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The return of the black helicopters
By Alex Beam Globe Columnist / June 30, 2008
My friend, the critic Katherine Powers, has spotted an interesting theme in books flowing across her desk for review - paranoia. Coming this fall: John Demos's "The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-hunting in the Western World." Demos is a Bancroft award-winning historian emeritus at the World's Second Greatest University (Yale), who once wrote a Wall Street Journal commentary suggesting that it might be time to pardon America's 17th-century witches. So soon?
Then arrives "Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11," by University of California history professor Kathryn Olmsted. Hot on its heels comes "Paranoia: The 21st Century Fear," by brothers Daniel and Jason Freeman. The Freemans published a self-help book in Britain called "Overcoming Paranoid & Suspicious Thoughts: A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques."
As part of their research, the Freemans circulated a "Paranoid Thoughts Questionnaire" to 1,200 people, inquiring how often they felt that "People are laughing at me," or if they "suspect that someone has it in for me." That's easy! All the time. They concluded that "about a third of the population are regularly bothered by suspicious or paranoid thoughts." ...
... What are the great conspiracy theories of our time? Sept. 11 spawned a host of paranoid illusions, numerous enough to fill up the next edition of the psychiatrists' diagnostic manual. I see that the lunatic website 911truth.org, formerly ground zero for the most noxious "George Bush blew up the World Trade Center" myths, has moved on to new concerns. Among other things, they worry that the Bush administration plans to attack Iran before leaving office. I do, to. ...
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THE 4TH OF JULY
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died.
Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured.
Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.
They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
What kind of men were they?
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated, but they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly.
He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.
At the battle of Yorktown , Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.
John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. Some of us take these liberties so much for granted, but we shouldn't.
So, take a few minutes while enjoying your 4th of July holiday and
silently thank these patriots. It's not much to ask for the price they paid.
Alex Beam is a Globe columnist. His e-dress is beam@globe.com.
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The following is a letter I have sent to Alex Beam in response to this article "The Return of the Black Helicopters" in which he characterizes www.911Truth.Org as "the lunatic website". - Chris Gruener
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 10:42 PM
To: beam@globe.com
Subject: Re your article "The Return of the Black Helicopters"
Hello Alex. I trust you will be able to put a face to my name by recollecting the days when our boys played on the same Newton soccer team. However, I am writing to you today in my capacity as the Secretary for the Boston 911 Truth Committee (www.Boston911Truth.Org ) . In particular, I would like to respond to your 7/1/08 Boston Globe article titled "The Return of the Black Helicopters".
I read with concern your characterization of one of our affiliated groups, 911Truth.Org, as "the lunatic website". What exactly do you mean by this term? Also I am not aware of an article published on that website which states categorically that "George Bush blew up the World Trade Center". If you could reference that particular article for me I would be very grateful.
As you may be aware, numerous significant questions remain unanswered in the aftermath of 9/11/01. These questions are being asked by family members of those who were murdered in the attacks as well as by hundreds of credentialed research scientists, structural engineers, architects, military officers and others. Since the events of that day were used for the justification of the attacks upon Iraq and Afghanistan and will in turn be used to legitimize the attack upon Iran, which is implicitly threatened now, don't we owe it to those who have lost their lives so far and those who may soon sacrifice their lives in these wars to address these unanswered questions?
You make reference to paranoid thinking throughout your article. As a mental health professional it is my understanding that characteristics of "paranoid thinking" include a tendency to refuse reasoned, respectful debate in preference for name calling, character assassination and the wholesale dismissal of the concerns of people with whom the paranoid thinker does not agree. While I know that this is not your personal style, or the real attitude of your heart, I fear the causal reader of "The Return of the Black Helicopters" could easily conclude otherwise.
You will note below, an article I wrote to explain my own reluctant transformation from a believer of the official 9/11/01 myth into a dedicated 911 Truth Activist. Would you be willing to invest significant time to review some or all of the materials linked there? My article is then followed by a 911 Truth Resource Page. This page is something we send out to everyone who inquires about the concerns of our organization. If you you find in your exploration of these materials evidence of "lunatic" accusations or genuinely paranoid thinking, I will be extremely appreciative of your specific feedback and will follow up with removing those materials from our resource guide.
