Note to Readers: Clocker Bob deleted all his earlier posts to this thread, from page one through page 22. In their place are excerpts from the book 9/11: Synthetic Terror, by Webster Tarpley. For further explanation please refer to this post from page 23.

I: THE MYTH OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far
less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened
in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia, she
startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was
not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London
were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, “just
to keep the people frightened.” Orwell, 1984, 127.

With the publication of the Report of the Commission to Investigate Terrorist Attacks
upon the United States (also known as the Kean-Hamilton Commission after its chairman
and vice-chairman), the pattern of coverup and incompetence on the part of the officially
constituted investigative agencies of the United States Government is complete. Since
September 11, 2001, no part of the United States Government has offered a convincing,
coherent, complete explanation of the events of that day, and of other events related to
them. Indeed, no US government agency has ever so much as proposed to prove the truth
of the official account, even in the way that the Warren Commission attempted to
demonstrate the veracity of its version of the Kennedy assassination.

The Kean-Hamilton Commission called no hostile witnesses, no skeptics, no devil’s
advocates. It ignored a growing number of book-length studies which have appeared in
English, French, German, and other languages around the world. It never invited to its
plenum FBI whistle-blowers like Colleen Rowley (who shared Time Magazine’s Person
of the Year honors at the end of 2002), nor did it call FBI agent Kenneth Williams, the
author of the famous Phoenix memo, to testify in its plenary meetings. The Commission
was, by contrast, happy to invite the obsessive anti-Iraq ideologue Laurie Mylroie, a
fanatic so notorious that she is dismissed with contempt as “totally discredited” even by
Richard Clarke in his book, Against All Enemies. (Clarke 232) As we will show at
various points in this study, the Kean-Hamilton Commission represents a cynical and
meticulously orchestrated exercise in coverup and obfuscation. The net overall result of
the Kean-Hamilton Commission has been to obscure even those few relevant facts which
had become well established in the mainstream media prior to its inception.

Before the Kean-Hamilton Commission, the chronology of events regarding the interplay
among the Federal Aeronautics Administration (FAA), the North American Aerospace
Defense Command (NORAD), and other government agencies had been fairly well
established by the 9/11 truth movement. The deliberately doctored chronologies offered
by the Kean-Hamilton staff have turned that clear picture into chaos. Before the Kean-
Hamilton operation went to work, there was an important debate about whether phone
calls received at the White House on the morning of September 11 had indicated that
unauthorized persons were in possession of top-secret US government code words. The
Kean-Hamilton Commission has now assured us that this crucial incident in effect never
happened. Before Kean-Hamilton, Congressional Committees and the National Institute
of Standards and Technology had been forced to grapple in public with the blatant
anomalies of three modern steel skyscrapers collapsing on the same day as the result of
fire – something that has happened on no other day of world history. For the Kean-
Hamilton Commission, this problem simply does not exist – it has disappeared from the
official narrative. No account has been taken of critical or skeptical commentaries, even
when these have been the centerpieces of books which have reached the top of the bestseller
charts in important countries like France, Germany, Italy, and elsewhere, or have
been telecast in prime time in these same places. The demands of the bereaved families of
9/11 have been ignored – even though it was because of the persistent lobbying of these
families that the Kean-Hamilton Commission ever came into being in the first place. A
cruel hoax has been practiced on these families, and those who thought that an attempt to
cooperate in good faith with the Kean-Hamilton Commission to guide it toward the truth
have received a bitter disappointment. The Kean-Hamilton Commission in short has
shown no decent respect for the opinions of mankind, and has submitted no important
facts to a candid world.

A friend of mine in DC got his degree in structural engineering, and he said that the way the towers collapsed (all of them) is totally consistent with physics and metallugry and whatnot. He has no reason to say that unless it's true, because he's not Mr. Pro-America or Mr. Anti-Conspiracy or anything. He's smoked more weed than a hippie, and he hates pretty much everything.

I personally don't know what to believe. I'm open to a number of possibilities I guess.

