Support Cynthia McKinney!

It's probably a good idea for everyone to admit from the onset that decisions about whether to vote or abstain, whom to vote for if one is voting at all, are necessarily going to be based upon a wider political perspective than simply 911. There's nothing wrong with that per se, but too often the 911 issue has been used to obfuscate fundamental political differences while steering people into campaigning for other agendas. 911 is not a big enough issue to determine the political dividing lines, and political lines do play the fundamental role in anything which involves a serious approach to elections.

At the present time there really isn't any single political party which I could give total unqualified support to. The mixture of immediate political crises which require aattention now and historical myths from the 20th century which have wound there way into each and every form of political activism creates an odd sort of confusion that won't be untangled easily anytime soon. But that doesn't negate the need to maintain some form of political action even as people may wonder about a bigger picture. To the extent that such immediate political action involves electoral candidates, it's unavoidable that people will be forced to make some partial compromise over one thing or another. But it's also important that people make it clear where and how their choice of what compromise to make is determined by broader political views instead of trying to hustle everything across as "911 truth."

One of my ongoing nightmare visions when people talk too much about "911 truth candidates" is that I picture everyone being dragooned into a campaign around someone like Jack Blood who then gets into office and starts telling us that satellite photos show Vietnam is still holding American prisoners, while 911 quietly slips off the chart. The show I listened to where Blood interviewed an old Reagan-admirer who made these claims about satellite photos and Vietnam POWs reminded me exactly of Colin Powell talking about satellite photos and Iraqi WMDs ready to go off on 45 minutes notice. Those are risks which occur when people get caught up in fooling themselves that 911 is the only issue in an election. A whole different bag of goods can be snookered in under that cover.