"Anniversary" of 9/11. Really?
Neal Boortz
This certainly isn't an original thought with me (few are), but I'm just not
comfortable with the "anniversary" word here. Anniversaries are connected
to -- celebrations of -- a positive event. The word is most closely
associated with our marriages. Now some people may see a correlation
between their marriages and the Islamic attack on America on 9/11 --but most
don't. Call it a remembrance, if you will ... or a commemoration. Some --
predominantly Muslims -- will call it a "celebration."
That brings us to the"M" word. As I predicted on Friday, few newspapers
actually bothered to mention that the attacks of ten years ago were brought
to us courtesy of the wonderful, serene, peaceful religion of Islam. Now I
say "few newspapers" to cover myself. Fact is, I didn't see one single
newspaper editorial -- or story, for that matter -- which mentioned that the
attackers on 9/11 were Muslims or that the attacks were brought to America
in the name of Muslim and its squeaky-clean founder, Muhammed. We're
coming up to the 70th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor ... and it will still be
referred to as the "Japanese attack" on Pearl Harbor. But in the wonderful
world of political correctness it is just oh so wrong to remind America who
attacked us.
Al Qaeda may be decimated with most of it's leaders dead or in Gitmo .. but
the dedication of Muslim radicals to the destruction of America still lives,
and the Quran still says that when a Muslim meets a non-believer he has
three basic choices; convert him, enslave him or destroy him. I'm sorry if
that's politically incorrect (like I care) but the Quran still says it and
many Muslims still believe it. Islam is a religion on the ascendency, and
across the world when Muslims reach a certain percentage of the population
the darker side of the religion emerges. We're not there in America ---
yet. Some who have studied the religion suggest that the threshold may be
around 2.5% or so. But whatever that threshold is, when we reach it the
calls for Sharia Law and other accommodations will be demanded and, if
denied, met with violence.
It seems absurd that political corrects prevents us from recognizing and
identifying an enemy that is still dedicated to our destruction. We may
well end up paying for this in ways much more traumatic than 9/11.
trotsky
> It's 9/12. This would mean that the 9/11 "anniversary" is now past us.
> This certainly isn't an original thought with me (few are), but I'm just not
> comfortable with the "anniversary" word here.
thinbluemime
> It's 9/12. This would mean that the 9/11 "anniversary" is now past us.
> This certainly isn't an original thought with me (few are), but I'm just
> not
> comfortable with the "anniversary" word here. Anniversaries are
> connected
> to -- celebrations of -- a positive event. The word is most closely
> associated with our marriages. Now some people may see a correlation
> between their marriages and the Islamic attack on America on 9/11 --but
> most
> don't. Call it a remembrance, if you will ... or a commemoration. Some
> --
> predominantly Muslims -- will call it a "celebration."
>
> That brings us to the"M" word. As I predicted on Friday, few newspapers
> actually bothered to mention that the attacks of ten years ago were
> brought
> to us courtesy of the wonderful, serene, peaceful religion of Islam.
How the world changed after 9/11
by Charlie Skelton Monday 12 September 2011
a symposium of critical thinkers in New York
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/sep/12/9-11-symposium-charlie-skelton?INTCMP=SRCH
The heavy syllables of the victims' names boomed out along the streets
around Ground Zero. The public were patted down, then allowed up a cramped
side road to peer at a distant video screen of the memorial. They filmed
the video screen on their mobile phones, filmed each other filming, and
film crews filmed them filming.
It was hardly fertile ground for grief, you'd think. And yet, the weird
detachment of the moment was severed by the chanting of the names and the
brief tributes of the readers. It was the daughter who said her father's
friends tell her that she reminds them of him that did it for me. That,
and the list of victims called Jones. Jones after Jones after Jones. Too
many Joneses. I took my sniffles back up the street to Starbucks.
