska, we who live here on Long Island lost many within our communities. The hamlet in which I live, we lost four. The schools around me were put on lock down that day. She could not answer me back. Those who died in that attack in New York City, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania left behind families to grieve a lifetime and that includes children. I wonder what these 9/11 widow’s children must be thinking right now knowing that a hateful woman attacked their mothers. My prayers are with all of them. Yes, Ann as a liberal, I do believe in God, but He is not a wrathful God, but a loving one. As much as she tries to hurt them right now through her raping of their emotions, God is protecting them all. I know that He is since I do have faith in Him. As she has attacked these families, I wonder what she would say about Muslim families who were victims as well. I can only imagine the venom that would come spewing from her mouth like a volcano that blew its top. The reason I bring this up is that I have a niece and a nephew who are of the Muslim faith and after 9/11; they were harassed in their school. Because of that their parents had to take them out for their own safety. I remember hearing when it happened and my anger rose. My niece and my nephew are as sweet as they come. As a teenager, their mother along with her brother came from Uganda when Idi Amin kicked them out. My ‘real’ Christian in-laws sponsored them to come to this country and they became part of the family. They both loved the freedoms and liberties this country had to offer. I wonder what my sister in-law thinks of the infringements upon our liberties, but she has my niece to take care of. I would ask her brother, but he is now deceased. On that horrific day, my sister in-law and her husband lost dear friends in the Twin Towers as well as having their children harassed. Since then, my niece has had to leave school all together since the harassment she received in school brought about a bi-polar disorder. She is being home tutored at this point and is on so many medications that it leaves her listless at times. I do remember her as a child and so full of life. I wonder what my Muslim family members are thinking right now as Coulter spews her venom and hate. I would ask, but out of my love for my niece, I will not. I can only pray to God to keep them safe. I think knowing people that were directly affected was the very engine that drove me these past few days when I heard what she had stated. In answer to her book title “Godless”; those who are liberal are passionate and yes loving people. Many of us do believe in God and respect those who do not. We respect those who pray to another God for example Muslims. What brings about this hate as she stated is our collective anger. It just another example of how liberals are demonized and it is getting old. While she thinks we are Godless, I am of the belief that liberals have God in our hearts. After all, Jesus Christ was one of the first liberal activists, but that is a column for another day. Source:blog.radioleft.com/blog/MaryMacElveen/_archives/2006/6/9/2018198.html
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Post by michelle on Jun 21, 2006 16:08:47 GMT 4
BYU Physics Prof Finds Thermate in WTC Physical Samples, Building Collapses an Inside Jobauthor: Jacob Hamblin Based on chemical analysis of WTC structural steel residue, a Brigham Young University physics professor has identified the material as Thermate. Thermate is the controlled demolition explosive thermite plus sulfur. Sulfur cases the thermite to burn hotter, cutting steel quickly and leaving trails of yellow colored residue. Prof. Steven Jones, who conducted his PhD research at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and post-doctoral research at Cornell University and the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility, has analyised materials from WTC and has detected the existence of thermate, used for "cutting" the steel support columns, as evident in the photo below. Dr. Jones is a co-founder of Scholars for 911 Truth. Dr. Jones in earlier work pointed to thermate as the likely explosive that brought down the WTC1, WTC2, and WTC7 skyscrapers. But only recently was physical material analysed in the lab and the presense of thermate announced. The samples were provided Dr. Jones team from redundant sourses. Both BYU and Prof. Jones have been offered additional grants if he would "change the direction" of his research. In addition, there have been threats made by an individual who "is taking action" to stop Steven Jones' research, specifically his experiment with thermites (aluminothermics), on the grounds his work may be helpful to "terrorists". Jones notes that much more detailed information on both thermite and thermate is readily available on the internet. summary of 10 recent thermite/thermate posts 17.Jun.2006 15:59 [COMMENTARY: in time order of article theme on thermite at WTCs, videos, discussion, pictures; [1] since thermite/thermate can be made of basic industrical chemicals, it can be made "tracerless"--i.e., avoid all signature tracer chemicals that the U.S. Govt requires be mixed in very small amounts in all highly powerful and highly monitored explosives to keep track of every batch's origin. [2] Moreover if he has found it in WTC7, as he says, then with Silverstein admitting that he conducted a controlled demolition on 9-11 of WTC7 around 5:30 p.m., then Silverstein is admitting that WTC1, WTC2, and WTC7 all are thermate controlled demolitions. [3] And who was in charge of WTC security? Why, Marvin Bush, brother of George W. Bush, on the board of Securatech. [4] And written up in their mom's (ghostwritten) autobiography, Barbara Bush drops the other bombshell that it's just a coincidence that Marvin's contract at the WTCs was up on September 11, 2001 anyway. She wrote about it in the book! [5] The Bush family through Marvin Bush have been in charge of security of the WTCs since immediately after the first failed terrorist attempt to knock down the WTCs one month into Clinton's Presidential tenure in 1993. [6] The FBI is on record giving the order to conduct terrorism on the WTC in 1993, via their hired gun Salam, who didn't want to carry out the attack 'for real' since he was told by the FBI that he was hired simply for a sting opreation to arrest some perpetrators in a terror cell he infiltrated for the FBI. [two minute video summary on this: video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6752092058844526234 [7] When the FBI instead told him to both suggest the WTC as a target for the 1993 attack, as well as teach them how to make bombs, as well as FBI allowing him to provide live explosives--their agent started taping everything covertly that he was ordered to do in reference to FBI ordering him to carry out the 1993 terrorist attack on the WTCs. [8] Immediately after the failed attack on the WTCs, the Bush family, through a corporate shell vehicle owned in part by the royal family of Kuwait, the Kuwaiti/American Corporation, was put in charge of security at the WTCs, with Marvin Bush on board. [9] Seven weeks before the controlled demolitions of 9-11, the towers change hands in their first (rushed) sale, being all bought up by Silverstein, who introduces a huge terrorism insurance appendage. [10] Despite admitting publicly that HE gave the order (in the PBS special "America Rebuilds") to blow up his own WTC7 on 9-11, the whole thing is so corrupt that he still collects 500 million dollars on the "terrorist destuction alibi" of WTC7, and has already collected several billion dollars on the 'terrorism clause' in the WTC1/2 insurance. [11] and We already know that the anthrax that was sent to congress and which killed several postal workers in the process (sent to Senator Daschle and to Senator Leahy), was weaponized under a covert CIA only contract, and it was a domestic Ames strain of anthrax coming from one of three or four of the U.S. bioweapons labs.