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Questioning September 11th
by Mark Elsis

Exactly one year before he was assassinated,
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. summed up what
many feel provoked the September 11th attacks:

The greatest purveyor of violence on the planet,
my own government.

A time comes when silence is betrayal.
Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war.
Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world.

from The Inner Truth
by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Riverside Church, New York City, April 4th, 1967


Before I start with the list of questions regarding Tuesday, September 11, 2001, let me begin by going over a few of the most obvious points. First, the top 2 cities where terrorists would most likely strike in the United States were and still are New York City and Washington D.C. The top terrorist targets in New York City were the World Trade Center, and still are the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building and the United Nations. In Washington D.C. the top targets are the Capital building, the White House, the Pentagon and the Supreme Court. One thing is for certain, by going after the capitalistic, political and military centers you can surely and quickly evoke a very strong sense of patriotism.

Now for the real truth, by far the most devastating targets in the United States are the 103 commercial nuclear plants that are online today. The number one terrorist target is Indian Point and its 3 nuclear power plants, 2 of which are online. What makes Indian Point by far the number one threat in the United States? First of all, put together, these 3 nuclear plants have accumulated 65 years worth of stockpiled highly radioactive waste, which is quite vulnerably stored. Then factor in the proximity of Indian Point to New York City. It is only 24 miles north of the New York City border. Indian Point is surrounded by the densest concentration of population in the United States, the northeast corridor.

Consider this, if 1, 2 or maybe 3 of those 4 hijacked Boeing 757 and / or 767 airliners that were full with fuel had hit Indian Point there would have been approximately 20 million people contaminated with deadly radiation. Thousands of square miles of our beautiful Earth would have been poisoned by the radiation and would be lost forever. With the prevailing winds west to east, the whole northeast corridor from New York City to Boston would have been history within a few hours. By the way, there are 101 other commercial nuclear power plants like Indian Point that are still online across the United States today.

The Department of Energy has many other nuclear facilities all across the United States, and is responsible for the nation's nuclear weapons complexes. This includes almost 60 tons of plutonium in various forms and an unknown amount of other highly dangerous radioactive wastes. Another simple mathematical equation for a place in the United States that is most susceptible to a terrorist attack via airliner would be the Pantex Nuclear Weapons complex near Amarillo, Texas.

Why, because the Pantex Nuclear Weapons complex has stockpiled more than 30 tons of deadly plutonium. This is 50% of all the plutonium that is stored in the United States. The plutonium is stored in 1940's, 1950's and 1960's designed above ground bunkers, which are quite vulnerable to an attack by a large airliner or airliners that are full of fuel. By the way, the Pantex Nuclear Weapons complex is only five miles from the Amarillo International Airport.

The Department of Energy analyzes and tests the security of its own nuclear weapons facilities by conducting simulations and mock force-on-force exercises, often using United States military forces as adversaries. According to experts who have conducted these tests in the past, the government fails to protect against these attacks more than 50 percent of the time, although the exact figure is classified.

All 103 of the United States nuclear power plants that are online and producing electricity should be shut down today. Through energy efficiencies we could quickly absorb the 18% of the electricity that is derived from these 103 nuclear plants. We should also shut down every Department Of Energy facility that deals with nuclear energy. These nuclear plants and facilities should be guarded at our highest level of alert.

By the way, if we wanted to put our minds to it, within three years we could be making back that 18% of electricity by generating it with the cheapest and cleanest way to create electricity, wind turbines. From start to finish a huge wind farm can be up and generating electricity within a year. Shouldn't we be investing in the cheapest to produce, fastest to market and a renewable source of energy, on land or offshore, wind turbine farms?

Two other major targets would be Fort Detrick in Maryland and Camp 12 at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. These two military complexes are where the United States secretly stores most of its own biochemical warfare agents.

Also, please keep these 3 very important pieces of information in mind when you read Questioning September 11th:

First, the United States will spend more on the military in fiscal year 2002 than the next 15 biggest countries combined. The United States will spend 343 billion in 2002. This is more than the second through sixteenth countries, all put together.

Second, the United States government has the highest per capita incarceration rate of any country in the world. At 2.1 million citizens behind bars, we proportionately have more of our fellow Americans imprisoned than any other country on Earth.

Third, the United States Air Force ( USAF ) is by far and away the most technologically advanced and dominate military force ever known to man. The USAF simply rules all of the high ground and if Star Wars isn't stop, or used for the peaceful purpose of protection from deadly asteroids, they will also rule the ultimate high ground, the heavens.

1. The North American Aerospace Defense Command ( NORAD ) had almost an hour and a half to scramble F-16 jets from Langley Air Force Base ( AFB ) to protect Washington D.C. and the Pentagon. How could they incredibly fail to do so? For this most impossible error, the United States government and military only give the lame excuse, we didn't have enough time to respond.

Let me start by saying that it is NORAD's job to know every inch of the skies over North America, so they must have known by 8:10 to 8:15 that American Airlines Flight 11 was hijacked. NORAD knew by around 8:33 that a second plane, United Airlines Flight 175 had also been hijacked. So around 8:33 there were 2 planes hijacked and one of them, American Airlines Flight 11 was headed directly for New York City.

I guess NORAD didn't get the message at 8:45 when American Airlines Flight 11 slammed into the north tower of the World Trade Center ( WTC ). Again, NORAD incredibly still doesn't get the message that there was a major problem at 9:03 when United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the south tower of the WTC?

Are we really to believe that somehow NORAD still waited and waited until they are finally told by the Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) that a third plane had also been hijacked, American Airlines Flight 77? And then finally at 9:24 NORAD tells Langley to scramble 3 F-16's to protect Washington D.C.? By the way, American Airlines Flight 77 left Dulles and went all the way out to northeastern Kentucky, made a 180 degree turn and by 8:58 was heading back directly to Washington D.C.

