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(eerie music)
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(coughing)
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- [Voiceover] What happened?
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- It collapsed.
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The top floors collapsed down.
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- We was in an explosion.
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We was in the lobby
and the third explosion
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the whole lobby collapsed on us.
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- [Voiceover] What was it
like, what was it like?
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- Horrible, horrible.
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The whole building
just collapsed on us
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inside the lobby.
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- [Voiceover] Was that
a secondary explosion?
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- Yes it was
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It was like three
explosions after that.
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We came in after the fire,
we came when the fire
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was going on already.
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We was in the staging
area inside the building.
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Waiting to go upstairs.
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The whole lobby collapsed
on the lobby inside.
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- When the first of the
towers actually started
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falling down, I just
said this can't happen.
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It can't happen.
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And then the other
tower came down
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and I said this violates
the laws of physics.
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It can't happen.
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Those aircraft and those
fires could not cause
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those buildings to
come down in that way.
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- I am the highest
ranking officer I believe
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that has ever gone public
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that whatever that story
was, the official story
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was not true.
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When you look at the
tower coming down,
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what you see are at each floor,
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successive puffs of smoke.
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Puff, puff, puff, puff,
puff, all the way down.
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What are the puffs
of smoke coming from?
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Well, they claim they're
from the collapsing floors.
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Uh uh, uh uh, no no no.
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Those puffs of smoke are
controlled demolitions.
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That's exactly what they are
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because that's
exactly how they work.
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- The most obvious
hypothesis for anyone looking
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at the films and that
was a lot of people,
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is that the buildings
came down because
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there was very carefully
controlled demolition
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with high explosives that
had been planted many
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weeks if not months before.
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- [Tyrone] Nothing no
more is worse than this.
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You're in the building
trying to help people
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and it's exploding on
you inside the building
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So I don't think it could
get any worse than this.
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(dramatic music)
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(heartbeat)
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- Looking anew at 9/11
is a lot like watching
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a great movie that at the
end you find out a detail
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that transforms the whole
experience of the movie.
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That the characters, the
scenes, all have a different
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meaning that need
to be reprocessed.
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Sometimes we go to
see the movie again
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to understand what
was actually happening
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that we didn't the first time.
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Reprocessing 9/11 will
inevitably stir up new hurts.
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We've already been
through the trauma,
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but now realizing that
there's a different meaning
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cuts in a different way,
and we have to be willing
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to endure those pains,
those hurts, and those fears
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that are required there.
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And in some way we have
to relive 9/11 anew.
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- I think we can all relate
to the initial shock and awe
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of the planes approaching
the World Trade Center,
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going into them, we were
terrified, we thought
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the country was under attack,
and then we were given
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an explanation
within 24 to 48 hours
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that this was forces from
the Mid East, 19 Arabs,
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and that flashbulb memory,
that traumatic event
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has stayed with us ever since.
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It's been called shock
and awe in another context
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with Iraq, but there was a
shock and awe definitely in that
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case and the media theory
says that the first story
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is the one that sticks with you.
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- September 11 the world
experienced a shock
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and especially the
American people
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and then we got disoriented
in a state of what is called
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cognitive dissonance where
we had two different ideas
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that did not go together.
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For example, in America
we thought we were safe.
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And yet now we were not.
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Where were those
military airplanes
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that are supposed to protect us?
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We saw the airplanes
flying into the towers
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and then the towers collapsing.
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The explanation was somewhere
it was a structural failure.
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Then later on we heard from
architects and engineer
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that it was not possible.
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It did not follow the
principle of physical laws.
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- People continue to be
either oblivious to the fact
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that this information exists
or completely resistant
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to looking at this information.
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So the question becomes why?
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Why is it that people have
so much trouble hearing
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this information?
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Now as we know the horrors
of what happened on 9/11
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were televised all
over the world,
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and they were televised in
fact live so that millions
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of people witnessed that,
and millions of Americans
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witnessed what was happening,
we witnessed the deaths
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of almost 3,000 of
our fellow Americans.
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We know this had a very
severe and traumatic impact
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on a large majority
of the population.
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I myself cried for weeks
after September 11th.
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So I think it's safe to say
that collectively as a nation,
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because of what happened
on September 11th,
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we experienced trauma.
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Specifically, if we thought
the world was a safe place,
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after we've experienced
or witnessed a trauma
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we often think the world is
not a very safe place anymore.
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And so it very much changes
our beliefs about the world,
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it changes our ability
to trust other people
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and to trust other entities.
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(melancholy music)
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- Many people have rightly
commented that 9/11
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is a religious issue.
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As a theologian I
agree with that.
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I accept the definition of
religion given by Paul Tillich
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many years ago saying
that religion deals with
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matters of ultimate concern.
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Now theologian John
Cobb has stated that
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starting in the 15th
and 16th century
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we had a major shift
in the understanding of
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religious concern.
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That prior to that time,
people were Christians or Jews
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and or some other religion,
and that was their
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primary identity, that was
their ultimate concern.
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But it shifted in
the 15th century
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to nationalism, and nationalism
in various countries
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became the new religion.
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This is certainly true
in the United States
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where Americanism
trumps Christianity
for many Christians.
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I gave a lecture a
few years ago called
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9/11 and Nationalist Faith.
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And in that I argued that
even though people who are
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Christians or Jews and
then if they're Christians
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some particular type
of Christianity like
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the Presbyterian church
or Methodist church
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or the Catholic church
that they actually tend to
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subordinate that to their
concern for America,
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for their devotion to America.
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I was interviewed by
one of the well-known
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talk show hosts on television
and they came to the home
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and interviewed me and
it was going very well
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from my point of view
but the talk show host
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got very upset and
finally just blurted out,
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"That's blasphemy!"
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- It is wrong, blasphemous
and sinful for you to suggest,
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imply, or help other people
come to the conclusion
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that the US government killed
3,000 of its own citizens
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because--
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- And blasphemy is
a religious issue.
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He was treating Bush and
Cheney as if they were
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religious figures, as
if, frankly, they were
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members of the Holy Trinity.
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So that was another
great revelation to me
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that for many people their
devotion to the country
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or even the political
representative of the country
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are more important and of
religious importance than
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claims about what
really happened on 9/11.
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So I think people need to think
seriously through their own
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religious commitment, whether
they're Christians or Jews
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or Muslims or Hindus
or Buddhists, think
about what it is
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they are truly most
ultimately concerned about
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and if that is God,
then they would say
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truth is the most
important thing.
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So I need to be open
to the possible truth
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of the 9/11 truth movement,
even if that is very
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threatening to me
(rumbling)
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and to my commitment
to my nation.
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- A lens through which to
understand the resistance
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that we all have against
hearing information
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that contradicts our
worldview, our information
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about the official story
of 9/11 is what social
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psychologists call
cognitive dissonance.
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For example, with 9/11
we have one cognition
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which is the official
story of 9/11,
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what our government
told us, what our media
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repeated to us over and
over, that 19 Muslims
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attacked us.
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On the other hand we have
what scientists, researchers,
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architects, engineers are
now beginning to tell us
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which is that there
is evidence that shows
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that the official
story cannot be true,
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that 9/11 was most likely
a false flag operation.
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So now we've lost our
sense of security.
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We are starting to
feel vulnerable.
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Now we're confused.
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Now we have a choice, and
we all have this choice
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and what some of us
will tend to do is
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deny the evidence
that's coming our way
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and stick to the original
story, the official story,
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and to try to regain our
equilibrium in that way.
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Another thing we can
do is decide to look
at the conflicting
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evidence and be sincere and
be open-minded and look at
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both sides of the issue and
then make up our own mind
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about what reality is.
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- One thing I would like people
to know is that you don't
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need to be an engineer
or an architect to see
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what happened to
those buildings.
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I'm asked all the time
why should we not believe
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the experts and what
they've told us?
