Finding Hope From Confronting the Unspeakable

 "In a time of universal deceit, truth-telling becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell

As many of the relatives of victims of 9/11have been attempting to tell us for the past ten years, the only true form of remembrance for those who perished on this day is an honest uncovering of the truth, an event which has yet to happen. Because there is so much confusion on the internet, not to mention disinformation, ridicule, denial and slander, coupled with fanatical belief and one sided distortions, I'm posting a few summaries which seem to me to be trustworthy and sound. This one (At bottom of page)  comes from TV News Lies. Org.  (Re-posted with permission of the author.) 

But in the end, does it really matter? Shouldn't we let this contentious issue rest, let-go and move on? Aren't there more pressing issues of injustice facing us? After all, the civilian death toll from the invasion of Iraq surpasses the numbers of 911 victims by a factor of several thousands! Why expend so much energy on a 'losing battle,' uncovering what may have been a US government crime, but in terms of numbers lost, would have been one of the lesser US crimes of the past 100 years. The 1989 US invasion of Panama resulted in over 4,000 civilian deaths (numbers from Panama's Catholic Charities), so why focus so much attention on the tragic, but rather paltry 3,000 dead from 911? Doesn't this just contribute to the profound illusion so many Americans bought into on that day that 'we' have suffered more than anyone else has suffered, when in fact, the opposite is the case. With no disrespect intended for the 911 victims and their families, the maudlin self-pity propagated world wide by American culture was and is sickening to so many of America's true victims. As my cousin, Joe  said to me by phone on the evening of 911 (after having run across Manhattan to pick up his ten year old daughter from school since all transport had shut down), "Well, now we know what it feels like to get bombed and attacked. We've been doing it with impunity to other countries worldwide for years." So shouldn't we just let go and not contribute to another world-wide wave of sickening, maudlin self-pity propagated by US media culture? I'm not referring to the genuine mourning, heartfelt and sincere, which will undoubtedly take place tomorrow, but given the power of the US media worldwide, it's impact will be disproportionate. Where are the ten-year memorials for the victims of the Panama invasion, for the thousands of Iraqi children who perished from drinking the poisoned water supplies at the end of the first Iraq War (Statistic from UNICEF), poisoned because the US air force as it's last official act bombed and destroyed all of the sewage disposal and water treatment plants of all of Iraq's major cities (a major war crime under the Geneva conventions, which was first denied by the US Pentagon in 1991, then admitted in 1998)? Where are the memorials for all of the slaughtered women and children of Iraq and Afghanistan, their numbers in the millions?

Within  24 hours, the world is about to be treated to both a genuine service of heartfelt mourning as well as (unfortunately)  a media orgy of US self-pity and self-justification, as it honors and grieves for the dead of 9/11, when the act itself may very well have been 'an inside job.' If there is even a remote possibility that this has been the case, then we must press forward for a complete uncovering of the truth, not only to honor the immediate victims of 9/11, but to honor and make reparations to the millions of other victims, most of them Muslims in Middle Eastern countries. 3,000 people did not lose their lives because of 9/11, the real number is surely in excess of 3 million. 9/11 became the nub and the nexus of a great evil, spawning wars in six Middle Eastern countries, and distorting the moral and political life of the US almost beyond redemption. We are a country with a great lie festering at the heart of our social, political and moral life, a lie few wish to face because it is too disturbing to contemplate. Until the boil is lanced, the infection will continue to fester, the rot will continue to spread. 

However, the social consequences of discovering that 911 was to some extent an inside job would be well nigh catastrophic, resulting in nearly total disaffection of the US populace from it's governmental institutions. This is a real threat. As we have just learned from University of California at Berkeley Law School Dean ChristopherEdley, Jr., Obama and his team feared a coup if they prosecuted Bush administration officials for war crimes of torture and rendition. Daniel Ellsberg last June, upon the de-classification of the Pentagon Papers, said that top editors of US media had told him the Obama administration had put a gag order on them not to cover 9/11. Most likely this was for the same reason, that any true uncovering of the 'fact's of 9/11 would leave the President with no country to govern. The following quote is also very apropos.

"Air Force Colonel and key Pentagon official Karen Kwiatkowski - who blew the whistle on the Bush administration's efforts to concoct false intelligence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction - wrote (page 26):

I have been told by reporters that they will not report their own insights or contrary evaluations of the official 9/11 story, because to question the government story about 9/11 is to question the very foundations of our entire modern belief system regarding our government, our country, and our way of life. To be charged with questioning these foundations is far more serious than being labeled a disgruntled conspiracy nut or anti-government traitor, or even being sidelined or marginalized within an academic, government service, or literary career. To question the official 9/11 story is simply and fundamentally revolutionary. In this way, of course, questioning the official story is also simply and fundamentally American."

