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        <description> &quot; In the end , we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends&quot;       - Martin Luther King Jr.</description>
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            <title>Feminism is Key to the &quot;Making of a Slave&quot;</title>
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            <description>    &lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image&quot; style=&quot;display: inline;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;scourgeofslavery22.jpg&quot; class=&quot;mt-image-left&quot; height=&quot;250&quot; src=&quot;http://www.henrymakow.com/scourgeofslavery22.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;&quot; width=&quot;169&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;strong&gt;by Henry Makow Ph.D. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1.25em;&quot;&gt;W&lt;/span&gt;hen a reader&lt;/strong&gt; tipped me to a talk delivered by a slave owner in 1712, entitled &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.timewake.com/africanhistoryinamerica.htm&quot;&gt;The Making of a Slave,&amp;quot; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;I
decided to compare past and present. Past methods of enslavement were
highly sophisticated, and closely resemble modern feminist social
engineering. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Willie Lynch was a British slave owner in the
West Indies. He was invited to the colony of Virginia in 1712 to teach
his methods to slave owners there. The term &amp;quot;lynching&amp;quot; is derived from
his last name. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;He advised slave owners to foster division, &amp;quot;fear, envy and distrust
for control.&amp;quot; Pit young versus old, light skinned versus dark skinned
and most importantly, male versus female. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In a section called &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;The Breaking Process of the African Woman,&amp;quot;&amp;#160;&lt;/em&gt;
he advocated shifting her dependency from the African male to the slave
owner.&amp;#160; This is achieved by beating and humiliating the male in front
of the female. Then, beating the female if she doesn&amp;#39;t get the message.
This instills a kind of frigidity. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We reversed nature by burning and pulling a civilized nigger apart, and bull whipping the other to the point of death,&lt;em&gt; all in her presence.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;
By her being left alone, unprotected, with the male image destroyed,
the ordeal caused her to move from her psychological dependent state to
&lt;em&gt;a frozen independent state. &lt;/em&gt;In this frozen psychological state of independence, she will raise her male and female offspring in reverse roles.&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;For
fear of the young male&amp;#39;s life she will psychologically train him to be
mentally weak and dependent, but physically strong. Because she has
become psychologically independent, she will train her female offspring
to be psychologically independent. What have you got? &lt;strong&gt;You&amp;#39;ve got the nigger woman out front and the nigger man behind and scared.&lt;/strong&gt; This is a perfect situation of sound sleep and economic.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;She
will teach her female offspring &amp;quot;to be like herself, independent and
negotiable (...we negotiate her at will.)&amp;quot; She will raise her &amp;quot;nigger
male offspring to be mentally dependent and weak, but physically
strong, in other words body over mind.&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We will mate and breed them and continue the cycle. This is good and sound and long range comprehensive planning.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sound
familiar?&amp;#160; We recognize these patterns in the US Black community, and,
thanks to the hidden agenda of feminism, increasingly in the White. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AVOIDING SELF CORRECTION&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Willie Lynch&amp;quot; starts to sound like the Cabalist author of &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.&amp;quot; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;By
reversing the positions of the male and female savages, we created an
orbited cycle that turns on its own axis forever..&amp;quot; But &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;our experts&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;
warned us of the danger that the mind might correct itself&amp;#160; &amp;quot;if it can
touch some substantial historical base.&amp;quot; They advised us to &amp;quot;shave off
the brute&amp;#39;s mental history and create &lt;em&gt;a multiplicity of phenomena
of illusions, so that each illusion will twirl in its own orbit,
sometimes similar to floating balls in a vacuum.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I haven&amp;#39;t
heard our society described better. Our collective identity (race,
religion,nation and family) is being systematically erased and replaced
by air. Lynch goes on to promote interracial breeding so the slaves are
different shades of color befitting different levels of labor &amp;quot;and
different values of illusion at each connecting level of labor.&amp;quot;&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Cross
breeding niggers means taking so many drops of good white blood and
putting them into as many nigger women as possible, varying the drops
by the various tones that you want, and then letting them breed with
each other until another cycle of color appears as you desire.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In
Orwellian fashion, Lynch concludes by stressing the importance of
creating a new language befitting slavery. &amp;quot;We must completely
annihilate the mother tongue of the new nigger...&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;Again sounding
like a Cabalist, he says, &amp;quot;language is a peculiar institution. It leads
to the heart of a people. The more a foreigner knows about the language
of a country the more he is able to move through all levels of that
society. Therefore if the foreigner is an enemy, the country is
vulnerable to attack or invasion of a foreign culture.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For example, the slave should learn the term &amp;quot;hog pen&amp;quot; but never &amp;quot;house.&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CONCLUSION&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some
people think this speech is apocryphal. The language has been
modernized. Was the term &amp;quot;nigger&amp;quot; used in 1712?&amp;#160; However, Blacks seem
to think the speech is genuine. It is on many Black websites.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The
point is that we are being socially engineered to be slaves in much the
same way as Blacks were, and by the very same people. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The
modern female has been &amp;quot;frozen psychologically&amp;quot; and now depends on the
slave owner (government, corporation) for her security. The modern male
is emasculated, strong in body but not in mind, grateful to be allowed
to serve a master, who often is a woman. &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <title>WHO memos 1972 explains how to turn vaccines into a means of killing surplus population</title>
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            <description>    &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 100%;&quot;&gt;Two key memorandums from WHO, discovered
by Patrick Jordan, prove WHO has intentionally created the three-shot
killer vaccine that people in the USA and other countries could soon be
forced to take.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1972 WHO Bulletin 47, No 2 Memordanda #1 and #2 Virus-associated immunopathology:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Animal
models and implications for human disease * technically outline the
ability to create biological weapons in the form of vaccines that:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1) First totally disable the Immune System.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2) Load every cell of the Victim’s body up with Infection.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3) Switch the Immune System on causing the host to kill themselves in a Cytokine Storm.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One, Two, Three, Dead.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These
WHO Memorandas describe the three-stage impact of the three &amp;quot;shots&amp;quot;
many people will be forced to take this fall to allegedly treat a virus
that WHO also helped create and release.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a crucial piece
of evidence of WHO&amp;#39;s long-term genocidal intentions that could stand in
any court of law because these memorandums give the best and fullest
explanation WHO&amp;#39;s and affiliated labs (such as the CDC) current
activities, such as their patenting of the most lethal bird flu
viruses, their sending that virus to Baxter&amp;#39;s subsidiary in Austria,
which weaponised it and sent out 72 kilos to 16 labs in four countries
almost triggering a global pandemic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For every crime, there
needs to be motive, an indication that it was deliberate, planned. The
WHO memorandums provide the evidence of just that deliberate, long-term
planning to kill people by weakening their immune system by use of the
first vaccine, injecting a live virus into their body by a second, and
creating a cytokine storm using squalene in a third.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Download the WHO Memoranda on:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 100%;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/tocrender.fcgi?iid=169484&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/tocrender.fcgi?iid=169484&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 100%;&quot;&gt;Scroll down until you find: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 100%;&quot;&gt;Memoranda &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 100%;&quot;&gt;Virus-associated immunopathology : animal models and implications for human disease:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 100%;&quot;&gt;1. Effects of viruses on the immune system, immune-complex diseases, and antibody-mediated immunologic injury &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 100%;&quot;&gt;Bull World Health Organ. 1972; 47(2): 257?264.&lt;br /&gt;PMCID: PMC2480894&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 100%;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=2480894&amp;amp;blobtype=pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=2480894&amp;amp;blobtype=pdf&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 100%;&quot;&gt;Virus-associated immunopathology: animal models and implications for human disease:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 100%;&quot;&gt;2. Cell-mediated immunity, autoimmune diseases, genetics, and implications for clinical research &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 100%;&quot;&gt;Bull World Health Organ. 1972; 47(2): 265?274&lt;br /&gt;PMCID: PMC2480896&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 100%;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=2480896&amp;amp;blobtype=pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=2480896&amp;amp;blobtype=pdf&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 100%;&quot;&gt;If you find any difficulty please download it from our Download Section :  &lt;a href=&quot;http://fightbackh1n1.blogspot.com/2009/08/criminal-chargesanzeigen.html&quot;&gt;Here &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <title>Hollywood Normalizes Pedophelia: The Next Phase of Sexual Liberation</title>
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            <description>    &lt;p&gt;The vocal, sanctimonious Free-Polanski uproar is merely a symptom of an entertainment culture infected with a moral cancer – a culture that regularly practices up on the screen what we’ve heard them preach this last week on behalf of a confessed child rapist.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Last year Miramax released “&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0918927/&quot;&gt;Doubt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;blue-icon-launcher&quot; id=&quot;smartLink1&quot; src=&quot;http://s3.amazonaws.com/blueorganizer/images/shared/icons/movie_12.gif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: top&quot; /&gt;,” a high-profile piece of Oscar-bait starring Academy Award winners’ Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Streep plays a puritanical nun on a moral crusade to expose a Priest (Hoffman) who she believes is sexually abusing a 12 year-old boy. Both characters are portrayed as unsympathetic (especially Streep’s) but in just a couple scenes the boy’s working-class mother (Mrs. Miller, played by Viola Davis) is established as the moral center of the film – the only one truly interested in the welfare of her child. When Mrs. Miller’s informed that her son’s being molested,&amp;#160;the Moral Center Of The Film responds that her 12 year-old boy is gay, a social outcast, and beaten regularly by his homophobic father … so maybe the best option for him is a sexual relationship with a forty-something child predator.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;TEXT-ALIGN: center&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;towelhead&quot; class=&quot;size-full wp-image-242246   aligncenter&quot; height=&quot;224&quot; src=&quot;http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/files/2009/10/towelhead.jpg&quot; title=&quot;towelhead&quot; width=&quot;442&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Starring Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, and written and directed by Oscar-winner &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0050332/&quot;&gt;Alan Ball&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;blue-icon-launcher&quot; id=&quot;smartLink2&quot; src=&quot;http://s3.amazonaws.com/blueorganizer/images/shared/icons/star_12.gif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: top&quot; /&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=towelhead.htm&quot;&gt;last year’s &lt;/a&gt;“&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0787523/&quot;&gt;Towelhead&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;blue-icon-launcher&quot; id=&quot;smartLink3&quot; src=&quot;http://s3.amazonaws.com/blueorganizer/images/shared/icons/movie_12.gif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: top&quot; /&gt;” is a film Roman Polanski might have seen many, many times while wearing a rain coat. The protagonist is 13 year-old Jasira (played by the then barely eighteen Summer Bishil) and the story surrounds her sexual abuse at the hands of a number of men, including Eckhart’s Gulf War Vet. Rather than the repeated abuse damaging the young girl, the filmmaker portrays the rapes and molestations as a healthy and sexually liberating experience. More than once the audience is “treated” to lingering shots of Jasira’s bare legs as she discovers the joys of the orgasm while masturbating to photographs of naked women.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000701/&quot;&gt;Kate Winslet &lt;/a&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;blue-icon-launcher&quot; id=&quot;smartLink4&quot; src=&quot;http://s3.amazonaws.com/blueorganizer/images/shared/icons/star_12.gif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: top&quot; /&gt;won last year’s Best Actress Oscar for her role in “&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0976051/&quot;&gt;The Reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;blue-icon-launcher&quot; id=&quot;smartLink5&quot; src=&quot;http://s3.amazonaws.com/blueorganizer/images/shared/icons/movie_12.gif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: top&quot; /&gt;,” in which she plays a “sympathetic” Nazi guilty of mass murder who seduces and then engages in a steamy sexual affair with a 15 year-old boy. The sex scenes between this mature woman and a child lean heavily on the erotic, as opposed to the creepy. (The “sympathetic Nazi” issue we’ll save for another post.)&lt;span id=&quot;more-242242&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes, in just one year, Hollywood released three films that in one way or another portrayed sex with children as potentially healthy or their molester as sympathetic. And these aren’t fringe, indie films either. All three involve name stars and Oscar winners.