Thank you very much for taking the time to give careful consideration to my concerns, Alex. I look forward to running into you on the soccer field in the coming school year.
Sincerely,
Christopher Gruener
Secretary for the Boston 911 Truth Committee
Clinical Member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
Massachusetts Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (Lic. #646)
Massachusetts Licensed Mental Health Counselor (Lic. #1286)
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How I Became A 9/11/01 "Conspiracy Nutcase"
I am writing this article in my capacity as the secretary for the Boston 911 Truth Committee. However, I am also writing with my professional role as a licensed psychotherapist in mind. In that latter role I have served as an in-patient family therapist for drug addicted youth with the Phoenix House Foundation, an outpatient therapist for patients transitioning back into our community from nearby Bournewood Psychiatric Hospital and, for the past 15 years, as a private practice clinician at my office in Newton Massachusetts. It is both from this professional perspective, and from the point of view of being a belated "convert" to the 911 Truth Movement as well, that I have contemplated, with interest and concern, the tendency of many media spokespeople to characterize 911 Truth Activists as "Conspiracy Nutcases" who merely seek to confirm their preconceived paranoid conclusions.
Not long after 9/11/01 one of my therapy clients came to me nearly in tears saying that she had discovered the attacks of that day were, in her words, "an inside job". Naturally, I assumed my client was suffering from delusional paranoid thinking. I attempted to calm her down and to reassure her that her fears couldn't possibly be true. By 9/11/03, however, I was apologizing to this client for my ill informed and presumptuous response to her concerns. And by 9/11/04, I was actively participating in the development of the 911 Truth Movement.
As a family therapist I have seen first-hand how powerful is the tendency toward denial when a client must come to terms with the reality that an emotionally or physically abusive parent has betrayed their trust through verbal abuse or physical assault. It hurts, and it is terrifying to confront such betrayal. But the walk along the winding path of emotional healing, which can potentially lead to forgiveness and reconciliation, can not begin until that pain is faced and the attendant anger, fear and sadness fully felt.
Our highest government servants are to all of us Americans, in an unconscious fashion, much like national "parent figures". We look to them to keep us safe and provide for our collective needs, similar to the way a child looks to her or his parents to provide safety and support. So from a psychotherapy perspective, it is not at all surprising that any American would find it difficult to face and confront the possibility of acts of national betrayal and murderous treason by our leaders. For me, the evolving realization that we may have been betrayed by those entrusted with responsibility for our protection was a slow and frightening process - the exact opposite of a leap to preconceived ideas I yearned to prove true.
Unlike the eager conspiracy theorists imagined by some in the press, my slowly evolving realizations - that the formal 911 Commission Report was essentially false at its worst and deliberately misleading at its best - did not at all confirm the world view I wished to uphold. Nonetheless, as the damning evidence of lies and distortions became increasingly clear and the scientific evidence mounted, I was eventually forced to confront the dark truth behind the attacks of that day. I believe this process of confronting a painful truth of national betrayal on 9/11/01- a truth that I initially denied - was for me very similar to the process my psychotherapy clients have gone through when addressing childhood wounds. I also believe our collective natural yearning to entrust our safety to our political leaders, and our understandable fear of being in opposition to these powerful parent figures, is a significant factor, though an essentially unconscious one, in our reluctance to confront our leaders and demand the Truth.
The truly paranoid mind tends to label and caricature people rather then enter into dialog and debate. It is interesting to note, then, the way in which writers in the popular press go about discounting the concerns of the 911 Truth Movement. I have observed that these writers generally "debunk" the 911 Truth Movement as a whole by attacking the more peripheral issues raised by the movement while avoiding dialog on - or the offering of concrete evidence as rebuttal to - the central issues raised by the movement's researchers. For example, Popular Mechanics published an article which attempts to debunk issues raised by the 911 Truth Movement. One can review this article in full via this link: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1227842.html . However, 911 Truth researchers challenge both the logic and veracity of many elements of both this Popular Mechanics article and the findings of the 9/11 Commission Report as well.
