Now that the empty calories of the Super
Bowl game itself have passed through my system, there is one thing that remains
stuck in my gut. It is the ostensibly sane independent journalist, Matthew
Mills appropriating the microphone at a post game interview to announce that
“9/11 was perpetrated by people within our own government”.
It is reflexively easy to derisively dismiss
him as a “conspiracy theorist”, and reject his agitation as the running magical
unicorn of a demented internet imagineer. But after more than a decade of
continuous war, it mystifies that chorus calls for “9/11 Truth” still fall on
so many deaf ears, especially considering the cancerous violence, together with
the proliferation of the characteristics of empire abroad and fascism at home so
directly connected to events of that date. And if there are doubts about the
latter claims, just imagine what the expected domestic response would have been
to the establishment of a second standing army, Homeland Security, the unconstitutional
Orwellian shenanigans of the NSA, and the massive, seemingly paranoiac, ammunition
purchases of the Social Security Administration, Department of Education, IRS,
NOAA, the Postal Service, the EPA, and of course ammunition-starved Homeland Security,
without the façade of imminent, permanent, and pervasive threat of “barbarians at the gate” that the
“official” account has imposed upon the national consciousness. Such a radical
and culture-bending transition to this “new normal”, fostered by the “official”
explanation of an event so rife with anomalies and carried out by perpetrators apparently
possessing supernatural powers of destruction and forensic elusiveness, must be
thoroughly justified and understood – not just accepted.
The flippant low regard the main stream media
holds for the 9/11 Truth Movement may stem from its perceived foundation as the
attenuated intellectual product of the silly blogosphere. But if the
constructive, educative value of the democratic, non-profit, open internet is
wholly discounted solely because of portions of foolishness displayed at
particular places in its vastness, what portions of foolishness may be
presented by the for-profit main stream media with its built-in economic
disincentive to disturb the tranquility of government and its contractors? There is a black granite wall of etched names
in Washington, DC that is a testament to the error of the gullible patriotism
of the establishment Fourth Estate, which encourages many to think it has
conveyed or sold to ‘power’ its constitutional birthright as “watch dog” and now
serves as the timid jingoist media facilitators for the increasingly perverse
and bloody ambitions of the Imperial state. It can be eminently debatable
whether the “Truthers” or the main stream media are actually attempting to be
epistemologically responsible
In our national and international cultures,
not just Mr. Mills, but literally millions of scientists, engineers,
architects, highly regarded academics, military, diplomatic, police and fire
personnel, and normally conscious people of good standing and repute don’t
merely disagree, but believe themselves to have made, constructively and
logically, a prima facie case, in such forums as the Toronto Conference of
2011, among others, that the “U.S. official story”, particularly engaging the
physical events presaging the political conclusions, is too often nonsensical
and unsupported by, or is contradicted by, or is alienated from typical or
atypical tangible forensic evidence, with many aspects of the occurrences of
that day being estranged from accustomed worldly experience before or after
9/11/2001. Invariably, curious inquiries into the package of inferences
presented by the U.S. government usually discover that the vast majority of
serious, non-partisan independent investigations echo Judge Judy’s frequent,
universally applicable pontification, “If it doesn’t make sense, it’s not
true!”
What Mr. Mills said may make many wish he
could be consigned to the lunatic fringe, and of course the possibility exists he
could be wrong – but I don’t think, at this point, I can be made to believe
that he is conclusively a lunatic.
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