Pat Shannan's MUSINGS
The Dogs Bark, and the Caravan Moves On
As usual, when it comes to covering up the truth, the feds keep shooting themselves in the foot. As with Gordon Kahl and KAL-007 in 1983, Ruby Ridge in '92, Waco and Vince Foster in '93, Oklahoma City in '95, the Montana Freemen and TWA-800 in '96, on and on ad nauseam; their blatant lies keep coming back to haunt them. With a free and uncontrolled press, such fabrications would have been the downfall of the Republicrats and Demopubs a long time ago.
Nothing newswise has changed with the reporting of "The Attack on America," and the 100-channel-wide, continual blitz is proving to be the greatest example in our lifetimes of Orwell's Propaganda Machine being alive and well. (On the afternoon of September 11th, Peter Jennings was already conducting a national survey of "How Much of Your Freedom Will You Give Up for Safety?")
First it was, "The black boxes will tell us a lot we don't know." Each plane carried two. Then it was, "Oh my, all eight burned up and we didn't learn anything." Of course, we never saw any photos of the "destroyed" boxes. Then when confronted with physical facts rendering the destruction impossible, someone suddenly found one with some recordings of pilots talking to each other. This also amounted to nothing - except a vain attempt to satisfy the experts who had made an issue of the fact that the boxes had been built to withstand to temperatures of double that of a jet fuel fire.
How amazing it was that the two paper passports found three blocks away just happened to belong to a couple of the alleged hijackers. What are the odds of, first of all, passports surviving the intense heat when the indestructible black boxes could not and, secondly, no other passports being found at all? And how did these passports end up three blocks away? It reminds us of the FBI sleuth who just happened to discover the key to Tim McVeigh's Mercury in the dust in the alley across from the Murrah Building, sometime after it had been determined that this is where he had parked while using the Ryder truck. How convenient! Then there was the copy of the Koran found in the parked car at Logan Airport, allegedly belonging to one of the terrorists. This would be the last thing a religious zealot would leave behind while on a suicide mission.
Our friend Larry Maxwell lends some interesting insight. He points out that no less than seven cell phone calls were made from the planes and not ONE of the callers described the hijackers as Arabic, Saudi, Muslin, Iranian or anyone from the Middle East.
The 19 names of suspected hijackers released by the FBI do not point to Afghanistan. They come from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates; all across the Middle East without a focus in any one region. Indeed, even as the FBI was admitting that its list of 19 names was based solely on identifications thought to have been forged, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saudi Al-Faisal insisted that an investigation in Saudi Arabia showed that the five Saudi men were not aboard the four jetliners that crashed in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania on September 11. "It was proved that five of the names included in the FBI list had nothing to do with what happened," Al-Faisal told the Arabic Press in Washington after meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush at the White House. A sixth identified hijacker is also reported to still be alive in Tunisia, while a 7th named man died two years ago!
"Furthermore," cites Maxwell, "Barbara Olson, writer, author, investigative reporter, famous TV commentator, attorney, and wife of the Solicitor General of the United States (Mr. Olson being George W's lawyer who argued before the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore), did not describe the hijackers to him as being from the Middle East. She was trained to be observant and to mentally record details, yet there has been no report that she described the hijackers at all. Are we to believe she didn't describe them, or did she describe them and we just aren't being told? And if we aren't being told, is it because her description doesn't match the profile being fed to us?"
And are we to believe that her husband forgot to ask her what her attackers looked like? Or are we to docilely accept that this is obviously an "insignificant fact" that one of the most high-powered-lawyers in the United States would not ask such a basic question.
Maxwell also asks, "Do you really think that a few 120-pound middle-easterners overtook eight pilots, and their crew members and passengers, using razor-blade box cutters? Do you really think a commercial pilot would give up his plane under threat from ANYONE with a box cutter? How many hijackings have you ever heard of where the hijackers brought their own pilot? And four times in one day?
