Dedicating September 11th to Bush
By David Swanson
George W. Bush is an ordinary human being, in fact a quite stupid one. So are all of his handlers. They are ordinary people, and we have the power, should we choose to use it, to throw them out of our public housing.
This simple fact is hidden from us not just by the media constantly instructing us that we can make no difference, not just by lies connecting the crimes of 9-11 to Iraq, or Iraq or Iran to weapons they do not have, and not just by the deference to power of the devoted neoconservative minority.
On September 11th we must recognize that one of the ways in which we make ourselves comfortable with our failure to act against this criminal government is by fantasizing about this government possessing superhuman powers, such as the power to fabricate the story of a nonexistent airplane hitting the Pentagon, bribe hundreds of people to claim they saw it hit, generate phone calls from the nonexistent people on the plane, make the plane and those people vanish, shoot a missile out of thin air that no one saw, and hide all the evidence for five years. A government that could perform this and the other feats of the 9-11 fantasists would not just bear no relation to the bungling idiots running the White House. It would be superhuman.
We would bear absolutely no responsibility for our failure to rebel against such a government.
The evidence is public knowledge and virtually undisputed that the criminal thugs in the White House have lied us into illegal wars, slaughtered hundreds of thousands of innocents, created secret prisons, detained without charge or communication, tortured, murdered, wiretapped without warrants, overturned 800 acts of Congress with signing statements, stolen elections, and slashed every vital public initiative in this country. These criminals have blood up to their shoulders. Proving that they committed yet one more crime would not make them any more criminal. They cannot be made any more criminal. And proving one more crime would not lead anyone in power to remove their leaders from office.
Only we, the people of the United States, getting off our couches and acting will put an end to this growing nightmare. The crimes of September 11th had nothing to do with Iraq, and have no more to do with a protest of the war on Iraq. Those of us living on the National Mall in front of the U.S. Capitol at Camp Democracy http://www.campdemocracy.org are remembering and honoring those victims of five years ago, but we are focused on something else today: the fact that today marks 100 years since Mohandas Gandhi began his campaign of nonviolence.
This morning, Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, spoke to us at Camp Democracy.
http://campdemocracy.org/sites/v2.campdemocracy.org/files/images/gandhi_...
Arun Gandhi told us that by failing to prevent the impoverishment and humiliation of people around the world, we are engaging in passive violence, the result of which is physical violence. He said that we need to work for peace actively, not be satisfied with peace in our own hearts or private lives, but insist on taking peace out into the world everywhere we go.
This is an important message.
Private fantasies about a peaceful world are no more useful than private fantasies about how buildings collapse. Only public efforts will save us. The journalist hunting for the latest smoking gun, the next Downing Street Memo, the newest Pentagon Papers, is of no use to us now. The evidence is before us, and it is our unavoidable responsibility to take it up and act on it.
It is not our responsibility to act as soon as the next elections are stolen. It is our responsibility to act now.
Should our Congress have a Democratic majority, we will have a hard struggle to compel that Congress to act for justice. We have that same hard struggle now with a Republican majority. We cannot step away from our moral duty to take up that struggle and sacrifice for it.
The schedule of upcoming events at Camp Democracy is here:
http://www.campdemocracy.org/schedule
Now is the time to join us. There are people arriving here by bicycle and on foot from distant states. The least you can do is use a car or plane. Join us.


Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict
Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush
The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld
The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder
Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law
United States v. George W. Bush et al.
The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism
Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush
The Impeachment of George W. Bush: A Practical Guide for Concerned Citizens
The Case for Impeachment
Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney
George W. Bush versus the U.S. Constitution: The Downing Street Memos and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Cover-ups in the Iraq War and Illegal Domestic Spying
Verdict and Findings of Fact
Impeach Bush: A Funny Li'l Graphical Novel About the Worstest Pres'dent in the History of Forevar
Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration
The Twilight of Democracy: The Bush Plan for America




























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Brother, David . . If I Could Write From The Heart Like YOU . .
Brother David, . .. If I could write from the Heart like YOU . . .
. . . this ol' fool would be downright "dangerous." . . .;-)
Excellent peace/piece, my friend. . . ROCK ON!!!
I'm on the agenda tonight at our Wilmington Peace Meetup to report on the After Downing Street Movement . . . I am going to propose we send a quest team of "Gypsies, Fools, and Pirates" from the Port City, North Cackilacki to come help out at Camp Democracy. . .
