Why Discussion of the Events of 9/11/2001 and the Deep State
Help Develop the Antiwar Movement | Richard Krushnic 9/18/14, with an
Introduction by Christopher Gruener MA, LMHC
(Secretary for the Greater Boston Alliance for 9/11 Truth & Justice)
"Most folks don’t want to know the truth because it threatens their
world view, their paradigm for understanding and making life bearable.
They can accept that the government does things like this to other
people and governments in other lands, but not that it does them here at
home. Even considering the possible truth of such things creates
cognitive dissonance that is very emotionally disturbing and
frightening. All kinds of primitive and sophisticated psychological
shenanigans are employed by the person considering such truths to deny
their possibility and avoid seeing even the obvious."
Hello Friends,
As
many of you know, the 9/11 Truth Movement has been striving for many
years to develop a collaborative interface with the broader Anti-War /
Peace and Justice Movement. Please take time
to read Richard Krushnic’s article below and then add your voice to the
ongoing conversation on this topic.
Richard
is a leading activist in the 9/11 Truth Movement, with a long time
commitment to effective peace and justice activism. He has worked
tirelessly for well over a decade to integrate
these two arenas for maximum collaboration and impact.
Peace, Persistence and Solidarity,
Christopher
Christopher Gruener MA, LMHC
(Secretary for the Greater Boston Alliance for 9/11 Truth & Justice)
From: Richard Krushnic [mailto:rkrushnic@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 3:56 PM
To: Chris Gruener
Subject: 9/11 Truth, the Deep State and the Antiwar Movement
There
has been a discussion chain on the UNAC (United National Antiwar
Coalition) discussion group regarding recent possible false flag
operations, such as the evidence
that the downing of the airliner in Ukraine was a false flag, which
Ralph Lopez carried into 9/11 Truth territory. Ralph posted some of the
controlled demolition evidence. He received the usual negative
responses from some of the leading lights in the discussion
group. He has been holding his own without meaningful support. Only
two persons sent extremely brief comments. Most think 9/11 should not
be allowed as part of the discussion. Today I responded to the chain by
posting the following. I hope the moderator/moderators
post my piece to the discussion.
Why Discussion of the Events of 9/11/2001 and the Deep State
Help Develop the Antiwar Movement | Richard Krushnic 9/18/14
Discussion
of the events of 9/11/2011 are relevant to discussions of ongoing and
prospective US wars, because all
of US foreign policy and wars in the Middle East, Asia and Africa have
been and continue to be heavily influenced by the events of 9/11. If
9/11 was an inside job false-flag operation (an act a nation does itself
and blames on another nation or group); this
informs us of the extraordinary power the perpetrators have over us,
and how manipulable the nation is by those planning and implementing
wars. It also means that false flag operations could be employed
repeatedly and at any time in order to manipulate the
public politicians into beginning new wars or extending existing ones.
I
was involved in efforts to introduce 9/11 evidence into New England
antiwar movement discussions a few years ago,
and found that there was no interest because most thought 9/11 Truth
people were primarily right-wing Libertarians or Laruchites, which was
neither the case then nor now. At any rate, the message didn’t matter
because of who it was assumed that the messenger
was. I think the same attitude is still at work today in antiwar
circles. I am a member of the socialist segment of the 9/11 truth
movement, and would like to enter the current discussion.
It
is certainly deeply meaningful that 2,500 licensed architects and
engineers have signed the Architects and Engineers
for 9/11 Truth Petition stating that the government explanation of 9/11
is a conspiracy theory that flies in the face of the basic laws of
physics and chemistry and is completely preposterous, and therefore an
investigation independent of the government must
be done. The best single presentation of the views of this massive
body of expertise is AE9/11 Truth’s DND Experts Speak Out, which has 42
experts in their fields of Firemen, Building Fire Safety, Physics,
Chemistry, Architecture, Construction Engineering
and Building Demolition.
They
point to Building 7 (47 stories) falling at free-fall speed; pools of
molten metal underground under the twin
towers for weeks at temperatures double that of the hottest airplane
fuel or office fires; thermite and nanothermite residues in the cement
powder distributed around lower Manhattan (incendiary and
incendiary/explosive burning at 1.6 times the melting point
of structural steel); near free-fall speed of the twin towers (all
resistance removed below the demolition wave—only possible with
controlled demolition); turning nearly a million pounds of concrete into
fine powder (only possible with controlled demolition
charges on a high percentage of floors); high-velocity ejection of
multi-ton steel members; steel members like swiss cheese with sulfur
(only possible with thermite or nanothermite); over 200 first responders
experiencing and hearing numerous explosions, and
many more pieces of evidence. In the cases of many of these pieces of
evidence, any one of them is sufficient to prove that the government’s
version is a lie.
