The Fraud Of 9/11: Unfinished Business

Ellie is the femme fatale and Scott’s former lover who has letters that incriminate him. These arrive in the hands of the president, but as a matter of principle Lyman decides not to use them to blackmail his adversary. He opts for direct confrontation and wins out. Jiggs Casey is the hero of the day as he stumbles on the plot, informs the White House and after the requisite intrigues the conspirators are exposed. America is saved and democracy preserved. The movie is a well wrought piece of fiction, well dramatized, with an excellent cast and a heartening outcome. If we revisit the same country a few decades later, we have a non-fictional plot, badly dramatized by a cast of scurrilous characters, and a less than heartening outcome. In the 1990’s with the collapse of the USSR, America is left as the singular superpower. It has a swaggering military redundancy with no apparent enemies to deter and a huge and tempting power vacuum to be filled. A cabal of Washington based neoconservatives quickly seize the opportunity to correct this situation. Thus, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) comes into being. As a blueprint for global domination it advocates serial, simultaneous and pre-emptive warfare as necessary to achieve this goal. In other terms, the ultimate objective is to achieve “Global Battlespace Dominance,” more euphemistically known as “Full Spectrum Dominance.” Another document, “Vision for 2020” rounds out the master plan. It calls for the weaponization of space-Star Wars. Under the guise of being a mantel of first defense its actual purpose will be to enforce America’s dominance globally with space launched missiles and laser cannons. The one missing ingredient in this stellar formula for global domination was a pretext. Such a vast undertaking could not simply be initiated until there was a convenient scapegoat; where enemies do not exist they must created, where they do exist their lethality must be exaggerated. The architects of the PNAC and Full Spectrum Dominance needed a new Pearl Harbor, an event that would electrify the nation and give their agenda legitimacy. 9/11 was that opportunity. When 9/11 happened it was called an event that would change the world, and it surely has done that. The problem with 9/11 is the integrity of the events of that day. There is preponderance of evidence that challenges the official view of what happened. In his book “The New Pearl Harbor” David Ray Griffin documents evidence that the US government, or elements of it, were heavily complicit in this event. The book is compelling and authoritative as it is largely an assemblage of the work of others who have investigated and researched the events of 9/11. Griffin, as a professor emeritus of religious philosophy brings to this information a rigorous academic scrutiny and he is not afraid to play the devil’s advocate. He is hesitant to draw conclusions but he asks the hard questions and is adamant that there needs to be a full and open investigation into the events of 9/11. From the book it is easy to surmise that not only did elements of the US government have detailed knowledge of an impending attack, it accommodated it (the military stand down) and enhanced it (the controlled demolition of the three WTC towers). The attack on the Pentagon may well have been a home grown “add-on” to make sure the attack had the necessary impact on the nation’s consciousness. What perplexes Griffin, and this writer, is that if you believe the official version of events the incompetence on the part of the government was atrocious. If you believe there was a cover up, there too the incompetence was atrocious. The events surrounding 9/11 prove the conspirator’s talents as fraud artists are not commensurate with their imperial ambitions. They should have hired the likes of a John Frankenheimer to stage the event for them. Their special effects lacked a certain authenticity, only a good director, a manufacturer of fictions, can effectively produce. There are numerous “Jiggs’” and “Ellies” dotting the US government bureaucratic landscape who have had the courage to come forward with their testimony and letters of incrimination but so far the directors of the fiction of 9/11 have enforced plot suppression, and a happy ending is not forthcoming. Oddly enough, 9/11 did not result in the firing or resignations of any senior bureaucrats charged with the nation’s security. Indeed, many have been promoted. In the normal course of national security, and in the absence of an ulterior motive, the all-pervasive American security apparatus would surely would have squelched this attack long before it came to fruition. If we assume complicity (as we must) and the doubtful integrity of the events 9/11 then all decisions based on 9/11 are based on a false premise. It has been used as a rally crying for everything from war to the abrogation of civil liberties, democratic values, torture, domestic spying, flagrant executive privilege, and war profiteering. The Los Angeles Times has just reported that the Bush administration wants to renew the country’s nuclear arsenal and be able to produce 125 nuclear bombs a year by 2022 (and they wonder why Iran wants a nuclear capability), part of this would be a consolidation of existing nuclear facilities. In reference to this San Diego physicist David Overskei states: “The cost of security alone for the current infrastructure of plants over the next two decades was roughly $25 billion. Security costs have grown, because the Sept. 11 attacks have led the Energy Department to believe terrorists could mount a larger and better armed strike force.” Where the integrity of the 9/11 is challengeable Overskei is operating on a false premise and the $25 billion becomes an inflated amount. Overskei effectively perpetrates the fraud of 9/11. The fraud of 9/11, needless to say, has the proven ability to alter the course of nations through war but also through coercion. Canada and Mexico are being pressured into NAFTA-Plus, the North American “security and prosperity” pact which is really the annexation of these countries-largely premised on a US internal security failure that never should have occurred. In Britain, grandmothers are being arrested because they deliberately and courageously defied Draconian and absurd anti-terrorist laws that have more to do with the suppression of the freedom of speech than effectively squelching an overblown terrorist threat. On an even more profound level the US has used 9/ll as a manifesto for a belligerent unilateralism. In an era where it is patently obvious the global community must adopt a rigorous multilateralism to address major issues the US has emphatically stated that it will blindly pursue self-interest first and foremost. Where it should be leading the way on so many issues it is the retrograde antagonist. Multilateralism is not pie-in-the-sky idealism. It is the essential acceptance of the reality that if we do not work together as a global community tensions and problems are going to be exacerbated rather than mollified. It is not at all hard to see foresee larger wars and greater misery as the present new world order unfolds. The UN and other multilateral institutions are only as good as we make them. Where nations defy the international rule of law there will be chaos. Where they practice flagrant hypocrisy there will be tyranny. History is being driven by a heinous corruption that falsifies subsequent events and policies. Unfortunately, it may well be, full accountability, and the exact depth of the fraudulence will not be rendered until after the Bush administration leaves office. It may even be left for some future generation to render, at which time it will be mere historical footnote and passed off as the cost of empire; but then too maybe the ruination of The Dream. In the mean time, the casualty list from 9/11 grows extravagantly in human lives and numerous other manifestations; with truth being the first, and democracy among the most precious. Robert Billyard © 2006