Evidence doubts “Official 9/11”

Questioned by Truth

“We ourselves must embody
societal changes we wish to see”
— 9/11 Truth —

International relations scholar Richard Falk is among Truth movement’s persistent questioners. His article [excerpted] appeared in mid January in Foreign Policy Journal. A related interview aired January 26 on KPFA’s “Guns and Butter” program.
Excerpting, minor editing by Carolyn Bennett


“…We should know that governments [abuse] their authority to treat awkward knowledge as a matter of state secrets and criminalize those brave enough to believe the citizenry needs to know the crimes their government is committing with their trust and their tax dollars.”


However, “We tend to process information against the background of our general worldview and understanding. We do this all the time as an efficient way of coping with the complexity of the world combined with our lack of time or inclination to reach conclusions by independent investigation. The problem arises when we confuse this means of interpreting our experience with an effort to provide an explanation of a contested public event….”


Veil raises doubt


“What fuels suspicions of conspiracy is the reluctance to address awkward gaps and contradictions in the official explanations …”


More distressing perhaps than “the apparent cover up is the eerie silence of the mainstream media — unwilling to acknowledge well-evidenced doubts about the official version of the events: an al Qaeda operation with no foreknowledge by government officials.


“Is this silence a manifestation of fear or cooption, or part of an equally disturbing filter of self-censorship? Whatever it is, the result is the withering away of a participatory citizenry and the erosion of legitimate constitutional government. The forms persist, but the content is missing.…


Progressing forward
WE LEARN

“If we want to be responsible in our assessments, we must restrain our political predispositions, and get the evidence.


“Let us remember that what seems most disturbing about the 9/11 controversy is the widespread aversion by government and media to the evidence that suggests, at the very least, the need for an independent investigation that proceeds with no holds barred.


“Such an investigation would contrast with the official ‘9/11 Commission’ that proceeded with most holds barred. …


“What must we learn from all of this?

Don’t connect dots without evidence.
Don’t turn away as soon as the words ‘conspiracy theory’ are uttered, especially if the evidence does point away from what the power-wielders want us to believe.
Don’t link individual wrongdoing, however horrific, to wider religious and ethnic identities.

We will perish as a species if we do not learn soon to live together better on our beautiful, globalizing, and imperiled planet.

Sources and notes
“Interrogating the Arizona Killings from a Safe Distance” ( Richard Falk), January 13, 2011,
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/01/13/interrogating-the-arizona-killings-from-a-safe-distance/?wpmp_switcher=mobile&wpmp_tp=1

Richard Falk is an international law and international relations scholar who taught at Princeton University for forty years. Since 2002, Falk has lived in Santa Barbara, California, and taught at the local campus of the University of California in Global and International Studies. Since 2005, he has chaired the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

Also: ‘Cognitive Infiltration’ Guns and Butter program [producer/host Bonnie Faulkner] with Tod Fletcher January 26, 2011, focused on David Ray Griffin’s newest book Cognitive Infiltration (a deconstruction and debunking of Obama appointee, Cass Sunstein's, paper ‘Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures’. Sunstein proposes a new government COINTELPRO type infiltration of groups that research and promote ideas and explanations that run contrary to U.S. government narratives, most specifically about the events of September 11 [9/11/2001), http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/67100


911Truth.org:

Educating about 9/11
“As the leading portal of the September 11 [2001] research community and truth movement, 911Truth.org and its staff members have accumulated vast practical experience in investigation and in campaigns for education, visibility, media, lobbying, street action and litigation.

Leading Political Transformation
We understand that September 11 was an international disaster that sparked a negative global transformation, and that control of its interpretation partly determines how one views the world.

911Truth.org looks not to create a new conspiracy industry, but to achieve full disclosure of hidden realities that affect all of our lives, that we may finally be sovereign as a democratic people. We work to win the hearts and minds of the people.

Commitment to more civil, effective collaboration in the 9/11 Truth Movement

Because we still lack subpoena and discovery powers, members of the 9/11 truth movement and American citizens as a whole will not be able to fully connect the ‘dots’ of 9/11 events until key classified documents and videos are leaked or released.

In the meantime, many of us will develop theories about those events and what really occurred. Given the incompleteness of the facts at hand, our theories will invariably differ. They therefore can and should be sincerely discussed and analyzed, but this debate must not obscure the reality that the investigative tasks we face still remain extremely challenging.

We believe our campaign to expose the truth of 9/11 offers the world more essential insights into current political and economic reality than any other modern movement and therefore can empower the most profound social transformation of our age.

This work is far too important to debilitate with egotism, zealotry or self-inflicted wounds, and we must make every effort to sustain the unprecedented progress we have made.

Because the 9/11 truth movement presents grave moral, legal and political threats to those in power, we would be naive to not anticipate covert governmental intervention in our activities and attempts to divide, disrupt and discredit us by promoting hateful or repellant theories and sowing internal discord. Indeed, the greatest risk these forces pose to our work is not espionage or disinformation; it is the provocation of destructive mistrust between authentic activists.

We … therefore commit ourselves to work together towards our greater goals with the least possible rancor and internal strife. We agree to reject ad hominem denunciations and attacks upon others’ motives, and focus our critical attention upon the logic, factual evidence and probability supporting certain hypotheses instead.

“Our ultimate goal must be the full disclosure of 9/11 truth, which is disserved by factional warfare on behalf of partial points of view.

“We will strive to fill in the gaps of the evidentiary record, so that facts dictate our conclusions rather than conjecture or emotional charges and appeals.

“Finally, since we ourselves must embody the societal changes we wish to see, we vow to continue our work with fierce devotion, but also with mutual respect, selflessness and above all, honesty. http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20061014120445472



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