Headlined on 4/3/08:
It Has Happened: I'm a 9/11 Truther; A New Investigation, Broad
Amnesty, and Forgiveness
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Ralph Lopez is the author of "Truth in the Age of Bu****sm."
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The biggest problem with the 9/11 Truth Movement is where it leads: a
place dark and evil beyond imagination. Even if deep down you believed
it was an inside job, you would need to deny it.
So when hundreds of American military officers, pilots, engineers, and
CIA veterans stepped forward to say they believed the official story
to be a monstrous lie, I was shaken to the core. There had to be an
explanation for everything. The combination of forces and heat that
took down the towers was unique; no engineer could give a definitive
answer. The hijackers got lucky, including a good dose of incompetence
and shortsightedness on the part of the government, which is nearly
criminal, but not complicit. It's always easier for governments to lie
than admit how stupid they are. The conspiracies led to the deep dark
hole that we are ruled by criminal psychopaths, who, in one theory,
had knowledge of impending attacks by bin Laden, and made sure they
would succeed.
But are we? Hundreds of military officers of the highest rank with
everything to lose (since their paychecks are signed by the US
government), and scientific and engineering professionals, their
credentials an open target, as well as the legions of Americans who
sacrificed jobs or emptied their 401Ks to perform the thousands of
hours of research, retrieval of video clips seen once on television
then strangely disappeared, and all the other thankless, payless tasks
associated with putting together evidence that can no longer be
ignored. This tells me our republic is alive and well, and we can only
be ruled by a cabal if we let them.
The credentials of patriotsquestion911.com read like a wall of ****ning
brass and silver mounted on wood, the accomplishments of lifetimes
decorating grandpa's study: Former Commanding General of U.S. Army
Intelligence and Security Command, 1981 - 1984. Also commanded the
U.S. Army's Electronic Research and Development Command and the U.S.
Army's Intelligence School and Center. Retired commercial airline
captain with 27 years experience. Aircraft flown: Boeing 727, 757 and
767, McDonnell Douglas MD-80, and Fokker F-100. Retired fighter pilot.
Former Air Combat Instructor, U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School
(Topgun). Professor Emeritus, Structural Dynamics and Earthquake
Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Former President,
Joint Committee on Structural Safety, Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology.
And there are HUNDREDS of them.
Those buildings were full of people. How could anybody "pull" them
down? How is it possible for a human being to do this?
It was happening to me. Reading all that two and four-star brass
saying it looked like a conspiracy put me face-to-face with it. I was
becoming a 9/11 Truther. Kooks, lunatics, nuts. Everyone knows this.
But these experts were just too credible, something the movement
hadn't been before. I didn't need to be an expert or do much more
research. It had been done, by military personnel with more flying
time and expertise than I would have in a dozen lifetimes. And if they
said there were a hell of lot of questions that needed to be answered
in a new commission, That was good enough for me. I am now a 9/11
Truther. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
Their words are unparsed and direct: "a joke," "a cover-up," "a
monstrous series of lies," "a pretext for war," "not a serious piece
of analysis," riddled with "serious shortcomings," "omissions," and
"major flaws."
Here finally was the testimony I both sought and dreaded, confirming,
in many cases, my first instincts on hearing the news on that terrible
day. Amateur pilots flew these planes HOW FAR and threaded needles in
a haystack? That pilot did a steep HOW MANY degree dive to hit the
Pentagon? Everyone who has seen a demolition on TV is to believe that
these were NOT demolitions, buildings falling at free-fall speed into
their own footprint? But I'm no expert on much of anything. I leave it
to the people who make this stuff their study 8 hours a day, year
after year, and have the degrees to show for it.
Of the corkscrew dive which supposedly put a commercial airliner into
the Pentagon, Pilots For 911 Truth say:
"Once this maneuver was completed, without going into a graveyard
spiral, he started to pull out of the descent at 2200 feet and
accelerated only 30 knots more at full power to 460 knots in a descent
from 2200 feet to the pentagon in about a minute (Whats Vmo at sea
level for a 757? Flap speed? Since it looks like he may have found the
flap handle only accelerating 60 knots from 7000 feet, the from 2200
feet at full power). AA77 crossed the highways, knocking down light
poles, entered ground effect, didnt touch the lawn and got a 44 foot
high target (Tail height of 757) into a 77 foot target completely,
without overshooting or bouncing off the lawn, or spreading any
wreckage at 460 knots. With a 33 foot margin for error. Wow,
impressive. Takes a real steady hand to pull that off. I know it would
take me a few tries to get it so precise, especially entering ground
effect at those speeds. Any slight movement will put you off 50 feet
very quickly. Im sure we all would agree."
"So, who pulled off this stunt? Hani Hanjour. Re****ted to have 600TT
and a Commercial Certificate (see quotes right margin). Hani tried to
get checked out in a 172 a few weeks prior at Freeway Air****t in MD.
Two seperate CFI's took Hani up to check him out. Baxter and Conner
found that Hani had trouble controlling and landing a 172 at 65 knots.