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And I always answer
with this simple story.
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One day when I was driving
my truck down the road,
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my truck quit suddenly.
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And as I was waiting for
the tow truck to come,
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I thought to myself
well don't just sit here
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like a stool pigeon,
get out of your truck,
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open the hood and look
underneath the hood
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for anything that's
obviously broken.
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And I did that and I
checked everything,
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I checked the oil, I
checked the oil temperature,
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I looked for fan belt broken,
anything, obvious things.
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Nothing was wrong.
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But when the mechanic
called me and told me
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that I needed a new engine
because it had overheated
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and because it had dropped
its oil and overheated,
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I knew he was lying because
I had opened the hood
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and looked for myself
and thought for myself.
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And it turned out it
was just a cam sensor
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and I was able to fix
it myself, I was able to
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get the part on
Ebay and stick it on
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and watch a YouTube on how
to fix it and stick it on
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and drive away.
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But the comparison is this.
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Unless you're willing,
we all have to be willing
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to look at the videos of
the buildings coming down.
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You have to be willing to
look for the obvious evidence.
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The symmetry is the smoking gun.
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Those buildings could not have
fallen in perfectly level.
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It's as if you take a level
with a bubble in the center
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and watch those
buildings come down
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and that bubble will stay
centered the whole way down.
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And that cannot happen
with an airplane
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hitting one side
of the building.
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It cannot happen that when
you have asymmetric damage
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you will get a perfectly
symmetrical collapse.
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And all you need to do is look
at the videos and see that.
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Then you have to be willing
to trust what you saw
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and call out the lie.
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- [Voiceover] This is an orange.
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If you were told it
was something else,
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you wouldn't believe
it, would you?
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This is called
visual identification
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based on experience.
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This building is about to be
destroyed in what is called
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a controlled demolition.
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Buildings do not do
this spontaneously.
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(crowd chanting countdown)
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Successful demolitions require
that all structural support
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columns collapse at
virtually the same time.
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If they don't, or if
something else goes wrong,
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the result will look
something like this.
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This is World Trade Center
7 just before it collapsed
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on September the 11th, 2001.
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It had not been
hit by an aircraft.
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It had been damaged by falling
debris and minor fires,
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but by 5:20pm, the fires
were still not a threat.
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Although the building
was 47 stories high,
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it doesn't fall sideways,
nor collapse unevenly.
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For this to have happened,
all of the building's
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vertical supports
must have given way
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at almost exactly the same time.
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Yet the Federal Emergency
Management Agency reported
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that the collapse was
due primarily to fire.
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But what does it
look like to you?
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The National Institute of
Standards and Technology
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still rules out a
controlled demolition.
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- Some 3,000 members of the
families who were lost on 9/11
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have been trying for
years to get justice
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through our system for the
losses that they have suffered.
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At virtually every step
of the judicial process
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when the United States
government was called upon
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to take a position it has
been a position adverse
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to the interest of United
States citizens seeking justice.
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This is a very important issue.
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It may seem stale to
some but it as current as
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the headlines that
we will read today.
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It is an issue that goes to
the core of the United States'
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contract with its people,
that it is highly improbable
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that the 19 people
could have acted alone.
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Yet the official position of
the United States government
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has been that they did act
alone and that there is
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no necessity for further
inquiry into the question
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of whether there was
a support network.
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President Lincoln had a
policy throughout the war
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that every message that
came into the government,
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specifically into
the State Department,
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was a matter of public record.
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On a daily basis his feeling
was that if the support
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of the American people
were gonna be maintained
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in a war which was
increasingly bloody,
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many loss of lives
and loss of treasure,
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that it took the confidence
of the American people
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that their government
was conducting itself
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in an appropriate manner at
that the key to that confidence
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was disclosure.
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I wish we applied the
Lincolnesque standard
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to what happened in 9/11.
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(ominous music)
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- World Trade Center 7
collapsed because of fires
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fueled by office furnishings.
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It did not collapse
from explosives
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or from fuel oil fires.
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Alternative theories
are really none of them
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have been found to be
credible in terms of why
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these buildings collapsed.
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- Neither NIST or FEMA
followed standard protocol
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for fire and explosion
investigations.
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Or just fire investigations
for that matter.
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National Fire Protection
Association Guide number 921
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calls for saving the
evidence and being prepared
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to justify why you wouldn't.
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It also calls for testing for
accelerants and explosives
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when high order
damage is involved.
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NIST did not do this.
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- In an office fire you
cannot generate enough heat
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to melt steel, and yet we
have evidence of molten iron.
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In the microspheres,
in the rubble pile,
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and the metal pouring out
of the side of the tower.
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- We have found no
evidence that would suggest
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any kind of an explosive
material that caused
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the buildings to collapse.
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- [Voiceover] I'm wondering
did you do any explosive
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residue testing on any
item out of the building
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just to lay these ideas to rest?
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- Answer to that is
no, we did not do it.
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- So the preconceived
notion of NIST is that
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there's no evidence
for explosives and
so there's no point
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in looking.
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That is the most unscientific
thing that you can
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possibly think of,
not to look because
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you don't expect
to find evidence
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and in fact the evidence
is overwhelming.
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I claim they're not
doing science at all,
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they're doing propaganda or
publicity or whatever they're
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doing, but it's not science.
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It's not playing by
the rules of science.
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(eerie music)
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- If we lived in a parallel
universe that would be
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a very different universe
but there's, in our view,
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not a lot of evidence
that that universe
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is actually connected
to this one.
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Now there are actually about
2,000 allegations of this kind
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which we saw a lot and we
didn't try to knock down
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every, we took on a few
of the most important ones
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in the Report but there are
so many incredible allegations
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of this kind that we did
not, it would have taken us
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hundreds of pages in the Report,
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which is already a
pretty long report
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to say and here's why that's
bogus, here's why that's bogus,
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here's why that's bogus
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and we could have gone on
like that for a long time.
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But we don't actually
believe that there is
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the kind of controlled
demolition scenario
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that you have hypothesized.
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We don't find any persuasive,
affirmative evidence
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that that scenario
actually is true.
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- [Voiceover] 6.5 seconds
it dropped in 6.5 seconds.
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How do you account for
that when it wasn't
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hit by a plane?
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- It is absolutely obvious to
me that we've been lied to,
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that the government's
official story as put forward
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by the Bush Administration
and their 9/11 commission
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run by Zelikow, a White
House flack, and NIST,
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the whole stuff is garbage
from one end to the other.
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It is physically impossible.
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- [Voiceover] So the
question is, do you believe
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what you can see
with your own eyes,
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or do you believe
what you are told?
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- People differ in their
ability to question authority.
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Stanley Milgram did a famous
psychological experiment
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about 50 years ago and in this
experiment 65% of subjects
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administered the final,
massive, 450 volt shock
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to a participant that they
believed had a heart condition,
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who was screaming and
pounding on the wall.
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- 375 volts.
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- Now they've done a number
of replications of this study
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and have found that
61 to 66% of people
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were prepared to inflict
what they believed
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was a fatal shock at the
bidding of an authority figure.
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So roughly two thirds
of the public can show
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blind obedience to authority.
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(dramatic music)
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- In the councils of government
we must guard against
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the acquisition of
unwarranted influence,
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whether sought or unsought,
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by the military
industrial complex.
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The potential for the disastrous
rise of misplaced power
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exists and will persist.
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We must never let the
weight of this combination
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endanger our liberties
or democratic processes.
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We should take
nothing for granted.
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Only an alert and
knowledgeable citizenry
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can compel the proper meshing
of the huge industrial
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and military machinery
of defense with our
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peaceful methods and goals.
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- [Voiceover] For we are
opposed around the world
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by a monolithic and ruthless
conspiracy that relies
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primarily on covert
means for expanding
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its sphere of influence.
