MOVIE: National Security Alert (Attack on the Pentagon)
In 2006 Citizen Investigation Team launched an independent investigation into the act of terrorism which took place at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
This exhaustive three-year inquest involved multiple trips to the scene of the crime in Arlington, Virginia, close scrutiny of all official and unofficial data related to the event.
And most importantly, first-person interviews with dozens of eyewitnesses, many of which were conducted and filmed in the exact locations from which they witnessed the plane that allegedly struck the building that day.
The following videos total 81 minutes:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Part 9
To whom it concerns, i.e., everyone:
In 2006 Citizen Investigation Team launched an independent investigation into the act of terrorism which took place at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. This exhaustive three-year inquest involved multiple trips to the scene of the crime in Arlington, Virginia, close scrutiny of all official and unofficial data related to the event, and, most importantly, first-person interviews with dozens of eyewitnesses, many of which were conducted and filmed in the exact locations from which they witnessed the plane that allegedly struck the building that day.
Be forewarned: Our findings are extraordinarily shocking and frightening. They are also deadly serious, and deserving of your immediate attention. This is not about a conspiracy theory or any theory at all. This is about independent, verifiable evidence which unfortunately happens to conclusively establish as a historical fact that the violence which took place in Arlington that day was not the result of a surprise attack by suicide hijackers, but rather a false flag "black operation" involving a carefully planned and skillfully executed deception.
If you are skeptical of (or even incensed by) this statement we do not blame you. We are not asking you to take our word for it, nor do we want you to do that. We want you to view the evidence and see with your own eyes that this is the case. We want you to hear it directly from the eyewitnesses who were there, just as we did.
Please understand that this information is not being brought to your attention simply for educational purposes. It is presented within the context of a “call to action” accompanied by a detailed step-by-step strategy intended to inspire and empower you to do something about it. But first, please familiarize yourself with the evidence by viewing and paying close attention to the 81-minute video presentation, National Security Alert.
Thank you for your concern and thank you for your action.
Sincerely,
Craig Ranke and Aldo Marquis
Citizen Investigation Team
OMNI Interview with Richard Gage, AIA
This interview is in three parts:
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth are encouraged to take an active role by reporting the results of their research on 9/11 by means of lectures, articles, and methods of disseminating the truth about the 9/11 WTC building collapses.
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth are encouraged to take an active role by reporting the results of their research on 9/11 by means of lectures, articles, and methods of disseminating the truth about the 9/11 WTC building collapses.
MOVIE: The PentaCon: Eyewitnesses Speak, Conspiracy Revealed (Smoking Gun Version)
Citizen Investigation Team presents this explosive documentary regarding the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon revealing quadruple corroborated testimony proving the plane flew on the north side of the CITGO station making it impossible to have toppled the light poles and damage the building as outlined in the ASCE report.
Visit www.ThePentaCon.com for more details.
MOVIE: The Pentagon Flyover - How They Pulled It Off
In this presentation Citizen Investigation Team reveals brand new independently obtained smoking gun evidence further exposing how the true flight path of the Pentagon attack jet is irreconcilable with all official reports and data:
"We demonstrate how the plane flew over Washington DC skies and came from the east side of the Potomac River. We explain how the C-130 and white E4B or "mystery plane" were used as cover for the decoy jet that was meant to fool people into believing it hit the building. We expose the methodology behind the operation and demonstrate how they were able to successfully pull off this military deception in broad daylight."
See www.ThePentaCon.com for more information.
MOVIE: 9/11 Ripple Effect
9/11 Ripple Effect champions a very powerful message; backed by expert examination of video evidence and packaged in an imaginative and captivating production that will keep you on the edge of your seats. An absolute must see!
MOVIE: 9/11 Attack on the Pentagon
Keep in mind there are a few glitches in this video starting at 40 mins due to upload. For your own personal smooth high quality copy, please visit http://pilotsfor911truth.org/store.
Pilots For 9/11 Truth brings you analysis never seen before regarding the Attack On The Pentagon. Highly technical analysis presented in a way that the layman will appreciate and understand. A 757 reported to have caused the damage at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 is analyzed based on topography, obstacles, flight data, physics, and witness statements.
In order to accurately determine and understand the nature of the attack, Pilots For 9/11 Truth constructed a 3D scale model of the Arlington area complete with US Geological Survey Topography, obstacles, structures and vehicles. Based on flight data, physics and witness statements, we take you to Arlington on that fateful day, observing through the eyes of those who were there.
