US Government responding to 9/11 Truth Movement
In the last few days we’ve been given a clear sign that shows that things are going to get more serious faster from now on. And you can blame that on the progress the 9/11 Truth movement as a whole has been making so far. Before I continue, I want to bring the following quote to your attention:
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Mohandas Ghandi
When we look at the progress 9/11 Truth has made, you’ll no doubt agree with me (if you don’t you will at the end of this post) that we’re now at the beginning of the “then they fight you” stage of Ghandi’s quote. Indeed, in the beginning most people, including the government, ignored the 9/11 “conspiracy theories” and pretended they didn’t exist at all. Then, when the movement started growing and credible people joined in, they started making fun of them. But as the movement keeps growing and the government can’t explain certain things without revealing things they want to keep secret, the need is growing for them to start fighting back.
And I’ve said in previous posts that first they will use more conventional ways to fight back, such as using their own institutions, such as NIST, to try and discredit the 9/11 Truth movement and cast doubt on their theories. Another thing is using the mainstream media, which they completely control, to either not publish anything on the 9/11 Truth movement (as they’ve been doing for a long while now), or using them to spread their side of the story and do damage control. This is what’s happening now. But as they probably are already finding out, that won’t work. And so what you should be expecting now is for them to use more powerful ways to keep control and protect themselves which will probably include more staged terror attacks to keep people afraid, war with Iran which will serve as a distraction among other things, creation of a police state and declaring martial law and the use of force.
This may sound crazy, but as you’ll see later in this post, even people who would previously never believe this are now saying it could happen, and indeed will happen if things continue to go the way they are now. And to be honest, I have no reason to believe things will change for the better. In addition, people around the world are also becoming aware of the fact that the US government lied about 9/11. There are reports of conferences and screenings in Italy, France, Brittain, 9/11 Truth documentaries being played on TV in Holland, in public busses in Chile, Japan, Mexico etc. etc. It’s all over the world now.
So let’s discuss some of the news that appeared in the last few days in the media. NIST recently published their answers to the growing scepticism on their website. Just a few days after that, Scholars for 9/11 Truth among many others, published their comments on the NIST publication. Here are some links to comments by ST911 members:
NIST’s World Trade Center FAQ: A Reply
Jim HoffmanWhy NIST hasn’t Answered its own Questions
Jim FetzerWhy the NIST “Fact Sheet” Just Won’t Do
Sean GlazierResponses to NIST’s FAQs
Kevin RyanNIST and “The Foot Of God”
Robert RiceExperiments to test NIST “orange glow” hypothesis…
Steven E. Jones
That basically took care of the NIST FAQ.
Then the media started mentioning the fact that the government was finally responding to the “conspiracy theorists”, a move that shows that they can no longer just dismiss this group of people as nutcases.
From this article:
In the wake of growing skepticism, the U.S. government is taking the unusual step of responding to conspiracy theories about the Sept. 11, 2001, destruction of the World Trade Center.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, headquartered in Gaithersberg, Md., investigated the causes of the collapse of the twin towers. Yesterday NIST announced it had posted a “fact sheet” addressing alternative theories about the World Trade Center fires and collapse.
The government’s response comes in response to accusations and suspicions of increasing numbers of Americans that the official explanation of the events of Sept. 11, 2001 ? that 19 Muslim terrorists hijacked four U.S. jetliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, with a fourth being downed in rural Pennsylvania ? are wrong. In fact, a shocking new Scripps Howard poll shows a third of Americans believe the U.S. government was complicit in the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Someone from the New York Times also felt like writing about it:
NEW YORK Faced with an angry minority of people who believe the Sept. 11 attacks were part of a shadowy and sprawling plot run by Americans, separate reports were published this week by the State Department and a federal science agency insisting that the catastrophes were caused by hijackers who used commercial airliners as weapons.
The official narrative of the attacks has been attacked as little more than a cover story by an assortment of radio hosts, academics, amateur filmmakers and others who have spread their arguments on the Internet and cable television in America and abroad. As a motive, they suggest that the Bush administration wanted to use the attacks to justify military action in the Middle East.
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Nevertheless, federal officials say they moved to affirm the conventional history of the day because of the persistence of what they call “alternative theories.” On Wednesday, the National Institute of Standards and Technology issued a seven-page study based on its earlier 10,000-page report on how and why the trade center collapsed. The full report, released a year ago, and the synopsis, in a question and answer format, are available online at http://wtc.nist.gov.
And that’s not all, here’s another one:
As the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks looms, skepticism about the official version of the atrocities that day has gained traction in the minds of many Americans and among a small, but growing, number of academics.
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Retired University of Minnesota Duluth philosophy Prof. James Fetzer is founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth. “What the government committed was shock and awe on American soil,” he said. “And all of their explanations are phony, a fraud, a hoax, a myth.”
Nuzi Haneef, a software engineer from Eagan, has organized the MN 9/11 Questions Meetup Group. It has attracted more than three dozen participants.
“The story about 9/11 that the government said is true is really not plausible,” she said. “When you put it all together … there’s obviously been a coverup.”