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On infiltration
instead of invasion.
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On subversion
instead of elections.
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On intimidation
instead of free choice.
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On guerrillas by night
instead of armies by day.
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It is a system which
has conscripted
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vast human and material
resources into the building
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of a tightly-knit,
highly-efficient machine
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that combines
military, diplomatic,
intelligence, economic,
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scientific, and
political operations.
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Its preparations are
concealed, not published.
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Its mistakes are
buried, not headlined.
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Its dissenters are
silenced, not praised.
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- [Voiceover] In Dallas
three shots were fired
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at President Kennedy's
motorcade in downtown Dallas.
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- I can't honestly say
that I've ever been
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completely relieved
of the fact that
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there might have been
international connections.
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- [Voiceover] You mean
you still feel that there
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might have been?
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- Well I have not
completely discounted it.
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- We have before us the
opportunity to forge
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for ourselves and for future
generations a new world order.
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When we are successful,
and we will be, we have
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a real chance at
this new world order.
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- What is at stake is more
than one small country.
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It is a big idea.
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A new world order.
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Now we can see a new
world coming into view.
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A world in which there
is the very real prospect
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of a new world order.
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- What happened in 9/11 is
we didn't have a strategy,
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we didn't have bipartisan
agreement, we didn't have
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American understanding
of it, and we had instead
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a policy coup in
this country, a coup.
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A policy coup.
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Some hard-nosed people
took over the direction
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of American policy,
and they never bothered
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to inform the rest of us.
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I went downstairs, I
was leaving the Pentagon
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and an officer from the
Joint Staff called me
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into his office and said, "I
want you to know," he said,
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"Sir, we're gonna attack Iraq."
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And I said, "Why?"
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He said, "We don't know."
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I said, "Well did they
tie Saddam to 9/11?"
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He said, "No, but I guess
they don't know what to do
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"about terrorism, but
they can attack states,
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"and they want to look strong
and so I guess they think
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"if they take down a
state it will intimidate
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"the terrorists.
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"It's like that old
saying," he said.
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"If the only tool
you have is a hammer,
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"then every problem
has to be a nail."
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And then I came back to the
Pentagon about six weeks later,
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I saw the same officer, I said,
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"Why haven't we attacked Iraq?
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"We still gonna attack Iraq?"
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He said, "Oh sir,
it's worse than that."
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He said, he pulled up a
piece of paper off his desk
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he said, "I just got
this memo from the
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"Secretary of Defense's
office, it says we're gonna
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"attack and destroy the
governments in seven countries
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"in five years.
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"We're gonna start with
Iraq and then we're gonna
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"move to Syria, Lebanon, Libya,
Somalia, Sudan, and Iran."
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Now did anybody
ever tell you that?
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Was there a national
dialogue on this?
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Did senators and congressmen
stand up and denounce
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this plan?
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Was there a full-fledged
American debate on it?
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Absolutely not, and
there still isn't.
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Wolfowitz and Cheney
and Rumsfeld and
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you could name a half
dozen other collaborators
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from the Project for a
New American Century.
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They wanted us to
destabilize the Middle East.
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Turn it upside down.
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Make it under our control.
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- They told us why
they had to do it.
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They said we need to
occupy Iraq permanently
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in order to dominate
Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia,
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and the southern
Russian republics
around the Caspian Sea.
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We need to control
the entire Middle East
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and all its oil.
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This war in Iraq has nothing
to do with national security
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or freedom or democracy
or human rights
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or protecting our allies or
weapons of mass destruction
495
00:30:50,667 --> 00:30:53,900
or defeating terrorism
or disarming Iraq,
496
00:30:53,900 --> 00:30:58,033
it has to do with money,
it has to do with oil,
497
00:30:58,033 --> 00:31:01,500
and it has to do with
raw imperial power.
498
00:31:01,500 --> 00:31:04,800
(military drumming)
499
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,067
- What I found to be very
helpful in understanding
500
00:31:07,067 --> 00:31:09,667
our current situation are names.
501
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,600
Names can help us
get our mind around
502
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,233
certain concepts.
503
00:31:16,233 --> 00:31:20,067
For example, the term
false flag operation.
504
00:31:20,067 --> 00:31:24,067
A false flag operation
is usually a violent act
505
00:31:24,067 --> 00:31:27,833
perpetrated by one's
own government or group
506
00:31:27,833 --> 00:31:31,167
and scapegoating
another group of people
507
00:31:32,500 --> 00:31:36,067
for the purpose of
convincing the population
508
00:31:37,967 --> 00:31:41,700
to go to war abroad and to
restrict liberties at home.
509
00:31:41,700 --> 00:31:45,133
When we do some research
into false flag operations
510
00:31:45,133 --> 00:31:48,667
we find that they are
probably government's
511
00:31:48,667 --> 00:31:52,567
most dependable way of
getting support for war.
512
00:31:57,067 --> 00:31:59,367
- [Voiceover] In naval
warfare, a false flag
513
00:31:59,367 --> 00:32:00,967
refers to an attack where
a vessel flies a flag
514
00:32:00,967 --> 00:32:02,967
other than their
true battle flag
515
00:32:02,967 --> 00:32:04,833
before engaging their enemy.
516
00:32:04,833 --> 00:32:06,933
It is a trick designed
to deceive the enemy
517
00:32:06,933 --> 00:32:10,300
about the true nature
and origin of an attack.
518
00:32:10,300 --> 00:32:12,133
In the democratic era,
where governments require
519
00:32:12,133 --> 00:32:14,567
at least a plausible pretext
before sending their nation
520
00:32:14,567 --> 00:32:16,967
to war, it has been adapted
as a psychological warfare
521
00:32:16,967 --> 00:32:19,833
tactic to deceive a
government's own population
522
00:32:19,833 --> 00:32:23,200
into believing that an enemy
nation has attacked them.
523
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,567
In 1931, Japan was
looking for a pretext
524
00:32:25,567 --> 00:32:27,467
to invade Manchuria.
525
00:32:27,467 --> 00:32:29,867
On September 18th of
that year, a lieutenant
526
00:32:29,867 --> 00:32:32,567
in the Imperial Japanese
Army detonated a small amount
527
00:32:32,567 --> 00:32:35,333
of TNT along a Japanese-owned
railway in the Manchurian
528
00:32:35,333 --> 00:32:37,300
city of Mukden.
529
00:32:37,300 --> 00:32:39,133
The act was blamed
on Chinese dissidents
530
00:32:39,133 --> 00:32:41,067
and used to justify the
occupation of Manchuria
531
00:32:41,067 --> 00:32:43,067
just six months later.
532
00:32:43,067 --> 00:32:44,967
When the deception
was later exposed,
533
00:32:44,967 --> 00:32:47,300
Japan was diplomatically
shunned and forced to withdraw
534
00:32:47,300 --> 00:32:49,233
from the League of Nations.
535
00:32:49,233 --> 00:32:51,633
In 1962, the US Joint
Chiefs of Staff authored
536
00:32:51,633 --> 00:32:54,633
a document called Operation
Northwoods, calling for
537
00:32:54,633 --> 00:32:57,167
the US government to stage
a series of fake attacks,
538
00:32:57,167 --> 00:32:59,600
including the shooting down
of military or civilian
539
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,100
US aircraft, the
destruction of a US ship,
540
00:33:02,100 --> 00:33:04,900
sniper attacks in Washington,
and other atrocities
541
00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:08,067
to blame on the Cubans as
an excuse for launching
542
00:33:08,067 --> 00:33:09,833
an invasion.
543
00:33:09,833 --> 00:33:13,200
In August 1964, the USS
Maddox, a US destroyer
544
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,633
on patrol in the Gulf of
Tonkin, believed it had
545
00:33:15,633 --> 00:33:18,367
come under attack from North
Vietnamese navy torpedo boats,
546
00:33:18,367 --> 00:33:21,367
engaging in evasive
action and returning fire.
