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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protest marches would have never been successful without courageous
individuals to stand up and do something.
Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks showed incredible dignity, personal courage, and
a classic example of peaceful civil disobedience by not going to the back of the
bus, and was arrested. She, and many other Black leaders, including a young
minister named Martin Luther King, Jr., helped to start the Montgomery Bus
Boycott for 381 days until the segregation laws were lifted. Vivian Malone and
James Hood marched through violent, hostile, and abusive crowds, including
State Troopers of Alabama, at the University of Alabama to face off against
Governor George Wallace at the front of the school-house door to fight against
desegregation. Other non-violent examples of successful protest include: The
Freedom Riders in May 1963, Lunch Counter Sit-ins at Greensboro, North
Carolina, the Selma to Montgomery Marches and the Bloody Sunday protests. 131
In 1965, César Chávez led the United Farm
Workers on lengthy and successful strikes against
commercial growers for rights and fair wages for
exploited migrant workers, including using hunger
strikes. The 1967 Dow Chemical student sit-ins and
strikes as the University of Wisconsin and the
violent and brutal crackdown by police that put 65
students into the hospital. The 1970 Kent State student massacre by Ohio
National Guard troops revealed the growing frustrations of the American public
at the government for the conduct of the Vietnam War and tragically led to
inexperienced troops firing on the unarmed and protesting students. The killings
helped to galvanize protest movements across U.S. college campuses and
hastened the end of the war by stirring the national outrage created by the
senseless slaughter of the students.
In 1989, in the Tiananmen Square student protests, a lone and brave protester for
democratic reforms and human rights interposed himself between the state and