Back   OpEdNews
Font
PageWidth
Original Content at
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Trust-the-government-by-Dave-Lefcourt-Government_Government-Lies_History_Investigations-210915-348.html
(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).

September 15, 2021

Trust the government?

By Dave Lefcourt

There have been watershed events that changed the course of history. The JFK assassination & 9/11 are such events. Each had "official" investigations. Multiple investigations later, official or otherwise, put into question the conclusions reached by the official versions. The result? Trust in our gov'ts pronouncements has never been lower.

::::::::

World Trade Center buildings on fire before collapsing 9/11/01

There have been watershed events that changed the course of history. A six mile long asteroid hit Earth some 65 million years ago wiping out the age of the dinosaurs killing most animal and plant life. Of course we humans weren't around then but obviously some animal species did survive and we humans arrived many millions of years later.

Of a more recent vintage there have been events that have changed the course of human history. In fact two, the 1963 Kennedy assassination and 9/11 are events that impact the world today.

The Kennedy assassination was one of those events. It traumatized America. To those of us adults old enough to remember the sense of loss felt overwhelming at the time. That Lee Harvey Oswald was the culprit was taken as a given and the Warren Commission's findings confirmed it.

Of course other investigations since then, formal or otherwise questioned whether it was Oswald at all. The direction of the bullets, multiple shots heard fired, questions about the autopsy done. They put into question official government inquiries of any sort.

Look at the events that took place after JFK. Takethe Gulf of Tonkin incident in the waters off North Vietnam. What was told to the American people the North Vietnamese fired first on US Naval ships and they returned fire. That was a lie. It was the other way around. No matter the Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution and President Johnson used it as the basis for escalating the Vietnam war. We learned from the Pentagon Papers our government lied to us, that our illegal involvement in Vietnam went all the way back to Truman, Eisenhower then Kennedy and Johnson who-we later learned was more afraid of criticism from the Republicans if he didn't escalate the war. A war we lost but surely benefitted the profits of the defense industry behemoths which has grown ever larger today.

So "official" Washington perpetrating lies was commonplace and put into question whatever the government was saying-at least to some of us that were skeptical of any "official" pronouncements even when the complicit enabling corporate MSM supported the governments' position.

Now let's look at 9/11/01. Surely a catastrophic event. Two World Trade Center buildings hit by commercial airliners, the Pentagon struck by a plane while another plane crashed in rural Pennsylvania. The buildings hit, fires erupting then both collapsing on its footprint.

By late in the day we're told by the government and the MSM the perpetrators were 19 al Qaeda terrorists and the scheme behind it all was Osama bin Laden. Case closed.

"Dubya" Bush uses 9/11 as the basis for invading Afghanistan a month later, going after Osama and attacking the Taliban government that gave him safe harbor.

Of course a 9/11 commission was created by late 2002 and pretty much confirmed it was the 19 terrorists as the perpetrators with Bin laden the mastermind.

As controversy grew NIST, National Institute of Standards and Technology investigated the collapse of the WTC buildings and confirmed fires caused by the planes fuel brought them down. NIST issued a final report in 2008.

However the controversy over 9/11 didn't go away. It escalated.

To wit:

No steel framed high rise building was ever brought down by fire. The heat from fire could never reach the level for melting steel.

Thermite was found in the debris of the WTC even after most of the steel and concrete was removed from the site. Thermite is capable of melting steel.

Witnesses on the scene that day, particularly FDNY personnel heard explosions prior to the buildings collapse.

Pictures of melted steel running down the buildings' exterior was clearly visible before they collapsed.

A 3rd WTC building 7 collapsed directly on its footprint that day without ever being struck by an airplane. Video of building 7 collapsing is reminiscent of Las Vegas casinos intentionally brought down in controlled demolition.

As to the attack on the Pentagon by a commercial airliner; no airplane debris, particularly large engine parts were discovered. Even the picture of the damaged building was smaller than a commercial airliners' impact.

Some commercial airline pilots indicated it wasn't possible for a commercial airplane to fly that low at the high speed that was officially stated.

The implications today of the Kennedy assassination and 9/11? Trust in the governments pronouncements on any significant event is highly questionable at best, nil at worst.

It's proven beyond any doubt "official' Washington lies. The MSM is lies. Would any person who was lied to by another ever trust anything he, she said again?

We've been in the Covid pandemic. "Official" pronouncements on getting the vaccine, wearing masks, social distancing, travel restrictions, quarantine demands, businesses closed; just the arbitrary nature of it all.

Trust the government on Covid? Not to millions of Americans. A fool believes only those on the far right don't trust the governments' diktat. No, it's only a fool who still does.

.



Authors Website: dglefc22733@aol.com

Authors Bio:
Retired. The author of "DECEIT AND EXCESS IN AMERICA, HOW THE MONEYED INTERESTS HAVE STOLEN AMERICA AND HOW WE CAN GET IT BACK", Authorhouse, 2009

Back