Bernard, the Chief CFI, refused to rent him the 172. I have instructed
many years. I have soloed students in 172's when i had 300 hours as a
CFI. How anyone could not control a 172 at 600TT and a Commercial is
beyond me. Flight Schools keep going till you "get it" if you are a
bit rusty, and then rent you the plane. They are in business to make
money after all. .right? The Chief CFI basically refused any further
lessons and basically told him to get lost."
The question becomes: how do people deal with the monstrous
implications of this? I think most people, even if they are convinced,
could not deal with the enormity of an entire government this evil.
But a limited cabal of criminal psychopaths I can wrap my mind around.
That can be excised. Other countries have gone through their velvet
revolutions, gone through truth commissions, like the silent protests
of Mothers of the Disappeared in Argentina, and they have gone on.
Pinochets and Fujimoris have been put on trial, or near it, and the
countries have gone on. This can be done without civil strife and
social upset. Some of the most im****tant people in this kind of truth
movement, the nation's military officers, are speaking out.
For every sign of being surrounded by evil, I see three other signs of
being surrounded by brave, fearless patriots. The relatively small
cabal that the 9/11 Truth Movement leads us to involves, according to
Lt. Col. Guy S. Razer, MS, U.S. Air Force (ret), "treasonous
perpetrators that have infiltrated the highest levels of our
government."
The 9/11 Truth Movement should be about reconciliation and finding out
the truth. Full amnesty should be offered to military officers who
step forward who are privy to details of the stand-down, the Pentagon
operation, or other military-technical details. Immunity should also
be granted to members of Congress who believe they received briefings
which may make them complicit. We have questions. Lots of questions.
Mr. Wolfowitz, please elaborate on the phrase "absent a catalyzing
event - like a new Pearl Harbor" in reference to the Project for a New
American Century's clear advocacy of a military invasion of Iraq, page
Section V of the essay "Rebuilding America's Defenses." Am I to take
it that a new Pearl Harbor would have been welcomed? As a major policy-
maker do you understand how close this is to treason, sir?
Or to Robert Gates, for the Department of Defense:
"Does the Department of defense have a record of one Sgt. Timothy
McNiven, who now names a number of other soldiers in 1976 as having
participated in war games closely resembling 9/11? Please remember
sir, you are under oath."
For Zbigniew Brzezinski. U.S. Senate candidate Laurie Dobson says on
her website:
"On February 1, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was an advisor to President
Carter, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that there was an
operative scenario for an attack on Iran, and that this included a
terrorist act in the United States to be blamed on Iran and to be used
as a pretext for aggression against Iran - something like a new 9/11.
It was the former head of the National Security Council who said this,
one of the top foreign policy figures of the Democratic Party. If I
had been sitting on that committee, I would not have let Brzezinski
leave the room until he told the committee who was doing this, using
what methods, and how he found out about this. Congress has its own
jail cells in the capitol, and if I had been there Brzezinski might
have seen the inside of that cell, until he told us the whole truth.
But the senators on that committee - Biden, Dodd, Obama, Durbin - just
sat there like bumps on a log. Some leader****p! I call that a real
dereliction of duty."
For U.S. Congressman John Olver:
"Ralph Nader re****ted in a public forum a statement by Congressman
John Olver (D-MA) that if congress were to commence impeachment
proceeding George Bush would bomb Iran, declare martial law upon the
promised retaliatory attacks, and cancel the 2008 elections.
Commission member to Olver: "Is there any truth to this statement,
sir? Tell us how you know of this planned treason by the president of
the United States?"
For Dick Cheney:
"is it true, Mr. Vice President, that you ordered the standing orders
not to be changed, not scramble jets on that morning immediately upon
learning the aircraft had been hijacked? Did you have the op****tunity
to order that the second plane be shot down?"
The policy of the 911 Truth Movement should be to forgive, to heal,
and to punish only the highest perpetrators. Only God can Judge. I am
against the death penalty in all cases. The men who perpetrated 9/11
are men with sick hearts.
Indictments should be confined to the intellectual authors of such
deeds, the civilian leader****p, and those who incited others to
treason. All others are soldiers, subject to orders of the civilian
leader****p, the Secretary of Defense and the Commander-in-Chief. Our
brothers may have have been following orders they questioned in their
hearts, but they are still our brothers, and we forgive them. This
nation will heal.
I'm in awe of the brave patriots not letting go of this, and growing
by the day. Seeing this makes me feel, for the first time in a long
time, that our country has not lost its essential character, and we
will make it through this. Some of us may die if there is a last-gasp
la****ng-out by the cabal, if that is who rules us, but that is
inconsequential. What's im****tant is that democracy will survive. The
republic, for another generation at least, will be inoculated against
the politics of fear, ignorance, and manipulation that made this
monstrous deed possible (bin Laden initially denied involvement, but
as we know, bin Laden is nothing without Bush, and Bush is nothing
without bin Laden.) New investigations, broad amnesty, and forgiveness.
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