My Comments About Conspiracies By Michael Butler
My Comments About Conspiracies
By Michael Butler
Yesterday I sent off a video about 9/11 and the Pentagon. This video was perhaps the 10th time I had been presented pertaining to this conspiracy. Not only about the Pentagon but also the WTC Towers. I have seen videos on the Internet, on DVD’s, some presentations to concerned citizens and more than one stage presentation.
Now, I am not a Conspiracy maven. I really reject most such propositions. But I never have felt comfortable about the Warren Commission’s report on Jack’s assassination, and I still have questions about the official versions of the Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy assassinations.
I know enough history to recall the Reichstag Fire, which effectively secured Hitler’s dictatorial power. I know also that many of our Presidents have either lied or bent the truth in putting us into war. Certainly since the Eisenhower ‘Military-Industrial’ speech we have suffered a series of prevarications which have drawn us into conflict and undermined public faith in their democratic institutions.
Now that we are finally seeing one of many videos sequestered by our Government pertaining to 9/11 and in particular to the Pentagon crash.
The question, “Why has it taken so long?” is attributed more than anything to our informed distrust of our government and of the Bush administration in particular. In my memory, it is without a doubt the most secretive government we have ever had.
You, I and most of us do not want to believe in these conspiracies. It behooves our government to provide credible facts to dispell the suspicions created by the present administration’s rampant secrecy.
Secrecy Sucks and serves mostly to draw us into more Fear. Transparency is the only cure for such fear; the only foundation on which on trust may be restored. We are entitled to a straight story with enough clarity to be able to make our own decisions, and such straight stories are indespensable to our government regaining its credibility.
US to release video of September 11 attack on Pentagon
May 16 1:08 PM US/Eastern
The US government has agreed to release video film Tuesday showing a hijacked jetliner strike the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
Taken by surveillance cameras in the Pentagon parking lot, the images have been the subject of lawsuits prompted in part by conspiracy theories surrounding the attack.
The Justice Department, which had blocked their release, agreed to turn over the video clips now that the trial of Al Qaeda plotter Zacarias Moussaoui has ended, a Pentagon spokesman, Bryan Whitman, said.
Whitman said the images appear to be the same as a series of still pictures previously seen on US television.
“We fought hard to obtain this video because we felt that it was very important to complete the public record with respect to the terrorist attacks of September 11,” said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a group that sued for the release of the video.
“Finally, we hope that this video will put to rest the conspiracy theories involving American Airlines Flight 77,” he said in a statement.
The group said it would post a copy of the video on its website, www.judicialwatch.org.
The Pentagon admitted having the video last year, but said it could not release the film because it was part of its investigation into Moussaoui, Judicial Watch said.
Moussaoui was sentenced to life in prison this month over the September 11 attacks conspiracy.
Flight 77 slammed into the Pentagon at 9:37 am on September 11, killing 189 people in the jet and on the ground.
During the Moussaoui trial, prosecutors showed pictures of burning bodies and human remains as well as images of the explosion triggered by the Pentagon crash.
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Michael:
Posted on 17-May-06 at 11:34 am | PermalinkBravo on your conspiracy piece. I’ve written a novel, NO PLACE TO RUN, which posits that the 9/11 hijackers had some serious help from within the US (I researched it for six months before starting, weeding out the idiot-fringe nutcase stuff), and you would be amazed - or not - at the difficulty I’ve been having finding - first - an agent, and now, a publisher. The best news I’ve had is that the head guy at Putnam, who liked my writing, was “offended” by my premise.
We should talk…
Tom
i watched the video and…[sigh]…again, there is no sign of a plane anywhere..just an explosion and nothing seen hitting the building. If anything i saw what may be the tip of a missile on the right side of the frame just before you see an explosion on the left side of the frame .. giving the impression that the video was edited to conceal what you see after the tip on the right and the explosion on the left
It’d be funny if it wasn’t so trajic..that the gov’t passes something like this as proof - how stupid do they think we are?
Posted on 17-May-06 at 11:46 am | PermalinkThe only thing that will really satisfy us all , after viewing this video, is more video showing wreckage of the Boeing aircraft. Is the 9/11 report available and wouldn’t it contain all details?
Posted on 17-May-06 at 12:06 pm | PermalinkMaybe this will lead somewhere:
Posted on 17-May-06 at 12:09 pm | Permalinkhttp://www.9-11commission.gov/
Linda:
As 9/11 researcher David Ray Griffin points out in the subtitle of his book, “The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions,” that report not only does NOT contain all the “details,” but deliberately omits important ones. I have read the 9/11 Commission Report cover to cover and, as Michael says about the Warren Commission Report, I am not sanguine that it is anything but a whitewash of the attacks.
