The Explosion of the 9-11 Truth Movement -- U.S. Media's Dirty Little
Secret
by Bill Douglas, Co-Founder - "National 911Visibility.org"
A mass movement and a mountain of disturbing evidence has been growing
beneath the radar of U.S. media. The U.S. media (including alternative
media) has done an extraordinarily superhuman job of "hearing"
"seeing" and "speaking no evil." However many researchers, ordinary
citizens, and journalists began to smell something rotten . . . not in
Denmark . . . but rather, right here in the good ol' US of A.
Protestor, Kansas City, Mo
A mass movement and a mountain of disturbing evidence has been growing
beneath the radar of U.S. media. The U.S. media (including alternative
media) has done an extraordinarily superhuman job of "hearing"
"seeing" and "speaking no evil." However, almost immediately after
9-11-2001's horrendous attacks on New York and Washington D.C., many
researchers, ordinary citizens, and journalists [who've been given
precious little print in U.S. papers or TV] began to smell something
rotten . . . not in Denmark . . . but rather, right here in the good
ol' US of A.
This movement's early roots began when many people scratched their
heads in wonder at "how 4 commercial jet liners could fly hijacked for
nearly an hour and a half the morning of 9-11, without any Air Force
fighter interceptor jets turning a wheel until it was too late," as
stated by acclaimed Canadian TV journalist, Barry Zwicker. Zwicker's
powerful documentary "The Great Deception," which suggests top Bush
Admin. officials were likely complicit in the 9-11 attacks, aired on
Canada's Vision TV network which is viewed by millions of Canadians.
Unfortunately Americans in the U.S. have been "protected" from viewing
this critical documentary.
Researchers, like Zwicker and others, quickly learned that in 2001
before the 9-11 attacks 62 aircraft had been intercepted by Air Force
fighter interceptor jets, and usually within 10 to 15 minutes of going
off course. [http://septembereleventh.org/airdefense.php] Yet
bizarrely, on 9-11 four commercial jets were hijacked off course for
about one and a half hours before the last one crashed into the most
highly protected building in the world (the Pentagon). . . yet no
interceptor jet intercepted it in all that time. Alarm bells went off
with citizens across the U.S. and the world. A number of people
including former NYPD detective, Frank Serpico (played by Al Pacino in
the movie about his life as an NYPD whistleblower exposing corruption
at the New York Police Department), began to express a suspicion of
the "official 9-11 story" during a whistleblower awards ceremony
nationally televised on C-SPAN.
Then other issues came to light regarding 9-11, and foreknowledge of
the attacks. For example, a former Los Angeles Police Detective named
Michael Ruppert noted that outrageously high volumes of insider
trading on United and American Airlines stocks prior to 9-11,
(reported on by CBS, Bloomberg and other financial papers) actually
had some strange ties to the Central Intelligence Agency. 9/11-related
insider trading was worldwide. It occurred on markets in Hong Kong,
Tokyo, Chicago, New York, London and Berlin. Estimates of the total
amount of insider trades have ranged from the hundred of millions
(CBS), to the billions (Ernst Weltke ? Chief of the Bundesbank), to
the tens of billions (Andreas von B?former German cabinet minister).
But some of the "put" options purchased on United and American
airlines inside the US caught Ruppert's attention. "Put Options" are
bets one can make AGAINST a stock, betting that it will fall.
As Ruppert quickly noted, in one known case, a large number of "put"
options were placed through the Alex Brown or (AB Brown) Unit of
Deutschebank. Ruppert recalled that AB Brown had been chaired until he
became the Executive Director (No. 3) at the CIA in 1998, by A.B.
"Buzzy" Krongard.
AB Brown and Deutschebank have a history of being connected with
covert operations and money laundering. In fact had, they had just
been investigated by Senator Levin's committee on Correspondent
Banking and mentioned in Department of Justice investigations. So, it
begs the question, if you were an Arab terrorist who wanted to cash in
on your foreknowledge of the next days' attacks using United and
American Airlines stock, would you go to a known CIA connected bank to
do it? --especially, if you knew, as Ruppert had previously
documented, that the CIA tracks all stock trades in real time?
Probably not.