American Airlines Flight 77 hits the Pentagon around 9:40. Did this plane go through restricted air space over Washington D.C. for a while? If it did, on any normal day the automatic turret style anti-defense weaponry and a battery of ground-to-air Stinger missiles on top of the White House should have brought down this known to have been hijacked airplane. This is one of the main purposes the arsenal was put up there, to shoot down hostile aircraft. Why is it on top of the White House to help protect Washington D.C. and yet not deployed? American Airlines Flight 77 then does a 270 degree bank to turn around and flies toward the Pentagon. Andrews AFB is only around 10 miles away, which is well within the range of a sidewinder missile. All that is required to take down AA 77 is to get a jet fighter or an attack helicopter up in the air, lock and fire. Why didn't Andrews AFB scramble to do this even if they weren't on alert?

Within minutes of the attack American forces around the world were put on one of their highest states of alert, Defcon 3, which is just two notches short of all-out war. It was then the F-16's from Andrews AFB were in the air over Washington DC. So, Andrews AFB two fighter wings somehow inconceivably waited till after all of the attacks were over to protect our nations capital, Washington D.C., and I have a bridge to sell you that connects Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Let us get back to the NORAD press release which tells Langley AFB at 9:24 to scramble their 3 F-16's to protect Washington D.C. from AA 77. F-16's at full speed can travel *1500 MPH, with takeoff acceleration factored in, it would have taken under 7 minutes to reach Washington D.C. from Langley AFB which is 120 miles to the south of the Pentagon.

If these 3 F-16's were airborne at 9:30 and were flying at top speed they should have been there just before 9:37. The Pentagon claims that AA 77 hit them at 9:37. Most of the other timetables for AA 77 crashing into the Pentagon have it at 9:40 to 9:41, some media have even published 9:45. The important information here is that the F-16's should have and could have been at the Pentagon before 9:37. Yet NORAD's own press release of September 18 is telling you these
3 F-16's were still 12 minutes and 105 miles away.

What is going on here, these fighter jets should have been there in under 7 minutes at top speed, yet NORAD is stating they are still 12 minutes away? To try to cover for this, General Haugen says that at first the 3 F-16's were directed toward New York at top speed, and then they were vectored toward the west and given a new flight targe, Reagan National Airport. Why were all of these 3 F-16's flying to New York City when AA 77 is heading dead on for Washington D.C.?

Why didn't NORAD scramble Langley AFB much, much sooner, say at 8:15 or 8:33 or 8:45 or 9:03? Why wasn't there any air protection for Washington D.C. for almost 90 minutes? By the way, why isn't the closer Andrews AFB always on alert to protect Washington D.C and the Pentagon? And lastly, why didn't the Air Force at the very least scramble a recon aircraft to monitor any of these 4 flights like they did for the late great golfer Payne Stewart when his Lear jet went off course? This is not Oshkosh, Wisconsin we are talking about protecting here, it is the Capital of the United States, Washington D.C., and its air defenses were left total unguarded for almost an hour and a half by the same country who have the greatest air superiority by far ever known. What type of a preposterous wag the NORAD tale is this?

* http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/f-16.htm

2. NORAD had at least half an hour to scramble F-15 jets from Otis Air Station to protect New York City and the WTC. Why did they unbelievably fail to do so? NORAD knew by 8:10 to 8:15 that American Airlines Flight 11 was hijacked. They knew by around 8:33 that a second plane, United Airlines Flight 175 had also been hijacked. So, around 8:33 there were 2 planes hijacked and one of them, AA 11, was headed directly to New York City.

NORAD should have notified Otis at 8:10 to 8:15 when they knew they had one problem, or at the very least at 8:33 when they knew there were 2 huge problems and one of them, AA 11, was already heading dead on for New York City for almost 20 minutes. Why didn't NORAD notify Otis Air Station anytime sooner?

F-15's at full speed can travel *1875+ MPH, with takeoff acceleration factored in, it would have taken under 7 minutes to reach New York City from Otis, which is 153 miles to the east of the WTC. Once again, if these 2 F-15's took-off at 8:52 and were flying at top speed they should have been there at around 8:59. This would have been 4 minutes before the south tower of the WTC gets hit at 9:03. Yet NORAD is telling you these F-15's were still 8 minutes and 71 miles away at 9:03. Why didn't NORAD scramble Otis sooner?

Why wasn't there any air protection for New York City for the 30 to 35 minutes between the hijacking of AA 11 and it hitting the WTC at 8:45? Still much worse, why wasn't there air protection for New York City for 18 more minutes before UA 175 hit the WTC at 9:03? Why isn't McGuire AFB, the closest to New York City at only 70 miles away, always on alert to protect New York City?

* http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/f-15.htm

3. The NORAD press release of late Tuesday September 18 ( In Wednesday September 19 papers as Fighters 8 minutes away from WTC ) states that it purportedly gets information from the FAA at 8:40 and 8:43 that 2 planes have been hijacked and are heading directly for NYC. ( as mentioned earlier, the FAA doesn't have to tell NORAD anything, because it is NORAD's job to know every inch of the skies over North America, so in reality NORAD knew about the American Airlines Flight 11 that was hijacked somewhere around 8:10 to 8:15 and the United Flight 175 around 8:33 ) But back to the NORAD press release:

The FAA tells NORAD at 8:40 and 8:43 that 2 planes have been hijacked and are heading directly for NYC. Why, knowing this, does NORAD proceed to sit on this most vital information for a full 6 minutes? NORAD even waited until one minute after the American Airlines Flight 11 smashes into the north tower of the WTC before finally telling Otis Air Station to scramble their 2 F-15's at 8:46. We know this because it takes almost six minutes to scramble and be airborne and the 2 F-15's from Otis were airborne at 8:52. So, it took NORAD 12 minutes from the time the FAA first tells them a plane had been hijacked until the 2 F-15's were airborne.