[12] The "Patriot Act" was already written up before 9-11, just required a whiff of domestic anthrax to force passage with a bit more bio-terrorism on the Congress itself by domestic terrorists; [13] Bush and his whole Cabinet of course were out of danger: they were taking an anthrax exclusive drug to counter it, from September 11 onward, so when the anthrax hit in early October in DC, Bush's staff would be immune to the domestic-in-origin anthrax terrorism. The interesting point of course is Bush's whole team all psyched up and anticipating an anthrax attack one month in advance--which just so happens to be the incubation time for the anthax bacilli--I could go on ad nauseum. The whole U.S. government is a terrorist unit, operating under the guise of its counter terrorism squads.] summary: --------------------------------------------- Dr. Jones is a co-founder of Scholars for 911 Truth. "If Dr. Jones's work ever breaks into the mainstream media, and the rest of the country reacts the way the Utah County audience reacted, traditional political divisions will evaporate like steel beams exploded with thermite, and the whole lot of them, the Democrats and the Republicans, will be swept away, along with the military-industrial complex that has apparently managed to subvert the constitution of these United States and to con the American public, mesmerized by the shock of 9/11 and hypnotized by spell-binding incantations of freedom and patriotism, into going along with their mad plans for world domination." BYU Physics Prof Finds Thermate in WTC Physical Samples, Building Collapses an Inside Job.....Based on chemical analysis of WTC structural steel residue, a Brigham Young University physics professor has identified the material as Thermate. Thermate is the controlled demolition explosive thermite plus sulfur. Sulfur cases the thermite to burn hotter, cutting steel quickly and leaving trails of yellow colored residue. [see video comparisons of thermite/ate here and compare to WTC photos and live video below--both video links available from here: portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/04/338202.shtml ] Dr. Jones in earlier work pointed to thermate as the likely explosive that brought down the WTC1, WTC2, and WTC7 skyscrapers. But only recently was physical material analysed in the lab and the presense of thermate announced. The samples were provided Dr. Jones team from redundant sourses. INTERESTING HIGHER UP BRIBE AND THREAT COMING IN TO PLAY: ***"Both BYU and Prof. Jones have been offered additional grants if he would "change the direction" of his research. In addition, there have been threats made by an individual who "is taking action" to stop Steven Jones' research,*** specifically his experiment with thermites (aluminothermics), on the grounds his work may be helpful to "terrorists". Jones notes that much more detailed information on both thermite and thermate is readily available on the internet." --------------------------------------------- 1. newswire article reporting global 17.Jun.2006 14:50 9.11 investigation | police / legal BYU Physics Prof Finds Thermate in WTC Physical Samples, Building Collapses an Inside Job author: Jacob Hamblin Based on chemical analysis of WTC structural steel residue, a Brigham Young University physics professor has identified the material as Thermate. Thermate is the controlled demolition explosive thermite plus sulfur. Sulfur cases the thermite to burn hotter, cutting steel quickly and leaving trails of yellow colored residue. wtc steel with diagonal cut, thermate residue Prof. Steven Jones, who conducted his PhD research at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and post-doctoral research at Cornell University and the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility, has analyised materials from WTC and has detected the existence of thermate, used for "cutting" the steel support columns, as evident in the photo below. Dr. Jones is a co-founder of Scholars for 911 Truth. Dr. Jones in earlier work pointed to thermate as the likely explosive that brought down the WTC1, WTC2, and WTC7 skyscrapers. But only recently was physical material analysed in the lab and the presense of thermate announced. The samples were provided Dr. Jones team from redundant sourses. Both BYU and Prof. Jones have been offered additional grants if he would "change the direction" of his research. In addition, there have been threats made by an individual who "is taking action" to stop Steven Jones' research, specifically his experiment with thermites (aluminothermics), on the grounds his work may be helpful to "terrorists". Jones notes that much more detailed information on both thermite and thermate is readily available on the internet. portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/06/341238.shtml 2. newswire article reporting global 17.Jun.2006 14:50 9.11 investigation | police / legal BYU Physics Prof Finds Thermate in WTC Physical Samples, Building Collapses an Inside Job author: Jacob Hamblin Based on chemical analysis of WTC structural steel residue, a Brigham Young University physics professor has identified the material as Thermate. Thermate is the controlled demolition explosive thermite plus sulfur. Sulfur cases the thermite to burn hotter, cutting steel quickly and leaving trails of yellow colored residue. 