547
00:33:21,367 --> 00:33:24,067
The incident led to the
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution,
548
00:33:24,067 --> 00:33:26,400
authorizing President
Johnson to begin open warfare
549
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:27,333
in Vietnam.
550
00:33:28,733 --> 00:33:30,667
It was later admitted that
no attack had occurred
551
00:33:30,667 --> 00:33:34,267
and in 2005 it was revealed
that the NSA had manipulated
552
00:33:34,267 --> 00:33:36,867
their information to make
it look like an attack
553
00:33:36,867 --> 00:33:38,600
had taken place.
554
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,200
- Johnson said we
may have to escalate,
555
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,633
I'm not gonna do it without
congressional authority,
556
00:33:43,633 --> 00:33:47,233
and he put forward a resolution
the language of which
557
00:33:47,233 --> 00:33:50,433
gave complete authority
to the president
558
00:33:50,433 --> 00:33:53,067
to take the nation to war.
559
00:33:53,067 --> 00:33:55,567
The Tonkin Gulf Resolution.
560
00:33:55,567 --> 00:33:59,833
And events afterwards
showed that our judgment
561
00:33:59,833 --> 00:34:02,833
that we had been attacked
that day was wrong.
562
00:34:02,833 --> 00:34:04,233
It didn't happen.
563
00:34:06,067 --> 00:34:08,267
- [Voiceover] In 2001, attacks
in New York and Washington
564
00:34:08,267 --> 00:34:10,600
we blamed on Al Qaeda as
a pretext for invading
565
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,133
Afghanistan.
566
00:34:12,133 --> 00:34:14,333
These are but a few of the
hundreds of such incidents
567
00:34:14,333 --> 00:34:16,467
that have been staged over
the centuries to blame
568
00:34:16,467 --> 00:34:19,933
political enemies for attacks
that they did not commit.
569
00:34:19,933 --> 00:34:22,067
The tactic remains
in common use today,
570
00:34:22,067 --> 00:34:24,800
and will continue to be
employed as long as populations
571
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,433
still blindly believe whatever
their governments tell them
572
00:34:27,433 --> 00:34:31,600
about the origins of
spectacular terror incidents.
573
00:34:36,733 --> 00:34:40,533
- We're also very fortunate
to have the term "deep state".
574
00:34:40,533 --> 00:34:44,433
This term was coined by
Professor Peter Dale Scott.
575
00:34:44,433 --> 00:34:47,567
- The public state is the
one we're taught about
576
00:34:47,567 --> 00:34:51,433
in school and it's true as
far as it goes but all over
577
00:34:51,433 --> 00:34:54,133
the world, particularly since
World War Two but even before,
578
00:34:54,133 --> 00:34:57,800
public states have
little escape hatches for
579
00:35:00,667 --> 00:35:03,333
when they want to do
something illegal.
580
00:35:03,333 --> 00:35:06,467
And in this country the most
visible but not the only
581
00:35:06,467 --> 00:35:10,433
sign of it is the CIA,
which was actually charged
582
00:35:10,433 --> 00:35:14,500
quite early on in 1948 to
start committing crimes
583
00:35:17,500 --> 00:35:20,100
against governments in
other parts of the world.
584
00:35:20,100 --> 00:35:23,067
So we do have a deep
state in America
585
00:35:23,067 --> 00:35:26,767
and the thesis of my book
is it's secret, it's not
586
00:35:26,767 --> 00:35:31,633
properly controlled, it gets
involved in larger and larger
587
00:35:31,633 --> 00:35:34,733
enterprises which were
never envisaged, by the way,
588
00:35:34,733 --> 00:35:37,133
when the CIA was first created.
589
00:35:37,133 --> 00:35:41,300
Which become more and more
disastrous for everybody
590
00:35:42,700 --> 00:35:46,867
including the United States
and the balance between
591
00:35:46,867 --> 00:35:49,500
the public state and the
deep state has been shifting
592
00:35:49,500 --> 00:35:51,533
more and more towards
the deep state
593
00:35:51,533 --> 00:35:54,067
because there are checks and
balances on the public state
594
00:35:54,067 --> 00:35:57,500
and nothing that works by
way of checks and balances
595
00:35:57,500 --> 00:36:01,667
with the CIA, DIA, and the Drug
Enforcement Administration,
596
00:36:04,300 --> 00:36:08,533
the various components
of the deep state.
597
00:36:08,533 --> 00:36:11,467
(eerie music)
598
00:36:11,467 --> 00:36:15,267
- And we have more recently
been given another phrase,
599
00:36:15,267 --> 00:36:18,133
state crimes against
democracy or SCADs, S-C-A-D-S.
600
00:36:18,133 --> 00:36:22,133
The social scientist,
through the very prominent
601
00:36:23,933 --> 00:36:28,100
and well-regarded journal The
American Behavior Scientist
602
00:36:29,700 --> 00:36:33,867
devoted their entire February
2010 issue to this study
603
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:40,400
of state crimes
against democracy.
604
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:44,300
What these social scientists
are telling us is that
605
00:36:44,300 --> 00:36:46,400
they are seeing patterns.
606
00:36:47,567 --> 00:36:51,967
They are seeing patterns
for many state crimes
607
00:36:51,967 --> 00:36:54,067
against democracy,
they have looked at
608
00:36:54,067 --> 00:36:56,100
the John F. Kennedy
assassination, the
Martin Luther King
609
00:36:56,100 --> 00:36:59,300
assassination, the Bobby
Kennedy assassination,
610
00:36:59,300 --> 00:37:03,467
the Iran Contra conspiracy,
the Watergate conspiracy
611
00:37:04,900 --> 00:37:07,067
and what they're seeing
is that there are patterns
612
00:37:07,067 --> 00:37:09,567
and they're telling us that
as social scientists they
613
00:37:09,567 --> 00:37:12,433
need to study these patterns.
614
00:37:12,433 --> 00:37:16,600
How these events took place,
who benefited from them.
615
00:37:18,567 --> 00:37:22,167
- I remember getting
a call from the
616
00:37:22,167 --> 00:37:24,133
fire department commander
telling me that they were
617
00:37:24,133 --> 00:37:26,200
not sure they were gonna be
able to contain the fire.
618
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:29,367
I said you know, we've had
such terrible loss of life.
619
00:37:29,367 --> 00:37:31,933
Maybe the smartest
thing to do is pull it.
620
00:37:31,933 --> 00:37:35,167
And they made that decision
to pull and then we watched
621
00:37:35,167 --> 00:37:37,067
the building collapse.
622
00:37:39,067 --> 00:37:42,433
- What were the
resulting policy changes?
623
00:37:42,433 --> 00:37:46,067
They need to study
these criminal patterns
by the deep state
624
00:37:46,067 --> 00:37:50,067
just as they would study
any other social issue.
625
00:37:56,133 --> 00:37:59,067
- Numerous false flag events
have been used to justify
626
00:37:59,067 --> 00:38:03,833
wars in the past, possibly
the Iraq and Afghanistan wars
627
00:38:03,833 --> 00:38:08,133
can be connected to a false
flag event in this case.
628
00:38:08,133 --> 00:38:11,700
That would fit into the
psychologist's explanation.
629
00:38:11,700 --> 00:38:14,433
Somebody generated
a new Pearl Harbor
630
00:38:14,433 --> 00:38:17,667
and that was used to
turn public opinion
631
00:38:17,667 --> 00:38:20,233
into the support of war.
632
00:38:20,233 --> 00:38:23,500
- A number of senior
congressional figures
633
00:38:23,500 --> 00:38:26,067
are calling this
America's Pearl Harbor.
634
00:38:26,067 --> 00:38:28,700
- [Voiceover] This is
comparable to an attack
635
00:38:28,700 --> 00:38:30,067
on Pearl Harbor.