Why did NORAD sit on this most vital information for a full 6 minutes? To further prove this point about the 6 minutes, the FAA purportedly informs NORAD at 9:24 about American Airlines Flight 77 being hijacked and heading for Washington D.C. This time NORAD didn't hold on to this most vital information for a full 6 minutes, matter of fact they immediately must have told Langley AFB to scramble. This is known because once again, it takes almost six minutes to scramble and be airborne and the 3 F-16's from Langley AFB were airborne at 9:30.

So then, why did NORAD hold on to this most vital information, waiting for a 6 full minutes before telling Otis to scramble its 2 F-15's to protect New York City and the WTC? They actually waited until one minute after AA 11 went into the north tower of the WTC before they told Otis to scramble. How could that possibly be?

4. Once the 2 F-15's from Otis at 8:52 and the 3 F-16's from Langley at 9:30 were finally airborne you would think that they would have flown as fast as they could to try to intercept these hijacked airplanes before they struck again. Why then, were all of these very expensive and ultra-sophisticated fighter jets averaging flight speeds less than 1/3 of their top speed?

Let us do just a little math. Otis is 153 miles from the WTC. The F-15's can fly at 1875+ MPH. Calculate in 2 minutes to account for acceleration, and it should take under 7 minutes to get from Otis to New York City / WTC. These 2 F-15's should have intercepted United Airlines Flight 175 before it got to hit the south tower at 9:03. Yet NORAD is telling you these 2 F-15's were still 8 minutes and 71 miles away. What were these 2 F-15 pilots doing? Were they out for a joy ride while terrorists were attacking the United States for the first time since the War of 1812?

Let us do a little more math. Langley AFB is 120 miles from the Pentagon. The F-16's can fly at 1500 MPH. Calculate in 2 minutes to account for acceleration, and again you get under 7 minutes, this time to get from Langley AFB to the Pentagon. These 3 F-16's should have intercepted American Airlines Flight 77 before it hit the Pentagon at around 9:40. Yet NORAD is telling you these F-16's were still 12 minutes and 105 miles away.

Why were all of these ultra-sophisticated fighter jets averaging flight speeds less than 1/3 of their top speed when sent to intercept hostile aircraft and protect New York City and our nation's Capital, Washington D.C.? What exactly is the purpose of these fighter jets being able to go 1875+ MPH and 1500 MPH, yet when the United States is being attacked and needs them the most they are only somehow capable of doing less than 1/3 of their top speed? By the way, you are not allowed to contact any one of these 5 fighter pilots. NORAD mustn't be held accountable, national security you know.

5. American Airlines Flight 11 followed the Hudson River down for at least the last 80 or so miles till it hit the north side of the north tower of the WTC at 8:45. On its way down the Hudson River, it didn't fly close by or next to, it literally flew directly over the number one terrorist target in the United States.

Indian Point has 3 nuclear power plants ( 1 is offline and the other 2 have been online since 1973 and 1976 ) which are only 24 miles north of New York City. If AA 11 hits Indian Point correctly in any of three different ways you could have up to 20 million people prematurely die from radiation poisoning and the whole northeast corridor would become a wasteland forever.

One, by hitting the section where cumulatively 65 years' of worth of highly radioactive waste is stored from these nuclear power plants. Two, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has come out and said that a large airliner or airliners full of fuel hitting a nuclear power plant would possibly cause a meltdown by causing out of control cascading problems ( I believe this to be the most likely scenario ). Three, and of course there is the way most people probably visualize it, a plane literally crashing through the containment building and going right through to the core. Well, containment walls are at least four feet thick and the domes are at least three feet thick. They are constructed of reinforced concrete laced with steel rods and tendons and lined with 1/4-inch thick steel sheets.

A large airliner could possibly break through the weakest point, the 3 foot thick containment dome and cause a meltdown. If one plane didn't break through the Indian Point containment dome and cause a meltdown, two planes most definitely would have done the job. By the way, United Airlines Flight 175 flew very close to Indian Point, it was literally within a couple of minutes flying time.

So, are we dealing with benevolent terrorists on AA 11 who lengthen their mission by 38 miles and 8 minutes flying time by flying directly over their enemies' number one target? Are we dealing with benevolent terrorists on UA 175 who lengthen their mission by almost 150 miles and 30 minutes flying time by flying very close to their enemies' number one target? Why fly over Indian Point where you could possibly cause 20 million premature deaths? Why expose your mission for 8 or 30 more minutes to try to take down 1 or 2 of the towers of the WTC, where they ended up "only" killing less than 3,000 people? The mastermind behind these "terrorists" hijackers would have soon figured out their best shot against the strongest military foe in the world would have been to hit them first and hit them as hard as you can. Why didn't they hit Indian Point?

By the way, if the terrorists were targeting the WTC, don't you think they would have waited until around 11:00 when these buildings were full with 50,000 plus people? And of course, to cause the most deaths and destruction isn't it elementary to strike these buildings as low as possible, which would have been around the 25th to 30th floors? So, why did this well planned "terrorist" attack kill only 3,000 people when they could have easily killed ten times that many? This reasoning also goes along with the Pentagon attack. Why was the Pentagon hit on the so called "peaceful" side which was mostly under construction as opposed to the command center side of the Pentagon?

Could these planes have possibly been remotely controlled by the new technology known as Global Hawk? This technology was used earlier this year to fly the first remotely controlled unmanned airplane across the Pacific and is now also being used in Afghanistan. Which leads one to think, why then did Bush make the misleading statement after September 11 that this Global Hawk technology was not ready yet, when of course it was.

6. Were the September 11 attacks provoked by the G8 / global elite as a pretext for their New World Order Globalization hostile take over campaign? Or, were the September 11 attacks staged by the G8 / global elite as a pretext for their New World Order Globalization hostile take over campaign?

