Dwight's Proposal for a Central Point of Consensus

casseia's picture

[This is all written by Dwightvw, and the first sentence refers to the parameters of discourse at 911b, where this was posted as a comment.]

I'm comfortable now with the parameters of discourse here, because they include the destruction of the buildings. In fact, I've just been thinking that under the theory of intervening criminal act that I just laid out, whereby the majority of deaths and injuries were not caused by the impact of planes, certain controversial theories I've discussed here in the past aren't really necessary. I haven't changed my views, and wish I could discuss them here, but the conflict is not worth it. Everyone is aware of the various theories and can decide for themselves.

I have long argued that it isn't necessary to argue about the type of energy added to bring down the buildings, another controversial issue, because we all agree that massive amounts of energy had to be added. Thermate and explosives seem to be the consensus on the form of added energy. I'm not sure about that, but I don't see the need to argue that here because the primary fact is that massive energy was added to pulverize the buildings, and there has been no explanation for how that happened.

We should all be able to agree on this simple argument structure. I have, anyway, which is why I am comfortable with the parameters of discourse here and do not intend to bring up controversial theories.
Under the same argument structure, whether or not Atta was wired money by a Pakistani agent, or whether translations where purposely slowed down, etc., etc., doesn't matter because that's not how most of the victims were killed or injured.

Huffington Post has been publishing my comments relating to 9/11, so they seem less restrictive than Daily Kos. I don't really like talking about left gatekeepers, though I agree with you that this is probably going on. The positions of Kos and his "tinfoil hat" brigade are simply untenable, and that has become evident even to people like Naomi Wolf and Robert Scheer because of the CIA tapes story. Kos will look like a fool in the end. That's his problem.

Look what Robert Scheer said here:

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071211_scheer_dec_12_waterboarding...

On the matter of the existence of the tapes, we know the CIA lied, not only to the 9/11 Commission but to Congress as well. Given that the Bush administration has for six years refused those prisoners any sort of public legal exposure, why should we believe what we’ve been told about what may turn out to be the most important transformative event in our nation’s history? On the basis of what the CIA claimed the tortured prisoners said, President Bush launched a “Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT), an endless war that threatens to bankrupt our society both financially and morally.

How important to the 9/11 Commission Report were those “key witnesses”? Check out the disclaimer on Page 146 about the commission’s sourcing of the main elements laid out in its narrative:

Chapters 5 and 7 rely heavily on information obtained from captured al Qaeda members. ... Assessing the truth of statements by these witnesses ... is challenging. Our access to them has been limited to the review of intelligence reports based on communications received from the locations where the actual interrogation took place. We submitted questions for use in the interrogations, but had no control over whether, when, or how questions of particular interest would be asked. Nor were we allowed to talk to the interrogators so that we could better judge the credibility of the detainees and clarify ambiguities in the reporting. We were told that our requests might disrupt the sensitive interrogation process.

Before the CIA tapes, Scheer was skeptical and derisive of "conspiracy theories." Not any more. He doesn't use that term, and it appears only in the comments.

(I added the bold to the word "claimed" in the above excerpt, because it is very important. Scheer is not speculating about what they said, he is properly stating that we have no idea what they said. I would add "assuming they said anything at all," because we don't know. In fact, if you really think about it, we don't even know if they were tortured, or if they even exist. They have not been produced in open court.)

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casseia's picture

From gretavo, posted in another thread

sure, we love our jewmoonhoax as much as the next conspiracy kooks, but we are first and foremost advocating for a real investigation into the demolition of the world trade center. i registered this domain as a kind of statement when it seemed clear that the "official movement" was not going to place it at the top of their priority, even though it IS, as you point out the site of the most murders, as well as the scene of the crime for the most part.

but you're going to run into the problem that I've had, which is that when you look at 9/11 from a point of view favoring the issue of the towers'collapses (which some pretenders to trutherhood still claim to doubt) you notice that the story is one featuring prominent Zionists (not just people who believe that Israel has a right to exist--wealthy and politically connected fund-raisers for Zionist causes with links to the foreign country that has sent America more than a few spies.

and whether or not you notice this, it is the exact reason why some people prefer focusing on so-called "warnings" or "foreknowledge" as if it mattered who knew what about the planes when the planes did not bring the buildings down. Bad what THEY did, those evil Bush/Cheney people, whether it was let leak the dates of our war game exercises involving false radar injects for simulated hijacking scenarios.

Hmmmm... does seem so... OBVIOUS no? And every individual has plausible deniability, since they only had to know what mattered to completing their part. So that many people focused on may well have the airtight alibi of REALLY NOT HAVING KNOWN exactly what was going to happen. But someone somewhere knew the entire plan, of course, 9/11 didn't "just happen" like "shit happens"--someone made this shit happen by demolishing two buildings on top of hundreds of innocent people.

Those who are complicit in one part of course may be technically innocent, but they know that their role will be suspected, so they bend over backwards to please those who must be pleased to keep that information from becoming general knowledge.

Seeking the truth about 9/11 means seeking to know 9/11 entirely. No truther worth her salt is going to claim to believe anything else. Part of understanding 9/11 means understanding how people could have done something like it. And there exists no doubt the gamut of reasons for which people decided to play a role--from actual ignorance of their role to sheer psycopathy. The citizens of America must cast a wide enough net to not miss anything important, but this doesn't mean not setting aside certain fish for special scrutiny. It is patterns that emerge when suspects begin to be outed that provide us our best chance of determining all who should be held accountable.

