(Author's Note: I'm not sure of the date of this latter presentation as I was unable to determine this in the credits, but it appears to have been made in the mid 2000s. It is nonetheless an important early contribution to the growing movement for a new investigation into 9/11.)
The most probable cause of any "dissonance" surely would be the result of people unable or unwilling to consider that the US government and/or its agents is/are capable of perpetrating such events -- the conspiracy before the fact -- and then attempting to cover it up -- the conspiracy after the fact. Let's try and dispel this at the outset with the following, anyone of which can and should be Googled for more background. The JFK Thing anyone? Iran-Contra Thing? Operations Gladio, Mockingbird, Paperclip et al.? Project MK-ULTRA and like-minded nefarious schemes? The October Surprises (plural)? Indeed, (the thankfully ill-fated) Operation Northwoods anyone? For those really interested in testing their predisposition to cognitive dissonance in relation to matters of conspiracy, they may also wish to explore the real story behind the Watergate Thing. Or to put it another way, the conspiracy behind the conspiracy!
To paraphrase then the end credit voiceover of a famous 60s TV cop show, "there are a million secrets in the Naked Crypto-State, and these are just some of them!" A cursory examination of and passing familiarity with any of the aforementioned operations and machinations -- all a matter more or less of public record if you know where to look -- should demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt the U.S. 'crypto-statists' have the 'history' as it were, in spades and shovels. And Mazzucco's documentary and the ReOpen presentation will have us all thinking again about 9/11, which is as it should be.
All of the above not to mention the CIA's own 'Family Jewels' -- the three most 'precious' of which surely being its preeminent and not so secret status as the largest, longest running, best funded, and most successful drug smuggling, gun running and money laundering organisation (cartel? franchise?) on the Big Blue Ball. To paraphrase the inimitable Walter Brennan, that's "no brag, just fact!" It is sufficiently instructive to note there is precious little mention of The Company's "Family Jewels" on their website, leading one to ponder why this might be the case.
The key question here is this: Is America going to wait another 50 years -- as they did with The JFK Thing -- before they start really demanding answers about this pivotal event? Can America -- much less the rest of us -- afford to wait that long? For my own part, after several years of 'studying' the by now well documented (albeit not well publicised or immediately accessible) history of America's foreign, economic, military, financial and national security policies over the past 7-8 decades and the folks who (with or without good intentions) have authored these policies -- along with the manipulative machinations that have accompanied their rollout and especially the connections between them all -- any "cognitive dissonance" I otherwise might personally have experienced has long gone AWOL.
In fact like many people I suspect who have made the effort, I have had to completely revise/reboot my hitherto broadly accepted notions of the reality of history in general and that of the history of the United States especially as a direct result of these and other private and personal investigations -- the JFK Thing still arguably being the most significant, portentous and revelatory of all of them. It seems also that the same goes for many right-thinking citizens of the home of the (not-so) brave and the land of the (not-quite there yet ) free.
As a case in point, my own country Australia's involvement in Vietnam and my appreciation of the history behind it has undergone a complete makeover as a result firstly of discovering how LBJ and his national security state Cold Warriors 'false-flagged' the whole Gulf of Tonkin shooting match from the off and then up to and including revelations about what the Americans did throughout that war in the name of freedom and democracy and liberty, and not just in Vietnam itself. (For more on Uncle Sam's under the radar 'Nam/South East Asian adventures by your humble author, see here.)
As it stands, the call for the reopening of the investigation of 9/11 -- and not just within the U.S. but around the world -- is becoming louder and more widely based by the day. And it would seem with greater justification. In simple terms forget everything you ever thought you knew about history -- in the words of Henry Ford, it is "all bunk" after all, although possibly not in the way Hank envisioned when he 'inflated' that memorable thought bubble! Herein we might paraphrase Hank again, to wit: "you can have any version of history you like, as long as it's ours"!
As for their own country's place in the geopolitical order and the role of their Power Elites and assorted Crypto-Statists in making it what it is today, we can only hope that a sufficient number of Americans reach a critical mass of concerned consensus about the so-called oft-referenced "New World Order" and the real agenda behind those that are driving its evolution -- what we might call the Global Politico-Governmental-Corporatist Collective. From there we might jointly do something proactive about it before the Good Ship America hits the iceberg, capsizes, and takes the rest of us and our descendants down with them.
That is of course if it is not already too late. Any cursory reading of a book dealing with the demise of empire would though suggest it may very well be. Well might we say, nice republic, shame about the empire.
End Part One
Next Week: Once Upon a Paranoid Time (In America): Part Two - None Dare Call it Coincidence
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