Robert Scheer: A 9/11 Reality Check

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from Truthdig:



A 9/11 Reality Check

Posted on Sep 8, 2009
By Robert Scheer


What if eight years ago the World Trade Center had been leveled by a small nuclear bomb that took out most of lower Manhattan as well? How many millions of innocent civilians would we have killed in retaliation? Would we still be a free society, or would Dick Cheney have attained the power of a demented king, having moved on from snooping on our phone calls and outing honest CIA agents to destroying the last vestiges of the rule of law?

As assaults on a society go, the 9/11 attacks, which left 3,000 dead and are sure to be described in this anniversary week as being among the greatest of historical outrages, were something less than that, given the world’s experience with the ravages of war. The countless Russians and the 6 million Jews killed by those so finely educated Germans come to mind. The 3.4 million Vietnamese, mostly rice farmers, whom Robert McNamara admitted to having helped kill with his carpet-bombing of their country, are a forgotten footnote. Yet we who have never experienced such carnage on our home front all too easily poke out tens of thousands of eyes for each lost one of our own.

Surely two planes crashing into office buildings and another hitting the Pentagon doesn’t compare to the leveling of every major city in Japan with conventional bombing, capped off by the mass murder of hundreds of thousands more at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Speaking of eyes lost, mark the words of Hiroshima’s mayor two years ago: “That fateful summer, 8:15 AM. The roar of a B-29 breaks the morning calm. A parachute opens in the blue sky. Then suddenly, a flash, an enormous blast—silence—hell on Earth. The eyes of young girls watching the parachute were melted.”

We assumed that the Japanese people would readily forgive us and, having been raised in the spirit of total obedience to their emperor, they accommodated our occupation quite well, even injecting industrial-grade silicon into their women’s breasts to satisfy the erotic appetites of our soldiers. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090908_a_9_11_reality_check/

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1. 9/11 was an inside job

scheer's vapid complaint is moot
first comment after his timid admonition:

By Dr. Ed Kendrick, September 9 at 8:49 am #


If the official myth is to be believed, it wasn’t atomic blast, it was two planes
that hit the Twin Towers and they “collapsed upon themselves” so fast (10-14
seconds) that defies physics—conservation of momentum—and turned the
concrete to dust, not pancakes. Not only that, but a THIRD building was
demolished just like a Las Vegas hotel demolition.

Robert Sheer, to write about such a ‘what if’ as an atomic blast is to distract
from what we know. Scientific proof published on the Bentham Physics
Chemistry journal is that nanothermite was one exotic explosive—irrefutably
identified in dust samples from ground zero by 10 American and European
scientists.

FEMA’s Appendix C entitled “Limited Metallurgical Examination” identifies
molten iron and rapidly melted structural steel that experienced “rapid
oxidation and sulfidation”, yet the FEMA report does not draw a conclusion as
to causality. This new Bentham aluminothermics scientific paper DOES EXPLAIN
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO THE MASSIVE STRUCTURES: they were
intentionally finished off with explosives.

Debate me on the facts—stop calling the 9/11 truth movement “stupid”.
These are the most patriotic of patriots since the American Revolution—and
mainstream media (as in “Truth"dig, AlterNet, MSNBC, CNN, BBC WND and so
on are CONTROLLED to avoid like opening Pandora’s box the real science of
what happened on 9/11.

George Orwell predicted such a world as we now experience with mainstream
media “news” manufactured to stampede and corral the human herd. Who own
and control the “news”? The answer to this leads to the answer to who have
conspired to commit and coverup 9/11.

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2. http://whodidit.org/cocon.html & http://911missinglinks.com

A coup has occurred in America. Who did it?

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4878.shtml

http://dprogram.net/2009/08/27/israels-super-thermite-lab/

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3. Are elephants afraid of mice?

Or do they just want their cheese?

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5. ACtually.. yes they are

Mythbusters actually tested this, and elephants ARE afraid of mice, as strange as it sounds.

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4. If the scenario Scheer described ever did happen, it wouldn't take a Cheney to put this

nation in mortal peril. The PTB would slap martial law on the U.S. so fast it would be like getting run over by an 18-wheeler you never saw coming.

On the morning those planes hit the towers I was talking with friends who were totally astonished and who were asking "Why would someone do that?" At that instant, the vision that jumped into my mind was based on a comment I heard from a U.S. sailor who served on a battleship off the coast of Lebanon after the Marine Barracks in Beirut was truck-bombed. The sailor told me with great pride that whenever our allies' patrols took fire, the battleship" would hurl bombs as big as a Chevrolet onto the villages in the mountains" nearby where the firing came from. "They never knew what hit 'um" he said. This was his idea of the U.S. doing the right thing.

After that momentary remembrance passed, I just looked at my friends and said "I'm wondering why it's taken them so long to do it."

When OUR security and OUR comfort demand the sacrifices of millions of innocents the world over, the high-sounding reasons for those sacrifices are hollow. But worse, they demand that the Universe visit upon us the balancing of the equation we have conjured.

It is our individual and collective obligation to do all we can to ensure that no more innocents are slaughtered for the survival of the empire.