3. newswire article reporting united states 08.Jun.2006 03:35 9.11 investigation Molten Metal Migration Map A quick search to find quotes describing molten metal at ground-zero found plenty of primary-sourced statements -- and a LIDAR map of molten metal migration at ground zero. portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/06/340774.shtml 4. newswire article reposts united states 03.Jun.2006 09:18 9.11 investigation The Amazing NIST Report on WTC 2 Someone told me that the final NIST WTC2 Fire Report is akin to reading the structural engineer's version of the Emperor's New Clothes! So I had a look at the report, and there within found intriguing pressure pulses, smoke/and or dust(!) screens, molten metal flows, metal fires, and other correlated unusual behaviors. (text and image extracts) portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/06/340461.shtml 5. newswire article reposts global 14.May.2006 19:42 9.11 investigation 9-11 and the Israeli spies had explosive experts with them A little known fact is that the israeli spy ring of 9-11 infamy had demolition expets. portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/05/339398.shtml 6. newswire article reposts united states 24.Apr.2006 16:24 9.11 investigation Thermite Identified As Likely Culprit Of WTC Collapse A new branch of 9/11 research claims to have identified the cause of the collapse of the twin towers. The photographic and video evidence makes a very strong case for thermite being responsible for the unprecedented implosions of steel framed reinforced buildings on September 11. portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/04/338179.shtml 7. newswire article reposts united states 15.Nov.2005 13:40 9.11 investigation BYU Prof's WTC Demolition Theories on MSNBC's Tucker Carlson - 9/11 Truth Hits Mainstream Unfortunately it appeared the Professor had never had such an interview before and was not prepared for the short time of the interview (5 min) or the fact that they wouldn't run the video he sent of the WTC collapse, or the types of questions being asked (i.e., don't you think this will be offensive to people to say that Muslims aren't to blame?). Nonetheless, he DID get some key points out there and has a great deal of courage and we should all thank him for that. portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/11/328884.shtml 8. newswire article reporting global 25.Apr.2006 09:14 9.11 investigation | imperialism & war Here's the video author: check it out A video showing one of the steal beems being cut on the first tower to come down on Sept 11, 2001. The prisonplanet.com hotlink takes you to an explination page. Just under the blue "show video" hot button is the actual google video. Both hyperlinks are: link to prisonplanet.com link to video.google.com add a comment on this article umm...wow! 26.Apr.2006 07:18 AP link I watched the video - it's embedded in Flash and I can't save it to my folder. It's truly astonishing footage. I would like a copy for my hard drive. --- portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/04/338202.shtml 9. newswire article reposts united states 09.Feb.2006 02:53 9.11 investigation | media criticism VIDEO and review: Feb. 1, BYU Prof. Steven E. Jones packed presentation on 9-11 anomalies author: repost and grouping On February 1, 2006, BYU Professor Steven E. Jones gave a public lecture on the various anomalies of 9/11. The lecture took place at the Utah State Valley College in Orem, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethics, co-sponsored with the School of Science and Health, at UVSC. The seminar revolves around various anomalies concerning the events of 9/11, notably, the rapid collapses of the WTC Towers, and specifically, WTC7, that comes under special scrutiny. The seminar also touches on political responses to the events of 9/11. BE THERE: See Jones presentation for yourself on .avi video at the below link, or audio MP3 at another link. Prof. Stephen Jones's lecture is very visual--driven by a multimedia slide presentation of text, photos and video clips. The 150-seat auditorium was filled to capacity, with every seat occupied, and people sitting in the aisles from the stage floor to the back of the room. Video cameras on tripods lined the back row. Two documentary film crews were in attendance, plus the school's camera crew, and various independent journalists. Seven "spill-over" rooms, seating 40-50 each, were also filled to capacity. ... "If Dr. Jones's work ever breaks into the mainstream media, and the rest of the country reacts the way the Utah County audience reacted, traditional political divisions will evaporate like steel beams exploded with thermite, and the whole lot of them, the Democrats and the Republicans, will be swept away, along with the military-industrial complex that has apparently managed to subvert the constitution of these United States and to con the American public, mesmerized by the shock of 9/11 and hypnotized by spell-binding incantations of freedom and patriotism, into going along with their mad plans for world domination." portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/02/333621.shtml 10. newswire article creative global 25.Apr.2006 21:26 9.11 investigation | imperialism & war 9/11: Controlled Demolition not just thermite but "nanothermite" author: Nico Haupt ...getting the bigger picture of the unconventional part for the 9/11 controlled demolition... During early 2006, i informed the 911Scholars about unconventional weaponry, who could have additionally forced the collapse. The suspects for "nanoenergetics" aka superthermite as part of the unconventional part of the controlled demolition should be instead located at the "Center for NanoEnergetics Research" (created in Spring 2001, only a few months before 9/11), Department of Defense Contractor "NANOTECHNOLOGIES, Inc." (also founded during 2001), Sandia and Lawrence Livermore. portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/04/338241.shtml SOURCE: portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/06/341238.shtml
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Post by michelle on Jun 23, 2006 17:14:40 GMT 4
What does a thinking, ethical person do with the nightmare facts of 911? by Dr. Joe Hawkins - stoplying.ca June 13, 2006 Today, I sit here at home listening to a recent interview between Dr. Fetzer and Dr. Griffin. Two "seasoned" 911 truth veterans. The fact that I am listening to this conversation, that it even exists, is evidence that an impending Fascist state is eminent. There have been dramatic inroads for the 911-truth movement in America, Canada and around the world. It would seem the dam is starting to crack. These are all good things and the battle for basic truth and the salvation of humanity hangs in the balance between self-evident facts and the brain washed masses. If the global elite has the plan of creating a robot culture, (which I believe they do) they have succeeded to a very high degree. But they have not won. The scientific facts surrounding 911 in the form of videos, photos, testimonials, published peer reviewed physics papers, insider whistleblowing and proven mass media manipulation of the facts all collectively speak to a Fascist political reality that is spun as Democracy. The bigger the lie, the more people believe it. If somebody reading this is thinking that these words are too strong, I hope you do some quick and deep investigation to the readily available information. This use of the term Fascist is not quaint or metaphorical; it is a hard, sinister, crisis of all crises. It's happening, right in front of our eyes. The fact that Grandfather Bush has such strong ties to supporting the Nazi's and that the story is broke by a mainstream journalist, raises questions of the highest order. Welcome to the new Fourth Reich of Amerika. Here