Roberts: Conspiracy Theory
While we were not watching, conspiracy theory has undergone Orwellian redefinition.
A “conspiracy theory” no longer means an event explained by a conspiracy. Instead, it now means any explanation, or even a fact, that is out of step with the government’s explanation and that of its media pimps.
For example, online news broadcasts of Russia Today (RT) have been equated with conspiracy theories by the New York Times simply because RT reports news and opinions that the New York Times does not report and the US government does not endorse.
In other words, as truth becomes uncomfortable for government and its Ministry of Propaganda, truth is redefined as conspiracy theory, by which is meant an absurd and laughable explanation that we should ignore.
When piles of carefully researched books, released government documents, and testimony of eye witnesses made it clear that Oswald was not President John F. Kennedy’s assassin, the voluminous research, government documents, and verified testimony was dismissed as “conspiracy theory.”
In other words, the truth of the event was unacceptable to the authorities and to the Ministry of Propaganda that represents the interests of authorities.
The purest example of how Americans are shielded from truth is the media’s (including many Internet sites’) response to the large number of professionals who find the official explanation of September 11, 2001, inconsistent with everything they, as experts, know about physics, chemistry, structural engineering, architecture, fires, structural damage, the piloting of airplanes, the security procedures of the United States, NORAD’s capabilities, air traffic control, airport security, and other matters. These experts, numbering in the thousands, have been shouted down by know-nothings in the media who brand the experts as “conspiracy theorists.”
This despite the fact that the official explanation endorsed by the official media is the most extravagant conspiracy theory in human history.
Let’s take a minute to re-acquaint ourselves with the official explanation, which is not regarded as a conspiracy theory despite the fact that it comprises an amazing conspiracy. The official truth is that a handful of young Muslim Arabs who could not fly airplanes, mainly Saudi Arabians who came neither from Iraq nor from Afghanistan, outwitted not only the CIA and the FBI, but all 16 US intelligence agencies and all intelligence agencies of US allies, including Israel’s Mossad, which is believed to have penetrated every terrorist organization and which carries out assassinations of those whom Mossad marks as terrorists.
In addition to outwitting every intelligence agency of the United States and its allies, the handful of young Saudi Arabians outwitted the National Security Council, the State Department, NORAD, airport security four times in the same hour on the same morning, air traffic control, caused the US Air Force to be unable to launch interceptor aircraft, and caused three well-built steel-structured buildings, including one not hit by an airplane, to fail suddenly in a few seconds as a result of limited structural damage and small, short-lived, low-temperature fires that burned on a few floors.
The Saudi terrorists were even able to confound the laws of physics and cause WTC building seven to collapse at free fall speed for several seconds, a physical impossibility in the absence of explosives used in controlled demolition.
The story that the government and the media have told us amounts to a gigantic conspiracy, really a script for a James Bond film. Yet, anyone who doubts this improbable conspiracy theory is defined into irrelevance by the obedient media.
Anyone who believes an architect, structural engineer, or demolition expert who says that the videos show that the buildings are blowing up, not falling down, anyone who believes a Ph.D. physicist who says that the official explanation is inconsistent with known laws of physics, anyone who believes expert pilots who testify that non-pilots or poorly-qualified pilots cannot fly airplanes in such maneuvers, anyone who believes the 100 or more first responders who testify that they not only heard explosions in the towers but personally experienced explosions, anyone who believes University of Copenhagen nano-chemist Niels Harrit who reports finding unreacted nano-thermite in dust samples from the WTC towers, anyone who is convinced by experts instead of by propaganda is dismissed as a kook.
In America today, and increasingly throughout the Western world, actual facts and true explanations have been relegated to the realm of kookiness. Only people who believe lies are socially approved and accepted as patriotic citizens.
Indeed, a writer or newscaster is not even permitted to report the findings of 9/11 skeptics. In other words, simply to report Professor Harrit’s findings now means that you endorse them or agree with them. Everyone in the US print and TV media knows that he/she will be instantly fired if they report Harrit’s findings, even with a laugh. Thus, although Harrit has reported his findings on European television and has lectured widely on his findings in Canadian universities, the fact that he and the international scientific research team that he led found unreacted nano-thermite in the WTC dust and have offered samples to other scientists to examine has to my knowledge never been reported in the American media.
Even Internet sites on which I am among the readers’ favorites will not allow me to report on Harrit’s findings.
As I reported earlier, I myself had experience with a Huffington Post reporter who was keen to interview a Reagan presidential appointee who was in disagreement with the Republican wars in the Middle East. After he published the interview that I provided at his request, he was terrified to learn that I had reported findings of 9/11 investigators.
To protect his career, he quickly inserted on the online interview that my views on the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions could be dismissed as I had reported unacceptable findings about 9/11.
