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Hello, good readers, on the tenth anniversary of this sad and tragic
day. Here are two commentaries. I wrote the first one ten years ago,
and stand by what I said at that time. Following that is a really
good present-day commentary by columnist Judy Andreas. Please read
both and please circulate them if you agree.
THE 9/11/01 ATTACK ON THE USA
A Position Paper and Commentary
By Harrell Rhome
[Written 9/13/01]
DEDICATION AND THESIS STATEMENT
We offer this article with prayer and concern for the innocent
victims of oppression, especially those who had no part in the plans
and aims of their leaders. May God bless the victims of all
atrocities -- from Ruby Ridge and Chechnya and Mt. Carmel; all the
way to Occupied Palestine (and now, Iraq – and possibly Iran), and
sadly but predictably to New York and Washington. These victims may
now rest in peace. We, however, shall have no peace until
significant changes occur in the hearts and minds of Americans and
their government, and when justice and fair play become components
in our presently misguided and dangerous foreign policies.
Change is inexorable and inevitable. Yesterday and today do not
necessarily predict tomorrow. The status quo is never static; it
only seems so. “Throughout all aspects of human history, great
pivotal events have caught most people unaware. We all tend to
become seduced and hypnotized by the status quo. We inherently
extrapolate the present into the future, relying on linear
assumptions in a non-linear world. Because something looks stable
today, we usually tend to naturally assume that it will remain the
same tomorrow.” [Adam Hamilton, Gold Eagle Digest]
DESTRUCTION OF THE “TEMPLES,” EXPLORING SYMBOLISM, REALITY, AND
LINEAR ASSUMPTIONS.
Rome, The Eternal World City, c. 475 A.D. Flavius Marcus Silva and
wife, Drucilla were rudely awakened by their servants. It seems that
a barbarian army has, once again, made its way to Rome, but this
time, it was more serious. Over the years, the fierce Goths and
Teutons had used horror and terror against the cultured, civilized,
urbane Romans. While they had not (yet) succeeded, they had indeed
progressed, though most Romans, absorbed by their grandeur and
arrogance, really seemed not to notice, though their slaves had
outnumbered them for years, and periodically revolted. The Romans
could not understand this. After all, they had given the slaves so
much. But while the barbarians had made their way inside, there was
little resistance. The Circus Maximus was open early that morning
for the gory games (professional sports and “reality” TV), and many
were already making their way there after beginning the wine-bibbing
early, to be followed by several orgy parties. There was always a
party in Rome, and to amuse the blase’ Romans, over a dozen
gladiators and lions had just arrived from Africa. Drucilla looked
out the window, and was horrified to see smoke from some of the
great palaces and temples on the surrounding seven hills. Great
billows of smoke poured forth, and black and red-bearded barbarians
were looting and raping women in the streets. “Where are our Legions
(military),” shouted Flavius? “They are the greatest in the world;
they will save us. Where are the priests and the Pontifex Maximus?
They should defend the temples of our Gods. Where are our Tribunes
(cops and lawyers)? If they cannot do it, then call out the
Praetorian Guard (FBI, special forces, etc.). But where are they?
And where is the Emperor (currently with the Praetorian guard,
hiding at a base in a swamp)? He will surely come out and reassure
us?”
To make a very long story short, before they knew what had happened,
the old world had changed and a new one had arisen while Flavius and
Drucilla continued their linear assumptions about the future, that
all would go on as before. They did not prepare for the inexorable
historical processes of quantum-change. Nothing but God lasts
forever, and the law of give and take manifested itself in the end
of an “eternal empire”. Moreover, Rome reaped what had been planted.
How many lives, nations and cultures were violently overrun by the
Romans? How many rival “temples” had they burned and looted? Did the
old Romans ever think of how they really were, and how they really
were seen by the ones they dominated and enslaved? Are we modern-day
Romans any more aware? That Rome was collapsing was either unknown
or ignored by most Romans, who blithely pursued their bored,
gluttonous lives. A few were awake, and even a few prescient ones
saw it coming, but no one listened. Other than military force
(Pentagon Temple) and money (Wall Street and WTC Temples), they
seemed to have no other response. How tragic! The fallacy of linear
assumptions brings down entire cultures and societies.