With upwards of 300,000 people demonstrating in Genoa and Carlo Giuliani's brutal murder, was it time to finally put a stop to the growing anti-globalization worldwide movement? Had the United States and United Kingdom been building a coalition to invade Afghanistan by October 15, prior to September 11? Are you with us, or are you with the terrorists?

7. Were the United States' intelligence services, which cost taxpayers at least $35 billion per year, warned in advance of the September 11 attacks? On October 31, 2001 the French daily Le
Figaro reported that while in a Dubai, United Arab Emirates hospital receiving treatment for a chronic kidney infection in July of 2001 Osama bin Laden met with a top CIA official. This CIA official was presumably the Station Chief. This meeting, which was held in bin Laden's private suite, took place at the American hospital in Dubai at a time when he was a wanted fugitive for the bombings of two U.S. embassies and the attack on the U.S.S. Cole. Bin Laden was eligible for execution according to a 2000 intelligence finding issued by President Bill Clinton before leaving office in January of 2001. Why didn't the CIA arrest Osama bin Laden at the Dubai hospital in July of 2001?

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak warned the United States that "something would happen" 12 days before the September 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington D.C. Why didn't the United States intelligence agencies listen to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's warning?

An Iranian man make numerous phone calls from a German jail warning the United States intelligences agencies of an impending attack starting the week before September 11. Why didn't the United States intelligence agencies take him seriously? In June 2001 the German intelligence, BND, warns the CIA and Israel that Middle Eastern terrorists are "planning to hijack commercial aircraft to use as weapons to attack important symbols of American and Israeli culture." Why didn't the United States intelligence agencies take the German intelligence agency seriously?

Why were the U.S. Rangers training special troops in Kyrgyzstan prior to September 11? Why was Operation "Swift Sword" with 23, 000 British troops steaming toward Oman just prior to September 11? At the same time why did two U.S. carrier battle groups arrive on station in the Gulf of Arabia just off the Pakistani coast? Also, prior to September 11, why did some 17,000 U.S. troops join more than 23,000 NATO troops in Egypt for Operation "Bright Star?" Why were all these forces in place in and around Afghanistan before September 11?

Why did the United States government give 43 million dollars to the Taliban in May of 2001?

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian intelligence to warn the United States
government "in the strongest possible terms" of imminent attacks on airports and government buildings prior to September 11. Why didn't the United States intelligence agencies take the Russian intelligence agency the KGB seriously? By the way, why were Russians selling their U.S. Dollars weeks before September 11?

Within 10 minutes of the second WTC tower being hit, CNN had announced that Osama bin Laden was responsible for this horrendous act. Don't you find it rather interesting that CNN somehow knew by 9:13 that Osama bin Laden was behind the September 11 attacks? So, were the United States' intelligence services, which cost taxpayers at least $35 billion per year, warned in advance of the September 11 attacks?

8. The combined passenger lists for the 4 flights on September 11 totals 264 dead. Yet when you count the passenger names on the official published lists, the 4 flights are missing 6, 8, 9 and 12 passengers.

American Airlines Flight 11, from Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles, California, crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center with 92 people on board. Yet there are only 86 victims on the official manifest list. Why are 6 people missing from this list? Why are none of the 5 alleged hijackers names on this list?

American Airlines Flight 77, from Washington D.C. to Los Angeles, California crashed into the Pentagon with 64 people aboard. There are only 56 victims on the official manifest list. Why are 8 people missing from this list? Why are none of the 5 alleged hijackers names on this list?

United Airlines Flight 175, from Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles, California, was the second hijacked plane to strike the World Trade Center, plowing into the south tower with 65 on board. There are only 56 victims on the official manifest list. Why are 9 people missing from this list? Why are none of the 5 alleged hijackers names on this list?

United Airlines Flight 93, from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, California, crashed in rural southwest Pennsylvania, with 45 people on board. There are only 33 victims on the official manifest list. Why are 12 people missing from this list? Why are none of the 4 alleged hijackers names on this list?

How and who are these 35 people mysteriously missing from these 4 passenger manifest lists? This includes every one of the 19 alleged hijackers. How can the 19 alleged hijackers all be missing from the lists?

The 19 names of suspected hijackers released by the FBI don't point to Afghanistan. Fifteen of the suspected hijackers came from Saudi Arabia. Four of the suspected hijackers who were supposedly piloting the 4 airliners were from Egypt. Indeed, even as the FBI was admitting that its list of 19 names was based solely on identifications thought to have been forged, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saudi Al-Faisal insisted that an investigation in Saudi Arabia showed that the 5 Saudi men were not aboard the four jetliners that crashed in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania on September 11. "It was proved that five of the names included in the FBI list had nothing to do with what happened," Al-Faisal told the Arabic Press in Washington after meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush at the White House. A sixth identified hijacker is also reported to still be alive in Tunisia, while a 7th named man died two years ago.

What is going on with these 35 missing names and the alleged 19 hijackers all missing and 7 with the wrong names? As Internet pundit Gary North has stated, "We need a theory of the coordinated hijackings that rests on a plausible cause-and-effect sequence that does not assume the complete failure of both the check-in procedures and the on-board seating procedures on four separate flights on two separate airlines…I don't see how anyone can make an accurate judgment about who was behind the attacks until he has a plausible explanation of how hijackers got onto the planes and were not removed." Just one more thing, why did the seat numbers of the hijackers given by a cell phone call from Flight Attendant Madeline Amy Sweeney to Boston air traffic control not match the seats occupied by the men the FBI claimed were responsible? By the way, there are no Arabic names on the passenger lists, so how did the FBI identify the hijackers so quickly?

9. Have big oil and gas corporate multinationals been planning for years to build the many pipelines that would be needed to transport the last huge proven reserves of natural gas and oil from the Caspian Sea region to the warm water ports? Isn't this why we supported the Mujahadeen to the tune of billions of dollars over ten years to stop the Soviets from tapping this last huge proven reserve all for themselves? In his 1997 book, The Grand Chessboard, by former Jimmy Carter National Security Advisor and member of the Trilateral Commission, Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote that this current war with Afghanistan has been in the planning stages for at least four years and indicated the need for a Pearl Harbor-like attack. So, is the best, shortest and cheapest way for all of these pipelines to reach the warm water ports and to refineries through Afghanistan?