in Canada we struggle with getting political and speaking out. It's ok to speak out when you maintain some left of center opinion, but as Canadians are pathetically known as tolerant to the extreme, we tolerate this right-sided view. While I recognize tolerance is a noble virtue, there is a time in life when one should jump, yell, run or generally freak out. This would be one of those times for those that need it spelled out to them. Get beyond your party politics, get beyond your limited fear of speaking truth in public and get beyond your self-destructive trust in the government and media. The nightmare is here and it's getting worse by the day. Do something, anything today, to share the truth of 911 with one person or hundreds of people. This statement comes from a deep knowing of what is here and what is coming. I wont say wake up, because no one can make another person "wake up". Rather, share the truth with another soul, for it is only the nature of truth to spark the divine in another. That is how all revolutions have been fueled since the dawn of time. Once a soul realizes that the injustice is so deep and that there life is in jeopardy, you will see a soul move heaven and earth to get the truth out. So, what is a thinking person to do with the nightmare facts of 911? Share the truth; share the truth with everyone you know, in every medium you know (dvds, articles, web sites etc.), and everywhere you know. Put them in mail boxes, put them under doors, put them on street corners, put them on your boss's desk, on your teacher's desk or put a thousand copies on the desk of your local politician. The only way society will heal, truly heal, is to get the truth out. A disease never heals when the person ignores it or is in denial of it. Rather it is fundamental to a healthy psychology to embrace reality, not embrace the illusion. While I recognize that denial does have temporary health benefits as one seeks to face the truth, ultimately one must face it. Or the denial turns into cancer, heart disease or some other horrible pathology. We live in a time when a person risks going insane to live in truth because it is so intense on so many levels. Hence the engineered and natural denial. Imagine (like we have to imagine?) growing up in a society with rampant pornography, guns, mass media lies, GMO's, pharmaceutical monopolies, the realization of the "Fourth Reich's Reichstag Fire" and a ballooning independent media with information that makes a soul seek sanity from the volume and depth of the horrors that are being reported. Not only does the truth hurt, it can kill. Just ask the family of John O'Neil. The ex FBI agent who was head of security for the WTC and died on 9/11. A man who had spoken at great length about impending terrorist strikes on America. He quit the FBI due to the lack of response by his superiors. John O' Neil was the Deputy Director of the FBI. This speaks volumes to anyone with a brain. So the question remains. What are you doing? This is the mother of all issues, it overshadows every other critical issue. It is more important than health care, more important than jobs or any other community issue. It is a joke to have to explain this to people. I always end up saying "if even one thing I am saying here is true, just one, it deserves the fullest attention of everyone". The mainstream media and government go out of their way to avoid the facts and attack people whom are speaking this truth as "conspiracy theorists". When the facts are, Mr. Harper is defending a conspiracy theory of how 19 high-jackers in airplanes managed to somehow set up controlled demolition of a 47 story building on the ground. Like listen to how moronic the government, media and any ignorant soul is that defends the official position of 911. Recently, it was announced in the movement that the NIST scientists, who provided the hypothesis for the official 911 commission, where asked to defend their position in a public debate and have officially stated they would NOT participate. The obvious question is, if the government has the opportunity to demonstrate once and for all that the 911-truth movement is nothing but a bunch of uptight conspiracy theorists, they would quickly agree to the debate and would mock anyone who participated against them. Rather, like pathetic fascists they are, that are seriously implicated in the progression of a fascist state, they decline showing up to have a debate or conversation based only on science and facts. To speak nothing here of politics or religious/spiritual implications. So what does it take for the soul who is reading this, to stop what they are doing and take action in their community? Really, what would it take to raise the alarm bells? I am a breath away from buying a bullhorn (in solidarity with Alex Jones) and standing outside the local CBC Winnipeg office. Why not? We all soon will be dead and subject to a police state. Look at what Harper is doing in concert with George W. Bush. They are two Fascist peas in a pod, each with a brain the size of a pea. Please tell me there is hope for humanity here. Please tell me you are going to do something today, something small, something big, but something. Millions of people are already doing it, you won't be the first and you won't be the last. Please join this movement. This is a standing open invitation to everyone and anyone who can muster the truth. We must take back our security from our own lying government and media. Each and every member of the Canadian mainstream media is implicated in this crime, unless they take a stand now. The Nazi criminals of WW2 often defended themselves with the position that "they were just following orders". The mass media is morally bankrupt and I have no use for this in the course of my life. If you do, if you want a fascist dictatorship to live in, if you want a police state and you are afraid of the "terrorists", you have fallen victim to the new Fourth Reich and ultimately Black Magic. For those that have read this far, think my comments about Black Magic are way of base and are a paranoid conspiracy gone wrong, I would bring to your attention a part of history that few actually know about. The German Thule society. The "spirit " behind the Nazis and a society that was based in pure black magic. So it would appear this rabbit hole runs deep and the sooner we expose the truth, the total truth, the sooner we will all be free again. So many souls have come before us, seeking to bring humanity to truth and light. So many heroes like Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Christ and most likely your fathers and mothers. We all have been faced with darkness, it is what we do in response to embrace it and shed light on it that determines not only our souls fate, but also our communities and ultimately humanity's fate.Share the truth. In truth, Dr. Joe Hawkins B.Sc.,D.C. Source: www.stoplying.ca/articles/june06/justdoit061406.htm
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Post by michelle on Aug 16, 2006 16:14:39 GMT 4
