Both Senator Leahy and Senator Daschle were in positions capable of
blocking the neo-Nazi PATRIOT Act. Both senators had negotiated with
the Bush regime changes in the act that made it less tyrannical.
However, the changes were not in the final draft of the act sent to
Congress. Consequently, Leahy and Daschle were resisting the rush to
passage. I have often wondered if Leahy and Daschle understood the
anthrax letters to be Washington’s warning: “Get out of the way of
Tyranny or we will kill you.” Paul
Craig Roberts (4/18/2015)
I believe circumstances such as “9/11" have nearly swept us to
disaster, the authoritarian threat has grown unabated, and almost all the
protections I saw in 1996, such as a “free and vigilant press,” are being eroded or have
already been destroyed. The biggest problem we have now, in my view, is
authoritarianism. It has placed America at one of those historic cross-roads that will
profoundly affect the rest of its history, and the future of our planet. The world deserves a much
better America than the one it has seen lately. And so do Americans.The
Authoritarians: Bob Altemeyer (Download the Free Book).
"In examining any crime, a central question, a central question must be 'who benefits?'
The principal beneficiaries of the destruction of the World Trade Center are in the United States:
The Bush administration, the Pentagon, the CIA and FBI, the weapons industry, the oil industry.
It is reasonable to ask whether those who have profited to such an extent from this tragedy
contributed to bringing it about."
Investigative journalist Patrick Martin quoted in
The
War on Freedom: How and Why America was Attacked, September 11, 2001
by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed and John Leonard.
Ever since the Warren Commission concluded that a
lone gunman assassinated President John F. Kennedy, people who doubt
that finding have been widely dismissed as conspiracy theorists, despite
credible evidence that right-wing elements in the CIA, FBI, and Secret
Service—and possibly even senior government officials—were also
involved. Why has suspicion of criminal wrongdoing at the highest
levels of government been rejected out-of-hand as paranoid thinking
akin to superstition?
Conspiracy Theory in America investigates how the Founders’ hard-nosed
realism about the likelihood of elite political misconduct—articulated
in the Declaration of Independence—has been replaced by today’s blanket
condemnation of conspiracy beliefs as ludicrous by definition. Lance
deHaven-Smith reveals that the term “conspiracy theory” entered the
American lexicon of political speech to deflect criticism of the Warren
Commission and traces it back to a CIA propaganda campaign to discredit
doubters of the commission’s report. He asks tough questions and
connects the dots among five decades’ worth of suspicious events,
including the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy, the attempted
assassinations of George Wallace and Ronald Reagan, the crimes of
Watergate, the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages deal, the disputed
presidential elections of 2000 and 2004, the major defense failure of
9/11, and the subsequent anthrax letter attacks." Conspiracy
Theory In America, Lance deHaven-Smith
"The public tragedy of Sept. 11 dramatically shifted the focus in Washington from debates over federal privacy legislation to a mania for total information awareness, turning Silicon Valley’s innovative surveillance practices into objects of intense interest. As Jack Balkin, a professor at Yale Law School, observed, the intelligence community would have to “rely on private enterprise to collect and generate information for it,” in order to reach beyond constitutional, legal, or regulatory constraints, controversies that are central today. By 2013, the CIA’s chief technology officer outlined the agency’s mission “to collect everything and hang on to it forever,” acknowledging the internet companies, including Google, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Fitbit and telecom companies, for making it possible. The revolutionary roots of surveillance capitalism are planted in this unwritten political doctrine of surveillance exceptionalism, bypassing democratic oversight, and essentially granting the new internet companies a license to steal human experience and render it as proprietary data."
Shoshana Zuboff "The Coup We Are Not Talking About" New York Times Jan. 29, 2021
How does NYT live another day to start more wars? Noam and Counterpunch get them off the hook for biggest lies 🔽🔽🔽🔽 https://t.co/KF6sgk8cBY
— 1946 must be misunderstood and is. (@DoItForMaMa) May 14, 2020
"...government responded by counterattacking the
wrong country and passing a whole host of insane laws that had nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism, its
president responded by encouraging its citizens to buy Chevys and go on vacations. Then, when it came time
to ask why the attack had happened, the president announced that it had happened
because the terrorists, well, those folks hated our freedom. Examining
this rationale, the mainstream press did not denounce Bush's reasoning
as the preposterous horseshit it was, but instead tripped over
themselves enmasse in a desperate attempt to find new ways to compare
their leader to Winston Churchill. Months later, bin Laden himself had been forgotten,
and the country moved on to denouncing the real enemy, culminating in
the banning of French fries from the congressional cafeteria." Matt
Taibbi: The Great Derangement.
"It is already possible to know, beyond a reasonable
doubt, one very important thing: the destruction of the World Trade
Center was an inside job, orchestrated by terrorists within our own
government." David
Ray Griffin, author of
The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and
Distortions
"...the 9/11 attack has been used to start wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq, to plan an attack on Iran, to curtail
constitutional protections and civil liberties in the US, to
radically expand US military budgets and the power of the
executive, and to enrich entrenched vested interests. [Griffin]
is definitely correct about this regardless of whether a believable
case can ever be made for the government’s version of the
9/11 conspiracy." Paul
Craig Roberts[email
him] was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration.
