bigkidpants
09-09-2004, 09:03 PM
quite possibly the most important effort in the history of democracy. the whole article is well worth reading. here's a clip:
The 9/11 Truth Movement (http://www.guerrillanews.com/intelligence/doc5233.html)
Sander Hicks, September 9, 2004
Dubbed “The Omission Hearings,” today’s panel was hosted by former Congresswoman and fulltime rebel rouser Cynthia McKinney. McKinney opened by saying, “I’m finally on a commission where it’s alright to ask questions.” She added, “We have no political ideology but the truth. The truth about America’s tragedy belongs to all of us.”
Today’s panel also included John Judge, co-founder of 9/11 Citizens Watch and chief author of the coming "9/11 Omissions Report,” a detailed counter-narrative to the best-selling official 9/11 Commission report. As Judge explained, the official report was more than just a cover-up, it was an “exoneration” - each chapter draft was sent to the White House to be vetted before it was set to print. There are no redacted passages in the final report, he said, because it had, in a sense, been pre-redacted. Judge told the audience of about 300 that the report could be considered to be at least partially written by the very people it was investigating.
When GNN asked me to report on the "9/11 Truth Movement," I shuddered. How can one attempt to describe this fractious, nation-wide phenomenon of disparate researchers and activists, spread far and wide, but tied umbillically on the web? This amorphous network of folks has only recently become known as "The 9/11 Truth Movement" and even that general term is sort of a stretch. The "movement" has displayed a tendency to stop its work, fragment into sharp sects and bitter rivalries. Can loner net junkies unify into truth warriors and turn the tide of history?
At its worst moments, the 9/11 Truth Movement gives one insight why the term "conspiracy theorist" came to be shorthand for "discredited whacko" in the invisible guidebook of mainstream media. Suddenly, it’s not hard to understand why the obvious anomalies in the JFK assassination never received proper attention in accepted media channels. If you have just as many nutty theories about the driver of the limo turning around and shooting JFK as you have honest scientific inquiries about the real probability of multiple shooters, the wheat drowns in the chaff.
"The liberal fringe and most of the black community have no problem believing that Bush could have had something to do with 9/11. To them, it is just another bi-product of the corrupt, white male machine that has conspired to oppress for hundreds of years."
"I know that Bush and his cronies are liars. I know that they use a far right religious ideology to justify their amoral actions. I'm just not quite ready to say that they had a hand in killing 3000 innocent people."
Just you wait, Evan. Once this 9/11 Truth Movement works out a few kinks, it's going to be unstoppable. The Truth is the force that has the most genuine revolutionary potential.
The 9/11 Truth Movement (http://www.guerrillanews.com/intelligence/doc5233.html)
Sander Hicks, September 9, 2004
Dubbed “The Omission Hearings,” today’s panel was hosted by former Congresswoman and fulltime rebel rouser Cynthia McKinney. McKinney opened by saying, “I’m finally on a commission where it’s alright to ask questions.” She added, “We have no political ideology but the truth. The truth about America’s tragedy belongs to all of us.”
Today’s panel also included John Judge, co-founder of 9/11 Citizens Watch and chief author of the coming "9/11 Omissions Report,” a detailed counter-narrative to the best-selling official 9/11 Commission report. As Judge explained, the official report was more than just a cover-up, it was an “exoneration” - each chapter draft was sent to the White House to be vetted before it was set to print. There are no redacted passages in the final report, he said, because it had, in a sense, been pre-redacted. Judge told the audience of about 300 that the report could be considered to be at least partially written by the very people it was investigating.
When GNN asked me to report on the "9/11 Truth Movement," I shuddered. How can one attempt to describe this fractious, nation-wide phenomenon of disparate researchers and activists, spread far and wide, but tied umbillically on the web? This amorphous network of folks has only recently become known as "The 9/11 Truth Movement" and even that general term is sort of a stretch. The "movement" has displayed a tendency to stop its work, fragment into sharp sects and bitter rivalries. Can loner net junkies unify into truth warriors and turn the tide of history?
At its worst moments, the 9/11 Truth Movement gives one insight why the term "conspiracy theorist" came to be shorthand for "discredited whacko" in the invisible guidebook of mainstream media. Suddenly, it’s not hard to understand why the obvious anomalies in the JFK assassination never received proper attention in accepted media channels. If you have just as many nutty theories about the driver of the limo turning around and shooting JFK as you have honest scientific inquiries about the real probability of multiple shooters, the wheat drowns in the chaff.
"The liberal fringe and most of the black community have no problem believing that Bush could have had something to do with 9/11. To them, it is just another bi-product of the corrupt, white male machine that has conspired to oppress for hundreds of years."
"I know that Bush and his cronies are liars. I know that they use a far right religious ideology to justify their amoral actions. I'm just not quite ready to say that they had a hand in killing 3000 innocent people."
Just you wait, Evan. Once this 9/11 Truth Movement works out a few kinks, it's going to be unstoppable. The Truth is the force that has the most genuine revolutionary potential.