9/ 11 Conspiracy Theorists Thriving (August 6, 2006)By JUSTIN POPE AP Education Writer CLIP:Kevin Barrett believes the U.S. government might have destroyed the World Trade Center. Steven Jones is researching what he calls evidence that the twin towers were brought down by explosives detonated inside them, not by hijacked airliners. These men aren't uneducated junk scientists: Barrett will teach a class on Islam at the University of Wisconsin this fall. Jones is a tenured physicist at Brigham Young University. The movement claims to be drawing fresh energy and credibility from a recently formed group called Scholars for 9/11 Truth. Publicity over Barrett's case has helped boost membership to about 75 academics. Some are well educated, with degrees from elite universities such as Princeton and Stanford and jobs at schools including Rice, Indiana and the University of Texas. Members of the group don't consider themselves extremists! . They simply believe the government's investigation was inadequate, and maintain that questioning widely held assumptions has been part of the job of scholars for centuries. Daniel Orr, a Princeton Ph.D. and widely published retired economics chair at the University of Illinois, said he knew instantly from watching the towers fall that they had been blown apart by explosives. David Gabbard, an East Carolina education professor, acknowledges this isn't his field, but says "I'm smart enough to know ... that fire from airplanes can't melt steel." Judy Wood, until recently an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Clemson University, has been cited by conspiracy theorists for her arguments the buildings could not have collapsed as quickly as they did unless explosives were used. READ IT ALL: abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2279963Note from Fred Burks fredburks@earthlink.net> (who networked several of the 9-11 related items above: This article was published on the website of more than 140 media outlets. People are waking up all over! news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=%22community+that+believes+widely+discredited%22&ie=UTF-8&filter=0Make sure to review also what is at www.ny911truth.org/news.htm
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Post by michelle on Aug 21, 2006 14:22:30 GMT 4
Schoolchildren Get ‘Trivia Questions' About 9/11 AttackI can't believe this one! Well actually, yes I can. This goes beyond the bounds of BAD TASTE. The programming of minds and the strangulation of independent thought certainly does start early in 'The Good Old US of A'!.....MichelleSchoolchildren Get ‘Trivia Questions' About 9/11 AttackBY KELLY BIT - Special to the Sun August 8, 2006 URL: www.nysun.com/article/37484 An activity book for children about the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks being distributed to schools with funding from Keyspan, North Fork Bank, and the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges contains pages of "trivia questions" and math problems about the attack.The booklet, funded in part by an event involving Olympic silver medal winner Nancy Kerrigan, is intended to make for "a happy 9/11 commemorative event," said Tara Modlin, the founder of the organization distributing it, Stars, Stripes & Skates."To teach kids about an event so morbid, we needed to make something fun for them," she said. [??!!!!!!!]But the pamphlet is already drawing criticism from at least one victim's family member. Monica Iken, a former elementary school teacher whose husband died in the World Trade Center attacks, called the booklets inappropriate. "It doesn't make sense to me to have young children doing math equations 9/11 related," she said. "Education is for history and telling the story that is appropriate about heroes and the day, not doing activities unless they are healing activities, and not sitting around doing a booklet." Stars, Stripes & Skates, an organization that hosts an annual ice-skating fund-raiser that commemorates the September 11 attacks, is currently distributing 10,000 booklets, which include math equations involving the numbers nine and 11, a connect-the-dot exercise that shows New York's old skyline, a word search for keywords such as "Osama bin Laden," "Twin Towers," and "Taliban," and various "trivia questions." The booklets are being delivered to schools and ice rinks across the Northeast.
In the clues for the "word search," Mayor Giuliani's name is misspelled.Ms. Modlin said her main goal was to use "child-friendly articles" to inspire children to ask questions of their parents and guardians about September 11th. "It's a tough word, Osama bin Laden," she said. "We don't define it so kids can ask their parents who that is." She said if her child asked her who Osama bin Laden is, she would say, "That's a really bad man who did bad things to others." The money for the books came from a fund-raiser attended by Ms. Kerrigan and 12 other Olympic ice skaters. It raised about $200,000, which was originally intended to help individuals find missing family members. As more victims were removed from missing lists and reported dead, Ms. Modlin had to find a different outlet for the money. Once the activity book was approved, she and other committee members, some of whom are teachers, wrote the questions and activities in the booklets by using information gathered from the Internet and accounts from people present on the day of the attacks. Some of the sentences that contain keywords for the word search activity are, "The United States began its actions in Afghanistan without knowing precisely where Osama Bin Laden was," "At the time the Taliban ruled Afghanistan," and "Osama Bin Laden ordered the attacks on September 11th." Ms. Modlin said when she and other committee members were creating the booklet they "stayed away from politics 100%."The math trivia section includes equations that show "relationships" between "the mystery number 11" and the attacks, such as "9/11, 9+1+1 =," which children should find equals 11. Some financial backers of Stars Stripes and Skates said the activity booklets achieve Ms. Modlin's original goal of increasing curiosity among children and sustaining dialogue about the September 11 attacks. "The more people talk about it, the longer people will remember it," the owner of Gramercy Park Flower Shop, Tom Sakas, said. He said his children have filled out the activity booklets and "basically kind of remember what had happened because they were young" and ask him questions such as, "Why do people do this?" Attorney Charlene Verkowitz who also sponsors Stars Stripes and Skates, called the booklets "fine and appropriate."Other sponsors include Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Danskin, Keyspan, and North Fork Bank. One member of a disbanded group of families affected by September 11th, Charles Wolf, said any effort that keeps people talking does more good than harm. "It's nice what they're doing," he said. He believes that September 11th is "yesterday's news" for many people. "For those kids that have no concept of what it is, it's a great idea."
