"War is a Racket": 9/11 Message of an Ex-Marine to the Anti-War
Movement
Satyagraha: "work for truth, in pursuit of truth."
by Sam Lwin
October 9, 2006
Veterans for 9/11 Truth
9/11, Our Satyagraha; Message to the Anti-war Movement
I am Sam Lwin, an ex-Marine, a conscientious objector and an anti-war
activist from the first Gulf war. I would like to say a few words about
the connection between 9/11 and war.
In the fall of 1990, President George Herbert Walker Bush mobilized
troops for the first Gulf War. I was a Marine reservist and a senior at
the New School. Knowing that it was an oil war and finding out the
various deceptions used by our government to gain support of the masses
at anti-war rallies, I, as a conscientious Marine, refused to go. So
did twenty-five other Marines, eight of them from here in New York
City. We were all court-martialed and did time in the brig at Camp
Lejeune in North Carolina.
Many people supported us. They sent us letters and books to read and
our prison sentences were shortened, in some cases by two years, due to
public pressure through anti-war groups like Hands Off! and War
Resisters League. During that time, one of the Marine resisters
mentioned to me the name of Smedley Butler.
Smedley Butler was a Marine general who twice won the Congressional
Medal of Honor. In 1933, he published a booklet called "War Is a
Racket." I would like to read a few sentences from it. "War is just a
racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not
what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group
knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few
at the expense of the masses."
And he continued, "I spent 33 years and 4 months in active service as
a member of our country's most agile military force--the Marine Corps.
I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to Major
General. And during that period I spent most of my time being a
high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the
bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism."
The whole ordeal in the first Gulf war made me realize that things are
not always what they seem to be. Yet, a decade later, on the morning of
September 11th immediately after the towers fell, even though I
intuited that the Bush administration was behind the attacks, I chose
to believe the official story, because I did not dare to believe
otherwise.
It wasn't until the Bush administration started incessantly insisting
that Iraq had WMDs, that I realized that something was not right. In
early 2002, I began to search for answers on the Internet, never
thinking that I would spend five to six hours daily for the next four
years.
So now we know. We know that, just like war, 9/11 is a racket, a
military false flag psy-op, a highly deceptive series of events
conducted to gain the support of the population for wars in the Middle
East. Let me read General Smedley Butler's definition again:
"A racket is best described as something that is not what it
seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what
it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the
expense of the masses."
War is a racket. 9/11 is a racket.
It saddens and angers me that so many people in the antiwar movement
refuse to examine the evidence of 9/11. We should ask them to do at
least one thing. Watch the movie we just saw, 911mysteries. And if
after watching it, they still want to continue believing the official
BS, so be it. But for people to say that they want peace and at the
same time adamantly deny the direct connection between 9/11 and the
current wars is irresponsible. Many anti-war people unquestioningly
accept the official version, without even looking at the overwhelming
evidence which the 9/11 Truth movement has laboriously collected over
the years.
Three weeks ago we all went down to Ground Zero to mark the fifth
anniversary of the so-called terrorist attacks. That memorable
day--Sept 11, 2006--was also the 100th anniversary of Gandhi's first
act of nonviolent civil disobedience, a movement he called
"satyagraha." In Sanscrit, satya means "truth", agraha
translates to "effort or endeavor." Combined, Satyagraha means
"to work for truth, in pursuit of truth."
I propose that our brothers and sisters in the anti-war movement, whom
I thank a great deal from my experience in the first Gulf war, join
with us in the 9/11 Truth movement, to courageously pursue the truth
with us--our Satyagraha--to bring into reality a truly independent
investigation into the events of 9/11. And through our collective
efforts, we can began to dismantle the authority of this traitorous,
treasonous, and illegitimate administration in the current wars and
their nefarious plans for wider wars in the Middle East and elsewhere.
Only when the truth of 9/11 comes into light, on a national and
international arena, will we be able to stop their immoral, unethical,
and unconscionable rackets.
Thank you.
Veterans For 9/11 Truth http://www.v911t.org/
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