Some oil analysts in the past have predicted and many more are now predicting that we are very close to something called "net energy." They say, regardless of how much petroleum resides in the bowels of the earth, when the production of a given amount of fuel requires the industry to first consume the equivalent amount to discover, extract, refine, and deliver it, it is all over. You might as well be out of gas. Despite advances in technology, that day may be much closer than you think, it may happen within the next 10 years. What's more, when the amount of energy produced per barrel of oil is just equal to the amount used to obtain it, nothing will be left to run the engines of commerce or agriculture.

Was a war manufactured to get to the Caspian Sea region's huge oil and gas reserves worth somewhere between 3 Trillion and 6 Trillion dollars? Was a war manufactured to quickly tap the last huge reserve of gas and oil and to save us from reaching net energy and total economic chaos for a few more years?

10. USA PATRIOT Act: The legislation bears the Orwellian acronym title: "Uniting and Strengthening America Provide Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001."

The recent passage and signing of the USA PATRIOT Act has effectively nullified at least six amendments of the Bill of Rights addendum to the United States Constitution. As a result of this, America is longer America, but a police state, pure and simple. This Patriot Bill is, in fact, a massive violation of the Constitution it purports to uphold and improve.

Violates the First Amendment freedom of speech guarantee, right to peaceably assemble provision, and petition the government for redress of grievances provision; it violates the First Amendment to the Constitution three times. More on this below.

Violates the Fourth Amendment guarantee of probable cause in astonishingly major and repeated ways. The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution reads: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons of things to be seized." The Patriot Act, now passed and the law of the land, has revoked the necessity for probable cause, and now allows the police, at any time and for any reason, to enter and search your house — and not even tell you about it.

Violates the Fifth Amendment by allowing for indefinite incarceration without trial for those deemed by the Attorney General to be threats to national security. The Fifth Amendment guarantees that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law, and the Patriot Act does away with due process. It even allows people to be kept in prison for life without even a trial.

Violates the Sixth Amendment guarantee of the right to a speedy and public trial. Now you may get no trial at all, ever.

Violates the Eighth Amendment (cruel and unusual punishment).

Violates the 13th Amendment (punishment without conviction).

Especially troubling is the sneak and peak clause. This is where the government can now go into your home ( they still need a warrant ) while you are not there and snoop around, or they can download everything from your computer and never tell you about it. All of the other pieces of the anti-terrorism bill, the USA PATRIOT Act, which are taking away our constitutional freedoms have a sunset clause of December 31, 2005 on them. Why is sneak and peak the only part of this new law that doesn't have a sunset clause on it?

Representative Ron Paul of Texas, one of only three Republican lawmakers to buck the House leadership and the Bush administration to vote against this legislation, is outraged not only by what is contained in the antiterrorism bill but also by the effort to stigmatize opponents. "The insult is to call this a 'patriot bill' and suggest I'm not patriotic because I insisted upon finding out what is in it and voting no. I thought it was undermining the Constitution, so I didn't vote for it, and therefore I'm somehow not a patriot. That's insulting."

Paul confirms rumors circulating in Washington that this sweeping new law, with serious implications for each and every American, was not made available to members of Congress for review before the vote. "It's my understanding the bill wasn't printed before the vote, at least I couldn't get it. They played all kinds of games, kept the House in session all night, and it was a very complicated bill. Maybe a handful of staffers actually read it, but the bill definitely was not available to members before the vote."

To me, this is simply unconscionable. It seems to me that our civil liberties are on a very slippery slope and that this will be leading us to… Citizen, where are your papers. Will we have national ID cards within 3 years? Dear George Orwell, it is 2001 and Big Brother is now officially here. The vote in the United States Senate was 98 to Feingold to pass this most fascistic law. By the way, the USA PATRIOT Act also states, that for the first time ever in its history, the CIA can now spy on its own, the American citizens. Why are both Houses of the United States Congress blatantly violating the United States Constitution?

11. Why did Anthrax attacks start in the TV and print media just as the Bush administration U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice tells TV media to censor their news, and White House Press secretary Ari Fleisher tells the print journalists to also censor their news? Anthrax attacks were aimed at two politicians, Senators Dashle and Feingold in their Senate offices. By the way, Senator Russ Feingold was the only brave Senator ( 98 to 1 ) to vote against this fascistic anti-terrorism bill, the USA PATRIOT Act, that decimates up to 6 amendments of the Bill of Rights. Was it just coincidental that Senator Russ Feingold's office happened to get Anthrax?

Is the whole Anthrax episode about killing 5 birds with one stone? One, does it shut the news media up? Two, does it shut the politicians up? Three, does it keep the masses in the United States scared? Four, does it makes a huge profit for some pharmaceutical companies? Five, a really brilliant big distraction to keep you from not seeing what is really happening in both Afghanistan and to our own civil liberties? By the way, no one has been caught and all of the Anthrax strains are known to have been made by the United States Military.

12. Well into their third year of a major drought, upwards of 7 million Afghan civilians, mostly women and children are facing starvation. Relief agencies on the ground there have pleaded with the United States and the United Kingdom to please stop the bombings because drivers are not willing to go into Afghanistan with food and winter is coming on quickly. These same agencies have also criticized the United States spin of dropping 37,000 packets of food daily. They say this will feed less than 1% of the population and that those with the weapons are stealing much of the food being dropped by the United States. Is this food helping feed the Taliban? The 37,000 packets of food being dropped and Bush asking the children of the United States to give a dollar to help feed an Afghanistan child are the epitome of shameless spin. I don't think starving people on one hand, and than putting your spin out of helping them on the other will get you into heaven.

