John Buchanan: Truth Candidate..Go baby, go!

[TruthIsAll]

This guy is saying EXACTLY what I would be saying if I ran for President against the Chimp.

Can we draft this guy?

http://johnbuchanan.org/news/newsitem.php?section=INF&id=1154&showcat=4

SPEECH TO MANCHESTER SUPPORT GROUP 1/7/04

Good afternoon and thank you for welcoming me so warmly.

I stand before you today less as a candidate and more as a messenger and the message I bear is simple and stark. We have all been lied to about 9/11, the country is in mortal danger and only you can make it right.

If you need a label, I stand here as a 9/11 Truth Candidate and some may thus dismiss me as a single-issue candidate and in a narrow sense that is true. But if you consider that 9/11 has led us into fiscal ruin, endless war and constitutional twilight, my issue is the mother issue of our age.

That said let me return to the 9/11 message the first line of which is this: They wanted it to happen.

They being the neocon members and associates of PNAC, the Project for a New American Century, an ultra-rightwing think tank and mouthpiece for Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and most Bush’s handlers these days. Cheney, Wolfowitz and their PNAC fellows had been campaigning publicly for Mideast oil wars since 2000, but also said publicly that the American people were not likely to buy these plans without a quote catastrophic and catalyzing event like a new Pearl Harbor” unquote

They wanted it to happen.

And despite over 23 warnings from 11 foreign governments in the months preceding the attacks they did NOTHING to protect or warn the country.

They did less than nothing. They quashed 5 different investigations into Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda by FBI teams, and then promoted the FBI official who did most of that quashing after 9/11.

They wanted it to happen.

And the day it finally did they let it run its course. There was a mysterious total collapse of all our air defenses. Even though planes had been routinely scrambled 67 times for far lesser threats in the preceding year, on 9/11 all standard operating procedures inexplicably broke down. With 4 hijacked planes in the air and Flight 77 taking more than an hour to reach the Pentagon, not a single plane was there to intercept its deadly course.

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Arms merchants like Daddy Bush’s Carlyle Group reaped billions, no, tens of billions, from new “War on Terrorism” orders.
Washington insider firms like Cheney’s Halliburton, and GOP cash cow Bechtel harvested hundreds of billions in no-bid contracts as we methodically blow up and renovate both Afghanistan and Iraq.

So 9/11 happened and the administration ordered, “thou shalt not investigate! It will distract us from the fight against terror and all the war we have to make.”

White House refusal may seem natural, but where was our crusading press. It is another simple sad fact that the journalists who should have been investigating this whole peculiar business were now owned and operated by big media corporations who were making so damn much selling these wars that they held their peace instead. They not only did not question the scores of 9/11 lies and contradictions, they never even told the public there were still unanswered questions there at all.

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Not for the victim families, and if it weren’t for a few hundred courageous ones I wouldn’t be standing in front of you today.

The government tried to buy their silence too, and offered all 3,000 families fat payments from a Victims Compensation Fund. Each would get about a million bucks if they just promised to shut, stop asking the logical questions and simply go away.

Can you imagine a 9/11 investigative commission where most of the commissioners have ties to the oil, airline and arms industries if not to the White House itself?

Where the witnesses are not even asked to testify under oath?

Where interrogations of FBI, FAA and NORAD insiders are all supervised by White House chaperones called “minders” ?

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Could you believe in an investigation like that? Can you believe the shit that is going down? Well, neither can I and that is why I am here today to ask you to join with the desperate victim families and demand belated truth. The country has been swindled into endless war, repression and financial collapse. Thousands of people have been murdered and we still don’t know the facts.

I am just one voice saying these things up here in New Hampshire today, but if you would just do some homework you would see there are thousands like me working in shadow on the internet trying get out what the victim families want to say.

One great crusader in this struggle is your own Ellen Mariani, a Derry 9/11 widow who is suing Bush, Cheney and their neocon kin for knowingly letting her husband die for personal and political gain.

I beg you to rally around her as one of the heroes of this cause, I also beg you to read some vital texts like Nafeez Ahmed’s “The War on Freedom” or the 9/11 timeline at cooperativeresearch.org And finally I ask you to vote for me to send a message of your own -- that this land is our land and it’s time for gestapo-minded war profiteers to get hell out.


I thank you for sitting here and pray you will now begin to move.


Good night and god bless what’s left of our democracy.

[i_am_not_john_galt]

1. So the conspiracy includes the press as well?

Thousands of journalists have been successfully prevented from following leads to what would certainly be the biggest story of the millinium (so far), and they're keeping quiet even about the pressure to keep quiet?

This MIHOP and LIHOP stuff is flat idiotic. Even the LIHOP crowd is proposing a conspiracy that numbers in the hundreds of knowing participants - even if they played their part in ignorance they would see how it fits together now. We're talking Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Powell, members of their staffs, the military involved in NORAD and civil defense, and of course the lap-dog media who are so cowed they won't follow the trail even though it is right in front of them? All of these people are maintaining their silence to this day, complicit in the murder of 3000 Americans? Hogwash!

