Vicegerent
2006-08-17 05:27:25 UTC
Key Reagan advisor Hon. Paul Roberts:
"Gullible Americans have been duped by the 9/11 Hoax...
Wise up -- the world is laughing at you."
Who is Paul Craig Roberts?
· Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic
Policy under Ronald Reagan (awarded the Treasury
Department's Meritorious Service Award for "his
outstanding contributions to the formulation of United
States economic policy.")
· Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution,
Stanford University, and Research Fellow at the
Independent Institute.
· Former editor and columnist for The Wall Street
Journal and columnist for Business Week and the
Scripps Howard News Service
· Held the William E. Simon Chair in Political
Economy at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies (1982 -1993)
· Distinguished Fellow at the Cato Institute from
1993 to 1996
· Olin Fellow at the Institute for Political Economy
· Nationally syndicated columnist for Investor's
Business Daily
· Winner of the 1992 Warren Brookes Award for
Excellence in Journalism
· Ranked "One of the top seven journalists" by
the Forbes Media Guide (1993)
· Author of, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, and
Marx's Theory of Exchange, Alienation and Crisis
Dr. Roberts was educated at the Georgia Institute of
Technology (B.S.), the University of Virginia (Ph.D.),
the University of California at Berkeley and Oxford
University where he was a member of Merton College.
He is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who
in the World, The Dictionary of International Biography,
Outstanding People of the Twentieth Century,
and 1000 Leaders of World Influence.
Could anyone in their right mind consider this man a
crackpot "conspiracy theorist"?
____________________________________________
Quote:
GULLIBLE AMERICANS
By Paul Craig Roberts
Information Clearing House
08/14/06
I was in China when a July Harris Poll reported that
50 percent of Americans still believe that Iraq had
weapons of mass destruction when Bush invaded
that country, and that 64 percent of Americans still
believe that Saddam Hussein had strong links with
Al Qaeda.
The Chinese leaders and intellectuals with whom I
was meeting were incredulous. How could a
majority of the population in an allegedly free
country with an allegedly free press be so totally
misinformed?
The only answer I could give the Chinese is that
Americans would have been the perfect population
for Mao and the Gang of Four, because Americans
believe anything their government tells them.
Americans never check any facts. Who do you
know, for example, who has even read the Report
of the 9/11 Commission, much less checked the
alleged facts reported in that document. I can
answer for you. You don't know anyone who
has read the report or checked the facts.
The two co-chairmen of the 9/11 Commission
Report, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, have
just released a new book, "Without Precedent:
The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission." Kean
and Hamilton reveal that the commission
suppressed the fact that Muslim ire toward the
US is due to US support for Israel's persecution
and dispossession of the Palestinians, not to
our "freedom and democracy" as Bush
propagandistically claims.
Kean and Hamilton also reveal that the US
military committed perjury and lied about its
failure to intercept the hijacked airliners. The
commission even debated referring the
military's lies to the Justice Department for
criminal investigation. Why should we assume
that these admissions are the only coverups
and lies in the 9/11 Commission Report?
How do you know that 9/11 was a Muslim
terrorist plot? How do you know that THREE
World Trade Center buildings collapsed because
TWO were hit by airliners? You only "know"
because the government gave you the
explanation of what you saw on TV.
(Did you even know that three WTC
buildings collapsed?)
I still remember the enlightenment I experienced
as a student in Russian Studies when I learned
that the Czarist secret police would set off bombs
and then blame those whom they wanted to arrest.
When Hitler seized dictatorial power in 1933, he
told the Germans that his new powers were made
necessary by a communist terrorist attack on the
Reichstag. When Hitler started World War II by
invading Poland, he told the Germans that Poland
had crossed the frontier and attacked Germany.
Governments lie all the time--especially
governments staffed by neoconservatives whose
intellectual godfather, Leo Strauss, taught them that
it is permissible to deceive the public in order to
achieve their agenda.
Some readers will write to me to say that they
saw a TV documentary or read a magazine article
verifying the government's explanation of 9/11.