A tricky problem for Commander Solo, the American psy-ops aircraft currently trying to teach Afghans that some yellow is good, like the packages containing the American airdrops of food in the Meals Ready to Eat ( MRE ) bags. But some is bad, like the yellow casings around cluster bombs. "We would like you to take extra care and not to touch yellow-colored objects thinking that they might be food bags," the airborne radio is now saying, according to BBC monitors. "This issue is highly important, especially in areas where bombs have been dropped. You should not forget and take additional care. Do not confuse the cylinder-shaped bomb with the rectangular food bag." Why were we only dropping enough food to feel less than 1% of the Afghani population? Why did they make both the MRE food drops and cluster bombs yellow?

13. Since the September 11 attacks, how did the price of gasoline in the United States magically dropped a record breaking 40 cents within the first 40 days? This modus operandi is akin to what happened during the civil unrest in the inner cities of the 1960's and 1970's. To quell the masses each time, these areas were somehow flooded with cheap heroin.

Are they now using the same sort of tactics by rewarding us with record falling gasoline prices? Are they trying to reinforce that what we are doing militarily is the only righteous way to go by drastically decreasing the price of the number one insatiable habit everyone in the United States has, gasoline?

Is this great planning or what? The prices of gasoline had been going up for almost the last two years before September 11. Then September 11 happens and they can drop it by record amounts to make you feel rewarded, to give you the positive feedback that what is being done is right and somehow moral. Now that really is superb planning, wouldn't you say? Or maybe the record breaking drops in the price of gasoline since September 11 are simply just a really, really big coincidence? By the way, gas prices are now at an historic all time low adjusted for inflation.

14. On September 14, China is rewarded with the ultimate prize of finally being accepted into the World Trade Organization after trying for 15 years. Is this a direct payback for cooperating with the multinational corporations and countries in the joint venture of tapping into the vast reserves of oil and gas of the Caspian Sea region? By the way, what was Osama bin Laden doing visiting China 3 times this year? Was there a deal between Osama bin Laden and China for weapons?

15. Follow the money. According to Michael C. Ruppert, by following the Put Options on United Airlines and American Airlines stock the days preceding September 11, you will find it was anything but normal. On September 6 and 7, 2001 some 4,744 put options ( a speculation that the stock will go down ) are purchased on United Air Lines stock as opposed to only 396 call options ( speculation that the stock will go up ). This is a dramatic and abnormal increase in sales of put options. Many of the UAL puts were purchased through Deutschebank / AB Brown. This firm was managed until 1998 by the current Executive Director of the CIA, A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard.

On September 10, 2001 there were 4,516 put options that were purchased on American Airlines as compared to 748 call options. On September 6 through 11, 2001 there weren't any other airlines that showed similar trading patterns to those experienced by United Airlines and American Airlines. The put option purchases on UAL were 1200% above normal and on AA were 600% above normal. This, at a time when Reuters ( September 10 ) issues a business report stating, "Airline stocks may be poised to take off." United Airlines and American Airlines of couse were the only two airline companies who jet airliners were used in the September 11 attacks. Is this yet just another conveniently ignored mathematical coincidence that the media doesn't want to expose?

Were criminals responsible for the sharp rise in credit card transactions that moved through some computer systems at the WTC shortly before the planes hit the twin towers? Or was it coincidence that unusually large sums of money, perhaps more than $100 million, were rushed through the computers as the disaster unfolded? A world leader in retrieving data, German-based firm Convar is trying to answer those questions and help credit card companies, telecommunications firms and accountants in New York recover their records from computer hard drives that have been partially damaged by fire, water or fine dust.

16. Where is that white paper we were promised months ago by the United States government which was supposed to describe in detail all of the unbelievably insurmountable evidence against Osama bin Laden?

By the way, why does the FBI on their Top Ten Most Wanted List spell it, Usama Bin Laden? And why was his name put out as Osama and not Usama, could it possibly be because his name really begins with USA? Yes, this may sound far-fetched, but Osama (or Usama) bin Laden is the first person in recent history to have been granted his own Pentagon acronym. He is now referred to as UBL.

Why does the United States government keep claiming that they have proof that Osama Bin Laden is behind the attacks on the World Trade Towers, when they don't produce the proof? Isn't this the very proof that justifies going forward with the invasion of Afghanistan that has been openly discussed in the foreign press since last summer, long before there were any "terror attacks"? Despite its early promises to show this evidence openly, as would be required in any American court of law, the government of the United States has withheld the evidence, insisting that it cannot be revealed for reason of "National Security".

Some of this evidence has supposedly been shared with the governments of other nations to persuade them to join the cause of bombing a lot of Afghani non-combatants. Does this mean the only people this evidence is secret from are the people being asked to surrender their taxes and their children to pay for this adventure? I always thought the requirement that proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt against an accused be fully public is a cornerstone of our American culture?

17. What is the number one thing that Osama bin Laden is asking for? That the United States remove its 5,000 troops from the soil of his Holy Land, Saudi Arabia. That doesn't sound too unreasonable, does it? Why are United States troops in Saudi Arabia in the first place? Is it because we are afraid of Saddam Hussein? Why did President 41, George Herbert Walker Bush call Saddam Hussein, Hitler? Why wasn't Hitler finished off in 1991 when he easily could have been? Why are United States troops permanently on Saudi Arabia's soil? Could it possibly be to protect our insatiable habit, oil?

18. General Richard B. Myers from the Air Force Space Command ( Star Wars ) very quietly became the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shortly after September 11. In a confirmation hearing on Thursday September 13, before the Senate Armed Services Committee, General Richard B. Myers of the Air Force, when asked, said he did not know whether the FAA had contacted the Pentagon or NORAD about the hijackings.