"My take? Americans are not very bright. Americans don't think. They accept what they are told. They don't TEST what they are told. They are lazy, and naive to the point of being undeserving of liberty. And for that reason they will sacrifice liberty for what they perceive to be security. That is exactly, in fact, the genesis for the federal government."
Constant Propaganda Machinations
Indeed, the whole news spin reeks of a cover-up of the help from the "inside." The spin story is sold and Americans have bought it. It was bin Laden and his confederates. Let's go kill 'em! The nation has not been so galvanized since December 8, 1941, when the people were the victims of another setup. Long after we were victorious in Europe and the Pacific, FDR's Administrative Assistant Jonathan Daniels spoke of our government's duplicity at Pearl Harbor with, "The blow was heavier than he (Roosevelt) had hoped it would necessarily be. . . but the risks paid off; even the loss was worth the price."
2,403 of our finest died that day, nearly half of them on one ship. Would their loved ones have agreed with Daniels? And when the truth finally surfaces on this latest atrocity, will the loved ones of some 6,000 agree that it was worth it in order to establish the American Police State?
Since writing last month's column concerning the strange collapse of the Twin Towers, another discrepancy was pointed out to this writer. The South Tower, which was hit second but went down first, was ripped through at the corner. Therefore, if the collapse was provoked from overheated steel, the laws of physics would dictate that it would have angled over at the damaged corner with twenty-plus higher floors falling intact. It did not but went straight down. The early videos, which are not aired anymore but are still in the hands of many who were recording from their TVs, show the pancake effect beginning at the very top and not at the crash point where the temperatures would have been the hottest.
Jet fuel burns like kerosene and was gone in a minute. While it set the building and furniture on fire, this could not generate enough heat (2,200 degrees) in 47 minutes to melt the steel beams, which were specifically designed to prevent such a collapse.
According to a German news release, the structural engineer who had designed the WTC towers spoke at an international conference on Terrorism in Frankfort, only six days prior to the attack. He explained how the buildings were designed to withstand a hit by a commercial jet and how the steel columns were so constructed as to make a pancaking effect impossible. Hmmmmm.
So the South Tower just imploded in three-quarters of an hour because it was on fire? I can't buy that. As mentioned in last month's column, the building was designed to withstand the impact of a Boeing 707 and 200-mph winds. What was learned here since is that the 737, 757, and 767 planes of the current era operate on considerably less fuel because of modern aerodynamics and better engine efficiency. Even a cross-country flight from Boston to Los Angeles would not fly with full capacity, according to a Delta Airlines Captain. To fly with more fuel than necessary is to increase weight and thereby operational costs.
Where Was the Air Force?
When Lee Oswald murdered (sic) John F. Kennedy at 12:30 p.m. on 11/22/63, he somehow, at almost the same minute, shut down all telephone communications in Washington D. C., 1,500 miles away. When Osama bin Laden sent his hijacking teams into the four jetliners, he not only managed to knock out ground and cell phone communications but arranged for all Air Traffic Control personnel in the northeast to either fall asleep in their chairs or be out for coffee, or so we are to believe.
We were told that the hijackers turned off the transponders. This normally sends an immediate alarm to the ATC towers, and the controllers begin to scream at the pilots.
The plane that took off from Dulles International and quickly hit the Pentagon can be excused, but how could the other three jetliners disappear from the radar tracking and be off of their computerized flight plans for up to an hour and a half without total chaos back at ATC? Four airliners had completely disappeared as if Siegfried and Roy had waved their magic wands.
How come it was an hour after the New York towers were hit that the USAF fighter jets finally got airborne? Down South we call that closing the barn door after the mule gets out.
Remember Payne Stewart?
In October of 1999, professional golfer Payne Stewart and several associates took off from Orlando, Florida en route to Dallas, Texas for his next tournament. Something happened inside the pressurized cabin of the private Learjet and communication was lost.