But, of course, these Americans did not check
the facts either--and neither did the people who
made the documentary and wrote the magazine
article.
Scientists and engineers, such as Clemson
University Professor of Engineering Dr. Judy
Woods and BYU Professor of Physics
Dr. Steven Jones, have raised compelling
questions about the official account of the
collapse of the three WTC buildings.
The basic problem for the government's account
is that the buildings are known to have fallen at
freefall speed, a fact that is inconsistent with
the government's "pancaking" theory in which
debris from above collapsed the floors below.
If the buildings actually "pancaked," then each
floor below would have offered resistance to the
floors above, and the elapsed time would have
been much longer. These experts have also
calculated that the buildings did not have
sufficient gravitational energy to accommodate
the government's theory of the collapse.
It is certainly a known and non-controversial fact
among physicists and engineers that the only
way buildings can collapse at freefall speed
into their own footprints is by engineered demolition.
Explosives are used to remove the support of
floors below before the debris from above arrives.
Otherwise, resistance is encountered and the
time required for fall increases.
Engineered demolition also explains the
symmetrical collapse of the buildings into their
own foot prints. As it is otherwise improbable
for every point in floors below to weaken
uniformly, "pancaking" would result in
asymmetrical collapse as some elements
of the floor would give sooner than others.
Scientific evidence is a tough thing for the
American public to handle, and the government
knows it. The government can rely on people
dismissing things that they cannot understand
as "conspiracy theory." But if you are inclined
to try to make up your own mind, you can find
Dr. Jones' and Dr. Woods' papers, which have
been formally presented to their peers at
scientific meetings, on line at
http://www.st911.org/
Experts have also pointed out that the buildings'
massive steel skeletons comprised a massive
heat sink that wicked away the heat from the
limited, short-lived fires, thus preventing a heat
buildup. Experts also point out that the short-lived,
scattered, low-intensity fires could barely reach
half the melting point of steel even if they burned
all day instead of merely an hour.
Don't ask me to tell you what happened on 9/11.
All I know is that the official account of the
buildings' collapse is improbable.
Now we are being told another improbable tale.
Muslim terrorists in London and Pakistan were
caught plotting to commit mass murder by
smuggling bottles of explosive liquids on board
airliners in hand luggage. Baby formula, shampoo
and water bottles allegedly contained the tools
of suicide bombers.
How do we know about this plot? Well, the
police learned it from an "Islamic militant arrested
near the Afghan-Pakistan border several weeks
ago." And how did someone so far away know
what British-born people in London were plotting?
Do you really believe that Western and Israeli
intelligence services, which were too incompetent
to prevent the 9/11 attack, can uncover a London
plot by capturing a person on the Afghan border
in Pakistan? Why would "an Islamic militant" rat
on such a plot even if he knew of it?
More probable explanations of the "plot" are readily
available. According to the August 11 Wayne
Madsen Report, informed sources in the UK
report that "the Tony Blair government, under
siege by a Labor Party revolt, cleverly cooked
up a new 'terror' scare to avert the public's eyes
away from Blair's increasing political woes.
British law enforcement, neocon and intelligence
operatives in the US, Israel, and Britain, and Rupert
Murdoch's global media empire cooked up the
terrorist plot, liberally borrowing from the failed
1995 'Oplan Bjinka' plot by Pakistan - and
Philippines-based terrorist Ramzi Ahmad Yousef
to crash 11 trans-Pacific airliners bound from
Asia to the US."
There are other plausible explanations.
For example, our puppet in Pakistan decided
to arrest some people who were a threat to him.
With Bush's commitment to "building democracy
in the Middle East," our puppet can't arrest his
political enemies without cause, so he lays
the blame on a plot.
Any testimony against Muslim plotters by
"an Islamic militant" is certain to have been
bought and paid for.
Or consider this explanation. Under the
Nuremberg standard, Bush and Blair are war
criminals. Bush is so worried that he will be
held accountable that he has sent his attorney
general to consult with the Republican Congress
to work out legislation to protect Bush retroactively
from his violations of the Geneva Conventions.