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Often derided as fringe-dwellers, people pushing the 9/11 conspiracy turn out to have a lot of company.
A nationwide poll in July by the Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University found that 36 percent of respondents think the federal government either assisted in the attacks or allowed them to happen as a pretext to start a war in the Middle East.
The poll also found that 16 percent of respondents think the World Trade Center’s twin towers were toppled by hidden explosives and 12 percent think the Pentagon was hit by a U.S. cruise missile.
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Federal officials, taken aback at the tenacity of the conspiracy theorists, published two reports last week that affirm the official version of the 9/11 attacks. But the doubters remain unconvinced.
The Washington Post also had this to say:
It was a year before David Ray Griffin, an eminent liberal theologian and philosopher, began his stroll down the path of disbelief. He wondered why Bush listened to a child’s story while the nation was attacked and how Osama bin Laden, America’s Public Enemy No. 1, escaped in the mountains of Tora Bora.
He wondered why 110-story towers crashed and military jets failed to intercept even one airliner. He read the 9/11 Commission report with a swell of anger. Contradictions were ignored and no military or civilian official was reprimanded, much less cashiered.
“To me, the report read as a cartoon.” White-haired and courtly, Griffin sits on a couch in a hotel lobby in Manhattan, unspooling words in that reasonable Presbyterian minister’s voice. “It’s a much greater stretch to accept the official conspiracy story than to consider the alternatives.”
Such as?
“There was massive complicity in this attack by U.S. government operatives.”
If that feels like a skip off the cliff of established reality, more Americans are in free fall than you might guess. There are few more startling measures of American distrust of leaders than the widespread belief that the Bush administration had a hand in the attacks of Sept. 11 in order to spark an invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq.
A recent Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll of 1,010 Americans found that 36 percent suspect the U.S. government promoted the attacks or intentionally sat on its hands. Sixteen percent believe explosives brought down the towers. Twelve percent believe a cruise missile hit the Pentagon.
Distrust percolates more strongly near Ground Zero. A Zogby International poll of New York City residents two years ago found 49.3 percent believed the government “consciously failed to act.”
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Griffin took the podium and laid down his ideas with calm and cool. He concluded:
“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 domestic terrorists,” he says. “The welfare of our republic and perhaps even the survival of our civilization depend on getting the truth about 9/11 exposed.”
The audience rose and applauded for more than a minute.
That story was also on MSNBC by the way. A poll on MSNBC had the following result when I last checked:
Yes. The government has left many questions unanswered about that day. 57%
No. These theories are absurd and disrespectful — especially to those who lost their lives on 9/11. 37%
I’m not sure. 5.9%
And today, the Guardian had the following to say:
Two days before the fifth anniversary of the attacks, David Ray Griffin, emeritus professor of philosophy of religion and theology at Claremont graduate university, and author of The New Pearl Harbor and The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions, will ask his audience: “Was 9/11 an inside job?”
He will be joined on stage by the ex-MI5 officer David Shayler, who will introduce the talk, for which tickets have almost sold out. Prof Griffin is a founder member of the 9/11 Scholars for Truth movement in the US. He is joined by 75 academics who write in books, journals and essays that they have overwhelming evidence that shatters the official version of events on that September morning.
And it seems that a growing number of people are listening to them. A recent poll in the US found that 36% of Americans believed it “very likely” or “somewhat likely” that their government was involved in allowing the attacks or had carried them out itself. There are many people in the UK who agree with them.
Ofcourse, what’s not to agree with? It’s so clear I’m asking myself why even more people haven’t woken up yet from their sleep.
And here’s a translation of a story that appeared in a French newspaper. Some quotes:
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It is in American universities that the documentary has excited the most interest, thanks to students spreading the word. Director of Scripps Survey Research Center Guido Stempel estimates that “the success of these theories is related to increasing mistrust with respect to the Bush government, its lack of credibility and its penchant for secrecy.”
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“Once that you believe in it, there’s no going back, you devote your life to it” says Janette MacKinlay, a 58 year old artist. She lived across from the Twin Towers at the time of the attacks and regards herself as “a survivor.” She started to doubt in August 2004, at a meeting in San Francisco, by listening to two Members of the 9/11 Commission, created to shed light on the attacks. “They did not answer any questions. I had the impression it was a cover-up.” Se then read a book by David Ray Griffin, a theologian considered as a reference by the conspiracist movement, and “informed herself.” Since then, she is the one who has been organizing conferences. “I am a patriot,” she says. “I am trying to fight this policy of fear they’re subjecting us to.”
What is clear is that more and more people are starting to “inform themselves.” Indeed it is the only choice they have since they cannot possibly rely on the mainstream media anymore to do that for them. And like I wrote before, this is all possible and made much easier because of the Internet, which the government doesn’t yet control (but boy would they love to).
I also came across this article by Michel Chossudovsky. Here are some quotes:
“The Sunday Times views Israel’s war plans as legitimate acts of self defense, to prevent Tehran from launching an all out nuclear attack on Israel: “Iran and Syria have ballistic missiles that can cover most of Israel, including Tel Aviv. An emergency budget has now been assigned to building modern shelters.”