One $2.5 million trade, made through AB Brown by a late-comer went
unclaimed after 9-11 when the markets were closed for four days. By
that time alarms over the insider trades were sounding all over, even
on CBS News. Most of the smarter crooks had absconded with their money
by exercising their put options while the attacks were taking place
through offshore accounts.
The head of AB Brown, Mayo Shattuck III, who is a close friend and
associate of Krongard, resigned the day after 9-11-2001 without anyone
except Ruppert connecting the dots. To this day the Bush
Administration has not told us who made those insider trades or why
the head of AB Brown resigned on 9-12-2001.
Other stories from foreign press began to be read by a growing number
of Americans who realized quickly that they had to read foreign press
to get to the ugly facts around 9-11. A conservative French newspaper,
La Figaro, reported an incredible fact, that the CIA station chief in
Dubai had met with Osama Bin Laden weeks before the 9-11 attacks as
Osama was being treated at a U.S. Army hospital in Dubai. Yet, even
though Osama was on the CIA most wanted list, the CIA station chief
did not only NOT arrest him, but met with him and then reportedly went
back to the U.S. for high level meetings in Washington following his
meeting with Osama. Even more bizarrely alarming facts surfaced such
as the article in a prominent Indian newspaper reporting that the
hijacker mastermind of 9-11, Mohammed Atta, had been wired $100,000.00
by the head of Pakistani Intelligence weeks before 9-11, who oddly
enough was in Washington meeting with top Bush Admin. officials ON
9-11-2001.
Although none of these bizarre facts raised any hairs in the U.S.
media corps, a corps which had done such an "outstanding" job
ferreting out the truth on the weapons of mass destruction issue
before the ill fated war on Iraq, these facts WERE disturbing to many
other Americans. Some Americans were able to see through the endless
media fixation on celebrities and their endless foibles, and these
vigilant Americans were looking deep, long and hard at the above facts
and the more they saw the more alarming it became.
A movement began to build as people across America, who were seeing
that the U.S. media's Orwellian ability to focus on celebrity gossip,
and yet be blind, deaf, and dumb to the growing likelihood that people
within our government had foreknowledge of the coming attacks . . .
was just too much too bear. 9-11 Truth or 911 Visibility movement
actions began to spring up across the nation. 9-11 researchers, and
concerned citizens began to organize through sites like
www.911visibility.org and www.911truth.org.
9-11 family members became increasingly alarmed and disgusted as the
Bush Administration ordered the Senate not to investigate the 9-11
attacks, and then spent the next two years trying to block all 9-11
investigations. One widow, Ellen Mariani with her attorney, former
Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania Phil Berg filed suit against
the Bush Administration under the RICO Racketeering Act. Ellen charged
Bush et al with foreknowledge of the coming attacks, willfully
allowing them to occur for political gain, and engaging in a criminal
obstruction of the 9-11 investigations. Other suits were filed by
other 9-11 family members, including one represented by a former aid
to Bob Dole filed in San Francisco court. These suits have been
virtually ignored by U.S. media, and by much of U.S. "alternative"
media.
FBI agents Crowley and Wright, and former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds
came forward to tell the public that our government had not acted on
the information they had that may have prevented the coming 9-11
attacks. Sibel Edmonds told the media (who mostly ignored her) that
Condaleeza Rice was "lying" when she told America that they knew
nothing of the coming attacks.
The intensity of the 9-11 truth issue continued to build, even as U.S.
media virtually ignored the growing mountain of facts that directly
contradict the "official" 9-11 story. More voices began to clammer
together to raise the issue in the public eye. Protesters at "ground
zero" in New York City raised a banner reading "Bush Engineered 9-11,"
while hundreds of protesters lined the streets of downtown Kansas City
with "Stop Bush's 9-11 Cover Up" signs. 9-11 widow Ellen Mariani went
on a national tour speaking in churches and town meetings, explaining
her RICO Act suit against Bush et al for 9-11, and 9-11 truth protests
and teach-ins began to spread across the U.S. and Canada, and even
Europe. At the March 20th, 2004 Mobilization Against the War marches
in San Francisco and New York thousands carried "Stop the 9-11 Cover
Up" posters that were photographed by Associated Press and carried on
the front page of papers across the U.S. and even radio shock jock
Howard Stern's website featured a shot of the "Stop the 9-11 Cover Up"
signs on his websites homepage. Even Minister Farakkhan of the Nation
of Islam suggested on national television that people in the Bush
Administration allowed the 9-11 attacks to occur to fool us into wars.
