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9/11 Truth Manifesto

Joel Hirschhorn | 20.12.2007 20:13 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

For evidence that America’s political system is a criminal conspiracy, open your mind to piles of new analyses that prove beyond doubt that the official 9/11 story is a lie. Years of a bipartisan cover-up of 9/11 lies make it much more than one horrendous past event. It endures in infamy as a symptom of a corrupt and dishonest government.

For evidence that America’s political system is a criminal conspiracy, open your mind to piles of new analyses that prove beyond doubt that the official 9/11 story is a lie. Years of a bipartisan cover-up of 9/11 lies make it much more than one horrendous past event. It endures in infamy as a symptom of a corrupt and dishonest government.

Every day we pay for what 9/11 and its cover-up have burdened us with, including the costly Iraq war and the erosion of the rule of law and constitutional rights. Power elites have suppressed the truth because they fear what will happen when the public understands that 9/11 was not accomplished solely by foreign terrorists.

Technically sound analyses of what happened at the World Trade Center have unequivocally shown that the official 9/11 story is not credible (www.ae911truth.org). Truth seekers have met their burden of proof; the government has not met theirs. Simply put, controlled demolition brought down three buildings, not fires from the impact of planes on two of them. Not only was the US government involved, it has also conspired to hide the truth from the public. Why? Republican and Democratic politicians and power elites fear that 9/11 truth will remove what little public trust remains in government. The truth will produce political instability, perhaps breaking the two-party stranglehold on our political system. And it should. And it must, if we are to finally obtain the deep political reforms our nation desperately needs.

The decline started before George W. Bush and his criminal co-conspirators accelerated it with their blatant disregard for the rule of law and our Constitution. It will continue, even with a Democratic administration, unless we reform our political system. We must remind Americans that our nation was born in an insurrectionist, populist rebellion against political tyranny – and that 9/11 teaches us that we need a Second American Revolution. We must destroy the domestic Axis of Arrogance of our plutocracy more than fear a foreign Axis of Evil. How?

A vast nationwide grassroots 9/11 truth movement is ignored by the mainstream news media. Its success will be the catalyst for renewing American democracy. It will produce a shock wave that rattles the brains of all Americans: Shock therapy from a truth so powerful and unsettling that Americans finally see the decline of American democracy that allowed 9/11 and its cover-up.

Make no mistake, the 9/11 truth movement holds the future of the United States. We are not subversive “conspiracy theorists” or enablers of foreign terrorism. We are patriotic warriors working to nullify group delusion produced by government propaganda. Dozens of books and websites reveal countless technical contradictions and inconsistencies with the official government 9/11 story and the laws of physics. The weight of the evidence supports one painful verdict: Our federal government played a role, probably through a large “black op.” The “why” is obvious: To justify an unjust war to serve corporate interests and greed.

Here is our opportunity: To make 9/11 the tipping point for American democracy renewal. Our enemies fear that if this movement succeeds, their plutocratic, elitist cabal – the Axis of Arrogance – run by the two-party duopoly will collapse. Corruption keeps our political system stable – truth must clean it up. Instability is the necessary price for restoring democracy.

A Paradigm Shift

9/11 lies have sustained the ruling terrorism-threat paradigm. 9/11 truth must energize a new political-reform paradigm. Patriotism framed as defending the nation against terrorism must be replaced by patriotism focused on repairing American democracy.

Already, status quo protectionists lie about us to defeat our movement. Things will get worse as our movement draws closer to bringing down the corrupt political system. And we are getting closer. Only 16 percent of Americans believe that members of the Bush administration are telling the truth about what they knew about terrorist attacks on the US prior to 9/11, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll. But what people say in polls is not the same as coming out publicly and vociferously for 9/11 truth, or seeing the roots of 9/11 in the decay of American democracy, not merely the actions of a few evil people.

The deceived public must be re-educated to see the arrogant power elites running our national plutocracy as worse than radical Islamic terrorists. Paul Craig Roberts captured the essence of the problem: “Americans think their danger is terrorists. They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution. ... The terrorists are not anything like the threat that we face to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution from our own government in the name of fighting terrorism. Americans just aren't able to perceive that.”