We let the viewer determine if it is possible for a 757 to navigate such a region and cause the physical damage reported at the Pentagon. Many common arguments made by those who make excuse for and support the government story are also addressed.
Pentagon Shoots Down Missile in Simulated Attack
The Pentagon says it conducted a successful test of the U.S. missile defense shield network. So why was there no protection on 9/11?
Peter Dale Scott: Dick Cheney on 9/11
Researcher Peter Dale Scott questions the role of Dick Cheney on the morning of 9/11. Did his secretive actions have anything to do with "Continuity of Government"?
9/11 Commission Report Bars 503 First responder Eyewitnesses
Within a month of 9/11, NYC fire commissioner Thomas Von Essen, a 30-year NYFD vet, set up interviews with fire, port authority police and EMT first responders to record their initial impressions of what they experienced on Sept 11.
The stories of 503 men and women ran to 12,000 pages.
Graeme MacQueen, a recently retired religious studies professor, read them all. In addition to the heartrending nature of many of the stories, the consistent theme was of hearing, feeling and seeing explosions, a controlled demolition. Failure to officially acknowledge this evidence suggests a coverup.
MacQueen (McMaster University, Ontario, Canada) narrowed down the testimony of 118 first responders as especially court-worthy testimony. But he notes the entire testimony was excluded by the 9/11 Commission, as well as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Bush and Cheney Testify to 9/11 Commission Together and in Secret
When questioned why, this is Bush's answer:
Cut from "9/11 Press for Truth" Bush questioned about why he and Cheney appeared before the 9/11 commission together rather than separate.
So we have to ask, why wasn't the media all over this nonsense? Here is Bush's useless commentary just after the meeting:
We regret that a lie detector test was not mandatory.
Cut from "9/11 Press for Truth" Bush questioned about why he and Cheney appeared before the 9/11 commission together rather than separate.
So we have to ask, why wasn't the media all over this nonsense? Here is Bush's useless commentary just after the meeting:
We regret that a lie detector test was not mandatory.
Bush Talks about EXPLOSIVES in Building (on 9/11)?
Bush says this, "For example, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed described the design of planned attacks of buildings inside the U.S. and how operatives were directed to carry them out."
"That is valuable information for those of us who have the responsibility to protect the American people. He told us the operatives had been instructed to ensure that the explosives went off at a high -- a point that was high enough to prevent people trapped above from escaping."
It sounds eerily like what happened at the WTC on 9/11. Was he referring that the "terrorists" planted explosives in the towers or that foiled plots had planned to use that tactic? Or was he referring to the WTC?
Minetta tells 9/11 Commission Cheney knew exact flight path
January 13, 2007 — Norman Minetta tells 9/11 Commission that Dick Cheney knew the exact flight path of Flight 93 (and did nothing).
The 9/11 Commission Was Set Up To Fail
This is a very brief clip from a question and answer session that Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton gave at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on 9/11/2006.
Representatives of the family members, and family members themselves called for a new investigation - right across the hall.
Below, Dr. David Ray Griffin, author of the "The New Pearl Harbor" and the "9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions" details how the 9/11 Commission was designed and intended from the start to do anything BUT provide the truth about 9/11.
Increasing Threats To The 9/11 Truth Movement
By Bill Willers *
"Those who subscribe to conspiracy theories may create serious risks, including risks of violence."
--Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule, 2008, "Conspiracy Theories"
Attacks directed at the 9/11 Truth Movement are on the increase as the Movement grows globally, drawing ever more from technical, scientific, intelligence and military communities. While earlier criticism aimed only to insult and trivialize, more recent attacks have suggested stronger, even militant reaction.
Efforts to neutralize the 9/11 Truth Movement now involve describing a common "conspiratorial thinking" that essentially renders all conspiracy theories equally fallacious. By association, such a premise places one who cannot accept an official story replete with blatant lies into the company of vacuous fringe groups. A case in point is the new (2010) and widely advertised book "Voodoo Histories" in which David Aaronovitch, a "political journalist", frets about the "seditious role" conspiracies play and the"shadow armies" of the Internet that allow for "9/11 revisionism".
