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In Honor of a Truth Teller, by Paul Craig Roberts

Truth tellers should be honored, especially one who so doggedly insisted that the official 9/11 story was a lie. From Paul Craig Roberts at paulcraigroberts.org:

Richard Gage, who founded Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth and grew the membership to 3,000 architects & engineers who know for certain that the official story of the collapse of the three WTC skyscrapers is false, organized an online remembrance on December 9 of David Ray Griffin, a distinguished scholar of impeccable  integrity who recently died. I was invited to participate. 

David Ray Griffin:  Truth Teller

Hon. Paul Craig Roberts, Ph.D.

David Ray Griffin was a man who could differentiate between good and evil, and he recognized the power of evil.  When the event known as 9/11 occurred, Griffin deduced from the inadequacy of the official explanation, and from the evil use of 9/11, both at home and abroad, that the Cheney-Bush neoconservative regime made of 9/11, that much was amiss.  He set aside his work on the philosophy of religion and scientific naturalism to investigate and provide a true account, which he provided in a large number of books, perhaps a dozen.

Others, of course, also contributed to establishing the facts.  Among them are Richard Gage, fearless scientists such as Steven Jones, Niels Harrit, and physicist David Chandler, the others on this program, and Graeme MacQueen who exposed the anthrax deception. 

David Ray Griffin stayed on the case, book after book, and hammered it home. 

People interested enough to pay attention have for the most part concluded that the neoconservatives who occupied the highest offices in the Pentagon, State Department, and National Security Council, all under Cheney’s protection and, thereby, President Bush’s, attacked our country in order to have their “new Pearl Harbor” to free them to decimate the Middle East and North Africa in the interests of Israel.  Of course many other people benefitted.  For example, the military-security complex’s profits and the enemies of the US Constitution. The Bush regime suspended habeas corpus and asserted the medieval right of casting people into prison without evidence presented to a judge and jury and obtaining conviction.  The Obama regime went further and asserted the right of the President of the United States to execute American citizens on suspicion alone without due process.

In my opinion David Ray Griffin was alarmed by the ability of evil to use the American government for evil aims.

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Out-Thought, Out-Bought, Out-Fought: Why the “9/11 Truth” Movement Failed, by Alan Sabrosky

As every lawyer knows, there’s a big difference between having a case and making a case. From Alan Sabrosky at unz.com:

Sometimes you have to lie to others to buy time to deal with a problem.

But never lie to yourself. –Lt. Gen Bernard C. “Mick” Trainor, USMC (Ret.)

I have cited my late friend “Mick” Trainor’s words elsewhere, and kept them in mind since he said them to me in the late 1980s.They ought to be graven in granite in the minds of everyone of good heart in public life. They are also an indictment of the “9/11 Truth” movement as a whole, which tried to speak the truth about this atrocity to the people as well as to those in power, but increasingly lied to itself about the effect it was having. It finally ended in complete failure, lacking only a decent funeral oration.

An Overview

It gives me no pleasure at all to write these words. I personally came to the movement late in 2009, then met many excellent people and worked with many fine editors at a time when overt censorship was still minimal. The best of the “Truthers” shared one thing in common: they were right that the US Government explanation of the 9/11 attacks was singularly flawed, in whole and in all its major parts. But they – and I include myself here – were never able to convey that message in a politically significant way to enough of the American public to matter.

The net effect is that despite innumerable articles, speeches, seminars, videos, protests and the like by tens of thousands of activists, the 20th anniversary of 9/11 came and went with barely a whimper. It was preceded by the collapse of the 9/11 lawyers effort in New York City on which so many had staked their hopes, and the dismissal of Richard Gage – the founder of the seminal “Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth” – from his own organization by his own board. It is tragic enough when evil triumphs, which is what the real planners and perpetrators of 9/11 did. It is even worse when the collapse of the efforts to expose them and to bring them to justice ends in farce.

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