Ironically, one of our Guerilla Theatre groups just finished a run of "Henry V" . . . perhaps I can work up a fool's "Saint Crispin's Day" speech to motivate the kidz to grab their "Musettes, Whoopie Cushions & Rubber Chickens" and head out to Camp Democracy tent city to face off with the Sleeping Grown-Ups of BushCO and the PNAC/AIPAC "Red Meanies"
. .. FYI - "Red Meanies", as the older kidz know, are MUCH more ASLEEP and MEAN (MEAN = SHAME-FULL + FEAR-FULL) than your more common "Blue Meanies" of the late 1960s .. . elite "Master Race", indeed . .. ;-)
Meanwhile, kidz . . . since we are dedicating September 11th to the great usurper . . . we preset the "Tragedy Central Roast Of George Dubya Bush" . . .
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/September2006/110906perspective.htm
Kidz, it looks like this piece/peace of history belongs to US . . . WE THE PEOPLE . . . LET'S ROCK THIS PARTY!!!
"By the time we got to Woodstock
We were half a million strong
And everywhere there was song and celebration
And I dreamed I saw the bombers jet planes
Riding shotgun in the sky
Turning into butterflies
Above our nation
We are stardust,
We are golden
We are ten billion year old carbon
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden"
- Woodstock by Joanie Mitchell/Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
peace.
New 9/11 Eyewitness Video Released Yesterday
New 9/11 Eyewitness Video released yesterday.
(clipped article)
"This video was released yesterday on the fifth anniversary of the attacks. Not much information is known about it at present but it obviously documents the World Trade Center attack from a nearby building. The second plane hitting the tower and the first collapse is edited out but the north tower collapse is included. Rescue efforts, including footage of a rescue helicopter is also shown."
(full story and 26 minute "Eyewitness" home video clip)
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2006/120906newvideo.htm
Pay particular attention to the area around 19 minutes 30 seconds . . . I never knew a "Pancake Effect" would be so "LOUD"
. . .and "DUSTY", kidz . . .(very fine dust we have now found, not "chunky" like one would think collaspsing metal, glass and concrete would be)
I guess these are some of those "Lessons from 9/11" I keep hearing the Grown-Up "Experts" and "Authorities" go on and on about . .. ;-)
Sorta like the WTC physics defying "leaping Girders" . . .
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/September2006/100906Girders.htm
Funny, I just don't remember Newton's laws behaving in this manner back when I was in engineering skool, kidz . . . nope, I just don't remember anything about "Statics" or "Dynamics" that sez "a 4-ton body at rest can suddenly leap 600 feet away from a building hit by a hollow aluminum tube filled with jet fuel having a maximum burn temperature well below that required to melt steel". . .;-)
Of course, I'm still trying to figure out what kind of cell phones those cats were using on those planes . .. damn, that's the kind of service I want!!! . . . and to think, I used to be so daft and silly as to tell my students about range and power requirements of cell/GSM antenna towers. . . boy, were my "facts" off apparently. . .
I would have thought some of those scientists and engineers at Motorola, Ericsson, Cingular, Lucent, AT&T, CIA, NSA, FCC, US Military, Sprint, Bell South, Deutsch Telecom, British Telephone, NORTEL, etc. would have corrected me in at least ONE of those hundreds of classes on Telecommunications and Voice/Data Convergence Engineering. . .;-)
"Although your mind's opaque
Try thinking more if just for your own sake
The future still looks good
And you've got time to rectify
All the things that you should"
- Think For Yourself by The Beatles
peace.
Another Video Of 9/11 Physics - Pyroclastic Flows
Another Video of 9/11 Physics - Pyroclastic Flows
(clipped article)
"Once again, our definition of a pyroclastic flow: hot gases carrying dust and debris flow along the ground with a fluid motion. It requires explosive energy to generate the necessary heat, dust, and debris. Turbulence and fluidization of debris are characteristic."
(full article and 21 minute video clip)
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/September2006/130906Pyroclastic.htm
Cui bono? Who benefits?
Who had the motive, the means and the opportunity, kidz? . . . hint, it wasn't Colonel Mustard in the Library with a Candlestick . . .;-)
"I live in an apartment on the ninety-ninth floor of my block
And I sit at home looking out the window
Imagining the world has stopped
Then in flies a guy who's all dressed up like a union jack
And says, I've won five pounds if I have his kind of detergent pack"
- Get Off Of My Cloud by The Rolling Stones
peace.
"It is our responsibility to act now."