While Aaronovitch makes the empty claim that conspiracists are guilty of "exaggeration of the status of experts", he avoids referencing the 1200+ Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, or the likes of Dr. Robert Bowman, head of the "Star Wars" program under two presidents; Francesco Cossiga, former president of Italy; Dr. Alan Sabrosky, former Director of Studies at the U.S. Army War College; Andreas von Bulow, former Secretary of Germany's Federal Defense Ministry; General Leonid Ivanshov, former Chief of Staff of Russian's Armed Forces; Ronald D. Ray, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration, and hundreds more of like credibility and authority.
It is simply not believable that a competent journalist dealing with this subject could be unaware of them, since their positions have been public for many years.
Likewise, law professors Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule, whose article "Conspiracy Theories" centers on 9/11, intermingle 9/11 Truth with beliefs involving such as faked moon landings and global warming denials.
Throughout, they express such fear of the "harmful" 9/11Truth Movement that they prescribe "cognitive infiltration" by governmental agents. Because they use "theorist" and "extremist" interchangeably, it is not difficult in this era of the Patriot Act to envision scenarios in which governmental infiltration goes beyond the merely cognitive, should the Truth Movement make it necessary. Sunstein was made head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OMB) after authoring this article and is considered a contender for the Supreme Court.
Last year, Michael Chertoff, former head of Homeland Security, charged that failure to accept the official 9/11 Commission's narrative was akin to Holocaust denial - a serious charge although ludicrous on its face. Others have made a similar comparison, including Michael Shermer of Skeptic Magazine.
Regarding Skeptic, for a lengthy but unconvincing defense of the governmental story re 9/11, consider this 2006 article at eSkeptic by Phil Mole. One has to wonder why an account by the 9/11 Commission, admittedly "set up to fail", a story so full of holes and physical impossibilities that it cries out for a skeptical assessment , is not merely immune to skepticism by self-proclaimed "skeptics" but aggressively defended by them. Yes, it does make one wonder.
In March, the Washington Post, exposing itself in a way it may come to regret, published a venomous editorial attacking a prominent Japanese politician as "susceptible to the imaginings of the lunatic fringe" for his opinions regarding 9/11. While the editorial depicted the man's views as a threat to U.S.-Japanese relations, his views simply mirror those of the global Truth Movement, about which the Post is certainly aware, so that the editorial became a de facto attack on the entire Movement as"reckless and fact-averse ... too bizarre, half-baked and intellectually bogus to merit serious discussion."
Evidence that three buildings came down via internal demolition is simply overwhelming, and by any reasonable standard this cries out for investigation. For the likes of Sunstein, Aaronovitch, Chertoff, Shermer et al. to so aggressively attack what is a global effort for truth puts them way, way beyond mere believers of a discredited governmental story. And this is very interesting, for when an influential cadre of lawyers, journalists and bureaucrats take such pains at organized attack of such a Movement, it makes them a major bulwark in a monstrous fiction.
Why such concern on their part if the Truth Movement is, as it was depicted early on, so silly as to warrant "troofer" ridicule? In fact, their efforts indicate considerable apprehension (itself a validation of the Truth Movement) within certain interests. What interests, exactly, are they? What do these people have in common that is not clear to the larger public? One wonders.
A glaring aspect of these attacks is the apparent refusal of attackers to engage technical experts of the 9/11 Truth Movement in civil debate. So far, face-to-face exchanges of evidence, on camera and for the record, have not taken place as certainly they should have. Sunstein and Vermeule maintain that the claims of the 9/11 Truth Movement are easily refuted. Likewise "skeptic" Shermer. Fine, let them present their evidence, and let Richard Gage and his colleagues present theirs, so that the evidence of each side can be compared in full light.
* Bill Willers is emeritus professor of biology, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh now living in Middleton, WI. He is founder of Superior Wilderness Action Network (SWAN) and editor of Learning to Listen to the Land and Unmanaged Landscapes, both from Island Press. He posts occasionally online at OpEdNews, Common Dreams, Counterpunch and Dissident Voice.
Shouldn't our tax-exempt "Public Safety Guardian" give us the truth?
Message from Kevin Ryan:
By all accounts, the unprecedented events of September 11th, 2001 “changed everything”. It is therefore critical that conscientious Americans, as well as all good people around the world, understand these events in detail. Unfortunately the official reports, including The 9/11 Commission Report and the NIST WTC Report, written by those working under the direction of the Bush Administration, fall far short of providing the explanations needed.
