"We are such stuff as dreams are made of." - Shakespeare.We're coming upon the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks this fall. The truth about that catastrophic day is slowly growing in the public consciousness. It is only a matter of time before the wall of silence breaks, and the truth is heard across the four corners of the earth.
2011 is a make or break year for the 9/11 truth movement, for the war against lies, and government deception. Victory is staring us in the face. History is staring us in the face. Let's not fail future generations now. We must tell the truth, and restore a lawful order in our societies.
If there ever was a time for journalists to prove their worth, and help save lives, it is now - when some of the biggest, and most consequential lies ever told in history by the highest authority figures need to be exposed, and deconstructed, mainly, the lie about the 9/11 attacks, which unleashed a catastrophic war on mankind, the so-called war on terror, that is not restricted to a specific place, or time, nor within the law. Journalists can help bring the totalitarian and imperial craftsmen of the war to justice by bringing to light to the larger public the many obvious facts that show the official 9/11 story to be a big lie.
Journalists can access these facts on highly credible 9/11 truth websites such as 9/11Truth.org and Architects & Engineers for 9/11Truth, in groundbreaking documentaries like Press For Truth, and in public video lectures given by professional architect Richard Gage, professors David Ray Griffin and Graeme MacQueen, and veteran firefighter Erik Lawyer. Serious investigators should watch other presentations as well, and come to their own conclusions about the 9/11 attacks, but the open-minded effort to know the truth must be made.
The media, especially television news, has been used as a mirror that distorts and shapes reality when it ought to be used as a mirror that reflects reality. Edward R. Murrow wisely said that television can be used to educate, and enhance public opinion, and thereby strengthen democracy. Murrow:
This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and even it can inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it's nothing but wires and lights in a box. There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference. This weapon of television could be useful.It is the moral obligation of journalists to report truthful information, and provide context for the public, especially about war. By failing to meet this obligation journalists become worse than manipulative tyrants and their unthinking government bureaucrats because at least they don't cover their lies and wrongful behavior behind "objective commentary and news." Journalists who have any pride will take better care of their craft by enlightening themselves first, and then enlightening the public about the wholesale fraud that is the war on terror.
As long as the telling of the truth is done right, and journalists admit their errors and gaps in knowledge that let them to wrongfully conclude that 9/11 truth-tellers are conspiracy theorists, the media will gain new credibility and respect, and newspapers would gain new readers. If nothing else, telling the truth is good for business.
It is hard to all of a sudden recognize gaps in your knowledge of recent history, of the use of false-flag terrorism by coercive governments, including the United States, and of the facts relating to the 9/11 events, including its planning and execution, but better late than never. There is no shame in telling the truth about so important an event, even all these years later. Journalists and citizens can help each other gain a new understanding about how the instrument of terror has been used by government leaders in America, England, and Israel to politically suffocate the people in the West, and make us support a war in the Middle East that is totally criminal and evil. Well meaning individuals in the media and the public are in the struggle for truth and transparency together. The CIA spies in the media, and government paid drones who are posing as journalists should not be granted the last word on 9/11, and other events that expose government terrorism as the main threat to the public's security and freedoms.
Waking up to this new reality takes guts. Everything we once knew about history, our governments, our leaders, and society in general goes out the window, and it quickly dawns on us that we must start our education over again from the very beginning, wherever that may be, to get a better handle on history, and how we fit in it. Learning the truth is important because we have all been collectively brainwashed in America, Canada, England, and the West about "terrorism," "the Islamic threat," and "foreign enemies."
Learning the truth about 9/11 makes us search for a deeper historical narrative of our times, and a deeper history of the United States government in the 20th century, especially the history of its foreign policy. Professor Peter Dale Scott has written:
Since World War Two, the United States has had in effect two conflicting styles of conducting foreign policy, one for other developed states, and a quite different style for regions of little economic interest apart from their mineral resources – above all oil and natural gas.All the CIA's men have had to work behind a thick wall of government secrecy and official disinformation in order to execute their illegal and immoral orders from the White House, which include overthrowing hostile regimes that sit on a wealth of natural resources, assisting and training terrorists, and destabilizing societies through propaganda campaigns and terrorism. In some ways, the timidity on the part of journalists to investigate psychologically transformative events like 9/11 and to tell the truth about them is understandable because they, like the rest of the public, are scared, and they have been denied information and knowledge by the murderous traitors who run the White House. The late Chalmers Johnson wrote:
As a general rule, the US has worked through the established governments of developed states. But in Third World areas and regions with oil or other minerals, the US has done whatever it thought necessary to secure access when it wished to do so. As Michael Tanzer observed some years ago, a number of CIA-engineered coups in the 1950s and 1960s, starting with Iran in 1953, can be related to the intentions of those countries to nationalize their oil companies.
