Posted on 05/14/2002 7:27:38 AM PDT by H8DEMS
On April 12th Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-Georgia) released a press statement critical of the Bush administration's actions in responding to 9-11. It raised serious but ill-developed concerns about the US government's foreknowledge of the brutal terrorist attacks on both the World Trade Center in New York City as well as the Pentagon in Washington, DC. McKinney argued,
"The need for an investigation of the events surrounding September 11[th] is as obvious as is the need for an investigation of the Enron debacle. The press release from McKinney's office further stated "news reports from Der Spiegal to the London Observer, from the Los Angeles Times to MSNBC to CNN, indicate that many warnings were received by the [US] Administration."
There is considerable evidence that key players in the US intelligence as well as federal law enforcement community had deliberately turned a deaf ear to persistent rumors that Mohammad Atta, who had been previously identified as a member of an extremist, fundamentalist group, was involved in a plot to bomb the twin towers.
If McKinney or her staff had engaged in the thoughtful but time consuming investigative process necessary to lend credence to her charges, they would have come across a number of articles written by courageous independent writers myself included that provided substantial factual evidence supporting her claims. One piece in particular written by Tom Flacco and entitled Profits of Death 1: Insider Trading and 9-11 "revealed that the A.B. Brown (Alex Brown) investment arm of the banking giant Deutschebank/A.B. Brown had been headed until 1998 by the man who is now the Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency - A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard. In fact, Krongard is but one name in a long history of CIA interconnections to stock trading and the world's financial markets."
Unfortunately, McKinney like her colleague from the 35th District of California, Maxine Waters who raised similar concerns in the wake of allegations that the Central Intelligence Agency was directly involved in the importation of drugs into the US generally and her district particularly, took the path of the least resistance and, consequently, made these charges without providing the definitive proof or at the least substantial evidence that would have easily supported her position. This has enabled her detractors to dismiss her allegations out-of-hand, labeling McKinney as unpatriotic, a conspiracy theorist, and member of an extreme left wing lunatic fringe, which has caused her to lose substantial "credibility" with her herd-like colleagues in the Congress.
On Sunday, April 21st Black Entertainment Television's Lead Story hosted by Amy Holmes aired a segment where McKinney was roundly criticized by not only House Nigger-in-Residence Armstrong Williams, a shameless tout for conservative - read that: white - reactionary interests and a disingenuous apologist for racist American policy without an original thought to his credit, but by moderate writer for Savoy magazine, Jack White, and National Public Radio's All Things Considered producer Brenda Wilson. It was an incredible display of collective ignorance by persons charged with the mission to bring us factual, objective information; information culled not only from the mainstream, co-opted, I mean, corporate media but from alternate sources as well. Government has long had it hand deep in the pocket of corporate media.
Mike Levin, the host and executive producer of The Expert Witness Show, which airs on NYC's WBAI 99.5 FM at 7:00 PM on Tuesdays once had a retired CIA operative brag on air that the agency had co-opted the corporate media in these United States. In short, he claimed that virtually all of the major players would publish unedited releases written by bureaucrats in his as well as other US Intelligence agencies. The watered down, heavily censored reports we have been receiving from the likes of the Hearst corporation, Tribune, Knight Ridder, United News & Media, Dow Jones & Company on the Israelis-Palestinian conflict is a glaring contemporaneous case-in-point.
So it stands to reason that we ought to be extremely critical of information we read in those reactionary rags; papers published primarily to promote the Bush administrations' fascistic agenda. And ironically those publications were the very reference sources these black barely intellectuals cited in their mindless lockstep attacks on McKinney.
Moreover, to the point at hand, the airspace over the Eastern seaboard of the continental United States is the most heavily monitored, regulated and, more importantly, restricted than anywhere else in the country! We are supposed to believe that air traffic controllers in not one but seven different FAA Air Traffic Control Command Center regions two of which have ARO or Airport Reservation Office status - i.e., JFK in NYC as well as Regan in Washington, DC - meaning that they are specifically designated to process high density traffic requests all dropped the proverbial ball simultaneously.
Sources in the administration would have us think that these highly-trained Federal Aviation Administration workers most of whom are equally highly paid (with average salaries of approximately one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars), high-ranking, reserve non-commissioned officers in the US military, and undergo through extensive federal background checks and hold high-level security clearances as a result, allowed three fully loaded passenger jets to wander hundreds of miles off course violating restricted airspace and slam into the twin towers in NYC, and the Pentagon in Washington, DC without sounding any alarm. That is simply not believable. It is so unbelievable, moreover, that it raised more questions than it answered; questions that no one in the Congress has had the courage to ask accept for Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-Georgia).
The fact of the matter is that these planes were tracked and fighter jets from east coast based US Air Force fighter wings were scrambled to intercept them. There is credible evidence to suggest that the downing of American Airlines Flight 11 - the plane that was downed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania a rural community approximately 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh was not the result of heroism on the parts of the passengers on board that plane but the deliberate shooting by one of those fighter jets. This persistent rumor has been floating about in the alternate press since it was revealed that the co-pilot was an African American reserve Air Force officer and pilot.
Famed essayist and writer Gore Vidal was featured on a two hour special public affairs segment hosted by Matthew Finch, public affairs director, at NYC's Pacifica station WBAI 99.5 FM on Tuesday, April 23rd. Vidal has a piece coming out in which he claims that five FBI special agents have brought suit against their supervisor for refusing to accept evidence that foretold of the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.