Both the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and my former employer, Underwriters Laboratories (UL), seem to have taken the stance that the public does not have a right to know what fire resistance tests were performed on the steel component assemblies used to build the World Trade Center (WTC) towers. But since NIST’s latest story for collapse of the WTC towers depends on the fire-induced failure of these steel components, there is little information that could be more important at this time.
When I worked there, top management at UL made clear to me that UL performed these required tests. They have since stated that there is “no evidence” that any firm tested the steel. Being tax-exempt, due to their status as a public safety-testing organization, UL should be held accountable for being honest and open with the public about the history of their testing.
To help ensure this accountability, my attorneys and I have been pursuing legal actions against UL. We hope to gain more information about UL’s role in the testing of the WTC steel assemblies, and any other involvement UL has had with the WTC towers or the NIST investigation. We welcome any information or other support from the public as we attempt to provide this critical public service.
Thanks for your help,
Kevin Ryan
Source with Links.
About Kevin Ryan.
Contact Kevin at: info[at]ultruth[dot]com
Writings from 9/11 - Some Very Quickly Sensed the Truth
Ed Note: We've been reading blogs and searching for things written on the day of September 11, 2001. Here are some recent finds:
On 9/11/2001, Dave Winer wrote this on his blog:
"Speaking with my mother today who survived the Nazi Holocaust, she is certain that Jews will get the blame." (Ed Note: I think Dave's mother was right, i.e., Eric Hufschmid claims to be a "Truther." But it appears to be a vehicle for his anti-semitic screed. You can google him and others of his ilk. Sadly, their rants often prevent good people from looking further into the truth of 9/11.)
Dave Winer added, "John Perry Barlow likens the attack to destruction of the Reichstag that brought the Nazis to power in Germany in 1933. I hope he's wrong about that."
Here is a portion of what John Perry Barlow wrote on 9/11:
"1. I'm OK, Leah's OK, I Hope You're OK... 2. Prepare for the Coming Police State!
DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME...
I've received enough e-mail and phone calls this morning to indicate that many of you are concerned for my safety, knowing that I have an apartment within the debris range of the fallen towers.
In fact, I'm in halcyon Seattle, where nothin' could be finer. Rarely have I seen a nicer day here.
Dear daughter Leah, on the other hand, *is* in Lower Manhattan, where she is a freshman at NYU. After several stabs, I was able to get through to her this morning, finding her unharmed and calm. She is going to lay low in her dorm today and likely attempt to volunteer
for relief efforts tomorrow.
I've told her for years that is no population on earth more adaptable to emergency than the hyper-witted citizens of Manhattan. She reports that there is plenty of evidence to support this view surrounding her this morning. The Gothamites are rising to the occasion.
There are a number of you who work in the World Trade Center and its immediate vicinity. Rather than tie up telco bandwidth better devoted to those who really need it, I won't try to call you, but I would appreciate a response to this message assuring me of your safety.
I will rest easier knowing you're not forever at rest...
*DO* WORRY ABOUT US. AND, MORE TO THE POINT, U.S.
As most of you know, I believe that the United States has gradually, subtly, invisibly to most of us, become a police state over the last 30 years.
This morning's events are roughly equivalent to the Reichstag fire that provided the social opportunity for the Nazi take-over of Germany.
I am *not* suggesting that, like the Nazis, the authoritarian forces in America actually had a direct role in perpetrating this mind-blistering tragedy. (Though their indirect role deserves a much longer discussion.)
Nevertheless, nothing could serve those who believe that American "safety" is more important than American liberty better than something like this. Control freaks will dine on this day for the rest of our lives.
Within a few hours, we will see beginning the most vigorous efforts to end what remains of freedom in America. Those of who are willing to sacrifice a little - largely illusory - safety in order to maintain our faith in the original ideals of America will have to fight for those ideals just as vigorously.
I beg you to begin NOW to do whatever you can - whether writing your public officials, joining the ACLU or EFF, taking to the streets, or living visibly free and fearless lives - to prevent the spasm of control mania from destroying the dreams that far more have died for over the last two hundred twenty five years than died this morning.
Don't let the terrorists or (their natural allies) the fascists win. Remember that the goal of terrorism is to create increasingly paralytic totalitarianism in the government it attacks. Don't give them the satisfaction.
Fear nothing. Live free.
And, please, let us try to forgive those who have committed these appalling crimes. If we hate them, we will become them.
May God - or Whatever you want to call It - bless us all. We'll need it.