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, this is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; a conspiracy. Hollywood deviants never gathered together to plan for a slate of films aimed at a drip-drip campaign designed to dull our moral outrage towards the most heinous crime imaginable. It’s worse than that. We’re up against a culture; the same culture that can’t quite grasp why a child rapist should have to serve prison time for a crime he’s confessed to.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;TEXT-ALIGN: center&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;woodsman_lg&quot; class=&quot;size-full wp-image-242254 aligncenter&quot; height=&quot;234&quot; src=&quot;http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/files/2009/10/woodsman_lg.jpg&quot; title=&quot;woodsman_lg&quot; width=&quot;396&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And this is how cinematic propaganda works. Whether the filmmaker’s motivations are good or evil, the idea is to get decent and thoughtful people to start second guessing themselves as they’re enveloped in the dark and held captive by the powerful sound and fury of the moving picture. First we’re led to identify and sympathize with a particular character, then that character does something designed to challenge our belief structure. This can range from, “If John Wayne opposes racism, maybe I should,” to, “Well, if a loving mother is okay with it, maybe I need to get a little more nuanced and tolerant about this whole child-rape thing.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On its face, that may sound laughable, and maybe it is, but that doesn’t mean our eyes are lying to us. Last year merely topped off a campaign targeted at our children that began some time ago.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In 2006’s “&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465551/&quot;&gt;Notes on a Scandal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;blue-icon-launcher&quot; id=&quot;smartLink6&quot; src=&quot;http://s3.amazonaws.com/blueorganizer/images/shared/icons/movie_12.gif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: top&quot; /&gt;,” Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett plays a school teacher engaged in a steamy sexual affair with one of her students. Like “The Reader,” the sex scenes between a mature woman and her student strive for the erotic and never once does the story stop to examine how such a destructive affair might psychologically affect a teen-aged boy. That same year, in “&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404203/&quot;&gt;Little Children&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;blue-icon-launcher&quot; id=&quot;smartLink7&quot; src=&quot;http://s3.amazonaws.com/blueorganizer/images/shared/icons/movie_12.gif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: top&quot; /&gt;,”&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0355097/&quot;&gt; Jackie Earle Haley &lt;/a&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;blue-icon-launcher&quot; id=&quot;smartLink8&quot; src=&quot;http://s3.amazonaws.com/blueorganizer/images/shared/icons/star_12.gif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: top&quot; /&gt;was Oscar-nominated for his support work as a molester just released from prison who’s the victim of that favorite Hollywood whipping boy, suburban hypocrisy. Just two years earlier, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000102/&quot;&gt;Kevin Bacon’s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;blue-icon-launcher&quot; id=&quot;smartLink9&quot; src=&quot;http://s3.amazonaws.com/blueorganizer/images/shared/icons/star_12.gif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: top&quot; /&gt; heroic molester in “&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361127/&quot;&gt;The Woodsman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;blue-icon-launcher&quot; id=&quot;smartLink10&quot; src=&quot;http://s3.amazonaws.com/blueorganizer/images/shared/icons/movie_12.gif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: top&quot; /&gt;” not only saves the day and wins the pretty girl, but in his valiant struggle to “reform” he’s presented as a kind of “civil rights” metaphor as policemen and “intolerant” co-workers torment him.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;TEXT-ALIGN: center&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;2004_birth_013&quot; class=&quot;size-full wp-image-242258 aligncenter&quot; height=&quot;266&quot; src=&quot;http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/files/2009/10/2004_birth_013.jpg&quot; title=&quot;2004_birth_013&quot; width=&quot;412&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The award for Most Unsettling, however, must go to 2004’s “&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337876/&quot;&gt;Birth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;blue-icon-launcher&quot; id=&quot;smartLink11&quot; src=&quot;http://s3.amazonaws.com/blueorganizer/images/shared/icons/movie_12.gif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: top&quot; /&gt;,” where Academy Award winner &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000173/&quot;&gt;Nicole Kidman &lt;/a&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;blue-icon-launcher&quot; id=&quot;smartLink12&quot; src=&quot;http://s3.amazonaws.com/blueorganizer/images/shared/icons/star_12.gif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: top&quot; /&gt;stars as a widow convinced her dead husband has returned in the form of a 10 year-old boy. If watching a near-forty year-old woman exchange longing looks with a little kid isn’t creepy enough, wait till they end up naked in a bathtub together.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Whether it’s true or not that seventy-five years ago Clark Gable nearly &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/gable1.asp&quot;&gt;bankrupted the t-shirt industry&lt;/a&gt; by not wearing one in “&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025316/&quot;&gt;It Happened One Night&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;blue-icon-launcher&quot; id=&quot;smartLink13&quot; src=&quot;http://s3.amazonaws.com/blueorganizer/images/shared/icons/movie_12.gif&quot; style=&quot;text-align: top&quot; /&gt;,” what is true is that&amp;#160;billions&amp;#160;of dollars are spent annually by advertisers convinced sound and images can alter behavior. You’d have to be a fool to make an argument against the persuasive powers of moving images, but those fools do exist. Most of them are liars.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Hollywood Left is many things but they’re not fools and they fully understand the power of the medium under their control. Certainly, damning everyone who works in the entertainment world would be unfair, but this is also a culture where only a handful of “names” were willing to speak out against the pro-Polanski movement – including many Leftists who have never been shy about speaking out in the past.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The film industry has a history to be proud of when it comes to opposing racism, homophobia and anti-Semitism. Unfortunately, the most vocal from this current crop seem all too ready to tarnish that legacy as they target our children for profit and worse.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Is it too much to ask of the Hollywood Left that they show as much intolerance towards the sexualization of young children as they do towards conservatives and Christians?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That question has already been answered.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <description>    &lt;dl&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1.25em&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  By Irving Kristol&lt;br /&gt;
  Originally published in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1.25em&quot;&gt;The New York Times Magazine, March 28, 1971&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;td style=&quot;width: 100%&quot; valign=&quot;TOP&quot;&gt;  &lt;dl&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1.25em&quot;&gt;New York University Professor Irving Kristol argues that
    a liberal today &amp;#39;ought to favor a liberal form of censorship. &amp;quot; Basing
    his arguments on the moral relevance of art, Kristol says bluntly: &amp;quot;If
    you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have
    to be for censorship.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&amp;#160;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1.25em&quot;&gt;Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters
    in life begin when you get what you want. For almost a century now, a great
    many intelligent, well-meaning and articulate people have argued eloquently
    against any kind of censorship of art and entertainment. Within the past
    ten years, courts and legislatures have found these arguments so persuasive
    that censorship is now a relative rarity in most states.&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&amp;#160;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1.25em&quot;&gt;Is there triumphant exhilaration in the land? Hardly.
    Somehow, things have not worked out as they were supposed to, and many
    civil-libertarians have said this was not what they meant. They wanted
    a world in which Eugene O&amp;#39;Neill&amp;#39;s Desire under the Elms could be produced,
    or James Joyce&amp;#39;s Ulysses published, without interference. They got that,
    of course; but they also got a world in which homosexual rape is simulated
    on the stage, in which the public flocks to witness professional fornication,
    in which New York&amp;#39;s Times Square has become a hideous marketplace for printed
    filth. But does this really matter? Might not our disquiet be merely a
    cultural hangover? Was anyone ever corrupted by a book?&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&amp;#160;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1.25em&quot;&gt;This last question, oddly enough, is asked by the same
    people who seem convinced that advertisements in magazines or displays
    of violence on television do have the power to corrupt. It is also asked,
    incredibly enough and in all sincerity, by university professors and teachers
    whose very lives provide the answer. After all, if you believe that no
    one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one
    was ever improved by a book. You have to believe, in other words, that
    art is morally trivial and that education is morally irrelevant.&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&amp;#160;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1.25em&quot;&gt;To be sure, it is extremely difficult to trace the effects
    of any single book (or play or movie) on any reader. But we all know that
    the ways in which we use our minds and imaginations do shape our characters
    and help define us as persons. That those who certainly know this are moved
    to deny it merely indicates how a dogmatic resistance to the idea of censorship
    can result in a mindless insistence on the absurd.&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&amp;#160;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1.25em&quot;&gt;For the plain fact is that we all believe that there
    is a point at which the public authorities ought to step in to limit the
    &amp;quot;self-expression&amp;quot; of an individual or a group. A theatrical director
    might find someone willing to commit suicide on the stage. We would not
    allow that. And I know of no one who argues that we ought to permit public
    gladiatorial contests, even between consenting adults.&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&amp;#160;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1.25em&quot;&gt;No society can be utterly indifferent to the ways its
    citizens publicly entertain themselves. Bearbaiting and cockfighting are
    prohibited only in part out of compassion for the animals; the main reason
    is that such spectacles, were felt to debase and brutalize the citizenry
    who flocked to witness them. The question with regard to pornography and
    obscenity is whether they will brutalize and debase our citizenry. We are,
    after all, not dealing with one book or one movie. We are dealing with
    a general tendency that is suffusing our entire culture.&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&amp;#160;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1.25em&quot;&gt;Pornography&amp;#39;s whole purpose, it seems to me, is to treat
    human beings obscenely, to deprive them of their specifically human dimension.
    Imagine a well-known man in a hospital ward, dying an agonizing death.
    His bladder and bowels empty themselves of their own accord. His consciousness
    is overwhelmed by pain, so that he cannot communicate with us, nor we with
    him. Now, it would be technically easy to put a television camera in his
    room and let the whole world witness this spectacle. We don&amp;#39;t do it-at
    least not yet-because we regard this as an obscene invasion of privacy.
    And what would make the spectacle obscene is that we would be witnessing
    the extinguishing of humanity in a human animal.&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&amp;#160;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1.25em&quot;&gt;Sex-like death-is an activity that is both animal and
    human. There are human sentiments and human ideals involved in this animal
    activity. But when sex is public, I do not believe the viewer can see the
    sentiments and the ideals, but sees only the animal coupling. And that
    is why when most men and women make love, they prefer to be alone, because
    it is only when you are alone that you can make love, as distinct from
    merely copulating. When sex is a public spectacle, a human relationship
    has been debased into a mere animal connection.&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&amp;#160;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1.25em&quot;&gt;But even if all this is granted, it doubtless will be
    said that we ought not to be unduly concerned. Free competition in the
    cultural marketplace, it is argued by those who have never otherwise had
    a kind word to say for laissez-faire, will dispose of the problem; in the
    course of time, people will get bored with pornography and obscenity.&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&amp;#160;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1.25em&quot;&gt;I would like to be able to go along with this reasoning,
    but I think it is false, and for two reasons. The first reason is psychological,
    the second, political.&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&amp;#160;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1.25em&quot;&gt;In my opinion, pornography and obscenity appeal to and
    provoke a kind of sexual regression. The pleasure one gets from pornography
    and obscenity is infantile and autoerotic; put bluntly, it is a masturbatory
    exercise of the imagination. Now, people who masturbate do not get bored
    with masturba- tion, just as sadists don&amp;#39;t get bored with sadism, and voyeurs
    don&amp;#39;t get bored with voyeurism. In other words, like all infantile sexuality,
    it can quite easily become a permanent self-reinforcing neurosis. And such
    a neurosis, on a mass scale, is a threat to our civilization and humanity,
    nothing less.&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&amp;#160;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1.25em&quot;&gt;I am already touching upon a political aspect of pornography
    when I suggest that it is inherently subversive of civilization. But there
    is another political aspect, which has to do with the relationship of pornography
    and obscenity to democracy, and especially to the quality of public life
    on which democratic government ultimately rests.&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&amp;#160;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1.25em&quot;&gt;Today a &amp;quot;managerial&amp;quot; conception of democracy
    prevails wherein democracy is seen as a set of rules and procedures, and
    nothing but a set of rules and procedures, by which majority rule and minority
    rights are reconciled into a state of equilibrium. Thus, the political
    system can be fully reduced to its mechanical arrangements.&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&amp;#160;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1.25em&quot;&gt;There is, however, an older idea of democracy-fairly
    common until about the beginning of this century-for which the conception
    of the quality of public life is absolutely crucial. This idea starts from
    the proposition that democracy is a form of self-government, and that you
    are entitled to it only if that &amp;quot;self&amp;quot; is worthy of governing.