Should the members of the 9/11 Presidential
Commission not have been informed that two of the "key witnesses" upon
whom their report was based had provided the information critical to the
report's conclusions only after being waterboarded a total of 266
times? On Page 146 of that report, there appears a boxed disclaimer
that even the commissioners, possessed of high security clearances,
were not allowed to meet, let alone cross-examine, the witnesses or
even talk with those who did the interrogations. Robert
Scheer
More than 50 senior government officials and 100
professors have publicly expressed significant
criticism of the 9/11 Commission Report. Many even allege
government complicity in the 9/11 attacks.
The official story of 9/11 leaves a lot of
questions unanswered. For a long time Bush
opposed any independent investigation, forensic
evidence was quickly removed from the crime scene, and after being
forced to have hearings, the actual investigation was closely
overseen (whitewashed) by the Bush administration.
There is no doubt that the Bush
administration used 9/11 as a pretext to impose their agenda of
reduced civil liberties, an
imperial Presidency, an intimidated Congress, justification for the
military-industrial appropriations, and gratuitous, endless war. Aside from the Bush administration, a
well-connected group of contractors became the recipients of
billions of dollars in new pork: Halliburton, the Carlyle group,
KBR, Blackwater, and others benefited. The Bush administration was
in conflict of interest in awarding many of these sole-source
contracts.
There was no Congressional
oversight. The reforms accomplished after Watergate have all been rolled back.
The press no longer stands up.
Order:
Buy this excellent 9/11 video documentary
(in DVD format) and share it with colleagues and friends: amazon.com ($13.49) or the official movie
website ($14.95)
A new 10-minute video presentation, created
specifically for the Vancouver 9/11 Truth Conference featuring
Professor Graeme MacQueen of McMaster University in Hamilton,
Ontario, Canada, entitled: "9/11 Commission Report bars 503
First-responder eyewitnesses" This is a preview of Prof. MacQueen's
presentation to the conference, June 22nd to 24th, which will also
be made available on DVD (Produced by Snowshoe Films). Please,
watch this introductory clip, then pass it around - especially to
every person you know who still refuses to believe the WTC Towers
were demolished with explosives: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwQa5eokieY
NB: Please pay close attention to the photos of the massive,
cross-braced, 47-column central core columns that ended up severed
into little pieces - all in less than 10 seconds! Jet fuel
indeed.
Recent articles in corporate media examine
deception and lying by the Department of Defense relative to the
attacks of September 11th 2001. They shed light on an
effective cover-up by the 9/11 Commission in its refusal to bring
Government deception to the American people by way of their
discredited 9/11 Report. Links to these articles follow as do 11
questions which these revelations and NORAD tapes beg to be asked
and which must be answered:
The real and problematic confusion and fog is
one which is seemingly preventing the corporate media from grappling
with any of the following pressing questions which have been
advanced for years by the 9/11 families, advocates and independent
researchers.
Here are Eleven Questions that the corporate
media have thus far refused to raise or attempt to answer in their
examination of the NORAD tapes and related issues:
Who was responsible for scheduling multiple war
games and terror exercises involving aircraft for Sept.
11th
Who moved "Global Guardian" normally scheduled
for October to September?
Who designed the war games to involve
'hijackings'?
Who planned and scheduled the movement of
Airforce aircraft north to Canada, Alaska and Greenland?
Who planned the terror exercise at the NSA
involving an evacuation in response to threat from the
air?
Who was "hands-on" responsible for coordinating
all the war games the morning of September 11th?
Who would have been responsible for turning off
the war games to enable a timely real world response to the
attacks?
How were as many as 21 false radar blips or
possible targets (per Jane Garvey) inserted into FAA radar
screens?
Who was responsible for the identification of
ghost flight 11 which allegedly continued to fly south past
Manhattan and which may have caused NORAD's Langley intercept jets
to vector North toward NYC rather than D.C.?
[NOTE: John Farmer of the 9/11 Commission said
to me personally that the 9/11 Commission was never able to identify
the individual for this information--to resolve this anomaly.]
Why was there no reference to the pattern of 9/11 Commission
cover-up including that of Able Danger as revealed by Capt. Scott Philpott?
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The bottom line question that corporate media refuse to answer and
which the 9/11 Commission ignored is who, specifically, would have
been responsible for creating the circumstances that led to the
confusion or fog the morning of 9/11 and who should have
immediately ceased any and all war gaming activity and deceptive
radar data?
To begin to answer these questions journalists intent on getting
answers to questions long asked by the families and others should
visit:
Enough with excusing those responsible by pointing to 'confusion'
or 'fog'. The real and dangerous 'fog' here is that which
prevents journalists from doing their jobs and asking and answering
the hard questions about 9/11 including those posed above and those
surrounding the growing evidence for controlled demolition of the
World Trade Center towers and WTC #7. [Google Dr. Steven Jones
& World Trade Center]