The 9-11 truth issue suddenly seemed to be bursting forth from all
corners of society. From shock jocks to Islamic leaders the official
9-11 story seemed to be crumbling apart before the nation's eyes. 9-11
activists from across North America met in San Francisco for the first
International Inquiry into 9-11. Although BBC World Radio and local
media covered the event, it was virtually ignored by mainstream and
even much of alternative U.S. media. But, the movement builds anyway.
Canada is about to host the second International Inquiry into 9-11,
and a third may be held later.
The 9-11 truth issue gained momentum when respected theologian David
Ray Griffin released his new book "The New Pearl Harbor," which
meticulously spells out why the official story is likely a snow job.
When it was endorsed by respected social justice author, teacher and
activist Howard Zinn, the light of hope for 9-11 truth to come forth
cast a brighter ray across the nation.
Then, actor and long time peace activist Ed Asner broke the 9-11 truth
issue open to the national peace movement when he issued an open
letter to the American peace movement urging them to make 9-11 truth
their main priority, because two wars and endless losses of civil
liberties are being based on 9-11. And as many are realizing when they
take the time to look into the issue, the official story does NOT
stand up to the light of day. Almost immediately after Asner's letter
released, the National Green Party released a press statement that
called into question the official 9-11story, the integrity of the 9-11
Commission, and called for an entirely new 9-11 investigation which
would include 9-11 family members who are increasingly unhappy with
the Commission's milk toast efforts of inquiry.
This national 9-11 truth movement is going to get nothing but larger,
clearer, and more organized. The "official" story continues to grow
thinner and more transparent as the snow job that it obviously is. The
United States media, both mainstream and alternative, continue to
damage their credibility beyond repair. A growing number of citizens
reach out to foreign media, and only watch U.S. media to observe the
distortion and omission that has made a mockery of our newspaper,
television and radio media. We are beginning to see what Soviet's felt
like when they picked up their newspapers or turned on their
televisions.
After 9-11 our nation was turned upside down. Those who challenged
Bush suddenly became labeled as "un-American." Ashcroft sought to turn
our postal service and gas company employees into a domestic spy force
to "keep an eye on us all." The Patriot Act was rammed through
Congress, a Congress in chaos as U.S. military AMES strain anthrax is
sent . . . not to Bush or the Pentagon but to the top two Democrats
who were actively challenging the Patriot Act-Daschle and Leahy (head
of the Senate Judiciary Committee). To believe the several hundred
page Patriot Act was created in the few short weeks since 9-11 before
it was rammed through Congress is naivet?t it's highest. It was
written before 9-11, it only needed the proper climate for it to be
rammed through. Bush et, al, had plans to invade Iraq before 9-11,
they only needed the proper climate to enact their plans. FBI field
agents were screaming the facts that could have prevented the attacks,
and in the words of FBI Agent Crowleyher attempts to get this
information up the chain of command were "almost DELIBERATELY
thwarted". 9-11 exploitation and the constant terror invoked by Bush
et al to keep us in a state of mind conducive to giving up liberty and
to conduct "endless wars" becomes an increasingly obvious "formula."
Yet, all is not lost, for today we have the Internet. And we still
have a democracy, if we act to preserve it. This will require a
mammoth effort to demand the full truth of 9-11. www.911visibility.org
provides tools and support for doing just that. The truth shall set
U.S. free. Unless we demand the full truth of 9-11 any discussion in
the future about our environment, education policy, social spending,
military spending, etc. will be poisoned with the unexposed lies of
9-11. 9-11 truth is the most critical issue facing America and the
world. Get involved in the www.911truth.org campaign, and get
activated at www.911visibility.org.
Bill Douglas is the Co-Founder of National 911Visibility.org and
author of "The Amateur Parent - A Book on Life, Death, War & Peace,
and Everything Else in the Universe".
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