Fool Me Once Again? Not a Chance! How the Controlled (Fake) Truth Movement Resembles the Controlled (Fake) Antiwar Movement

Any of us who opposed the invasion of Iraq in the run-up (late 2002 to early 2003) can recall how frustrating that whole business was. For many of us it was the first time we had become "activists". I remember being dragged by a friend to my first anti-war rally on campus and declining a sign to hold from one of the organizers. I wasn't ready to make such a bold statement in public. I figured it was enough to support the cause by my presence.

Little by little though I became more comfortable with the idea of actually doing something. I then "joined" the local peace group, founded, actually, as a response to 9/11. This group, a lefty-oriented organization advocating "peace and justice" had three or four hard core organizers and a bunch of other people who pretty much just lurked on the discussion board and never went to any meetings or helped with any demonstrations or rallies.

After a while it struck me that even the hard core members often didn't show up to things they promoted on the list as being "super-important". In fact, they seemed to do as little as possible, spending most time arguing about who we should invite to speak on campus, who was willing to put up posters, etc. The group, as I said, was lefty-oriented but there wasn't much of a spirit of solidarity. It was really just a lot of anti-imperialist, the US is the world's worst bad guy, can't we all just be Noam Comsky kind of deal.

Needless to say the group did not react well when I raised the issue of 9/11 and refused to let go. The silence whenever I did was defeaning. So I kept at it, and eventually forced the issue and determined to discuss the facts at a group meeting, to which about five people beside myself actually went.

It was after the display put on at that meeting, the lying to my face by intelligent people who obviously could not possibly believe what they were saying about the "collapse" of the twin towers and building 7, that I realized I was surrounded by a bunch of shills whose job it was to control dissent on campus. How did they control it? In part by making it unappealing to any but the most radical of leftists. This was no coalition of groups supporting peace, this was a left wing advocacy group without a doubt. Now, I USED to be fairly left wing myself, but after witnessing what I did I had to accept that subscribing to a political ideology was akin to giving up thinking for oneself.

It started making a lot more sense why more people were not actively opposing the war. Because to do so one had to spend time around a bunch of fanatics who argued amongst themselves constantly. It was slowly dawning on me that this was no accident. How could it be, when all the groups that were bickering about this or that all seemed to be in agreement that 9/11 had gone down exactly as we were being told by those who they hated (the elite imperialist capitalist yatta yatta classes)?

After some soul searching I realized that I had no place in a controlled movement. I realized that what felt like sympathy for anarchism (of the grungy kind) could just as well be described as libertarianism. I decided that like Chomsky I must be a libertarian socialist. I was still trying to fit myself into something pre-existing, trying to define myself in a way that could make me fit in somewhere. At the same time I decided that the anti-war movement was never going to come close to accomplishing its goals. I couldn't, though, stop trying to make a difference, so I took the plunge and became, as far as activism goes, 9/11/24/7.

This time though, I would go it alone. I would have to in fact, there was, when I started, no visible 9/11 truth activity around me. There had been som LIHOPPY Bush's Reichstag stuff and deception dollars floating around the anti-war circles but no one seemed to put two and two together, or were too afraid of being marginalized by the fringe itself! How things have changed, now that there is essentially no anti-war movement to speak of, and for all its problems with fakers at the top and online, 9/11 truth being the scene of the most real grassroots activism talking place in America today.

To make a long story short, so much of what was wrong with the anti-war movement has direct parallels in the 9/11 truth movement. It makes sense, after all, that once the anti-war movement was neutralized, many of the same people would simply infiltrate the next "dangerous" movement to come along. But more importantly it should be noted that like the anti-war movement, the fake truth movement was more than likely set up and ready to go long before any of us discovered it. Think about it--the first people to know there would be any cause to have a 9/11 truth movement were the perps themselves, and how stupid do we think they would have to be so as NOT to create a fake movement?

I feel like I should be proving this somehow, with references to specifics, but then again why help the perps identify what they need to hide better. I may or may not elaborate on this later, but for now, given recent developments over at truthaction, I really had to at least point out the similarities because they are so blatant as to be painful at this point...