The Kean-Hamilton Commission has turned out to be nothing more than a colossal
exercise in begging the question. Everything that was controversial, everything that was
dubious in the eyes of billions around the world has been simply assumed to be true and
posited as the starting point for the entire inquiry. As a fallacy this has been around since
the medieval schoolmen, who called it petitio principii. In the hands of the Kean-
Hamilton Commission, begging the question is meant to work as an arrogant,
bureaucratic act of superior power. Believe this, said the Inquisition, or be damned.
Believe this, says the Kean-Hamilton Commission, or be vilified as a paranoid obsessed
with conspiracies. Thus, when the 9/11 commission was created, it formed nine
investigative teams. The first of these was entitled: “Al Qaeda and the Organization of
the 9/11 Attack.” That is a clear case of rush to judgment and jumping to conclusions,
since such a finding should be the end result of an inquiry, and not its starting point.
For the Kean-Hamilton Commission is not a contribution to scholarly debate. It is just as
much a part of the US government’s assault on the world as an F-16 bombing Fallujah.
For the Kean-Hamilton Commission is an act of ideological terrorism worthy of Senator
Joe McCarthy. Behind it stands the taboo proclaimed by the figurehead of the regime:

We must speak the truth about terror. Let us never tolerate outrageous
conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th,
malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists
themselves, away from the guilty. (UN General Assembly, November 10,
2001)

It is a point of view at variance with the best moments in American history, as we intend
to show. But no amount of bureaucratic arrogance has been able to paper over the
manifold absurdities, the contradictions, the impossibilities, the outrageous flaws that
infest the official version of the 9/11 events. The Kean-Hamilton Commission simply has
no answer for questions about how the alleged hijackers were identified, how they were
able to operate, why WTC Building 7 collapsed, why air defense was non-existent, what
hit the Pentagon, what happened over Shanksville, what happened to the insider trading,
and many more. For any serious, intelligent person – and there are many – the Kean-
Hamilton pastiche can only be rejected.

The failure of the Kean-Hamilton Commission leaves the world with the imbecilic myth:

The four airliners were hijacked by nineteen Arabs, from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and
Kuwait. Their squad leaders were Atta, Shehhi, Hanjour, and Jarrah. Their “mastermind”
was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Their rear echelon was Ramzi Binalshib. Their guru was
Osama Bin Laden, the terrorist pope who lives in a cave. From his distant grotto in the
mountains of Afghanistan, Osama Bin Laden, the diabolical genius of the twenty-first
century, directed the worldwide network that attacked the United States.

after watching 10 seconds of it i already want tio puke. so explosives were used cause a lot of people said "explosion" when the tower started to collapse. yeaaaah. wathcing this on tv, it took me good 15 secodns to realize the tower is gone, and i can see sky in the place where it used to be.


edit: after 20 seconds "it looked exactly like controlled demolition". the collapse of both towers looked nothing like controlled demolition, but yeah even the guy on tv said so, it has to be at least partly true.

My friend has this crazy theory as to what brought the towers down. Here it goes: so according to him, some nutjobs hi-jacked some "airplanes" and flew these "airplanes" into the WTC. I mean, yeah maybe he smokes too much dope, but sometimes I start to think "whoah, what IF???"

That's some pretty interesting stuff. I think that anybody who wants to say anything about what was or was not the cause of the collapse of those 3 buildings should watch the video for sure.

My gripe with it is that whoever made the video did one thing very wrong... they started off with a lot of eyewitness accounts, and those are nearly worthless. People saying they heard a large explosion, that carries no weight for me. Something that makes me feel this way is my recollection of watching the news coverage live on sep 11th. They were reporting that there were 5 hijacked planes, and that one of the planes was a 747. I distinctly remember this, how over the course of those hours the stories changed. So news reports from that day don't carry much weight for me. And much of the eyewitness testimony is from people who probably don't know jack shit about the difference in sound between an explosion due to planted explosives and an explosion due to something blowing up because it was on fire.

So I think what they've done is shoot themselves in the foot a little by starting off with the weakest part of what they have to share.

The footage of the guy who was leasing the buildings talking about how they made the decision to "pull" WTC 7 is very damning, and a really fucked-up mistake for him to have made.

