Again 9/11

Donte Stallworth, recently hired by the Huffington Post as a political fellow on national security, because the former NFL player, “has a quick mind, an insatiable curiosity and a passion for politics”, has posted a refutation of his misspent youth as a 9/11 Truther.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/02/donte-stallworth-911-conspiracy_n_6178556.html

Mr. Stallworth, as part of the generation that was victimized and duped by the Vietnam/Gulf of Tonkin LIE, and having experienced with your generation the Iraq LIE, I retain my ability to question the veracity of power. I understand, after years of the “Big Lie” taking root, it has acquired some legitimacy simply because of longevity. But I must remind you we still haven’t been given a truthful reason for our incursions into Vietnam or Iraq. After a while we just assume we know or have been told “why”. But if you search your mind you’ll only find a catalog of transparent lies that have just been shrugged off as the beat goes on. Still, we needn’t be helpless pawns and dupes.

As far as understanding 9/11 goes, if it is assumed that the U.S. is an imperialist nation (seemingly indicated by 1100 military bases worldwide) acting in accord with uber- capitalist motivation (considering the mineral and fossil fuel resources of theretofore geo-politically outlier nations), then unfortunately, the official narrative and resulting militaristic ramifications of 9/11 make sense. On the other hand, if we are a non-imperial , peaceful nation, whose primary goal is the promotion of freedom and democracy, then, I believe, the official narrative would almost certainly be undermined by a legitimate and objective scientific investigation of the actualities and anomalies occurring on that day.

To consider there may be defensible alternative hypotheses to a narrative which, lest we forget, was formulated and universally disseminated before any usual, typical, or thorough process to discern facts or proof was, or could have been, carried out - is not irrational. Some might say it’s an intellectual requirement. The years later dubious contribution to the historical record called The 9/11 Commission Report merely memorialized, almost verbatim, a seemingly pre-prepared narrative which sprang to public life fully formed as early as 9/12. The Oracle of Delphi couldn’t have generated a more accurate point by point prognostication.

It is doubly remarkable that this originally postulated narrative emerged as such an immaculate conception, without any knowledge of the numerous anomalies that would later surface, anomalies which are indisputably present and germane to any reasonable theory of the events, and any one of which might be expected to upset the original postulations, but didn’t, even in the final version rendered to the historical record years later by the Honorable 9/11 Commission, whom in the vast public discussion had been fully exposed to the anomalies by way of expert and intelligent inquiries, physical evidence, eyewitness testimonies, and elementary scientific calculations.

For the magically prescient original narrative to remain unaltered and unscathed after the huge excavation of subsequent knowledge and revelations, lends proof to the Orwellian truism that a sheepish, thoughtless citizenry will be more inclined to disbelieve ‘logic’ than to disbelieve Big Brother - the government.