9/11 & Fear

We, the people of the United States, have long forgotten President Roosevelt’s admonition that “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. Since 9/11/01 we, as a nation, have been quivering in our boots in response to the crude psychological warfare of the Bush administration. A war on terror? It's a war on the American people, and our constitution. For the past six years we have failed to challenge the twisting of facts and the outright lies about the state of the nation and its security. Every turn of events that could possibly threaten the interests of the administration evokes another dire warning to be afraid. The most deplorable aspect of this deception is that they get away with it.

The media asks no questions, Congress asks no questions, and the American people, like sheep, ask no questions. My immigrant grandfather’s proudest boast was that, as a naturalized American citizen, he didn’t have to take anything the government said at face value -- he could challenge it without being thrown in jail. What happened to that spirit?

We are not excused by the fact that the mainstream media is owned by the multinational corporations, or that PBS has been emasculated. We still have the Internet and, for all its faults, real news and information can be gleaned from there. But the American public sits in front of the tube and ingests the hate-filled claptrap manufactured by Bush/Cheney and distributed by The Washington Times, Fox News, and thousands of right wing talk shows that fill the airways, day and night, with dire warnings of the impending danger to the country. Fear, and the threat of fear, drips from every detail in the stories.

The administration is so deep in deception now that it couldn't tell the truth if it wanted to. All of the lies about 9/11 are unraveling like an old sweater. Seven of the nineteen 9/11 "hijackers" have been reported to still be alive. The destruction of building seven was clearly the result of a planned, prepared demolition. Video tapes of the building’s fall clearly show the “squibs” exploding as the building fell. Never before - or since - has a steel reinforced building collapsed because of a collision with a commercial airplane. Or from fire. Jet fuel is refined kerosene and could not possibly generate enough heat to melt commercial steel. The diffuse fires ignited by jet fuel brought the building to no more than 450 degrees F. Reinforced structural steel melts at around 1500 degrees F. Fire did not bring the buildings down.

My purpose is not to argue about whether there was a conspiracy - unless one thinks that a single individual could have hijacked, flown, and crashed four planes simultaneously, one has already accepted that there was a 9/11 conspiracy. My purpose is to point out that all the inconsistent lies of 9/11 have been accepted by the vast majority of the American people as a true account. We go about our business untroubled by the duplicitous role played by the government in the cover-up. We quiver in our bones about some new unknown doom about to descend on us from afar - and are blind to the threat from within.

A tyrannical government is riding roughshod over the constitution and the fearful people cower and await the next pronouncement of doom. This is no longer the country I fought for.