An articulate reply to the Popular Mechanics article, written by Jim Hoffman, can be found at http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/gopm/index.html and a more detailed analysis is available by reading Prof. David Ray Griffin's book "Debunking 911 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics" available at http://www.amazon.com/Debunking-11-Mechanics-Defenders-Conspiracy/dp/156656686X . Similarly, a concise critical analysis of the work of the 911 Commission is available at http://911research.wtc7.net/post911/commission/report.html and a more detailed analysis can be explored in "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions And Distortions", also by Prof. Griffin and available at http://www.amazon.com/11-Commission-Report-Omissions-Distortions/dp/1566565847 . But sadly this effort at dialogue and debate offered in good faith by the 911 Truth Movement is generally met with an unresponsive silence from the 911 Truth "debunkers". So who is it in this attempt to explore the truth of 9/11/01 that is functioning in an irrational or paranoid way?
Authentic dialog has at least two essential components. The first is making an effort to find common ground. Where do we have some degree of agreement that can serve as a jumping off point for exploring our points of disagreement? With this in mind, a careful review of Dr Steven Jones' paper, "Fourteen Points of Agreement with Official Government Reports on the World Trade Center Destruction" is in order. This paper was recently published in the respected "Open Civil Engineering Journal" and can be downloaded at http://www.bentham-open.org/pages/content.php?TOCIEJ/2008/00000002/00000001/35TOCIEJ.SGM . A second element of authentic dialog is a willingness to respond to reasonable questions raised by individuals who have an obvious personal stake in finding answers to their questions. With this in mind, I would encourage the reader to link to a list of questions raised by family members of those who were murdered on 9/11/01 via "The Family Steering Committee for the 9/11 Commission" at http://www.911independentcommission.org/questions.html . These question were not responded to by the commission. This You Tube brief video highlights some of the most significant among these questions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt2-E0VyLL0 .
I do understand that there is a great deal of both well intended misinformation and deliberate disinformation available on the internet with regards to the events of 9/11/01. I believe, however, that anyone wishing to more fully understand these events, and the concerns of the 911 Truth Movement that have arisen from these events, will find the resources listed below to be highly reliable. I invite those who are drawn to support the formal US government supported interpretation of the events 9/11/01 to explore these resources and to enter into dialogue about your perspective with me and others in the 911 Truth Movement.
Christopher Gruener
Secretary for the Boston 911 Truth Committee
Clinical Member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
Massachusetts Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (Lic. #646)
Massachusetts Licensed Mental Health Counselor (Lic. #1286)
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Alex Beam
Boston Globe
Dear Mr. Beam,
Similar to you and your friend, Katherine Powers, a friend of mine spotted your article, "The return of the black helicopters," with the theme that is so prevalent in the mainstream -- denial. Denial as a response to paranoia is not only sad, but dangerous. What do I mean by that?
Let me first clarify things by stating that my primary concern is your characterization of the website, 911Truth.org, as being "lunatic." Why do you say that? You never really explained.
"Sept. 11 spawned a host of paranoid illusions, numerous enough to fill up the next edition of the psychiatrists' diagnostic manual." -AB
Is there a river of paranoia running through the heart of this country? Absolutely. But you're diagnosis of its primary cause is misplaced. The paranoid illusions that were spawned on and after Sept. 11, 2001 lead directly to the White House, the Pentagon and their spin-masters, and not the the authors, filmmakers and webmasters who have since observed, contemplated and commented on the phenomena. The "Axis of Evil," the alleged "War on Terror," and the ridiculous notion that people living in the Middle East, the Near East, etc. hate and want to kill us because we have a democratic government based on liberty and freedom are all myths generated, and dare I say "fabricated," by a delusional, out-of-control executive with
the support of an impotent, ill-informed legislature and a lethargic press, all leading to pre-emptive war, the erosion of personal liberties and the gross manipulation of law to justify torture. And most people know it and are tired of it.
