- Prof. Walter Davis writes,
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- "In this article, I outline twenty-two items of
evidence and questions, each one sufficient reason to demand an investigation
into why September 11th was not prevented. Together, these items suggest
that the most plausible explanation of events is that the Bush Administration
was complicit in the terrorist attacks. This should be a national and international
scandal. What is being discovered will shock many people, which is one
of the reasons for deliberate corporate media coverup. But a significant
number of people within the U.S. see (or will see) the consistencies in
the events surrounding 9/11 as described below, and what they know about
U.S. foreign policy. Nevertheless, the degree to which this Administration
is pursuing a course of world domination at any cost is unprecedented.
One of the best ways of putting a halt to this destructive course is to
expose the Bush Administration and insist on their accountability to the
American people."
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- Conclusions
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- The evidence seems clear that if the many agencies of
the U.S. government had done their jobs, the September 11th attack would
likely have been prevented. If there had been an immediate investigation
into the September 11th attacks, the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq could
not have been justified simply on the basis of terrorism. Surely questions
must be asked about why there is yet no accountability of the Bush administration
and why the journalists and others in mass media are not held responsible
for the coverup, deception and lack of investigative reporting. From the
evidence presented it would seem that much public whistle-blowing ought
to be taking place. Why is it not yet evident?
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- I believe that it is important not to approach 9/11 as
the possibility of some grand conspiracy, but a possible conspiracy of
some sort nevertheless. One important insight is how hierarchical authoritarian
social systems function. Top down directives and commands, especially if
they carry the weight of threats of censorship and punishment serve to
keep any dissent in check. There is a great deal of self-censorship operating
in all institutions in the United States. It is also important to recognize
the role of a shared ideology among the decision makers, or perhaps more
specifically the role of what social psychologists, in studies of organizational
behavior, call "groupthink." Groupthink is decision making characterized
by uncritical acceptance of and conformity with the prevailing view. Thus,
the will of a few key persons can be spread within and across government
agencies.
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- Thus the possibility of complicity on the part of the
Bush Administration is very real. At the very least, further and more honest
investigations must take place and some accountability exacted from those
responsible.
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- Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Executive Director of the Institute
for Policy Research & Development, Brighton, England, suggests,
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- The executive branch of the federal government has apparently
enabled a lethal surprise attack with mass murder against two of the founding
thirteen colonies, New York and Virginia. By such an act, the federal government
would grossly violate and void its contract with the states, and abrogate
its own constitutional rights and privileges. Even if you do not accept
the complicity argument, it has failed to protect its largest city from
the consequences of its overweening foreign policies.
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- Like a loose handgun, our Federal government has backfired
on its owners, the States. The executive has gone to war in defiance of
the Constitution, and Congress has abdicated its war-making authority on
at least 200 occasions since 1945, according to the Federation of American
Scientists. The federal government has proven utterly incapable and unwilling
to remedy its chronic and world-threatening sickness (p. 376-377).
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- It seems apropos to conclude: "if you are part of
the problem, then you are not part of the solution." The solution
then lies with the people themselves and not with any US government agency,
least of all the Executive Branch.
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