But
we are not just talking about 9/11 here. We are talking about the
modern era of the US deep state from at least
as far back as World War II to the present. To understand the modus
operandi of the deep state, its strength and its membership, we have to
understand the main outline of its activities. So permit this brief
reflection: Pearl Harbor was a partial false
flag operation, because an 18-month plan dreamed up by a naval officer
found its way to Roosevelt and was implemented. The objective was to
goad Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor in order to overcome opposition
to entering the war—the real urgency was to
enter the war against Germany. Overwhelming evidence that this plan
was carried out is presented in Day of Deceit, also written by a
naval officer, Robert Stinnett. The key players in the establishment of
the CIA were aware of this, and as they organized
and executed the coups in Iran in 1953, in Guatemala in 1954, the
failed coup in Indonesia in 1958, and a brilliantly executed coup via
electoral manipulation in the Philippines the same year, the outlines
and strength of the secret deep state developed and
solidified.
When
JFK changed from a cold warrior to a peacemaker while in office, he
quickly made enemies among the most powerful.
The mafia kicked out of Cuba wanted back in and blamed Kennedy for the
failure of the CIA’s Bay of Pigs Invasion. Kennedy refused to bomb Cuba
against the wishes of the military and nearly everyone else in his
cabinet, and set out to end the cold war and
make peace with Russia and Cuba. He refused to undertake another
effort to unseat Sukarno in Indonesia, earning him the enmity of
Rockefeller oil interests and Texas mining interests (Freeport Sulfer,
Brown & Root). He moved to cut the domestic oil depletion
allowance, making Clint Murcheson and H.L. Hunt bitter enemies, and put
price controls on steel. When he issued the secret order to pull out
of Vietnam after the 1964 elections, that was the last straw. On behalf
of these multinational corporate, military
and intelligence interests, and with the support of Lyndon Johnson, he
was murdered by the CIA and the Secret Service. Jim Douglass’ JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters is probably the best single book on the subject. There is
overwhelming evidence of this from many many excellent sources.
The same forces executed his brother, RFK, and Martin Luther King. While researching the Kennedys’ executions is
tedious, researching MLK’s is easy—just read Act of State: the Execution of Martin Luther King,
by Wiliam Pepper, attorney for the King family for a generation. The
book recounts all of the evidence, and presents the wrongful death suit
1999 trial
in which 74 witnesses present overwhelming evidence. So overwhelming
that it took the jury of 6 whites and 6 blacks 59 minutes to return with
a verdict finding agencies of the US government guilty of King’s
murder.
The
secret FBI sector that is part of the deep state was in charge of the
coverups of the state executions of the
Kennedys and King. The deep state component of the FBI has trained
small groups in all major police departments to cooperate with them in
this work. The police departments of Dallas and Los Angeles played key
roles in the coverups of the Kennedys’ executions;
and the Police Dept. of Memphis not only played a key role in the King
execution coverup, but also played a key role in his execution,
including the actual shooting by the police department’s lead
marksman. The deep state role of the FBI is most present
today in the creation of phony or entrapment cases against around 600
Muslims, in order to maintain the public fear regarding Muslim
terrorists. Read Rounded Up: Artificial Terrorists and Muslim Entrapment After 9/11,
by Shamshad Ahmad, PhD, or review
the Tarek Mehanna case in Boston, where Tarek is serving 17 years for
translating and posting some articles by Al Queda. There are questions
regarding the Boston Marathon Bombings. For example: why did the FBI
execute the unarmed friend of The Tsarnaevs
in Florida. What about the family’s claims that the FBI continued
contact with the elder brother after the initial 2012 interviews? What
about the presence of Craft International personnel and van at the
finish line? Craft contracts to train police departments
regarding terrorist acts and may be part of the integration of the deep
state’s secret coordination between the FBI and police departments.
There are many other questions regarding the Marathon Bombing.
If
we cannot effectively question government versions in public and get
media coverage for this, we are doomed to
be forever manipulated by false-flag operations. The current case in
point is the downing of the passenger airliner in the Ukraine.
