A Half-Dozen Questions About 9/11 They Don't Want You to Ask

[JohnyCanuck]

Who Is Osama? Where Did He Come From? How Did He Escape? What About Those Anthrax Attacks?

A Half-Dozen Questions About 9/11 They Don't Want You to Ask

By WERTHER

The events of September 11, 2001 evoke painful memories, tinged with a powerful nostalgia for the way of life before it happened. The immediate tragedy caused a disorientation sufficient to distort the critical faculties in the direction of retrospectively predictable responses: bureaucratic adaptation, opportunism, profiteering, kitsch sentiment, and mindless sloganeering.

SNIP

While initially received as definitive by a rapturous official press, the 9/11 Report has been overtaken by reality, not only because of unsatisfying content--like all "independent" government reports, it is fundamentally an apology and a coverup masquerading as an exposé--but because we now know more: more about the feckless invasion of Iraq, more about the occupation of Afghanistan and the purported hunt for Osama bin Laden, more about the post-9/11 stampede to repeal elements of the Bill of Rights, more about the rush to create the Department of Homeland Security, an agency to "prevent another 9/11," which, in retrospect, is plainly about cronyism, contracts, and Congressional boodle.

Many of the amateur sleuths of the 9/11 mystery have based their investigations on microscopic forensics regarding the publicly released video footage, or speculations into the physics of impacting aircraft or collapsing buildings. But staring too closely at the recorded traces of subatomic phenomena involved in a one-time event can deceive us into finding the answer we are looking for, as Professor Heisenberg once postulated. Over 40 years on, the Magic Bullet is still the Magic Bullet: improbable, yes, but not outside the realm of the possible.

But there is surprisingly little discussion of the basic higher-order political factors surrounding 9/11, factors that do not require knowledge of the melting point of girder steel or the unknowable piloting abilities of the presumed perpetrators. Let us proceed, then, in a spirit of detached scientific inquiry, to ask questions the 9/11 Commission was unprepared to ask.

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http://www.counterpunch.org/werther02182006.html

[TomInTib]

1. Great read, thanks.

[Jose Diablo]

2. Interesting note in the article about Carl Schmitt

Note 9

The Enabling Law passed the Reichstag by a vote of 444-94, whereas the PATRIOT Act passed the House by a margin of 357-66, and the Senate by a vote of 98-1. Curiously, the Enabling Law was supposed to sunset in four years: on April Fool's Day, 1937, precisely paralleling the four-year expiration of many of the PATRIOT Act's provisions. Perhaps the eerie similarity reflects the influence of Nazi legal scholar Carl Schmitt on neoconservative lawyers of the Bush administration like David S. Addington, John Yoo, and Viet Dinh.

When combined with the globalist economics of Leo Strauss, what I see is a group of people intent on overthrowing our democratic form of government. As was done in Florida in 2000 and continuing on the same path as the Nazi's in Germany. The core philosophy being identical to the German Nazi's.

For those interested, read about Carl Schmitt. He sounds like that charecter Dr. Strangelove in the movie.

[shance]

4. Thank you Jose for the information.

Jarring to say the least.

I think I will post in a new thread for others to see. Important information.

[Wilms]

3. K&R n/t

[mirandapriestly]

5. What a wonderful article and so true.

The key to gaining respect in the 911 issue is through the political events surrounding 9-11, those are damning enough. It's fun to analyze the pictures, I must say, and if it keeps interest alive than, that's good too, but the really damning evidence are the relationships between the people/countries involved.
Stanley Hilton's case , I guess, was refused an appeal, but supposedly he had quite a bit of information that is now in the public domain. Does anyone know where that can be accessed?
There is a campaign to discredit him, but I don't think I fully trust that. The discreditors said he had no real clients, but he said they wanted their names kept private until the case was settled.
He said he was being threatened by the judge, God, can you imagine?
The case was appealed not because of evidence, but because people don't have the right to being a case against the POTUS. Sickening.

[greyl]

6. Yes, it is. nt

[JohnyCanuck]

7. kick n/t

[HuffleClaw]

8. i'd thought it had been established that the anthrax attacks

were a bushco. plot to eliminate those who had dared to publish embarrassing pictures of his family. and it was pretty odd how prepared their cover stories and plans were following 911.

[Twist_U_Up]

9. interesting thanks nt