Tony Blair is in more danger of finding himself
in the dock. Britain is signatory to a treaty that,
if justice is done, will place Blair before the
International Criminal Court in the Hague.
What better justification for the two war criminals'
illegal actions than the need to foil dastardly plots
by Muslims recruited in sting operations by
Western intelligence services? The more Bush
and Blair can convince their publics that terrorist
danger abounds, the less likely Bush and Blair
are ever to be held accountable for their crimes.
But surely, some readers might object, our
great moral leaders wouldn't do something
political like that!
They most certainly would. As Joshua Micah
Marshall wrote in the July 7 issue of Time magazine,
the suspicion is "quite reasonable" that "the Bush
Administration orchestrates its terror alerts
and arrests to goose the GOP's poll numbers."
Joshua Micah Marshall proves his conclusion
by examining the barrage of color-coded terror
alerts, none of which were real, and, yes,
it all fits with political needs.
And don't forget the plot unearthed in Miami
to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago. Described
by Vice President Cheney as a "very real threat,"
the plot turned out to be nothing more than a
few harmless whackos recruited by an FBI agent
sent out to organize a sting.
There was also the "foiled plot" to blow up the
Holland Tunnel and flood downtown New York
City with sea water. Thinking New Orleans,
the FBI invented this plot without realizing
that New York City is above sea level.
Of course, most Americans didn't realize it either.
For six years the Bush regime has been able
to count on the ignorant and naive American
public to believe whatever tale that is told them.
American gullibility has yet to fail the Bush regime.
The government has an endless number of
conspiracy theories, but only people who
question the government's conspiracies
are derided for "having a conspiracy theory."
The implication is even worse if we assume
that the explosive bottle plot is genuine.
It means that America and Britain by their
own aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan,
and by enabling Israel's war crimes in
Palestine and Lebanon, have created
such hatred that Muslims, who identify
with Bush's, Blair's, and Israel's victims,
are plotting retaliation.
But Bush is prepared. He has taught his
untutored public that "they hate us for our
freedom and democracy."
Gentle reader, wise up.
The entire world is laughing at you.
Unquote
"Gullible Americans have been duped by the 9/11 Hoax...
Wise up -- the world is laughing at you."
Who is Paul Craig Roberts?
· Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic
Policy under Ronald Reagan (awarded the Treasury
Department's Meritorious Service Award for "his
outstanding contributions to the formulation of United
States economic policy.")
· Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution,
Stanford University, and Research Fellow at the
Independent Institute.
· Former editor and columnist for The Wall Street
Journal and columnist for Business Week and the
Scripps Howard News Service
· Held the William E. Simon Chair in Political
Economy at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies (1982 -1993)
· Distinguished Fellow at the Cato Institute from
1993 to 1996
· Olin Fellow at the Institute for Political Economy
· Nationally syndicated columnist for Investor's
Business Daily
· Winner of the 1992 Warren Brookes Award for
Excellence in Journalism
· Ranked "One of the top seven journalists" by
the Forbes Media Guide (1993)
· Author of, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, and
Marx's Theory of Exchange, Alienation and Crisis
Dr. Roberts was educated at the Georgia Institute of
Technology (B.S.), the University of Virginia (Ph.D.),
the University of California at Berkeley and Oxford
University where he was a member of Merton College.
He is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who
in the World, The Dictionary of International Biography,
Outstanding People of the Twentieth Century,
and 1000 Leaders of World Influence.
Could anyone in their right mind consider this man a
crackpot "conspiracy theorist"?
____________________________________________
Quote:
GULLIBLE AMERICANS
By Paul Craig Roberts
Information Clearing House
08/14/06
I was in China when a July Harris Poll reported that
50 percent of Americans still believe that Iraq had
weapons of mass destruction when Bush invaded
that country, and that 64 percent of Americans still
believe that Saddam Hussein had strong links with
Al Qaeda.
The Chinese leaders and intellectuals with whom I
was meeting were incredulous. How could a
majority of the population in an allegedly free
country with an allegedly free press be so totally
misinformed?