Surveying the information available in the mass media and the internet,
there is clearly more evidence pointing to a downing
of the airliner by Ukrainian forces than by the rebels in Eastern
Ukraine. Numerous witnesses have testified to the two jet fighters
trailing the airliner immediately before it went down.
Some
of the persons involved in 9/11 were already in high government
positions by the time of the Kennedy killings
or shortly thereafter, such as Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz and others.
Everybody in the highest positions knows about all of this, and they
know that the same forces are at large today, exercising power through
the deep state—a network of multinational corporate
interests, and key military, political, academic and intelligence
players. Obama’s team, when he came in, had discussions about what the
president could do and not do to avoid assassination by the deep state.
Along with the assassinations of the Kennedys
and King, and subsequently, the show went on in Vietnam, Brazil, the
Dominican Republic, Chile, Argentina, etc.
Part
of this has been US government regulation of and participation in the
global illegal narcotics trade and frequent
use of mafias to perform killings so they cannot be traced to the US
government agency in charge: a deal with the mafia for the US heroin
market in return for help in WWII in Italy; the Burma Golden Triangle
following the Chinese Revolution; Southeast Asian
trade in the Vietnam War (Opium and Politics in Southeast Asia by
Alfred McCoy); shifting the heroin market to Pakistan and Afghanistan
during the effort to unseat the Russians from Afghanistan. And, of
course, the simultaneous creation of Al Qaeda.
The US mafia was hired by the CIA to assassinate Castro, mafia gangs
were used to do most of the half million killings in Indonesia
immediately after the 1965 coup, etc. The CIA created the gangs that
introduced crack cocaine to the US as a means to fund
the Contras in Nicaragua (Dark Alliance by Gary Stephan Webb), etc.
Then
there is, of course, the INSTITUTIONALIZED membership of the key
owners and operators of the mass media in
the deep state network. The shining star example for 9/11 is the 2003
Popular Mechanics magazine and book that presented 11 arguments that
9/11 was a false flag operation. This was the single most effective
propaganda against 9/11 Truth ever. The 11 arguments
were all straw men. The main body of 9/11 truth did not put forth any
of these 11 arguments, but Popular Mechanics attributed them all to a
unified 9/11 Truth movement. Of course, none of the arguments that were
put forth by the main body of the movement
were mentioned. Sophisticated disinformation technique is solidly
institutionalized into the mass media’s deep state participation.
Now briefly back to 9/11: Zbigniew Brzezinski, in his 1997 Grand Chessboard laid
out essentially the same
plan as Project for a New American Century (PNAC) in 2000 (controlled
by the neocons of the Bush Administration): a plan to extend US
multinational corporate dominance in the Middle East and Asia for
another 40 years. Both documents clearly state that the
plan couldn’t succeed without a new Pearl Harbor. The plan required
enough control over Afghanistan and Iraq, which straddle Iran, to exert
enough influence on Iran (sitting on both the Persian Gulf and the
Caspian Sea) to be able to play a prominent role
in continuing energy development and pipelines. The plan also requires
continual weakening of Middle Eastern societies through warfare. You
can’t get Americans to go fight and die for half a century in Asia
without a new Pearl Harbor.
The
National Institutes for Standards and Technology (NIST) says on the
first page of its 10,000 page report on the
twin towers that it investigated nothing after the collapse initiated,
i.e. after the collapse began at the point of airplane entry. That
way, they don’t have to address nearly all of the points raised by the
2,500 architects and engineers who signed the
AE9/11Truth petition (check out its website). NIST didn’t investigate
the possibility that preset explosives might have been involved. Turns
out that leaders of the NIST investigation were members of the team that
developed nanothermite in the US Dept. of
Eneregy’s weapons labs. We haven’t been able to detect any source for
nanothermite in 2001 other than Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, and the
Naval Weapons Lab at Indian Point. Nanothermite is so good that it can
be disguised as almost anything, has three
times the explosive force per unit of weight as runner up explosives,
and is replacing former explosives in the US smart weapons arsenal.
See the Greater Boston Alliance for 9/11 Truth and Justice’s Nanothermite Packet.
NIST
commissioned a study by Underwriters Labs to prove its hypothesis:
Planes’ impact and fires from the planes’
fuel and office furnishings dislodged insulation and heated floor
trusses enough that they sagged 44 inches, shortening them enough to
pull in exoskeleton members enough that they buckled, initiating the
collapse. Underwriters Labs created several 60-foot
floor trusses to specification, loaded them with twin tower floor loads
and cooked them for an hour at the NIST-prescribed temperature.
