What if we have another 9/11, but this time most Americans judge it was facilitated by Bush/neocons?

[wcepler]

Here's the hypothetical scenario:

(1.) Another 9/11 crisis.

(2.) But this time, most Americans openly and passionately believe it was an "inside job" to distract us from Bush's toilet poll results (again?), and/or as an excuse to initiate martial law, and/or a "justification" to cancel the next presidential election, and/or as a pretext to 100% turn the rags of what is left of our beloved Democratic Republic into a Bush/neocon Dictatorship of the Rich police state?

Of course, this is just a question, a hypothetical, but WHAT WOULD WE ACTUALLY DO AS AMERICANS IF SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPENED?

For the moment, let's pass over the "first" 9/ll and the general sense that the American populace overwhelmingly believes in the polls that only barnyard animals buy the Bush/neocon party line about that infamy.

It's also common knowledge that our ports, atomic facilities, and airlines, etc., etc., etc., are under funded to the limit (hey, that's tax break money for the vampire elites), so when it comes to non existent catastrophe protection, this scenario is tragically plausible.

And there's also this "loose end" business of just what is the relationship between George W. Bush and Osama bin laden? Osama certainly came to George's defense with his timely photo op at the end of the 2004 presidential election and all of his family members were mysteriously whisked out of the country (with our tax money) immediately after 9/11. Sometimes it seems like these two men (and families) are joined at the hip, so this deeply worrisome relationship also intimately factors into this possible scenario.

Again, the question is what would we do? Would we bend over again and take it in the you know what, as the Democratic Congress has raised to an art form? Surly the average American would not take her or his cue from the Bush boot licking dem/pug Congress.

And what about those literally millions of Americans who already believe the first 9/11 was in some way an inside job? Would they still let Dick Cheney move them around like chess pieces on his chess board from hell?

Let's try a microcosm version of this. If your house had been robbed in a city where untrustworthy "elected representatives" left you spinning in the wind, it's one thing to say that you would allow that crime to happen once. After all, it's not clear what you could do since there was a probable alliance between the criminals and the alleged representatives, so chances are you would "play the game" and not rock the corrupt city government boat.

But it's quite another thing to say you would remain obediently passive after a similar crime (possibly worse!), which far from being solved, was used to rationalize a total transformation of your city into an organized crime government, with canceled elections, martial law, etc.

One last time, here's the question: IF another 9/11 happens, and IF most Americans believe it was an "inside job", THEN what will happen?

This may well be the most important question in the 21st Century -- not only for our country, but also for the world.
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W. Christopher Epler (Bill)

<http://theliberationofrealism.blogspot.com/>

[fenriswolf]

1. with the shit the have to deflect from the last one

and the cries for another investigation do you think they would have the audacity to think they could get away with it scott free?

[Demeter]

2. That Sort of Trick Only Works Once

otherwise, it would have happened already! Not that they didn't float balloons repeatedly, but it didn't play in Peoria or anywhere else, for that matter.

Nope. Karl the One-Trick pony is played out. Thank the gods and the Internet and the remaining intelligent people in this world.

[wcepler]

6. under the radar

Thanks for the reassurance. I think you're probably right, but these psychos a capable of anything, especially if they think they're getting cornered -- which they are. Much Bush dismantling is happening under the radar. 2008 and beyond should be an abyss for these monsters.

[PDJane]

3. Truthfully, I don't know if that would ever happen.

Americans seem to be quite practiced at not seeing what their government actually does in the world.

"The difference between what U.S. citizens think their rulers are doing in the world and what these rulers actually are doing is one of the great propaganda achievements of history."
Michael Parenti

[L0oniX]

4. Since Bush still has bases in Islamic countries, it will be his fault...

as well as all the others who are in favor of having US military bases in those countries. We need to get out so they don't have a reason to attack us. It's not our freedoms and democracy that piss them off, that's just another lie. They won't be able to recruit so easy if we aren't there. Pull out all our bases all over the world. Let them defend their own fucking countries for a change. We need the money and resources for our nation.

[tom_paine]

5. God, I hate to say this, but nothing, Bill, nothing will happen at all.

As evidence of this I quote from a book describing the people most like our own Imperial Subjcets of Amerika currently, the 1930s Germans.

http://www.amazon.com/Defying-Hitler-Memoir-Sebastian-Haffner/dp/0312421133/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197208607&sr=8-2

The plight of the non-Nazi Germans (the non-Bushie Americans) was certainly one of the most difficult a person can find himself in: a condition in which one is hopelessly, utterly overwhelmed accompanied by the shock of having been caught completely off-balance.

Much more commonly, however, people adapt to living with clenched teeth, in a manner of speaking. Unfortunately, they form the majority of the representatives of a "visible" opposition in Germany.

I hope I am wrong. Six-thousand years of recorded human history plus the psychology that has been revealed in the last century argue quite forcefully that I am right.

This does not mean giving up, quite the contrary. What the 1943 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto did was made more remarkable by the hopelessness oftheir situation.

But you asked, and I reply...we Imperial Amerikan Subjects, but for a few notable exceptions, will learn to clench our teeth a little tighter, afraid of losing what little we have.

I hope and pray I am wrong, but I know there is a 95%+ chance I am right.