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RBHam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-04 10:58 AM
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Paranoid Shift
By Michael Hasty
Online Journal Contributing Writer
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/011004Hasty/011004hasty.html
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Unless I'm paranoid, it doesn't make any sense at all that George W. Bush, commander-in-chief, sat in a second-grade classroom for 20 minutes after he was informed that a second plane had hit the World Trade Center, listening to children read a story about a goat. Nor does it make sense that the Number 2 man, Dick Cheney—even knowing that "the commander" was on a mission in Florida—nevertheless sat at his desk in the White House, watching TV, until the Secret Service dragged him out by the armpits.

Unless I'm paranoid, it makes no sense that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld sat at his desk until Flight 77 hit the Pentagon—well over an hour after the military had learned about the multiple hijacking in progress. It also makes no sense that the brand-new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff sat in a Senate office for two hours while the 9/11 attacks took place, after leaving explicit instructions that he not be disturbed—which he wasn't.

In other words, while the 9/11 attacks were occurring, the entire top of the chain of command of the most powerful military in the world sat at various desks, inert. Why weren't they in the "Situation Room?" Don't any of them ever watch "West Wing?"

In a sane world, this would be an object of major scandal. But here on this side of the paranoid shift, it's business as usual.

Years, even decades before 9/11, plans had been drawn up for American forces to take control of the oil interests of the Middle East, for various imperialist reasons. And these plans were only contingent upon "a catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor," to gain the majority support of the American public to set the plans into motion. When the opportunity presented itself, the guards looked the other way . . . and presto, the path to global domination was open.

Simple, as long as the media played along. And there is voluminous evidence that the media play along. Number one on Project Censored's annual list of underreported stories in 2002 was the Project for a New American Century (now the infrastructure of the Bush Regime), whose report, published in 2000, contains the above "Pearl Harbor" quote.

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pnziii Donating Member (168 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-04 11:06 AM
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1. Look at the old Pearl Harbor
Study the real Pearl Harbor. The only way the US was going to enter WWII was if we were attacked. Hell, they were having Nazi rallies in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey. Hitler had a strong following here in the states until the US was attacked.
There is no "smoking gun" that shows Roosevelt knew about the attack, but there is a lot of circumstantial evidence.
Why people can't think that a President could let People die like they did on 9/11. It's all about power. People are just a means to get that power.

I know I'm crazy. No one believes wacko conspiracy theorists. Just look though out history. It's always been about power. Every war, the rise of the Vatican during the middle ages. They didn't care that people died or suffered.
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-04 11:06 AM
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2. If you don't have questions about what the Commander in Chief
did on 9/11, then you have not been paying attention.

Read -- in documented detail -- of his steps and mis-steps that fateful day.

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/main/essayaninterestingday.html
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lastknowngood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-04 11:15 AM
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3. It's obvious they knew what was going on and so had
no worries.
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RBHam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-04 12:13 PM
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4. Proof that 9-11 was an inside job...
There can be no doubt that, at the very least, the terror attacks on 9-11 could only be described as a massive intelligence failure.

But those that were in charge of protecting 9-11 that day all got awards, promotions and accolades. Nobody was reprimanded or fired.

Seems to me that 9-11 was a massive intelligence SUCCESS.
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goforit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-04 01:00 PM
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5. Sounds like mihop is getting stronger. Paranoia well warrented.
Just keep one eye open!!!
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