We could neither prove nor disprove this information during our research for this piece. However, it is this type of investigative reporting, fact checking, and research that makes for the compelling, factual, and critical information that is no longer available to us through the so-called mainstream media. It is frightening and speaks to McKinney's point, that "The need for an investigation of the events surrounding September 11 is as obvious as is the need for an investigation of the Enron debacle."
Instead of being castigated and ridiculed by her colleagues in the congress and other black leaders - most of whom are too busy greedily feeding at the slop trough of public largess to do the important work they were elected to do - she ought to be lionized for exhibiting the courage to raise questions about a troubling aspect of the negligence demonstrated by several investigatory as well as oversight agencies in the US government.
The public's lack of skepticism relative to obvious unanswered conflicts brings to mind another era and another figure in history: Roman Emperor Tiberius Gracchus, a famed war hero who upon assuming the throne was told by the Senate that his decrees would be passed without deliberations. Tiberius responded "so quick are they to become slaves. . ." We presume that the government has our collective interests at heart when the historic record clearly contradicts that supposition. So quick are we, as black folks or people who ought to know better, to become slaves. . .
Hmm. I think they sugar coated it. They should tell us what they really think.
There is no evidence, NOT A SINGLE EFFING SHRED that anyone turned a deliberate ear to the terror attack!
There is credible evidence to suggest that the downing of American Airlines Flight 11 - the plane that was downed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania a rural community approximately 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh was not the result of heroism on the parts of the passengers on board that plane but the deliberate shooting by one of those fighter jets.
If so, why did the government choose to stop one flight, but not the other three?
It might've been a decently argued alternative viewpoint. Problem is that the left cannot stand any display of genuine heroism by Americans -- such as was displayed on flight 93. Reflexive hatred leads to self-contradiction.
Unless you think like a Militant you are not accepted by certain people in this community. Where is the outrage? These folks are no better than the O.J Jury and those that will not condemn the Arab violence. Please tell me there are some folks in this community that can stand up for what's good about America. Such Hate? ! Disgusting!
The only thing worse than their reasoning is their spelling. This is what happens when you replace proofreaders with SpellCheck.
Of course it's "OK" to say these things about Armstrong, because in their eyes he's a "sell-out®" and an "Uncle Tom®" and an "Oreo®" who is "frontin' for the white man®" and has "forgotten where he has come from®."
I am so damned sick and tired of hearing from mindnumbed lemmings who parrot whatever brainless ideas come from the heads of the so-called leaders of black America. Here is yet another "independant writer®" (read "one who doesn't listen to the 'white devils' that are in charge") who sticks his foot in his mouth so deep that it'll take stomach surgery to remove it. Does he care that he sounds like a complete imbicile? No! He is saying what Cynthia McKinney herself has said about black conseravtives. And it's OK, why? "Because they're just 'house niggers®' who will lick the white man's boots and step on other good black folks to get what they want!"
Notice how it's OK to use that vile and dirty word to describe someone that they find repulsive and terrible. Notice how it's OK for them to put down someone who they feel is being used as a pawn for white America (of course, in their minds, Armstrong simply can't have an original thought of his own - he's too stupid! If he weren't, then he wouldn't allow himself to be used, right?). Notice how they deride anyone who doesn't follow the march of the lemmings ever so steadily toward the cliff that Jackson and McKinney and Sharpton and others are leading them toward.
And anyone wonders why blacks are not taken seriously in America today? Guess what -- there's one heck of a wake-up call that's coming within the next five years, and it speaks Spanish and English fluently. Blacks will relinquish the top minority spot in America within five years. And once that happens, the few that have been listening to black America will begin to concentrate more on Spanish America. And with good reason. As opposed to voting and spending and participating in American society as a monolithic bloc, Hispanics in America are incredibly diverse. They participate in both political parties. They have a defined economy that businesses would kill for. One thing they don't do is have a group-think that stagnates their progress.
While they will continue to thrive and advance, the stagnation of black America will send many of us by the wayside. And that's one heck of an epitaph. But that's what'll be on the gravestone. "They stagnated and fell by the wayside."
If you want on (or off) of my black conservative ping list, please let me know.
What Shipman and McKinney may not want to hear would be the conclusions of the suggested potential investigation into the weakness and intelligence failings that resulted from Clinton's inept and befuddled executive management; an eroded and emasculated CIA, and a politicized and corrupted FBI. Similarly, we see all the congressional Democrat generated Enron hysteria ebb away, as factual evidence points not to Bush but to Clinton as the real complicit party to crime and corruption. McKinney IS simply as dumb as her blank eyed stare belies; how many other knee jerk race baiters will fall in the same hole before they realize the implications of their insane accusations? With his unfounded rumors, ill informed assumptions, and innate hatred, Shipman is slipping down into the darkness of that hole. Who else is stupid enough to jump in with him?
Let me get this straight: The CIA knew that Atta & Co. were going to bomb our baddest-ass buildings AND JUST LET IT HAPPEN ?? What color is the sky in these clowns' world ?? Any red-blooded American, especially a spook, would do everything they could to foil such a plot. What a resume builder that one would be:
Experience: Prevented the simultaneous bombing of two New York City landmarks by middle eastern terrorists. Prevented the murder of 3,000 Americans."
What F'in' idiots.
RJayneJ: "Essay of the Week" material, I think.
It's green. Envy and money. They believe that the government let it happen so a few elite could make money from their long positions on defense stocks. These idiots are envious because they aren't in the elite.
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