What was "lunacy" was the Bush administration's 14-month opposition and subsequent stonewalling of any investigation into 9/11, against the consensus of the public at-large and the victim families, in particular. Equally lunatic was the fabrication and manipulation of intelligence to justify the attack, invasion and occupation of Iraq. And now, the suggestion
of a pre-emptive attack on Iran is proving to be the height of lunacy, so much so that the military, itself, is calling the president and vice president to task.
We SHOULD be overly scared, aka paranoid.
Regarding the claims on websites like 9/11truth.org, there are scores of high-ranking military and intelligence professionals who dare to challenge the veracity of the conspiracy theory put forth by the Bush administration and its Commission concerning 9/11, along side millions of Americans who have doubts about what they've been told. I'm one of them and I take extreme
exception to being called a lunatic for questioning the 9/11 story. Not too long ago, someone claiming that child abuse was rampant among the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church could have easily been labeled "paranoid" or a "lunatic." Certainly, the perpetrators of those crimes and their superiors denied their culpability when first confronted. I guess the Globe writers
who eventually won a Pulitzer for uncovering the priest sex abuse scandalwere lunatics, as well -- until, that is, they proved themselves to beright.
Haven't we learned that what might be morally inconceivable is not necessarily unlikely? These issues are far too important to resort to name-calling, stereotyping and slander. Innocent people are dying in war --on both sides -- due to the paranoia imposed on us by our government;
paranoia which does, in my view, accurately equate to terrorizing us into submission to their ambitions for war.
So whether it's the story of 9/11, the justification for war and torture, or the loss of our freedoms, on the 4th of July, at least, please afford us the dignity to exercise our right to question the behavior of the people running our government without publicly trying to slander us.
Thank You.
Mark McKertich
Boston, Mass.
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4th of July Truth Action
Truth activists will be gathering at Boston’s 4th of July Celebration on the Esplanade this year to distribute new Patriots Question 9/11 postcards along with We Are Change info handouts. We have a total of 10,000 pieces of literature we want to distribute among the 500,000-plus people in attendance. We hope you can join us as in this huge distribution effort and for some celebration after the fireworks. More Details
It's Time To Take Back America! Come hear Dr. Bob Bowman
Date:
Monday June 30th
Time: 7-10 PM
Location:
Boston College, McGuinn Auditorium
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Lt Col, USAF, ret.; recipient of the President’s Medal of Veterans for Peace Reform Party candidate for President in 2000; Democratic candidate for the US Congress in 2006.
Dr. Bowman will propose a strategy for creating a government that:
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Let’s bring together the Anti-War Movement, the 9/11 Truth Movement, the Global Justice Movement and the Movement for Fiscal Responsibility, along with environmental groups, labor unions, churches, and civil rights groups to create a powerful and effective Peace and Justice Movement that will "Take Back America" for all of us!
Requested Donation: Tickets are $10 in support of the educational work of the Boston 911 Truth Committee. We will also be "passing the hat" to support the Patriot Tour of Dr Bob Bowman.
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Other Dates and Locations:
June 27, Northampton MA - 7 PM , Lyman Hall, First Churches, Main Street
June 28, Worcester, MA http://9-11.meetup.com/284/calendar/8179182/?a=mu_brp5m4yyis
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July 6, Brattleboro, VT - 3pm Sunday at the Marlboro Tech Center
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Arizona State Senator Karen Johnson Honors Blair Gadsby & Brings 9/11 Truth to the Arizona State Senate - June 10, 2008.
SENATOR KAREN JOHNSON'S 9/11 FLOOR SPEECH
ARIZONA STATE SENATE - JUNE 10, 2008
(http://azleg.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=7) Transcript below
SENATOR KAREN JOHNSON'S
9/11 FLOOR SPEECH
ARIZONA STATE SENATE - JUNE 10, 2008
MR. PRESIDENT – POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE.