Nothing. So they doubled the temperature and doubled the time. The
trusses sagged 4 inches, not 44 inches. The test
disproved NIST’s hypothesis. You can see the test in an appendix to
the NIST Report. However, the test is not mentioned anywhere in the
body of the report.
Why
does the truth about 9/11 and the history and nature of the deep state
matter to the antiwar movement? Because
if we do not understand the deep state’s capabilities and propensities
for false flag operations on all scales, from a single beheading to
9/11, we leave them the opportunity to use false flag operations at will
to start any war any time. If we don’t understand
that every single provocation we hear about (beheadings, suicide
bombings, thwarted plans by US Muslims in Albany, the airliner downing
in Ukraine), might be a false flag operation; then we throw away one of
our potentially greatest tools for peace: education
of masses of people about the modus operandi of the deep state. I
have no idea if the recent beheadings were false flag operations, but
they might have been, and just see how a few simply executed beheadings
can be enough to start a new level of conflict.
If a meaningful segment of the public is wise to the methods and
omnipresence of the deep state, it would be much easier to get
government versions scrutinized in the mass media, and much harder to
start or extend wars.
The
leading response to any attempt to present evidence regarding 9/11 as a
false-flag operation is: In an operation
that complex, they wouldn’t be able to keep it a secret—somebody would
talk. Many people talked about their involvement or what they knew
about the JFK and MLK executions, but not for many years after the
events. Many people talked about their involvement
or what they knew about the plan to goad the Japanese into attacking
Pearl Harbor, but not for many years after the events. Perhaps many
will eventually talk about 9/11. The same is true about nearly all of
the CIA coups and assassinations of heads of state.
What is much more interesting and important, however, is that even
though there is incontrovertible evidence regarding the assassinations
of the Kennedys and MLK and about Pearl Harbor, still, most people
prefer to ignore the evidence and buy the government’s
version. Most folks don’t want to know the truth because it threatens
their world view, their paradigm for understanding and making life
bearable. They can accept that the government does things like this to
other people and governments in other lands,
but not that it does them here at home. Even considering the possible
truth of such things creates cognitive dissonance that is very
emotionally disturbing and frightening. All kinds of primitive and
sophisticated psychological shenanigans are employed
by the person considering such truths to deny their possibility and
avoid seeing even the obvious.
Noam
Chomsky, Michael Albert, and others, who have immeasurably benefited
the antiwar movement with brilliant and
endless work, have failed us on this one score. They say that these
assassinations and false-flag operations are done by small numbers of
individuals or rogue elements, and that they therefore don’t matter that
much; because what matters are the acts of the
totalitarian institutions of the multinational corporation, and the
military. But the deep state is the network by which these
corporations, the military and others discuss their long-range
interests, develop their plans, and indicate how nice it would be
if a group within the military or intelligence community would just
kill this person or execute this false flag operation. The deep state
is fully INSTITUTIONALIZED. The King execution involved coordination
among the CIA, the FBI, the New Orleans and Memphis
Mafias, the Memphis Police Department, the MIssissipi National Guard,
and the US Air Force. The Kennedys’ executions were coordinated among
the CIA, the FBI, the Secret Service, the Dallas Police, the upper
political establilshment in Texas, and Lyndon Johnson,
with the backing of the interest groups mentioned above. Some
assassinations are done by small groups or rogue elements, but the vast
majority are not, they are a major INSTITUIONAL mechanism by which many
of the most pivotal events in modern history are
carried out precisely at the behest of the institution of the deep
state. The coordination list for 9/11 is longer.
So
please understand that people trying to educate about the events of
9/11 are not trying to divert the antiwar
movement from its task of stopping or ending wars. We are trying to
broaden and deepen the analysis and understanding of the antiwar
movement so that it understands its enemies better and can develop
tactics and strategies to counter what may be the single
most effective weapon our enemies currently possess—the false flag
operation. If you want to take a peak at one of the most recent works
on the subject, go to the Coollidge Corner Branch Library at 31 Pleasant
Street, Brooklline, MA Sunday September 1st for
the 1:30 showing of Anatomy of a Great Deception,
a docu-thriller following a family man turned filmmaker as he
unknowingly begins his own 9/11 investigation. His belief system is
shattered, he is tuned-out by his family, his finances are collapsing,
and he is compelled to try to turn it all around by making this film.