New York, financial and multicultural Capital of the World,
September 11, 2001. I was working to complete an essay about Osama
bin Laden “coincidentally” at the time that the twin World Trade
Center Towers, hallmark of American mercantilism in the heart of the
Wall Street trade and money district, were brought down (allegedly)
by a pair of planes. A short time later, the symbol of America’s
highly vaunted military might, the Pentagon (or “Pentacle”
building), was also struck a severe blow. Great “temples” were
destroyed. While certainly an evil act, the planning and the (albeit
perverted) brilliance are undeniable as is the equally unparalleled
use of symbols as well as force to make the point, beginning with
“911". The deadly “missiles” themselves were symbolic: from “United”
and two from “American”. We could hardly miss the point. Tens of
thousands have died and thousands of others have been maimed, but
these scenes are not unfamiliar to most, and we have become a
“culture” numb to violence and destruction. Many movies have
portrayed countless disaster scenes (some very similar; remember the
aliens hitting on July 4?) in special effects, and if you don’t like
the pretend violence, you could see the real thing in the repeated
senseless bombing of the Iraqi people and the air war of terrorism
against the people of Serbia. Both war crimes were perpetrated on
minor powers with no way to strike back. Both Sadaam and Milosevic
were styled as “Hitlers”, but we knew that neither could inflict
real harm in response to our selfish and immoral acts of
ultra-violence. We all watched the Gulf War and air war against the
Serbs with the bored, arrogant air of detachment so characteristic
of many Americans. “Ho hum, that’s enough of that, let’s watch a
cable movie. I’m bored with all that foreign stuff. Bomb the s___
out of them, who cares? It’s just a bunch of towel-heads!”
The status quo is ended. Why? How?. As happens to those who inflict
pain, terror and horror on others, the dark angel of death has
decided to pay us a “courtesy call” (it could have been worse, you
know?). And the “war” didn’t just suddenly start on 9/11. It has
been going on for years while we continued our unvarying and
completely uncritical support of Israel (Occupied Palestine),
therefore being a direct and knowing accomplice to the war crimes of
that malevolent ministate. The attacks have gotten progressively
more serious (and effective), but like a giant being attacked by
fleas, it barely caused us to miss a single lock-step in our support
of the world Zionist land and power-grabbers. While I’ve always
thought it trite and banal, the ever-popular expression, “what goes
around comes around” now takes on a deeper and bizarre new meaning.
Furthermore, while I am sure that most Americans will be enraged and
out for vengeance and blood, I am also certain that, as usual, they
will largely misperceive their targets. Most will only hate Islamic
people even more, further alienating us from most of the rest of the
world (who support a free Palestine), and in return, their already
fiery hate for us will grow to a white-hot fury. Americans desire
vengeance in spite of any religious lip service paid to Christianity
or any other religion, and this will surely be only more intense in
the weeks to follow. Narrow, linear thinking is truly tragic.
THE OFFICIAL RESPONSE, OR, “OI VEY, BUBBALEH, WHO COULD KNOW?”
The U.S. intelligence budget (for all agencies) is immense, and much
larger than what is reported. For years, we have had a “black
budget”, supposedly overseen by Congress, but with such as Rep. Gary
(“I shave my body”) Condit on that committee, who can say? Not only
that, factor in the other NATO nations and the amount each of them
spends on intelligence, and the figure must run close to a trillion
or more! And nobody knew?! Give, me a break! Even the dumbed-down
and apathetic “average American” can (probably) put two and two
together here and see that the result can’t be explained merely in
terms of ignorance (“we didn’t know”). IF this were true, then we
should impeach (indict?) each member of the congressional intel
committees AND go after the bureaucrats in charge of these agencies.
Their incredible incompetence has taken the lives of thousands. Or
is it incompetence? How can it be that out of all the highly-vaunted
intel apparatus of the mighty West did not know about this? Can
Osama bin Laden and company be that good? The are two possible
scenarios, so let’s look closely at both.
Scenario A: They really did not know.
