The Ground Zero Grassy Knoll
A new generation of conspiracy theorists is at work on a secret history of
New York's most terrible day.
a.. By Mark Jacobson
1. 11/22 and 9/11
They keep telling us 9/11 changed everything. But even in this
Photoshopped age of unreliable narrators, much remains the same. The
assassination of President John Kennedy, the Crime of the Last Century,
occurred in plain sight, in front of thousands-yet exactly what happened
remains in dispute. The Warren Commission found that Lee Harvey Oswald,
fellow traveler of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, shot Kennedy with a
cheap Mannlicher-Carcano rifle from a sixth-floor window of the Texas
School Book Depository. The commission found that Oswald, who two days
later would be murdered by nightclub owner Jack Ruby, acted alone.
The Plane Truth
A list of 9/11 conspiracy theories, from nuts to soup.
Yet, as with so many such events, there is the sanctioned history and the
secret history-players hidden from view. In the Kennedy murder, the
involvement of shadowy organizations like the Mafia and the CIA came into
question. This way of thinking came to challenge the official narrative
put forth by the Warren Commission. It is not exactly clear when the
grassy knoll supplanted the sixth-floor window in the popular mind-set.
But now, four decades after Dallas, it is difficult to find anyone who
believes Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman.
But if Oswald didn't kill the president, who did? So 11/22 remains an open
case, an open wound.
Now here we are again, contemplating the seemingly unthinkable events of
September 11. An official explanation has been offered up: The nation was
attacked by the forces of radical Islam led by Osama bin Laden and his Al
Qaeda jihadists. Again, this narrative has been accepted by many.
But not all.
2. War Without End
"Just your average wild-eyed, foaming-at-the-mouth conspiracy nuts,"
Father Frank Morales told me as he surveyed the 200 or so graying beatniks
and neighborhood anarchist punks sporting IS IT FASCISM YET? buttons who
had assembled in the basement of St. Mark's Church for the weekly
Sunday-night meeting of the New York 9/11 Truth Movement to hear a lecture
by Webster Tarpley, author of 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA.
Saying he was in New York "to debunk the outrageous myth . . . the absurd
fairy tale" that the tragic events of September 11, 2001, were the work of
nineteen fanatics with box cutters sent by a bearded man in a cave, the
60-year-old Tarpley projected a slide designated "State-Sponsored False
Flag Terrorism," depicting a Venn diagram of three interconnected circles.
Circle one was labeled patsies, comprising "dupes," "useful idiots,"
"fanatics," "provocateurs," and "Oswalds." Included here were the
demonized bin Laden and alleged lead hijacker Mohammad Atta. The second
ring, marked MOLES, contained "government officials loyal to the invisible
government," such as Paul Wolfowitz, Tony Blair, Donald Rumsfeld, *****
Cheney, and, of course, George W. Bush. The third circle, PROFESSIONAL
KILLERS, encompassed "technicians," "CIA special forces," "old boys"-the
unnamed ones who did the dirty work and kept their mouths shut.
September 11 was the true face of corporatized terror, said Tarpley,
graduate of Flushing High School, class of 1962 (also Princeton), and
author of an "unauthorized" biography of George Herbert Walker Bush. The
book paints the Bush-family patriarch, Senator Prescott Bush, as knowingly
profiting from Hitler's Third Reich in his role as a director of the Union
Banking Corporation, where, Tarpley's book says, the Nazis kept their
money.
According to Tarpley, this, roughly, is how it went down on September 11:
Cheney, Rumsfeld, and the Pet Goat-engrossed president played their
assigned roles enabling the strange events of the day, including the
wholesale "stand-down" of the multi-trillion-dollar American air-defense
system. Cued by fellow mole Richard Clarke, the main players made sure the
CIA-owned-and-operated Osama and his alleged 72-virgin-craving crew got
the blame, the towers collapsing not from fire, as reported by the
brainwashed mainstream media, but thanks to a well-planned "controlled
demolition."
Laying out his scenario, Tarpley touched on many of the "unanswered
questions" that make up the core of the 9/11 Truth critique of the
so-called Official Story.
Like: How, if no steel-frame building had ever collapsed from fire, did
three such edifices fall that day, including 7 World Trade Center, which
was not hit by any airplane?
And why, if hydrocarbon-fueled fire maxes out at 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit
and steel melts at 2,700 degrees, did the towers weaken sufficiently to
fall in such a short time-only 56 minutes in the case of the South Tower?
And why, if the impact destroyed the planes' supposedly crash-proof
flight-recorder black boxes, was the FBI able to find, in perfect
condition, the passport of Satam al Suqami, one of the alleged American
Airlines Flight 11 hijackers?
And how to explain the nonperformance of the FAA and NORAD?
How could they, an hour after the first World Trade Center crash, allow an
obviously hostile airplane to smash into the Pentagon, headquarters of the
entire military-industrial complex, for chrissakes? And why did the
Defense Department choose to stage an extraordinary number of military
exercises on 9/11-occupying matériel and spreading confusion about who was
who on that day?
Fascinating 9-page *9-11 Primer* goes on at --
http://www.nymetro.com/news/features/16464/
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