    Because the desirability of self-government depends on the character of
    the people who govern, the older idea of democracy was very solicitous
    of the condition of this character. This older democracy had no problem
    in principle with pornography and obscenity; it censored them; it was not
    about to permit people to corrupt themselves. But can a liberal-today-be
    for censorship? Yes, but he ought to favor liberal form of censorship.&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&amp;#160;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1.25em&quot;&gt;I don&amp;#39;t think this is a contradiction in terms. We have
    no problem contrasting repressive laws governing alcohol, drugs and tobacco
    with laws regulating (that is, discouraging the sale of ) alcohol, drugs
    and tobacco. We have not made smoking a criminal offense. We have, however,
    and with good liberal conscience, prohibited cigarette advertising on television.
    The idea of restricting individual freedom, in a liberal way, is not at
    all unfamiliar to us.&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&amp;#160;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1.25em&quot;&gt;I therefore see no reason why we should not be able to
    distinguish repressive censorship from liberal censorship of the written
    and spoken word. In Britain, until a few years ago, you could perform almost
    any play you wished-but certain plays, judged to be obscene, had to be
    performed in private theatrical clubs. In the United States, all of us
    who grew up using, public libraries are familiar with the circumstances
    under which certain books could be circulated only to adults, while still
    other books had to be read in the library. In both cases, a small minority
    that was willing to make a serious effort to see an obscene play or book
    could do so. But the impact of obscenity was circumscribed, and the quality
    of public life was only marginally affective&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&amp;#160;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1.25em&quot;&gt;If you look at the history of American or English
    literature, there is precious little damage you can point to as a consequence
    of the censorship that prevailed throughout most of that history. I doubt
    that many works of real literary merit ever were suppressed. Nor did I
    notice that hitherto suppressed masterpieces flooded the market when censorship
    was eased. I should say, to the contrary, that literature has lost quite
    a bit now that so much is permitted. It seems to me that the cultural market
    in the United States today is awash in dirty books, dirty movies, dirty
    theater. Our cultural condition has not improved as a result of the new
    freedom.&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&amp;#160;
    &lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1.25em&quot;&gt;I&amp;#39;ll put it bluntly: if you care for the quality of life
    in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship.&lt;br /&gt;
    &lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The following interview is ficticious, it has not happened; the objective of this ficticious interview is directed as an open letter to the President.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with our 44&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;
President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama, while
he was out promoting his health care reform initiative. I requested 30
minutes given the scope and detail of my inquiry; they said I could
have 20. Twenty minutes, 1200 seconds, not a lot of time to question
the President about one of the most important events in our nation’s
history. The following is a transcript of our remarkable discussion. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Charlie Sheen&lt;/strong&gt; – Good afternoon Mr. President, thank you so much for taking time out of your demanding schedule.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;President Barack Obama&lt;/strong&gt; – My pleasure, the content of your request seemed like something I should carve out a few minutes for.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – I should point out that I voted for you, as
your promises of hope and change, transparency and accountability, as
well as putting government back into the hands of the American people,
struck an emotional chord in me that I hadn’t felt in quite some time,
perhaps ever.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – And I appreciate that Charlie. Big fan of the show, by the way.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – Sir, I can’t imagine when you might find the time to actually watch my show given the measure of what you inherited.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – I have it Tivo’d on Air Force One. Nice break
from the traveling press corps. (He glances at his watch) not to be
abrupt or to rush you, but you have 19 minutes left.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – I’ll take that as an invitation to cut to the chase.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – I’m all ears. Or so I’ve been told.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – Sir, in the very near future we will be experiencing our first 9/11 anniversary with you as Commander in Chief.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – Yes. A very solemn day for our Nation. A day of reflection and yet a day of historical consciousness as well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – Very much so sir, very much so indeed…. Now;
In researching your position regarding the events of 9/11 and the
subsequent investigation that followed, am I correct to understand that
you fully support and endorse the findings of the commission report
otherwise known as the ‘official story’?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – Do I have any reason not to? Given that most of us are presumably in touch with similar evidence.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – I really wish that were the case, sir. Are you aware, Mr. President, of the recent stunning revelations that &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;sixty percent&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/em&gt;of the 9/11 commissioners have publicly stated that the government agreed &lt;em&gt;not &lt;/em&gt;to tell the truth about 9/11 and that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/01/AR2006080101300.html&quot;&gt;the Pentagon was engaged in deliberate deception&lt;/a&gt; about their response to the attack?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – I &lt;em&gt;am&lt;/em&gt; aware of certain “in fighting” during the course of their very thorough and tireless investigative process.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – Mr. President, it’s hard to label this type of
friction as “in fighting” or make the irresponsible leap to “thorough,”
when the evidence I insist you examine regarding 6 of the 10 members
are statements of fact.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;(&lt;em&gt;At this point one of
Obama’s senior aides approaches the President and whispers into his
ear. Obama glances quickly at his watch and nods as the aide resumes
his post at the doorway, directly behind me.&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – No disrespect Mr. Sheen, but I have to ask;
what is it that you seem to be implying with the initial direction of
this discussion?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – I am not implying anything Mr. President. I am here to present the facts and see what you plan to do with them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; –  Let me guess; your ‘facts,’ allegedly supporting these claims are in the folders you brought with you?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – Good guess Mr. President.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;(&lt;em&gt;I hand the first folder of documents to the President&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – Again sir, these are not my opinions or
assumptions, this is all a matter of public record, reported through
mainstream media, painstakingly fact checked and verified.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;(&lt;em&gt;the President glances into the folder I handed him&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – You’ll notice sir on page one of the dossier &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/01/AR2006080101300.html&quot;&gt;dated August of  ‘06 from the Washington Post&lt;/a&gt;,
the statements of John Farmer, senior council to the 9/11 commission,
his quote stating, “I was shocked how different the truth was from the
way it was described.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – (&lt;em&gt;as he glances down at the report, almost inaudible)&lt;/em&gt; …. um hmm….&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – He goes on to further state “The [NORAD Air
Defense] tapes told a radically different story from what had been told
to us and the public for two years….”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;(&lt;em&gt;the President continues to view the documents&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – On pages two and three, sir, are the statements, as well, from commission co-chairmen Thomas Kean and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/02/9-11panel.pentagon/index.html&quot;&gt;Lee Hamilton&lt;/a&gt;, commissioners &lt;a href=&quot;http://salon.com/ent/feature/2006/06/27/911_conspiracies/index4.html&quot;&gt;Bob Kerrey&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/02/9-11panel.pentagon/index.html&quot;&gt;Timothy Roemer&lt;/a&gt; and John Lehman, as well as the statements of commissioner Max Cleland, an ex-Senator from Georgia , &lt;a href=&quot;http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2003/11/21/cleland/index.html?pn=1&quot;&gt;who &lt;em&gt;resigned, &lt;/em&gt;stating&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;“It is a national scandal.
This investigation is now compromised. One of these days we will have
to get the full story because the 9/11 issue is so important to
America. But this White House wants to cover it up.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;He also described President Bush’s desire to delay the process as not to damage the ‘&lt;em&gt;04 re-election bid&lt;/em&gt;.
They suspected deception to the point where they considered referring
the matter to the Justice Department for criminal investigation. Mr.
President, this information alone is unequivocally grounds for a new
investigation!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – Mistakes were clearly made but we as a people
and as a country need to move forward. It is obviously in our best
interest as a democratic society to focus our efforts and our resources
on the future of this great nation and our ability to protect the
American people and our allies from this type of terrorism in the
coming years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – Sir, how can we focus on the future when THE COMMISSION ITSELF is on record stating that they still do not know the truth??&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – Even if what you state, might in some capacity, begin to approach an open discussion or balanced debate, I can’t speak for, &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; about the decisions certain commission members made during an extremely difficult period. Perhaps you should be interviewing &lt;em&gt;them&lt;/em&gt; instead of &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt;. Wait, don’t tell me; I was easier to track down than they were?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – Not exactly sir, but let’s be honest. You’re
the President of the United States, the leader of the free world, the
buck stops with &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt;. 9/11 has been the pretext for the
systematic dismantling of our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Your
administration is reading from the same playbook that the Bush
administration foisted on America through documented secrecy and
deception.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – Mr. Sheen, I’m having a difficult time
sitting here and listening to you draw distorted parallels between the
Bush/Cheney regime and mine.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – Mr. President the parallels are not distorted
just because you say they are. Let’s stick to the facts. You promised
to abolish the Patriot Act and then voted to re-authorize it. You
pledged to end warrantless wire tapping against the American people and
now energetically defend it. You decried the practice of rendition and
now continue it. You promised over and over again on the campaign
trail, that you would end the practice of indefinite detention and
instead, you have expanded it to &lt;em&gt;permanent&lt;/em&gt; detention of
“detainees” without trial. This far exceeds the outrages of the former
administration. Call me crazy Mr. President, but is this not your
record?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – Mr. Sheen, my staff and I authorized this
interview based on your request to discuss 9/11 and deliver some
additional information you’re convinced I’d not previously reviewed.
Call &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt; crazy, But it appears as though you’ve blindly wandered off topic.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – Sir, the examples I just illustrated are a direct result of 9/11.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – And I’m telling you that we must move
forward, we must endure through these dangerous and politically
challenging years ahead.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – Mr. President, we &lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;cannot&lt;/span&gt; move forward with a bottomless warren of unanswered questions surrounding that day and its aftermath.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – I read the official report. Every word every page. Perhaps you should do the same.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – I have sir, and so have thousands of family members of the victims, and guess what; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2006/080706governmentcomplicit.htm&quot;&gt;they have the same questions I do and probably a lot more&lt;/a&gt;.
I didn’t lose a loved one on that horrific day Mr. President and
neither did you. But since then I, along with millions of other
Americans lost something we held true and dear for most of our lives in
this great country of ours; we lost our hope.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – And I’d like to believe that I am here to
restore that hope. To restore confidence in your leaders, in the system
that the voting public chose through a peaceful transfer of power.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;(&lt;em&gt;An odd moment of silence between us. Precious time ticking away).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – Mr. President, are you aware of the number of days it took to begin the investigation into JFK’s assassination?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – If memory serves I believe it was two weeks.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – Close. Seventeen days to be exact. Are you aware sir, how long it took to begin the investigation into Pearl Harbor?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – I would say again about….two weeks.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – Close again sir, eleven days to be exact. Are you aware Mr. President how long it took to begin the investigation into 9/11?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – I know it must have seemed like a very long time for all the grieving families.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – It was a very long time Mr. President – four
hundred and forty days. Roughly 14 months. Does it bother you Mr.
