Why 9/11 Is THE Issue - A Reply to Critics

9/11 Truth is THE Issue
By: Richard Curtis

There has been a small chorus of usually reliable journalists
decrying the 9/11 Truth Movement of late. What is most curious
about their arguments is not that they believe the official theory
(although I find that inexplicable), it is that they have convinced
themselves that trying to undercover the truth behind the events of
9/11 is a distraction from more important political work. In fact,
the opposite is true. I will explain below.

First, a quick comment about why 9/11 is an open question. There
are literally a hundred (a 140 actually) good reasons to doubt the
official conspiracy theory, but one stands tall above the rest.
Actually, it is the lack of something tall. What happened to the
inner core of the World Trade Center Towers ? There were 47 of
them, massive in thickness and rising over a thousand feet. All of
the official accounts of why the buildings collapsed (they are on
their third try now) fail to account for their absence. The
official theories would predict the inner core would be left
standing, but they did not. But in the end, people need to think
for themselves, research the issues and make their own decisions.

The truth of 9/11 is THE issue of our day because it functions like
a religious myth, organizing society around certain beliefs,
assumptions, and consequent actions. This is vitally important.
One of these usually progressive critics recently complained that
the Truth Movement was distracting attention away from ending the
War in Iraq or fighting global warming and a host of other issues.
This misses the point.

The reason we are in two wars now and almost three is because of
this myth. The reason we are not having a national dialogue about
responses to global warming is because we are distracted with a
farce called the War on Terrorism. The reason we do not have money
to provide health care to all our nation's children is because we
are spending all available resources lining the pockets of defense
contractors. The reason American has become a Torture State is
because of this myth.

The official mythology of 9/11 is the key to justifying the
expansion in the American Empire and with that a new form of fascism
at home. People accept all of this on the false premise that 9/11
was the work of foreign terrorists.

This premise is so vital that it shapes some aspect of nearly all
policy at all levels of government. It is the cause of the war, it
is the excuse for secrecy and thus fraudulent elections, it is the
psychological edge that fascism needs so as to convince people to
give up their fundamental human -- including democratic -- rights.
It is THE issues. If you want to end the war, if you want to focus
attention on the coming catastrophe of global warming or want money
for schools and health care then you need to care about the truth of
9/11.

Richard Curtis, PhD is a recent graduate of the School of Religion
at Claremont Graduate University and presently an adjunct professor
of philosophy at Shoreline Community College in Seattle , WA .

for more information check out this website:

http://www.911truthgroups.org/

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