On Sunday and
Monday nights, September 10 and 11, ABC TV, which is owned by Disney, the folks
who brought you Mickey Mouse in 1928, plans to bring you a six-hour, $40 million
docudrama, called �The Path to 9/11." It might well be called �The Path to
Perdition,� seeing as how it bills itself as �an objective telling of the
events of 9/11," when in fact the film was scripted by arch-conservative
writer Cyrus Nowrasteh, whose friendship is claimed by no less than Rush
Limbaugh. Don�t throw up yet. There�s more . . .
The film�s point is
a twisting of the facts to blame former President Bill Clinton for the
so-called �terrorist attacks� of 9/11. I smell Karl Rove. You may smell
something else. Fortunately, you may have received an email from ActForChange
asking you to contact ABC to �Tell the Truth About 9/11.�
ActForChange notes
that �the list of counterterrorism initiatives undertaken by the Clinton
Administration is lengthy and comprehensive. Regrettably, the record shows that
most of these efforts were watered down or abandoned by the Bush administration
when they came into office. History will also record that President Bush was
the one who received -- and while on vacation, chose to ignore -- a
Presidential Daily Briefing on August 6, 2001, entitled �Bin Laden Determined
to Strike in US.��
My record shows
that when the U.S. Army had Osama bin Laden cornered in Tora Bora in December
2001, it let bin Laden slip through its hands into the no-man�s land between
Pakistan and Afghanistan. Media
Matters.org reports: �A CNN report on the search for Osama bin Laden noted
that the insufficient number of U.S. forces in the mountains of Afghanistan in
late 2001 allowed the Al Qaeda leader to escape capture. But the report omitted
any reference to the recent revelation that the CIA specifically warned
President Bush at the time that more U.S. troops were needed.� Odd Bush denied
those troops to capture his arch foe. Or was that the desired effect?
So who�s kidding
whom? This is a patently vicious attempt to unload the mishap and the larger
tragedy of 9/11 on Clinton. What�s more, as I reported recently on Online Journal in Zarqawi the
scourge defeated, Osama not wanted for 9/11?, �As
everyone and his brother, including Jordanian
intelligence, rushes in to claim a piece of the Zarqawi kill, his fellow
Afghanistan-Mujihadeen and super-star terror-meister, Osama bin Laden, fades
into Not Wanted by
FBI for 9/11 status, that is, the attacks on the World Trade Center and
Pentagon, according to an article by Enver Masud. What? What�s going on here? I
thought that�s why Bush declared The War on Terror in the first
place and went to Afghanistan to �smoke him out.��
Beyond that, we have been alternately told by Bush himself
that �bin Laden is no longer of importance,� as well as by Donald Rumsfeld that
bin Laden had been �marginalized.� Perhaps their ambiguity on the subject has
to do with their lack of success in capturing him, though he has served
faithfully as their patsy terror �boogeyman.�
Returning to the Mickey Mouse production, �The Path to 9/11,"
Clinton�s own team launched its strike
against the docudrama, noting that �ABC�s entertainment division
said the six-hour movie . . . will say in a disclaimer that is a �dramatization�
. . . not a documentary� and contains �fictionalized scenes,�� which sound
curiously like the Bush administration�s myth. In fact, �the movie is based on
the Sept. 11 commission�s report, although that report contradicts several key
scenes.� Wow. The Commission Report, often called The Omission Report, itself
has been violated. I guess even Mickey would say, �Gosh, I smell a rat.�
Backing off, Marc Platt, the film's executive producer, said
that although it �does contain composite and conflated scenes and
representative characters and dialogue, we�ve worked very hard to be fair. If
individuals feel they�re wrongly portrayed, that�s obviously of concern . . ."
Well, aside from President Clinton�s ire, former Secretary of State Madeleine
K. Albright found one scene involving her �false and defamatory.� Former
National Security Adviser Sandy Berger said the film �flagrantly misrepresent
my personal actions.� Bruce R. Lindsey, who heads the William J. Clinton
Foundation, added, �It is unconscionable to mislead the American public about
one of the most horrendous tragedies our country has ever known.�
I would second that, particularly in light of the massive
evidence gathered by various scholars at 9/11st.org, (to name just one
site), stating in fact it was the Bush administration and those power-brokers
that pull its strings that brought us the tragedy of 9/11. Or was it Lee Harvey
Oswald again?