Myers was the number 2 man in power of our armed forces. He was the Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on September 11 while testifying before the Senate to try to obtain confirmation to become the number 1 man, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Are we are being led to believe that General Richard B. Myers didn't know what was going on the morning of September 11 between the FAA and the military? This is simply preposterous.

19. Former President 41, George Herbert Walker Bush should immediately resign from the Carlyle Group because of the obviously huge conflict of interest. The Carlyle Group has holdings of 70% in defense and telecommunications, so in a very direct way President 43, George W. Bush will be making huge profits from the Afghan conflict from the inheritance of his father. By the way, George Herbert Walker Bush, how many times did you see the bin Laden family lately and how much money does the entire bin Laden family really have invested with the Carlyle Group?

Is George Herbert Walker Bush trying to make money off of war just like his father Prescott Bush did in World War II? In October 1942, ten months after entering the war, America was preparing its first assault against Nazi military forces. Prescott Bush was the managing partner of Brown Brothers Harriman. On October 20, 1942, the United States government ordered the seizure of Nazi German banking operations in New York City which were being conducted by Prescott Bush. Under the Trading with the Enemy Act, the government took over the Union Banking Corporation, in which Bush was a director. The United States Alien Property Custodian seized Union Banking Corporation's stock shares, all of which were owned by Prescott Bush, E. Roland `` Bunny '' Harriman, three Nazi executives, and two other associates of Prescott Bush.

Making money off of war by trading with your enemy, is this how you become the great Senator from Connecticut? Is this also how you become the 41st and 43rd Presidents of the United States? By the way, just how much money did the bin Laden family give to Arbusto Energy Corp., the first company started by George W. Bush in 1977?

20. The Pentagon has spent millions of dollars to prevent all western media from seeing any of the high resolution civilian satellite photographs of the effects the bombings are having in Afghanistan. Why didn't the Pentagon just use "shutter control". Is it because then there may have been a first amendment law case brought over the photographs and perhaps they would become public?

21. What about the black boxes from all 4 of the September 11 flights? What about all of the conversations between the different FAA flight controllers along the routes and the 4 of these flights? What about the 2 dozen or so of those wireless calls made from AA 77 and UA 93? Why hasn't the video from the departure gates of any of the four hijacked flights been released to show terrorists getting on board those flights? Wouldn't it be nice to be able to hear and see some of these audio and videos for ourselves? Or is that just too much to ask in a free and open democracy?

Now, some of the grieving widows from Flight 93 are asking the FBI to let them please hear the last minute of the voice recorder, for their closure sake. Can't the FBI see to it that these ladies hear how their heroic husband's died? Or is the FBI trying to hide something?

22. A Goat Story. Bush was down in Sarasota, Florida on September 11. What was he doing? Well, he was reading a goat story to 18 second-graders when all of a sudden his chief of staff Andrew Card walked up to him and whispered something in his ear at 9:05. Of course what he said was that a second hijacked airliner had crashed into the WTC. What does George do? He goes back to reading a goat story with these children for almost 25 minutes.

Let me see if I get this right, our country is under attack, from what, we don't know, yet our President and Commander-in-Chief continues reading a goat story to these children for almost 25 more minutes. Isn't there something terribly wrong with this picture?

23. Air Force One took off from Sarasota - Bradenton International Airport at approximately 10:00 on September 11. This is at least one hour and forty-five minutes after the first plane, American Airlines Flight 11, had been hijacked.

Why was there was no extra military protection guarding Air Force One as it took-off from Sarasota? You would think that perhaps they would use the precautionary principle and protect Air Force One with everything that we have in such a critical crisis?

Two of the seven Air Stations that were on alert around the United States on September 11th were in Florida. Both of these air stations could have scrambled and sent their F-15's and F-16's to Sarasota within half an hour. Why weren't they? How could they have possibly not been at Sarasota - Bradenton International Airport protecting Air Force One when they had an hour and forty-five minutes in which to do so?

Later on, when Air Force One was flying back from Omaha back to Washington D.C., every TV station showed 2 F-16's off its wing tips and made it seem as though they were always there. By the way, why did Air Force One stop at Barksdale Air Force Base near Shreveport, Louisiana? Why didn't it just go straight to Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base, near Omaha, which is the headquarters of the United States Strategic Air Command that controls the all of the nation's long-range nuclear arsenals?

How did the terrorists obtain top-secret White House and Air Force One codes and signals, the excuse for hustling Bush all across the country on September 11? Early on, the Bush White House issued a statement stating that "credible evidence" showed that the hijackers had access to the top secret codes of Air Force One, in which the President fled from Sarasota, Florida to Barksdale AFB Louisiana and on to Nebraska.

This statement made the President's journey more like that of a careful and prudent commander than a fleeing coward. White House officials later said this information was untrue, leaving the public with the question of what else has the Bush people told us that is untrue, or that the their first statements were true, raising the possibility that there may have been inside help in obtaining the codes?

24. Was United Airlines Flight 93 shot down by the Air Force? I was watching every major television station all day and night from just before 9:00 on September 11. The first real break was a statement released by NORAD about 4:30 that said it emphatically denies the rumor that it shot down United Airlines Flight 93.

Then the next day responding to persistent rumors that have circulated around the nation, NORAD disputed accounts that U.S. military aircraft shot down United Airlines Flight 93 in Somerset County, PA. "Contrary to media reports that speculate that United Airlines Flight 93 was 'downed' by a U.S. fighter aircraft, NORAD allocated forces have not engaged with weapons on any aircraft, including Flight 93." This was the second such statement NORAD released on the incident since the plane crashed Tuesday morning on a hilltop outside Shanksville PA. "There was no military involvement here. I hope that ends that speculation."

Why wasn't there any footage of the scene on any national television station till around 5:00. And then all you saw was a long shot of a 20 foot wide smoldering hole in the ground. Why didn't any national television station show footage of the United Airlines Flight 93 crash for 7 hours? Why weren't any of the eyewitnesses of the plane going down interviewed on national TV like in New York City and Washington D.C.? This is the story of a lifetime, why wasn't this aired on national television for 7 hours?