I, and many others, agree with you that we must act. There are more of us than of them. But WHAT do we do? Many of us can't go to Camp Democracy because we have to work.
Individuals are powerless against this kind of institutionalized evil. But together we can do anything. What we need is something to coordinate the millions of people who desperately want to stop this madness.
Moveon.org, for example, has millions of members. If they (or another progressive organization) coordinated a retaliation against one of the worst mainstream media outlets spewing government propaganda, it would have an immediate impact
We need organization for coordinated resistance.
Taking our government Back.
I see a lot of posts talking about doing something to take our government back, but who and where are the plans? In two more years Cheney, Bush and the republicans will be so dug in, and taken complete control of our democracy, there will be not digging them out.
For the republicans to plan and attack Clinton for his two terms in office using their special bias partisan prosecutor, and to set him up with a lie about sex (I wouldn't doubt if the whole sex thing was setup by the republicans) and now let Bush and Cheney off free, not only with no investigation, but are changing laws of our nation's security and freedom to let him has his dictatorship.
In the 8 years of Clinton's service, the republicans hounded and tortured him everyday, and came up with a lie about sex. Where is the news media and the investigationS into the lies, deceit and corruption on a daily basis by Bush and this administration. The republicans refuse to have one, so the only way of having one, is for the American citizens demanding this issue.
I read an article that said Bush was covering up the true national debt figures, and it is far greater then what they claim (more than 3 times greater). It said the government will have to dropped government homeland programs because of this overpowering debt. Yet this adminsitration's main objected is to funnel our tax dollars to private contractors, the oil companies and Global Corporationg including overseas countries that have had dealings with terrorist. This is probably why Bush is planning the destruction of the Social Security and medicare programs. We the people of United States are going to have to force the issue of making this administration accountable for it deceit, lies and destruction of our nation.
Sincerely.
we can call it; "the day democracy DIED IN AMERIKA" day!
we should hang all flags 'upside down' to commemorate the day that democracy finally let out her last gasp and died at the hands of neocon fascist thugs called PNAC (project for the new amerikan cucarachas)
a torquemeter on the coffins of the men who gave their lives for this country could yield a new form of energy; "patriots rotating in their graves" for what we've turned their gift to us into.
9-11 fantasists?
"Superhuman" is getting difficult to define these days. And that makes a lot of people uncomfortable.
Never underestimate your enemy. Karl Rove is not an idiot, and neither are the people he works for.
To suggest that the government is incapable of a large scale cover up is absurd.
Any idea what is going at Area 51? Really? ( I kind of miss Mulder and Scully, don't you? )
Seriously, after all these years, all the hype, all the TV attention, and all the (thousands of?) employees who have really worked there nobody can say definitively what goes on there, EXCEPT that: wandering too far afield WILL get you shot.
If these guys are so dumb, how is it that they have managed to almost completely revise our system of government, and vaccuum trillions of dollars out of the pockets of the vanishing middle class into the bank accounts of the coporate elite without so much as a whimper from the electorate. Heck, it's almost as if they planned it.
US Government? Conspiracies? Cover-ups? ....
Nah...
That'd be nuts.
Re: Area 51
The things that go on at Area 51 are considered Top Secret for a reason...So the public/enemies don't know what we are making.
The SR-71A Blackbird was not made public for decades after it was in service. They have actually re-commissioned two of them to spy on the enemy now. That plane is by far my favorite. The F117 Stealth Bomber was made public in 1988 after it was in development for 20 years prior. The B2 was the same way. So what!? The public does not have the right to know everything. Especially military secrets...
But the murder of 3,000 innocent people...Someone would have spilled the beans just on guilt alone. Islamofasists did it, it is time to accept the truth...Sorry.
Just think, they are developing aircraft there right now that won't be known about until 2020 or 2030.
Richie "The Right Wing Kook" Rich
Airplanes and Cellphones
I'd feel a lot more comforted that the phone calls from flight 93 were real, were it not for one simple fact.
CELLPHONES DO NOT WORK ON COMMERCIAL JETS
Here we go with Physics review II. Bear in mind we are talking about the year 2001. 5 years ago.
Ask anyone from rural Pennsylvania if it was easy to pick up a signal (in 2001) any old place in the middle of the state, say in the woods somewhere --far from a town. They will tell you something like, "not very likely, not likely at all".
This is someone standing on the ground ( the target location for a cellular network ), moving at zero miles-an-hour in relation to the nearest broadcast tower.