636
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,767
- This is an act, when they
compare this to Pearl Harbor,
637
00:38:34,767 --> 00:38:37,067
I don't think they're wrong.
638
00:38:37,067 --> 00:38:39,367
- Senator Dodd earlier
today compared this
639
00:38:39,367 --> 00:38:42,067
to the equivalent of the
bombing of Pearl Harbor.
640
00:38:42,067 --> 00:38:44,633
- In my youth,
the Gulf of Tonkin
641
00:38:44,633 --> 00:38:48,533
has been exposed as the
false flag non-incident
642
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:54,567
which was used to get congress
to vote to go into Vietnam.
643
00:38:57,067 --> 00:38:59,233
If you look into the
history of other wars,
644
00:38:59,233 --> 00:39:03,400
in almost every case you find
public opinion was manipulated
645
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:07,567
to get us into the war and
this may be no exception.
646
00:39:09,067 --> 00:39:11,467
So rather than be afraid
of the possibility
647
00:39:11,467 --> 00:39:14,733
that we were manipulated
into the perception
648
00:39:14,733 --> 00:39:18,967
that we had been attacked,
perhaps we should summon
649
00:39:18,967 --> 00:39:22,300
the courage to allow
experts to weigh in
650
00:39:24,767 --> 00:39:28,700
and have a public process
to get out the truth.
651
00:39:30,100 --> 00:39:31,867
So that's why I have joined
the 9/11 truth movement
652
00:39:31,867 --> 00:39:35,267
to allow the light of day to
shine on a traumatic event
653
00:39:35,267 --> 00:39:39,433
and hope that out of that
can come a national healing.
654
00:39:44,067 --> 00:39:47,567
- When I was first
presented with the idea
655
00:39:48,867 --> 00:39:52,533
that 9/11 was an
inside job, that 9/11
656
00:39:52,533 --> 00:39:55,533
was a false flag
operation, I said well,
657
00:39:55,533 --> 00:39:57,267
give me the evidence.
658
00:39:58,533 --> 00:40:01,767
So he sent me some
evidence, some websites,
659
00:40:01,767 --> 00:40:05,933
I looked at them, and didn't
find the evidence convincing.
660
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,867
So I went back to
the work I was doing.
661
00:40:13,300 --> 00:40:16,767
Six months later somebody
else sent me information
662
00:40:16,767 --> 00:40:20,333
so I looked at it and
this time it clicked.
663
00:40:21,533 --> 00:40:25,367
I saw stories that were
in the mainstream press,
664
00:40:28,967 --> 00:40:32,533
New York Times, nothing
in the left-wing press,
665
00:40:32,533 --> 00:40:36,933
nothing unusual, only
mainstream press stories
666
00:40:36,933 --> 00:40:41,133
and yet I saw there were
dozens, even hundreds
667
00:40:41,133 --> 00:40:45,967
of such stories that
conflicted with some aspect
668
00:40:45,967 --> 00:40:49,633
of the official
story about 9/11.
669
00:40:51,133 --> 00:40:54,967
Now I've written about, there
are different types of people.
670
00:40:54,967 --> 00:40:58,700
You have empirical people
who will simply say
671
00:40:59,900 --> 00:41:02,233
look at the evidence
and if it's convincing
672
00:41:02,233 --> 00:41:04,567
I will change my mind.
673
00:41:04,567 --> 00:41:07,633
Other people are
paradigmatic people.
674
00:41:08,633 --> 00:41:10,600
They have a paradigm.
675
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,367
They say this is the
way the world works,
676
00:41:13,367 --> 00:41:17,867
and I'm convinced this is the
right way the world works.
677
00:41:17,867 --> 00:41:21,700
9/11 doesn't fit
into that paradigm.
678
00:41:21,700 --> 00:41:26,533
So I don't need to look at the
evidence, it's paradigmatic.
679
00:41:26,533 --> 00:41:30,367
And then there's a third type
of person that we often call
680
00:41:30,367 --> 00:41:31,800
wishful thinkers.
681
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:37,067
I call it wishful
and fearful thinking.
682
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:42,367
So they simply will not believe
something that they fear
683
00:41:42,367 --> 00:41:46,300
to be the truth and I've
found that maybe to be
684
00:41:49,333 --> 00:41:53,500
the most powerful factor of
people rejecting 9/11 truth
685
00:41:56,367 --> 00:42:00,067
and not even entertaining
the evidence.
686
00:42:00,067 --> 00:42:03,100
I had one woman, after I
presented what I thought
687
00:42:03,100 --> 00:42:07,100
was a very convincing
lecture, she came up to me
688
00:42:08,533 --> 00:42:12,633
and she said, "I simply refuse
to believe what you've said,
689
00:42:14,500 --> 00:42:18,100
"because I do not want
to live in a country
690
00:42:19,233 --> 00:42:22,733
"where the leaders
would do such a thing."
691
00:42:24,433 --> 00:42:27,933
That is fearful thinking
with a vengeance.
692
00:42:30,667 --> 00:42:32,400
And it's very common.
693
00:42:34,300 --> 00:42:37,533
So and that fits into
this nationalism.
694
00:42:39,067 --> 00:42:42,967
This is the fear that the
country that I thought we had,
695
00:42:42,967 --> 00:42:46,967
this country that's better
than other countries,
696
00:42:48,133 --> 00:42:50,967
you're telling me
that's not true.
697
00:42:50,967 --> 00:42:55,133
That is frightening, I
simply refuse to believe it,
698
00:42:56,567 --> 00:43:00,633
I will not listen to any more
evidence, whatever it is.
699
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:13,733
- Now I've noticed as I've
spoken with people about 9/11
700
00:43:13,733 --> 00:43:17,900
that I get some very interesting
spontaneous reactions
701
00:43:20,233 --> 00:43:21,733
from people.
702
00:43:21,733 --> 00:43:25,567
I believe that every one of
us will be able to relate
703
00:43:25,567 --> 00:43:29,067
to these reactions because
most of us bought the
704
00:43:29,067 --> 00:43:33,067
official story about what
happened on 9/11 completely,
705
00:43:33,067 --> 00:43:35,500
and then we were shocked
when we discovered evidence
706
00:43:35,500 --> 00:43:37,067
to the contrary.
707
00:43:37,067 --> 00:43:38,500
Fran.
708
00:43:38,500 --> 00:43:41,333
I refuse to believe that
that many Americans could be
709
00:43:41,333 --> 00:43:44,067
that satanically treasonous.
710
00:43:44,067 --> 00:43:46,667
Someone would have talked.
711
00:43:46,667 --> 00:43:50,067
Now this reaction's very
interesting because it contains
712
00:43:50,067 --> 00:43:51,500
two assumptions.
713
00:43:51,500 --> 00:43:55,433
Number one, that if 9/11
is a false flag operation
714
00:43:55,433 --> 00:43:58,433
orchestrated by elements
within our government,
715
00:43:58,433 --> 00:44:02,500
that it would have required
a large number of people
716
00:44:02,500 --> 00:44:04,233
to have pulled it off.
717
00:44:04,233 --> 00:44:09,100
The second assumption is
that somebody would have had
718
00:44:09,100 --> 00:44:11,200
a conscience, and
would have talked.
719
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:15,867
But these are beliefs, they
are not scientific facts.
720
00:44:15,867 --> 00:44:19,067
But these beliefs do
keep us from looking
721
00:44:19,067 --> 00:44:21,067
at the empirical evidence.
722
00:44:21,067 --> 00:44:25,233
Whenever we say I refuse
to believe, we can be sure
723
00:44:26,567 --> 00:44:30,300
that the evidence that's
coming our way is not bearable,
724
00:44:30,300 --> 00:44:34,400
and it's conflicting with
our worldview much too much.
725
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:35,833
Another reaction.
