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's 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, politically 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 last January, 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 framers 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.