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May 22, 2008 at 14:08:45

A "book learnin'" vs. Common Sense Look at Just One 9/11 Incident

by Michael Bonanno     Page 1 of 3 page(s)

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I know you’ve all heard it before, mostly from conservatives. 

“Yeah, he or she got lots of book learnin’, but they don’t got no common sense.  Why in the hell would the American government kill its own people? 

Besides, what do we look like?  Cambodia under Pol Pot?  North Korea under Kim Jong Il?  Germany under Hitler?  China under Mao Tse-Tung? 

No, boy, you’re way out there with your tin hat.  This here is the good ole US of A and we’re a free country and we elect our leaders and there ain’t no way that we’re gonna elect a crazy person that would do somethin’ really mean like kill his own people. 

I mean you’re nuts, son.  Like I says, this here is a free country and if you want it to stay that way, you better stop sayin’ such unpatriotic stuff! 

The worse things our presidents do is have sex there in that there White House and, of course, wouldn’t ya know it was a liberl that done that.” 

“Book learnin’ vs. common sense.”  If I had a bucket of vomit for every time I heard that ridiculous phrase, my house would reek.    

However, we can “appease” those who want to look at, say, what happened on 9/11 from a common sense point of view. 

The first thing that has to happen is for those who say that, this being the “good ole US of A”, it couldn’t happen here to somehow let go of their emotional jingoism long enough to read with an open mind what I’m about to write.  That, in itself, could present a problem.  But let’s say that they’re able to do it. 

Secondly, those who entertain the possibility of an alternative explanation which does not agree with the official explanation have got to put aside any emotional feelings towards George Bush, Dick Cheney and the rest of The Bush Administration.  No preconceived love for country or hate of its leaders must enter into it. 

I’m not going to rewrite Griffin’s books here and give each and every example which, in the light of common sense, might help people to look at what happened on 9/11 in a manner which differs from the way they look at it now. 

In fact, I’m going to give only one example.  My example doesn’t prove that 9/11 was an inside job.  What my example should do, looked at in the light of common sense, is to help those who believe that “the good old US of A” could never be lead by people who would harm American citizens think twice about that. 

The President Of The United States is getting ready to enter a second grade classroom in Florida.  His plans are to use the progress of the students in that classroom to prove that one of his programs, “No Child Left Behind”, is working perfectly. 

While standing outside the classroom, waiting to enter, George W. Bush looks at a television which happens to be on and in his line of sight and sees the first plane crash into The World Trade Center. 

I know, I know, you that have done any research at all know that this is impossible since no one saw the first plane crash into the World Trade Center as it happened.  The video of that sight wasn’t released until much later. 

But, you know what I’m going to do?  I’m going, for the sake of my common sense argument, to pretend that somehow, as President Of The United States Of America, George W. Bush has so many surveillance cameras throughout the nation that he actually did see what he said he saw.  I’m trying to be as fair as possible here. 

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Michael Bonanno is a published poet, essayist and musician who lives in the San Francisco Bay AreaSome of his poetry can be found at The Poetry Corner at OpEdNews.He is an associate editor for OpEdNews. 

Bonanno is a political progressive, not a Democratic Party apologist. He believes it's government's job to help the needy and that leaving the people's well being to the so called "private sector" is social suicide.His CDs may be purchased at CD Baby.

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Bia Winter is an Artist/Writer from Maine, and has been an activist and letter-writer since the 60's. In 2004 she received the Roger Baldwin Award from the Maine American Civil Liberties Union for furthering Democracy after she got a Resolution Against the USA"Patriot"Act passed in her small home town of Mount Vernon, by overwhelming show-of-hands vote at Town Meeting. She continues to Write, Activate and Cartoon for Progressive causes. Her Letters are often seen in the Baltimore Chronicle, as w...

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Bia WinterBia Winter is an Artist/Writer from Maine, and has been an activist and letter-writer since the 60's. In 2004 she received the Roger Baldwin Award from the Maine American Civil Liberties Union for furthering Democracy after she got a Resolution Against the USA"Patriot"Act passed in her small home town of Mount Vernon, by overwhelming show-of-hands vote at Town Meeting. She continues to Write, Activate and Cartoon for Progressive causes. Her Letters are often seen in the Baltimore Chronicle, as w...

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Yup, That would be a "common sense" place to start the questioning...except "Common Sense" doesn't seem to be one of those Republican Conservative Values!

"....Nothing to see here, little Sheeple...move along!"" 

 And the WORST part is this:  Without IMPEACHMENT now, Bush and Cheney will circle-jerk pardon each other and their evil collaborators (including the Israeli Mossad that's probably blackmailing them!) and they will all slither off into the tropical sunset somewhere!

Why do you think Karl Rove feels no need to comply with supoenas?  

by Bia Winter (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 154 comments) on Friday, May 23, 2008 at 9:26:30 AM
 


anna van z publishes The Mills River Progressive, a blog dedicated to progressive news and views. The MRP is based in the mountains of Western North Carolina.
annavanzanna van z publishes The Mills River Progressive, a blog dedicated to progressive news and views. The MRP is based in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

You got that right!

Apparently the Bush Family syndicate has quietly bought up a few hundred thousand acres in Paraguay, as well. No extradition there, I hear. Pillage, kill, grab the looty and RUN. The entire history of the Homo Sapien in one evil, conniving, psychotic cabal! Of course, they couldn't have pulled it off without the complicity of the MSM and the invertebrates in congress, so we need to give them their props, also... 

by annavanz (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 13 comments) on Friday, May 23, 2008 at 10:10:18 AM
 

 

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