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Post by Anwaar on Sept 7, 2006 19:14:29 GMT 4
9/11: 5 years laterOnly the deluded or the paid-off still believe amateur Arab pilots did it.By John Kaminski, skylax@comcast.netThe mindlock continues. The official coverup of the events of September 11, 2001 remains essentially intact five years after the mind-numbing orgy of destruction in New York and Washington. This momentous first “foreign” attack on American soil was staged by key players running the U.S. government on a higher level than the president, who has by now has been exposed as a sociopathic sock puppet. The guilt of the highest leaders in the U.S. has been demonstrated for all to see by their concealment of evidence, obstruction of investigations, and obvious lies explaining that day and the subsequent carnage that has been wreaked because of them. The brief amount of time that the towers took to fall proves the building cores were demolished. In five years and after billions of dollars spent “fighting terror,” the U.S. government has arrested no one for the crimes, and in fact has spent considerable effort covering up the evidence of treason and mass murder that has been unearthed by a worldwide army of outraged 9/11 researchers. My friend the Lone Eagle, an aircraft supply expert, notes that among all the air disasters in history, 9/11 was only the time that a crashed aircraft could not be identified by the serial numbers on its small replaceable parts, which are seldom destroyed in any crash. And it happened four times that day. Yet the government told us three steel framed skyscrapers collapsed due to fire. That also had never happened before. Ellen Mariani is the widow of a man who supposedly lost his life on Flight 175. She looked for relatives of other victims of that flight and after five years of searching, she has found no one. These are three of thousands of jarring clues that the American people are in a significant coma about this event. Both official government and mainstream media communications continue to reassure the public that the resulting "war on terror" continues, despite the facts that wars declared in its name have not only been unjust, but unsuccessful, and the entire American army is being poisoned in the bargain. Not a single "Arab terrorist" not heavily coached (if not outright invented) by the powers that be has ever been arrested and charged for any of these colossal crimes. The pre-9/11 investors who profited from their foreknowledge have all been identified as Israeli Jews. 9/11 was a hoax. You know it, and so do I. If you are an elected official and continue to deny 9/11 was a scam to make war a permanent revenue generator, then you should be preparing to go to jail. Then again, consider the penalty for treason and mass murder. How has 9/11 etched itself into our collective history? Trillions of dollars spent on security measures and foreign invasions, enriching only the richest corporations and impoverishing the rest of us. Hundreds of thousands of lives sacrificed to the maintenance of a scam. No foreign terrorists ever arrested for the greatest crime ever committed in America. The legacy of 9/11 includes arrest and detention without trial for thousands of innocent people. The creation of the concept of "rendition," which transfers suspects to other countries who have no laws prohibiting torture, is probably the major achievement by the Bush administration in its hellbent dash to destroy the American republic, and subjugate it to the whims of the international bankers. It has become an America no one recognizes anymore. The principle feature of the 9/11 coverup was the willful destruction of evidence by our highest leaders, one of many capital crimes committed by hundreds of national figures who broke the law to cover up their crimes. Treason, mass murder, and obstruction of justice. That is the new official American mantra, for politicians to run from, and for citizens to keep repeating. I’ve been repeating it for three years. www.worldnewsstand.net/03/John_Kaminski/17.htmwww.serendipity.li/wot/arrest_bush_now.htmNow, five years after the Twin Towers were destroyed, a groundswell of interest spreads across the minds of Americans, who for so long have been terrified of even considering the prospect that their own government would stage a charade of this magnitude merely to increase their profit margins. Rumsfeld's Cipro stock, Cheney's Halliburton profits, the Bush family's joint bank account with the Queen of England .... but all these are chump change compared to the real profits that are harvested from the poisoned corpses scattered all across the Middle East, innocent corpses planted by the world's genuine Axis of Evil, which is monster Israel, through its Jewish domination of the world's money and media markets, controlling its vampire puppets Britain and the United States. Unfortunately, the tapestry of history shows all too clearly this specific sequence of events is common in the history of humanity. Leaders who insist they are above the law and exercise their right to wrongly take the lives of others are allowed to get away with it because of the power they wield over the corrupt justice systems of whatever country they happen to control. In our own century we’ve seen it happen to Russia. When it became the Jewish experiment known as the Bolshevik Revolution, 60 million people were murdered in its Communist gulags. We saw it happen to Germany, which is now chiefly remembered for its persecution of .... who else? .... Jews. The fact Germany created an economic system free of the Jewish central banks is seldom mentioned today. And now we see the United States, where no one can get elected to public office without the support of the Jews. Name me one person in public office opposed to Jewish interests! As a result, we get mass murder in Gaza, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere, all horrors to support Jewish interests in Israel, yet supported by most Americans who do not trouble themselves to know who is perpetrating the mass murder of innocent people in their names. America has become a Jewish state. We should pay particular heed to what happened to ordinary people in Russia when it became the Soviet Union, which was also a Jewish state, because it’s about to happen here in the U.S. 9/11 was the event that threw the American democracy into a pathologically totalitarian state, and jeopardized the future of humanity as never before. Here is what we have learned in the five years since 9/11. • There were no Arab hijackers. The American government has made no legitimate arrests in the case, has no identifications and no proof. Five years is enough time to declare to all of mankind that the U.S. government’s story about 9/11 is false, and we all need to realize that our freedom depends on our declaring it. • Subsequent wars started by the U.S. were criminal acts against law and conscience. 