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Monday, August 14, 2006

Call for an International 9-11 Commission

The Veil Is Lifting and the Stones Cry

Citizens of 87 countries died that fateful September 11, 2001. The World has a serious interest in getting to the truth of it. The UN should appoint an International Investigative Commission to present all the facts on the downing of the World Trade Center.
There are too many disturbing unanswered questions---and they all point to some duplicity or cooperation between the US government and the Saudis.
I just saw the movie about the World Trade Center. If you live in DC it is playing at the Uptown in Cleveland Park. I didn't want to see it at first because I didn't want to relive the events and I didn't feel like being spoon fed republican propaganda. But I am glad I did and I urge everyone to see it. It will make you sick. It will make you cry.
It is based on the eye witness accounts of the two New York Port Authority police protagonists who are rescued from deep inside the rubble who miraculously lived through the events. When you see it you will see why I was left with the following two impressions: 1. Jesus saves some people and 2. The Towers went down in a planned internal demolition by a series of internal explosions.
The movie nicely supplements the very credible academic literature and physics examinations now regarding how impossible it is for mere jet fuel to reach the heat necessary to do the damage required to all the buildings that came down in a pile of rubble in the fashion that they did to the extent that they did in the relative locations in which they did.
The facts that establish that the Towers collapsed in an internal demolition have been well researched and appear corroborated by the eye witness testimony that the movie seeks to tell for those with ears to hear and eyes to see it. These eyewitness accounts were suppressed by inter alia, Guiliani who forbade the NY Fire Department from speaking about it.
There does appear to be a massive governmental cover up larger than missing 18 minutes of Nixonian tape regarding why the security company that President Bush's brother Neil has an interest in which serviced the Towers called a security emergency within days before September 11, 2001.
In 1993 a plane hit a Tower and didn't cause the building to tumble. Planes have hit other buildings and not caused them to disintegrate. These men trapped in the rubble heard successive explosions and saw explosive fireballs. It is more rationally explainable by the thesis of internal demolition than jet fuel igniting fax cartridges.
Every single act of war and aggression waged by the Republicans for the past five years has been justified by the same refrain concerning how the World changed after 9-11.
If the Bush/Cheney neo-con cabal had anything to do with the internal demolitions that have self servingly justified every act of murder in war, then we don't have any choice. We have to impeach them.
There is a growing ground swell of citizens who believe that their government lied to them, not just in fabricating a pretext to assault Iraq, but in the very premise of their aggression against terror.
There is a bible verse that says something like if you deny Me (Christ) the very stones will cry out. The stones, the rocks, the rubble of the World Trade Center are crying out.
The World needs to listen.
There needs to be an International Investigative Commission appointed to get to the bottom of Ground Zero.

Please see one of many letters I receive on the subject below:

