by Paul Craig Roberts
Global Research, June 20, 2011
– 2011-06-19
Image by Leo Reynolds via Flickr
While we were not watching, conspiracy theory has undergone Orwellian redefinition.
A “conspiracy theory” no longer means an event explained by a conspiracy. Instead, it now means any explanation, or even a fact, that is out of step with the government’s explanation and that of its media pimps.
For example, online news broadcasts of RT have been equated with conspiracy theories by the New York Times simply because RT reports news and opinions that the New York Times does not report and the US government does not endorse.
In other words, as truth becomes uncomfortable for government and its Ministry of Propaganda, truth is redefined as conspiracy theory, by which is meant an absurd and laughable explanation that we should ignore.
When piles of carefully researched books, released government documents, and testimony of eye witnesses made it clear that Oswald was not President John F. Kennedy’s assassin, the voluminous research, government documents, and verified testimony was dismissed as “conspiracy theory.”
In other words, the truth of the event was unacceptable to the authorities and to the Ministry of Propaganda that represents the interests of authorities.
The purest example of how Americans are shielded from truth is the media’s (including many Internet sites’) response to the large number of professionals who find the official explanation of September 11, 2001, inconsistent with everything they, as experts, know about physics, chemistry, structural engineering, architecture, fires, structural damage, the piloting of airplanes, the security procedures of the United States, NORAD’s capabilities, air traffic control, airport security, and other matters. These experts, numbering in the thousands, have been shouted down by know-nothings in the media who brand the experts as “conspiracy theorists.”
This despite the fact that the official explanation endorsed by the official media is the most extravagant conspiracy theory in human history.
Let’s take a minute to re-acquaint ourselves with the official explanation, which is not regarded as a conspiracy theory despite the fact that it comprises an amazing conspiracy. The official truth is that a handful of young Muslim Arabs who could not fly airplanes, mainly Saudi Arabians who came neither from Iraq nor from Afghanistan, outwitted not only the CIA and the FBI, but also all 16 US intelligence agencies and all intelligence agencies of US allies including Israel’s Mossad, which is believed to have penetrated every terrorist organization and which carries out assassinations of those whom Mossad marks as terrorists.
In addition to outwitting every intelligence agency of the United States and its allies, the handful of young Saudi Arabians outwitted the National Security Council, the State Department, NORAD, airport security four times in the same hour on the same morning, air traffic control, caused the US Air Force to be unable to launch interceptor aircraft, and caused three well-built steel-structured buildings, including one not hit by an airplane, to fail suddenly in a few seconds as a result of limited structural damage and small, short-lived, low-temperature fires that burned on a few floors.
The Saudi terrorists were even able to confound the laws of physics and cause WTC building seven to collapse at free fall speed for several seconds, a physical impossibility in the absence of explosives used in controlled demolition.
The story that the government and the media have told us amounts to a gigantic conspiracy, really a script for a James Bond film. Yet, anyone who doubts this improbable conspiracy theory is defined into irrelevance by the obedient media.
Anyone who believes an architect, structural engineer, or demolition expert who says that the videos show that the buildings are blowing up, not falling down, anyone who believes a Ph.D. physicist who says that the official explanation is inconsistent with known laws of physics, anyone who believes expert pilots who testify that non-pilots or poorly-qualified pilots cannot fly airplanes in such maneuvers, anyone who believes the 100 or more first responders who testify that they not only heard explosions in the towers but personally experienced explosions, anyone who believes University of Copenhagen nano-chemist Niels Harrit who reports finding unreacted nano-thermite in dust samples from the WTC towers, anyone who is convinced by experts instead of by propaganda is dismissed as a kook.
In America today, and increasingly throughout the Western world, actual facts and true explanations have been relegated to the realm of kookiness. Only people who believe lies are socially approved and accepted as patriotic citizens.
Indeed, a writer or newscaster is not even permitted to report the findings of 9/11 skeptics. In other words, simply to report Professor Harrit’s findings now means that you endorse them or agree with them. Everyone in the US print and TV media knows that he/she will be instantly fired if they report Harrit’s findings, even with a laugh. Thus, although Harrit has reported his findings on European television and has lectured widely on his findings in Canadian universities, the fact that he and the international scientific research team that he led found unreacted nano-thermite in the WTC dust and have offered samples to other scientists to examine has to my knowledge never been reported in the American media.
Even Internet sites on which I am among the readers’ favorites will not allow me to report on Harrit’s findings.
As I reported earlier, I myself had experience with a Huffington Post reporter who was keen to interview a Reagan presidential appointee who was in disagreement with the Republican wars in the Middle East. After he published the interview that I provided at his request, he was terrified to learn that I had reported findings of 9/11 investigators. To protect his career, he quickly inserted on the online interview that my views on the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions could be dismissed as I had reported unacceptable findings about 9/11.
The unwillingness or inability to entertain any view of 9/11 different from the official view dooms to impotence many Internet sites that are opposed to the wars and to the rise of the domestic US police state. These sites, for whatever the reasons, accept the government’s explanation of 9/11; yet, they try to oppose the “war on terror” and the police state which are the consequences of accepting the government’s explanation. Trying to oppose the consequences of an event whose explanation you accept is an impossible task.