INTRODUCTION OF GUESTS IN THE GALLERY … and then I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST THAT MY REMARKS OF MORE THAN 200 WORDS BE ENTERED INTO THE JOURNAL.
Members -- I would like to introduce a very special guest who has been joined today by several of his closest friends. Up in the gallery, we have many of the members of the Phoenix 9/11 Truth group – people who are asking for a new, independent investigation of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. In particular, I would like to introduce to you a VERY courageous man named Blair Gadsby. I'm going to ask the folks with Blair to help him to stand as I tell you a little about him. Blair is very weak because he has been fasting for more than two weeks to try to bring attention to the cause of 9/11 Truth. This is the 16th day that Blair has gone without food and spent his day outside the office of U.S. Senator John McCain pleading with the senator to take a look at new evidence in the 9/11 crimes. We have one man who is sacrificing his own personal needs and desires to stand boldly pleading for the world to take notice, to question, to research and not place their lives into the hands of media sound-bites, - to think for themselves, consciously and critically. Blair is an educator and to me this is what the great educators do. Thousands of people all over the country and actually around the world have been watching on the internet as this Hunger Strike progresses here in Phoenix. I want Blair to know that I am his biggest fan and that good people everywhere admire him for his courage and determine. Please give a warm welcome to Blair Gadsby and the Phoenix 9/11 Truth movement. (STOP)
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(FLOOR SPEECH) Last month, I started speaking publicly regarding my concerns about the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, which brought down the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, as well as Building 7. If you've watched the media coverage since I first began to speak out, you know how vicious and irrational it has been toward me. The media have worked hard to try to make it seem silly to even question the 9/11 Commission Report, even though some of its own authors have done so, including both of the Commission Co-Chairmen – Mr. Hamilton and Keane.
Actually, the 9/11 Commission Report represents just one theory – the theory that fire and the damage from the airplane impacts brought down the three buildings. This theory explains none of the features of the destruction that we all witnessed that day and which we can still observe on hundreds of videos. It explains nothing about how in four out of four cases, no hijacking code was transmitted by the hijacked airliners, and in four of four cases, no fighter jets managed to get alongside any of the hijacked airliners. The military officers who lied to Congress about their failure to protect America would have been referred for prosecution by some of the 9/11 Commissioners, but those Commissioners were told that they did not have that authority. The events of that day were a heinous crime against our nation and our citizens, and the sense of justice that exists in each one of us demands to know what really happened and how all the perpetrators will be caught and punished. The speculation and theorizing won't end until a thorough, transparent investigation, free of conflicts of interest, takes place.
Among the many theories that you can find on the Internet is one that rises above all the rest. It is rock-solid, confirmed by hard evidence, and supported by hundreds of scholars, architects, engineers and other professionals who have the education, training, and expertise to know what they're talking about. This is the theory that explosive demolitions brought down the Twin Towers and Building 7. I've placed a handout on each of your desks which has a photo of one of the towers as it begins to collapse. I'd like you to take a look at that photo, if you will. Notice in the picture that you see steel beams being flung outward from the building, and great huge clouds of dust that is actually pulverized concrete. A building that falls down, doesn't pulverize itself into dust as it drops. Imagine dropping a chunk of concrete 30 feet or more. Is it going to fall apart into dust? No. Yet, the concrete in the towers was blasted into powder that covered all of Manhattan. You can see that powder already being formed long before that upper section has fallen more than a few floors. As you look at that photo, ask yourself, "Is this a picture of a building collapsing or is this a picture of a building exploding?" Does a building that collapses have the ability to fling its own steel beams sideways up to 600 feet? Does a building that is just starting to collapse blast its contents outwards in a massive cloud of dust? What do you see in that photo? I see an explosion. And so do millions of other people who are demanding a real investigation.
More important than simply looking at a photo -- engineers, architects, and scientists have evaluated the rubble at Ground Zero and other aspects of the buildings ,and they have found evidence of at least 15 different characteristics of explosion. These 15 characteristics are listed on the handout as well.
