Too Little too Late Department

[Tim Howells]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1480940,00.html#article_continue

The war on paperclips
I worry that I'm turning into a conspiracy theorist
AL Kennedy
Wednesday May 11, 2005
The Guardian

OK, I'm paranoid and depressed. My new government of troglodytes,
murderers and spivs barely elongates the customary scream I give
upon waking. What troubles me more is our rulers' inevitable
recommencement of the war on terror bollocks.

To begin at what we're told is the beginning, we have 9/11 -
the one in the US, not the earlier one in Chile when covert US
government intervention killed thousands of innocents and handed
the country to a commerce-friendly, torture-loving, far-right
junta. Now if 9/11/2001 is so important, why is it so hard to
find out what happened?

The FBI, as we know, blocked all manner of investigations into
the plot in the run up to its execution, whether these involved
highly specific warnings from its own agents or from government
sources in Afghanistan, Argentina, Britain, the Cayman Islands,
Egypt, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Morocco and
Russia.

Meanwhile, I worry why the nearest military aircraft weren't
scrambled to intercept any of the hijacked flights when this is
standard procedure and why, when more distant jets were finally
aloft, they flew at less than half speed, thus failing to
prevent the impacts at the twin towers and then, it would seem,
managing to shoot down Flight 93 when its passengers may already
have overcome its hijackers.

It would, of course, be easier to know what happened to Flight
93 if there weren't - according to educated estimates - three
minutes of the cockpit recording missing. It would, equally, be
handy to have access to the black boxes from the other crashes.
Firefighters at Ground Zero have repeatedly stated that three of
the four possible black boxes there were found and taken away by
government agents.

And these worries are maybe less important than the ones about
clear links between the Pakistani ISI, the CIA and the men named
as the 9/11 hijackers. Or the mysterious inability of anyone to
capture Osama bin Laden, who fled from Tora Bora, possibly being
evacuated by helicopter, and then escaped to Pakistan unhindered.

So while Chinese paperclips are now made out of vital 9/11
evidence and almost every implicated party goes free, we and our
controlling US interests continue fearlessly to terrorise
countries unconnected with the attacks, to place permanent
military bases near oil reserves and pipeline routes, to harass
and murder Muslims anywhere we can, and to foment terrorist
resistance at every opportunity. The UK unmasks non-existent
ricin plots and threatens us with ID cards, but we can't supply
our troops in Iraq with working radios or a legal causus belli.

But you'd never want to think that on 9/11/2001 covert US
government intervention killed thousands of innocents and handed
the country, if not the world, to a commerce-friendly, torture-
loving, far-right junta. That would make you a paranoid,
depressed conspiracy theorist. And, take it from me, that just
wouldn't be comfortable.

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[John Doe II]

1. Thanks

for the article.
A little hope that msm haven't lost all interest in 911.

[Woody Box]

2. The Guardian

and the Independent are the best "establishment" newspapers of the world.

Long live the Brits!

[staticstopper]

3. but doesn't that make you wonder..

I shut down my blog that I worked hard on for 5 months, because I noticed that most of the good CT sites were from out of country and also just my conflicting feelings about all the fear-mongering/doom my writings had..."was i doing it for my own entertainment...*they* like people to be fearful...I'm not much of an activist and talk is cheap" etc, etc.

or am I just getting spooked?

I'm just going to lurk for a while and get out of the "fray"
It seems like now is the time to really push - with bUsh's # falling and all, but that is when trapped rats lash out, and being a 1/24 of a peon in the grand scheme, and in terms of knowing how to handle computer security stuff...I just think it's time the big-boys get into the fight.

any thoughts?

[philb]

4. Have people tried getting appointments with Editorial writers in U.S.

taking the clear evidence of complicity, lies, cover-up and seeing what the editors say in person regarding why it wasn't covered?