The only answer I could give the Chinese is that
Americans would have been the perfect population
for Mao and the Gang of Four, because Americans
believe anything their government tells them.
Americans never check any facts. Who do you
know, for example, who has even read the Report
of the 9/11 Commission, much less checked the
alleged facts reported in that document. I can
answer for you. You don't know anyone who
has read the report or checked the facts.
The two co-chairmen of the 9/11 Commission
Report, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, have
just released a new book, "Without Precedent:
The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission." Kean
and Hamilton reveal that the commission
suppressed the fact that Muslim ire toward the
US is due to US support for Israel's persecution
and dispossession of the Palestinians, not to
our "freedom and democracy" as Bush
propagandistically claims.
Kean and Hamilton also reveal that the US
military committed perjury and lied about its
failure to intercept the hijacked airliners. The
commission even debated referring the
military's lies to the Justice Department for
criminal investigation. Why should we assume
that these admissions are the only coverups
and lies in the 9/11 Commission Report?
How do you know that 9/11 was a Muslim
terrorist plot? How do you know that THREE
World Trade Center buildings collapsed because
TWO were hit by airliners? You only "know"
because the government gave you the
explanation of what you saw on TV.
(Did you even know that three WTC
buildings collapsed?)
I still remember the enlightenment I experienced
as a student in Russian Studies when I learned
that the Czarist secret police would set off bombs
and then blame those whom they wanted to arrest.
When Hitler seized dictatorial power in 1933, he
told the Germans that his new powers were made
necessary by a communist terrorist attack on the
Reichstag. When Hitler started World War II by
invading Poland, he told the Germans that Poland
had crossed the frontier and attacked Germany.
Governments lie all the time--especially
governments staffed by neoconservatives whose
intellectual godfather, Leo Strauss, taught them that
it is permissible to deceive the public in order to
achieve their agenda.
Some readers will write to me to say that they
saw a TV documentary or read a magazine article
verifying the government's explanation of 9/11.
But, of course, these Americans did not check
the facts either--and neither did the people who
made the documentary and wrote the magazine
article.
Scientists and engineers, such as Clemson
University Professor of Engineering Dr. Judy
Woods and BYU Professor of Physics
Dr. Steven Jones, have raised compelling
questions about the official account of the
collapse of the three WTC buildings.
The basic problem for the government's account
is that the buildings are known to have fallen at
freefall speed, a fact that is inconsistent with
the government's "pancaking" theory in which
debris from above collapsed the floors below.
If the buildings actually "pancaked," then each
floor below would have offered resistance to the
floors above, and the elapsed time would have
been much longer. These experts have also
calculated that the buildings did not have
sufficient gravitational energy to accommodate
the government's theory of the collapse.
It is certainly a known and non-controversial fact
among physicists and engineers that the only
way buildings can collapse at freefall speed
into their own footprints is by engineered demolition.
Explosives are used to remove the support of
floors below before the debris from above arrives.
Otherwise, resistance is encountered and the
time required for fall increases.
Engineered demolition also explains the
symmetrical collapse of the buildings into their
own foot prints. As it is otherwise improbable
for every point in floors below to weaken
uniformly, "pancaking" would result in
asymmetrical collapse as some elements
of the floor would give sooner than others.
Scientific evidence is a tough thing for the
American public to handle, and the government
knows it. The government can rely on people
dismissing things that they cannot understand
as "conspiracy theory." But if you are inclined
to try to make up your own mind, you can find
Dr. Jones' and Dr. Woods' papers, which have
been formally presented to their peers at
scientific meetings, on line at
http://www.st911.org/
Experts have also pointed out that the buildings'
massive steel skeletons comprised a massive
heat sink that wicked away the heat from the
limited, short-lived fires, thus preventing a heat
buildup. Experts also point out that the short-lived,
scattered, low-intensity fires could barely reach
half the melting point of steel even if they burned
all day instead of merely an hour.
Don't ask me to tell you what happened on 9/11.
All I know is that the official account of the
buildings' collapse is improbable.
Now we are being told another improbable tale.
