9/11 truth found on Internet

The Internet saved me from being a typical American with a turnip or smaller fruit for a brain. I was rotting away, without enough accessible information, until the Web came along, the solitary act of goodness ever committed by the Pentagon.

Like believing all the terrorists have brown skin and praise Allah, it’s fashionable to believe that the Internet contains mostly bogus information that one can trust. Is there a connection between our cultural distrust of the Net as a source of dependable information and our general manly distrust of reading, thinking and independent intellectual pursuits?

You have to think and read to use the Internet, and that makes many of us uncomfortable. Americans have also been weakened with the stupidity of television. (Our political illiteracy is world-famous. We’ve forgotten the vital importance of balanced, print journalism, and just one proof is our persistent tolerance of FOX News, which is like freely broadcast pornography for bigots, jingoists and paternalists.)

TV news favors setting two opponents on one another for a three-minute grudge match. This tends to make them appear as hot-blooded fools, and the viewer is left feeling, “Gee, they both had points and were passionate; one can never tell.” It is a patented expression of American political apathy and immaturity from production to consumption.

But people are often completely wrong, and their points are sometimes lies. Our government lies constantly. We need a 24-hour news station devoted solely to cataloguing these lies. FBI Director Mueller told an immense whopper shortly after 9/11 and allowed it to grow and swell for over a year before the truth leaked out to contradict him.

He said airliner terror attacks were never predicted by any intelligence agencies prior to 9/11, and in this willful hallucination he was supported by several other top officials. We now know about Al Queda’s Project Bojinka and that eerily specific August 2001 Presidential Daily Brief, so we know that the nation’s chief domestic spy was only doing his real job— lying to us.

Recently, government lied about the escape of high-level terrorist-type detainees from the Bagram gulag.

Prior to the great 2000 hustle, Republicans ran illegal anti-Gore TV ads that featured the subliminal display of the word “Rats.” Republicans proudly scraped a bit and apologized.

The White House produced specious “news reports” promoting their programs that were sent to news affiliates who admitted in some cases the unauthenticity was not made clear to them. Black conservative pundit Armstrong Williams was paid $240,000 to manufacture a pale brand of objective support for No Child Left Behind when Williams dispensed his Big House wisdoms.

Other pundits were less expensively greased, and then there’s the fundamentally sordid tale of “Jeff Gannon,” White House Press Pool plant of the unhomophobic right wing. The Pentagon has its own tax-funded Pentagon News Network satellite station.

Our taxes also fund another propaganda network, Al Hurrah, which means “the Free One,” and, for a Mideast public relations, should not sound like “the Kitten” in Arabic. We have recently admitted to paying Iraqi “journalists” to run fake happy stories ghostwritten by U.S. military personnel.

TV wrongly told me that Arab terrorists alone attacked us on 9/11, 2001. TV immediately produced pictures of them all, and for a brief period, ultimately embarrassing to everyone, TV was instructed to tell us that one of the terrorists’ photo IDs had been found on the streets of New York. It had been hurled from the plane, the poor little indestructible plastic thing. It was hardy, being made of different materials than a 757 jetliner, but we didn’t hear much about it soon after the announcement because it was obvious that TV had only reported on a bizarre but honest mistaken discovery which happened to make thinking people scoff to the point of asphyxiation. Uncannily, one of the men who first announced the incredible aborted find was then NYC Police Chief, a friend of gangsters, a war profiteer and a disgraced would-be Homeland Security Director, Bernard Kerik.

There was something about the Iraq terror war and giant, ludicrous, soul-frying cassus belli lies I wanted to adduce in charging official deception, but I can’t recall it now.

You have no reason to trust your government and every reason to believe what I am saying. We are through the looking glass. The Internet allows a less biased glimpse at the perversions that have become normal to us.

The Internet told me that it was outright nonsense to argue those Arab men alone perpetrated the attacks, and that it was thoroughly implausible on many different grounds, besides. In several weeks of earnest reading and researching, the Internet offered me ample proof to support the conclusion that members of our government masterminded the early terrorism of 9/11, that followed so closely on the curious and obvious theft of our presidency, and later birthed the profitable bloodbaths of Iraq and Afghanistan which so curiously remind one of the preoccupations and proxy wars of father Bush and the neoconservatives from then and now.

In almost five years and counting, that secretive, indicted government has offered virtually nothing to support its own outlandish, jihadi-based conspiracy theory, (that includes the bungled and obscure terrorism cases being tried) mainly because it knows it does not have to. We don’t demand it and most of us consider it quite reasonable that Arab terrorists would attack us, and it is.

But finding the perfect believable patsy is an old game. It’s always made easier when you have intelligence connections with patsies dating back several decades, (Noriega+Saddam+Bin Laden = one disturbing pattern) and have made it easier for them to live, fly and party inside the country by stifling effective terrorist-catchers like FBI agents Colleen Rowley, John O’Neill, Robert Wright and Kenneth Williams.

WTC Building 7 may be the Holy Grail of the “9-11 Truth Community,” as it is called. Once you find out about WTC 7, the 9/11 Reichstag Collapses never look the same to you again. Next to the outrageous failure of our air defenses that day and the specific air defense protocol which had been practiced and met over 60 times in the year before 9/11, the all-but-ignored collapse of WTC Building 7 at 5:20 p.m. is the one aspect of the tragic events that convincingly destroys the government story of Arab terrorists who acted alone. I assure you the alleged hijackers did not wire those buildings for controlled explosives.

— Nate Arthur can be reached at narthur@utk.edu.