726
00:44:37,167 --> 00:44:40,967
Fran, you can't expect
someone to let in information
727
00:44:40,967 --> 00:44:44,300
that turns their
world upside down.
728
00:44:44,300 --> 00:44:48,200
If this were true, up would
be down and down would be up.
729
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:51,500
My life would never be the same.
730
00:44:51,500 --> 00:44:53,133
Another said, have
you lost friends
731
00:44:53,133 --> 00:44:55,200
talking about this issue?
732
00:44:56,633 --> 00:44:59,667
And by the way, that's a
very important statement.
733
00:44:59,667 --> 00:45:02,200
I think that is at bottom
what most of us fear
734
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:06,367
is being ostracized and by
the way the answer to this is
735
00:45:07,767 --> 00:45:10,933
no I have not lost any real
friends, but I have had
736
00:45:10,933 --> 00:45:15,067
very good friendships
severely strained,
737
00:45:15,067 --> 00:45:17,233
and that's the nature
of this subject.
738
00:45:17,233 --> 00:45:21,400
When we introduce an idea
that is paradigm-shifting
739
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:24,167
to a person, this
is to be expected.
740
00:45:24,167 --> 00:45:27,833
Here are some very honest
responses that I've heard.
741
00:45:27,833 --> 00:45:32,067
I must admit that I seriously
resist anyone messing
742
00:45:32,933 --> 00:45:34,433
with my worldview.
743
00:45:35,900 --> 00:45:38,233
I wouldn't want to live in
a world where such a thing
744
00:45:38,233 --> 00:45:39,533
could be true.
745
00:45:39,533 --> 00:45:42,400
And finally, here's the
most honest response
746
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:44,900
I have ever received.
747
00:45:44,900 --> 00:45:48,267
If what you're saying is
true, I don't want to know,
748
00:45:48,267 --> 00:45:51,333
because I would become very
negative, my life would go
749
00:45:51,333 --> 00:45:54,667
downhill, I'd take a
turn for the worse.
750
00:45:56,133 --> 00:45:59,467
So as I thought about
all of these responses,
751
00:45:59,467 --> 00:46:03,067
I realized that what is
common to every one of them
752
00:46:03,067 --> 00:46:04,967
is the emotion of fear.
753
00:46:06,133 --> 00:46:09,300
People are afraid
of being ostracized,
754
00:46:11,567 --> 00:46:13,600
they're afraid of being
alienated, they're afraid
755
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:17,267
of being shunned,
they're afraid of
756
00:46:17,267 --> 00:46:19,800
their lives being
inconvenienced,
they'd have to change
757
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:22,367
their lives, they're
afraid of being confused,
758
00:46:22,367 --> 00:46:26,133
they're afraid of
psychological deterioration.
759
00:46:26,133 --> 00:46:29,767
They're afraid of feeling
helpless and vulnerable.
760
00:46:29,767 --> 00:46:32,233
And they're afraid that
they won't be able to handle
761
00:46:32,233 --> 00:46:34,467
the feelings that are coming up.
762
00:46:34,467 --> 00:46:38,633
So really fear is at the bottom
of each of these feelings
763
00:46:38,633 --> 00:46:42,067
and when we feel
vulnerable and helpless,
764
00:46:43,300 --> 00:46:45,833
it's a very terrible feeling.
765
00:46:45,833 --> 00:46:48,800
None of us want to feel
helpless and vulnerable.
766
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:53,067
So we want to defend ourselves,
and the way we often do that
767
00:46:53,067 --> 00:46:54,167
is with anger.
768
00:46:55,367 --> 00:46:59,100
So then we become angry,
and when we become angry
769
00:46:59,100 --> 00:47:02,867
then we become indignant,
we become offended.
770
00:47:04,333 --> 00:47:07,833
We want to ridicule
the messenger.
771
00:47:07,833 --> 00:47:10,133
We want to pathologize
the messenger,
772
00:47:10,133 --> 00:47:13,133
and we want to
censor the messenger.
773
00:47:16,700 --> 00:47:19,433
- On the day of 9/11
I saw the second plane
774
00:47:19,433 --> 00:47:22,633
crash into the south
tower, I got to the TV
775
00:47:22,633 --> 00:47:24,567
just in time to witness that.
776
00:47:24,567 --> 00:47:26,967
And then later in the
day I was standing alone
777
00:47:26,967 --> 00:47:30,333
in my kitchen and was
suddenly hit with what I think
778
00:47:30,333 --> 00:47:33,333
of now as Jewish paralysis.
779
00:47:33,333 --> 00:47:36,267
As a person of Jewish
heritage I suddenly got
780
00:47:36,267 --> 00:47:41,167
the extremely frightening
sense that this was a very
781
00:47:41,167 --> 00:47:44,533
coordinated attack by the Arab
world on the Jewish people
782
00:47:44,533 --> 00:47:48,100
and there was no
particularly rational reason
783
00:47:48,100 --> 00:47:50,567
for me to be thinking that, I
just remember that I felt that
784
00:47:50,567 --> 00:47:52,733
very strongly on that day.
785
00:47:53,933 --> 00:47:57,800
After 9/11 we seemed to
talk about nothing else
786
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:00,600
at our office and with
my friends and I remember
787
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:04,633
in a reevaluation counseling
session just crying,
788
00:48:04,633 --> 00:48:07,167
crying my heart out as I
thought about the children who
789
00:48:07,167 --> 00:48:10,600
were orphaned on that day
and thinking about the people
790
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:13,167
who were forced to
jump out of the towers
791
00:48:13,167 --> 00:48:16,200
and the terror they must
have felt and I just couldn't
792
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:20,367
get my head around how people
could have been so mean,
793
00:48:22,700 --> 00:48:26,867
so hostile to do that knowing
how it would affect people.
794
00:48:28,267 --> 00:48:31,167
- What's critical here
is that acts of terrorism
795
00:48:31,167 --> 00:48:33,733
and political terrorism
are also considered
796
00:48:33,733 --> 00:48:35,167
traumatic events.
797
00:48:36,833 --> 00:48:39,567
And there's something,
what's different about trauma
798
00:48:39,567 --> 00:48:43,733
versus daily stress
or situational stress
are a few things.
799
00:48:45,100 --> 00:48:48,567
First of all there is a
perceived or real threat
800
00:48:48,567 --> 00:48:50,500
to bodily harm or life.
801
00:48:52,633 --> 00:48:55,600
There's also a feeling of
being completely helpless
802
00:48:55,600 --> 00:49:00,500
and overwhelmed by a force
beyond the individual's control.
803
00:49:00,500 --> 00:49:04,200
There, another characteristic
is that resistance or escape
804
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:07,400
is not possible so these
are the characteristics
805
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:09,067
of traumatic stress.
806
00:49:10,767 --> 00:49:14,967
Now what's very interesting
about that, about trauma,
807
00:49:14,967 --> 00:49:19,267
is that actually witnessing
a traumatic event
808
00:49:19,267 --> 00:49:23,400
can have the same psychological
impact as actually being
809
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:24,467
in the event.
810
00:49:26,333 --> 00:49:30,800
- Well fear is kind of the
beginning of everything.
811
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:34,900
Goering, at Nuremberg, gave
an interview, off the record,
812
00:49:34,900 --> 00:49:39,067
and somebody, bright
journalist said how on earth
813
00:49:40,433 --> 00:49:42,700
did you pull it off, you
Nazis, to get the Germans
814
00:49:42,700 --> 00:49:47,433
who were a civilized people
for several hundred years
815
00:49:47,433 --> 00:49:51,067
to turn into the bloody
Huns and go to war?
816
00:49:52,100 --> 00:49:54,700
Make, create
concentration camps?