9/11 was the initial pretext for this intensified persecution of the Islamic world. Subsequent terror incidents were all false flag operations based on the Israeli model and likely carried out by them as well. America has become a criminal state in the same way that Germany and Russia were turned into criminal states by unchecked Jewish influence. • The three World Trade Center towers were brought down by controlled demolition. A Jewish New Yorker reaped a $7 billion payoff by leasing the towers six months before 9/11. He was a close friend of now-comatose mass murderer Israeli President Ariel Sharon. • Hundreds if not thousands of the highest officials of the United States, Britain and Israel need to be indicted for — say it with me! — treason, mass murder, and obstruction of justice. • Yet thanks to wholly corrupt and unreliable corporate media, the coverup remains intact as questions the government and media ignore continue to fester in the minds of an increasingly perplexed public. • Focus on public ignorance partly explains how the crooks got away with it. People are easily convinced. The people who did this crime also control the school system. What do you expect people to think? They’ve been made blind. Intense public relations campaigns of vilification and fear-mongering were necessary prior to both World Wars to persuade the American people to support invading other countries. Now, xenophobic hatred of everyone bubbles through the Jewish TV screens with frightening regularity. • People begin to see the hollow rhetoric of TV news and Congressional committees. It has little relation to actual reality. Anybody ever see undoctored evidence linking hijackers to the scene. That answer would be no. Millions of people understand that 9/11 was a false flag operation in the classic Israeli tradition. But now that Israel and Jewish bankers control the U.S., Americans have adopted the practice, and it is being put into effect all over the world. But 9/11 was the key event that allowed these new police state measures and phony wars to be undertaken. All we have left now is corporate corpse plucking. And the sadness that we let the greatest hope for human dignity and freedom slip through our fingers, all because some Jewish men figured out a way to get permanently rich by creating a state of permanent war, which is the real legacy of 9/11, and the history of the U.S. in the 20th century. As I have said numerous times in the past, 9/11 opens a window to the dark side of American history, the one we have never wanted to look at. Even now, people refuse to look at the core of the problem, which is a philosophy that values one certain group of people over all others. Until that it is understood, the 9/11 puzzle will remain a mystery. The American people still don’t get it. Throughout the U.S., most people still pretend the war on terror is not a lie -x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x- John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida whose Internet essays were once seen on hundreds of websites around the world but are now seen on far fewer because of his subject matter, which focuses on the criminal influence of Jewish bankers in every country in the world. He was among the first Americans to insist 9/11 was a hoax, and he has never changed his story, which is why his booklet, “The Day America Died,” written three years ago, is still the most balanced account of what happened. www.johnkaminski.com/References: www.arsenalofhypocrisy.com/911/9-11_Truth.htm911wasahoax.blogspot.com/
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Post by michelle on Sept 9, 2006 16:44:04 GMT 4
ABC is planning to air a two-part mini-series entitled The Path to 9/11 this Sunday and Monday.Another attempt to brainwash the American public. You gotta admit the 'machine' is coordinated. First up, a letter from Rep. John Conyers and then an informative letter from Tom McMahon Executive Director Democratic National Committee; they'll send a message for you: "ABC/Disney executives need to hear from the public and understand that their abuse of the public trust comes with a cost. Tell Walt Disney CEO Robert Iger to keep this right-wing propaganda off the air -- we'll deliver your message:"......MichelleLetter from Representative, John Conyers, Jr.:ABC is planning to air a two-part mini-series entitled The Path to 9/11 this Sunday and Monday. In spite of its claim to be based on the 9/11 Commission Report, the film reportedly includes numerous inaccuracies and lays the blame for the September 11 tragedy on the Clinton Administration. One scene reportedly depicts a senior Clinton Administration official calling off the capture or killing of Osama bin Laden. This depiction of events has been refuted by former Bush Administration anti-terrorism chief, Richard Clarke. It also has been reported that the film blames the intelligence breakdowns on bureaucratic obstacles allegedly created by the Clinton Administration, even though Republican 9/11 Commissioner Slade Gordon has previously refuted that claim. Because of my concerns that false and inflammatory information would be widely disseminated to the American public, I, along with Representatives John Dingell, Jane Harman and Louise Slaughter, asked ABC to correct the film before airing it. To view a copy of our letter, click here. [see below]The more people the network hears from, the more likely they are to correct the errors in the film. But we do not have much time. Contact them now to let them know they should not politicize this tragic event in our nation's history. Thank you again for your commitment to a stronger democracy. Sincerely, John Conyers, Jr. Letter to ABC from Reps John Conyers, Jr., John Dingell, Jane Harman, Louise Slaughter Dear Mr. Iger: We are advised that ABC is scheduled to air a two-part mini-series entitled "The Path to 9/11" on September 10 and September 11. While we have not yet seen this program, news reports raise serious questions about its accuracy. Therefore, we request that the inaccuracies described herein be addressed immediately and that the program be thoroughly reviewed and revised for accuracy before it airs. Among our concerns about the program are the following: first, it reportedly contains a scene in which Sandy Berger, the National Security Adviser to President Bill Clinton, declines to give Central Intelligence Agency operatives the authority to capture or kill Osama Bin Laden, and in which those operatives are outside a house where Bin Laden is located. This account has been expressly contradicted by Richard Clarke, a high-ranking counterterrorism official in both the Clinton and Bush Administrations. Second, the film reportedly contains a scene in which the Central Intelligence Agency declines to share information about the 9/11 hijackers with the FBI and ascribes that failure to the so-called "wall," limiting information sharing by the Department of Justice in certain circumstances, and