I haven't read the 911 commission report, but if they really did come to the conclusion that there was no way they could explain the collapse of WTC 7, that is seriously fucked up and definitely noteworthy. DEFINITELY.

The graphic that they put up, something like a few hundred thousand spent on investigating the 911 attacks versus (was it tens or hundreds?) of millions of dollars spent investigating Clinton for impeachment, that is interesting to say the least. Which one is more relevant to the world? It's kinda obvious.

The fact that all 3 buildings basically collapsed in a free-fall, that is certainly compelling and doesn't really make any sense if you think about it.

If it's true that the steel infrastructure somehow managed to break into roughly 30-foot segments upon collapse, that is kinda sketchy sounding to me as well.

And the fact that all of the evidence in this massive crimescene was absconded quickly off to asia for disposal, that is seriously fucked up. They did well to point out what lengths were gone to in the reconstruction of TWA flight 800, something much less relevant to the US and the world.

I found the ideas put forth by all 3 of the speakers in the second half of it to be very interesting stuff. Very thought-provoking.

It was really creepy how the last guy, right near the end, was stroking the podium with both hands like he was humping it.

I would recommend that everybody watch it, for sure, but maybe let it download and then start watching it about 15 minutes in, maybe even 20 minutes, cause the stuff at the beginning is really weak compared to the second half or two thirds.

Surprising that they didn't delve into the Pentagon while they were at it.

Thanks for posting this, Clocker Bob.

emmanuelle cunt wrote:edit: after 20 seconds "it looked exactly like controlled demolition". the collapse of both towers looked nothing like controlled demolition, but yeah even the guy on tv said so, it has to be at least partly true.

Skip ahead to about the 20 minute mark and watch from there.

And on what basis do you say that it looked nothing like controlled demolition? I'm no expert, not even a novice, so I'm just interested to hear what you have to say about it.

Hey Clocker Bob, I'm guessing you already know about this, but... I posted about this on another forum, and the resident psychopath/stalker/seriously-scary-guy posted a link to this... a photograph that is put forth as evidence that thermite was used to cut the support beams...

http://rense.com/general70/pphe.htm

And from a link on that same site, a video that is purported evidence of the use of thermite in bringing the towers down.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... net%2B9/11

That video is better with the sound off. When the tower falls and people start freaking out, it's kinda rough to listen to.

THE SEPTEMBER CRIMINALS ARE STILL AT LARGE

At a deeper level, closer to the heart of the matter, the Kean-Hamilton has failed to indict
the real September criminals. It leaves untouched the network of moles in the US
government without whose efforts, both in preparation and in coverup, the events of 9/11
could never have happened. It has not identified the clandestine command center which
directed the operation. It has taken not one step towards locating the technocrats of death
who actually had the physical and technical capability to make these events happen, in
contrast to the supermarket-caliber terrorists who are supposed to have caused them. All
of these networks remain in place, and remain anxious to avoid detection. The September
criminals and their project, the clash of civilizations in the form of a new Thirty Years
War, remain at large, their desperation magnified, but their power undiminished. Think of
this when you hear the strident clatter of the Bush regime as it warns the public that a
new wave of terror attacks, quite possibly using weapons of mass destruction of the
atomic, bacteriological and chemical varieties, is inevitable before the November 2004
elections. The government has failed us, and the Kean-Hamilton Commission has failed
us, before, during and after 9/11. The September criminals remain in place, with every
intention of striking again, then to take cover behind the shield of martial law.

We are opposed to terrorism. We seek to prevent a new wave of terrorism. We want to
identify the September criminals and bring them to justice, because no one has laid a
glove on them so far. We have no illusions about the psychotic Arab patsies whose antics
are being used to cover up what was in reality a coup d’etat made in the USA, a coup
d’etat not against Bush but in favor of a specific policy, that of the clash of civilizations.
We condemn terrorism because terrorism is the means used by oligarchs to wage secret
war against the people. But the terrorism we fight is the real terrorism of the real world,
not the idiotic distortions dished up by the regime and the media.

