Pat Shannan's MUSINGS
A Real Investigation Is Off Limits
The questions about the 9/11 debacle will just not go away, but the suggestions of an investigation seem to be already fading over the horizon. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney's proposal to investigate has the proverbial snowball's chance of succeeding. Even if enough pressure were brought to force it, such a charade of an "investigation" would be certain to amount to no more than another cover-up. Need we mention the County Grand Jury probe in Oklahoma City in 1998?
With a lipstick in big letters, write these words on your bathroom mirror: IT'LL NEVER HAPPEN!
The time to accept this fact has come, rung the bell, rung it again, walked around and knocked on the back door, returned to the front and rapped there, paced around the front porch, peered in the windows, scribbled a note, and gone. Nobody was home.
For one who had been in congress for a decade, McKinney seems awfully naïve, but not for the obvious non-reasons. "Sometimes there are forces and events too big, too powerful, with so much at stake for the other people or institutions, that you cannot do anything about them. . . no matter how much evidence you have," to repeat a most appropriate quote from former CIA Chief William Colby, who knew more about it than most.
At the time he was speaking of the agency's super-secret MK-Ultra Project Monarch child abduction and mind control program, but the statement would certainly encompass the cover-ups at Pearl Harbor, Dallas' Dealey Plaza, the Memphis Lorraine Motel, the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, and the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, to name but a few. These were political assassinations and ploys to advance a particular agenda of the times.
Because the September 11th attacks fit this precise mold, Cynthia McKinney has waded into deep kimchi. She is treading on inviolable ground, and if she persists, we can be sure that she will lose her seat in Congress. She could even pay with her life, but we expect her to take the advice of those who give her a visit and back off before anything that drastic takes place. Hers is the type of transgression that cannot be tolerated by the power brokers who play god.
Cynical? Paranoid? Those who read only the newspapers would think so. But by studying the past, one can get fairly accurate at predicting the future, when it comes to the secret government. Just Another Salacious Chapter
None of this is to say that she wasn't right with her suspicions and by demanding a further definition of the facts. Of course an investigation is warranted. There are simply too many loopholes in the suspect's story.
On Flight 93 that crashed in the Pennsylvania countryside, one of the 911 calls initially indicated that there was an explosion on the plane. (The FBI immediately confiscated the tape.) This is bolstered by the eight-mile-wide debris field and the discovery of a one-ton chunk of the plane's engine found far from the rest of the crash site, which some say points to evidence that a heat-seeking missile targeted the flight. Then there is the eight-minute gap from the time all cell-phone calls from the plane ceased and the time it crashed.
The facts surrounding Flight 11, which hit the World Trade Center, harbor just as much mystery. Reporter Paul Sperry produced a high-level internal report from the FAA detailing the alleged shooting of passenger Daniel Lewin by a high-jacker. Not wishing to face challenges of how a gun could have been smuggled aboard, FAA officials quickly dismissed the leaked memo as a mere draft and claimed that the very specific report of gunfire - including the names of the victim, shooter, and their precise seat numbers - was an editing error. Yeah, probably just a typo, whadda' ya' think?
Meanwhile, the monster is devouring us at an alarming rate. The legislature of the great state of Michigan decided in April that the police should have the power to search citizen's homes without telling them why. Two new statutes, which took effect as part of anti-terrorist efforts, also shield from public scrutiny the reasons for police searches. (Do you fear terrorists will attack your home? If so, just which government agency bothers you the most?)
The following week, in a 5-2 decision, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled that police can hide electronic monitoring devices on peoples' cars - without a warrant and for as long as they want.
Then there is the flyer issued by the FBI that raised its ugly head last November, cashing in on the terrorist paranoia by "alerting" local police to call the Joint Terrorism Task Force should they encounter any constitution-adhering suspects. These included "defenders of the US Constitution against federal government and the UN" and "Common Law Movement Proponents" who "request authority for a stop" or those who "make numerous references to the US Constitution."
There is not one mention of "Islamic Fundamentalists" anywhere. Apparently, defenders of the US Constitution and the common law from which it grew are now being classified on the same level as the bottom-feeding Skinheads, Nazis, and the KKK. And the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department in Phoenix was dumb enough to fall for it. At last look their office was still distributing the flyers.