The very idea that the United States government might be complicit in the death of thousands of its own citizens as a pretext for war is still preposterous to most U.S. citizens, despite the historical record that is suppressed in the mainstream, but widely available from other sources. The sound of so many minds slamming shut like a steel prison door is deafening.
One of these men tried to argue his point. He stated that there is evidence for his views that are as good or as valid as my own in regard to the demise of the World Trade Center buildings. There is an important distinction that must be made, however. There are arguments, there is evidence; and there are indisputable facts.
One can argue the existence of god, but the issue is not likely to be resolved by arguments and debate. There is no incontrovertible evidence to prove or disprove the existence of god. It is a matter of faith; what one chooses to believe on a spiritual level, rather than empirical evidence obtained from the physical realm.
There is the fossil record, which can be regarded as evidence not only of the earth’s age, but also of evolution. Evolution does not necessarily preclude the existence of god. The age of fossils can be ascertained with reasonable accuracy through carbon dating. One must decide how convincing that evidence is and decide how much weight it deserves in shaping their belief system.
There are the principles of physics and thermodynamics, such as Newton’s laws of motion, which qualify as immutable laws of nature. Gravity is an example of natural law that is not, as far as I know, in dispute by anyone.
The laws of nature are not affected by human arguments and conjecture. They simply are. It is gravity that keeps us bound to earth, whether we accept that fact or not.
The temperature at which steel melts and the heat produced by specific fuels under known conditions is an example of natural law. We know that the steel in the World Trade Center buildings could not have melted from low intensity fires caused by jet fuel, as the government purports. Even if those fires had burned for months the steel towers could not have melted as a result. Jet fuel simply does not produce enough heat.
Then there is the problem of building seven, which wasn’t hit by a plane. Yet it too had unexplained low intensity fires of short duration, and fell at near free fall speed within in its own footprint.
Even the untrained eye could see that those buildings were brought down by controlled demolitions, which had to be expertly placed weeks in advance. Fire fighters in the buildings confirmed the sound of internal demolitions just prior to the collapse of the buildings. Other visual evidence confirms their assertions. The corporate media has suppressed this evidence—propaganda through omission. Thus we know beyond the shadow of a doubt that the government lied, and it continues to do so with regularity. No surprise there.
There are reams of evidence for government complicity in the felling of the World Trade Center buildings and the Pentagon. But none of this evidence emphatically proves the government’s participation in the murder of thousands of U.S. citizens. It does, however, completely undermine the government’s credibility. It leads to more questions that must be addressed through objective scientific and moral inquiry, none of which have been forth coming.
Why is the government covering up the truth about 9/11? Who is responsible?
Given what we know about history, the players involved in recent events, and the existence of documents that called for a new Pearl Harbor well before 9/11 as a pretext for war in the Middle East, it is very plausible that the government brought down those buildings, and murdered thousands of innocent civilians. I believe that is what happened, but I cannot prove it empirically.
Following the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings, most of the physical forensic evidence was deliberately destroyed, and normal criminal investigative protocols were ignored.
The death of civilians means nothing to a government that routinely murders civilians around the world, and sends its own to kill and be killed for imperialistic purposes. The historical record speaks for itself. Pax America is an old phenomenon, not one that is peculiar to George Bush and Dick Cheney. It is a phenomenon that is deeply rooted in plutocracy, corporatism, racism, and capitalism—a fact that too many U.S. citizens are terrified to face.
It is tragically sad that so few U.S. citizens are even willing to confront the evidence and demand accountability. 9/11 and subsequent events were made possible by a systemic absence of reason in our culture. We behave as if ignorance somehow protects us from reality. It does not. Eventually, darkness must give way to the light.
Hiding our collective heads in the sand out of fear can hardly be considered an act of courage or enlightenment. Indeed, it is moral cowardice of the worst kind.
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