Bear in mind that cellphone towers broadcast planar omni-directionally, so roughly in a 360 degree circle aimed *downward*. They do not waste precious ampereage beaming the signal out every-which-way into the sky (spherical omni-directional) because there are no paying customers up there.
Further remember that a jet liner cruises at about 525-550 MPH at an altitude of about 35,000FT. That is SEVEN MILES ABOVE (plus however many miles E-W, plus however many miles N-S) any would be broadcasting station (which does not broadcast in the direction of the sky in the first place.)
Furthermore, I know from personal experience because I tried it (bad me). I could never get a phone to acquire even the hint of a signal while on-board a commercial aircraft. Much less stay perfectly wired-in for the entire duration of 10-15 minute phone calls.
Don't you think that even if they were broadcasting to the sky, the signal would be fading in and out as the aircraft zoomed past one tower and toward another one?
As of 2005, some aircraft have been fitted with on-board transponders which make a cellular signal available to the cabin. If your cellphone works on board a plane these days, that is why.
The fact that they now have to retrofit planes with a very expensive special transponder to make cellphones work, tells you what?
Planes did not have these transponders in 2001. United flight 93 was not an exception.
Government generating fake phone calls....
Nah....
It must'a been a REALLY clear day.
Re: Cell Phones
From what I have read the people were making calls from the skyphones, not cell phones... The documentaries I have seen confirm that.
So that pretty much debunks that...
Richie "The Right Wing Kook" Rich
The documentaries I have seen confirm that.
LMFAO
Hey...
You make me laugh too Mr. Perpetuator...
Let's just ignore the evil in the world and it will all go away. It is kind of like Liberals thinking they can better the ghettos of America by giving these people more of our money...Yeah that has worked GREAT since the 1960's. You people also think we can "reform" criminals with your psycho-babble...Let's not punish criminals, let's get to know them. I too am LMFAO...
Liberals & the U.N. - Working for the greater good of terrorists all over the world!!!!
Richie "The Right Wing Kook" Rich
Newspeak and "Skyphones vs. Cellphones" . .. Think Scooby-Doo
Newspeak and "Skyphone vs. Cellphones" . . think Scooby-Doo and think like a fool, kidz!! ;-)
Here is a great chance for you to test your "Objective Kung-Fu", brother Richie Rich . . .
Think of a linear time line between 11 September 2001 and today.
Now, you have just pointed out a "change" in storyline when you point out:
"From what I have read the people were making calls from the skyphones, not cell phones... The documentaries I have seen confirm that."
The argument now reduces to "Were the people on United 93 supposedly using cell phones or skyphones for the 'Let's Roll' phone calls"
Now, one thing we want to immediately plot on our linear time line is WHEN this argument appeared in the public consciousness. We have five years of time, so why did it take so long for this relatively new argument to appear?
Questions this ol' yippy fool would then ask would include:
1. In all the orginal "official" NEWS reports, it was a common accepted "hearsay" that these calls were made from personal "cell phones" . . . The NEWS agencies had no need to explain or elaborate on what a "cell phone" was because, unlike say back in 1985 when we were just beginning to roll out this new technology, pretty much everyone in the industrial world now knows what a "cell phone" is . . .
. . . However, very few people, population percentage-wise, would know what the term "sky phone" means . . . this is a very specialized term that pretty much only people that fly on commercial airplanes would be "aware of" . . .
. .. Therefore, if these passengers made calls on sky-phones, where is the media-trail of explainations as to what a "sky phone" is and how it is different/similiar to a cell phone???
2. The next question to this "change" in official story comes from the physical properties of a "sky phone" and the supposed events of the day.
. . . If this ol' fool's memory serves, the people supposedly making the phone calls were made to leave their seats and move to the back of the plane and stand together. . .
. . . Well, every "sky phone" I've ever used was installed in the back of the middle seat in front of my seat . . . and had a handset cord less than two feet/half meter in length . . . and had to be activated by either a credit card or a Telco carrier calling card. . .
. . . If we throw cell phone physics out the window and accept "as if true" that cell phone calls were made . .. it is feasible that a clever passenger could position themselves out of view of one's captors and sneak a phone call on a personal cell phone . . . However, to think that someone was able to elude observation while grabbing a sky phone on a short tether and placing a call, after swiping their credit card and getting it authorized, does not hold a high degree of "probability" with me . . . I have a rough time accepting this as even a "possibility" . .
