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911: Can You Handle The Truth?

Russell Gentile
Wednesday, March 28, 2007

9-11 is one of the most infamous days of our current time. Many people experienced the events of that day with surprise, shock, sadness, and anger. I am one of them.All of these emotions clouded my judgment until I early on discovered an entire, very credible counter culture for lack of a better term that from almost day one has researched and opposed the official government story parroted by the mainstream. This counter culture that involves people and experts from all walks of life has been mostly unable to get an honest spirited debate in the mainstream without being labeled nut cases and anti-American. Why is this?

DENIAL AND DISMISSAL
In my study of the events of that fateful day, I have encountered two primary reasons why most people dismiss an engaging debate on the subject:
1. The Government cannot do anything right let alone keep a grand conspiracy like this under wraps
2. George Bush, as hated as he is, especially by the liberal media would incite responses/investigations from those in the media to expose him for being part of it.

There should be a national and ongoing debate among participants of both sides of the aisle bringing key facts, figures, and witnesses to bear to bring into the open a true discussion. After all, if the government has nothing to hide, why is there no debate on one of the most important issues of our time, in which wars are being justified, liberties trashed, literally trillions of dollars spent, laws and agencies erected which are classically un-American or unconstitutional, and society re-engineered?

Obviously we are no longer truly free, if this debate is stifled in any way.

DEALING WITH PAINFUL REALITY
Unfortunately, a religious like fervor cemented by fear and denial prevents most people from acknowledging facts and easily-exposed misrepresentations by the powerful establishment.

Perhaps we should first ask: Do you believe the official 9-11 story as told by our government and mainstream media from beginning to end?

We then come to the unavoidable question: Do you really want to know the truth about 9-11?

Most people will instinctively answer “yes of course” to this question, but reality differs from their answers much like it would if you were to ask someone if they recently lied or cheated.

WHY WE BELIEVE
If you do not believe it in full, then where do you draw the line between lies and deception, a cover-up and truth? If someone lies to you partly, how do you decide what isn’t a lie and what is?

If you do believe the official explanation entirely, It’s reasonable to ask: Do you always believe the government explanations on other issues, such as: the open borders issue, illegal immigration, the North American Union, liberal and socialist leanings in government control of schools, and unjust taxation? If you do not always accept the government story, what inclines you to accept the government’s stories about 9-11, but not other issues?

By the term “government” I do not mean the entire government, as many people in government are good people working toward honest, just endeavors. Possibly people in government get caught up in the engine of bureaucracy but there definitely is a pattern and a direction controlled by the few, not the majority. By the term government, what is meant in this paper is the controlling, most secretive criminal elements within the highest federal and state levels and their respective agencies.

Is it that you cannot accept that our government could be so ruthless, so evil?

Or, is it that the government is so bumbling, so incompetent, it was powerless to stop it or prevent it?

President Franklin D. Roosevelt once openly said, “Nothing in Government and politics happens by accident, you can bet if something happened it was well planned.” (Paraphrased)

J. Edgar Hoover famously said: “The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.”

We should take heed of these words. If fact finding is just too painful to accept, that our government, at best knew 9-11 would occur and allowed it to happen for political and economic reasons, or did indeed engage in secret, clandestine, compartmentalized action to see that it occurred, can we at least acknowledge that fear and denial possibly drive our dismissals? Truth is often painful, this one more than most. Even the most cynical among us likely struggled with this epiphany – you would not be alone in this regard.

We must face the fact that these types of events known as “false flags” have been used by the power-hungry since recorded history. America is no different.

One is to believe however, that a country that put men on the moon in less then 8 years since a proclamation by President Kennedy, developed the atom bomb, and successfully fought and won WWII, and rebuilt Europe, is somehow currently inept and unable to do much correct today.

This is a false argument, that if this is the case, then those people making this argument must at least acknowledge that the country to which they wave their Chinese-made American flags continues to institute massive laws, regulations, and bureaucracies that will dominate our lives – what then, incompetence?

COVER UPS
Let’s examine a few examples of purposeful conspiracies by the US Government. Many were classified for long periods of time before coming out of the protection of national security.

Pearl Harbor Information and the knowledge that we broke the Japanese code and knew of the impending attack before it happened is well documented. FDR conspired to provoke the Japanese to attack in the interest of unleashing American war fever. The evidence is so overwhelming; the grandson of Admiral Kimmel, the official scapegoat, work’s to clear his grandfather’s name.

The Gulf Of Tonkin incident it was officially revealed was fabricated by the Johnson administration and covered-up for decades. This incident surely was known by powerful people including military brass yet was successfully used as justification to widen our entanglement into Vietnam, leading to the deaths of over 58,000 US GI’s and many more Vietnamese.

