9/11 conspiracy?

World power is not a neat pyramid structure with
aliens, Jews or a cabal of men with a secret handshake at the top.
It makes more sense to see a range of competing power blocks,
alliances and cartels in a shifting, perpetual power play - with
governments, nationalist and business interests doing what they've
always done, battling for control of land, resources, workforces
and populations. There is one conspiracy that doesn't lurk in
smoky rooms behind closed doors - it's called global capitalism.

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TRUTH-ACHE - On the fifth anniversary, SchNEWS gingerly dips a toe
into the murky waters of the great 9-11 debate...

It's the big fight over 'the truth'. In the blue corner we have
the US government's official version of 9-11 events and in all the
other corners we have proponents of various 'conspiracy' theories.
But in these days of governments caught telling outright lies
about WMDs etc, and a massive groundswell of cynicism about any
official pronouncement - just what is a conspiracy theory? What
happens when 'common sense' is hijacked and the fringe goes
mainstream? And does it matter anyway?

The self-proclaimed 9-11 truth movement, in many ways a genuine
grassroots movement (or cult?), is growing and its ideas are
gradually filtering into the mainstream. No anti-war event is
complete now without a new 9-11 conspiracy DVD and flyers to some
new talk / book launch - and our inbox often overflows with new
'revelations'. Every possible, and some quite impossible angles
are covered - from the relatively mainstream question marks
hanging over the US administration's possible advance knowledge of
the plot, to off-planet assertions about holograms, missiles and
alien DNA. This kind of thing will always delight the 'Elvis faked
the moon landings with a black helicopter' Internet crowd, but
with polls showing that a third of Americans and nearly half of
New Yorkers believing US officials either knew about the attacks
or were actively involved, this represents a major uprising of
disbelief. This has forced the US govt into producing a series of
rebuttals, asserting their 'truth' and challenging the
accusations.

The two main strands of theorising could be summed up as "they
knew in advance" and "the whole thing was faked". At the more
plausible end we have the idea that the Neo-Cons had anticipated
or were complicit in the events of 9-11. In any case, the event
enabled them to put into practice an agenda for global domination
hatched years before. It is all laid out in the year 2000 paper,
'Rebuilding America's Defenses' published by the Project for a New
American Century, a think-tank whose members included Cheney,
Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz (See SchNEWS 387). It talked about the fact
that a "catastrophic and catalyzing event - a new Pearl Harbor"
would be needed to transform the public's attitude to war.
Certainly there were no flies on the Cheney-Bush axis when it came
to taking advantage of 9-11's propaganda value, and even now Bush
routinely invokes it as an emblem of America's need to be
militarily aggressive.

At the other end of the reality spectrum, are those that are sure
that all the buildings were pre-primed with explosives, that all
the Jews who worked there were given advanced warning, that the
planes never existed and were in fact holograms disguising
missiles etc etc. The trouble with all these theories is that they
require mind-boggling numbers of people to have been 'in on it'.
It seems unlikely that the clique responsible for the disaster in
Iraq could have organised something so slickly. And why would they
need to go to the trouble? Two planes striking the towers would
have been more than enough to serve as the big catalytic terrorist
event... And if you were orchestrating the whole thing, why bother
faking it with missiles or holograms anyway? Just use real
planes... much simpler.

Perhaps this is why too much speculation on these points
eventually leads inevitably to a paranoiac world view, a secret
cabal who must control everything from behind the scenes - only
they could pull the wool over everone's eyes in such an
all-encompassing way.

SHAYLER TRASH

The 'truths' arrived at by some of these theories are so way out
there, we began to wonder if they'd been spread deliberately to
sow confusion, making it easier for the authorities to discredit
the whole 9-11 debate by association. Conspiracy on conspiracy -
where does it end?

There's no doubt that big questions about the role of the US
government remain unanswered (for example, relationships with
Saudi elites), but it seems they're in danger of being drowned out
by the clamour of outright lunacy.

Poster-boy of the UK branch of the 9-11 Truth movement is former
MI5 agent David Shayler. An acknowledged 'insider', he must have
seemed a great asset to the fraternity. But at the Big Green
Gathering this year, SchNEWS were confronted with the spectacle of
a man who appeared to have swallowed and regurgitated the entire
works of David "blame the lizards" Icke. No stone was left turned,
no subject demystified as Dave told us how aliens have been
negotiating with our government and 500 abductees are the only
people who've got any real idea about all this 9-11 stuff. That
includes 7/7 and 11/7 (date of Mumbai bombings by the way) - all
evidence of an underground plot by a 'shadow Zionist secret
government'. Amongst other interesting points conjured forth were
that the Royal family is descended from multi-dimensional Annunaki
lizards (and 'flaws' in evolutionary theory prove it!) Riveting
though this stuff is, it is, unfortunately, a load of bollocks.

On the other hand, the documented existence of a shadow world of
CIA mounted black-ops and coups makes the idea that 9-11 was a
'false flag' operation seem within the realms of possibility.
American intelligence has a long and bloody history of covert
operations, instigating coups and funding opposition against those
that challenge their authority. Coups such as the one on the less
well remembered September 11th - 1973, when the CIA helped
overthrow the democratically elected leader of Chile, Salvador
Allende, and usher in a brutal military dictatorship. Doubts over
9-11, the cornerstone of the US's ideological crusade, make it
easier to appreciate that it's just all in a days work for the US
to fund and arm people like Saddam and the anti-Soviet forces in
Afghanistan, which gave rise to Al-Qaeda.

The fact that these theories are catching on so widely is partly
due to the huge growth of scepticism about the role of governments
in the entire War on TerrorT. In this country we already know that
our government plotted the war on Iraq well in advance, lied about
Iraq's WMDs and engaged in a systematic propaganda campaign to
support the invasion. We know that our government, in alliance
with the US, is engaged in secret renditions, torture and
aggressive war. Public awareness of the true nature of power has
probably never been higher - and the fact that so many are willing
to believe that the US government may have slaughtered its own
citizens shows how the ideological ground is shifting. It's not,
in the end, the truth of the allegations but the effect they're
having that's important.

The 9-11 truth movement clearly sees the anti-war crowd as fertile
recruiting ground (maybe we should return the compliment). They
argue that proving 9-11 a hoax should be the main focus of any
faction opposing the Neo-Con-men. But in reality, whether or not
they orchestrated 9-11 (let alone it actually be proven), we
should be concentrating on the broader US-led capitalist agendas,
and their catastrophic consequences. 9-11 was a symptom rather
than a cause of a 'big picture' which doesn't need science fiction
to explain it. World power is not a neat pyramid structure with
aliens, Jews or a cabal of men with a secret handshake at the top.
It makes more sense to see a range of competing power blocks,
alliances and cartels in a shifting, perpetual power play - with
governments, nationalist and business interests doing what they've
always done, battling for control of land, resources, workforces
and populations. There is one conspiracy that doesn't lurk in
smoky rooms behind closed doors - it's called global capitalism.

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** ** Watch the movie made by an amateur on no budget:
www.loosechange911.com ** For the British perspective see -
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www.whatreallyhappened.com/london_exercise_video.html **

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