Key Reagan advisor Hon. Paul Roberts:
"Gullible Americans have been duped by the 9/11 Hoax... Wise up -- the
world is laughing at you."
Who is Paul Craig Roberts?
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy under Ronald
Reagan (awarded the Treasury Department's Meritorious Service Award for
"his outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States
economic policy.")
Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University,
and Research Fellow at the Independent Institute.
Former editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal and columnist
for Business Week and the Scripps Howard News Service
Held the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies (1982 -1993)
Distinguished Fellow at the Cato Institute from 1993 to 1996
Olin Fellow at the Institute for Political Economy
Nationally syndicated columnist for Investor's Business Daily
Winner of the 1992 Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism
Ranked "One of the top seven journalists" by the Forbes Media Guide
(1993)
Author of, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, and Marx's Theory of
Exchange, Alienation and Crisis
Dr. Roberts was educated at the Georgia Institute of Technology (
B=2ES.), the University of Virginia (Ph.D.), the University of California
at Berkeley and Oxford University where he was a member of Merton
College.
He is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World , The
Dictionary of International Biography, Outstanding People of the
Twentieth Century, and 1000 Leaders of World Influence.
Could anyone in their right mind consider this man a crackpot
"conspiracy theorist"?
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Gullible Americans
By Paul Craig Roberts
Information Clearing House
08/14/06
I was in China when a July Harris Poll reported that 50 percent of
Americans still believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when
Bush invaded that country, and that 64 percent of Americans still
believe that Saddam Hussein had strong links with Al Qaeda.
The Chinese leaders and intellectuals with whom I was meeting were
incredulous. How could a majority of the population in an allegedly
free country with an allegedly free press be so totally misinformed?
The only answer I could give the Chinese is that Americans would have
been the perfect population for Mao and the Gang of Four, because
Americans believe anything their government tells them.
Americans never check any facts. Who do you know, for example, who has
even read the Report of the 9/11 Commission, much less checked the
alleged facts reported in that document. I can answer for you. You
don't know anyone who has read the report or checked the facts.
The two co-chairmen of the 9/11 Commission Report, Thomas Kean and Lee
Hamilton, have just released a new book, "Without Precedent: The Inside
Story of the 9/11 Commission." Kean and Hamilton reveal that the
commission suppressed the fact that Muslim ire toward the US is due to
US support for Israel's persecution and dispossession of the
Palestinians, not to our "freedom and democracy" as Bush
propagandistically claims. Kean and Hamilton also reveal that the US
military committed perjury and lied about its failure to intercept the
hijacked airliners. The commission even debated referring the
military's lies to the Justice Department for criminal investigation.
Why should we assume that these admissions are the only coverups and
lies in the 9/11 Commission Report?
How do you know that 9/11 was a Muslim terrorist plot? How do you know
that THREE World Trade Center buildings collapsed because TWO were hit
by airliners? You only "know" because the government gave you the
explanation of what you saw on TV. (Did you even know that three WTC
buildings collapsed?)
I still remember the enlightenment I experienced as a student in
Russian Studies when I learned that the Czarist secret police would set
off bombs and then blame those whom they wanted to arrest.
When Hitler seized dictatorial power in 1933, he told the Germans that
his new powers were made necessary by a communist terrorist attack on
the Reichstag. When Hitler started World War II by invading Poland, he
told the Germans that Poland had crossed the frontier and attacked
Germany.
Governments lie all the time--especially governments staffed by
neoconservatives whose intellectual godfather, Leo Strauss, taught them
that it is permissible to deceive the public in order to achieve their
agenda.
Some readers will write to me to say that they saw a TV documentary or
read a magazine article verifying the government's explanation of 9/11.
But, of course, these Americans did not check the facts either--and
neither did the people who made the documentary and wrote the magazine
article.
Scientists and engineers, such as Clemson University Professor of
Engineering Dr. Judy Woods and BYU Professor of Physics Dr. Steven
Jones, have raised compelling questions about the official account of
the collapse of the three WTC buildings. The basic problem for the
government's account is that the buildings are known to have fallen at
freefall speed, a fact that is inconsistent with the government's
"pancaking" theory in which debris from above collapsed the floors
below. If the buildings actually "pancaked," then each floor below
would have offered resistance to the floors above, and the elapsed time
would have been much longer. These experts have also calculated that
the buildings did not have sufficient gravitational energy to
accommodate the government's theory of the collapse. It is certainly
a known and non-controversial fact among physicists and engineers that
the only way buildings can collapse at freefall speed into their own
footprints is by engineered demolition . Explosives are used to remove
the support of floors below before the debris from above arrives.
Otherwise, resistance is encountered and the time required for fall
increases. Engineered demolition also explains the symmetrical
collapse of the buildings into their own foot prints. As it is
otherwise improbable for every point in floors below to weaken
uniformly, "pancaking" would result in asymmetrical collapse as some
elements of the floor would give sooner than others.