"James Madison, the primary author of our Constitution, considered the people's access to information the basic right upon which all other rights depend. This is the right that, from the moment George W. Bush entered the White House, his administration has most consistently attacked. Its implacable, sweeping claims to executive secrecy, which predate the "Global War on Terror," go a long way toward explaining why the press and the public have been so passive in the face of this imperial presidency." - Chalmers Johnson (2007). Nemesis: The Last Days of The American Republic. Metropolitan Books: New York. Pg. 244.If America wasn't America, but instead a dictatorship, the CIA's job would be a lot easier, and so would the President's job, as George Bush remarked numerous times. But since America is America, the land of free speech and the home of Thomas Jefferson, a shadow totalitarian structure had to be set up in Washington to keep the American people ignorant and obedient, and this was done after World War II with the passage of the National Security Act, and the establishment of the National Security System. Author Garry Wills described how this destructive National Security System destroyed America's constitutional republic in his September 2009 essay for The New York Review of Books, "Entangled Giant":
"The monopoly on use of nuclear weaponry, the cult of the commander in chief, the worldwide network of military bases to maintain nuclear alert and supremacy, the secret intelligence agencies, the entire national security state, the classification and clearance systems, the expansion of state secrets, the withholding of evidence and information, the permanent emergency that has melded World War II with the cold war and the cold war with the “war on terror”—all these make a vast and intricate structure that may not yield to effort at dismantling it. Sixty-eight straight years of war emergency powers (1941–2009) have made the abnormal normal, and constitutional diminishment the settled order." - Garry Wills, "Entangled Giant," The New York Review of Books: September 10, 2009.Washington's shadow totalitarian structure was fully solidified, and became a full-blown terrorist state upon the CIA's assassination of John F. Kennedy who was acting against the interests of this power structure. Author James W. Douglass says in his book "JFK And The Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters," that JFK, "had known for some time he had more in common with his enemy, Nikita Khrushchev, than he had with his own people in the CIA and the Pentagon. Kennedy and Khrushchev knew their world had turned upside down following the Missile Crisis, making their outward belligerence a thin cover for their having become secret allies. They were still struggling on many fronts but now had a new, shared mission--to end a conflict, the Cold War, that neither wanted and that they now knew, from their immersion together in an imminent holocaust, could doom the human race. In the process of their collaboration, friends had become enemies, and enemies friends." (Douglass. JFK And The Unspeakable: Why He Died And Why It Matters. Pg. 378-379).
The fact that the real reason of why John F. Kennedy died is not largely known is another indication that America is not a free and open society, and that its government is controlled by a ruling elite with a totalitarian state of mind who enjoy covering up historical facts when it suits their purposes. George Orwell wrote in his essay "The Prevention of Literature," that a "society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud." Orwell's definition of a totalitarian society is probably the best, and it perfectly explains how the American ruling class really governs America. They remain in power by covering up the truth, managing the public's perception of history and current events, and creating realities which are then cynically presented to the public as the historical truth. Remember, Karl Rove boasted:
''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''Anybody who honestly looks at the facts in the face can see that there are state terrorists/traitors with a totalitarian conception of the world who illegitimately control the American government, and they deserve to pay for their crimes. It is a matter of the historical record that this is true, that America is occupied from within, but we should not believe for a minute that America can't be freed, that its immoral wars cannot be ended. America's murderous rulers are not gods, they are men who rule illegitimately over America by the power of propaganda, the informational sword, and they can be defeated by the other, sharper informational sword, the truth. As Orwell said, "no one is infallible." From Orwell's "The Prevention of Literature":
"From the totalitarian point of view history is something to be created rather than learned. A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened. Then, again, every major change in policy demands a corresponding change of doctrine and a revaluation of prominent historical figures. This kind of thing happens everywhere, but is clearly likelier to lead to outright falsification in societies where only one opinion is permissible at any given moment. Totalitarianism demands, in fact, the continuous alteration of the past, and in the long run probably demands a disbelief in the very existence of objective truth. The friends of totalitarianism in this country tend to argue that since absolute truth is not attainable, a big lie is no worse than a little lie. It is pointed out that all historical records are biased and inaccurate, or, on the other hand, that modern physics has proved that what seems to us the real world is an illusion, so that to believe in the evidence of one's senses is simply vulgar philistinism. A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set us a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of common sense held good in everyday life and in certain exact sciences, but could be disregarded by the politician, the historian, and the sociologist."America's totalitarian con artists have had to frequently "rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened." They changed the mission in Iraq after Saddam fell, when it was clear that the Iraqi people would not greet their new conquerors with any warmth or enthusiasm. Then, when the resistance was at its peak, the Bush administration escalated the number of troops in Iraq, and lied to the world that this "surge" was a huge success, despite the fact that it increased the conflict and produced more deaths on all sides. Brave journalists like Nir Rosen have not let them get away with this lie.