If focusing on the political and business associations of key players in the life and death of the twin towers is going to be frowned on, then these patterns will not become known by those who deserve them become known--the real victimsâ„¢ of 9/11--those who actually were killed and who did not fake their deaths to collect from one fund or another.

I told y'all I have adopted any and every friendless/family-less person who died on 9/11, and intend to seek the truth about 9/11 for them--that is to say intelligently idefatigably, but above all honestly. A movement dedicated to seeking truth must hold honesty above all other virtues, but especially above unity.

-- gretavo

casseia's picture

I like this statement.

I think Dwight should post it as a blog at 911blogger.

gretavo's picture

you mean mine?

really? aww cass....

gretavo's picture

"CIA Tapes" is a distraction

If it were a judge other than 9/11 Judge Alvin Hellerstein "raking Bush over the coals" I might be less inclined to think that it is meant to strengthen the evil muslim myth, but as such I must say it seems fishy. The issue frames the debate as "Bush may have done something wrong, and the muslim terror threat is real". Then the usual characters proffer their views after which conversation about anything terror-fraud related can be eased into something safe like "how bout that tape destruction eh? Yeah, I wonder what was on those tapes? Waterboarding, I heard. Really? Oh yeah, but you know, it's not for us to decide what is morally justified in the epic battle against evil muslim terrists.

casseia's picture

Dwight on Sibel

From Dwight:

I'm referring to her allegation in her August 2004 letter to Thomas Kean that an intelligence asset provided agents and a translator with information that Osama bin Laden was planning an attack, that this was reported to Thomas Frield, and that he did nothing. OK, she names a name, but how does she know what his response was? This appears to be second hand info, and I have doubts about how she came to be privy to so much information so quickly as a new part-time translator. Farsi was not her primary language, and the Sunday Times has not gotten more specific that she was hired to work on backlog in a nuclear case. Regardless, the ultimate truth of the information is not proven, even if the Iranian asset believed it was true, and saying that 9/11 proves it was true is just swallowing the myth uncritically.

All this adds to the official story of how the buildings were destroyed: hijacked planes. I'm saying that we know that hijacked planes did not bring down the buildings, so it is utlimately irrelevant to explaining how most of the people were murdered.

You're missing the broader theme of Tarpley's book. myth-mongering. He criticizes spurious leads to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. He quotes a Pakistani general, Mirsa Aslam Beg, as stating that none of the "evidence" the U.S. government provided to the Pakistani government in demanding cooperation on Afghanistan would hold up in a court of law, and that the attacks were the work of highly trained experts "who used high technology for destruction." He points out that none of the bin Laden tapes have been authenticated. Pasties on the ground training to fly may have been part of that myth-mongering, and honest FBI agents may have seen that, and moles may have interfered to keep the cover story intact, but we must not forget that this is all part of the myth. More importantly, this myth, even if it were true, is demonstrably, by physical evidence and argument alone, not the cause of the buildings "collapses" that killed most of the people and injured so many rescue personnel.

I am also saying that the rest of Sibel Edmonds story is irrelevant to even the myth of 9/11, other than as an anecdotal example about how the FBI might be compromised. And there are holes in her story as I have pointed out. If she is discredited, either as fabricating or as having sincerely misinterpreted what she saw, where does that leave us?

Part of her story---bureaucrats telling translators to slow down so they could justify hiring more translators---supports the myth that better translations would have stopped 9/11. It has also been discredited for me by her claim (repeated by Giraldi) that the FBI's Inspector General supported her allegation, which is false. I also find it implausible that this occurred, especially after 9/11.

Given the marginal relevance to 9/11, where the relevant part merely supports the Phoenix/Minnesota story, I don't see the benefit in critically sorting through her complex story, as anyone holding it out as useful is morally obligated to do. I did so, and found problems.

Ultimately, I'm urging the old saw of trial lawyers: Keep It Simple, Stupid.

Pakistani general had money sent to Mohammed Atta? Good luck proving it. And even if you can, so what? Atta didn't kill most of the people.

Goss and Graham meeting with Pakistani general on 9/11? So what? Duh, preparations for attacking Afghanistan were being made. The Northern Alliance leader Massoud was killed on September 8. Since you're citing Tarpley, his view is that this was not done by Al Qaeda but by CIA, because Masoud was a proud nationalist that would not take orders.

Remember: Keep It Simple, Stupid. Somebody blew up those buildings.

I have heard the argument that all eggs should not be put in this basket because (1) you can't prove it, and (2) what if there is an official admission that it really was wired by "Al Qaeda," and this was not revealed. Bush's reference to KSM saying they wired the buildings is cited.

(1) It has been proven. It is self-evident

(2) That would not fly, after NIST, and the insurance trials, and all the denials and mockery of our self-evident observation.

To respond to your argument, Arabesque, NORAD and the war games are not the cause of most of the deaths, they are just part of the cover story. It is not speculative that massive amounts of energy were added to "collapse" the Twin Towers. I don't care how many lying engineers you trot out to say differently. This is not a "perception," it is a fact.

Posted at 911b by Dwight

Jpass's picture

wow, i love love love

These kinds of responses. The Dwight character's name seems to be on many of them over at 911B.

Annoymouse's picture

Correction

"the Sunday Times has NOW gotten more specific that she was hired to work on backlog in a nuclear case."

The earliest article was not specific and suggested she had listened to thousands of hours of tapes, which stuck me as strange since you only work 27 weeks at 20 hrs/week.

Dwight