President that it only took &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/04/september11/main520830.shtml&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;FIVE HOURS for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld&lt;/a&gt; after the initial attack to recommend and endorse a full scale offensive against Iraq?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – I am not aware of any such purported claim.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – I have the proof Mr. President, along with scores of documents and facts I’d like you to take a look at. Here.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;(&lt;em&gt;I hand him another file – much thicker than the first&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – I see you came prepared Charlie.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – No other way to show up Mr. President.  When in doubt over prepare I always say.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – Now you sound like the First Lady.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – That’s quite a compliment sir.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – As you wish. Please continue.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – Sir, I’d like to direct your attention to the
stack of documents in the folder I just handed you. The first in from
the top is entitled “&lt;span class=&quot;aptureLink&quot; id=&quot;apture_prvw1&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;aptureLinkIcon&quot; style=&quot;background-position: right -448px;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;aptureLink snap_noshots&quot; href=&quot;http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/news/20010430/doc1.pdf&quot;&gt;Operation Northwoods&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;“, a declassified Pentagon plan to stage terror attacks on US soil, to be blamed on Cuba as a pretext for war.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – And I’d like to direct &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt;
attention to the fact that the principle draftsman of this improbable
blueprint was quickly denied a second term as Joint Chiefs chairman and
sent packing to a European NATO garrison. Thank God his otherworldly
ambitions never saw the light of day.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – I wouldn’t be so certain about that Mr. President.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – I could easily say the same to you Charlie.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;(&lt;em&gt;the President checks his watch&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – The next document reads “Declassified staged
provocations.” Now, Honestly Mr. President I wish I was making this
stuff up. I’m certain you are familiar with the USS Maine Incident, the
sinking of the Lusitania, which we all now know brought us into WW1,
and of course the most famous, the Gulf of Tonkin incident.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – Of course I am familiar with these historical
events and I’m aware that there’s a measure of controversy surrounding
them. But to be quite frank with you, this is all ancient history.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – Mr. President, it has been often said; “Those
who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.” And I concede to you
sir, these events are the past.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – A vastly different world young man, shouldering a radically disparate state of universal affairs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – No argument sir, I’m merely inviting you to
acknowledge some credibility to the pattern or the theme. Case in
point; the next document in your folder. It was published by the
think-tank, &lt;em&gt;Project For a New American Century&lt;/em&gt; and it’s entitled “&lt;span class=&quot;aptureLink&quot; id=&quot;apture_prvw2&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;aptureLinkIcon&quot; style=&quot;background-position: right -448px;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;aptureLink snap_noshots&quot; href=&quot;http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf&quot;&gt;Rebuilding Americas Defenses&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;“, and was written by Dick Cheney and Jeb Bush. To quote from the document sir – (&lt;em&gt;the President interrupts&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – “Further, the process of transformation, even
if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent
some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – Touche, sir. Your thoughts on this statement Mr. President?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – I would call this a blatant case of
misjudgment fueled by an unfortunate milieu of assumption. For some,
the uninformed denial of coincidece.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – Interesting angle sir. Nevertheless, Vice
President Cheney didn’t stop there. In early 2008, Pulitzer prize
winning journalist &lt;span class=&quot;aptureLink&quot; id=&quot;apture_prvw3&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;aptureLinkIcon&quot; style=&quot;background-position: right -1548px;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;aptureLink snap_noshots&quot; href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r29BtzfSz0o&quot;&gt;Seymour Hersh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span class=&quot;aptureLink&quot; id=&quot;apture_prvw4&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;aptureLinkIcon&quot; style=&quot;background-position: right -1548px;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;aptureLink snap_noshots&quot; href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFdgzPbtF3o&quot;&gt;MSNBC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, both reported that Cheney had proposed to the Pentagon an &lt;em&gt;outrageous&lt;/em&gt;
plan to have the U.S. Navy create fake Iranian patrol boats, to be
manned by Navy Seals, who would then stage an attack on US destroyers
in the Strait of Hormuz. This event was to be blamed on Iran and used
as a pretext for war. Does any of this information worry you Mr.
President? Should we just ignore it, until these realities can be
dismissed years from now by our children, as &lt;em&gt;ancient history&lt;/em&gt; as well?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – Of course this information worries me, yet it’s not &lt;em&gt;nearly&lt;/em&gt;
as worrisome as you sitting here today suspiciously implying that 9/11
was somehow allowed to happen or even orchestrated from the inside.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – Mr. President I am not suspiciously &lt;em&gt;implying&lt;/em&gt; anything. I am merely exposing the documents and asking the questions that &lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;nobody&lt;/span&gt;
in power will even look at or acknowledge. And as I stated earlier, I
voted for you, I believed in your message of hope and change. Mr.
President I have come to you specifically hoping for a change. A &lt;em&gt;change &lt;/em&gt;in
the perception that our government has not yet made itself open and
accountable to the people. These are your words Mr. President not mine.
The lives of thousands were brutally cut short and those left behind to
suffer their infinite pain are with me today Mr. President. They are
with me in spirit and flesh, and the message we carry will not be
silenced anymore by media fueled mantras insisting how they are
supposed to feel. Deciding &lt;em&gt;for&lt;/em&gt; them, for 8 long years, what can be thought, what can be said, what can be asked.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – And I appreciate your passion, I appreciate
your conviction. In spite of your concerns, in spite of what your data
might or might not reveal, what you and the families must understand
and accept is that we are doing everything we can to protect you.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – Mr. President , I realize were very short on
time, so please allow me to run down a list of bullet points that might
illuminate some reasons why we don’t embrace the warm hug of Federal
protection.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – We’ve come this far. Fire away.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – Please keep in mind Mr. President everything
I’m about to say is documented as fact and part of the public record.
The information you are holding in your hands chronicles and verifies
each and every point.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – You have five minutes left. The floor is yours. Brief me.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – Thank you Mr. President. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prisonplanet.com/20_minutes_bibliography.html#briefing1&quot;&gt;Okay, first; On the FBI’s most wanted list&lt;/a&gt;
Osama Bin Laden is not charged with the crimes of 911. When I called
the FBI to ask them why this was the case, they replied: “There’s not
enough evidence to link Bin Laden to the crime scene,” I later
discovered he had never even been indicted by the D.O.J.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prisonplanet.com/20_minutes_bibliography.html#briefing2&quot;&gt;Number 2&lt;/a&gt;;
FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, was dismissed and gagged by the D.O.J.
after she revealed that the government had foreknowledge of plans to
attack American cities using planes as bombs as early as April 2001. In
July of ‘09, Mrs. Edmonds broke the Federal gag order and went public
to reveal that Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda and the Taliban were all
working for and with the C.I.A. up until the day of 9/11.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prisonplanet.com/20_minutes_bibliography.html#briefing3&quot;&gt;Number 3&lt;/a&gt;;
The following is a quote from Mayor Giuliani during an interview on
9/11 with Peter Jennings for ABC News. “I went down to the scene and we
set up headquarters at 75 Barkley Street, which was right there with
the Police Commissioner, the Fire Commissioner, the Head of Emergency
Management, and we were operating out of there when we were told that
the World Trade Center was going to collapse. And it did collapse
before we could actually get out of the building, so we were trapped in
the building for 10, 15 minutes, and finally found an exit and got out,
walked north, and took a lot of people with us.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;WHO TOLD HIM THIS??? To this
day, the answer to this question remains unanswered, completely ignored
and emphatically DENIED by Mayor Giuliani on several public occasions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prisonplanet.com/20_minutes_bibliography.html#briefing4&quot;&gt;Number 4&lt;/a&gt;;
In April 2004, USA Today reported, “In the two years before the Sept.
11 attacks, the North American Aerospace Defense Command conducted
exercises simulating what the White House says was unimaginable at the
time: hijacked airliners used as weapons to crash into targets and
cause mass casualties.” One of the targets was the World Trade Center.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prisonplanet.com/20_minutes_bibliography.html#briefing5&quot;&gt;Number 5&lt;/a&gt;;
On September 12th 2007, CNN’s ‘Anderson Cooper 360′, reported that the
mysterious “white plane” spotted and videotaped by multiple media
outlets, flying in restricted airspace over the White House shortly
before 10am on the morning of 9/11, was in fact the Air Force’s E-4B, a
specially modified Boeing 747 with a communications pod behind the
cockpit; otherwise known as “The Doomsday Plane”.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;Though fully aware of the
event, the 9/11 Commission did not deem the appearance of the military
plane to be of any interest and did not include it in the final 9/11
Commission report.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prisonplanet.com/20_minutes_bibliography.html#briefing6&quot;&gt;Number 6&lt;/a&gt;;
Three F-16s assigned to Andrews Air Force Base, ten miles from
Washington, DC, are conducting training exercises in North Carolina 207
miles away as the first plane crashes into the WTC. Even at
significantly less than their top speed of 1500 mph, they could still
have defended the skies over Washington well before 9am, more than 37
minutes before Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon, however, they did
not return until after 9:55am.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;Andrews AFB had no armed fighters on alert and ready to take off on the morning of 9/11.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prisonplanet.com/20_minutes_bibliography.html#briefing7&quot;&gt;Number 7&lt;/a&gt;; WTC Building 7. Watch the video of its collapse.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prisonplanet.com/20_minutes_bibliography.html#briefing8&quot;&gt;Number 8&lt;/a&gt;;
Flight 93 is fourth plane to crash on 9/11 at 10:03am. V.P. Cheney only
gives shoot down order at 10:10-10:20am and this is not communicated to
NORAD until 28 minutes after Flight 93 has crashed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;Fueling further suspicion on
this front is the fact that three months before the attacks of 9/11,
Dick Cheney usurped control of NORAD, and therefore he, and &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;no one else on planet Earth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;,
had the power to call for military sorties on the hijacked airliners on
9/11. He did not exercise that power. Three months after 9/11, he
relinquished command of NORAD and returned it to military operation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prisonplanet.com/20_minutes_bibliography.html#briefing9&quot;&gt;Number 9&lt;/a&gt;;
Scores of main stream news outlets reported that the F.B.I. conducted
an investigation of at least FIVE of the 9/11 hijackers being trained
at U.S. military flight schools. Those investigations are now sealed
and need to be declassified.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prisonplanet.com/20_minutes_bibliography.html#briefing10&quot;&gt;Number 10&lt;/a&gt;;
In 2004, New York firefighters Mike Bellone and Nicholas DeMasi went
public to say they had found the black boxes at the World Trade Center,
but were told to keep their mouths shut by FBI agents. Nicholas DeMasi
said that he escorted federal agents on an all-terrain vehicle in
October 2001 and helped them locate the devices, a story backed up by
rescue volunteer Mike Bellone.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;As the Philadelphia Daily News
reported at the time, “Their story raises the question of whether there
was a some type of cover-up at Ground Zero.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prisonplanet.com/20_minutes_bibliography.html#briefing11&quot;&gt;Number 11&lt;/a&gt;
– Hundreds of eye witnesses including first responders, fire captains,
news reporters, and police, all described multiple explosions in both
towers before and during the collapse.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prisonplanet.com/20_minutes_bibliography.html#briefing12&quot;&gt;Number 12&lt;/a&gt;;
An astounding video uncovered from the archives shows BBC News
correspondent Jane Standley reporting on the collapse of WTC Building 7
over twenty minutes before it fell at 5:20pm on the afternoon of 9/11.