Despite the media's outragious attacks on my sanity, intelligence, and patriotism, the emails and phone calls to my office have been 95 percent supportive of my request for a new investigation. I've been amazed, really, to see just how overwhelmingly the public rejects the official reports, not only of the 9/11 Commission but also those by FEMA and NIST (National Institute of Science and Technology). I assumed that expressing skepticism about the official story of 9/11 would be a punishing issue for an elected official, but I'm finding that it's quite the opposite. The public wants its leaders to stand up and be counted when it appears that something is wrong. "The truth will set you free." Blair Gadsby and my guests today want the the truth about 9/11. The American PEOPLE want the truth about 9/11 – they want a new investigation, and so do I.
I have provided each of you with a DVD entitled, "Improbable Collapse." I'm hopeful that you will watch it with an open mind and that you'll also study some of the wonderful, well-researched articles on the internet. I've included a list of the most credible websites with your handout.
You don't have to embrace every theory about 9/11. Indeed, there are some that should be soundly rejected. But if you believe, as these scientists, architects and engineers do, that the buildings were brought down by explosive demolition – then you must also agree that we need a new investigation. I have no preconceived notions about who did it and I am not pointing the finger of blame at anyone. But I do think that the worst attack on U.S. soil in American history deserves the best investigation possible, AND THAT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN UNTIL PEOPLE LIKE US BEGIN TO SPEAK OUT. The families of the nearly three thousand people who died on Sept. 11 – and the families of those who have been poisoned and died from the toxic residue that hung in the air for weeks afterward during the clean-up operation -- deserve to know what killed their loved ones. If anyone else was involved in the planning and implementation of the attacks, then they need to be brought to justice. I ask you to study the material I have given you and then join me in the call for a new investigation.
Thank you, Mr. President.
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WBZ Radio Interview with Gage, Bowman and O'Connor
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Dan Rae WBZ Radio Interview 12/14/2007 |
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Listen to this archived in-studio interview, with Host Dan Rae who graciously and respectfully spoke with Bob Bowman, Richard Gage and Donna Marsh O'Connor, regarding their skepticism of the official 9/11 theory on December 14, 2007. Download the (32mb) file directly here.
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Seven CIA Veterans Challenge 9/11 Commission Report
by Alan Miller
http://www.opednews.com
Official Account of 9/11 a "Joke" and a "Cover-up"
September 24, 2007 – Seven CIA veterans have severely criticized the official account of 9/11 and have called for a new investigation. "I think at simplest terms, there's a cover-up. The 9/11 Report is a joke," said Raymond McGovern, former Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC) and 27-year veteran of the CIA. "There are a whole bunch of unanswered questions. And the reason they're unanswered is because this administration will not answer the questions," he said. McGovern, who is also the founder of VIPS (Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity), is one of many signers of a petition to reinvestigate 9/11.[1]
During his 27-year CIA career, McGovern personally delivered intelligence briefings to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, their Vice Presidents, Secretaries of State, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and many other senior government officials. Upon retirement in 1990, McGovern was awarded the CIA's Intelligence Commendation Medallion and received a letter of appreciation from then President George H. W. Bush. However, McGovern returned the award[2] in 2006 in protest of the current George W. Bush Administration's advocacy and use of torture...
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9/11 First Responder Support
Please consider helping these dedicated First Responder Foundations (Gear Up Foundation , Fealgood Foundation ) with whatever financial support you can. Our government assured the Fire Fighters, Police and EMT's that the choking cloud of dust and smoke at Ground Zero was safe to breathe. They did not even issue paper masks. Over 70% of the 40,000 have contracted serious respritory illnesses, and hundreds have already died as a direct result. The government that lied to them has now callously ignored and abandoned them.
All donations to these Foundations are 100% tax deductible. ~ Thank You
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Timeline to Tyranny
Ten advances towards the end of freedom and privacy in the United States
Paul Joseph Watson - Prison Planet
The top ten advances towards tyranny in the United States during the tenure of the Bush administration, from the Patriot Act to the latest expansion of the illegal eavesdropping surveillance program.