And from Starbucks, I went down the rabbit hole. I found myself at a
conference on Walker Street called 'How The World Changed After 9/11'. It
was packed, but I managed to slide in at the back, to hear a guy called
Webster Tarpley chant his own list of names. The names of the 46 military
exercises and hijack drills (called things like 'Vigilant Guardian') that
were actually taking place on the morning of September 11. "The greatest
density of drills in US military history," Tarpley said.
Fake radar blips, dummy hijacks, dummy attacks, fighter jets sent off to
Turkey, the skies left unprotected, with the FBI's top anti-terror experts
stuck on a training exercise in California. The drills, said Tarpley, were
important, because not only did they weaken and confuse US air defence,
but there was also a military drill for each major component of the 9/11
attacks. The drills were cover, and the dummy threats were made real.
September 11, he argues, was a coup carried out by a rogue network within
the US military and government. A cabal of fascists, working with (and
for) a banking oligarchy, "the old boys of Wall Street".
"You want to blame Saudi Arabia, or Israel, or Pakistan? You can't. There
isn't the evidence." The evidence, Tarpley says, points towards 9/11 as a
false flag attack, carried out by a high level clique, that forced a
shocked and awestruck US public into a vast and still ongoing war. It was
America's very own Reichstag fire. And the official version of the event?
"A racist, militaristic, and fascist myth that we must reject."
What I heard, from speaker after speaker, was a heartfelt desire to turn
away from the path of destruction, militarism and lies that America has
been set upon after 9/11. Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst, mourned for
Iraq: "One million dead, 4m displaced, and that's a victory?" He sees the
failure of Americans to comprehend the scale of the destruction wrought
under their flag as nothing less than racist. "In America, we are very
good at segregating our tears. Racism is our original sin."
McGovern quoted from Martin Luther King's letter from Birmingham jail:
"Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up, but must
be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light,
injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to
the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it
can be cured." And 9/11, for McGovern, is a "big boil" that needs lancing.
He drew attention to an extraordinary story, barely touched by the
mainstream press, that Richard Clarke, who was the White House
counter-terrorism czar at the time of the attacks, has recently accused
the CIA of deliberately suppressing information before 9/11, information
that might have prevented the attacks. Clarke claimed: "There was a
high-level decision in the CIA ordering people not to share information."
And who made this decision? "I would think it would have been made by the
director".
So that would be George Tenet. Director of the CIA from 1997-2004, now a
managing director of an investment bank. The former CIA man, McGovern,
ends his speech by saying: "Of all the people who should be put in prison,
he'd be top of my list."
Another speaker, Mike Rivero, addressed the outrage, which he often felt
when the "false flag" analysis of 9/11 is presented. The idea that "we
would never do such a thing" or "it's not the sort of thing governments
do." He gave a whistlestop tour of state-sponsored attacks and
hoodwinkings: the Lusitania, the Maine, the Dodgy Dossier, Saddam's
nuclear weapons, the staged burning of the Reichstag, and the notorious
Gleiwitz incident in which the Nazis faked an attack on a German radio
station to justify the invasion of Poland. His point being that 9/11 was
"not unique". There's a historical context.
History, documentation, facts. A respect for life, and a respect for
truth. This is what I heard, over and over again, at this remarkable
conference. Wayne Madsen – a former naval officer and NSA operative –
spoke of the atmosphere of "hype and fear" that still grips America, 10
years after 9/11. A fear that's pumped into us, relentlessly, through our
flatscreen HD Orwellian "telescreens".
Madsen called for the release of the commission findings that Ludkowski
told me about last night: "Let's get those documents out of the National
Archives!" But he noted that the man whose job it is to decide what gets
released, the administrator of the White House office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, is one Cass Sunstein. The same Cass Sunstein that in
2008 urged the government to "cognitively infiltrate" alternative groups
like the 9/11 Truth Movement. So releasing those documents probably isn't
top of his to-do list.