Tapes from earlier BBC broadcasts show news anchors discussing the
collapse of WTC 7 a full 26 minutes in advance. The BBC at first
claimed that their tapes from 9/11 had been “lost” before admitting
that they made the “error” of reporting the collapse of WTC 7 before it
happened without adequately explaining how they could have obtained
advance knowledge of the event.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;In addition, over an hour
before the collapse of WTC 7, at 4:10pm, CNN’s Aaron Brown reported
that the building “has either collapsed, or is collapsing.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prisonplanet.com/20_minutes_bibliography.html#briefing13&quot;&gt;Number 13&lt;/a&gt;;
Solicitor General Ted Olson’s claim that his wife Barbara Olsen called
him twice from Flight 77, describing hijackers with box cutters, was a
central plank of the official 9/11 story.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;However, the credibility of
the story was completely undermined after Olsen kept changing his story
about whether his wife used her cell phone or the airplane phone. The
technology to enable cell phone calls from high-altitude airline
flights was not created until 2004. American Airlines confirmed that
Flight 77 was a Boeing 757 and that this plane did not have airplane
phones on board.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;According to the FBI, Barbara
Olsen attempted to call her husband only once and the call failed to
connect, therefore Olsen must have been lying when he claimed he had
spoken to his wife from Flight 77.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prisonplanet.com/20_minutes_bibliography.html#briefing14&quot;&gt;Number 14&lt;/a&gt;;
The size of a Boeing 757 is approximately 125ft in width and yet images
of the impact zone at the Pentagon supposedly caused by the crash
merely show a hole no more than 16ft in diameter. The engines of the
757 would have punctured a hole bigger than this, never mind the whole
plane. Images before the partial collapse of the impact zone show
little real impact damage and a sparse debris field completely
inconsistent with the crash of a large jetliner, especially when
contrasted with other images showing airplane crashes into buildings.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prisonplanet.com/20_minutes_bibliography.html#briefing15&quot;&gt;Number 15&lt;/a&gt;;
What is the meaning behind the following quote attributed to Dick
Cheney which came to light during the 9/11 Commission hearings? The
passage is taken from testimony given by then Secretary of
Transportation Norman Mineta.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;During the time that the
airplane was coming in to the Pentagon, there was a young man who would
come in and say to the Vice President, “The plane is 50 miles out.”
“The plane is 30 miles out.” And when it got down to “the plane is 10
miles out,” the young man also said to the Vice President, “Do the
orders still stand?” And the Vice President turned and whipped his neck
around and said, “Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard
anything to the contrary?”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;As the plane was not shot
down, in addition to the fact that armed fighter jets were nowhere near
the plane and the Pentagon defensive system was not activated, are we
to take it that the orders were to let the plane find its target?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prisonplanet.com/20_minutes_bibliography.html#briefing16&quot;&gt;Number 16&lt;/a&gt;;
In May 2003, the Miami Herald reported how the Bush administration was
refusing to release a 900-page congressional report on 9/11 because it
wanted to “avoid enshrining embarrassing details in the report,”
particularly regarding pre-9/11 warnings as well as the fact that the
hijackers were trained at U.S. flight schools.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prisonplanet.com/20_minutes_bibliography.html#briefing17&quot;&gt;Number 17&lt;/a&gt;; Top Pentagon officials cancelled their scheduled flights for September 11&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; on September 10&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;.
San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, following a security warning,
cancelled a flight into New York that was scheduled for the morning of
9/11.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prisonplanet.com/20_minutes_bibliography.html#briefing18&quot;&gt;Number 18&lt;/a&gt;;
The technology to enable cell phone calls from high-altitude airline
flights was not created until 2004, and even by that point it was only
in the trial phase. Calls from cell phones which formed an integral
part of the official government version of events were technologically
impossible at the time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prisonplanet.com/20_minutes_bibliography.html#briefing19&quot;&gt;Number 19&lt;/a&gt;:
On April 29, 2004, President Bush and V.P. Cheney would only meet with
the commission under specific clandestine conditions. They insisted on
testifying together and not under oath. They also demanded that their
testimony be treated as a matter of “state secret.” To date, nothing
they spoke of that day exists in the public domain.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – And finally Mr. President – &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prisonplanet.com/20_minutes_bibliography.html#briefing20&quot;&gt;Number 20&lt;/a&gt;;
A few days after the attack, several newspapers as well as the FBI
reported that a paper passport had been found in the ruins of the WTC.
In August 2004, CNN reported that 9/11 hijacker Ziad Jarrah’s visa was
found in the remains of Flight 93 which went down in Shanksville,
Pennsylvania.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;At least a third of the WTC
victim’s bodies were vaporized and many of the victims of the Pentagon
incident were burned beyond recognition. And yet visas and paper
passports which identify the perpetrators and back up the official
version of events miraculously survive explosions and fires that we are
told melted steel buildings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;(&lt;em&gt;The Senior aide appears again beside the President whispering in his ear. He then quickly moves off).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – Well Charlie I can’t say this hasn’t been
interesting. As I said earlier you’ve showed up today focused and
organized. Regardless how I feel about the material you’ve presented, I
must commend your dedication and zeal. However, our time here is up.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;(&lt;em&gt;the President rises from his chair , I do the same).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – Mr. President! One more second!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;(&lt;em&gt;The President starts towards the door – I follow him quickly step for step&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – Mr. President, I &lt;em&gt;implore &lt;/em&gt;you based on
the evidence you now possess, to use your Executive Power. Prove to us
all Sir, that you do, in fact, care. Create a truly comprehensive and
open Congressional investigation of 9/11 and its aftermath. The
families deserve the truth, the American people and the rest of the
free world deserve the truth. Mr. President -&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;(&lt;em&gt;He pauses. We shake hands).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CS&lt;/strong&gt; – Make sure your on the right side of history.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;(&lt;em&gt;The&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;President breaks the handshake).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PBO&lt;/strong&gt; – I am on the right side of history. Thank you Charlie, my staff and I will be in touch.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(16, 16, 16);&quot;&gt;(&lt;em&gt;I watch as he strides gracefully out of the room, the truth I provided him held firmly by his side; in the hand of providence&lt;/em&gt;.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;No
wonder President Obama is in such a rush to get his health care reform
package through Congress before the August recess.&amp;#160;And before the
public finds out about Ezekiel Emanuel, special advisor to Peter Orzag,
Obama&amp;#39;s director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and
brother to White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
Emanuel has written in medical journals of how health care should be
rationed, with priority given to younger people over seniors and over
those suffering from dementia, according to John Goodman, president of
the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA). Ezekiel also believes
that very young children should be lower on the priority list than
younger people who have received public educations.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
Goodman cites an article Ezekiel co-authored with two other men that
appeared in the January 31, 2009, edition of the British medical
journal, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/PIIS0140673609601379.pdf&quot;&gt;The Lancet&lt;/a&gt;. Goodman also cites&amp;#160;a 1996 article by Ezekiel that appeared in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/Where_Civic_Republicanism_and_Deliberative_Democracy_Meet.pdf&quot;&gt;The Hastings Report&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;#160;In
the latter, which was titled &amp;quot;Where civic republicanism
and&amp;#160;deliberative democracy meet,&amp;quot; Ezekiel argued for limiting health
care for&amp;#160;“individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or
becoming participating citizens.” &amp;#160;He cited&amp;#160;&amp;quot;not guaranteeing health
services to patients with dementia” as an example.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
Goodman offers additional analysis on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/rationing-health-care-2/#more-4364&quot;&gt;his blog &lt;/a&gt;of
Ezekiel&amp;#39;s presence among Obama&amp;#39;s health care advisors. Goodman notes
that the&amp;#160;health care reform legislation now being crafted in Congress
includes a provision designed to ration the availability of MRI,&amp;#160;CT and
other advanced technology scans that often are critical to
identifying&amp;#160;dangerous diseases at a sufficiently early stage to enable
life-extending treatment:
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;“An example of what can be done is actually in legislation being
written on Capitol Hill. Buried somewhere in the 1,000 plus pages is a&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-07-16-healthcare_N.htm&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;provision&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;span&gt;to
severely limit what Medicare pays for CT and MRI scans performed in
doctors&amp;#39; offices. This would force elderly patients, for example, to go
to the hospital for their radiology — where there are often lengthy
waits. Patients in rural areas who must travel long distances to get to
hospital-based testing facilities may be discouraged from getting the
tests done at all.”&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
“individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming
participating citizens.” &amp;#160;Emanuel wrote, “An obvious example is not
guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.”
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
Goodman notes that the World Health Organization estimates that 25,000
cancer patients&amp;#160;die in Britain annually as a result of such
restrictions on medical scans.&lt;/p&gt;
					
				
			
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						&lt;p class=&quot;byline&quot;&gt;by Eric Ruder / April 23rd, 2009&lt;/p&gt;

			
			
				&lt;p&gt;The
jailers of the 19th century — even in the pre-Civil War South — largely
abandoned the practice of imprisoning people for falling into debt as
counterproductive and ultimately barbaric. In the 1970s and ’80s, the
U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that incarcerating people who can’t pay
fines because of poverty violates the U.S. Constitution.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Apparently, though, some states and county jails never got the memo. Welcome to the debtors’ prisons of the 21st century.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Edwina Nowlin, a poor Michigan resident, was ordered to reimburse a
juvenile detention center $104 a month for holding her 16-year-old
son,” the &lt;em&gt;New York Times&lt;/em&gt; wrote in an editorial.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“When she explained to the court that she could not afford to pay,
Ms. Nowlin was sent to prison. The American Civil Liberties Union of
Michigan, which helped get her out last week after she spent 28 days
behind bars, says it is seeing more people being sent to jail because
they cannot make various court-ordered payments. That is both barbaric
and unconstitutional.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The details of Nowlin’s case are even more alarming than the &lt;em&gt;Times&lt;/em&gt;
editorial suggests. Not only was Nowlin under orders to pay a fine
stemming from someone else’s actions, but she had been laid off from
work and lost her home at the time she was ordered to “reimburse” the
county for her son’s detention.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Despite her inability to pay, she was held in contempt of court and
ordered to serve a 30-day sentence. On March 6, three days after she
was incarcerated, she was released for one day to work. She also picked
up her paycheck, in the amount of $178.53. This, she thought, could be
used to pay the $104, and she would be released from jail.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But when she got back to the jail, the sheriff told her to sign her check over to the county — to pay $120 for &lt;em&gt;her own&lt;/em&gt; room and board, and $22 for a drug test and booking fee.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Even more absurd, Nowlin requested but was denied a court-appointed
lawyer. So because she was too poor to afford a lawyer and denied her
constitutional right to have the court provide one for her, she
couldn’t fight the contempt charge that stemmed from her poverty. And
her contempt conviction only added to her poverty, as the fines and
fees she was obligated to pay now multiplied.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Like many people in these desperate economic times, Ms. Nowlin was
laid off from work, lost her home and is destitute,” said Michael
Steinberg, legal director of the Michigan ACLU. “Jailing her because of
her poverty is not only unconstitutional, it’s unconscionable and a
shameful waste of resources. It is not a crime to be poor in this
country, and the government must stop resurrecting debtor’s prisons
from the dustbin of history.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Michigan isn’t the only place where you can be imprisoned for the
crime of involuntary poverty. The same Catch-22 ensnares poor
defendants daily in courtrooms across the country.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In 2006, the Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR) filed a suit on
behalf of Ora Lee Hurley, who couldn’t get out of prison until she had
enough money to pay a $705 fine. But she couldn’t pay the fine because
she had to pay the Georgia Department of Corrections $600 a month for
room and board, and spend $76 a month on public transportation, laundry
and food.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;She was released five days a week to work at the K&amp;amp;K Soul Food
restaurant, where she earned $6.50 an hour, which netted her about $700
a month after taxes. Hurley was trapped in prison for eight months
beyond her initial 120-day sentence until the Southern Center
intervened. Over the course of her incarceration, she earned about
$7,000, but she never had enough at one time to pay off her $705 fine.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“This is a situation where if this woman was able to write a check
for the amount of the fine, she would be out of there,” Sarah Geraghty,
a SCHR lawyer, told the &lt;em&gt;Atlanta Journal Constitution&lt;/em&gt; while Hurley was still imprisoned. “And because she can’t, she’s still in custody. It’s as simple as that.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Georgia also lets for-profit probation companies prey on people too
poor to pay their traffic violations and court fees. According to a
2008 SCHR report entitled “Profiting from the poor”:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;In courts around Georgia, people who are charged with
misdemeanors and cannot pay their fines that day in court are placed on
probation under the supervision of private, for-profit companies until
they pay off their fines. On probation, they must pay these companies
substantial monthly “supervision fees” that may double or triple the
amount that a person of means would pay for the same offense.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For example, a person of means may pay $200 for a traffic ticket on
the day of court and be done with it, while a person too poor to pay
that day is placed on probation and ends up paying $500 or more for the
same offense.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The privatization of misdemeanor probation has placed unprecedented
law enforcement authority in the hands of for-profit companies that act
essentially as collection agencies. These companies, focused on profit
rather than public safety or rehabilitation, are not designed to
supervise people or connect them to services and jobs. Rather, they
charge exorbitant monthly fees and use the threat of imprisonment and a
variety of bullying tactics to squeeze money out of the men and women
under their supervision.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For too many poor people convicted of misdemeanors, our state is not
living up to the constitutional promise of equal justice under law. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In Gulfport, Miss., the municipal court started a “fine collection
task force” to crack down on people who owed fees for misdemeanors.