Muslim terrorists in London and Pakistan were
caught plotting to commit mass murder by
smuggling bottles of explosive liquids on board
airliners in hand luggage. Baby formula, shampoo
and water bottles allegedly contained the tools
of suicide bombers.
How do we know about this plot? Well, the
police learned it from an "Islamic militant arrested
near the Afghan-Pakistan border several weeks
ago." And how did someone so far away know
what British-born people in London were plotting?
Do you really believe that Western and Israeli
intelligence services, which were too incompetent
to prevent the 9/11 attack, can uncover a London
plot by capturing a person on the Afghan border
in Pakistan? Why would "an Islamic militant" rat
on such a plot even if he knew of it?
More probable explanations of the "plot" are readily
available. According to the August 11 Wayne
Madsen Report, informed sources in the UK
report that "the Tony Blair government, under
siege by a Labor Party revolt, cleverly cooked
up a new 'terror' scare to avert the public's eyes
away from Blair's increasing political woes.
British law enforcement, neocon and intelligence
operatives in the US, Israel, and Britain, and Rupert
Murdoch's global media empire cooked up the
terrorist plot, liberally borrowing from the failed
1995 'Oplan Bjinka' plot by Pakistan - and
Philippines-based terrorist Ramzi Ahmad Yousef
to crash 11 trans-Pacific airliners bound from
Asia to the US."
There are other plausible explanations.
For example, our puppet in Pakistan decided
to arrest some people who were a threat to him.
With Bush's commitment to "building democracy
in the Middle East," our puppet can't arrest his
political enemies without cause, so he lays
the blame on a plot.
Any testimony against Muslim plotters by
"an Islamic militant" is certain to have been
bought and paid for.
Or consider this explanation. Under the
Nuremberg standard, Bush and Blair are war
criminals. Bush is so worried that he will be
held accountable that he has sent his attorney
general to consult with the Republican Congress
to work out legislation to protect Bush retroactively
from his violations of the Geneva Conventions.
Tony Blair is in more danger of finding himself
in the dock. Britain is signatory to a treaty that,
if justice is done, will place Blair before the
International Criminal Court in the Hague.
What better justification for the two war criminals'
illegal actions than the need to foil dastardly plots
by Muslims recruited in sting operations by
Western intelligence services? The more Bush
and Blair can convince their publics that terrorist
danger abounds, the less likely Bush and Blair
are ever to be held accountable for their crimes.
But surely, some readers might object, our
great moral leaders wouldn't do something
political like that!
They most certainly would. As Joshua Micah
Marshall wrote in the July 7 issue of Time magazine,
the suspicion is "quite reasonable" that "the Bush
Administration orchestrates its terror alerts
and arrests to goose the GOP's poll numbers."
Joshua Micah Marshall proves his conclusion
by examining the barrage of color-coded terror
alerts, none of which were real, and, yes,
it all fits with political needs.
And don't forget the plot unearthed in Miami
to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago. Described
by Vice President Cheney as a "very real threat,"
the plot turned out to be nothing more than a
few harmless whackos recruited by an FBI agent
sent out to organize a sting.
There was also the "foiled plot" to blow up the
Holland Tunnel and flood downtown New York
City with sea water. Thinking New Orleans,
the FBI invented this plot without realizing
that New York City is above sea level.
Of course, most Americans didn't realize it either.
For six years the Bush regime has been able
to count on the ignorant and naive American
public to believe whatever tale that is told them.
American gullibility has yet to fail the Bush regime.
The government has an endless number of
conspiracy theories, but only people who
question the government's conspiracies
are derided for "having a conspiracy theory."
The implication is even worse if we assume
that the explosive bottle plot is genuine.
It means that America and Britain by their
own aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan,
and by enabling Israel's war crimes in
Palestine and Lebanon, have created
such hatred that Muslims, who identify
with Bush's, Blair's, and Israel's victims,
are plotting retaliation.
But Bush is prepared. He has taught his
untutored public that "they hate us for our
freedom and democracy."
Gentle reader, wise up.
The entire world is laughing at you.
Unquote