Within 24 minutes, when the plane's crew did not respond to radio calls, the Federal Aviation Administration asked the Air Force for help in tracking the jet, so USA-Today reported.
Two F-15 fighter jets from Tyndall Air Force Base, which already were aloft on a routine training mission, were asked to check the jet. An F-16 and an A-10 from Eglin Air Force Base in Florida then were diverted to follow and "escort" the jet. They caught up with the wayward Lear over Memphis.
Of course, the chase was fruitless, and the plane crashed when it finally ran out of fuel in South Dakota, but the key words of this story are "24 MINUTES!"
This was a civilian aircraft, yet important enough for the military to be alerted in only 24
minutes. Four airliners, all missing at once, should have caused chaotic bedlam at every
military base within the 13 original colonies, but it did not.
There can be only one explanation: The slippery dude, that Oil Can Harry lookalike,
Osama bin Ladin disabled our defense systems while nobody was lookin'! Keep listening to Dan Rather, America!
SAMS & The Mossad Connection
WorldNetDaily reported the following interview from an Arabic-language university website:
"The Jews are responsible for the terror attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, the imam of New York's Islamic Center said in an interview with an Arabic-language university website. "All the signs indicate that the Jews have the most to gain from an explosion like that," (said) Egyptian Sheikh Muhammad Al-Gamei'a, the imam of the Islamic Cultural Center and Mosque of New York City.
"They are the only ones capable of planning such acts. First of all, it was found that the automatic pilot was neutralized a few minutes before the flight, and the automatic pilot cannot be neutralized if you don't have command of the control tower," Al-Gamei'a explained. "Second, the black boxes were found to contain no information; you cannot erase the information from these boxes if you do not plan it ahead of time on the plane. Third, America has the most powerful intelligence apparatuses, the FBI and the CIA. ... How did [the perpetrators] manage to infiltrate America without their knowledge? Fourth, Jews control decision-making in the airports and in the sensitive centers in the White House and the Pentagon. Fifth, to date America has presented no proof incriminating Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida." These four "facts," said Al-Gamei'a, prove that "only the Jews are capable of planning such an incident, because it was planned with great precision of which Osama bin Laden or any other Islamic organizatio
n or intelligence apparatus is incapable. ..."
Gamei'a repeated the discredited rumor, begun in the Pakistan press, that "4,000 Jews did not come to work at the World Trade Center on the day of the incident." "This news item was hushed up immediately after it was broadcast," he said. "The Jews who control the media acted to hush it up so that the American people would not know. If it became known to the American people, they would have done to the Jews what Hitler did."
Although the Americans suspect that the Zionists are behind the act, none has the courage to talk about it in public. Why can't Americans talk about these suspicions? Gamei'a explains: "When I asked them whether they had the courage to talk about it openly, they said, 'We can't.' I asked why, and they said, 'You know very well that the Zionists control everything and that they also control political decision-making, the big media organizations and the financial and economic institutions. Anyone daring to say a word is considered an anti-Semite.'"
The Army's School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS ) believes Israel is capable of creating the diversion. On September 10, 2001, The Washington Times ran a front page story which quoted SAMS officers:
"Of the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, the SAMS officers say: 'Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. Has capability to target US forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act.'"
This story appeared in the Washington Times on September 10, 2001. The next morning the Pentagon was hit and the Arabs were being blamed.
Before September 11, the combined forces of US military and domestic intelligence -- the CIA, the FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency - were caught totally by surprise that such a catastrophic event would occur. Yet a day or so later, the FBI had secured the names and mugshots of each of the 19 hijackers. (We've told you before, Dem guys is smart!) With all the eyewitnesses dead, did the FBI really know who the hijackers were or did they just scan the passenger lists and implicate everyone with a Muslim-sounding name?