According to the SCHR Web site:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;The task force trolled through predominantly African
American neighborhoods, rounding up people who had outstanding court
fines. After arresting and jailing them, the City of Gulfport processed
these people through a court proceeding at which no defense attorney
was present or even offered.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people were jailed for months after hearings lasting just
seconds. While the city collected money, it also packed the jail with
hundreds of people who couldn’t pay, including people who were sick,
physically disabled and/or limited by mental disabilities. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The disregard of the justice system for the rights of poor people to
equal protection and due process is cause for outrage. But it shouldn’t
come as a surprise in an era when the government spends billions
bailing out banks while letting foreclosures and unemployment ruin the
lives of working people.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We need to build a movement, like the working-class struggles of the
1930s, that can demand an end to the inhuman practice of incarcerating
people for no other crime than finding themselves at the bottom of the
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&lt;p&gt;A back-scattered electron (&lt;a href=&quot;http://serc.carleton.edu/research_education/geochemsheets/bse.html&quot;&gt;BSE&lt;/a&gt;) image featured in the newly published paper.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Authored by: Dr. Steven Jones ( Prof. of nuclear physics BYU ret.&amp;#160;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Formally published in a peer-reviewed Chemical Physics journal, today: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; by Niels H. Harrit, Jeffrey Farrer, Steven E. Jones, Kevin R. Ryan, Frank M. Legge, Daniel Farnsworth, Gregg Roberts, James R. Gourley and Bradley R. Larsen&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #ff0000&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000&quot;&gt;The paper ends with this sentence:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;em&gt;“Based on these observations, we conclude that the red layer of the red/gray chips we have discovered in the WTC dust is active, unreacted thermitic material, incorporating nanotechnology, and is a highly energetic pyrotechnic or explosive material.” &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In short, the paper explodes the official story that “no evidence” exists for explosive/pyrotechnic materials in the WTC buildings.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What is high-tech explosive/pyrotechnic material in large quantities doing in the WTC dust? Who made tons of this stuff and why? Why have government investigators refused to look for explosive residues in the WTC aftermath?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These are central questions raised by this scientific study.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The peer-review on this paper was grueling, with pages of comments by referees. The tough questions the reviewers raised led to months of further experiments. These studies added much to the paper, including observation and photographs of iron-aluminum rich spheres produced as the material is ignited in a Differential Scanning Calorimeter (see Figures 20, 25 and 26).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The nine authors undertook an in-depth study of unusual red-gray chips found in the dust generated during the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001. The article states: “The iron oxide and aluminum are intimately mixed in the red material. When ignited in a DSC device the chips exhibit large but narrow exotherms occurring at approximately 430 ˚C, far below the normal ignition temperature for conventional thermite. Numerous iron-rich spheres are clearly observed in the residue following the ignition of these peculiar red/gray chips. The red portion of these chips is found to be an unreacted thermitic material and highly energetic.” The images and data plots deserve careful attention.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Some observations about the production of this paper:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;1. First author is Professor Niels Harrit of Copenhagen University in Denmark, an Associate Professor of Chemistry. He is an expert in nano-chemistry; current research activities and his photo can be found here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cmm.nbi.ku.dk/&quot; title=&quot;http://cmm.nbi.ku.dk/&quot;&gt;http://cmm.nbi.ku.dk/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Molecular Structures on Short and Ultra Short Timescales&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Centre under the Danish National Research Foundation&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Centre for Molecular Movies was inaugurated 29th November 2005, at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. The Centre is made possible through a five year grant from the Danish National Research Foundation (see e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dg.dk/&quot; title=&quot;www.dg.dk&quot;&gt;www.dg.dk&lt;/a&gt;). We aim to obtain real time “pictures” of how atoms are moving while processes are taking place in molecules and solid materials, using ultrashort pulses of laser light and X-rays. The goal is to understand and in turn influence, at the atomic level, the structural transformations associated with such processes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Centre combines expertise form Risø National Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, and the Technical University of Denmark in structural investigation of matter by synchrotron X-ray based techniques, femtosecond laser spectroscopy, theoretical insight in femtosecond processes, and the ability to tailor materials, and design sample systems for optimal experimental conditions.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We understand that the Dean of Prof. Harrit’s college, Niels O Andersen, appears as the first name on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Bentham Science journal where the paper was published.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2. Second author is Dr. Jeffrey Farrer of BYU. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.physics.byu.edu/images/people/farrer.jpg&quot; title=&quot;http://www.physics.byu.edu/images/people/farrer.jpg&quot;&gt;http://www.physics.byu.edu/images/people/farrer.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3. Dr. Farrer is featured in an article on page 11 of the BYU Frontiers magazine, Spring 2005: “Dr. Jeffrey Farrer, lab director for TEM” (TEM stands for Transmission Electron Microscopy). The article notes: “The electron microscopes in the TEM lab combine to give BYU capabilities that are virtually unique… rivaling anything built worldwide.” The article is entitled: “Rare and Powerful Microscopes Unlock Nano Secrets,” which is certainly true as regards the discoveries of the present paper.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4. Kudos to BYU for permitting Drs. Farrer and Jones and physics student Daniel Farnsworth to do the research described in the paper and for conducting internal reviews of the paper. Dr. Farrer was formerly first author on this paper. But after internal review of the paper, BYU administrators evidently disallowed him from being first author on ANY paper related to 9/11 research (this appears to be their perogative, but perhaps they will explain). Nevertheless, the paper was approved for publication with Dr. Farrer’s name and affiliation listed and we congratulate BYU for this. We stand by Dr. Farrer and congratulate his careful scientific research represented in this paper. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;5. Perhaps now there will finally be a review of the SCIENCE explored by Profs. Harrit and Jones and by Drs. Farrer and Legge and their colleagues, as repeatedly requested by these scientists. We challenge ANY university or established laboratory group to perform such a review. This paper will be a good place to start, along with two other peer-reviewed papers in established journals involving several of the same authors:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fourteen Points of Agreement with Official Government Reports on the World Trade Center Destruction&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Authors: Steven E. Jones, Frank M. Legge, Kevin R. Ryan, Anthony F. Szamboti, James R. Gourley&lt;br /&gt;The Open Civil Engineering Journal, pp.35-40, Vol 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bentham-open.org/pages/content.php?TOCIEJ/2008/00000002/00000001/35TOCIEJ.SGM&quot; title=&quot;http://www.bentham-open.org/pages/content.php?TOCIEJ/2008/00000002/00000001/35TOCIEJ.SGM&quot;&gt;http://www.bentham-open.org/pages/content.php?TOCIEJ/2008/00000002/00000...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Environmental anomalies at the World Trade Center: evidence for energetic materials&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Authors: Kevin R. Ryan, James R. Gourley, and Steven E. Jones&lt;br /&gt;The Environmentalist, August, 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10669-008-9182-4&quot; title=&quot;http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10669-008-9182-4&quot;&gt;http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10669-008-9182-4&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;6. James Hoffman has written three essays further explaining the implications and results of the paper. Thank you, Jim, for this work! &lt;a href=&quot;http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/thermite/index.html&quot; title=&quot;http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/thermite/index.html&quot;&gt;http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/thermite/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;7. Important features of the research have been independently corroborated by Mark Basile in New Hampshire and by physicist Frédéric Henry-Couannier in France., proceeding from earlier scientific reports on these discoveries (e.g., by Prof. Jones speaking at a Physics Dept. Colloquium at Utah Valley University last year.) We understand that details will soon be forthcoming from these independent researchers. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now read the paper for yourself, and let your voice regarding these discoveries be heard!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bentham.org/open/tocpj/openaccess2.htm&quot; title=&quot;http://www.bentham.org/open/tocpj/openaccess2.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.bentham.org/open/tocpj/openaccess2.htm&lt;/a&gt; then click on “Active Thermitic Materials Discovered…”&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brief Summery by Marc Villa,&amp;#160;written in layman terms; Retired nuclear physics professor, Dr. Steven Jones BYU&amp;#160;and scientific faculty of Copenhagen University discovered unexploded ( still active explosive thermitic dust)&amp;#160; military grade high tech nano-thermite&amp;#160;from dust samples in and around Manhattan World Trade Center complex.&amp;#160; Dust samples were provided by individuals who collected the dust as a remembrance-momento of the catastrophic event.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The evidence is conclusive, incontravertible, undeniable that blows the cover wide open&amp;#160;and&amp;#160;suggest official conspiracy and cover-up on the part of the former Bush Administration&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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wargamed as a possibility in exercises before September 11.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: right&quot;&gt;- Professor John Arquilla of the Naval Postgraduate&lt;br /&gt;
School, Monterey, California&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, senior U.S.
government and military officials repeatedly claimed that what happened
that day was unexpected. In May 2002, National Security Adviser
Condoleezza Rice said, &amp;quot;I don&amp;#39;t think anybody could have predicted that
these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade
Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon; that they would
try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile.&amp;quot;
[1] Two years later, President Bush stated, &amp;quot;Nobody in our government,
at least, and I don&amp;#39;t think the prior government, could envision flying
airplanes into buildings on such a massive scale.&amp;quot; [2] General Ralph
Eberhart, the commander of NORAD on September 11, said, &amp;quot;Regrettably,
the tragic events of 9/11 were never anticipated or exercised.&amp;quot; [3]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yet these claims were untrue. Not only had the U.S. military and
other government agencies discussed the possibility of such attacks,
they also conducted numerous training exercises in the year or two
before September 11 based around scenarios remarkably similar to what
occurred on 9/11. As John Arquilla, a professor of defense analysis at
the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, said, &amp;quot;No one
knew specifically that 20 people would hijack four airliners and use
them for suicide attacks against major buildings ... but the idea of
such an attack was well known [and] had been wargamed as a possibility
in exercises before September 11.&amp;quot; [4]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The existence of these training exercises proves that official
claims that the events of September 11 were unimaginable have been
false. However, future investigations of 9/11 will need to determine
whether these exercises served a more nefarious purpose. For example,
might they have been intended as a smokescreen for rogue individuals
working within the military and other government agencies who were
involved in planning the attacks? Thus, if colleagues overheard these
individuals discussing matters such as planes hitting the World Trade
Center or crashing into the Pentagon, they could have claimed they were
simply talking about a forthcoming training exercise.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The following summary outlines three specific categories of training
exercises and preparations that took place before September 11.