Scientific evidence is a tough thing for the American public to handle,
and the government knows it. The government can rely on people
dismissing things that they cannot understand as "conspiracy theory."
But if you are inclined to try to make up your own mind, you can find
Dr. Jones' and Dr. Woods' papers, which have been formally presented to
their peers at scientific meetings, on line at http://www.st911.org/
Experts have also pointed out that the buildings' massive steel
skeletons comprised a massive heat sink that wicked away the heat from
the limited, short-lived fires, thus preventing a heat buildup.
Experts also point out that the short-lived, scattered, low-intensity
fires could barely reach half the melting point of steel even if they
burned all day instead of merely an hour .
Don't ask me to tell you what happened on 9/11. All I know is that the
official account of the buildings' collapse is improbable.
Now we are being told another improbable tale. Muslim terrorists in
London and Pakistan were caught plotting to commit mass murder by
smuggling bottles of explosive liquids on board airliners in hand
luggage. Baby formula, shampoo and water bottles allegedly contained
the tools of suicide bombers.
How do we know about this plot? Well, the police learned it from an
"Islamic militant arrested near the Afghan-Pakistan border several
weeks ago." And how did someone so far away know what British-born
people in London were plotting?
Do you really believe that Western and Israeli intelligence services,
which were too incompetent to prevent the 9/11 attack, can uncover a
London plot by capturing a person on the Afghan border in Pakistan? Why
would "an Islamic militant" rat on such a plot even if he knew of it?
More probable explanations of the "plot" are readily available.
According to the August 11 Wayne Madsen Report, informed sources in the
UK report that "the Tony Blair government, under siege by a Labor Party
revolt, cleverly cooked up a new 'terror' scare to avert the public's
eyes away from Blair's increasing political woes. British law
enforcement, neocon and intelligence operatives in the US, Israel, and
Britain, and Rupert Murdoch's global media empire cooked up the
terrorist plot, liberally borrowing from the failed 1995 'Oplan Bjinka'
plot by Pakistan- and Philippines-based terrorist Ramzi Ahmad Yousef
to crash 11 trans-Pacific airliners bound from Asia to the US."
There are other plausible explanations. For example, our puppet in
Pakistan decided to arrest some people who were a threat to him. With
Bush's commitment to "building democracy in the Middle East," our
puppet can't arrest his political enemies without cause, so he lays the
blame on a plot.
Any testimony against Muslim plotters by "an Islamic militant" is
certain to have been bought and paid for.
Or consider this explanation. Under the Nuremberg standard, Bush and
Blair are war criminals. Bush is so worried that he will be held
accountable that he has sent his attorney general to consult with the
Republican Congress to work out legislation to protect Bush
retroactively from his violations of the Geneva Conventions .
Tony Blair is in more danger of finding himself in the dock. Britain
is signatory to a treaty that, if justice is done, will place Blair
before the International Criminal Court in the Hague.
What better justification for the two war criminals' illegal actions
than the need to foil dastardly plots by Muslims recruited in sting
operations by Western intelligence services? The more Bush and Blair
can convince their publics that terrorist danger abounds, the less
likely Bush and Blair are ever to be held accountable for their crimes.
But surely, some readers might object, our great moral leaders wouldn't
do something political like that!
They most certainly would. As Joshua Micah Marshall wrote in the July
7 issue of Time magazine, the suspicion is "quite reasonable" that "the
Bush Administration orchestrates its terror alerts and arrests to goose
the GOP's poll numbers."
Joshua Micah Marshall proves his conclusion by examining the barrage of
color-coded terror alerts, none of which were real, and, yes, it all
fits with political needs.
And don't forget the plot unearthed in Miami to blow up the Sears Tower
in Chicago. Described by Vice President Cheney as a "very real threat,"
the plot turned out to be nothing more than a few harmless whackos
recruited by an FBI agent sent out to organize a sting.
There was also the "foiled plot" to blow up the Holland Tunnel and
flood downtown New York City with sea water. Thinking New Orleans, the
FBI invented this plot without realizing that New York City is above
sea level. Of course, most Americans didn't realize it either.
For six years the Bush regime has been able to count on the ignorant
and naive American public to believe whatever tale that is told them.
American gullibility has yet to fail the Bush regime.
The government has an endless number of conspiracy theories, but only
people who question the government's conspiracies are derided for
"having a conspiracy theory."
The implication is even worse if we assume that the explosive bottle
plot is genuine. It means that America and Britain by their own
aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan, and by enabling Israel's war crimes
in Palestine and Lebanon, have created such hatred that Muslims, who
identify with Bush's, Blair's, and Israel's victims, are plotting
retaliation.
But Bush is prepared. He has taught his untutored public that "they
hate us for our freedom and democracy."
Gentle reader, wise up. The entire world is laughing at you.
Shalom,
--- Prof. Leland Milton Goldblatt, Ph.D. =AE
http://www.prof.faithweb.com
http://drgoldblatt.blogspot.com/
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