Barlow"
Ed note: John Perry Barlow lists himself as "Cognitive Dissident, Co-Founder & Vice Chairman, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Berkman Fellow, Harvard Law School"
9/11 Commissioner and former Senator Bob Kerrey confesses 9-11 Commission could not do it’s job
This video is part 3 of 3 and the important part is where Kerry is asked some tough questions. Too bad he didn't give us more answers.
The National Security Agency's "Q Group" Tries to Monitor and Plug Leaks about US Government Involvement in the Attacks on 9/11
The National Security Agency's "Q Group" has grown to an immense security and counter-intelligence force, with an estimated one thousand government employees, contractors, and paid informants.
NSAs Security force is reportedly primarily tasked with plugging any leaks of classified or other information that points to U.S. Government involvement with the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
Since the 9/11 Truth Movement is rapidly growing....we can only imagine how stressful it must be for "Q Group" to run themselves ragged trying to plug those leaks and keep more and more eye-witnesses and whistleblowers from being heard.
Wake Up the NYC District Attorney with 1,000 Letters for WTC 7 Legal Action
Send just one letter per week in June!
At the beginning of each week, NYC CAN will report how many letters and faxes were sent the previous week! This way we all get to know whether or not we reached our goal. If you are not already signed up at NYCCAN you can sign on now in order to receive these templates each week. It’s free!
This is how it’s going to work:
• At the beginning of each week NYC CAN will send out a template of the letter. Feel free to edit the letter to make it your own, but please be sure to stick to what the letter is saying. The template is available below.
• Copy/paste the letter, edit it as you see fit, and mail or fax it to the District Attorney’s office. We are asking you to mail or fax your letter because the District Attorney’s office asks for complaints to be written.
• Email NYC CAN to let them know you sent your letter so they can record a total for that week.
• Forward this action alert to as many people as possible, post it on blogs, websites, facebook, etc.
Each week we will cover a different topic so that the District Attorney can be comprehensively educated about the destruction of Building 7 in a way that is easy to absorb. The key is to not overwhelm them with all sorts of information. This is how the weeks will go:
Week 1: Getting the DA’s office to watch footage of Building 7
Week 2: Testimonial Evidence
Week 3: Physical Evidence
Week 4: Technical Evidence (analysis of footage)
Fax # (212) 335–8914 for the Special Prosecutions Bureau of the Manhattan District Attorney. The mailing address is included in the letter pasted below.
Please help make this first week an amazing success by taking ten minutes to do your part. The time for us to act as one is now.
You can download a PDF of a pre–formatted letter courtesy of World911Truth.org — don’t forget to sign it!
Or you can customize it yourself:
To: Cy Vance, Jr. District Attorney of New York County;
Thomas Wornom, Bureau Chief, Special Prosecutions Bureau
New York County District Attorney Office
ATTN: Special Prosecutions Bureau
1 Hogan Place 7th Floor
New York, NY 10013
June 3, 2010
Dear Sirs:
I am writing to ask that you open an investigation into the destruction of World Trade Center Building 7, which occurred at around 5:20pm on September 11, 2001. There is overwhelming evidence that Building 7 was demolished with explosives, and that it did not collapse due to office fires as asserted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in its 2008 report on Building 7.[1] Today, 1,200 architects and engineers, and millions of others like myself, are calling for a new investigation into the destruction of Building 7.
Most people have not seen footage of Building 7’s destruction, or they are unaware that it even occurred. This is perhaps the primary reason there has not been a real investigation to date.
I urge you to watch footage of Building 7’s destruction by going to:
Building7Footage.com
It will take you less than one minute to watch this footage. If you are like most people who have watched it, you will come to the conclusion that a new investigation is necessary.
I respectfully submit that as part of your duty to represent, serve and protect the people of New York County, and to bring justice for the 330+ New York County residents who died on September 11th,[2] it is your responsibility to initiate this investigation.
Sincerely yours,
Sign Your Name Here
[1]http://wtc.nist.gov/NCSTAR1/NCSTAR1Aindex.htm
[2]http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/19/nyregion/a-nation-challenged-the-toll-in-cold-numbers-a-census-of-the-sept-11-victims.html
Thank you once again for standing up and being counted. This is the time for patriots to step forward.
Gratefully,
The hardworking staff and volunteers at Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth
Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes and an article
by Kevin Barrett entitled "Twilight of the Psychopaths."
What diseased human mechanism exists that allowed a small group of people to pull the strings and cause the catastrophic death and destruction on 9/11/2001? And then begin the bogus wars that followed?