In spite of what is said above, it is within the realm of
possibility. For one thing, excluding double agents and “moles”,
there are only a few Americans and Europeans who can speak and read
Arabic at all, much less have the fluency necessary to work
undercover or pose as an Islamic person. Therefore, one of the basic
tools of spy craft is not available. “Hu-mint” (human intelligence
assets) are almost completely lacking. On the other side of this is
the “enemy”, a loose (but sometimes very tight) coalition of
international terrorists reaching from Northern Ireland to Indonesia
to Columbia and into the United States with its notoriously porous
borders. The language problem is not nearly as great, especially in
a city like New York with people speaking a myriad of accented
versions of English. The simple fact is this: “they” can quite
easily infiltrate here while “we” can do little than look on from
afar or depend on an unreliable network of informers, double agents
and moles who use such a network as a vehicle for an essential and
on-going program of planted dis-information. While we have the upper
hand in high-tech stuff like satellite viewing, on the ground our
agents don’t stand a chance. Why not, you may say, recruit
Arab-Americans and other friendly Arabs to do this for us? No doubt,
we have/are doing that, but this too has its limitations. For one
thing, any traitor to his roots and religion would know that not
only he will face a horrible death, but the betrayed ones will
probably take out his entire family as well! So anyone doing this
would not only have to be suicidal, but be totally uncaring about
his family and friends. On top of all this, add in the fact that,
much more often than not, the U.S. betrays its allies and friends.
Based on our past performances, western governments and intel
bureaus are not to be trusted. Hence, it is possible that they
either did not know. Or, if they did get some hints, they (as often
is the case) misinterpreted the data. Moreover, add in the arrogance
and egotism of many “spy-guys”, and you can see how this could
happen. Or not! Hence....
Scenario B: They knew and let it happen.
Osama bin Laden has always given some kind of warning of his attacks
as was discovered after the near-sinking of the USS Cole. These
warnings are probably part of an early activation system of his
network and to alert like-minded groups and individuals to be ready,
and to stay out of the way. Did highly secretive NSA and the (lesser
known and even more secretive) National Reconnaissance Agency not
have at least some warning? Under this scenario, and given that
previous warnings were received, there must have been something. Of
course, as they say, “hindsight is always 20-20 vision”, so it may
be that they did, indeed, pick up a hint or two, but did not know
what to do with it as such “warnings” are quite vague and cryptic.
Some say this happened in the OKC bombing: that McVeigh was either a
government agent or (more likely) that he did do (at least some of)
the bombing, and the FBI was monitoring the matter, which got out of
hand. This is how DEA, BATF and FBI (and all sorts of Fed) “stings”
work. They “string you along”; they do not bust you on the first or
the second or even third or fourth drug buys (or arms or whatever),
but only when they have built a solid, airtight case, and (the main
reason) until the target has revealed all the contacts and other
information that he or she can. If this was the OKC scenario, one
can see how foreknowledge of this behavior could be used against the
Feds. In other words, while they are waiting for you to reveal just
one more big contact or bring in a big delivery of whatever, you go
ahead and pull something off on another front, or launch your
operation when they do not expect it. These are not secrets. Read
books and other accounts of cases, and this method is easily found.
But this begs the question of just exactly why “they” would do this.
The old question of Cui bono? (to whose benefit?) seems an apt legal
investigative principle to apply. Israel and its pro-Zionist “amen
corner” in the U.S. will certainly benefit. After all, we now know
how the Israelis feel after a disco or whatever is blown up. So we
will sympathize, then, even more with their cause, which, in
reality, is at the heart of this whole problem. But watch and see.
This will surely (at least to a large degree anyway) have this
result. A further benefit will occur for our One-World Planners.
They have already succeeded in militarizing both the tactics and the
minds and attitudes of our police forces at almost all levels. We
saw this before the Oklahoma City bombing, but it took another
quantum leap after that. Now, anytime a citizen is stopped you are
seen as a “security risk”. And quite frankly, if you’re black or
from the Middle East or Mexico -- or maybe if you are a vocal
patriot-nationalist – you are even more suspect, and could fall
victim (as have a growing number) to “friendly fire”. The “Drug
Wars” have certainly contributed to this as well, but we’ll look at
that in later essay. So then, such a catastrophic event as Oklahoma
City and now New York and Washington, will no doubt have many
calling for more police and more military spending. And there is a
third result that benefits those who are carrying out a
fantastically successful gradual revolution to discredit our early
founders and eventually displace and replace our constitution.
Sadly, most of it has already eroded away, but the principles still
stand. At least, until they are replaced in the interests of
“national security” and the “safety of our citizens”. Hence,
dissidents, those who speak out against such things will be subject
to no First Amendment protections because there won’t be a First
Amendment or a Fifth or any other. They might still be on paper, but
“expediency” will have overridden them completely. If you don’t know
of whom I speak, dear readers, please realize that it is, yes, those
of us who speak out publicly. But that’s just the ones in the first
wave of repression. The second part will be directed at those who
read and circulate and speak out in your own communities. Can’t
happen here? That’s what they said on Wall Street and at the
Pentagon on 9/11 day!