The USS Liberty which was attacked by Israeli planes and PT Boats resulting in the deaths of American sailors and the near-sinking of a US warship, was also successfully covered up by the Johnson administration. Captain William McConagle, the commanding officer of the USS Liberty and his crew were told to “shut up” after this incident or face life in prison or even death. Admiral Thomas Moorer, Chief of Naval Operations and later Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, recalled being on a conference line after President Johnson recalled Naval ships that wanted to respond to the attack. Moorer heard Johnson say he “wanted that God-damned ship going to the bottom!” Obviously Johnson didn’t want anyone, or any evidence left, of this attack by our ally Israel.

For a list of quotes by reputable individuals including military regarding this deliberate attack and cover-up, go here. Also check out further research here

Other major events or operations were covered up by the US Government and media successfully for years that involved thousands of people. These include but are not limited to:

The Manhattan Project, (where the atom bomb was developed under tight security and secret for over 4 years). According to Wikipedia: Born out of a small research program that began in 1939, the Manhattan Project would eventually employ more than 130,000 people and cost a total of nearly $2 billion USD ($20 billion in 2004 dollars based on CPI), and result in the creation of multiple production and research sites operated in secret.[1]

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1932-1972) was another major experiment done for many years without being exposed. Tuskegee also represents the unconscionable sanctioned behavior of public health experiments on mostly poor and illiterate blacks. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study is often cited as one of the greatest ethical breaches of trust between physicians and patients in the setting of a clinical study in the United States. It went on for 40 years until finally exposed by a whistle blower even while the Center for Disease Control (CDC), the National Medical Association, and the American Medical Association supported it.

Operation Northwoods , originating in 1962, was another secret plan covered up for decades that was formally released or unclassified in 1997. This was a plan to gain American public support for a war against Cuba and Fidel Castro involving various false flag actions including real or simulated state sponsored acts of terrorism . A few of the sanctioned false flag operations: destroying a US ship on purpose in Guantanamo Bay much like the USS Maine, hijacking planes, shooting down a replacement “drone” airliner supposedly filled with vacationing students, and sniper and bombing attacks in both Washington DC and Miami.

The plan was proposed by US Department of Defense Leaders including ring leader Lyman Louis Lemnitzer, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The plan was green-lighted all the way to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, but rejected by President Kennedy. Here we have a 9-11 style blueprint for proposing and supporting terror attacks on both innocent Americans and foreigners with the express interest of starting a war and getting the Americans to support it.

Clearly, the government can and has engaged in massive, dubious undertakings, and kept them from the public. I believe we have successfully shown that the “government is too incompetent” argument is at best a straw man creation that doesn’t hold much validity or truth. The government has a horrible track record in cover-ups and atrocities especially against their own people. Holding on this response then can only be a state of denial, or naiveté. This also shows cognitive dissonance is strong today, especially among Americans. Those that do not know history are doomed to repeat it.

CATALYZING EVENTS
Eerily similar to Operation Northwoods is the call for a “new Pearl Harbor,” by The Project for the New American Century or PNAC. This neoconservative think tank is based in Washington, DC and co-founded by William Kristol, the Leo Strauss-inspired head of the so-called conservative periodical “Weekly Standard.” PNAC includes many members openly supportive or intimately involved in the Bush administration. Former members include prominent members of the Republican Party and the BushAdministration, including former U.S Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, VP Dick Cheney, William Bennet, Jeb Bush, Current head of World Bank Paul Wolfowitz , Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Richard Perle, Zalmay Khalizad.

can anyone handle the truth ?

I can't help it that we as americans are sleeping and only wake up when something bad happens and then only for about 2-3 weeks.

Dude I really don't understand some of that last sentence( Remember, they were once humans just like us at one time. )

I wouldn't know if you are joking or not. But on a serious note , people who commit these crimes hope that you won't use your common sense.


Like Franklin D Roosevelt said :“Nothing in Government and politics happens by accident, you can bet if something happened it was well planned.”

Franklin D Roosevelt said :“Nothing in Government and politics happens by accident, you can bet if something happened it was well planned.”

We know what he' thought and said, but what do you' say?

And the human thing, I was sort of half joking and half serious.

Watch behing you sholder...
KGB and CIA are merged and Masad is taking the lead...

Come on man. This cannot be serious.
Do not allow politicians of any kind get into you head.
They can do nothing if we will ignore their screaming.
All we need to do it give some love to people in our circle and spread it around.
We all are people and we all need one thing - happiness.
The better world can be built by us not by governments, armies, priests, and politicians.
They very often are the shame of the nations and we should be smart enough to not get into their traps.


[Edited by - arkrud on 05-08-2007 09:41 AM]

[Edited by - arkrud on 05-08-2007 09:41 AM]