To whom it may concern,
I am submitting an opinion piece for Rocky Mountain News, written byBill Douglas, an author who has also been a contributing guest columnistfor The Business Journal, The Kansas City Star, etc. This opinion piece entitled, "Exposing the 9/11 Conspiracy Wingnuts" isa timely piece. I hope you enjoy it and publish it. You can reach Bill Douglas at, to confirm his permission to reprint:findtruth40@hotmail.com Exposing the 9/11 Conspiracy Wingnuts by Bill Douglas, author of "The Amateur Parent - A Book on Life, Death,War & Peace, and Everything Else in the Universe." Bill has been acontributing guest columnist for The Business Journal, The Kansas CityStar, etc. I began researching the mainstream media coverage of the controversyregarding the attacks of 9/11/2001, when reading an article in theMilwaukee Journal Sentinel Newspaper, dated June 29th, 2006. It wastitled, "Sept. 11 claim stirs UW probe -- Instructor says U.S. plannedthe attacks to provoke war." This led to my discovery of some wildconspiracy theorists that endanger our government and mediaestablishments, with quite frankly insane assertions. I'll address thisin full in the final paragraph. Then by using a "google video 9/11" search, I recently viewed a FOX Newsinterview on Hannity and Colmes with an Arab Studies teacher from theUniversity of Wisconsin named Kevin Barrett. I had earlier seen aninterview with another, a professor named James Fetzer, University ofMinnesota Duluth. A few weeks earlier I had seen an interview on MSNBCScarborough country interviewing a Mike Berger representing911Truth.org. Some of these guests referred to an organization called "Scholars for9/11 Truth" with a website www.st911.org, which offered a physicsresearch paper questioning the official explanation of the events of9/11/2001. While visiting this site, I read that they pointed to thetemperatures of the fires in the WTC buildings, and construction of thebuildings, and the speed they fell, as evidence they claimed proved thatwhat we saw on 9/11/2001 when the towers fell had to have been theresult of a controlled demolition. Like the ones we've seen with Las Vegas hotels being broughtdown. Their claim was that the WTC buildings could not have been causedsolely by the aircraft hitting the WTC buildings that day. Then, I contacted the office of a Wisconsin State Legislator, Rep.Stephen Nass (R-Whitewater), and asked to speak to someone in the officewho could speak on this issue. I asked if he was familiar with theScholars for 9/11 Truth website, and he replied they had learned of itthis week. I asked him if he and the Representative could comment on thecharge that the fires on 9/11/2001 in the WTC buildings did not burn hotenough to bring down the buildings, and if he'd read the scholarsorganization's charge that thermate traces had been found on debris fromthe fallen towers (thermate indicating demolition type explosives wereinvolved). The gentleman responded that no, they had not looked at thisinformation, and this would not be something they would look at, furtherindicating that anyone who made such charges was blinded by their hatredof President Bush. Which leads back to the interviews of guests on the three televisionnews programs. The main theme of all three of the guests on theseprograms appeared to be concern of the physical evidence of 9/11/2001,mentioned above and particularly regarding the collapse of three of theWorld Trade Center buildings on that day. The main themes of the interviewers on these programs appeared to betwo-fold: 1) The guests were representing a fringe movement, and most Americans donot dispute the official 9/11 explanation of the 19 hijackers defeatingUS military and intelligence forces on 9/11/2001. 2) The guests and those they speak for, who question the official9/11/2001 account, are of questionable sanity This motivated me to do some research. First I looked at the fringemovement issue that the majority of Americans disagreed with theprograms guests and accept the official explanation, and secondly, thesanity and expertise of people like their guests who question theofficial story of 9/11/2001. First, regarding the fringe issue, asserting that the guests questioningthe events of 9/11 reflected a small minority of American opinion. Ilooked at the only polls I could find on these questions, and theresults were surprising. A CNN viewers poll, which is not scientific,held Wednesday, November 10th, 2005, asked, "Do you believe there is aU.S. government cover-up surrounding 9/11?" 89% replied "Yes," they didbelieve there was a cover-up by the U.S. Government (9,441 votes), whileonly 12% felt there was no cover-up. In a national Zogby poll, of May2006, found that 45%, of the American public felt a new 9/11investigation should be launched because "so many unanswered questionsabout 9/11 remain that Congress or an International Tribunal shouldre-investigate the attacks, including whether any US governmentofficials consciously allowed or helped facilitate their success." Anearlier Zogby poll of New York City residents, from August of 2004,found that Half (49.3%) of New Yorkers felt that U.S. governmentofficials "knew in advance that attacks were planned on or aroundSeptember 11, 2001, and that they consciously failed to act." While 66%of New Yorkers called for a new probe of Unanswered Questions byCongress or New York's Attorney General. Now to the second issue the television media interviewers were mostconcerned with, which was the expertise and sanity of the peopledemanding a new 9/11 investigation, and some even suggesting possibleU.S. government complicity in the attacks of 9/11/2001. Again, a simplegoogle "video 9/11" search, provided a wealth of information. This tooyielded some surprising results. One of the loudest advocates of the most damning charge that "members ofthe U.S. government actually orchestrated the events of 9/11 to fool thenation into unpopular wars", was not a tree-hugging Green Partyactivist, but rather a prominent Republican, in fact a Former ChiefEconomist under George Bush, and professor at Texas A&M, MorganReynolds. http://www.lewrockwell.com/reynolds/reynolds12.html Google research of the growing list of other 9/11 skeptics of theofficial story, some "convinced of U.S. government involvement," whileothers not going that far, but pointing out that"the official story ishighly questionable and demands further investigation," yieldedsurprising results. Including a host of high level Republican administrationofficials, defense experts, intelligence experts, and respectedscholars, as well as well known celebrities who are now adding thespotlight of their names to the issue of 9/11. Among them were: Former Director of Advanced Space Programs Development for the U.S. AirForce, under President Reagan, and combat fighter pilot Col. RobertBowman (Caltech Phd in aeronautics and nuclear engineering).http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6900065571556128674 Former CIA Intelligence Advisor to Reagan and George HW Bush and founderof the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, Ray McGovernhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Researchers_questioning_the_official_account_of_9/11 Kevin Ryan, former department head at UL (Underwriter Laboratories) thecompany which certified the steel which went into the WTCs upon theirconstruction, and inspected it after the WTC collapses in 2001.http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041112144051451 Former assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury Senior Research Fellowat the Hoover Institution, Research Fellow at