ADDENDUM: “THE FLORIDA CONNECTION” ?
Revisionist Attorney and “Eagle” reader Anita E. Belle submits this
interesting speculation as to impending World Court cases against
the U.S. and C.I.A. for Genocide, and we already know that Ariel
Sharon (“Butcher of Beirut”) has a case pending as well. Belle lists
a number of other such potentially embarrassing and far-reaching
legal actions which will be circumvented by the 9/11 events. In
addition, she itemizes several case connections with Florida.
[Fax from Atty. Anita E. Belle, 12 September 2001.] “Coincidence?
Hijacking suspects are located in Florida, the state in which the
president’s brother is governor, the state in which the C.I.A. [drug
trafficking] cases are consolidated, the state whose contested votes
placed George W. Bush in the presidency, and the state in which
George W. Bush was visiting when the “terrorist?” attack took
place.”[1] As of 12 September, we know Florida was also the site a
flight training school used by some of the terrorists. (Send an SASE
for full press release.)
But, back to our speculation: did “they” know? Well, if they didn’t
really know anything at all, and if this is reflective of our intel
assets, we are really in “it” up to our necks!
WHERE WERE OUR “FEARLESS LEADERS”?
This seems an appropriate point to reflect on what they did do. Bush
II disappeared, touching ground in the Louisiana swamps long enough
to record a short video address. This wasn’t a bad idea, though
coming direct from Air Force One or some other “power center” would
have seemed more appropriate. But when they began to run the tape,
it took at least three attempts to get the video feed right! So we
see Bush Baby start to say something, but we are left (at least
three times) with a squiggly, distorted image that, if you thought
enough about it, was thoroughly frightening! Then, no one else comes
out of hiding to speak. I thought Rumsfeld was dead in the Pentagon
until they finally trotted him out – to say practically nothing!
Where is brave and stalwart Gen. Colin Powell, “hero of the Gulf
(Bush Oil) War? Wouldn’t that have comforted and reassured some?
Where was the head of the CIA to assure us they would track down the
perpetrators and that, even now, they were hot on the trail? But we
saw none of them, except for, finally, a brief clip of Ashcroft.
Instead, we see James Baker, Lawrence Eagleburger, Warren
Christopher and other assorted voices from the past. Since, our
“leaders” are still assuming that they can proceed as they have
before, a deadly linear assumption! As readers know, I detested and
abhorred the Clinton regime, but one thing I do believe is that,
despite “zipper problems”, he would have gotten on the air and
addressed the American people. There, readers, I finally said it –
something good about Bill Clinton!
THE REASONS FOR THE ATTACK: UNCRITICAL, BLIND AND STUBBORN SUPPORT
OF ISRAEL (Occupied Palestine) IS THE SEEDBED OF PRESENT TROUBLES.
What is behind all of this? The United States of America is largely
under the control of a pro-Zionist cabal, which some call a “Z.O.G.”,
i.e., Zionist Occupation Government. When we look at our blind and
stubbornly unyielding support of the Israeli ministate (Occupied
Palestine) and its particularly heinous versions of state terrorism
toward the Palestinians, is it any surprise that we are blamed as
well? Is it any surprise that America, who are the enablers of
Israel, are hated as well? The Israelis practice assassination,
return deadly machine gun fire in the face of rocks and sticks, kill
and burn old people and children in their homes, creating the same
climate of fear and terror that we now know here at home after 9/11.
Without our aiding and abetting policies and money, the Israeli
pirate ministate would never be able to continue to practice this
political terrorism in the face of world opposition. If it were not
for the U.S., Israel would be forced to make a reasonable peace. If
it were not for the U.S., many nations of the world would long ago
have boycotted and embargoed the ministate if it had maintained the
same arrogant inflexible stance. Sadly, then, it is little wonder
that we are hated by many. Add to this our incredible public
ignorance and apathy and arrogance, and we have a situation which
was/is exploited to the fullest by this cabal of conspirators. And
this is not all. For one reason or another (we shall speculate
later), we also trained, equipped and financed this “terror network”
ourselves a generation ago in Afghanistan. So we not only reap the
wind from our misbegotten and ill-conceived foreign polices, we also
reap the whirlwind that has arisen from seeds we ourselves planted
years ago in Afghanistan.