Firstly, those that dealt with terrorists deliberately crashing a plane
into the World Trade Center. Secondly, those that considered an
aircraft crashing into the Pentagon. And thirdly, those that resembled
other aspects of the 9/11 attacks, such as the use of planes as weapons
more generally.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1) PREPARING FOR AN ATTACK ON THE WORLD TRADE CENTER&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;i) Military Personnel Briefed on Possible Attack on the WTC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At some point before 9/11, members of staff at NORAD&amp;#39;s Northeast Air
Defense Sector (NEADS) in Rome, New York appear to have been briefed on
the possibility of terrorists deliberately crashing a plane into the
World Trade Center. In her book &lt;em&gt;Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama that Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11&lt;/em&gt;,
author Lynn Spencer described the actions of Trey Murphy, a former
Marine who on September 11 was a weapons controller at NEADS. Murphy
learned of the first plane hitting the WTC while still at home.
According to Spencer: &amp;quot;The news brought to mind one of his briefings:
What if a terrorist flies an airplane with a weapon of mass destruction
into the World Trade Center? It had always been one of the military&amp;#39;s
big fears.&amp;quot; She added, &amp;quot;The image on the [television] screen certainly
reminded him of his briefing.&amp;quot; [5]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ii) NORAD Trains for Terrorists Crashing a Hijacked Plane into the WTC&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At unspecified times during the two years prior to September 11, the
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD, the military
organization responsible for defending U.S. airspace) conducted
training exercises that simulated hijacked aircraft being deliberately
crashed into targets so as to cause mass casualties. As &lt;em&gt;USA Today&lt;/em&gt;
later reported, &amp;quot;One of the imagined targets was the World Trade
Center.&amp;quot; NORAD stated that &amp;quot;Numerous types of civilian and military
aircraft were used as mock hijacked aircraft&amp;quot; in these exercises. Among
other things, the exercises tested &amp;quot;track detection and identification&amp;quot;
(presumably on military radar screens); &amp;quot;scramble and interception&amp;quot; by
fighter jet planes; and &amp;quot;hijack procedures.&amp;quot; According to NORAD, the
exercises were regional drills, not regularly scheduled continent-wide
exercises, and unlike what happened on 9/11, the planes in the
simulated scenarios were coming from a foreign country rather than from
within the United States. [6]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NORAD added that, before 9/11, &amp;quot;At the NORAD headquarters&amp;#39; level we
normally conducted four major exercises a year, most of which included
a hijack scenario.&amp;quot; [7] Shortly after September 11, the &lt;em&gt;New Yorker&lt;/em&gt;
similarly reported, &amp;quot;During the last several years, the government
regularly planned for and simulated terrorist attacks, including
scenarios that involved multiple-plane hijackings.&amp;quot; [8]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In spite of these specific concerns and preparations, the &lt;em&gt;9/11 Commission Report&lt;/em&gt;
claimed that NORAD was &amp;quot;unprepared for the type of attacks launched
against the United States on September 11, 2001. [It] struggled, under
difficult circumstances, to improvise a homeland defense against an
unprecedented challenge [it] had never before encountered and had never
trained to meet.&amp;quot; [9]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2) PREPARING FOR A PLANE HITTING THE PENTAGON&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The number of training exercises based around a plane crashing into
the Pentagon is particularly notable. In the 12 months prior to 9/11,
we know of three such exercises that were conducted, and a fourth
exercise that considered, but rejected, this scenario.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;i) The Pentagon Mass Casualty Exercise&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Between October 24 and October 26, 2000, emergency responders
gathered at the Office of the Secretary of Defense conference room in
the Pentagon for the Pentagon Mass Casualty Exercise. Responses to
several scenarios were rehearsed, including the possibility of a
passenger aircraft crashing into the Pentagon. A military news service
described the exercise: &amp;quot;The fire and smoke from the downed passenger
aircraft billows from the Pentagon courtyard. Defense Protective
Services Police seal the crash sight. Army medics, nurses, and doctors
scramble to organize aid. An Arlington Fire Department chief dispatches
his equipment to the affected areas.&amp;quot; It sounds almost like a
description of what happened on September 11. But then &amp;quot;Don Abbott, of
Command Emergency Response Training, walks over to the Pentagon and
extinguishes the flames. The Pentagon was a model and the &amp;#39;plane crash&amp;#39;
was a simulated one.&amp;quot; [10]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ii) Medics Practice for a Plane Hitting the Pentagon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Little over six months later, in May 2001, the U.S. Army&amp;#39;s DiLorenzo
Tricare Health Clinic and the Air Force Flight Medicine Clinic--which
are both located within the Pentagon--along with Arlington County
Emergency Medical Services, held a tabletop exercise. The scenario they
practiced for was an airplane crashing into the Pentagon&amp;#39;s west
side--the same side as was hit on September 11. [11] There have been
some contradictions between reports, regarding the exact details of
this exercise. But according to &lt;em&gt;U.S. Medicine&lt;/em&gt; newspaper, the
plane in the scenario was a hijacked Boeing 757, the same kind of
aircraft as allegedly hit the Pentagon on 9/11. [12] The Defense
Department&amp;#39;s book about the Pentagon attack, &lt;em&gt;Pentagon 9/11&lt;/em&gt;,
reported that the plane in the exercise scenario was a twin-engine
aircraft (Boeing 757s are twin-engine aircraft), but that it crashed
into the Pentagon by accident, rather than as a consequence of a
hijacking. [13] The commanders of the two Pentagon clinics that
participated later said this exercise &amp;quot;prepared them well to respond&amp;quot;
to the attack on 9/11. [14] And Air Force Surgeon General Paul Carlton
Jr. commented, &amp;quot;We learned a lot from that exercise and applied those
lessons to September 11.&amp;quot; [15]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;iii) Practice Evacuation Conducted in Response to Simulation of a Plane Hitting the Pentagon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Just one month before September 11, a third plane-into-Pentagon
training exercise was held. General Lance Lord, the assistant vice
chief of staff of the Air Force, later recalled his experiences of
9/11, commenting, &amp;quot;Fortunately, we had practiced an evacuation of the
building during a mass casualty exercise just a month earlier, so our
assembly points were fresh in our minds.&amp;quot; He added, &amp;quot;Purely a
coincidence, the scenario for that exercise included a plane hitting
the building.&amp;quot; [16]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;iv) Military Considers, but Rejects, Exercise Scenario of a Hijacked Plane Being Crashed into the Pentagon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For another exercise, military planners actually considered the
possibility of a commercial aircraft being hijacked by terrorists and
then crashed into the Pentagon. [17] From April 17-26, 2001, the U.S.
Joint Chiefs of Staff conducted the exercise Positive Force 01, which
was designed &amp;quot;to test, evaluate, and train the national defense
community in decision making and execution of mobilization and force
deployment in response to multiple crises.&amp;quot; [18] Positive Force was a
&amp;quot;continuity of operations exercise,&amp;quot; dealing with government
contingency plans to keep working in the event of an attack on the U.S.
[19] NORAD was one of the agencies invited to participate. [20]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;During the planning of this exercise, special operations officers
had to think like terrorists and plot unexpected attacks that would
test NORAD&amp;#39;s air defenses. According to an officer who was temporarily
assigned to NORAD in the spring of 2001, &amp;quot;the NORAD exercise developers
wanted an event having a terrorist group hijack a commercial airline
and fly it into the Pentagon.&amp;quot; [21] The NORAD employee who suggested
this had been asked for a scenario in which the Pentagon was rendered
inoperable and part of its functions had to be moved to another
location. [22] However, the U.S. Pacific Command didn&amp;#39;t want the
scenario, &amp;quot;because it would take attention away from their exercise
objectives.&amp;quot; Joint Staff action officers then rejected the scenario as
being &amp;quot;too unrealistic.&amp;quot; [23]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3) OTHER PREPARATIONS AND EXERCISES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There were other training exercises and emergency preparations that
are noteworthy. Few specific details have been disclosed of these. They
have not been reported to have included scenarios of aircraft hitting
the World Trade Center or Pentagon, but they relate to what happened on
9/11 in other ways.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;i) Department of Transportation Exercise Involves a Cell Phone Call from a Hijacked Plane&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Less than two weeks before September 11, on August 30, 2001, an
exercise was held at the Department of Transportation in Washington,
DC, as part of its preparations for the 2002 Winter Olympics. According
to Ellen Engleman, the administrator of the DOT&amp;#39;s Research and Special
Programs Administration, this was a &amp;quot;full intermodal exercise&amp;quot;
(although she did not explain what exactly that meant). Engleman has
recalled: &amp;quot;During that exercise, part of the scenario, interestingly
enough, involved a potentially hijacked plane and someone calling on a
cell phone, among other aspects of the scenario that were very strange
when 12 days later, as you know, we had the actual event [of 9/11].&amp;quot;
[24] (As has been widely reported, numerous passengers on the hijacked
planes allegedly were able to make calls using cell phones to people on
the ground.) The Department of Transportation was subsequently much
involved in the emergency response on September 11, with its Crisis
Management Center being activated less than 30 minutes after the first
attack on the WTC. [25]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Although further details of this exercise are unknown, the fact that
Engleman referred to &amp;quot;other aspects of the scenario that were very
strange&amp;quot; indicates that it resembled the 9/11 attacks in other ways.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ii) Threat of Planes as Weapons Considered During Preparations for &amp;#39;Special Security Events&amp;#39;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The possibility of attacks resembling those that occurred on 9/11
was considered during the preparations for what are called &amp;quot;National
Special Security Events&amp;quot; (NSSEs). This is particularly notable, since
preparations were underway in the two cities targeted in the
attacks--New York and Washington--the morning of September 11, for
National Special Security Events due to take plane later that month.
