Something
Happened On 9-11
By Sheila Samples
30 July, 2007
Countercurrents.org
Strange
how something happens and you're unaware that it "registers"
with you. Later, perhaps, something will trigger that buried memory
and things begin to fall into place.
Something happened on 9-11.
The day began with CNN's
Wolf Blitzer frantically reporting that planes had smashed into Buildings
1 and 2 of the World Trade Center. They stood there, so tall that the
smoke billowing from their upper floors could be seen for 20 miles.
The scene was shocking, grisly, and the horror was broken only by the
further news that a plane had rammed into the Pentagon. Death and destruction
everywhere. Happening now -- right before our eyes.
In an amazing "Breaking
News" alert, CNN Pentagon reporter Jamie McEntyre shot down Blitzer's
"plane hit the Pentagon" report. McEntyre said flatly, "Although
it may appear that way, from my close-up inspection, there is NO evidence
of a plane having crashed anywhere near the Pentagon. The only pieces
left are small enough you can pick them up in your hand. There are no
pieces lying around that would indicate a plane crashed into the side
of the Pentagon."
Whoop! Happening now...Quick!
Back to Ground Zero...Just in time to see WTC 2, then WTC 1, sink eerily
into their own footprints -- tons and tons of cement blasting instantly
into a fine powder, rolling majestically through the streets like an
Iraqi sandstorm. Anyone who had ever seen one -- even one -- controlled
demolition knew without a doubt what he had just witnessed.
But no time for that -- yet
another plane had rammed into a Pennsylvania field with such force there
was just a smoking pit at the site with the debris scattered over an
eight-mile area...
But wait! Don't ask! Still
happening now! We're treated to yet another controlled demolition display
when WTC 7, struck by no plane, inexplicably collapsed in exactly the
same fashion as the first two buildings.
Within hours, CNN had pinned
this four-pronged attack on our "homeland" on Saudi billionnaire
and former CIA operative Osama Bin Laden, and was parading the photographs
of 19 terrorists -- 15 from Saudi Arabia -- non-stop across our TV screens.
Never mind that in the ensuing weeks, most of them were found alive
and well and minding their own business in various parts of the world.
For now, they are vicious killers, four of them wannabe pilots who flunked
out of flight school, and conveniently left their flight manuals in
their cars at the airport.
Then, according to Blitzer,
these amazing Boeing stunt pilots, armed with deadly box cutters, evaded
multiple layers of airport security, outsmarted the entire intercept
and identification operations of the North American Aerospace Defense
Command (NORAD), and destroyed 2,974 innocent human beings.
It wasn't long until McEntyre,
his feet back on the ground and marching orders in hand, responded to
Blitzer's question about his earlier comments -- "Web sites often
take statements out of context, such as the exchange from CNN, in which
I, myself appear to be questioning whether a plane really hit the building.
In fact, Wolf," McEntyre continued, while rapidly pulling my trigger,
"I was answering a question about an eyewitness account that a
plane had crashed short of the Pentagon, and I was making the point
that, no, not near the Pentagon. The only plane that crashed was at
the Pentagon."
That's what happened on 9-11.
Throughout the day, Blitzer narrated each step over and over again --
a grisly, staccato date-rape drug seared into our national consciousness...unimaginable
heartbreak...horror like none we've ever seen before...devastating grief...incredible
force of crashing airplanes...unbelievable horror...people running for
their lives in desperation through massive debris...Stay tuned -- dramatic
new pictures of people being swallowed by the smoke and flames...happening
now...
By the time the sun set,
our absentee president concluded his day-long zig-zag dash from one
hidey-hole to another, and was back at the helm of this shaken nation
whose citizens, thanks in large part to CNN, were in the throes of universal
post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). That evening, in his address
to a paralyzed world, Bush, leaving no doubt he was answering the call
of the Almighty, declared war on the terrorists. That evening, Bush,
and those like Dick Cheney who control him, began waging war on the
terrified.
With the enthusiastic support
of CNN, Bush has relentlessly used the singed flesh of the people slaughtered
on 9-11 to justify the monstrous lies that took us into war, and the
lies that keep us there. Since that day he has ruled through signing
statements and Executive Orders, setting himself above the US Constitution,
the Justice System, the entire government. He IS the law -- the Decider,
the Privileged Executive, the Tyrant.
Some say one branch of our
corporate mainstream media is neither better nor worse than the other
branches. I disagree. Perhaps it's because CNN is the Ministry of Truth's
chief operative, panting for war, death, and profit, lying -- "catapaulting
Bush's propaganda," -- while portraying itself as "The Most
Trusted Name in News." Or maybe it's just when the Mockingbirds
come home to roost, they all seem to light on the CNN branch.
CNN is very adept at transmitting
fear and lies, fradulent polls, and false-flag alarms over and over
and over again to cover up the crimes, treason and mass murder committed
by the Bush administration. Blitzer rigidly controls what is aired --
spun -- on CNN as news in his "Situation Room" in the late
afternoon and evening. The rest of the 24-hour cycle is spent in news-team
giggling, vacuous coverage of Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears,
and sex predators on the MySpace website. Did you know that yesterday
there was an explosion in Dallas, a truck turned over in North Carolina,
peanuts can kill you, obesity is contagious, and a cat roaming the halls
of a nursing home points out who is next to die?
But this absurd little Machiavellian
fool and the servile CNN courtiers who obediently spin his stupid slogans
fail to realize that our freedom is not theirs to destroy. Our children
are not Bush's, as political philosopher Etienne de la Boetie so eloquently
wrote in 1552-1553, "to be led into his battles, to be delivered
to butchery, to be made the servants of his greed and the instruments
of his vengeance."
Something happened on 9-11
-- something so horrible that the American people acquiesced for a time
in their own subjection.
They will not succumb to
their own destruction. Enough is enough.
Sheila Samples
is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information
Officer. She is a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.
Contact her at [email protected]
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