The fact that Iran does not possess nuclear weapons capabilities as confirmed by the IAEA report does not seem to be an issue for debate.
Media disinformation has contributed to creating an atmosphere of fear and intimidation. The announcement on August 10 by the British Home Office of a foiled large scale terror attack to simultaneously blow up as many as ten airplanes, conveys the impression that it is the Western World rather than the Middle East which is under attack.
Realities are twisted upside down. The disinformation campaign has gone into full gear. The British and US media are increasingly pointing towards “preemptive war” as an act of “self defense” against Al Qaeda and the State sponsors of terrorism, who are allegedly preparing a Second 911.
The underlying objective, through fear and intimidation, is ultimately to build public acceptance for the next stage of the Middle East “war on terrorism” which is directed against Syria and Iran.
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The economic and political dislocations resulting from this military agenda are far-reaching.
If the attacks directed against Iran and Syria were to proceed, martial law and/or a state of emergency could be declared in the US and possibly Britain on the pretext that the homeland is under attack by Iran sponsored terrorists. The purpose of these measures would essentially be to curb the antiwar movement and provide legitimacy to an illegal war.
The Pentagon has intimated in this regard, in an official statement, that “another [9/11] attack could create both a justification and an opportunity to retaliate against some known targets [Iran and Syria]”. In a timely statement, barely a few days following the onslaught of the bombing of Lebanon, Vice President Cheney reiterated his warning: “The enemy that struck on 9/11 is fractured and weakened, yet still lethal, still determined to hit us again” (Waterloo Courier, Iowa, 19 July 2006, italics added).
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Revealing the lies behind 911 would serve to undermine the legitimacy of the “war on terrorism”.
Without 911, the war criminals in high office do not have a leg to stand on. The entire national security construct collapses like a deck of cards.
No wonder the US government is now being forced to actively do something about the 9/11 Truth movement. And they’re going to fight the 9/11 Truth movement with everything they’ve got at their disposal. It’s like Griffin said in his recent interview about the Norad tapes, there is no limit to the amount of time, money and other resources that these people will use to keep control and protect themselves.
And with that in mind, Professor Steven Jones was recently put on “paid leave” by Brigham Young University (BYU) because of his views and research on 9/11 issues. They even took down his paper on the WTC Tower demolition from their website. Fortunately, his paper is now also published on Journal of 9/11 Studies and in David Griffin’s latest book called “9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out.” It would not surprise me one bit if the US government is behind this, forcing the head of the university to take action against Jones or else lose funding on research projects for the government, for example. There are many ways they can put pressure on BYU. Also consider that someone from the government had contacted Jones about 2 months ago and offered to pay for his research if he would “change the direction of his 9/11 research a little.” Jones, ofcourse, refused.
And it’ll only get worse. Michael Ruppert, author of “Crossing the Rubicon” where he exposes the role Cheney played on 9/11, was recently forced to move out of the US because his life was in danger. Even millionaire Jimmy Walters, who spent over 8 million dollars so far to promote 9/11 Truth, had to move out of the US because he was being harassed by the government and is now living somewhere in Europe. The New York Times even refused to take his money and publish an ad he wanted to place about 9/11 Truth.
The staged terror attack Alex Jones predicted would happen before the end of october all of a sudden doesn’t seem that crazy. It’s not hard to “predict” any of this stuff, folks, when you have the right knowledge and information, you can “predict” a lot of things others wouldn’t be able to see coming.
And finally, to get you really excited, here’s the latest on our good friend Osama:
Major General Shaukat Sultan Khan, press secretary to the president of Pakistan, tells ABC News that — if found — Osama bin Laden won’t be arrested, as long as he promises to behave like a “peaceful citizen.”
“If he is in Pakistan, bin Laden ‘would not be taken into custody,’ Major General Shaukat Sultan Khan told ABC News in a telephone interview, ‘as long as one is being like a peaceful citizen,” report Brian Ross and Gretchen Peters at ABC’s blog, The Blotter.
Beautiful, isn’t it? Simply amazing. Keep in mind that Mehmood Ahmed, head of the ISI (Pakistan’s Intelligence Agency) on 9/11, wired $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker, just days before the attacks on 9/11. Mr. Ahmed was also in the US on 9/11 meeting with US government, specifically the State Department, CIA and Pentagon. Lovely, isn’t it? Why the hell did the 9/11 Commission never investigate that?
But as for Osama, it seems they have no use for him now anymore. Even the FBI has admitted they have no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11. So hey, let him live a peaceful life in Pakistan, as long as he behaves. And when they need him again, he’ll be brought back in the news to scare people again. Remember that this was supposed to be the evil man Bush was after when 9/11 happened. It was why they invaded Afghanistan. Let me leave you now with the following quotes:
“The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It’s our number one priority, and we will not rest until we find him.” – George W. Bush, September 13, 2001.
“I don’t know where he is. I have no idea, and I really don’t care. It’s not that important. It’s not our priority.” – George W. Bush, March 13, 2002.
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