In fact speaking of Lee Harvey Oswald, it was ABC�s Nightline that brought us on November
20, 2003, the �Mickey Mouse� documentary, �The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond
Conspiracy,� narrated by the late Peter Jennings. Amazingly, ABC used the Zapruder film to explain �the magic
bullet� theory, affirm the three-shot, lone-shooter theory and deny any
conspiracy.
ABC used one Dale Myers to generate computer animation
supposedly synched to every frame of the Zapruder film -- to clarify the film�s
action and help make it confirm (or conform to) the state-planted myth. So ABC
seems to be in the disinformation business big-time, if not a hangout for the
CIA.
Interestingly, ABC�s new film, as ActForChange points out, was �apparently screened in advance only to
conservative bloggers and journals -- and received extensive praise from none
other than Rush Limbaugh.� Mickey is not only recreating the �Path to 9/11,�
but the reviews for it. And something more, something even more pernicious.
See ABC
and Scholastic release skewed Path to 9/11 �Discussion Guide� for high
school teachers to assign to students.
The story comes from Mediamatters.org. I advise you to read the entire article,
from which the following quote comes, to get the full scope of this pernicious
plan to brainwash the young. �In conjunction with the September 10 premiere of
ABC miniseries The Path to 9/11 -- a
six-hour 'docudrama' reportedly based on the findings of the 9-11 Commission
Report -- ABC has teamed up with Scholastic to create a 'Discussion Guide for the Classroom'
to urge high school teachers nationwide to '[e]ncourage your students and their
families to watch The Path to 9/11 and use the accompanying' discussion
guide as part of their lesson plan. ABC and Scholastic have reportedly sent out letters
to 100,000 high school teachers informing them of the miniseries and accompanying
discussion guide.
�A Media Matters for America review of The Path to
9/11 'resource sheets' and 'discussion guide[s]' provided to teachers
has found that the material omits critical information regarding the Bush
administration's pre-Iraq war weapons of mass destruction claims; falsely
suggests a tie between Iraq and the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks;
gives upbeat accounts of reportedly dire conditions on the ground in both Iraq
and Afghanistan; suggests that military responses to Osama bin Laden by the
Clinton administration could have 'hinder[ed] the U.S. stance on the war on
terror'; and asks students to debate whether the media �hinder our national
security.�"
So, in essence, Mickey and George and all their rodent
friends would like to teach revisionist history to your high school students
and my high school student. They would like the lies and shortcomings of their
actions to be embedded in the consciousness of our children. In fact, �Media Matters review of Scholastic�s
discussion guide has found it to be rife with conservative misinformation.�
Thus the misinformation should be perpetuated in a new generation.
Remember, the Scholastic Corporation is one of the world�s
leading children�s book publishers. It sells more than 320 millions books
(Harry Potter, The Baby-Sitters Club, etc.) to children across the US and
around the globe. It runs school book clubs and fairs, and publishes magazines
for students and teachers. It produces textbooks and software, children�s TV
programming, videos and films. It publishes the Encyclopedia Americana. Let�s
not buy their crap.
What�s more, ABC
like Scholastic reaches a huge audience. According to Wikipedia,
�A
2003 Nielsen estimate found that ABC could be seen in
96.75 percent of all homes in the United States, reaching 103,179,600
households. ABC has 10 VHF and UHF owned-and-operated television stations and
191 affiliated stations in the U.S. and U.S. possessions.� So consider the
impact of the distortions of history. It�s like once again teaching kids that
the cowboys were the good guys for killing and stealing the lands of the bad
Indians.
There�s something rotten in America and this is it. The Empire�s attempt to
perpetuate its infamy. Not only should �The Path to 9/11� be shut down. But
those monies should have been used to tell the truth about 9/11, that the
Towers may have been exploded by planned demolition not jet fuel, that there
remains the absence of any real proof that �Islamic terrorists� did it, and
that bin Laden is nothing more than a convenient patsy, playing a role bought
and paid for by the CIA since 1979.
If you thirst for more real information immediately, go to . . .
www.geocities.com/killtown
www.prisonplanet.com
www.letsro11911.org
www.911proof.com
The 911 WTC
Collapse: An Audio-Video Analysis
www.globalresearch.ca
www.onlinejournal.com
Good luck. And be
sure to miss Katie Couric nightly at 6:30 EST on CBS. Not to mention �The Path
to 9/11� on Sunday and Monday nights, September 10 and 11, on ABC. We can work
it out. Without the liars.
Jerry Mazza is a
freelance writer living in New York, where it happened. Reach him at gvmaz@verizon.net.