9/11 is a history lesson to inform the nation about democracy decline. As John McMurtry asked, “So which goes - the faith in America’s greatness and goodness in the world, or the facts which disclose the opposite at the very top?” We must always remember that Americans are better than their government. They do not get the government they deserve. They get the government that the rich and powerful impose. That must end.

We confront more than power elites. There is psychological resistance of millions of Americans to painful 9/11 truth – a shameful, “unthinkable” truth about their elected government. Even if they have doubts about the official story, they instinctively recoil and erect mental barriers to block out the full truth. They want to keep believing that they live in a great democracy. They want to believe that when the Bush administration is replaced our democracy will be in good shape again. Hard to accept that 9/11 truth could not have been suppressed this long without the tacit or explicit approval of Democratic politicians and power brokers.

It is as if we are telling children that their parents are mass murderers. Distracted, time-poor, depressed, political disengaged, cynical and insecure Americans do not want to hear that their government had a hand in 9/11. That for years their two-party-controlled government has blatantly lied to them. That thousands of good Americans have died and been terribly injured in a war propped up by the false-flag 9/11 fiction. In sum, that despite elections a vast criminal conspiracy has been so successful for so long. Such thoughts hurt.

Also, political instability is scary to ordinary Americans. But stability based on corruption and lies is destructive. Only when Americans see 9/11 as a political attack (by Americans on Americans) – not solely a terrorist attack (by foreigners on Americans) – will they understand that revealing 9/11 truth must lead to major political reforms. Instability is the cost of democracy renewal.

Here are powerful messages: The collapse of the rule of law is more important than the collapse of buildings. Countless more have died because of 9/11 than on 9/11. The events of 9/11 ultimately are less important than the reasons for and consequences of 9/11.

As John McMurtry said, “[9/11] allowed an illegitimate administration to transmute into America’s patriotic champion at war - above accountability and the rule of law. ‘Defending America from another terrorist attack’ became a political blank check for corporate corruption of government expenditures with impunity, war criminal acts and threats across the Islamic and alternative third world, and attacks on civil rights and commons at home.” All this persists as 9/11 lies persist.

Despite record-low levels of public trust in Congress and the president, too many Americans still believe that elections are the path to major political reforms. Despite a solid history of campaign lies from politicians, and overwhelming belief that the nation is on the wrong track, Americans keep hoping that they can vote their way into a better future. Most Americans do not have a Boston Tea Party mentality. They are unready to revolt despite revolting conditions. Our truth movement must help Americans accept painful truth and its political fallout. We must put all the technical truth discovered by reputable scientists and engineers to work for systemic reforms.

We must do more than oust the official story and obtain a new 9/11 investigation that now has wide support by hundreds of respected Americans (www.patriotsquestion911.com). We must guide Americans into a more patriotic and courageous mental state. We must help Americans become outraged and rebellious, yet also optimistic about major political reforms.

Political Strategy

Success against the power elites running and ruining our nation requires building an army of Americans openly revolting against the two-party corporatist state now in control. The 9/11 truth movement must use political strategies to defeat the status quo political establishment. Here are three actions.

First, with detailed technical analyses unequivocally proving that the official story is false, the movement can draft a bill that might be titled The 9/11 Truth Act of 2008. This proposed federal legislation should be delivered to every member of the House and Senate early next year. It would clarify the investigation: What its scope and objectives must be. What reliable entity, public or private or a combination, must be used. How the public must be given opportunities to present information. What resources must be provided and what time frame must be adhered to.

We must take the initiative and specify exactly what kind of new official 9/11 investigation is necessary, recognizing that professionals in the truth movement have limited resources and cannot address all questions. The 9/11 truth movement itself must define exactly what the first real credible and comprehensive government sponsored investigation must consist of. We can have no confidence in anything that the political establishment might devise to silence our movement. We must tell the public, the media and the political world what is required to reveal the total truth as to what caused, for example, the collapse of three World Trade Center buildings, especially building 7 not even hit by a plane.

Developing and submitting this legislation must then be followed up by all 9/11 groups urging their supporters to bombard Congress with demands for hearings and passage of the bill. This is the way to engage more Americans politically to obtain full 9/11 truth.

