9/11 Truth Manifesto

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Cem, currently in Istanbul, has sent us this:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/12/388296.html?c=on#c186588



9/11 Truth Manifesto

by Joel Hirschhorn, Indymedia UK, 20 December 2007


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
Homepage: http://www.inteldaily.com/?c=173&a=4616


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2 comments:


The UK impact & 7/7
20.12.2007 22:30

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


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9/11, not a false flag op.
21.12.2007 02:48

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

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

[xmasdale]

Much as I support the sentiment, I'm not sure that the above is really a manifesto.

We face the same problem in the UK: that people don't want to believe that their government could have been complicit in the 7/7 bombings, nor that they were duped by or at some level complicit in 9/11.

To envisage an historical precedent in which a paradigm shift occurred in a nation's perception, I am reminded of Germany.

The German people were told that a lone Dutch Communist Jew was responsible for burning down their parliament (Reichstag) in 1933 (not the Nazi Party as emerged in the post-war Nuremberg trials). The government in consequence brought in draconian powers, abolishing civil liberties in order, they said, to preserve the people's freedom and defend them from the worldwide Jewish menace. People could not believe their government would do such a wicked thing.

Then in 1939 another black-op was carried out in order to justify the invasion of Poland, which had already been agreed with the Soviet Union in the secret Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty. Codenamed Operation Himmler it created a number of simulated Polish attacks along Germany's eastern border. The German people, similarly, did not want to believe this was an evil hoax and so rallied round to defend their country enthusiastically, hence launching WW2.

In the aftermath of the war, the German people had to face up to what had happened, how they had been induced to support the war effort by false flag ops, by being scared by government propaganda and threatened into conforming by a highly centralised oppressive state and party apparatus. They then faced a country in ruins: cities carpet-bombed into deserts, factories destroyed, food-shortages and destitution.

In their different ways the two post-war German states learnt to come to terms with the way their people had been duped, and in today's modern Germany, every child is educated into the history of the rise of fascism and the ensuing war and holocaust.

I hope that the US and UK do not have to face similar destruction before they open their eyes to the current, not dissimilar deception of the people, nor to the lies about the alleged threat from worldwide Islam. The 9/11 Truth Movement has a vital role to play in ensuring that this does not happen.

True patriots do not want their countries destroyed, but do need to expose the lies, warmongering and black operations of their corrupt governments.