Prof. Milton Goldblatt wrote:
> 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.S.), 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 re****ted 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 Re****t of the 9/11 Commission, much less checked the
> alleged facts re****ted in that document. I can answer for you. You
> don't know anyone who has read the re****t or checked the facts.
>
> The two co-chairmen of the 9/11 Commission Re****t, 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 sup****t 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 Re****t?
>
> 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 sup****t 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 Re****t, informed sources in the
> UK re****t 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 **** u sand nigger
>
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