A prominent 9/11 truth leader sent the following email about disinformation
and disruption in the 9/11 movement. I'm waiting for permission to use his
name. I assure you, though, that he is someone with no axe to grind, and
who
is not in "one" camp or the "other". He cares only about truth.
His message provides a road map for how to deal with the infiltration,
co-option, disruption and disinformation which has been unleashed against
the 9/11 truth and justice movements, since those movements have the power
to pull the rug out from under the whole fascist enterprise.
Allow me to suggest that we don't need to choose between denunciation, on
the one hand, and silence, on the other. That is an unnecessary choice, a
false dichotomy.
Denunciation plays into their hands, which is unintended complicity.
Silence is also complicity, as Dr. Martin Luther King pointed out.
Instead of these two approaches, what's needed is politically relevant
education.
Education about agents of all kinds, especially agents provocateurs, their
history, who employs them, their tactics.
There is a huge literature on this. We do not need to start at square one.
Read about Operation Mockingbird. Read about COINTELPRO. Apply what we
learn
to today's situation. Keep digging, learning, discussing, educating.
This can be done without inflammatory language, without denunciation,
without even mentioning names. I mention none here.
When names are mentioned, it should be in connection with observable
facts,
with evidence. There is a world of difference between saying "A claimed
not
to know about X, but on [date] he stated "[I know about X]," on the one
hand, and saying "A is a liar," on the other.
While educating ourselves and others we can simultaneously actively combat
agents of the state by refraining from engaging in the types of behaviour
they employ to sow dissention: name-calling, rumour-mongering,
insinuation.
Especially specific name-calling. Refraining from this does not stifle
vigorous discussion and debate, based on observable facts, statements and
patterns.
Education drains the swamp. Most of agents will stand out. It's happening
already. Other agents are deeper. Understanding their purposes and
identifying them and dealing with them depends on more education yet.
Believe me, I come from three generations of the spied-upon and harrassed.
Doing nothing plays into their hands. We can't pretend they don't exist.
Ignoring them will not make them go away.
How will younger people learn about the Agents of Deception unless there's
an ongoing education effort?
"History is a race between education and catastrophe," wrote H.G. Wells.
One of the aims of the 9/11Truth movement inevitably must be to expose,
oppose and work to dismantle the grotesquely huge organizations of spies,
agents provocateurs and covert agents of all kinds. They are an insult to
democracy and honest discourse.
We cannot gain the peaceful world we want as long as billions are spent on
spies and spying - many of those billions on disrupting the lawful
activities of us, citizens striving for a safer, saner world. The standard
New York Times figure for the budget of "America's intelligence community"
-
how homey - is $44-billion. That's on the books. Add the black budgets and
you have a higher figure.
It's been a long time since spies and spying were a political issue. The
Church Committee of the 70's was the last time the lid was lifted on the
creepy crawlies that scuttle about whole countries tricking whole
populations.
It's time we renewed the conversation about the immorality of spies and
spying. No doubt largely through their own propaganda efforts, they've
gone
from being pariahs to being heroes, from necessary evils to top dogs,
romanticized by the "entertainment" industry (although with many
honourable
exceptions) and uncriticized sacred cows in political circles.
Now that we are experiencing their dirty work on our own doorstep we must
educate - with principle, passion, courage and understanding.
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