However, few politicians’ comments support the truth movement. A rare statement came from presidential candidate Ron Paul. In a radio interview in January, 2007 he said that the 9/11 investigations to date are “more or less cover-up and no real explanation of what went on.” However, later in the year when he became more visible he was asked about the possibility of the official story being orchestrated by the government. He said emphatically “absolutely not.” In another interview, when asked whether he thought 9/11 was an inside job that our government made happen, he responded forcefully “No.” So apparently Paul sees a cover-up but not about the involvement of our government. Would he support legislation for a new investigation?

Thus the second critical political action is this: Proclaim that only politicians that actively support passage of our legislation will earn support in the 2008 elections from the millions of Americans doubting the official 9/11 story. This threat is an absolute necessity. If the legislation is not passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bush, then we must aggressively support a boycott on voting for all Democrats and Republicans in the 2008 federal elections.

Third, all those committed to 9/11 truth should honor what the Founders gave us in our Constitution in case some day Americans lost confidence in the federal government, especially in Congress. That day has arrived. 9/11 was that day. They gave us the option in Article V for a convention of state delegates to propose constitutional amendments. We must see SYSTEM reforms as only achievable through constitutional amendments that Congress will never propose nor achieve through normal legislation.

Congress and the entire elitist political establishment have intentionally denied us a convention for over 200 years. The one and only requirement in Article V has more than been satisfied by over 500 state applications from all 50 states. Enough is enough. Our truth movement should join the effort of Friends of the Article V Convention at www.foavc.org by urging truth group members to join FOAVC. The political establishment fears both 9/11 truth and an Article V convention. We must grasp that 9/11 truth can bring us to the brink of political reforms and the convention is the process to obtain them.

Conclusion

The 9/11 truth movement must also be a political movement – but not in any partisan sense. 9/11 truth can help Americans take back their country. 9/11 truth can end the criminal, corrupt and conniving plutocracy that stole our government and mutilated our democracy.

We must transform 9/11 from a catalyzing event for imperialistic war-mongering to one for democracy renewal. We must convert terrorist-transfixed fear into political reform enthusiasm.

The pursuit of truth is not always the pursuit of happiness – not when the truth hurts. The 9/11 truth movement is not about finding immediate happiness. It is about rebooting American democracy and, after accomplishing that, earning happiness.

[A former full professor of engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and then senior official with the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and the National Governors Association, Joel S. Hirschhorn is now an activist writer and can be reached through www.delusionaldemocracy.com. This article is based on presentations given at a recent conference sponsored by Boston 9/11 Truth.]

Joel Hirschhorn
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The UK impact & 7/7

20.12.2007 21:30

Good article - good insofar as it begins to bring together a conclusion to this horrendous abuse that has been perpetrated in the name of a war of terror. Just because the USA & the UK have a history of portraying themselves as the "good guys" does not mean that they have not been agents of terror against Iraq, Afghanistan, potentially Iran and eviscerated any tangible sense of civil liberty and "democracy" on their home turf.

It would be a cause for celebration indeed when the black ops behind 7/7 and all of the other misadventures masquerading as "terror attacks" (Glasgow, 21/7, liquid bombs, etc.) in the UK are finally exposed; when the Moslems are finally relieved of bearing the brunt of UKUSA scape-goating, of being their "useful idiots" for state hegemony and expansionism; and when the people of the UK and the USA can challenge their burgeoning surveillance and security-based societies in the light of the lies and proto-fascism that has undermined the body politic of both nations.

In any event, I hope that by this time next year the deceptions and the treasonous manipulations of nuLab and the neoCons are exposed for what they truly are, for the interests they truly represent, for the despicable renunciation of that beleaguered caricature of democracy we once held so dear. Or perhaps, ironically, we should thank those weasels for exposing to us all just how rotten and easily swayed the system has always been by those with the corporate influence and interests, and maybe this, in turn, will herald the downfall of western social hierarchies so that anarchism and liberty might yet prevail. But I won't hold my breath!

Acid Reflux


9/11, not a false flag op.

21.12.2007 01:48

There are enough reasons to have a go at the rulers of this world and their imperialism without resorting to crap conspiracy theories that make all of us look stupid.

9/11 Truth = Bush/Blairs get-out clause.

Sick of this


The US and UK governments are not bad!

21.12.2007 10:30

Do you remember the asian tsunami a couple of years ago? Well which governments donated the most money for relief operations? It was the USA and other western governments like Britain. They donated billions of pounds in aid between them for relief efforts.

