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9/11 Explains the Impotence Of The Anti-war Movement

by Paul Craig Roberts (excerpt and link)
With judicious logic, Paul Craig Roberts explains in this essay why the anti-war/peace movement has had virtually no impact.
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9/11 Explains the Impotence Of The Anti-war Movement
By Paul Craig Roberts

The anti-war movement has proven impotent to stop the war in Iraq despite the fact that the war was initiated on the basis of lies and deception. The anti-war movement stands helpless to prevent President Bush from attacking Iran or any other country that he might demonize for harboring a future 9/11 threat.

September 11 enabled Bush to take America to war and to keep America at war even though the government’s explanation of the events of September 11 is mired in controversy and disbelieved by a large percentage of the population.

Although the news media’s investigative arm has withered, other entities and individuals continue to struggle with unanswered questions. In the six years since 9/11, numerous distinguished scientists, engineers, architects, intelligence officers, pilots, military officers, air traffic controllers, and foreign dignitaries have raised serious and unanswered questions about the official story line.

Recognition of the inadequacy of the official account of the collapse of the twin towers is widespread in the scientific and technical community. One of the most glaring failures in the official account is the lack of an explanation of the near free-fall speed at which the buildings failed once the process began. Some scientists and engineers have attempted to bolster the official account with explanations of how this might happen in the absence of explosives used in controlled demolitions.

One recent example is the work of Cambridge University engineer, Dr. Keith Seffen, published in the Journal of Engineering Mechanics and reported by the BBC on September 11, 2007. Dr. Seffen constructed a mathematical model that concludes that once initiation of failure had begun, progressive collapse of the structures would be rapid.

Another example is the work of retired government scientist Dr. Manuel Garcia, commissioned by CounterPunch to fill the gaping void in the official report. Garcia concludes, as does Seffen, that explosives are not necessary to explain the near free-fall speed at which the WTC buildings collapsed.

Seffen and Garcia each offer a speculative hypothesis about what could have happened. Their accounts are not definitive explanations based on evidence of what did happen. Thus, Seffen and Garcia bring us to the crux of the matter: To understand the buildings’ failures, we must rely on theoretical speculative models, because the forensic evidence was not examined. Their explanations thus have no more validity than a speculative hypothesis that explains the failure of the buildings as a result of explosives.

To rationally choose between the hypotheses, we would need to see how well each fits with the evidence, but most of the evidence was quickly dispersed and destroyed by federal authorities. Most of the evidence that remains consists largely of human testimony: the hundred witnesses who were inside the two towers and who report hearing and experiencing explosions and the televised statement of Larry Silverstein, the leaseholder of the WTC properties, who clearly said that the decision was made "to pull" WTC 7.

Today, six years after 9/11, money, ideologies, accumulated resentments, and political careers are all allied with the official story line on 9/11. Anyone on a Republican mailing list or a conservative activist list, such as Young Americans for Freedom, knows that fundraising appeals seldom fail to evoke the 9/11 attack on America. The 9/11 attacks gave neoconservatives their "new Pearl Harbor" that enabled them to implement their hegemonic agenda in the Middle East. The 9/11 attacks gave Americans boiling with accumulated frustrations a foe upon whom to vent their rage. Politicians, even Democrats, could show that they stood tall for America. George W. Bush has invested two presidential terms in "fighting terror" by invading countries in the Middle East.

September 11 doubters are a threat to the legitimacy of these massive material and emotional interests. That is why they are shouted down as "conspiracy theorists." But if the government’s story has to be improved by outside experts in order to be plausible, then it is not irrational or kooky to doubt the official explanation.

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This government posting contradicts reality and is a deliberately planted lie. The US population is overwhelmingly for peace and wants the US to get out of Iraq now. Last November's elections were one verification of that fact. On 9/15/07, 100,000 people marched for peace on DC, despite the fact that there is no draft, the presidential election is a year from now and Wash.D.C. is a little far removed from New York City and similar major population centers of the Northeast. For more on the peace march and civil disobedience, with accompanying photos, see:
http://answer.pephost.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8663

A shining star of the peace movement is the 9/11 Truth Movement, which is also growing by leaps and bounds. Perhaps the most significant advance is the increase of scientists and engineers to this movement as the government's lie clearly contradicts the laws of physics, the same government that opposes evolution and promotes religion. This is a sign that this reactionary government wants to go back to medieval times, just as it wants to turn the clock back on civil rights, before the Magna Carta of 1215, when English common law granted habeas corpus, all to better manage the workingclass and maximize the profits of the capitalist class. Two scientific sites are:
http://stj911.org/
and
http://911scholars.org/

For anyone who forgot their physics or does not understand basic legal investigations, please:
Listen to Guns & Butter on KPFA at 94.1 FM at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays and online at:
http://www.gunsandbutter.net/archives.php
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DVD that is a Must See at
http://www.loosechange911.com/
READ ALL OF THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:
1. Crossing the Rubicon by Michael Ruppert
2. The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions & Distortions by David Griffin
3. The New Pearl Harbor by David Griffin
4. Debunking 9/11 Debunking by David Griffin
5. Painful Questions by Eric Hufschmid
6. The Iron Triangle (on Carlyle Group) by Dan Briody
7. 9/11 Revealed: The Unanswered Questions by Rowland Morgan & Ian Henshall
8. Waking Up From Our Nightmare by Don Paul and Jim Hoffman
9.9/11 Facing Our Fascist State by Don Paul
10.9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA by Webster Tarpley
11 Body of Secrets by James Bamford
12 The War on Truth by Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed
13 The Terror Conspiracy by Jim Marrs
14 Towers of Deception by Barrie Zwicker (with DVD enclosed)
15 9/11 and American Empire edited by David Ray Griffin and Peter Dale Scott
16 Flight 93 Revealed by Rowland Morgan
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