The Big Lie 9-11 and Government Complicity in Mass Murder [PDF]

The Big Lie” 9/11 and the Government’s
Complicity in Mass Murder
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The democratic postulate, Chomsky says, “is that the media are independent and
committed to discovering and reporting the truth…” Despite this axiom,
Chomsky finds that the media supports “established power” and is “responsive to
the needs of government and major power groups.” He additionally argues that
the media is a mechanism for pervasive “thought control” of elite interests and
that ordinary citizens need to “undertake a course of intellectual self-defense to
protect themselves from manipulation and control…” The covert role of the
media has now apparently shifted its focus. One time expediter of the “cold war,”
it now clamours for the extension of “corporate power. 17
Americans Have Been Repeatedly Lied To.
The American public and the world, in front of the United Nations Security
Council, have been repeatedly deceived and outright lied to concerning 9/11,
Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, fabricated Niger uranium yellowcake
purchase evidence, the Oil for Food Scandals, the Downing Street Memo, 18 to
incompetent or cleverly crafted and cherry-picked CIA reports. Joe Wilson, a U.S.
diplomat writing in the Washington Post cryptically alludes to the pink elephant
in the room:
It really comes down to the administration misrepresenting the facts on an issue
that was a fundamental justification for going to war. It begs the question, what
else are they lying about? 19
What else are they lying about? The President has lied to the American people on
numerous and on serious occasions. Each new lie is more brazenly outrageous
and delivered bolder than the last. With all the lies that have been foisted on the
public, why, why do we give the government a “free-pass” on the biggest reason
for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, 9/11? In fact, in light of the accusations in this
paper, all previous instances of terrorism are now suspect as to their actual
sources and instigators. Fraud vitiates everything.
Americans act like the proverbial battered wife, the government beats and
exploits us, rapes our wallets and our treasuries, abuses our children by sending
them off to an unjust and patently illegal war. The government cheats on We the
People with corporate and foreign interests to the detriment of the People. Yet,