Kohi, HaiHours after the towers, (and building seven, ahem), fell, Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda were blamed and we were off Rule of Law and onto specious war.
No investigation, just instant blame, focused us on these targets. In fact, any actual investigation was blocked. The steel was guarded and sold off as quickly as possible to far-flung places such as India.
Chemical residue might have offered signatures of explosives that could help explain how those three buildings came down in free-fall into their own footprints. Thermite, for instance, might have been confirmed. This would point to demolition, which requires days, even weeks, to set up properly in buildings that size. That would indicate long-term planning on the inside.
Can’t have that.
Or can we? While nothing beats examining a crime scene’s evidence in situ, we might be able to come up with the next best thing if we go to India and find some of that steel our government so hastily sold away. Some of it may still exist, and an examination of it may still offer up chemical signatures.
Not ideal, but better than nothing.
On the fifth anniversary of 9/11, a new video of that day’s destruction came to light. Ostensibly taped by private people from their 36th floor apartment in a building near the World Trade Center, it is riveting and devastating all over again.
Still, one wonders if the timing of the release is to be trusted. Rather convenient for a reminder like this to surface, just when fear is being stirred up again.
How many other videos exist?
Any number can be faked, sure, but there must be real ones out there, made by people whose first impulse would have been to document this horror. And there are so many cameras loose in the world that simple math tells us there are other tapes. There would also be countless still photographs, tape recordings, and other records.
Has there been any systematic search for such evidence? Does anyone remember a public call for such items?
Reminds me of that unidentified witness calmly filming the JFK assassination in Dealey Plaza, multiplied by dozens, maybe hundreds. Getting ahold of all possible angles and takes on 9/11 would allow an interesting mosaic to be puzzled into focus. What might it reveal? What glimpses might we get?
Would we see things we weren’t supposed to see?
Simply by asking that question, I qualify to be libeled and slandered as a conspiracy theorist. This, despite the fact that the official version cites exactly that, a conspiracy. This, despite the fact that asking questions is how we learn.
We aren’t meant to learn anything beyond the official version, it seems. There will be no reality-based thinking tolerated. Try it, and you’ll be ridiculed, derided, and scoffed into marginal silence. You’ll be dismissed and brushed aside like a toddler trying to help firefighters and only getting underfoot.
Revealing response to questions, isn’t it?
You’d think getting to the bottom of what is arguably the crime of the century would motivate people, but just the opposite seems to happen: Mouths, and minds, are slammed shut if the slightest straying from official doctrine is hinted at.
This is tragic, and not just on a human scale. It is tragic, also, historically, because once again we are being forced to wait for decades for even a chance that the truth will bob to the surface. Remember Lacy Peterson and her unborn child?
Remember Scott Peterson’s diverting, distracting, and utterly empty smile?
Kept us busy, that sad and sordid murder. Kept us focused elsewhere while massive crimes were being perpetrated, and covered up. While jaw-dropping incompetence and staggering malfeasance became the gold standard, a total lack of accountability, up to and including a dismissal of Constitutional law, international treaties, and Congressional duties, became not only expected, but accepted.
Concentrating power in the Executive branch has led to rule by secrecy, contempt for the poor, and a nightmare of faith-based policies leading us headlong toward disaster. And remember, to believe is to pretend. Make-believe is pretending. Pretending-based initiatives don’t address real problems in a realistic way, and so those problems only worsen.
Poll after poll shows the majority think 9/11 was an inside job. Whether planned and executed, or simply allowed to happen, it seems to have had inside participation.
Evidence to prove this is hard to get, when it’s sold overseas and blocked by Presidential decree.
That these people in high places are taking this stance is revealing, though. That Cindy Sheehan and other mothers of soldiers killed in the Iraq debacle, and the questions they have, are ignored; that the Jersey Girls are not allowed to ask their questions about 9/11, when their loved ones died trying to save others; that merely asking questions to clarify what are obvious inconsistencies in the official, sanctioned version leads to character assassination and charges of appeaser, terrorist sympathizer, and worse; that all those at the top feel only contempt and worse for ordinary people trying to figure out an extraordinary event, is revealing.
It reveals character.
You expect certain behavior from certain types of people.
What we have gotten from the people at the top these past five years should surprise no one who has looked into their character.
We’re getting the goods from the package we opened.
And make no mistake, 9/11 was as much our fault as anyone’s. Not because we weren’t vigilant against attack, but precisely because we weren’t vigilant after attack.
It may not be too late, even now. We might be able to regain our balance and hold the criminals responsible. First, we’ll need to find the evidence. Then we’ll need to build our case. To establish again a Rule of Law would be difficult, but not impossible.
On this fifth anniversary of one of our worst days, we can start finding the light again. The holes are still there. Bodies are still being found, in fact. Why it’s taking so long to do something with the WTC site, no one is saying.
We can do something with the hole left in us, though.
It’s our choice, as it always is -- unless we let that choice be taken from us.
Rise up from the rubble while we still can.
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