Open Your Mind to Painful 9/11 Truth
Posted: Wednesday, September 05, 2007
by Joel Hirschhorn
http://www.delusionaldemocracy.com
Many technical analyses cast doubt on the official explanation of the collapse of three World Trade Center buildings, including those presented by an impressive new group: Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. More difficult than discovering the truth, however, is convincing most of the public to accept the bitter truth.
Americans easily block out painful truths. Powerful societal forces keep much of the population distracted and uninterested in complex issues. Entertainment-oriented mainstream media contribute to mass ignorance. And the political establishment often buries the truth, uses propaganda and manipulates citizens. Intelligent, strong-willed people can fight all these.
When it comes to 9/11, we face the strong belief that only Al-Qaeda caused 9/11. But analyses by many experts reveal the collapse of three WTC buildings was not caused by the two airplanes exploding into the two towers. Without getting into details that one can spend many hours examining on a number of websites, the general view is that the buildings were brought down by controlled demolition.
If correct IF the immediate reaction is like a cosmic big bang. It would have taken considerable effort by a number of people with expertise and access to the buildings to rig them so that they could be intentionally collapsed when the two jets hit the towers. Tough questions flood in: Who could have engineered all this? Could foreign agents accomplish such complex actions and if they did, why not take credit for it? If Americans did it, why would they intentionally inflict inevitable mass death and devastation? Worse, they seemingly knew about the plan to fly the jets into the towers.
Post-9/11, why have the government and official investigations not come to the same controlled demolition conclusion? This might be explained if the government was involved.
Pull one string and the whole 9/11 story unravels as your imagination triggers unending questions. Can Americans support a reinvestigation and rethinking of the 9/11 event? Or would they rather avoid even more pain and preserve the official account that places all blame on Al-Qaeda? So easy to criticize those who offer different explanations as conspiracy nuts.
After all, the new truth would be so shocking that we would have to question our political and government system. Could there have been such malevolence somewhere in our government? Did a monumental conspiracy push us into attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq ? Did petroleum and corporate interests shape 9/11?
Like other groups, Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth wants a new, honest and comprehensive study that considers all the evidence for controlled demolition. First, let the technical truth emerge. Then, if necessary, cope with the inevitable political, conspiracy and other questions. But let us not allow a possible painful truth block the primary task of determining once and for all what caused the collapse of the WTC towers and building no. 7.
If there were non-Muslim forces possibly U.S. government ones that played a major role in the WTC catastrophe, then let us have the courage to face the truth. Suppose some element of our government played a secret, awful role. If we do not uncover it, then we are vulnerable to repeat nefarious and unimaginable activity in the future possibly to impact the 2008 presidential election. Discovering 9/11 truth would enshrine the wisdom of the old adage: the truth hurts. That means suffering the pain of revealing lies and cover-ups. Mourning over the deaths of building victims and heroic first responders would expand with new anger. And another reason to hate and oppose the Iraq war would surface.
If those that believe the official 9/11 story especially elected officials trust their views, then let them support a serious investigation to test the validity of the controlled demolition hypothesis. If they fear and reject doing so, then let us see that as suspicious and unacceptable.
As a former engineering professor with growing skepticism about the official WTC story, I joined Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth; you can learn about the controlled demolition findings and other similar truth-seeking efforts at www.ae911truth.org. You choose: seek the truth yourself or take the easy way and just criticize those who question the official story.
To sum up, horrific possible answers can cause us to shun a question. But clearing our minds of fears of painful truths is essential to clearing our nation of destructive lies. Otherwise, we stay stuck in a delusional democracy.
[Joel S. Hirschhorn was a full professor at the University of Wisconsin , Madison , and a senior staffer at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and the National Governors Association; he is the author of Delusional Democracy Fixing the Republic Without Overthrowing the Government at www.delusionaldemocracy.com and co-founder of Friends of the Article V Convention at www.foavc.org.]
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Top-level comments on this article: (4 total)I spend my days making 1/2 –1 ½ inch thick steel so soft I can bend it into a circle with a few swings of a 2 pound hammer. I do this with a couple of pounds of the same simple charcoal that most use to cook hotdogs on Sundays and a small fan. The notion that several hundred thousand pounds of jet fuel could soften steel to failure and the weight of several hundred thousand tons of concrete and steel from the floors above the plane strikes would hammer straight down through a central support shaft does not surprise me in the least. Even a guy in an Afghan cave could understand the potential for collapse. I wish the Rosie O’Donnell, heat can’t melt steel, had to be or government conspiracy and not an engineering flaw crowd would get a life and move on to something like making bridges that don’t spontaneously collapse!
"If Americans did it, why would they intentionally inflict inevitable mass death and devastation? Worse, they seemingly knew about the plan to fly the jets into the towers. "
Let's examine the above
If America did it ....why would they? When a super power wants to wage war on a small one, they need to make it look like they were provoked.
Why would America let it happen knowing about it in advance? During world war 2, Uk's Oxford was 'allowed' to be bombed by the Germans and the people were not evacuated. Our government knew in advance of the attack. They never did anything because they did not want the Germans to know that they had broken their code incase they changed it.
I am not demonstrating support of the conspiracy theories with this reply, merely exploring reasons why super powers may allow mass sufferring. It's all about agenda's.
I watched this attack live and my immediate thoughts after the first plane hit was 'why did the security forces allow the second plane in..or the first?' The fact it happened at all is my source of confusion, rather than who was driving the plane.
The theory that the government blew up the WTC and orchestrated the airplane attacks is the thinking of puny minds.
The theory that the government blew up the WTC and orchestrated the airplane attacks is the thinking of NOT of puny minds, but of hateful partisan minds desperately needing to believe that Bush and our government is evil beyond that of the Nazis.
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