By the way, pieces of human bones were found at least 2 miles away right after the crash. Other pieces of lighter debris were found up to eight miles away. The winds were only going 9 MPH and this plane was suppose to have nose-dived into the ground, so how is all of this debris found up to 8 miles from the point of impact? If there were "terrorists" flying that plane there was no alternative but to shoot it down over a very rural area. Flight 93 went down in a very rural area.

So why wouldn't the United States government want to tell its own people that it had to shoot down Flight 93? Is it because if they did admit they shot Flight 93 down, then why didn't they shoot the other 3 planes down? They should have been up and been able to shoot down AA 11 before it hits the WTC at 8:45. How could they have possibly not have shot down the second plane, UA 175 before it hits the WTC at 9:03? Is there any possible excuse why AA 77 was not shot down before it crashes into the Pentagon at 9:40? So was UA 93 shot down?

The story of Todd Beamer and some of the other passengers on Flight 93 rushing the hijackers is a very likely story. Many people on Flight 93 and Flight 77 that made cell phone calls said that one of the hijackers on each plane was in front of everyone with a red device attached to his chest. The dispatchers at the Westmoreland County Emergency Operations Center in Pennsylvania intercepted a frantic cell call made to 911 by a passenger aboard the doomed flight 93, he did hear some sort of an explosion and saw white smoke coming from the plane, but he didn't know where. "And then we lost contact with him." When the hijackers got rushed by some of the passengers, if that device was a bomb strapped to his chest, well that would explain the body pieces being found so far away. But why didn't the national TV stations showed anything for 7 hours?

25. Doesn't it seem very unusual that there were only somewhere between 229 and 264 passengers and crew members in total on board all 4 of these planes? The combined seating for these 4 planes are somewhere between 800 and 1100. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to find out what the average seating capacity was on a normal Tuesday morning in September for all 4 of these flights? Why are these 4 flights only at 25% of their seating capacity? I am not a betting man, but I would bet that they would have to be many more people on these 4 flights normally. Why were there so few passengers on board these 4 flights? Why the discrepancy between the 264 dead but only 229 on the list?

26. It was reported on September 7 in The Times of London that after weeks of heavy fighting the Taliban forces scored a significant victory yesterday in their campaign to conquer all of Afghanistan when they captured the strategic northern town of Taloqan, headquarters of the opposition, the Northern Alliance. The loss of the town, close to the border with Tajikistan, is seen as a big military and political setback for the remnants of the former Afghan Government, whose forces now control only small pockets of territory in the north.

The defeat is particularly serious for Ahmed Shah Masood, the so-called Lion of the Panjshir and the last serious military challenger to Taliban rule. He is now effectively surrounded. On Sunday September 9 Ahmad Shah Masood the leader of the Northern Alliance was assassinated. Exactly how did he get assassinated? Was September 11 given the go ahead when Masood was finally out of the way?

27. At Logan airport the terrorists' car was supposedly found with a flight-book. A Passport from one of the terrorists that slammed into the WTC was found in pristine condition and blocks away from WTC. Why did one of the named hijackers take luggage on a suicide flight? And how did that luggage somehow never make it on to the plane? Why does the heavy drinking and searching for hookers by some of the hijackers in Boston, as reported by Reuters New Service, sound more like mercenaries carousing before a mission than pious religious fundamentalists about to meet their maker?

We are being told that this crack team of terrorists, able to breeze past airport security as if it wasn't there, wound up leaving so much evidence in its wake that the bumbling Inspector Clouseau ( or the FBI ) could not fail to stumble over it. The locations where the terrorists supposedly stayed are so overloaded with damning materials that they resemble less a crime scene, and more a bad "B" detective movie set, with vital clues on prominent display for the television cameras.

28. The United States has now authorized the assassination of Osama bin Laden and anyone else it wants dead. What gives us the right to do this without a fair trail? Did I read that the FBI is now thinking about using torture on 4 suspected Al-Qaeda members who are imprisoned because they will not talk? Hey, why doesn't the FBI just send these 4 suspects to a third country were they can get the testimony whichever way they want to, and then thanks to the new USA PATRIOT Act it will be admissible to use in our courts against them.

29. Understand United States History: From the USS Maine being destroyed in 1898 ( Spanish American War ), to the Lusitania being sunk in 1915 ( WWI ), to our provoking and allowing Pearl Harbor's attack in 1941 ( WWII ), to the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964 ( Viet Nam ) and the 300 babies slaughtered in their incubators in 1991 by Iraq ( Desert Storm ). When you have finished the above check out the newly discovered Operation Northwoods files of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1962. Also, please read the abundant history there is about the United States government secretly using its own people as test subjects.

There is also another piece of history that is relevant to provoking patriotism in the masses that is akin to September 11, and that is the German Reichstag fire of 1933, which brought in Hitler and the Nazis into power. As Hermann Goering the head of propaganda for the Nazis said, "All you have to do is tell the people they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." By the way, why isn't the United States government fully investigating each and every detail of what occurred prior to, and on September 11th?

30. What happened to our first amendment? Where are all of the free and open debates in the United States Questioning September 11th? I, Mark Elsis will debate anyone or any panel on this issue. Does any formidable opponent dare to debate me on what happened September 11th?

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Hitler did in Germany was legal.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.


An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi


Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Groucho Marx


He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt.
He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.
This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once.
Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance,
how violently I hate all this, how despicable an ignoble war is;
I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
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I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought,
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Albert Einstein


All you have to do is tell the people they are being attacked,
and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
It works the same in any country.
Hermann Goering


Fascism should rightly be called corporatism
as it is a merge of state and corporate power.
Benito Mussolini


War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe,
as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people.
Only a small inside group knows what it is about.
It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

Major General Smedley Butler, USMC


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