Taking a Closer Look, or "2+2=5"

Was it Christian of the church to call for blood in the aftermath of 9-11? no. Was it Christian, or even responsible for our "Born-again" president to jump right into a war after 9-11? Again, no. Why, then did they choose their reactions? How could so many have been fooled into thinking that the church was truly following the cause of Christ when it supported "Operation Infinite Justice" and when it continues to support the war on terror? And More importantly, judging by his actions on that day, and his manipulation of the events ever since: was the president acting like a man with nothing to hide?

It is through our reactions in life that the most revealing traits of our character show through. Sometimes to our advantage, but mostly to our shame. And of course, when and if we are faced with our shortcomings we then face the choice to either take a lesson from the experience, and grow from it, or we can ignore that a fault exists, and continue to focus on maintaining surface appearances.

Considering the far-reaching effects of September 11th, and considering that history already shows us that the Bush administration has used the event in much the same way that Adolf Hitler used the Reichstagg fire; to consolidate power under one branch of government, and to fuel a series of preemptive wars...it is of utmost importance that we critically analyze all aspects of that horrific day, if we are to know what really happened.

While all Americans have the burning towers in New York, and smoldering wreckage at the pentagon forever engraved in their minds, we also have other recorded perspectives from that day at our disposal. We all remember seeing the smoking holes in the tops of the towers, and seeing the second plane slam into it's target sending out a huge fireball. But how many of us know of numerous secondary explosions in the basement and lower floors of the towers during that period of chaos? Certainly many eyewitnesses knew, and they were quick to report them, but those eyewitness accounts have been subtly swept under the rug, and our attention has been deliberately rested high up on those buildings, away from further questions.

It is in studying the other perspectives of that day, and the aftermath that we can piece together a more defined outlook of events. There is no denying the trauma and terrible loss that our nation suffered that day. There is nothing enjoyable in rewitnessing the horror from an analytical perspective. I beleived that Bush was the Antichrist for a full eight months before I allowed myself to even consider the possibility that he had a guilty hand in the 9-11 terrorist attacks. Why? because 9-11 was just so big. As it turns out, it was the Big Lie.

But first things first, let's look at what the major players were doing in the midst of our national emergency. It was in Michael Moore's 2004, "dont vote Bush" film Farenheight 9-11, that I first saw the videotaped reaction of George W Bush when he first heard the news that our nation was under attack. He was sitting in a Florida classroom; cool, silent, and waiting. It was chilling, to say the least. At our moment of greatest need for action and leadership, George W Bush was sitting in a classroom, thinking his thoughts. We were all shocked that day, to be sure. But for George Bush to just sit quietly like that is really bizarre...and certainly not the image I think of when I imagine a president who would keep our country safe (as the republican party so lovingly portrayed him). For all the courageous rhetoric that Bush has used since that day, it is baffling that he has never been held accountable for, or even seriously questioned about his actual response on 9-11.

Back in Washington DC, and back in time we find ourselves in a pentagon meeting, 8AM; where Donald Rumsfeld becomes more than Secretary of Defense...he becomes a prophet with these words, "...sometime in the next two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve months there will be an event that will occur in the world that will be sufficiently shocking that it will remind people again how important it is to have a strong healthy Defense Department that contributes to—that underpins peace and stability in our world.”

His prophetic sentiments eerily mirror the wishlist of Neocon think tank, "The Project For a New American Century" (which he is a member of) that introduced the term a new pearl harbor back in September of 2000. The first World Trade tower is struck less than an hour after that. But even more disturbing is the fact that Rumsfeld made another prediction, “Believe me, this isn’t over yet. There’s going to be another attack, and it could be us.” moments before the pentagon is struck!

There is also the matter of a 10-30 minute period that morning when Rumsfeld went missing in action, but of course that morning was packed with chaos, so maybe I shouldn't take the missing time to mean anything in and of itself... All of these examples could be excused if they were isolated instances. But there are numerous other examples of peculiar behavior on and around the day that changed America, and the world. (for instance, why did John Ashcroft stop flying in commercial airliners around July of 2001? Why did Condoleza Rice warn Willie Brown not to fly on 9/11? and why did the FBI confiscate video security footage from a hotel and gas station around the pentagon within fifteen minutes of the strike?)

