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9/11 - Your Right to Know or Be Suspicious

Posted Sep 22nd 2008 12:00PM by Madison J. Gray
Filed under: BlackSpin, News

Out of respect for the victims, families and all those affected by the events of Sept. 11, 2001, I held off on posting this until after we've been able to reflect on the tragedy. However you might feel about what happened that day, there is not one of us that was not touched in some way.

With that said, since then there have been a growing number of people who were never satisfied with the explanation given by the government about what really happened. Now, I'm the last one to give credence to conspiracy theories. To me, they do more harm than good. But it is also just to question authority, particularly when they insult your intelligence.

The documentary below is called Loose Change: Final Cut and was produced by a few people who feel that the world deserves better than bullshit. Can it be refuted and debunked? Is it all true? Somewhere in the middle?

You decide.



Sept. 11 Anniversary

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1. Defenders of the official account of 9/11 would have you believe there are no credible critics of the official account. However, consider the following:

- Raymond McGovern, PhD, former Chairman of the CIA's National Intelligence Estimates (NIE) and 27-year CIA veteran. "I think at simplest terms, there's a cover-up. The 9/11 Report is a joke." (According to the CIA, NIE's are "the most authoritative written judgments concerning national security issues.")

- William Christison, former Director of the CIA's Office of Regional and Political Analysis, overseeing 250 CIA analysts. 29-year CIA veteran. "I now think there is persuasive evidence that the events of September did not unfold as the Bush administration and the 9/11 Commission would have us believe. ... An airliner almost certainly did not hit The Pentagon. ... The North and South Towers of the World Trade Center almost certainly did not collapse and fall to earth because hijacked aircraft hit them."

- Melvin Goodman, PhD, former Division Chief of the CIA's Office of Soviet Affairs and Senior Analyst from 1966 - 1990. "The final [9/11 Commission] report is ultimately a coverup. I don't know how else to describe it."

- General Albert Stubblebine, former commanding general of U.S. Army Intelligence. 32-year U.S. Army veteran. "I look at the hole in the Pentagon and I look at the size of an airplane that was supposed to have hit the Pentagon. And I said, 'The plane does not fit in that hole.' So what did hit the Pentagon? What hit it? Where is it? What's going on?"

For decades, we relied on these individuals to collect information essential to our national security and provide critical analysis during which time the U.S. faced far more real and much more serious threats than anything today. We cannot now ignore their stunning condemnation of the official account of 9/11.

Information about 1,000 other credible critics of the official account of 9/11 is available at http://PatriotsQuestion911.com/

Alan Miller at 3:19PM on Sep 22nd 2008

2. I watched the whole movie. All I can say is some interesting questions were raised. As far as the speculation about the WTC collapse are they suggesting that bombs were actually planted in the building before the event meaning it was an even bigger intelligence failure than it was presented to be? They showed all these buildings that had long burning fires, but none of those buildings had been slammed into by an airplane so it really didn't seem like a sound comparison.

I think there is a lot that we don't know and if the Republicans, I mean the ones in power and the idiots who vote for them have their way, we are never gonna know.

Miss Pick at 4:36PM on Sep 22nd 2008

3. Well, everyone knows that george bush was involved in 911, but it's typical of white folks to cover their wrong doing. Every time the republicans get in office the economy goes down, thousands and thousands of people loose their jobs. What I do not understand is why people vote republicans? Only idiots, utterly stupid people vote republican. Another sad thing is that black strongly desire to white has jump on the band wagon.

Joann at 9:30PM on Sep 22nd 2008

4. The Bush administration is and has been full of bull-*&@#. Don't you just love the family that plots against the world together along with their money hungry partners in crime. I smell RATS. Steel structures don't just fall, air-planes don't just crash and discinerate