3. As I pointed out, "sky phones" must be activated by either a credit card or a calling card. . . As everyone knows, the Telco's from day one have kept EXCRUCIATINGLY accurate records of every call made, from where to where, and for how long, and EXACTLY when the call took place and was terminated . . . that is how they make their money, kidz . .. ;-) (The old joke was that Bell reversed charges on Watson for that first historic phone call)
. . . why were these phone records never published in the media?
(this argument can also be used for the events of London's 7/7 bombings and the mysterious warning phone call that Israel's Netanyahu received)
Now, the analytical thinker will think, "There is something 'fishy' about this story" . . . how could a "falsehood" benefit and WHO would benefit from such a falsehood? Who could be trying to CYA? . .. (Cover Your Ass) . . .;-)
Cui bono? Who benefits? Who are these "sources" that are trying to sell you on the "sky phone" story (i.e. who made the documentaries that you reference?) . .. who owns them? Could they have been compromised by coercive methods?
Now, I caution you, brother Richie Rich (and the rest of you kidz)not to prematurely "Q.E.D." your arguments like this:
Brother Richie Rich writes:
"So that pretty much debunks that..."
You have to watch those "Grinches" that lie to kidz and Grown Ups to get their way and so they can ALWAYS be "RIGHT" . . . you kidz know the story . . ."But, you know, that old Grinch was so smart and so slick He thought up a lie, and he thought it up quick!"
Just because someone hands you a second lie to replace the first lie doesn't mean you now have OBJECTIVE TRUTH, kidz . ..
Think for yourself, brother Richie Rich . . . what does your OWN reason tell you? Put your "team" and your personal prejudices/judgments against the other "team" aside just for a moment and look through the eyes of a child . . . ;-)
And YES . . . any kid that's ever played with a synthesizer or Pro Tools knows that voice synthesis technologies with modern vocoder technologies can easily make anyone sound like anyone else by adjusting the timbre and acoustic "Phoneme finger print" of someone's voice to match that of another person . . . especially in the "good enough" 300 Hz to 3000/4000 Hz bandwidth range of modern telephone systems. . . ;-)
"Hello, it's me
I've thought about us for a long, long time
Maybe I think too much but something's wrong
There's something here that doesn't last too long
Maybe I shouldn't think of you as mine"
- Hello It's Me by Todd Rundgren
peace.
Well...
I am still waiting for your back up to the hundreds, if not thousands of people that would have confirmed the story of the power shutdown in the WTC... I am waiting because that story from Mr. Forbes is a flat out lie and I think even your "engineer" wanna-be brain knows that.
Have you read the Popular Mechanics book yet? I am guessing not. Why? Maybe because a team of REAL engineers telling you that your myths are just that doesn't fit your template of BushCo and the PNAC killed 3,000 innocent people...? Just a wild guess...
As far as the Skyphones goes, once the terrorists had control of the plane they could care less if the passengers made phone calls. And I have used Skyphones dozens of times, you slide your CC and the phone dials. You don't need authorization. Plus the phone that is in the back of the plane can be used by flight attendants at any time. That is why there are tapes of the attendants calling their emergency numbers of their respective airlines. Plus once the planes got to a certain altitude, ALL of the cell phone would have worked. Once the terrorists gained flight, they immediately brought the planes down to a lower altitude. So Mr. Resonator is a moron thinking they flew at 35,000/ft and right before hitting the towers magically dipped to hit the towers. I mean, come on people, look at the FACTS. Your cell phone will work from 7,000/ft and that is a FACT!!!
The other funny thing is that the engineers "thought" the towers could take a direct hit from 2 jets. But as engineers are a lot of the time, they were wrong!!!! Did they specifically check to see if the WTC’s could take a direct hit from planes going 500+ mph with tons of fuel on board? From planes built AFTER the towers were built???? Yeah, the answer is NO!!!! And even you folks know that.
I love these arguments, they make me think critically about what happened and you people continue to find ways to NOT think critically because it would put your claims of a BushCo/PNAC conspiracy to rest...
Richie "The Right Wing Kook" Rich
Your cell phone will work from 7,000/ft and that is a FACT!!!
I thought they were using "Skyphones".
Which Is it?
Hey Dip$hit...
Try READING, I never said they were using cell phones but if they were they could have used them from 7,000/ft which is what the cruising atlitude was once the terrorists took control (via murder) and turned the planes around from what I read in the reports from the FAA.
So to answer your ? they could have used BOTH and probably did...
Richie "The Right Wing Kook" Rich aka The Jew...I mean Neo-Con
"people were making calls from the skyphones, not cell phones"
Which is it _NOT_ or _BOTH_?
You can't seem to make up your mind.