Stanford's IndependentInstitute, and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, Paul CraigRoberts http://www.wanttoknow.info/050908insidejob911#roberts Canadian National Defense Minister, the Honourable Paul Hellyerhttp://www.septembereleventh.o! rg/kc/multimedia/movies/Hellyer.mov Minister for the Environment, and Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)Michael Meacher http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8274552561914055825 National Minister of Defense (Germany). Also, served as Minister ofTechnology Andreas Von Bulow http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8274552561914055825 Former Chief of Staff of the Russian armed forces, and chief of thedepartment for General affairs in the Soviet Union 's ministry ofDefense, General Leonid Ivashov http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&! ;code=NIM20060123&articleId=1788 Former MI6 British Counter Intelligence Officer, David Shaylerhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5403286136814574974 Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Philosophy at theUniversity of Minnesota, former Marine Corps officer, author or editorof more than 20 books, and co-chair of Scholars For 9/11 Truth, JamesFetzer http://www.911podcasts.com/display.php?vid=122 Professor of Physics, Brigham Young University, and co-chair of ScholarsFor 9/11 Truth, Steven Jones http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=964034652002408586 Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Religion & Theology, ClaremontGraduate University, and author or editor ! of some 30 books, including"The New Pearl Harbor" and "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions andDistortions" David Ray Griffin http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6837001821567284154 Professor of mathematics, University of Western Ontario, and founder ofthe Scientific Panel Investigating Nine-Eleven (SPINE), A.K Dewdneyhttp://www.serendipity.li/wot/operation_pearl.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._K._Dewdney Aircraft crash investigation authority, USAF Col. (Ret) George Nelsonhttp://www.physics911.net/georgenelson.htm Former chief Pentagon arms negotiator for the Middle East, USAF Col.(Ret) Don de Grand-Pre http://www.prisonplanet.com/022904degrand.html Actor Charlie Sheen (Platoon, Wall Street, etc.)http://prisonplanet.com/articles/june2006/280606juggernautoftruth.htm Actor, Ed Asner http://www.911blimp.net/videos/EdAsner-UnityIsTheKey.mov Actor, Ed Begley, Jr http://video.google.com/videopla! y?docid=-7140359934129245752 So, now that we've examined the two main issues of concern for thetelevision news interviewers, which was the "fringe" aspect of thequestioners, and the "sanity/expertise" issue, it appears thosearguments are very weak arguments, really with no merit at all.Obviously tens of millions of Americans, according to polls, want a newinvestigation into 9/11/2001 and have a strong suspicion of U.S.government involvement at some level. Obviously not all of the nationaldefense, intelligence, aeronautics, physics and engineering expertsquestioning the official story of 9/11 are insane or unqualified tocomment. This begs the question, in the face of such obvious facts, why do ourmedia personalities continue to attempt to throw out accusations thatare patently untrue regarding those who question the official story?When a television news interviewer continues to ask questions and makeassertions that he or she knows to be untrue, this would challenge theexpertise and sanity, not of their guests, but of the television newsinterviewer. The 9/11 truth movement appears to be growing rapidly, and involvingpeople of substantial credentials and expertise. As television and someradio personalities continue to behave in what obviously is an insanebehavior, what do we do? Can we get our national media any psychologicalhelp? If not, it would be wise to relieve them of their positions atleast. I feel increasingly uneasy about millions of young minds beingexposed night after night to comments and opinions by people whoincreasingly appear to be insane, yet in positions of authority. Of course the concern here is larger. If there is any possibility ordoubt about whether the events of 9/11/2001 were participated in bymembers of our own government, then our entire democracy and world peacewould be strengthened by getting to the bottom of the true facts of thispinnacle event of our time. It would be unhealthy to leave a cloud ofdoubt hanging over such assertions. There should be a full fledgednational debate, experts from all sides should be interviewed onnational media to get to the bottom of this once and for all. OurCongress should launch investigations into the physics questions thatare causing so many to doubt the official story. No matter where anyonestands on this issue, this is obviously the only path to nationalhealing and trust. However, this debate on national media cannot occur if the interviewershired by national media continue to behave in an insane irrationalbehavior, like "conspiracy theory wing-nuts." You see, too many of ourmedia spokespersons on television and radio adhere to a wild conspiracytheory. Their theory is that anyone who looks into the facts of theevents of one of the most important issues in history is alone, andinsane, but yet somehow organized in some united conspiratorial effort.Of course, the facts fly in the face of this conspiracy theory, butthese media personalities appear unable to grasp reality even when it ispointed out to them. For media reading this article, time will tell whether you are an insaneconspiracy theorist or not. If you too, are among the insane in ourmedia, the public will likely eventually demand your resignation. As onewho writes sometimes on parental issues, I believe it is unhealthy tohave insane people in charge of the national information highways ourchildren are taught to watch. We need sane media people who look atfacts regarding issues, not ones who launch into insane screeds ofparanoia to avoid reality. Also, you may recall that when I contacted State Representative, StephenNass' office, his aid stated that they were aware of but not interestedin and would not look at the physics facts provided by the websiteScholars for 9/11 Truth, www.st911.org. However, they did want to fire auniversity teacher for presenting facts, many of which were available onthat site. To fire someone for presenting facts, facts that you dispute,yet have no idea what those facts are, and are unwilling to look at themto find out what they are . . . is also insane. Again, as someone whowrites on parenting issues, as a concerned parent as well, Americashould also consider retiring our insane government officials who firepeople for facts they aren't aware of and are unwilling to look at.These politicians apparently assert some wild conspiracy theory thatmillions of Americans are questioning the events of 9/11 because theyare "Bush haters" according to the aid at Nass' office. This kind of delusional paranoia by our elected officials isof particular concern. Such wild eyed conspiratorialists should not beallowed in government. Bill Douglas, author of "The Amateur Parent - A Book on Life, Death, War& Peace, and Everything Else in the Universe" findtruth40@hotmail.comAugust 9, 2006
PS from Jimmy:
I urge everyone to personally examine the mountain of lies told by our government to our citizens about the 9/11 attacks and then form their own opinion. This issue may be the biggest our generation will ever face in our lifetime!

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