Now when America was hit by hurricane Katrina how many foreign countries donated anything in the way of aid? None! So don't knock America.

proud westerner


The Truth Will Out!

21.12.2007 12:53

It looks like a couple of daily mail readers have strayed onto the site. Funny how you types show up when something a little close to the bone graces these pages.
As with many readers of aforementioned rag, it is quite plain by your comments that you have spent little time doing any real research.

Michael


Enough of this crap !!

21.12.2007 13:25

Seems to me that Conspiracy Theorist, has become a dirty word or catch phrase if you like.
People who spend a bit of time and energy researching the facts are some how treated like lepers
or some kind of low life caste. In medieval times you just needed a big stick to drive the sheep
and with the modern day sheeple I s'pose the stick has been replaced by the TV media ect.
The crooks Daily Mail have replaced the Shepherd crook, the old Left / Right scam is still
going strong. Conspiracy Theorists are right on the spot, whats the point of being an activist
if you don't understand what you are fighting against.
The organized crime gangs run the world the Italian Mafia has just announced record profits
and you might even be able to buy shares on the stock market soon. Mafia PLC or SpA
if your in Italy ..

Neo platonical


Truth or dare?

21.12.2007 13:47

Well you don't have to be a Daily Mail reader or an idiot to have issues with 9/11 Truth.

For a start most of the Truth output is either totally insane (holograms), innacurate (Pentagon missile/ missing TT metal), or downright racist (The Jews did it!). Much of it is also blatant profiteering (Loose Change, Terrorstorm).

So, personally I think 9/11 Truth taken as a whole is pretty destructive and counterproductive.

However.

There are problems with the official version too. The connections between the CIA, NeoCons and al Qaeda, Taliban, Pakistan and the Saudis. The evidence of specific advance warnings. Doubts over the identity of the bombers, doubts over the idea that pure flight school rookies could pull such an attack off.

These aspects have never been adequately investigated at an official level. And to be frank, taking 9/11 Truth as a whole, it hasn't been seriously investigated either, and I doubt it will be.

I think any serious researcher of 9/11 should run a mile from the Truth movement. Sadly, Truth has done such a great job of tarring all research into 9/11 with the loony brush, serious researchers are unlikely to stick their necks out now.

You can spot the differenc ebetween a serious researcher and a loony. A researcher will defend his work through debate, a loony will just let rip with a stream of insults and accusations. A researcher will be able to understand misgivings and will demonstrate how they arrived at a conclusion and what caveats are attached. A loony will just let rip with a stream of insults and accusations.

At this stage of the game, no independent researcher could offer much in the way of conclusion. The loonies think they have everything all sewn up.

9/11 needs an all-access independent inquiry, but not for most of the reasons the loonies cite.

Neithr Nor


To proud westerner

21.12.2007 14:48

I think you will find that Venezuela donated oil to america after Hurrican Katrina. The american government's response to Katrina was and still is criminal. If I were american I certainly would not be proud of that.

Andy


also cuba.

21.12.2007 17:54

"Now when America was hit by hurricane Katrina how many foreign countries donated anything in the way of aid? None! So don't knock America."

Cuba offered hundreds of doctors to the USA to help with the catastrophe, people were dying from lack of food and medical provisions, the bush admin. declined the offer.

Fly Posters


Oh say can you see?

21.12.2007 18:39

America. A country founded on the genocide of the native popullation wrought by religous weirdos who were persecuted in Europe for strange practises such as incest. A genocide that continues at a trickle of betrayal and theft.

A country that dropped atomic weapons on civillian centres of a surrendered nation TWICE just for research purposes and to scare the shit out the planet.

A country that is too stupid to realise that it only gained independence from Britain because Britain couldn't be bothered and the French won it for the Americans ("Freedom Fries" was never so ironic).

A country far too stupid to realise that the British came back later and beat them and burned down their governemnt building and went home with the threat never to invade Canada again hanging in the air.

A country with the highest child poverty in the industrialised world and ranking behind Mexico in the whole world.

A country with appalling per capita international aid stats.

A country whose elite owes its hegemony to war profiteering.

The list goes on and on and on.