(Taken from Washington's Blog)

And of course, it's not just the 'mainstream' media who are too afraid to touch 9/11. What I call "The Mainstream Alternative Media," are just as frightened of the issue. This includes Counterpunch, ZNet, Truth Dig, Democracy Now. Their fierce and protracted refusal to deal with the findings of the 9/11 truth movement is more than simple  denial. Rather, it is grounded, in my opinion, in their fear of being tarnished for discussing "conspiracy theories," thereby losing both their credibility and their corporate funding. 

This means that we have a small group of very courageous investigators who form the core of the 9/11 truth movement who cannot get a hearing within the mainstream alternative media! And yet they can get their scientific papers published in some of the most prestigious peer-reviewed scientific journals in the world, such as the Open Chemical Physics Journal, a fact of such significance it passes completely without comment in the mainstream and alternative media. In this regard, they remind me strikingly of gay theologians like William Lindsey of Bilgrimage who struggle to get a hearing within progressive, 'centrist' Catholic journals  for their arguments for the civil rights of gay persons. And yet these 'progressive' journals continue to refuse to 'hear' the cries of their gay brothers and sisters because they are ensconced behind such a massive wall of denial. Comparing gay theologians to the struggle of the 9/11 truth investigators may seem like too much of a stretch - unless you have spent the necessary time truly 'listening' to the arguments and evidence of the 9/11 truth movement, and then spent equal time painfully listening to their detractors and debunkers- who are very vocal in the mainstream media and on the internet, but who will not debate the issue in public forums or publish in peer reviewed journals.  

Keep this in mind every time you see someone crowing on the internet about their latest article debunking '9/11 conspiracy theorists'. The response of the 9/11 truth movement is always the same. "Fine, we may very well be wrong. But come forward and follow the standard scientific, social science methods and protocols. Publish in peer reviewed journals and then join us in an open public debate." The silence to this response is deafening.

We in the US are, in my opinion, a country in profound moral and spiritual denial and it is a sickness of the soul that continues to fester at the moral heart of the nation. The rot will not go quietly away while we attend to other 'pressing matters' that we consider of more immediate importance. 9/11 has been the nub of great evil and it must be exposed. As James Douglas said in regard to the Kennedy assassination,

In a time when the Cold War has given way to a war on terror, hope comes from walking through the darkness of our history. We can find hope at that point of total denial and darkness where we don't want to go. Hope comes from confronting the unspeakable truth of the assassination of President Kennedy. (from JFK and the Unspeakable)

And I would add: Hope comes from confronting the unspeakable truth of 9/11. But before confronting that truth, we must be willing to uncover it. 

Here is the first of a series of articles on 9/11.

I don't believe the official story of 9/11 because I know the official story of 9/11!

 

During the past 10 years I have not met a single individual who, after doing research on the subject, switched from questioning the official narrative of the events of 9/11/2001 to believing the official narrative of those events..  It is always the other way around. Why do you think that is? There are good reasons for this, and I will try to explain this phenomenon right now.

The term "conspiracy theorist", perhaps the most misapplied description in our vernacular, is often used to describe 9/11 truthers. Perhaps that term does apply to a segment of the 9/11 truth movement. But in most cases a more accurate description of 9/11 truthers is probably "expert", or "scholar", or "researcher." You see, much of the doubt cast on the official narrative of the events of 9/11 has not come in the form of speculated accusations, or "theories." In fact, it has come in the form of questions that have been raised after a careful study of the official and undisputed events and details.

Ten years have passed since the infamous events of September 11th, 2001 took place, and the majority of people still don't know a damn thing about the actual details of that event. They don't know what was going on in the country with regard to our military that day. They don't know the history or the activities of key members of our government, defense establishment or intelligence community, on, or during the weeks, and in some cases the years leading up to that day. They don't know what took place during or immediately following the events of that day. And they don't know what actions were taken by those key people following that event.

As is the case with so many issues, people  tend to stand strong and argue a position or voice an opinion about an event like 9/11.  But, when questioned about the many details surrounding that event they have no answers. They are clueless. And they are, in the end, dumbfounded.

I can not tell you how many times I have discussed the events of 9/11 with an outraged citizen who can not believe that I would "accuse our own government" of such a terrible thing as conducting a false flag operation, only to hear the phrase "no, I did not know that, is that true?" repeated over and over as I "educate" them about those little things called DETAILS. I can not count the pale-faced stunned looks on people's faces as I exposed them to some of the "official facts" they never suspected, and never knew. I have walked away from many a confrontation with newly educated "patriotic Americans", only to worry about whether or not they would again resume breathing correctly. 

They would never do such a thing

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