established by the Department of Justice in an internal memorandum. This scene is puzzling at best, and inaccurate at worst. According to a Republican Member of the 9/11 Commission, former Senator Slade Gorton, the "Department of Justice guidelines at issue were internal to the Justice Department and were not even sent to any other agency. The guidelines had no effect on the Department of Defense and certainly did not prohibit it from communicating with the FBI, the CIA or anyone else." These two examples alone create substantial doubt about the overall accuracy of this program. September 11th is a day of mourning and remembrance for every American. We do not believe that it is appropriate for it to be tainted by false assertions of blame or partisan spin. To avoid that occurrence, we urge you to review this film and correct these and other inaccuracies. We appreciate your prompt attention and reply to this time sensitive matter. Sincerely, Representatives John Conyers, Jr., John Dingell, Jane Harman, Louise Slaughter Letter from Tom McMahon Executive Director Democratic National CommitteeDear Duncan, Does a major national broadcast network want to stain itself by presenting an irresponsible, slanderous, fraudulent, "docu-drama" to the American public? Not if you and I have the last word -- but either way, we're about to find out. The ABC television network -- a cog in the Walt Disney empire -- unleashed a promotional blitz in the last week for a new "docudrama" called "The Path to 9/11". ABC has thrown its corporate might behind the two-night production, and bills it as a public service: a TV event, to quote the ABC tagline, "based on the 9/11 Commission Report". That's false. "The Path to 9/11" is actually a bald-faced attempt to slander Democrats and revise history right before Americans vote in a major election. The miniseries, which was put together by right-wing conservative writers, relies on the old GOP playbook of using terrorism to scare Americans. "The Path to 9/11" mocks the truth and dishonors the memory of 9/11 victims to serve a cheap, callous political agenda. It irresponsibly misrepresents the facts and completely distorts the truth. ABC/Disney executives need to hear from the public and understand that their abuse of the public trust comes with a cost. Tell Walt Disney CEO Robert Iger to keep this right-wing propaganda off the air -- we'll deliver your message: www.democrats.org/pathto911 This story is breaking quickly. The bias of the "docudrama" only became known when ABC began circulating previews recently. Less than two weeks ago, 9/11 Commission member Richard Ben-Veniste confronted a lead writer of "The Path to 9/11" after watching the first half of the miniseries at a screening, but most of what we know amounts to bits and pieces because ABC chose to screen the miniseries to conservative bloggers and right-wing media outlets exclusively. Almost none of the Democrats portrayed in the film have even been asked for their thoughts. But we still know enough, thanks to news accounts and crack research, to fact check "The Path to 9/11" as a biased, irresponsible mess. Here's what you need to know: Richard Clarke -- the counterterrorism czar for the Clinton administration, now himself a consultant to ABC News -- describes a key scene in "The Path to 9/11" as "180 degrees from what happened." In the scene, a CIA field agent places a phone call to get the go ahead to kill Osama Bin Laden, then in his sights, only to have a senior Clinton administration official refuse and hang up the phone. Sandy Berger, President Clinton's National Security Advisor, called the same scene "a total fabrication. It did not happen." And Roger Cressey, a top Bush and Clinton counterterrorism official, said it was "something straight out of Disney and fantasyland. It's factually wrong. And that's shameful." Another scene revives the old right-wing myth that press reporting made it impossible to track Osama bin Laden, accusing the Washington Post of blowing the secret that American intelligence tracked his satellite phone calls. In reality, responsibility for that blunder -- contrary to "The Path to 9/11" -- rests with none other than the arch-conservative Washington Times. The former National Security Council head of counterterrorism says that President Clinton "approved every request made of him by the CIA and the U.S. military involving using force against bin Laden and al-Qaeda," and the 9/11 report says the CIA had full authority from President Clinton to strike Bin Laden. Yet chief "Path to 9/11" scriptwriter Cyrus Nowrasteh, a friend of Rush Limbaugh, says the miniseries shows how President Clinton had "frequent opportunities in the '90s to stop Bin Laden in his tracks -- but lacked the will to do so." ABC asked only the Republican co-chair of the 9/11 Commission, Tom Kean, Sr., to advise the makers of "The Path to 9/11". The producers optioned two books, one written by a Bush administration political appointee, as the basis of the screenplay -- yet bill the miniseries as "based on the 9/11 Commission Report." This is a picture of bias -- a conservative attempt to rewrite the history of September 11 to blame Democrats, just in time for the election. Tell Walt Disney president Robert Iger that you hold his company responsible -- and that this community demands that ABC tell the truth: www.democrats.org/pathto911 ABC is trying to use of the airwaves -- airwaves owned by you and me, and loaned to broadcasters as a public trust -- to slander Democrats and sell a slanderous, irresponsible fraud to the American people, and they're shamefully doing it just weeks away from Election Day. The Walt Disney Corporation could have given Americans an honest look at September 11. Instead, the company abandoned its duty to the truth -- and embraced the fiction known as "The Path to 9/11." But ABC isn't the only company pushing this gross revision of history. ABC has enlisted the reputable education and children's entertainment company Scholastic, Inc. to send 100,000 letters to high school teachers, urging them to show students "The Path to 9/11". Scholastic has also created a discussion guide for teachers to use to encourage students and their families to watch this irresponsible fraud and then discuss it in school. The discussion guide does not in any way point out the concerns and criticisms that have been raised about the validity and accuracy of the film. We've got to stop this now. ABC/Disney must face an accountability moment. You can ratchet up the pressure on ABC by sending your own letter to Walt Disney CEO Robert Iger -- tell him to keep this propaganda off their air. www.democrats.org/pathto911 We'll keep you up to date as this story evolves. Thank you, Tom Tom McMahon Executive DirectorDemocratic National Committee
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Post by evelyn on Sept 10, 2006 0:00:48 GMT 4
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