This book explains it all. Forewarned is forearmed.
Our modern Western culture lacks an adequate framework to understand the causes and processes of what we commonly refer to as evil in our history. The Third Reich, the Bolshevik Revolution, Stalinism, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney...
Our body of literature, social sciences, and our common sense of morality only scratch the surface of a true comprehension of the nature of evil.
Review: The Trick of the Psychopath's Trade: Make Us Believe that Evil Comes from Others
Thus, the very people who are, in fact, the initiators of the greatest ponerogenic activity pass undetected. Our lack of understanding will inevitably lead to the very problems that the majority of humanity seeks to prevent.
Political Ponerology
A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes
Quote: "What is of crucial importance is to fully grasp the importance of the science of Ponerology and how many applications it may have for a future of peace and a humane humanity. This science permits the human mind to understand things that have been, for millennia, unintelligible: the genesis of evil. This understanding could very well bring about a turning point in the history of civilization which, I should add, is presently on the point of self-destruction."
- Andrzej M. Łobaczewski
Review: The Trick of the Psychopath's Trade: Make Us Believe that Evil Comes from Others. By Silvia Cattori
More Reading: The Psychopath - The Mask of Sanity
Twilight of the Psychopaths by Dr. Kevin Barrett
From the March 2008 Idaho Observer
When Gandhi was asked his opinion of Western civilization he said it would be a good idea. But that oft-cited quote, is misleading, assuming as it does that civilization is an unmitigated blessing.
Civilized people, we are told, live peacefully and cooperatively with their fellows, sharing the necessary labour in order to obtain the leisure to develop arts and sciences. And while that would be a good idea, it is not a good description of what has been going on in the so-called advanced cultures during the past 8,000 years.
Civilization, as we know it, is largely the creation of psychopaths. All civilizations, our own included, have been based on slavery and "warfare." Incidentally, the latter term is a euphemism for mass murder.
The prevailing recipe for civilization is simple:
1) Use lies and brainwashing to create an army of controlled, systematic mass murderers;
2) Use that army to enslave large numbers of people (i.e. seize control of their labour power and its fruits);
3) Use that slave labour power to improve the brainwashing process (by using the economic surplus to employ scribes, priests, and PR men). Then go back to step one and repeat the process.
Psychopaths have played a disproportionate role in the development of civilization, because they are hard-wired to lie, kill, injure, and generally inflict great suffering on other humans without feeling any remorse. The inventor of civilization—the first tribal chieftain who successfully brainwashed an army of controlled mass murderers—was almost certainly a genetic psychopath. Since that momentous discovery, psychopaths have enjoyed a significant advantage over non-psychopaths in the struggle for power in civilizational hierarchies—especially military hierarchies.
Killing
Military institutions are tailor-made for psychopathic killers. The five percent or so of human males who feel no remorse about killing their fellow human beings make the best soldiers. And the 95 percent who are extremely reluctant to kill make terrible soldiers—unless they are brainwashed with highly sophisticated modern techniques that turn them (temporarily it is hoped) into functional psychopaths.
In his book, "On Killing" (1996), Lt. Col. Dave Grossman has re-written military history to highlight what other histories hide: The fact that military science is less about strategy and technology than about overcoming the instinctive human reluctance to kill members of our own species. The true "Revolution in Military Affairs" was not Donald Rumsfeld’s move to high-tech in 2001, but Brigadier Gen. S.L.A. Marshall’s discovery in the 1940s that only 15-20 percent of World War II soldiers along the line of fire would use their weapons: "Those (80-85 percent) who did not fire did not run or hide (in many cases they were willing to risk great danger to rescue comrades, get ammunition, or run messages), but they simply would not fire their weapons at the enemy, even when faced with repeated waves of banzai charges" (Grossman, p. 4).
Marshall’s discovery and subsequent research proved that in all previous wars, a tiny minority of soldiers—the five percent who are natural-born psychopaths and perhaps a few temporarily-insane imitators—did almost all the killing. Normal men just went through the motions and, if at all possible, refused to take the life of an enemy soldier, even if that meant giving up their own. The implication: Wars are ritualized mass murders by psychopaths of non-psychopaths (This cannot be good for humanity’s genetic endowment!).