The most condemning response to the attacks came from Dick Cheney, who himself issued the command for NORAD intercept jets to “stand down” before the pentagon was hit. The order to finally cover the skies was given around 10:00 am.

I could go on and on with these examples, but the fact is this; even though our official motto is “we will never forget”, a majority of Americans would prefer that day to rest in peace out of respect for the dead. And our media has been kind enough to accomidate that sentiment, banning images and video clips from further airplay.

On the other hand, our government has seemed more than content in using September the eleventh as a hot-button issue, a scare-tactic, or the reason why the NSA would wire-tap citizen’s phones without warrents, or the US Military would be ordered to invade any sovereign nation pre-emptively. There is no doubt that our government would prefer that we never forget. But at the same time they would also rather we not get bogged down with too many gruesome details…one might suppose also out of respect for the dead.

The Bush administration waited 411 days to form an official “investigation” of the attacks. Our armed forces had been in Afghanistan more than a year by that time...When the commission was formed, it was underfunded and bogged down with red tape, leaving many questions unaddressed or unanswered . (the 9/11 commission, for instance, offered absolutely no explanation for why Building number 7 collapsed). It is also interesting to note that although George Bush and Dick Cheney did finally agree to meet with the commission they refused to officially testify, they met only under the condition that they would both remain in the same room and be interviewed at the same time, and they did not allow a recorded transcript of their meeting to be made.

So far in this analysis, we are faced with a media blackout, and what appears at a glance to be a government coverup. September eleventh is not the yet-unsolved murder of 2998 innocents any more, it has evolved into something much greater than that. It is the fuse which started a never-ending war much like the one described in George Orwell’s 1984. The war abroad to maintain the government’s iron grip of control at home. And if you are familiar with 1984, you might be familiar with “2+2=5” The reason behind that statement is a demonstration of the government’s authority in the minds of it’s citizens. If Big Brother says 2+2=5, the masses will believe that 2+2=5. Truth is defined by those in power, and accepted by it’s fearful subjects. On 9/11 we have a demonstation of that exact equation by the number of planes hyjacked adding up to the number of destructive events. Four planes went up, it should mean that four planes came down, and four events took place. But in fact four planes did go up, but five events took place. The two towers were hit (2) the pentagon was struck (+1) a plane went down in Shanksville Pennsylvania (+1) and at 5:25pm, World Trade Center building number 7 imploded on itself in about 6 seconds (+1). In this recorded series of events the public is faced with the mostly unquestioned equation of 2+2=5.

I would like to point out that there are thousands upon thousands of people all around the world who have drawn that untrue equation into question, people who have “awakened” from an apathetic slumber (or the American dream) and have taken the matter of investigation into their own hands…but even still, regardless of what is at stake, most Americans are simply not willing to accept the idea that our government had a hand in the 911 attacks. Why? Again, because it was such a massive and horrifying act of unquestionable evil. Hollywood and other sources of propaganda have portrayed America as the heros in a neverending struggle against evil men like Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein. We beat the nazis, we won the cold war, we fight the bad guys, and we are a Christian Nation (God Bless America!). Examining the mountain of evidence that condemns the rotten history of our CIA, or the unconstitutional, ruthless philosophies and methods of our current Neocon government (especially in regards to 9-11) is the path of greatest resistance. Because that path resists all that we have been raised to believe about ourselves.

In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes.

~Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

The Big Lie in this case is not merely that 19 Hijackers with boxcutters were solely responsible for the events of 9-11, but more-so that George W Bush is the rough-and-tumble cowboy savior of the western world. The Big Lie is that Bush is a leader brave enough to face an enemy that would stop at nothing to destroy us, regardless of the cost. Because the fact remains that George W Bush and Tony Blair have done more to destroy the foundations of western freedom than any outside enemy ever could.

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are not about liberation, they are about domination. The enemy of the people is not foreign, it is undoubtably domestic. And George W Bush is not a Christian soldier, he is not a savior of life. He is a remorseless, cold-blooded killer. A false savior. an Antichrist.