Never attribute to conspiracy that which can be attributed to incompetence.

[TruthIsAll]

2. Is BushCo stonewalling the 9/11 commission incompetence?

The whoremedia knows the truth. But their bosses who pay them won't let them talk anbout it. They are scared, not incompetent. If any guest on TV even broaches the subject of "Bush Knew" or "Bush was AWOL", or "Bush stole the election", he is immediately cut off. Wolf is very good at this.

Get over it.

Is control of the lapdog media incompetence?

Are the unending WMD lies incompetence?

Was the Florida election fiasco incompetence?

Was ignoring the threats warning from so many sources of an impending attack using hijackers incompetence?

These guys are not incompetent - they are evil geniuses.

Must I really go on?

[loftycity]

3. I think we should send them to Mars

The moon would be good too. The nine eleven story is boiling and it will come out. I think the media will wait.
Some thing is ....These big Media Corps ...want the money...This is a great story...This is huge money. * gave the media everything they want with all the FCC rulings.
I'm betting loyalty is only good till they see the story become red hot and go for the money.
They will always be whores for the money.

[i_am_not_john_galt]

4. Do you guys know any journalists?

Because the few I've run into could not be made to sit on this kind of story under any threat - except the threat of looking like a fool when it doesn't add up.

And yes, all of the above can be amply explained through normal, everyday incompetence, a constant of human nature as reliable as gravity is to nature itself.

[thebigidea]

5. incompetence: also the source of Atlas Shrugged, funnily enough

[devilgrrl]

6. What kinds of stories do your journalists friends report?

the Police blotter in the community newspaper?

Because the few I've run into could not be made to sit on this kind of story under any threat :eyes:

You lie through your teeth. Read 'Into the Buzzsaw':
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1573929727/qid=1073817690/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/103-8730030-6534241

and then get back to us about sitting on stories under threat.

:argh:

[SpiralHawk]

7. The Prophetic Omen of the Old Man of the Mountain

Excuse me, but seeing another opportunity to float my "ray of hope," I am re-posting my observations on the NH Primary.

I have e-mailed the little essay below to everyone I know in NH -- on the theory that every little bit helps.

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May 3, 2003 -- high up on the flank of Cannon Mountain in Franconia Notch, NH -- the Old Man of the Mountain lost his face - literally - the day after Bush pulled his pilot-with-a-codpiece stunt on the aircraft carrier Abe Lincoln ("Mission Accomplished").

I was struck by the sequence of events. Bush prances on Abe Lincoln deck, the noble Old Man loses face immediately thereafter. WTF?

Bush Prances Carrier Deck in Flight Suit - May 2, 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2993415.stm

Old Man story - May 3, 2003:
http://gonewengland.about.com/cs/nhhistory/l/bloldmanofmtn.htm

For NH -- and all who had ever seen him -- the collapse of the granite face was a First Class tragedy -- for the Old Man was a symbol of honesty, dignity, and honor -- and he seemed eternal.

I always thought of the Old Man's profile as embodying the same qualities as Old "Honest Abe" Lincoln, whose profile is so familiar to us from the penny. So I was deeply saddened to see him "lose face," and could not help but note that it came right after Bush pulled that bald-faced PR stunt on the deck of our nation's Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier.

After lying to America, our soldiers and the world, what right did Bush have to celebrate himself and "Declare Victory"? Hundreds of our soldiers have died and been wounded since that day, not to mention the ongoing misery for their families at home and the families in Iraq.

At the time I took this monumental loss of face in the Granite State as a sign that the appointee-in-chief was disgracing himself, comporting himself without honor.

After all, as we now know the Iraq war is based completely on BushCo fabrications, and Iraq had no connection to 9/11. This is a war of aggression and conquest. That's why our young men and women are dying over there -- it has nothing to do with national defense or our true honor.

Today, now that I have read Sevethson's posting in GD about the R candidacy of John Buchanan in the NH primary, I see things in a different light. I see the loss of face of the Old Man of the Mountain as an Omen that G.W. Bush may well lose face before the voters of NH.

Will the truth emerge? Will Bush be unmasked for who he really is before or during the NH primary? We shall see.

Here's the DU thread discussing the R. candidacy of john Buchanan against G. W. Bush in the NH primary.

His campaign -- and his research -- are sincere, and worthy of every citizen's consideration.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=980708

“Campaign Manifesto”
Issues, Questions & Answers
January 1, 2004


Web site at http://www.johnbuchanan.org

It’s YOUR country.
Stand up for it – NOW.

[SpiralHawk]

8. Remember, 9/11 widow Ellen Mariani is a Granite Stater, too

Many Granite Staters may be paying some "special" attention this year.

I wonder, has the NH media covered Mariani's lawsuit against Bush in any kind of depth?

Anyone know?

[TruthIsAll]

9. This guy has cojones....

I just hope he sticks around long enough to give BushCo the business. So far, he's done a better job than any Dem.