The official 9/11 account has by now taken on all the characteristics of a myth. In the
minds of many, credulousness in regard to the myth has taken on the overtones of
religious sanctity. It has taken root deeply in the dark places of the American mind. The
myth is a sensitive subject, hedged round with powerful reaction formations and fearful
taboos. Challenge these and the subject will often respond with irrational anger and
indignation. Nevertheless, the fact remains: the official version has never been proved. It
is an unproven assertion, and in the end a myth. Attempts to base an entire world order on
unproven assertions and lies did not fare well in the twentieth century: the war guilt
clause of the Versailles Treaty of 1919, which assigned exclusive responsibility for the
war to Germany and her allies, while completely exonerating the Allies, was intended as
a means to extort some 55 billion gold dollars in reparations. But it turned out to be the
key to Hitler’s successful demagogy, and generally one of the main causes for fascism,
Nazism, and World War II. Let us not build our political house on unproven assertions.
Indeed, we should recall that it was the Nazis themselves who avidly embraced myth as
the basis for politics: the official chief ideologist of the Nazi movement was Alfred
Rosenberg, and his famous work was The Myth of the Twentieth Century. The story of
Osama in the distant cave is already the myth of the twenty-first century.

Because of the events of 9/11, the regime proclaims, the world as we knew it has
disappeared. We are confronted with a new world of preventive and pre-emptive war, of
first use of nuclear weapons, of unilateral aggression, of barbarian racism and hatred, of
the glorification of violence and killing, of force and the threat of force. Yet before we go
willingly into this monstrous new world, it is our right to demand that the events of 9/11
– precisely because they are said to have caused all this – be more thoroughly examined.
Before we accept the neocon death warrant for civilization, culture, and every human
value, we demand the right of an appeal to the court of reason.

That project will be undertaken in this book. We will draw on the extensive research
completed by the 9/11 truth movement during the time since that catastrophic day.
Specific indebtedness and especially meritorious works will be acknowledged in the text,
or in the footnotes. Participants in the 9/11 truth movement have almost always been
private citizens, more or less isolated, more or less bereft of means, but nevertheless
determined to seek the truth. The researchers, writers, scientists, historians, websites, and
activists of the 9/11 truth movement have upheld the values of universal intellect – la
république des lettres – as these were spurned by the mass media, the US government,
and most academics. They have produced what can now be seen as a coherent body of
work which is readily accessible to anyone who wants to learn. This field is no more free
from aberrant theories, petty squabbles, and crank positions than any other, and not
everything can be taken for pure gold, but the difference between this honest research and
the corrupt, controlled corporate media and official pronouncements is as day and night.
The 9/11 truth movement is a work in progress which has already accomplished much,
and which now awaits wider discussion and the further refinement which that greater
exposure will undoubtedly bring.

We urge you to grapple with the issues presented in this book. This is important because
of the imminent threat of new terrorist attacks, organized in large part by the original
September criminals. It is important also because this is a time of aggravated world
economic, political, and strategic crisis, wars, depression, and breakdown crisis, as we
will have occasion briefly to show as part of our explanation of why the 9/11 attacks
happened. We must also be aware of the underlying long waves of American history. As
we will outline towards the end of this book, the 2004 election has completed a fateful
cycle of that history – the pattern of party re-alignment which has recurred every 36 or so
years since the ratification of the federal Constitution, taking place in 1828, 1860, 1896,
1932, and 1968. We are due for a profound shakeup in the party structure and the basic
pattern of political life in this country. The reason for sending this book into the world is
this: if the 9/11 myth can be dismantled, discredited, and denounced before the masses,
there is hope that the party re-alignment may unfold in a progressive direction, perhaps
with the collapse of the Republican Party, perhaps with the split of the Democratic Party
into factions representing roughly the views of Senator Lieberman and those of Senator
Kennedy. Under these conditions, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan can be terminated,
and new aggressions warded off. The neocons can be brought to justice. International
monetary reform, world reconstruction and economic development, vast projects of
infrastructure can be addressed. But if the 9/11 myth is allowed to stand intact as the
basis for US national life, the current regime, and the Republican and Democratic Parties,
then there is every reason to fear that the likely party re-alignment will represent the
transition to fascism in some form whose outlines we can already see.