If you believe that America was attacked by Muslim terrorists and is susceptible to future attacks, then a “war on terror” and a domestic police state to root out terrorists become necessary to make Americans safe. The idea that a domestic police state and open-ended war might be more dangerous threats to Americans than terrorists is an impermissible thought.
A country whose population has been trained to accept the government’s word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.
Copyright © Paul Craig Roberts, Global Research, 2011
see
Thoughtcrime: USA by Rand Clifford
Whistleblower Susan Lindauer: Libya, Lockerbie and 9/11, interviewed by Cindy Sheehan
Michael Parenti: Conspiracy and Class Power (1993)
Michael Parenti: Deep Ideology: How Reactionary Agendas Shape Political Awareness (must-see)
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Let me make one point. You suggest 9-11 was an inside job,, a conspiracy, instead of just a small disciplined group of dedicated fanatics,, so let me ask you just one question. What would the true scope and nature of such an “inside Job” conspiracy really look like? Well, let’s imagine.
Help at the highest levels of government to have NORAD defenses down,, thousands of man hours of covertly inserting demolition devices into occupied buildings,, and not one man or woman choosing to blow a whistle at these folks who would work to bring about the deaths of their fellow countrymen. Not one piece of evidence of a real conspiracy,, just innuendo, just possibilities of a conspiracy. For every point you make where you shout the fact is not debated, it is indeed debated. Read the Popular Mechanics article debunking every single one of your claims.
The PNAC paper “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” referred to a point suggesting that insertion of military forces into the M.E. would be impossible without some kind of “Pearl Harbor type attack.” Now, go figure,, one of our dedicated allies, Saudi Arabia, reads the report,, plays some great mind games with some whack jobs, finances them, and presto/chango ,, you have 9-11.
The Saudis pulled off 9-11. There is the extent of your conspiracy.
They did not need any inside help. Look at who benefitted from 9-11. Saudi Arabia. Now they feel nice and safe and comfy while we have 200,000 fighters protecting them at our expense. They are the most repressive torturing police state in the world. Don’t look inside our own dedicated service members and defense organizations for a conspiracy. Use that energy to link the real culprits of 9-11. The hijackers managed to pull it off because our guard was down.
See:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2006/100806popularmechanics.htm
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/whistleblower-susan-lindauer-libya-lockerbie-and-911/
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/the-fbi-kamikaze-pilots-case-by-sibel-edmonds/
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/911-hijackers-not-on-flight-manifests-by-jeremy-r-hammond/
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/sibel-edmonds-kill-the-messenger-must-see-video/
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“What would the true scope and nature of such an “inside Job” conspiracy really look like? Well, let’s imagine.
Help at the highest levels of government to have NORAD defenses down,, thousands of man hours of covertly inserting demolition devices into occupied buildings,, and not one man or woman choosing to blow a whistle at these folks who would work to bring about the deaths of their fellow countrymen. Not one piece of evidence of a real conspiracy,, just innuendo, just possibilities of a conspiracy.”
I don’t know what cave you hail from, but first of all, there were whistleblowers and they were told to stand down by their superiors. People in NORAD have already stated that the NWO fart Cheney told them to stand down from retaliating against an incoming threat. As to the demolitions, you have the firefighters you love so much to thank for telling people (in front of the cameras) that they heard the explosives going off in those buildings.
“…these folks who would work to bring about the deaths of their fellow countrymen.”
You have defined, among others, the CIA (Crooks in Action) and no less than former CIA agents will tell you they are not only one of the biggest drug runners in this country, they do hits on innocent people–all the time. You also have thugs like the Blackwater Army that are nothing but hired guns and they’ve worked with our government.
“The PNAC paper “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” referred to a point suggesting that insertion of military forces into the M.E. would be impossible without some kind of ‘Pearl Harbor type attack’.”
You’re on to the right track, you just haven’t put the dots together and arrived at the obvious deduction.
“The Saudis pulled off 9-11. There is the extent of your conspiracy.
They did not need any inside help.”
Your statements defy logic. You cannot pull off a caper like 911 without a massive amount of communication. Hence, with all the intelligence agencies in this country there is going to be plenty overheard. Does that mean that the right thing will be done? Did we invade Saudi Arabia?
“Don’t look inside our own dedicated service members and defense organizations for a conspiracy.” See the above paragraph. Also, tell me where the weapons of mass destruction were in Iraq or Iran. If you don’t believe they’re in our government, you haven’t sought the truth and probably don’t want to. Here’s a start regarding “our dedicated service members”…
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/lifting-the-veil-barack-obama-and-the-failure-of-capitalist-democracy/
“The hijackers managed to pull it off because our guard was down.”
If you believe that, I’ll tell you we have never had chemtrails in our skies, the pope ain’t Catholic, and you don’t have your head and probably your rear buried in the sand.. Bon Appétit!
Thanks, hootowl. I replaced the video you suggested with the same video posted on DS.