What is happening? Why have these terrors come to our homeland? Who
is responsible? What can we do? Look in the mirror! It’s us! It is
we who have allowed a religio-political cult (Zionism) to gain
control of our government. This is a One-World-Government cult that
ruthlessly and relentlessly stifles or destroys almost every strong
voice opposing them. The Zionist Cabal and its sympathizers own
and/or control almost all media, the only real exception being the
Internet, and that too may not be far off. Without going into a
great amount of detail and background material, it is clear that
this/ cabal is deeply entrenched not only in politics, but also
controls the money as well. The 9/11 Strike can be seen as a
two-pronged direct attack against Wall Street “capitalism” and all
it symbolizes and at our “imperial legions” whose might makes the
whole thing possible. With all of this in perspective, it is not so
hard to see why a large portion of the world’s citizens celebrated
9/11 Day in the streets. While I can never defend such hideous
ultra-violence, neither can I defend, support and ignore the hurt,
pain, misery and death “our” government has perpetrated during and
since World War II!
IN THIS “WAR”, CAN WE DEFEAT THE ENEMY? Defeat The enemy? We can
barely find him or precisely identify him. Some of the myriad of
talking heads (a.k.a. “counter-terrorism experts”) even said such
stupid things as, “we must have more human intelligence (“Hu-mint”)”
and “we must put more resources into infiltrating their cells.”
Anyone who follows any of this closely sees that we not only have a
mere handful of agents who can function in Arabic (or Farsi or
Urdu), and none of them are candidates to infiltrate, being mostly
scholarly types. Terrorist assets are profiled as young, from poorer
families, faced with unemployment and little money, dedicated to
Islam, and always referred after screening through an at-first
informal network, progressively getting deeper scrutiny before
acceptance. Even if ethnically one of their own, the would-be
suicide warrior would have to face this same scrutiny. So this is
virtually impossible, then, right? Well, yes, but.... We might pull
off a successful infiltration if our agent is as at least as
dedicated as those he would infiltrate, and more importantly, if our
agent were willing to offer his life for the U.S., NATO, the Bush
Oil Boys, K-Mart, Wal-Mart, the Federal Reserve, and the “American
Way of Life”. And he would have to be dedicated to and revere his
leader as do the ones he would infiltrate. He can have the
beady-eyed visage of Bush II in his mind as his risks his life,
facing torture and mutilation before death if caught. Hurry now,
volunteers. They’re just waiting for one like you down at Langley.
And, yes, readers, Osama bin Laden DID warn us – over four years
ago, directly and honestly in 1998 to ABC reporter John Miller. In
it, he refers to the earlier bomb attempt at the World Trade Center.
Please listen very closely.
“So we tell the Americans as people, and we tell the mothers of
soldiers and American mothers in general that if they value their
lives and the lives of their children, to find a nationalist
government that will look after their interests and not the
interests of the Jews. The continuation of tyranny will bring the
fight to America as Ramzi Yousef and others did. This is my message
to the American people: to look for a serious government that looks
out for their interests and does not attack others, their lands, or
their honor.
And my word to American journalists is not to ask why, but ask what
their government has done that forced us to defend ourselves.
It is our duty to lead people to the light.”
[Thanks to revisionist researcher, writer, and “Eagle” reader Mark
Farrell for sending this information via e-mail.]
Wake up ! How many more must die before the policies of a power-mad
elite of old men and women who, as “illumined ones” (Illuminati),
those “brighter” and more “enlightened” than the rest of us, those
who never die for their beliefs, those who profit from all wars, are
recognized and exposed to the “average” person? Listen, my readers,
listen well – this is exactly what “they” fear the most – that the
“people” catch on to their scams and rackets. And that is why
publications like this one are disrespected and downgraded by
“their” media and academia.
Wake up ! You’ve been asleep, oh, much too long, and it’s almost too
late! Don’t send your children to die in a war for racketeers. Don’t
place yourself and everyone else in danger of bombs and death to
defend the pseudo-rights of what is essentially a cabalistic coven
of land-grabbing Turko-Khazar Bolshevist thugs in a land (Palestine)
that was never theirs! Let them face their own problems as do real
nation-states.
Wake up ! How many “9/11 calls” do you need ?