For anyone who wants to do further research on the 9/11 truth issue, I highly recommend the following video, which is about an hour and 20 minutes long, but gives a really good overview of all three incidents: WTC, Pentagon and Shanksville:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8260059923762628848
[N.B. Apparently, this blog does not permit hyperlinks, so you will have to type the address into the address box...]
Posted on 17-May-06 at 1:00 pm | PermalinkHow does an airliner strike the side of a recently remodeled and reinforced building and not leave significant pieces in the yard?
Wouldn’t you expect to see sections of the wings and the tail structure still outside?
I saw the video. Shouldn’t we have been able to make out the tail going past?
What a job of flying to bring that airliner into the side of that building just a few feet off the ground. The plane was flown with the precision of a navy carrier pilot.
Allah was my co-pilot, to paraphrase an old movie title.
Pat
Posted on 17-May-06 at 4:27 pm | PermalinkBravo!
Posted on 17-May-06 at 6:09 pm | PermalinkLikewise, as with those above, I have seen the footage and watched some of these ‘conspiracy’ videos, they certainly give fertile ground to big questions and inconsistencies. The question I find completely unanswered is why did the 3rd WTC building have to be demolished when it wasn’t hit by a plane? Am I being obtuse? Have I missed something?
Posted on 18-May-06 at 2:06 am | PermalinkMany weeks ago, my friend researched this on Snopes. It quieted me at the time. Now I am jazzed again.??
Posted on 18-May-06 at 10:18 am | PermalinkPlease review comment #6 by MV, “5/1/2006 “You Are Not Entitled To Know”.
Prior to the 90’s I did not hold to conspiricy theories, but nothing has changed for thousands of years even with all of our knowledge & psychotherapy & medications & new age/old age philosophies and excercises mental & physical. History repeats its self over & over again, the pattern is there!
The only difference in mankind is that it was donkys and cammels 2,000+ years ago and today it is Hummers & Hondas, but human nature has not changed or “evolved”, just more “knowledge” to absorb.
There appears to me that there is an evil conspiricy being excuted by those in power & in personal choices that you or I make….perhaps the Luciferian blue print is being excuted by me/us when we coose to do it our way rather than Gods way. It is most difficult/dangerous to trust mans goverment & “religion” mans interpertation of what “God said”….. yet we can study what is in the old & new scriptures, hear and see with the spirits help. God is Love and perfect Love casts out fear and we can see more clearly (like polaroid sun glasses)…when in his ways, yet I/we have to remain open to correction by his Love.
The question I have; Why are we not willing to stand up and just say NO? Martin Luther King had an answer of non violent protest, the powers can not jail even 10% of peaciful civil disobedience!
Are the golden hand cuffs of big money & future retirement & supporting our children, our homes & taxes & gas prices own us and too tight of a hold on all of us?
“Evil persists bercause good women and men say nothing and do nothing”! (can’t remember who said this)
Posted on 19-May-06 at 12:56 pm | PermalinkIn January 2002, I read an article in the New Yorker magazine about the late Counterrorism expert FBI John P. O’Neill that struck me to believe there was conspiracy. Ever since then, nothing change my theory.
Common quote: “OIL and GREED”
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/020114fa_FACT1
http://archive.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=7352
Posted on 19-May-06 at 10:49 pm | PermalinkTo The Many of US;
You believe in God Michael V, that’s fine. You believe in conspiracies that’s fine.
You believe that you and are not brave enough to ’stand up’. Perhaps we are trying to create change through massive efforts that are tactically ‘under the radar’.
You do believe in tacticians (ground swells, tactics, and all those games Army people play?). OK - why are we quite? I did not know that we are.
Of course, you do know about the ‘new’ army of black that Bush has created through his minions don’t you - Oh! and the acres of concentration camps which have been completed that are already for who? Terrorists? Are you a terrorist?
You and I are terrorists. Believe you me, all of the liberials, progressives and mouthing back are undersuspect.
So give me a break…you go ahead a pray to your God, and ask for whatever ‘light’ you can conjure. Go ahead with the conspiracies, because most are true and correct -COVERUP!
…and when the day ends, we are right but what does it do for you and me to be right (Oil and Greed)?
Change in America requires tactics, undercover, and thinking people - not NeoCon wacko’s.
Posted on 19-Jun-06 at 6:39 pm | Permalinkhttp://www.silomanagement.blogspot.com/
Military Going AWOL - 8,000
Of course it’s a cover up…
Jesus H. Christ—man!!!
Posted on 01-Jul-06 at 6:27 pm | Permalink