817
00:49:56,333 --> 00:49:59,233
And Goering said well, no
sensible man is ever going
818
00:49:59,233 --> 00:50:02,100
to join your army and
risk getting killed
819
00:50:02,100 --> 00:50:06,100
unless there's a strong
reason, and that's fear.
820
00:50:07,667 --> 00:50:09,933
And we knew how to create it.
821
00:50:09,933 --> 00:50:12,500
The Bolsheviks are coming, or
whichever enemy of the week
822
00:50:12,500 --> 00:50:15,000
it was, the Poles are coming,
the Czechs are killing
823
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:19,167
the Sudeten Germans and
they'll try and kill you too.
824
00:50:20,567 --> 00:50:23,867
Well just look what's been
done now in the name of freedom
825
00:50:23,867 --> 00:50:24,867
and liberty.
826
00:50:26,900 --> 00:50:29,767
The fear is constant, and
it's just, for instance,
827
00:50:29,767 --> 00:50:33,200
every child of nine
outside the United States
828
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:37,067
knows that Saddam Hussein had
nothing to do with Al Qaeda
829
00:50:37,067 --> 00:50:40,400
and nothing to do
with Osama bin Laden.
830
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:43,700
As a matter of fact the two
men despised each other.
831
00:50:43,700 --> 00:50:47,433
Every day for months, one day
it'd be the vice president,
832
00:50:47,433 --> 00:50:50,133
next day it'd be the president.
833
00:50:50,133 --> 00:50:53,067
We gotta take care of
evil all over the world,
834
00:50:53,067 --> 00:50:55,300
bring 'em back dead or alive.
835
00:50:55,300 --> 00:50:58,100
Now if the people hear
that from what they assume
836
00:50:58,100 --> 00:51:01,467
is their president,
elected president,
837
00:51:01,467 --> 00:51:05,500
they're bound to believe
it, there's some residue
838
00:51:05,500 --> 00:51:08,200
that stays in people's
heads, they can't keep lying
839
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:09,067
that much.
840
00:51:10,467 --> 00:51:13,767
And so with terror they
have been able to come up
841
00:51:13,767 --> 00:51:16,400
with the USA Patriot Act
which nobody seems to be able
842
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:19,067
to get their hands
on, I can't find it.
843
00:51:19,067 --> 00:51:22,900
Which shreds our civil
liberties, and we're now at war
844
00:51:22,900 --> 00:51:24,833
with just about everybody,
we're talking about possible
845
00:51:24,833 --> 00:51:28,233
strikes against Iran,
North Korea, Syria.
846
00:51:30,567 --> 00:51:33,800
We've gone barbarous,
we have gone back two,
847
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:36,667
three thousand years
in human history
848
00:51:36,667 --> 00:51:40,833
to almost pre-Roman times and
the rationale among themselves
849
00:51:42,967 --> 00:51:45,267
is we've gotta have that oil.
850
00:51:45,267 --> 00:51:47,067
Well the money we spend
on war we could develop
851
00:51:47,067 --> 00:51:49,967
an alternative to fossil fuels.
852
00:51:49,967 --> 00:51:53,067
It's not that far
away in the future.
853
00:51:53,067 --> 00:51:55,733
But we don't, we
prefer the wars.
854
00:51:56,667 --> 00:51:59,167
(light music)
855
00:52:12,533 --> 00:52:16,933
- I think as a psychologist
to overcome our fear of
856
00:52:16,933 --> 00:52:21,767
the traumatic event with
new information would be
857
00:52:21,767 --> 00:52:25,933
the best, healthiest route
to our collective recovery
858
00:52:26,833 --> 00:52:29,767
from the trauma of 9/11.
859
00:52:31,167 --> 00:52:34,233
That, by the way, is a
psychotherapeutic insight
860
00:52:34,233 --> 00:52:38,400
that to gradually uncover
the truth in your own life,
861
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:43,367
the sources of anxiety,
to make them conscious,
862
00:52:43,367 --> 00:52:45,867
is the royal road to recovery.
863
00:52:47,333 --> 00:52:51,167
Healing comes through facing
the truth, experiencing it,
864
00:52:53,067 --> 00:52:55,133
allowing the feelings to come in
865
00:52:55,133 --> 00:52:57,467
so that if there are
feelings of fear that perhaps
866
00:52:57,467 --> 00:53:01,700
these events were caused by
something that we haven't
867
00:53:01,700 --> 00:53:05,933
thought about yet, dark
elements within our society,
868
00:53:05,933 --> 00:53:10,900
for example, we'll let that
come in and explore it.
869
00:53:10,900 --> 00:53:13,467
Let the light shine
on whatever happened.
870
00:53:13,467 --> 00:53:16,667
This will be the
most healing process.
871
00:53:16,667 --> 00:53:19,433
The Germans did this
after their war.
872
00:53:19,433 --> 00:53:22,300
The South Africans did
this after apartheid.
873
00:53:22,300 --> 00:53:24,633
Reconciliation through the truth
874
00:53:24,633 --> 00:53:28,767
is what is a deep path
to psychologic recovery
875
00:53:28,767 --> 00:53:33,433
from the myths and lies around
which this historical event
876
00:53:33,433 --> 00:53:36,600
has been cloaked in
the official view.
877
00:53:38,167 --> 00:53:42,433
But some of us find it
comforting if we believe
878
00:53:42,433 --> 00:53:44,167
an enemy attacked us.
879
00:53:45,100 --> 00:53:47,167
Most people take that route.
880
00:53:47,167 --> 00:53:50,467
That explanation was given
to us by the news media
881
00:53:50,467 --> 00:53:53,600
within hours of the
so-called attacks.
882
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:56,633
That's extraordinary, to
identify the perpetrators
883
00:53:56,633 --> 00:54:00,500
on the first day without
any forensic examination,
884
00:54:00,500 --> 00:54:03,267
without any investigation
of the crime scene.
885
00:54:03,267 --> 00:54:06,233
For example there was another
World Trade tower that went
886
00:54:06,233 --> 00:54:08,533
down, World Trade Center 7,
and no one's explaining that.
887
00:54:08,533 --> 00:54:11,533
So we waited and we got
the 9/11 Commission Report.
888
00:54:11,533 --> 00:54:15,700
We thought that would bring
some harmony, some consonance,
889
00:54:17,667 --> 00:54:20,067
but for us there was dissonance.
890
00:54:20,067 --> 00:54:22,133
The official story
didn't make enough sense,
891
00:54:22,133 --> 00:54:25,567
we had this discrepant
information.
892
00:54:25,567 --> 00:54:28,067
We kept looking and
finally we found something
893
00:54:28,067 --> 00:54:31,300
that did produce consonance
which was that there was
894
00:54:31,300 --> 00:54:34,600
fairly a demolition in
all three buildings.
895
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:36,667
That's where the
Richard Gage explanation
896
00:54:36,667 --> 00:54:39,767
appeals to a wide spectrum
of professionals in many
897
00:54:39,767 --> 00:54:41,400
disciplines.
898
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:45,067
So dissonance is reduced
by finding a scientific
899
00:54:45,067 --> 00:54:48,933
explanation and most people
find comfort in believing
900
00:54:48,933 --> 00:54:51,067
that we were attacked.
901
00:54:51,067 --> 00:54:53,800
A smaller minority of
us feel that it would be
902
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:58,133
more comforting to understand
this in terms of science.
903
00:54:58,133 --> 00:55:00,300
- The thing that's most
important about science is
904
00:55:00,300 --> 00:55:03,167
that it's a way of knowing,
it's a way of knowing
905
00:55:03,167 --> 00:55:06,967
that anyone can participate,
of course they have to have
906
00:55:06,967 --> 00:55:09,967
some background and they
all have to develop more,
907
00:55:09,967 --> 00:55:13,233
but it's a way of
knowing about anything
908
00:55:13,233 --> 00:55:17,400
and it's at the end of any
kind of science activity,
909
00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:21,567
people will agree that they
have collected evidence
910
00:55:22,867 --> 00:55:26,800
that illustrates a hypothesis
and if the evidence
911
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:30,300
is contradictory to the
hypothesis, one has to abandon
912
00:55:30,300 --> 00:55:33,300
that hypothesis and
look for another one.
