CONSPIRACY THEORIES: how politicians keep you from asking questions

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Right after 9-11, GWB 'warned' the nation not to take seriously the 'conspiracy theories' floating around suggesting that his White House knew that a terrorist event was about to happen or were at the very least negligent in stopping it. The message: even thinking about anything other than the official story was crazy and un-American. In other words: negligence and complicity were lumped together and one would be insane to consider either scenario.

Well...no one wants to be thought of as crazy or unpatriotic...so most Americans dropped the subject altogether. Except for a few determined activists that wanted answers to the many unanswered questions...Americans settled back into their routine and were happy to believe that a group of mostly Saudi Arabians were able to hijack commercial airliners and fly them into buildings close to the nation's capital without nary a response from the most powerful military in the world. They were willing to believe in coincidence theories but not conspiracy theories...even after Bush* and Cheney warned the Democratic leadership about opening an investigation that put their White House under scrutiny.

But the rumors and conspiracy theories continued because the official story seemed to contradict reality. Politicians had learned from the Warren Commission that the best way to make something go away was to create a 'bipartisan commission' that would 'investigate every detail' and write a long report which few would actually read. It didn't seem to bother many Americans that the very White House that didn't want an investigation in the first place demanded the right to handpick the commission members and set the parameters of the inquiry. That the White House also demanded that they be kept outside the scope of the investigation didn't draw too much attention.

The families of the victims of 9-11...still looking for answers...were informed in no uncertain terms that their questions were 'hurting America' and that if they continued they would be considered conspiracy theory nut cases. They were silenced like everyone else who in good conscience couldn't accept the official story line about the next 'Pearl Harbor' that would be used to start a war.

The fog of war would soon replace any further questions about an event that would later be used as a rationale for war. Troops amassed on the Iraqi border and Rice spoke of 'mushroom clouds' and September 11, 2001 and the failure of the Bush administration to protect America was all but forgotten. The media had transformed Bush into a 'war president' and somehow they made him seem larger than life as he was celebrated as a strong leader and hero of 9-11.

So the moral of the story is this: Politicians can be guilty of gross negligence or worse and allow an event like 9-11 to happen and then use fear and terror to take control of the US government, military and free press, wage aggressive war against nations that pose no threat and shove a fascist agenda down America's throat. And if you object to any of this you'll be discounted as a radical conspiracy theorist who hates America and Freedom.