Marshall’s work, brought a Copernican revolution to military science. In the past, everyone believed that the soldier willing to kill for his country was the (heroic) norm, while one who refused to fight was a (cowardly) aberration. The truth, as it turned out, was that the normative soldier hailed from the psychopathic five percent. The sane majority, would rather die than fight.
Social hubris
The implication, too frightening for even the likes of Marshall and Grossman to fully digest, was that the norms for soldiers’ behaviour in battle had been set by psychopaths. That meant that psychopaths were in control of the military as an institution. Worse, it meant that psychopaths were in control of society’s perception of military affairs. Evidently, psychopaths exercised an enormous amount of power in seemingly sane, normal society.
How could that be? In "Political Ponerology," Andrzej Lobaczewski explains that clinical psychopaths enjoy advantages even in non-violent competitions to climb the ranks of social hierarchies. Because they can lie without remorse (and without the telltale physiological stress that is measured by lie detector tests) psychopaths can always say whatever is necessary to get what they want. In court, for example, psychopaths can tell extreme bald-faced lies in a plausible manner, while their sane opponents are handicapped by an emotional predisposition to remain within hailing distance of the truth. Too often, the judge or jury imagines that the truth must be somewhere in the middle, and then issues decisions that benefit the psychopath. As with judges and juries, so too with those charged with decisions concerning who to promote and who not to promote in corporate, military and governmental hierarchies. The result is that all hierarchies inevitably become top-heavy with psychopaths.
So-called conspiracy theorists, some of whom deserve the pejorative connotation of that much-abused term, often imagine that secret societies of Jews, Jesuits, bankers, communists, Bilderbergers, Muslim extremists, papists, and so on, are secretly controlling history, doing dastardly deeds, and/or threatening to take over the world. As a leading "conspiracy theorist" according to Wikipedia, I feel eminently qualified to offer an alternative conspiracy theory which, like the alternative conspiracy theory of 9/11, is both simpler and more accurate than the prevailing wisdom: The only conspiracy that matters is the conspiracy of the psychopaths against the rest of us.
The Psychopathocracy
Behind the apparent insanity of contemporary history, is the actual insanity of psychopaths fighting to preserve their disproportionate power. And as that power grows ever-more-threatened, the psychopaths grow ever-more-desperate. We are witnessing the apotheosis of the overworld—the criminal syndicate or overlapping set of syndicates that lurks above ordinary society and law just as the underworld lurks below it. In 9/11 and the 9/11 wars, we are seeing the final desperate power-grab or "endgame" (Alex Jones) of brutal, cunning gangs of CIA drug-runners and president-killers; money-laundering international bankers and their hit-men, economic and otherwise; corrupt military contractors and gung-ho generals; corporate predators and their political enablers; brainwashers and mind-rapists euphemistically known as psy-ops experts and PR specialists. In short, the whole sick crew of certifiable psychopaths running our so-called civilization. And they are running scared. It was their terror of losing control that they projected onto the rest of us by blowing up the Twin Towers and inciting temporary psychopathic terror-rage in the American public.
Why does the psychopathocracy fear it is losing control? Because it is threatened by the spread of knowledge. The greatest fear of any psychopath is of being found out. As George H. W. Bush said to journalist Sarah McClendon in December, 1992, "If the people knew what we had done, they would chase us down the street and lynch us."
Given that Bush is reported to have participated in parties where child prostitutes were sodomized and otherwise abused, among his many other crimes, his statement to McClendon should be taken seriously.
Blending in
Psychopaths go through life knowing that they are completely different from other people. They quickly learn to hide their lack of empathy, while carefully studying others’ emotions so as to mimic normalcy while cold-bloodedly manipulating the normals.
Unmasking the psychopaths
Today, thanks to new information technologies, we are on the brink of unmasking the psychopaths and building a civilization of, by and for the normal human being—a civilization without war, a civilization based on truth, a civilization in which the saintly few rather than the diabolical few would gravitate to positions of power. We already have the knowledge necessary to diagnose psychopathic personalities and keep them out of power. We have the knowledge necessary to dismantle the institutions in which psychopaths especially flourish—militaries, intelligence agencies, large corporations and secret societies. We simply need to disseminate this knowledge—and develop the will to use it—as widely as possible.
Above all, we need to inform the public about how psychopaths co-opt and corrupt normal human beings. One way they do this, is by manipulating shame and denial—emotions foreign to psychopaths but common and easily-induced among normals.
Consider how gangs and secret societies (psychopaths’ guilds in disguise) recruit new members. Some criminal gangs and satanist covens demand that candidates for admission commit a murder to "earn their stripes."