He's also the same Cass Sunstein that wrote the first op-ed about Julian
Assange – the CIA asset and "child of MK Ultra", as Tarpley dubs him. But
that's a whole other can of worms …
I found myself blinking back tears for the second time when McGovern read
out a poem – in his polished CIA Russian – about a mother mourning the
loss of her child. This thread of grieving ran throughout the conference.
Wayne Madsen grieved for the loss of "shoeleather journalism", McGovern
mourned the death of the fourth estate, while Tarpley spoke of the hollow
memorial at Ground Zero – the two "abysses": the reflecting pools, or
"voids", as they're often called. He sees these memorials as an
appropriately empty vision of "nothingness. Nihil. No ideals, nothing." A
nothingness at the heart of America. "But we have to do something."
We have to do something. Even if that something is simply to Google 'Cass
Sunstein' and start from there. Begin your own cognitive infiltration.
Google 'Vigilant Guardian' or 'Able Danger'. Crosscheck 'Abdel Hakim
Belhadj' and 'Al-Qaida'. Begin digging. Begin thinking. And stop believing.
Michael More
They had the motive, the infrastructure and the media in their pocket.
Look into the "Rest of the Story"
the "official" explanation is incredible . Impossible.
--
Karma, What a concept!
thinbluemime
wrote:
> In article <op.v1qn1tysr99hi5@experience>,
> thinbluemime <thinbl...@tbm.net> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:46:38 +0100, Neal Boortz <NealB...@x.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > It's 9/12. This would mean that the 9/11 "anniversary" is now past
>> us.
>> > This certainly isn't an original thought with me (few are), but I'm
>> just
>> > not
>> > comfortable with the "anniversary" word here. Anniversaries are
>> > connected
>> > to -- celebrations of -- a positive event. The word is most closely
>> > associated with our marriages. Now some people may see a correlation
>> > between their marriages and the Islamic attack on America on 9/11
>> --but
>> > most
>> > don't. Call it a remembrance, if you will ... or a commemoration.
>> by Charlie Skelton Monday 12 September 2011
>> a symposium of critical thinkers in New York
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/sep/12/9-11-symposium-charlie-skelto
>> n?INTCMP=SRCH
> They had the motive, the infrastructure and the media in their pocket.
> Look into the "Rest of the Story"
> the "official" explanation is incredible . Impossible.
The worst of the unofficial conspiracy theories suggests explanations that
if true, would shake the USA government to it's core and possibly result
in the government's collapse.
Generally speaking, the official explanation falls far short of a
reasonable narrative of 9/11. Many sane people have stated that something
is wrong. Several of the 9-11 Commission members have even said something
is wrong. But if government insiders were involved, then another official
investigation would seem pointless. A civilian investigation with
authority to subpoena would probably take years to complete.
I don't think a resolution will ever be reached. Public awareness can be
raised though, and the more citizens get involved and informed, the less
likely will be the damage from the original attack, and the less
likelihood of future attacks and future wars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_McGovern#.22O.I.L..22
Michael More
"glow" of a religion. The Revenge War isn't looking good.
looks like "Vietnamization" isn't playing too well there.
Let's see, we kill women and children there to show them killing 3000
in NYC is wrong.
Mission Accomplished? how 'bout Operation Iraqi Liberation? still
O.I.L.
Barry Margolin
> It's 9/12. This would mean that the 9/11 "anniversary" is now past us.
> This certainly isn't an original thought with me (few are), but I'm just not
> comfortable with the "anniversary" word here. Anniversaries are connected
> to -- celebrations of -- a positive event.
previous year", nothing about positive or negative. And the example it
gives is "the 50th anniversary of the start of World War II", which
clearly suggests that negative events can have anniversaries.
The type of event is usually denoted by the words we use along with it.
For joyful events we "celebrate" the anniversaries, for sad ones we
"observe" or "commemorate" them.
The association with marriage is the third definition in my dictionary.
It's the meaning if you use the word by itself, rather than specifying
the event.
--
Barry Margolin
Arlington, MA