Prior Knowledge
This is a small but ever-accumulating mountain of evidence that our government had prior knowledge of this staged event. Lawyer David Shippers, who helped ramrod the Clinton impeachment in 1998, was fed detailed information from a variety of federal sources, including FBI agents in Illinois and Minnesota, but when he attempted to get to Attorney General Ashcroft with the information days before the attack, he was stonewalled. He was even able to pinpoint the proposed attack as being at "lower Manhattan." Now, three months after the fact, no one in Congress wants to know about it, either.
We are reminded of the irrefutable documentation (showing the Middle East-connection) gathered by OKC TV news commentator Jayna Davis and offered to the FBI in 1995. She walked into the FBI office at Oklahoma City and said, "Here, I have all this material, it may be of some assistance to you." She was promptly informed that they were not interested, and they refused to even take it.
Shippers has talked at length with Davis and has seen her voluminous documents. He believes that the 9/11 attacks have a direct tie to the OKC bombing(s).
Were the Hijackers Really Piloting?
Investigative reporter Carol Valentine says emphatically that there were "No Suicide Pilots" and has presented a convincing case on her website that the planes may have been flown by remote control. Fantastic, conspiranoic, and kooky? Maybe not. See (http://www.eionews.addr.com/psyops/news/carolvalentine.htm)
The Northrop Grumman Global Hawk is a robotized American military jet that has a wingspan of a Boeing 737. The excerpts below were taken from an article entitled: "Robot plane flies Pacific unmanned," which appeared in the April 24, 2001 edition of Britain's International Television News:
"A robot plane has made aviation history by becoming the first unmanned aircraft to fly across the Pacific Ocean. . .'The aircraft essentially flies itself, right from takeoff, right through to landing, and even taxiing off the runway,' according to the Global Hawk's Australian manager Rod Smith.
"The American high-altitude Global Hawk spy plane flew across the ocean to Australia, defense officials confirmed. . .The Global Hawk, a jet-powered aircraft with a wingspan equivalent to a Boeing 737 flew from Edwards Air Force Base in California and landed late on Monday at the Royal Australian Air Force base at Edinburgh, in South Australia state."
However, on September 28th, The New York Times attempted to divert American's attention from such a possibility by inferring that such technology does not yet exist:
"Government grants would also be available to pay for video monitors that would be placed in the cockpit to alert pilots to trouble in the cabin; and new technology, probably far in the future, allowing air traffic controllers to land distressed planes by remote control."
Coincidental Tidbit: On Fox-TV in July, a show was aired called "The Lone Gunman," in which a remote controlled plane crashes into and blows up the World Trade Center in New York.
The real tragedy of September 11th - as that of 12/7/41 - is one that the American masses will not realize until long after the real goals of it are firmly in place. The public's fear of terrorism is being used to fraudulently barter away rights that are supposed to be guaranteed, without exceptions, to all Americans. Cowed by politically correct media hysteria, Congress has more blatantly than ever turned its back on the Constitution and passed anti-terrorism bills (H.R. 2975 and S. 1510) which authorize unconstitutional activities in their entirety. The Delayed Notice provision, Section 213, allows the government to conduct covert searches. This means that law enforcement agencies can enter a person's home or office, search through the person's private possessions, in some cases seize physical objects or electronic information, without that person even knowing that law enforcement agents were there. Such laws will serve not to thwart terrorism but rather to promote it, and in a far more dangerous venue.
America, once admired, respected, and desired worldwide as the Land of the Free, suddenly finds itself in a secret war, with secret courts, sealed warrants and secret searches. Like deer caught in the headlights, the people are too paralyzed by fear and denial, and too worshipful of the false god of government, to even think clearly of proper evasive actions. By waving flags and promoting false patriotism, this new and highly secretive plutocracy is shamelessly using our fear of terrorism to suspend our rights and the access to the truth. Even the Freedom of Information Act is under attack with Attorney General John Ashcroft issuing a new statement of policy that encourages federal agencies to "resist Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, whenever they have legal grounds to do so."
"We Americans didn't attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon," said one astute man on the street, "so why do we have to give up our rights?"
Things have changed now in America, and much for the worse. The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.