ADOPT A FAIR AND JUST FOREIGN POLICY
Should we surrender to these forces and change our entire foreign
policy out of fear and cowardice? No, I could never do that.
Capitulation solely from fear can only engender more attacks, so any
crucial policy changes must be carefully thought out and
implemented. Just announcing a gradual end to aid to Israel would
force the coven of thugs into negotiating in the give and take among
real nations. In return for a gradual phase-out, they should
officially give up any claims based on their sham-claim to be a
“favored folk”. With new policies in place, the USA would not so
much withdraw from the middle east, but for the first time, we would
perhaps be able (along with Europe) to be an “honest broker” of
peace and justice and freedom for all. Not only this, our entire
aggressive arrogant assuming asinine policy-making system must be
thoroughly rebuilt in order to take our rightful place among
nations. A “superpower” is just another word for a big, stupid
bully. This is what we have become – Americans must demand a “new
age”, a “new reformation”, a devolution back 1776 (this ended in
1865) -- all these things and more, but surely we can all agree that
there certainly must be some very radical changes implemented. Make
no “bones” about it; it will be a hard road, but it leads to honesty
and truth, so how hard, really, can it be? And, no, hear me very
clearly -- this should not be done out of fear, but out of a sense
of fairness and honesty that is supposed to characterize our once
great nation and its policies. When they are subverted by cliques
and conspiracies (special interest groups and PACs), there is no
justice. To conclude then, as the Left so likes to say, “without
justice there is no peace”.
“As night does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both
instances, there is a twilight where everything remains seemingly
unchanged, and it is in such twilight we must be aware of change in
the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the
darkness” Justice William O. Douglas.
911 Is Still A Cry For Help
By Judy Andreas
8-20-11
As 9/11 comes
barreling back into view, my mind is flooded with the questions that
still remain. We sat in the Conference Room, our eyes riveted to the
TV monitor. Some of my colleagues were sniffling, others were crying
softly. Occasionally an angry statement could be heard. Over and
over again we watched the World Trade Center footage. Over and over
again, the newscasters cemented their version of reality into our
stunned psyches. It was September 11, 2001, the day the music died.
Something was terribly wrong. It was more than the film that
unfolded in front of my eyes. It was more than the words of the
newscasters talking about the fact that we were under siege. It was
more than the threat of never ending terrorism. The television
screamed the official story, yet the voices in my head muted the
words. Something was terribly wrong.
My feeling of
disbelief was palpable. Sitting in that room of mourners on that
sorrowful day, I was having a solitary experience. Questions begged
for answers. How could our sophisticated system have gone awry? How
could everything that had previously worked flawlessly, suddenly
simultaneously failed? How could a small group of Arabs with
box-cutters have thrown the whole nation into a tailspin? Most of
the people, if not all of the people, in the Conference Room had
never heard of Payne Stewart. They did not know the story of the
golfer whose private Learjet had lost contact with the air traffic
controllers. They did not know that when the golfer's jet failed to
respond to air traffic controller communications, F-16 interceptors
were quickly dispatched. According to an Air Force timeline, a
series of military planes provided an emergency escort to Payne's
stricken Learjet starting about 20 minutes after contact with his
plane was lost.
Later I learned that
the Miami Herald talked to air traffic controllers who said they
could not understand why there was no reaction to what was happening
in the skies the morning of September 11, 2001. Why was there no
reaction from the Federal Aviation Administration and the military?
"That's a question that more and more people are going to ask," one
controller in Miami told the Herald. Are more and more people asking
that question? Are more and more people asking any questions? "They
attacked us because they hate our freedom." The President's eyes
darted back and forth as he mouthed the words. It could have been a
laughable comment. It was certainly a ludicrous comment. It could
have been funny if I hadn't seen people jumping hundreds of feet to
their death. It could have been funny if thousands of people hadn't
lost their lives on that infamous day. I wanted to ask him why they
didn't fly planes into Amsterdam, after all, they have more freedom
than we do. I wanted to ask him why they didn't cripple a nuclear
reactor. I wanted to ask him why he was lying to us. Each day as the
story unfolded, another alternative website pointed to another
anomaly in the official story.
Had a plane really
hit the Pentagon? The size of the hole in its supposed wake left
room for doubt. Was it physically possible for the Towers to
collapse as stated, or was it controlled demolition? Were there
explosives in the World Trade Center? Could burning jet fuel
initiate structural damage within the towers? Why was Building 7
pulled? Could a cell phone call be made on a plane? Why was the
Mayor of San Francisco, Willie Brown, told not to fly on that date?