Considering that only four or five events per year were being
designated as NSSEs, it seems hard to dismiss this as just coincidence.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Since 1998, the National Security Council has had the authority to
designate any important upcoming public event as an NSSE. [26] Events
such as the 2000 Republican and Democratic National Conventions and the
2000 presidential inauguration were designated as NSSEs. [27] Once an
event has been designated as an NSSE, the Secret Service becomes the
lead agency for designing and implementing its security plan, while the
FBI and FEMA also have major security roles. [28]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;According to the Secret Service, there would be &amp;quot;a tremendous amount
of advance planning and coordination&amp;quot; for NSSEs. A variety of training
initiatives would be conducted, including &amp;quot;simulated attacks and
medical emergencies, inter-agency tabletop exercises, and field
exercises.&amp;quot; [29] Most significantly, according to Louis Freeh, the
director of the FBI from September 1993 to June 2001, in the years 2000
and 2001, the subject of &amp;quot;planes as weapons&amp;quot; was always one of the
considerations in the planning of security for &amp;quot;a series of these, as
we call them, special events.&amp;quot; Freeh told the 9/11 Commission that
&amp;quot;resources were actually designated to deal with that particular
threat,&amp;quot; and confirmed that &amp;quot;the use of airplanes, either packed with
explosives or otherwise, in suicide missions&amp;quot; was &amp;quot;part of the
planning&amp;quot; for NSSEs. [30] Although Freeh did not state it, it seems a
quite likely possibility that the &amp;quot;simulated attacks ... inter-agency
tabletop exercises, and field exercises&amp;quot; held during 2000 and 2001 in
preparation for NSSEs would therefore have included the scenario of
planes being used as weapons.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, the morning of September 11, Secret Service employees
in New York were &amp;quot;about to attend meetings to prepare for the upcoming
meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.&amp;quot; [31] An additional 100
Secret Service employees were in New York to help prepare for the
event. [32] The General Assembly&amp;#39;s annual gathering of world leaders
was scheduled for September 24 to October 5, with President Bush due to
give his address on September 24. [33] Significantly, this event was
designated as an NSSE. [34] Since the UN&amp;#39;s previous &amp;#39;Millennium Summit&amp;#39;
in New York in September 2000 was an NSSE, it seems logical to assume
that the 2001 gathering received NSSE status &lt;em&gt;before&lt;/em&gt; 9/11, and not simply as a result of the attacks. [35]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Preparations were also underway in Washington, DC on September 11
for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and
the World Bank, which were scheduled to take place on September 29-30.
Many of the agencies that would be involved in the emergency response
to the Pentagon attack later that morning were taking part in these
preparations. [36] It was reported several weeks before 9/11 that these
meetings had been designated as an NSSE. [37]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The question therefore arises, might preparations for the threat of
planes being used as weapons have been taking place around the time of
the 9/11 attacks? Were &amp;quot;simulated attacks ... inter-agency tabletop
exercises, and field exercises&amp;quot; based around planes used as weapons
scheduled in New York and Washington around that period? Further
research and investigation is required to answer these questions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OTHER EXERCISES?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The above summary describes training exercises and preparations that
have been reported or publicly discussed. But it seems reasonable to
assume that there were other exercises held in the year or two before
9/11 that have not yet been reported and that also resembled the
attacks that took place that day. If they occurred, we need to know
about these other exercises and we must consider what role they might
have played in the planning and execution of the September 11 attacks.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20020806160231/http:/www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/05/20020516-13.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;National Security Advisor Holds Press Briefing.&amp;quot; White House, May 16, 2002&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20040607193553/http:/www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040413-20.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;President Addresses the Nation in Prime Time Press Conference.&amp;quot; White House, April 13, 2004&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[3] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-04-18-norad_x.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Steven Komarow and Tom Squitieri, &amp;quot;NORAD Had Drills of Jets as Weapons.&amp;quot; &lt;em&gt;USA Today&lt;/em&gt;, April 18, 2004&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[4] &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20021128002557/http:/www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/3686928.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Kevin Howe, &amp;quot;Expert Stresses Need for Intelligence.&amp;quot; &lt;em&gt;Monterey County Herald&lt;/em&gt;, July 18, 2002&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[5] Lynn Spencer, &lt;em&gt;Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11&lt;/em&gt;. New York: Free Press, 2008, p. 179.&lt;br /&gt;
[6] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-04-18-norad_x.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Steven Komarow and Tom Squitieri, &amp;quot;NORAD Had Drills of Jets as Weapons.&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[7] &lt;a href=&quot;http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/04/19/norad.exercise/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Barbara Starr, &amp;quot;NORAD Exercise Had Jet Crashing into Building.&amp;quot; CNN, April 19, 2004&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[8] &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20020215175752/http:/www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?010924fa_FACT&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;September 11, 2001.&amp;quot; &lt;em&gt;New Yorker&lt;/em&gt;, September 24, 2001&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[9] 9/11 Commission, &lt;em&gt;The
9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on
Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition)&lt;/em&gt;. New York: W. W. Norton &amp;amp; Company, 2004, p. 45.&lt;br /&gt;
[10] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mdw.army.mil/content/anmviewer.asp?a=290&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Dennis Ryan, &amp;quot;Pentagon MASCAL Exercise Simulates Scenarios in Preparing for Emergencies.&amp;quot; MDW News Service, November 3, 2000&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[11] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.arlingtonva.us/departments/Fire/edu/about/FireEduAboutAfterReport.aspx&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Arlington County, Virginia, report, Titan Systems Corp., &lt;em&gt;Arlington County: After-Action Report on the Response to the September 11 Terrorist Attack on the Pentagon&lt;/em&gt;. 2002, p. B17&lt;/a&gt;; Alfred Goldberg et al., &lt;em&gt;Pentagon 9/11&lt;/em&gt;. Washington, DC: Defense Department, Office of the Secretary, Historical Office, 2007, pp. 23 and 107.&lt;br /&gt;
[12] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usmedicine.com/article.cfm?articleID=329&amp;amp;issueID=34&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Crisis Response Puts Agencies on Path to Better Coordination.&amp;quot; &lt;em&gt;U.S. Medicine&lt;/em&gt;, January 2002&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[13] Alfred Goldberg et al., &lt;em&gt;Pentagon 9/11&lt;/em&gt;, p. 107.&lt;br /&gt;
[14] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usmedicine.com/article.cfm?articleID=272&amp;amp;issueID=31&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Matt Mientka, &amp;quot;Pentagon Medics Trained for Strike.&amp;quot; &lt;em&gt;U.S. Medicine&lt;/em&gt;, October 2001&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[15] Dean E. Murphy, &lt;em&gt;September 11: An Oral History&lt;/em&gt;. New York: Doubleday, 2002, p. 222.&lt;br /&gt;
[16] &lt;a href=&quot;http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_prfr/is_/ai_474897061&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Lance Lord, &amp;quot;A Year ago, a Lifetime ago.&amp;quot; Air Force Print News, September 10, 2002&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[17] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pogo.org/pogo-files/letters/homeland-security/hs-aviation-20040413.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Danielle
Brian, &amp;quot;POGO Letter to Hon. Thomas K. Kean, Chairman, National
Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.&amp;quot; Project On
Government Oversight, April 13, 2004&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[18] &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20030107033310/http:/www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/positive-force-ex.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Positive Force.&amp;quot; GlobalSecurity.org, June 9, 2002&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[19] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/apr/15/usa.september11&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Julian Borger, &amp;quot;Hijackers Fly into Pentagon? No Chance, Said Top Brass.&amp;quot; &lt;em&gt;The Guardian&lt;/em&gt;, April 15, 2004&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[20] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.airforcetimes.com/legacy/new/1-292925-2819359.php&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Nicole Gaudiano, &amp;quot;Military Considered Hijacked Plane Exercise, and Rejected it.&amp;quot; &lt;em&gt;Air Force Times&lt;/em&gt;, April 13, 2004&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[21] &lt;a href=&quot;http://pogoarchives.org/m/hsp/planesasmissiles.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Terry Ropes, &amp;quot;Exercise Scenario.&amp;quot; September 18, 2001, internal e-mail&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/apr/15/usa.september11&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Julian Borger, &amp;quot;Hijackers Fly into Pentagon? No Chance, Said Top Brass.&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[22] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.airforcetimes.com/legacy/new/1-292925-2819359.php&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Nicole Gaudiano, &amp;quot;Military Considered Hijacked Plane Exercise, and Rejected it.&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[23] &lt;a href=&quot;http://pogoarchives.org/m/hsp/planesasmissiles.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Terry Ropes, &amp;quot;Exercise Scenario&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/apr/15/usa.september11&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Julian Borger, &amp;quot;Hijackers Fly into Pentagon? No Chance, Said Top Brass.&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[24] &lt;a href=&quot;http://transweb.sjsu.edu/mtiportal/research/publications/documents/S-01-02.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Mineta Transportation Institute, &lt;em&gt;National Transportation Security Summit, Washington, DC&lt;/em&gt;. San Jose, CA: Mineta Transportation Institute, October 30, 2001, p. 108&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[25] &lt;a href=&quot;http://lobby.la.psu.edu/_107th/136_Aviation%20Security/Congressional_Hearings/Testimony/S_CST_Mineta_09202001.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, &lt;em&gt;Federal Aviation Security Standards&lt;/em&gt;. 107th Cong., 1st sess., September 20, 2001&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;http://testimony.ost.dot.gov/test/pasttest/01test/Engleman1.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, &lt;em&gt;Statement of Ellen G. Engleman, Administrator, Research and Special Programs Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation&lt;/em&gt;. 107th Cong., 1st sess., October 10, 2001&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[26] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.homelandsecurity.org/journal/Articles/Lawlor.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Bruce M. Lawlor, &amp;quot;Military Support of Civil Authorities: A New Focus for a New Millennium.&amp;quot; &lt;em&gt;Journal of Homeland Defense&lt;/em&gt;, October 2000&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20020409121010/http:/www.secretservice.gov/nsse.shtml&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;National Special Security Events.&amp;quot; United States Secret Service, 2002&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[27] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/press_release_0207.shtm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;National Special Security Events Fact Sheet.&amp;quot; U.S. Department of Homeland Security, July 9, 2003&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/press_release_0553.shtm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Fact
Sheet: 2005 Presidential Inauguration: National Special Security
Event.&amp;quot; U.S. Department of Homeland Security, November 8, 2004&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[28] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/press_release_0207.shtm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;National Special Security Events Fact Sheet&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.csoonline.com/article/print/219569&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Sarah D. Scalet, &amp;quot;In Depth: Democratic Party Convention Security.&amp;quot; &lt;em&gt;CSO&lt;/em&gt;, September 2004&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[29] &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20020409121010/http:/www.secretservice.gov/nsse.shtml&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;National Special Security Events.&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[30] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.9-11commission.gov/archive/hearing10/9-11Commission_Hearing_2004-04-13.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States: Tenth Public Hearing. 9/11 Commission, April 13, 2004&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[31] &lt;a href=&quot;http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/R?r107:FLD001:H51497&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;United States Congress, &lt;em&gt;Honoring
United States Secret Service New York Field Office for Extraordinary
Performance During and Immediately Following September 11, 2001&lt;/em&gt;. 107th Cong., 2nd sess., April 23, 2002&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[32] &lt;a href=&quot;http://pccw.alumni.cornell.edu/news/newsletters/spring06/riggs.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Spotlight on: Barbara Riggs.&amp;quot; &lt;em&gt;PCCW Newsletter&lt;/em&gt;, Spring 2006&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
[33] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/international/12UN-WIRE.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;UN General Security Council Condemns Attacks.&amp;quot; Reuters, September 12, 2001&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20011029/aponline134749_000.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Bush to Attend UN General Assembly.&amp;quot; Associated Press, October 29, 2001&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Appropriations for Military Construction, Family Housing, and Base
Realignment and Closure for the Department of Defense for the Fiscal
Year Ending September 30, 2001, and for Other Purposes&lt;/em&gt;. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, June 29, 2000&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.archive.org/web/20020206232715/http:/www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/01/20020110-7.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Preparing for the World: Homeland Security and Winter Olympics.&amp;quot; White House, January 10, 2002&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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