Skull and Bones, the Yale-based secret society that supplies the CIA with drug-runners, mind-rapists, child abusers and professional killers, requires neophytes to lie naked in a coffin and masturbate in front of older members while reciting the candidate’s entire sexual history. By forcing the neophyte to engage in ritualized behaviour that would be horrendously shameful in normal society, the psychopaths’ guild destroys the candidate’s normal personality, assuming he had one in the first place, and turns the individual into a co-opted, corrupt, degraded shadow of his former self—a manufactured psychopath or psychopath’s apprentice.
This manipulation of shame has the added benefit of making psychopathic organizations effectively invisible to normal society. Despite easily available media reports, American voters in 2004 simply refused to see that the two major-party presidential candidates had lain naked in a coffin masturbating in front of older Bonesmen in order to gain admission to Skull and Bones and thus become members of the criminal overworld.
Likewise, many Americans have long refused to see that hawkish elements of the overworld, operating through the CIA, had obviously been the murderers of JFK, MLK, RFK, JFK Jr., Malcolm X, ChÈ, AllendÈ, Wellstone, Lumumba, Aguilera, Diem, and countless other relatively non-psychopathic leaders. They refuse to see the continuing murders of millions of people around the world in what amounts to an American holocaust. They refuse to see the evidence that the psychopaths’ guilds running America’s most powerful institutions use the most horrific forms of sexualized abuse imaginable to induce multiple-personality-disorder in child victims, then use the resulting mind-control slaves as disposable drug-runners, prostitutes, Manchurian candidates and even diplomatic envoys. And of course they refuse to see that 9/11 was a transparently obvious inside job, and that their own psychopath-dominated military-intelligence apparatus is behind almost every major terrorist outrage of recent decades.
All of this psychopathic behaviour at the top of the social hierarchy is simply too shameful for ordinary people to see, so they avert their gaze, just as wives of husbands who are sexually abusing their children sometimes refuse to see what is happening in plain view. If deep, deep denial were a river in Egypt, American citizens’ willful blindness would be more like the Marianas Trench.
Dawn of a new day
But thanks to the power of the Internet, people everywhere are waking up. The only obvious non-psychopath among Republican presidential candidates, Ron Paul, also happens to be the only candidate in either party with significant grassroots support.
If "love" is embedded in the Revolution Ron Paul heralds, that is because Dr. Paul—a kindly, soft-spoken physician who has delivered more than 4,000 babies—implicitly recognizes that government is the invention and tool of psychopaths, and therefore must be strictly limited in scope and subjected to a rigorous system of checks and balances, lest the psychopath’s tools, fear and hatred, replace love as the glue that binds society together.
The decline in militarism since World War II in advanced countries, the spread of literacy and communications technology, and the people’s growing demands for a better life, together represent a gathering force that terrifies the psychopathocracy, (those alternately competing-then-cooperating gangs of psychopaths who have ruled through lies, fear and intimidation since the dawn of so-called civilization).
Since nuclear weapons have made war obsolete, the pathocracy is terrified that its favourite social control mechanism—ritualized mass slaughter—is increasingly unavailable. And if war was the great human tragedy, the pathocrats’ pathetic attempt at a war-substitute—the transparently phoney "war on terror"—is repeating it as sheerest farce.
Truly, we are witnessing the twilight of the psychopaths. Whether in their death throes they succeed in pulling down the curtain of eternal night on all of us, or whether we resist them and survive to see the dawn of a civilization worthy of the name, is the great decision in which all of us others, however humbly, are now participating.
About the writer: Dr. Kevin Barrett, co-founder of the Muslim-Christian-Jewish Alliance for 9/11 Truth, has taught English, French, Arabic, American Civilization, Humanities, African Literature, Folklore, and Islam at colleges and universities in the San Francisco Bay area, Paris, and Madison, Wisconsin. Barrett became a 9/11 truth activist in 2004 after reading David Griffin’s The New Pearl Harbor and conducting follow-up research that convinced him Griffin had accurately summarized evidence indicating 9/11 was an inside job.
In the summer of 2006, Republican state legislators and Fox newscasters demanded that Barrett be fired from his job teaching an introductory Islam class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but the University refused to buckle, and Barrett got high marks from his students. He has appeared in several documentary films, lectures widely on 9/11 and hosts three radio programs on three different patriot networks.
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