Thirteen years ago on September 11, a guy I know in Florida called me up way too early in the morning and told me to turn on the television. One of the World Trade Center towers was burning. And then a passenger jet crashed into the other tower. And then another passenger jet crashed into the Pentagon. And then there was news of another jet crashing into a field in Pennsylvania.
My wife had already left for work and when I finally reached her, I told her to head back home. I didn't know what was going on. I didn't know if there were going to be more attacks or where they might happen.
I remembered to start stuffing tapes in the VCR and record everything. When disasters occur I've noticed it's best to get a record of what everybody's saying at the moment before the Official Story comes down. By that evening it was official. Osama bin Laden, founder of the Wahhabi extremist militant organization al-Qaeda, was responsible for the attacks.
Who the hell was Osama bin Laden? What was al-Qaeda?
On September 23, 2001, two weeks after 9/11, Secretary of State Colin Powell, spoke to Tim Russert on Meet the Press:
RUSSERT: Will you release publicly a white paper which links him [bin Laden] and his organization to this attack to put people at ease?POWELL: We are hard at work bringing all the information together, intelligence information, law enforcement information. And I think in the near future we will be able to put out a paper, a document that will describe quite clearly the evidence that we have linking him to this attack.
From GlobalResearch.ca:
Powell reversed himself, however, at a press conference with President Bush in the White House Rose Garden the next morning, saying that, although the government had information that left no question of bin Laden's responsibility, "most of it is classified." According to Seymour Hersh, citing officials from both the CIA and the Department of Justice, the real reason for the reversal was a "lack of solid information."
This was the week that Bush, after demanding that the Taliban turn over bin Laden, refused their request for evidence that bin Laden had been behind the attacks. A senior Taliban official, after the US attack on Afghanistan had begun, said: "We have asked for proof of Osama's involvement, but they have refused. Why?" Hersh's answer was that they had no proof.
Without showing the American people proof of bin Laden's guilt, the U.S. government launched the war against Afghanistan on October 7, 2001.
And then -- there was this word -- a word I had never heard or read any American politician ever using. On the night of September 20, 2001, George W. Bush spoke to a joint session of Congress, and uttered a word that made me instinctively recoil.
Homeland.
After Bush announced he had created an Office of Homeland Security, everyone in the Bush Administration started using "Homeland" when referring to the United States.
As blogger James A. Bartlett wrote, "The word 'homeland' had a strange ring, like a false note in a piece of music. It didn't sound right. -- And it's not just the politicians. I have been trying to recall a previous instance in which I've heard an American -- any American -- use the term 'homeland' to refer to the United States of America. And I can't."
When Bush said "Homeland," he sounded like a fake Texan trying to sound like a Nazi. It seemed to me the Bush/Cheney regime was trying to jumpstart Patriotism and Nationalism in traumatized Americans in a Nazi-resonating way. Regardless of how repellant the word was -- it's now in our lexicon.
Seven days after the Kennedy assassination, President Johnson established the Warren Commission. The president needed to show the American people a serious investigation into how this tragedy happened. Regardless of the outcome, it was a public relations move that had to be made to ease the fears of a traumatized nation. The Bush/Cheney Regime however had no interest in allaying the nation's fears. They were in the fear-creation business.
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