There are other examples of the Bush administration, and now the Obama administration, covering up past mistakes in U.S. policy, and blatantly lying to the public about America's war strategy.
America's totalitarian-minded government goes all the way back to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. From 1963 up to now America has had snake oil presidents: Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama. All, maybe with the exception of Carter, profoundly betrayed the American people, and broke their oath to defend the Constitution. They are serious contenders, as the public spokesmen of a destructive National Security State that creates global insecurity and manufactures conflict, for history's biggest war criminals, liars, and traitors. Their public hanging would go a long way towards reinforcing the rule of law in the United States, and rehabilitating its public image worldwide.
President John F. Kennedy, the last independent-minded president of America, was determined to see his country free. He took a direct stand against the threat to America from within but the elitist forces behind the National Security State moved fast to kill him. His end came sooner than expected, but a different ending can be written for America. One million men can do what one man couldn't, even if that one man was the leader of the free world.
James Carrol, an author and columnist for the Boston Globe, writes that John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy did what they could to stop their government's mindless violence:
"King's great Washington speech was followed, only weeks later, by President Kennedy's shocking, premature death. All too soon, King himself was taken, and weeks after that, so was Robert Kennedy. When has the tide of violence ever seemed more ascendant? Yet by whom has that tide ever been more effectively turned back than by those three, as they live in memory? The stamping of their idealism with the seal of mortality--the same thing had happened to Gandhi, too,--made the hope they represented all the more precious. That was partly a matter of the content of that hope--world peace at last--but it was also a matter of the all-trumping power of the fate each person shares with every other. "For in the final analysis," as President Kennedy said at American University, "our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."Photographer and writer George Bailey writes in his article, "2010, A Year End Review," that if President Kennedy had lived we would all be living in a different world:
Up the hill from the Pentagon, such thoughts come naturally. "In a dark time," the poet Theodore Roethke says, "the eye begins to see." In a dark place, too. There is a deep irony in the Building's place beside the mythic cemetery where so many are buried, especially those who fell in the Pentagon's wars." - James Carroll. (2006). House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: New York. Pg. 510.
Our government, established on a Constitutional Republic, has now grown into a vast, criminal enterprise where the People are expected to serve it and not the other way around, as it grows in power and avarice. We now live in a National Security State where everybody, young and old, are considered a threat and have to be vetted. If John Kennedy had lived, or simply survived that ruinous day in Dealey Plaza, I think he could have thwarted a lot of what we are experiencing now. That was certainly where he was headed in his final days on earth. Certainly Vietnam would have turned out differently because after 1961 and the Bay of Pigs disaster he knew who and what he was up against. He was the last President to confront these unseen powers. And a sad note that is...But it need not be sad. President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy, all of whom were assassinated by the same dark powers that still control the United States government, left behind a real legacy that can't be erased. Out of the truth about JFK, MLK, RFK, and 9/11 develops a new conception of the world, and a new understanding of history which offers us a real opportunity to make change, and transform the world. The truth about these catastrophic events are not inconsequential or meaningless, they show that world peace is possible, that changes can be made, if we are willing to see the world with new eyes.
"Our future may lie beyond our vision," said Robert F. Kennedy, "but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only way we can live."
We should not hang our heads in defeat, or look up at the sky for a reborn Jesus, or a triumphant Muhammad. Only slaves look up and down for fairytale heroes when they're dispossessed, and without any direction. We must look ahead, and stare reality in the face. Waiting for a God to come down and save us is the mindset of a defeated slave. Waiting for politicians to one day tell the truth is also a false hope. Change is possible once we recognize that we all have power as individuals. Every one of us is divine, and we can all change the world once we set our minds to it. The important thing is that we take responsibility for the direction of our world, and make our own destiny. With the truth by our side, we can knock down dictators and charlatans, and end their murderous plots.