Why was the rubble from the buildings hauled off without a proper
investigation?
Wonderful books kept
flying off the shelves of the alternative press. And yet, the
mainstream media stuck with the official story. It could have been
the Kennedy Assassination(s). It could have been TWA Flight 800. It
could have been Oklahoma City or Waco. I had visited this place
before. It was difficult to breathe with the stench of deception in
the air. Although movies have always been a passion of mine, I have
tried to be discerning about time spent in the cinema. And yet, as
the days grew into months, I was trapped in the theater of the
absurd mainstream media, forced to watch a poorly crafted film about
the events on September 11.
Such props as
Mohammed Atta's passport placed pristinely on the set cried out for
a director's intervention. Who put the Korans in the vehicle near
the scene of the crime? How did we immediately know it was Osama bin
Laden who had designed the events of September 11, 2001? How did we
immediately know the name of the 19 highjackers? Why were some of
them showing up alive and well and safe in distant ports of call?
Why couldn't we locate Osama bin Laden, a 6 foot 5 man on dialysis?
It was not like misplacing ones keys. Mr. Bush said "If you're not
with us, you're with the terrorists." My questions subjected me to
words like "traitor." My questions subjected me to ridicule and
jokes about tinfoil hats. "If you don't like this country...get the
hell out." Could anyone know how deeply I loved this country? Could
anyone know the heart of an idealist who was once again being
sickened by another lie? Could anyone know how much I treasured
life? The dinner of deception had been placed on the public table
and people were devouring it.
Once more I had
strayed from the herd unable to graze on the lies and distortions
that had been specially prepared for the flock. I sat in a lonely
place. On September 11th, 2004, I attended a conference in New York
City called "Confronting the Evidence" My friends and I arrived at
the Manhattan Center at 7:00, a full hour before the program. The
streets were already full. The Manhattan Center probably holds 1000
people and yet there were additional hundreds outside hoping for
cancellations. This was a very good sign. Recently a Zogby poll had
stated that over 40% of New Yorkers did not believe the official
story of the events that transpired on September 11, 2001. Many felt
that the 9/11 Commission was nothing more than a whitewash. The
evening was hosted by Ed Begley, Jr and co-hosted by Jamey Hecht.
The presenters included such notables as Jenna Orkin, World Trade
Center Environmental Organization, Kristina Borjesson, author of
Into the Buzzsaw, Dr. Robert Bowman, USAF Colonel (retired)
president, Institute for Space and Security Studies, Paul Thompson,
author of The Terror Timeline, Christopher Scheer, journalist, Los
Angeles Times, John Prados, journalist, Bulletin of Atomic
Scientists, Karl Schwarz, chief executive of Global Axxess, Jeff
King, M.S, physician and engineer, Webster Tarpley author of The
Unauthorized Biography of George Bush (Sr.) , Christopher Bollyn,
The American Free Press, Tom Gordon, 9/11 Science and Justice
Alliance, David Von Kleist, host of The Power Hour and director of
the film "911 In Plane Site" and Barrie Zwicker, filmmaker, "The
Great Conspiracy."
The evening began
with a brief but heart wrenching film called 'A Tribute to the
Fallen" by Mike Berger. Next, Jenna Orkin, for the World Trade
Center Environmental Organization, talked about the cover-up of the
air poisoning at Ground Zero, the asbestos, mercury and lead that
had been released into the air. The EPA lied to the American people
and told them that the air was safe to breathe, even allowing the
White House to edit their press releases. And since then, over half
of our heroes have begun manifesting respiratory problems.
There are
firefighters who can no longer work and, as a preview of what's in
store for us, 14 rescue dogs have died. The Bush administration was
more concerned with opening Wall Street then with the safety of the
first responders and the American People. A segment from the film
"Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American the
Empire " produced by the Media Education Foundation, was shown. This
led to a discussion of the Project for a New American Century, known
as PNAC, a document that had been crafted in Sept of the year 2000
which, in essence, was a plan for increasing defense spending,
preemptive action and use of military force and domination. The
creators of PNAC were the same neocons that are running the Bush
administration, including the brains behind the plan, Paul Wolfowitz.
This project included regime change in Iraq as a central element.
The originators of the plan, realized that the American populace
would not allow this to happen unless there was an event of
catastrophic proportion "A New Pearl Harbor."