Britain isn't much better, but no one here is arguing that the West is any sort of saint.

Finally have a read of this list:

 http://www.neravt.com/left/invade.htm

Ignorant Colonial


from the archives: Scholars Repudiate Official Version of 9/11

22.12.2007 10:35

"An influential group of prominent experts and scholars have joined together alleging that senior government officials have covered up crucial facts about what really happened on 9/11. The members of this new non-partisan association, "Scholars for 9/11 Truth" (S9/11T), are convinced their research proves the current administration has been dishonest with the nation about events in New York and Washington, D.C.

These experts contend that books and articles by members and associates have
established that the World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by
controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave
doubt on the official story about the attack on the Pentagon. They believe
that the government not only permitted 9/11 to occur but may even have
orchestrated these events to facilitate its political agenda.

The society includes U.S. and international faculty and students of history,
science, military affairs, psychology, and even philosophy. According to its
spokesmen, S9/11T represents a concerted effort to uphold the standards of
truth and justice and to strengthen democracy in this nation, which has taken
a terrible hit in the aftermath of 9/11, when "everything changed." Its
function is to bring scientific rigor to the study of 9/11 phenomena.

The members of this group are dedicated to exposing falsehoods and to
revealing truths behind 9/11, "letting the chips fall where they may." The
evidence has become sufficiently strong that they are speaking out. They are
actively devoting themselves to reporting the results of their research to the
public by means of lectures, articles, and other venues."



link for the full article:


 http://prweb.com/releases/2006/1/prweb338782.htm


James Fetzer


Stale Responses, Great Article

22.12.2007 15:03

Notice that the Trolls/Plants respond just as we expect them to: insult, ridicule, mischaracterization - Disinformation - instead of any real counter-argument based on the evidence and that which is still suspiciously missing, or any response to the myriad questions asked by 911Truth in preponderance of the physical evidence.

Just like the Governments perpetrating this Conspiracy Theory in a desperate attempt to 'justify' their indefensible, illegal, and immoral acts of aggression.

This proves that they don't want these issues being discussed, but that they also know the Official Conspiracy Theory has long come unravelled and millions know it.

911=PNAC, CIA, Mossad


And further revelations

22.12.2007 21:47

So, I see that even "conspiraloons" like the former Italian PM are also wearing tin-foil hats?
 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/12/388375.html

These reports are becoming increasingly frequent, and of course, are never covered by the MSM. So much for the investigative journalism banner these news outlets like to describe themselves as working under. They are shit-scared of writing anything that is likely to offend the hands that feed them. Pilger described the process quite well in his article here:  https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/12/388302.html

Well, I guess that it is up to us then. It must be harder and harder for those wanks who used to dismiss this as conspiraloon terrirtory to maintain that facade of wilful ignorance.

Hooman Eetea


And wottabout 7/7

22.12.2007 21:48

When can we expect to get to the bottom of the 7/7 issue? Being denied a formal investigation or enquiry and given some "official narrative" is horse shit. What kind of response from the government is that? We'll tell you what we want you to believe ... repeat after me.

Frankly, I don't trust anything this bunch of lying, mendacious, manipulative bastards dishes out ... all of their petty policies that only crank the door down tighter on our fragile human rights. Disgusting. We want liberty and we want it now ... liberty from politicians, corporatists, and news agencies who are all feathering their own nests, spinning reams of bullshit and expecting us to swallow it by the spadeful.

Fuck 'em. Time to get off our fat, TV addled and narcoleptic arses and take to the streets, just like during the poll tax riots: let's make this country burn this Xmas!!!

Paul


Paul

23.12.2007 15:44

Regarding 7/7 & Operation Crevice:

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/370395.html


Then...

"Notice that the Trolls/Plants respond just as we expect them to: insult, ridicule, mischaracterization - Disinformation - instead of any real counter-argument based on the evidence and that which is still suspiciously missing, or any response to the myriad questions asked by 911Truth in preponderance of the physical evidence."


Equals...

"You can spot the differenc ebetween a serious researcher and a loony. A researcher will defend his work through debate, a loony will just let rip with a stream of insults and accusations. A researcher will be able to understand misgivings and will demonstrate how they arrived at a conclusion and what caveats are attached. A loony will just let rip with a stream of insults and accusations."

Neither Nor