Why America Needs to Investigate the Unexplained Facts of 9/11

One over-arching obsession echoes through the halls of much of America these days: Defeat Bush. Like a heartbeat, this obsession pulses daily through the Internet, through campaigns, and through gathering places across the land.

At the deepest level, the anti-Bush movement is about more than partisan politics. It is about reclaiming American values while washing away the stain the Bush administration has placed on America’s good name in the world.

An increasing number of Americans feel the visceral desire to remove a President who does not represent their values but caters to a weathly elite while lying, manipulating, and undermining long-cherished freedoms. However, they haven’t been that savvy about how to do this yet, spending much of their time on impassioned diatribes to the choir. A surprising number have shied away from investigating the one thing that can ensure Bush would be lucky to return to his ranch rather than a penitentiary: evidence of actual criminality.

Criminal behavior is far more serious than incompetence, political backstabbing, or even truth-shading statements. Criminal behavior would take Bush out of any serious contention for the presidency. Evidence of criminal behavior in the administration could result in far more than regime change. Its exposure would result in transformation of corrupted power structures and greater accountability to the American people.

Most people are very, very wary of crossing the line into thinking a president has engaged in actual criminality. Understandable. However, we must take off the rosy glasses with which we view our land and our leadership and admit that, over the course of human history, there is virtually no crime that has not been committed by political leaders. Power is a corruptive drug, as our Founding Fathers well knew. If we’ve had less abuse of it than most countries, we should consider ourselves fortunate. However, there is always the chance for those in power, even in America, to begin to abuse power and slip over the line into serious crimes.

The abuses at Abu Ghraib opened the path for deeper revelations. The next wave looks likely to center on the exposure of deep CIA cover Valerie Plame for political reasons. Bush has retained independent counsel to face the grand jury hearing, which may signal he has something to hide. Other scandals wait in the wings.

The question is: how deep does the stain run?

Shockingly, the evidence is strong for deception all the way back to the source point for the whole war on terror: the events of 9/11. Almost uncovered by the mass media, an international movement has grown detailing hundreds of unexplained facts that, when seen together, point beyond intelligence failures and incompetence. The facts point towards at least high-level complicity in the Bush administration and, more probably, actual influence in the orchestration of the events.

A sobering thought. If true, this would tumble the entire house of cards.

Most people don’t want to think such thoughts. They are threatening and frightening. And yet, think them we must if we want to call ourselves patriots. Patriots protect what is most precious about America and that includes dealing with betrayals of the public trust. In fact, one of our most serious and most patriotic duties is to hold public officials to a high level of accountability.

I will not chronicle the evidence here. There are half a dozen excellent books, several dozen videos, hundreds of websites, citizen’s inquiries, and local action groups that have laid the groundwork for the next wave of investigations. For a high-level survey, see www.911truth.org.

What I will simply point out is that a growing number of prominent individuals are putting their reputations on the line to advance the 9/11 Truth Movement and demand that we simply MUST address the unexplained facts of 9/11. The list includes such notables as:

• Howard Zinn, author
  
• David Ray Griffin, eminent philosopher
  
• John Gray, bestselling author
  
• Catherine Austin Fitts, former Asst. Secretary of Housing under Bush I
  
• Kevin Danaher, founder of Global Exchange
  
• Jim Hightower, populist commentator
  
• Dr. Robert Bowman, retired US Air Force Colonel
  
• Dr. Paul Lannoye, European Parliamentarian
  
• Sibel Edmonds, former FBI intelligence translator
  
• Philip Berg, former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania
  
• The National Green Party

A growing group of families of the victims are also calling for serious criminal investigation by an independent commission. Widow Ellen Mariani had been leading the legal charge by suing the Bush administration under the federal RICO Act.

If you care about the future of this country and the realization of American ideals, I urge you to swallow whatever fears you have and look at the evidence with open eyes. The Bush regime may be far more dangerous than most opponents had imagined.

I recommend starting with David Ray Griffin’s book, The New Pearl Harbor. Then register on 911Truth.org and 911visibility.org before passing the word. If enough patriotic Americans act quickly enough, we can ensure that this fall election will be a powerful step forward morally, politically, and even spiritually for America and the world.