9/11 was THAT event. Webster Tarpley gave a superb talk. Mr. Tarpley
has a book that will be released in October called 9/11 Synthetic
Terrorism Myth of the Twenty-first Century. This book explores the
terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 as an example of
state-sponsored, false-flag terrorism, carried out by a rogue
network within the US government - a rogue network which is the
current form of the invisible government behind the Iran-contra
scandal of 1986-88. Because of the constraints of time, Mr. Tarpley
could only touch briefly on the roles of patsies, moles, expert
professionals, the controlled corporate media and a privatized
command center, as he showed how the empirical evidence around 9/11
made sense. Tarpley demonstrated that the official accounts of the
Pentagon crash, the fall of the Twin Towers, the fall of WTC 7, and
the crash of United 93 in Shanksville are physically impossible, and
the idea that "four misfit highjackers" could pilot commercial jets
is beyond the bounds of physical and technical reality.
Another dynamic
presenter was Dave Von Kleist who showed a portion of his film "9/11
in Plane Site." Through the use of actual television news footage
and eye witness testimony, Mr. Von Kleist presented a most
compelling argument disputing the official story on many fronts. Why
is there no wreckage or crater from Flight 77 on the lawn of the
Pentagon and how does a plane 125 ft wide and 155 ft. long fit into
a hole which is only 16 ft across. Von Kleist's footage showed a
"pod" attached to the bottom of "Flight 175" and questioned the
reason for its presence. Why did an eye witness report seeing no
windows on Flight 175 a commercial United Airlines jetliner? Why
were there dozens of reports of bombs and explosions going off
around the World Trade Center before any buildings collapsed? These
are just a few of the myriad questions asked in Mr. Von Kleists
remarkable documentary, a film that should replace Michael Moore's
meager attempt.
Karl Schwarz, chief
executive of Global Axxess, talked about the Bi-Partisan nature of
the elements responsible for the 9/11 tragedy. Mr. Schwarz said that
if he had the time, he could have shown a 30 minute power point
presentation that has already convinced 30,000 Conservative
Republicans not to vote for Bush/Cheney. On a humorous note, Mr.
Schwarz told the crowd that he had become a Republican because of
Bill and Hillary and had now become an Independent because of the
Bush Administration.
A small clip from a
film called The Collapse of WTC 7, a film by SGTV, was shown. It
really crystallized the case that WTC7 was PULLED. The evening was
ambitious and the program was complete, including presenters that
spanned the political spectrum. Regrettably, I will not be able to
do justice to all the speakers and certainly will not be able to
communicate the electricity in the room. People were not always in
accord, but they were able to give voice to their positions The
event posed more questions than answers but these were important
questions, questions which needed to be asked.
When I left that
wonderful evening on September 11, 2004, I was filled with hope.
Sure, we did not all agree on everything, but was that a necessary
component for our working together to uncover the truth? Yes, there
were some egos that were larger than the event itself, but isn't
that to be expected in the world of personalities? If we all had the
same goal, couldn't we band together in deference to the old adage
"there's strength in numbers."
It has been nearly
four years since the planes flew into the towers. Has any progress
been made? The mainstream media continues to ridicule the truth
seekers. The mainstream media continues having the audacity to print
bogus articles in such magazines as Popular Mechanics. It shies away
from interviews with authors who have published well researched and
well documented books on the subject of 9/11. Perhaps the mainstream
media realizes that it is no match for the truth. After all, how
loud can Sean Hannity yell?
As the days grow into
years, my sphere becomes increasingly populated with others who
share a commitment to the truth. The Internet has brought a vast
assortment of like minded people into my world. I will be eternally
grateful to this global telephone. Those I have met have provided a
"net" to catch me from falling into the abyss of despair. Everyday
people may sense something is wrong but they prefer to chase it
quickly from their thoughts; feeding their families, making a living
and watching television are their rituals and routines for survival.
I cannot fault them. I cannot hit them over the head with my "two by
four" of Judy-truth. I cannot evangelize them into the 9/11
movement. This is something I have slowly learned over the past
several years. This is something I am still learning. Will we ever
uncover the truth about September 11, 2001?
Please do not expect
a Hollywood ending from my pen. Should we give up? A resounding
"NO." We owe this much to the victims of 9/11, their families and
future generations of Americans.
Judy Andreas.
Jude10901@aol.com
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