The unwillingness or inability to entertain any view of 9/11 different from the official view dooms to impotence many Internet sites that are opposed to the wars and to the rise of the domestic US police state. These sites, for whatever the reasons, accept the government’s explanation of 9/11; yet, they try to oppose the “war on terror” and the police state which are the consequences of accepting the government’s explanation. Trying to oppose the consequences of an event whose explanation you accept is an impossible task.
If you believe that America was attacked by Muslim terrorists and is susceptible to future attacks, then a “war on terror” and a domestic police state to root out terrorists become necessary to make Americans safe. The idea that a domestic police state and open-ended war might be more dangerous threats to Americans than terrorists is an impermissible thought.
A country whose population has been trained to accept the government’s word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.
June 20, 2011
~ The Author ~
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at: PaulCraigRoberts@yahoo.com
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How the buildings were brought down misses the point. It’s not how they were brought down but who did it. Google ‘Israel did 9/11′ and read the infounderground website account. Israel did it with all the proof in the world.
So your conclusion, based on statements of experts, is that the government orchestrated a monumental “terrorist” attack which killed 3000 of its citizens; that the government was able to “recruit” the necessary number of demolition experts, intelligence agencies, air traffic controllers, NORAD, the Air Force, airport security personnel, and pilots and their crews, who were ALL willing to risk their jobs and reputations, to sacrifice the lives of fellow Americans and/or themselves (as in the case of the pilots) AND remain silent about it; that the government, through extremely good intelligence, coordinated this attack to occur the very day a plane overtaken by Muslims flew nose-first into a field in Pennsylvania? (United 93)
THAT sounds fantastically Hollywood. Our government could not begin to pull that off.
1. Pre-9/11, airport security was practically nil and intelligence agencies were not known for sharing information between themselves.
2. It all happened relatively quickly and relatively low to the ground, so by time air-traffic controllers had an even remote idea as to what was happening (probably after the first airplane struck), there was not time for the Air Force to respond.
3. It is very probable, given the lax security nation-wide at that time, that explosives could have been put in place in the towers ahead of time by additional Muslims operatives.
4. I am not an expert pilot, but it does not seem beyond reason to me that anyone who took flying lessons could certainly bank and level a plane (yoke left, yoke right, yoke forward, yoke back).
My conclusion, using Occam’s Razor, is that, with only one hitch (United 93), these “young, Muslim Arabs”, were able to carry out their plan. They just got lucky.
Sometimes the bad guys do.
Although I do not agree with you on this one, I 100% agree that Oswald did not kill JFK.
One name worth your looking into: Dov Zakheim.
Researched Dov Z. per your suggestion. I imagine there are many Jews and non-Jews alike with very similar intelligence, motive for wanting the U.S. to wage war against the Middle-East, and means to attempt its initiation at their disposal.
The success of any mission is inversely proportional to the number of details (and the Devil is in them), and the number of personnel (the Devil is in some of them also).
A conspiracy “mission” of the magnitude theorists suggest would surely be doomed before it began with the sheer number of necessary details, (probability of errors: huge) and the sheer number of necessary people (probability of willingness and motive to “sing”: huge).
Why does everything have to be made so difficult, convoluted and complex? Why can 9/11 not just be about 14 young, Muslim Arabs (who hate Americans and want to kill us), funded, trained and directed by other Muslim Arabs (who also hate Americans and want to kill us), took flying lessons, boarded 4 planes (through lax security) with box cutters, took over the planes and crashed them into building?
They were successful because of, and in spite of, their simplicity.
“I imagine there are many Jews and non-Jews alike with very similar intelligence, motive for wanting the U.S. to wage war against the Middle-East, and means to attempt its initiation at their disposal.”
And how many of these served tenure as Pentagon controller from May 4, 2001, to March 10, 2004, a time period in which over $3 trillion dollars were unaccounted for. That’s trillion, with a “T”. That’s three thousand billion dollars. What might one be able to buy with that kind of money?
How many of these were CEO of System Planning Corporation (SPS), a defense contractor majoring in electronic warfare technologies, including remote-controlled aircraft systems, and the Flight Termination System (FTS) that could hijack even a hijacked plane and land or crash it anywhere, even into the WTC Towers.
How many of these would have been in position, with the Pentagon, to broker a deal to lease Boeing 767′s to be refitted, by SPS, as “tankers” capable of carrying both passengers and a extra fuel. (Why did the WTC planes have so few passengers relative to comparable flights?)
How many would have access to intimate knowledge of the security systems and structural blueprints of the World Trade Center through Tridata Corporation, a subsidiary of SPS, that oversaw the investigation of the first “terrorist” attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.
How many were signatories to the PNAC document which called for a restructuring of the Middle East, noting that a Pearl Harbor type incident may be needed facilitate the American public’s acceptance of such a radical foreign policy agenda.
When one starts to focus on main players it becomes clear that 9/11 could, in fact, have been more easily accomplished with many LESS, not more.
“A country whose population has been trained to accept the government’s word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.”
Great Quote!
Thanks.