G-Gorilla at 10:21PM on Sep 22nd 2008

5. The Bush administration is and has been full of *%#@, since they bogishly stole the election his 1st term, they had already plotted how they were going to steal and kill abroad as well as here in the U.S.A. along with their partners in crime. Do you smell that? It stinks of power and money hungry RATS. The only problem is we the people are not dumb enough to believe their lies and attempts to cover up the truth. They want us to believe that steel and concrete on fire some 80 flrs up will compromise the integrity and the structure of steel and concrete 80 flrs below as well as defy physics. They said flight 77 crashed into a dirt field and discinigrated leaving little evidence of an airplane (wow). They want us to believe that a plane hit the pentagon our military mighty, in the era of big brother eye in the sky and yet there is no picture or video proof of a plane crashing into it not even a still photo.(it's getting better); (not to mention the paper trail of the trillions of dollars unaccounted for, just happened to be part of the pentagon tragedy). On September 11, 2001 our government/NORAD want us to believe they were busy practicing terrorist drills and what if scenarios so intensively, that no one paid attention to actual real life events of the exact nature taking place simultaneously. In the movies they call that establishing an alibi. I only wish it was a movie. Building 7 leaves me speechless, after that fu-flop the city of New York should have mandated that every structure in the city be inspected for safety, wouldn't want someone to fart and bring down a office building in the process, just looks to me like they fall down to easy neat and pretty, does professional demolition sounds familiar. I pray that there will be justice served one day for our innocent Brothers, Sisters, and Comrades. Keep pressing upon Justice and maybe one day the rats will be captured the cats.

Gjilla at 12:28AM on Sep 23rd 2008

6. I am very sad that the american people still remain in the dark about 9/11.It is on their minds until they come up with all the wrong answers. I hope one day the truth will be released and put the American people mind at rest.

Earnesto Francis Johnson at 2:37AM on Sep 23rd 2008

7. Can't wait for more idiocy from MOON BATS like the ones above. Ever hear of Jimmy Carter? WORST ECONOMY EVER..gas shortage, oh, he was a DEMOCRAT with a Democratic House! Ronald Regan, an EX-democrat, figured it out and restored the economy and defeated the Soviet Union in the cold war.

Tired of poor me attitude at 8:56AM on Sep 23rd 2008

8. What to me is so diabolically dumb, is how do you knock down three buildings with two planes? Not to mention, how do they fall in their own footprints, and not fall over at the point where the planes hit. All of this defies physics. So given that demolition was obvious, how did some aqueda operatives get to run all over those three buildings and set explosives without anyone noticing. OH!! I forgot bushes brother was in charge of security. What really bothers me is why wouldn't these Ringling bros bastards wait until everyone was out before they started their barnum and baily bullshit? They're just rottendotcom.

Daniel at 2:04PM on Sep 23rd 2008

9. I watched this film and am not satisfied with the official report that the Pentagon was hit by a plane and just totally disintigrated into thin air and that WTC7 was completely brought down by a fire. That is ridiculous. It is a coverup. Another thing, Dennis Kucinich(D-OH) entered into the Congressional Record on June 9, 2008, 35 articles of impeachment(80 pages) against George Bush and the News Media did not report this. it takes 3 hours to read How the Bush administration handled everything leading up to and after 9/11 is in those articles of impeachment. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice are nothing but criminals. The impeachment articles cover everything from the wiretapping of citizens to voter fraud to lying to the American people.

JAZZMAN11 at 10:22AM on Sep 26th 2008

10. GEORGE BUSH IS THE REASON WHY THIS MESS HAPPENED IN THE FIRST PLACE, HE GOES AROUND BEING A BULLY AND THESE COUNTRIES ARE GETTING SICK AND TIRED OF HIM THROWING HIS WEIGHT AROUND. IT A SIN AND A SHAME THAT SO MANY PEOPLE HAD TO DIE BECAUSE OF THIS IDIOT, HE NEEDS TO BE IMPEACHED RIGHT NOW.

THE ONLY GOOD THING ABOUT BUSH IS HIS WIFE LAURA, SHE IS A VERY RESPECTFUL LADY.

Tracey at 10:50AM on Sep 26th 2008

11. Jazzman 11 pretty much sums it up. Planes of the type and size said to hit the pentagon just do not vaporize and jet fuel does not burn hot enough or long enough to melt steel girders and if it was the building still would not come down in free fall but would likely topple over because objects heat unevenly. Put that along side the fact that it has long been this countrys policy to monitor and scramble military jets to immediately intercept planes off their flight plans and shoot them down especially ones headed for cities with structures that high.

Darrell at 1:17PM on Sep 26th 2008

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