What
we really need for 9/11 truth is to open the files of the CIA, NSA and FBI, and
we need it for truth in many other realms too. The Architects and Engineers for
9/11 Truth have a petition that seeks a new and truly independent
investigation. This is a step in the right direction. We need far more than
that. We need to penetrate the secrecy of the CIA and NSA on a timely and
complete basis, not 50 years after the fact and only partially. Their files
have to be opened. We cannot let the government continue to hide behind
“national security”.
This blog began as a comment
on theories of the Trade Towers collapses, but it grew into a criticism of
secret government hiding behind the term “national security”. I sympathize with
the petition for a new investigation of 9/11, but I want to see a far more
radical process, the dissolution of the CIA and the NSA. The call for opening
their files and exposing their activities is part of that process. Edward
Snowden’s work is a major step in that process as is the work of a number of
others whose desire to expose the evils of the CIA and NSA has led them to
personal sacrifices and risks.
My scientific approach is (a)
devise and adopt a simple theory first to rationalize the known observations,
(b) consider the anomalies if any, (c) reconsider the initial theory and revise
if need be, or else live with the unexplained anomalies. I follow Occam’s Razor
and Kuhn in this respect. My mind prefers simplicity. I prefer to understand
the basic facts first, leaving details and anomalies to later consideration.
What are “anomalies”? They
are observations we do not understand or that seem to contradict our
understanding of basic facts through our initial theory. If the anomalies are
large enough, we have to revise the theory or even abandon it and devise an
entirely different theory.
The Trade Towers collapsed.
What caused this? There are two leading theories: the crash theory and the
demolition theory. The crash theory says that the airplanes that crashed into
the towers were the cause. This rationalizes the largest known facts, which are
that the two planes did crash into the towers and did cause destructive fires
because they were loaded with large amounts of jet fuel. Also, the fires burned
for 102 minutes and about 60 minutes in the North and South towers,
respectively. This weakened steel girders, ergo a collapse eventually occurred.
This theory is simple but powerful. The towers were standing, Planes crashed
into them. They eventually collapsed. Ergo, the planes crashing into the towers
caused their collapse. As a supplemental fact, the manner of construction of
the towers was not as strong as in earlier skyscrapers.
The alternative theory, the
demolition theory, is that the two planes and the resulting fires didn’t cause
the collapse. There is no reason to formulate this theory unless there are
anomalies. These are many and varied, including claims of nanothermite, the
appearance of the collapses, witness evidence of explosions, temperatures not
being high enough, etc., but these anomalies are all contested. That is, for
every claim of an anomaly, there are arguments by reputable people who contest
the claims. Without venturing into this very large thicket, this means that the
impetus arising from anomalies for any alternative theory, including the
demolition theory, is not strong enough to overturn the crash theory.
There’s no necessity to delve
into consideration of the anomalies specifically because the demolition theory
has major problems of its own. If the airplane crashes didn’t cause the towers
to collapse, then what did? The demolition theory answers: Explosives that had
been planted in them earlier. This theory is not at all simple. It raises
unanswered questions of its own.
In order for explosives to be
the explanation, a number of persons would have had to organize the project and
plant them. That’s a major, major project. People have to buy explosives,
transport them to the site, find places to place them, and so on. This would
have to be done either during construction or later. Both would be difficult to
conceal. Who did this and why? How did they do this and keep it secret? This
would be very difficult to keep secret, to say the least. Is there independent
evidence that this planting and demolition of explosives occurred? Have two
witnesses come forward and reliably confirmed that explosives were planted and
then detonated? There is no such evidence.
The demolition theory
attempts to point out and then rationalize anomalies, but it has no substantial
evidence coming from outside. This theory finds no confirmation from processes
that would have had to occur prior to the crashes. This theory also has a
burden of explaining the relation if any between the crashes and the subsequent
explosions that it proposes brought the buildings down. Whereas we know that
the crashes were an external event and a likely cause and we know a lot about
the people and processes they were involved in before the crashes, the
demolition theory tells us nothing we can be sure of regarding its prior
processes, regarded as an external event.
What
does the demolition theory entail? Does it say that the crashes were part of a
larger false flag scheme? Where’s the external evidence of that? That has to lead to the CIA and to its knowledge
of some of the hijackers and to its not sharing information with the FBI. This
is the kind of external evidence that can help build a case for the demolition
theory. However, this is not strong enough and there is not enough of such
evidence. All over the world, we constantly encounter terrorist attacks in
which the authorities knew the people involved beforehand, had been warned
about them, or even had arrested them at some point. The CIA-FBI behavior in this case looks like one more
of such rather frequent failures of government bureaucracies and agencies to
coordinate with one another or even to act efficiently by themselves.
I
repeat: What we really need for 9/11
truth is to open the files of the CIA, NSA and FBI.
The largest objections to
what I’m arguing are that I’m overlooking or downplaying the anomalies. These
are physical matters listed on the site of the architects and engineers for
9/11 truth. These anomalies persuade this group to propose the demolition
theory. There is some room for reasonable people to differ. No theory is going
to explain everything.
The
demolition theory is a theory of mass murder by people other than the
terrorists who crashed the planes. We do not need this theory of the Trade
Towers collapse in order to tear off our blindfolds and observe clearly the
existing mass murders perpetrated by our own U.S. government. These murders are
not secret if we look for them, but our government does everything in its power
to obscure its crimes and present them as its virtues and its duties.
We need to open the government’s files, especially the files of the
shadow government that is led by the CIA and the NSA. We need to see for
ourselves their evil, their lies, their false ideas, their true aims, their
cupidity, their stupidity, their cleverness, their ignorance, their knowledge,
their control over the government, and their grasping for power. Understanding
why the Trade Towers collapsed is important. It’s important to understand the
deeper causes of why 2,996 people died in the terrorist attacks on that day and
more than 6,000 were wounded. It’s important to understand the causes of the
mass murders caused by the U.S. government that run backwards for decades and
are still running now in real time; and for that understanding, we must end the
secrecy that cloaks our shadow government and its major institutions, the CIA
and the NSA.
They hide behind “national
security” and the claim that without them and their secrecy, without their
unconstitutional tyranny, we are nationally insecure. That is the BIGGEST LIE. We must reject that
lie.
Michael S. Rozeff [send him mail] is a retired Professor of
Finance living in East Amherst, New York. He is the author of the free
e-book Essays on American Empire: Liberty
vs. Domination and the free e-book The U.S. Constitution and Money: Corruption and
Decline.