913
00:55:33,300 --> 00:55:37,200
And one must, in testing
any hypothesis or trying to
914
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:41,567
establish it, consider all
of the relevant evidence
915
00:55:41,567 --> 00:55:44,333
which may come from
all kinds of places.
916
00:55:44,333 --> 00:55:46,633
Observations,
measurements, and so on.
917
00:55:46,633 --> 00:55:49,200
And insofar as people
can be objective at all,
918
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:52,400
they will come to the
same sorts of conclusions.
919
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:56,467
So science is a fundamentally
useful and accurate
920
00:55:56,467 --> 00:56:00,567
and universal way of
finding out about the world.
921
00:56:05,300 --> 00:56:07,133
- [Voiceover] NIST
received 20 million dollars
922
00:56:07,133 --> 00:56:09,867
of taxpayers' money to
determine why and how
923
00:56:09,867 --> 00:56:12,900
World Trade Center 1 and
World Trade Center 2 collapsed
924
00:56:12,900 --> 00:56:16,200
following the initial
impacts of the aircraft.
925
00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:19,600
And to this day, they
have not done so.
926
00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:21,700
This is why architects
and engineers has kept
927
00:56:21,700 --> 00:56:24,467
pressing NIST, asking
them to publish their data
928
00:56:24,467 --> 00:56:27,267
in regards to the potential
energy released during
929
00:56:27,267 --> 00:56:29,600
the downwards movement
of the upper stories,
930
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:32,567
and the absortive capacity
of the intact structure
931
00:56:32,567 --> 00:56:34,500
below the collapsed zone.
932
00:56:34,500 --> 00:56:37,267
- Structural engineers
do this every day.
933
00:56:37,267 --> 00:56:39,200
This is not rocket science.
934
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:41,733
You have the known weight
of this building mass.
935
00:56:41,733 --> 00:56:44,867
You have what are
known columns below it
936
00:56:44,867 --> 00:56:46,500
in order to resist it.
937
00:56:46,500 --> 00:56:48,767
You let it go in your
models and you calculate
938
00:56:48,767 --> 00:56:51,333
what the resistance is.
939
00:56:51,333 --> 00:56:52,833
Why didn't they do it?
940
00:56:52,833 --> 00:56:55,367
Could it be because
they knew darn well
941
00:56:55,367 --> 00:56:58,700
that it would not
have collapsed at all?
942
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:02,367
- [Voiceover] In fact, it
could be suggested that NIST
943
00:57:02,367 --> 00:57:04,933
never explained the
collapses by gravity alone
944
00:57:04,933 --> 00:57:07,067
because it would be
impossible to do so
945
00:57:07,067 --> 00:57:09,133
without violating at
least two of the most
946
00:57:09,133 --> 00:57:10,967
fundamental laws of physics.
947
00:57:10,967 --> 00:57:13,633
One is Newton's third law
of motion which states
948
00:57:13,633 --> 00:57:15,833
that for every action
there is an equal
949
00:57:15,833 --> 00:57:17,933
and opposite reaction.
950
00:57:17,933 --> 00:57:20,367
This means that two opposing
forces will neutralize
951
00:57:20,367 --> 00:57:21,900
each other.
952
00:57:21,900 --> 00:57:23,833
In a head-on collision,
the two cars absorb
953
00:57:23,833 --> 00:57:25,967
each other's kinetic
energy and transform it
954
00:57:25,967 --> 00:57:28,933
into physical
deformation or damage.
955
00:57:28,933 --> 00:57:31,100
After that, the
system comes to a rest
956
00:57:31,100 --> 00:57:33,733
as there is no more
energy to be dissipated.
957
00:57:33,733 --> 00:57:37,567
- The top section pushing
on the bottom section,
958
00:57:37,567 --> 00:57:40,500
it's gonna meet equal
forces as it goes.
959
00:57:40,500 --> 00:57:44,833
Both sections are gonna be
demolished at the same rate
960
00:57:44,833 --> 00:57:49,067
so by the time you've crushed
up 15 stories below it,
961
00:57:50,333 --> 00:57:54,067
the top 15 stories are
also gonna be crushed.
962
00:57:54,067 --> 00:57:56,067
And so there's nothing left now
963
00:57:56,067 --> 00:57:57,433
to crush the rest
of the building.
964
00:57:57,433 --> 00:57:59,200
- [Voiceover]
Something of this kind
965
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:00,833
is what we should have seen
966
00:58:00,833 --> 00:58:02,600
when the top
sections of the tower
967
00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:04,067
collapsed onto the lower one.
968
00:58:04,067 --> 00:58:05,500
The upper and lower sections
should have mutually
969
00:58:05,500 --> 00:58:07,500
destroyed each other until
all the energy is dissipated
970
00:58:07,500 --> 00:58:10,667
and the system comes to a rest.
971
00:58:10,667 --> 00:58:12,633
Alternatively, as shown
in this experiment
972
00:58:12,633 --> 00:58:14,833
with two towers made of
snow, the top section
973
00:58:14,833 --> 00:58:16,700
could have fallen
off to the side
974
00:58:16,700 --> 00:58:18,933
after the initial collapse.
975
00:58:21,567 --> 00:58:23,700
What could not have
happened is this.
976
00:58:23,700 --> 00:58:26,367
- Little tiny chunk of the
building can't possibly
977
00:58:26,367 --> 00:58:30,067
fall and crush the entire
structure below it.
978
00:58:30,067 --> 00:58:32,367
- [Voiceover] This is such a
simple, fundamental concept
979
00:58:32,367 --> 00:58:35,067
that architects and engineers
were astonished in seeing it
980
00:58:35,067 --> 00:58:36,833
totally ignored by NIST.
981
00:58:36,833 --> 00:58:39,067
- This is high school physics.
982
00:58:39,067 --> 00:58:41,833
And our whole society
is being led to believe
983
00:58:41,833 --> 00:58:45,067
that these fundamental laws
of physics, hard science,
984
00:58:45,067 --> 00:58:46,700
don't apply anymore.
985
00:58:48,167 --> 00:58:49,633
- [Voiceover] But even if we
assume that the top section
986
00:58:49,633 --> 00:58:52,067
of the tower had enough
potential energy to destroy
987
00:58:52,067 --> 00:58:56,100
the rest of the structure
below, it could not have done so
988
00:58:56,100 --> 00:58:57,733
at the speed it did, which
was near freefall speed.
989
00:58:57,733 --> 00:59:01,067
That would have violated
an even more important
990
00:59:01,067 --> 00:59:02,300
principle in physics,
991
00:59:02,300 --> 00:59:05,633
known as the law of
momentum conservation.
992
00:59:05,633 --> 00:59:07,833
This law states that
the total energy within
993
00:59:07,833 --> 00:59:11,600
an isolated system must
always remain the same.
994
00:59:11,600 --> 00:59:13,733
As we have seen, the
energy can be transformed
995
00:59:13,733 --> 00:59:17,167
within the system, from motion
to physical deformation,
996
00:59:17,167 --> 00:59:21,100
but for the deformation
to begin, the
velocity must decrease
997
00:59:21,100 --> 00:59:24,167
in order for one kind of
energy to be transformed
998
00:59:24,167 --> 00:59:26,067
into the other.
999
00:59:26,067 --> 00:59:29,167
No new energy can be
added to the system.
1000
00:59:29,167 --> 00:59:33,067
One particular
example of momentum
conservation is freefall.
1001
00:59:33,067 --> 00:59:36,067
Freefall happens when the only
force applied on an object
1002
00:59:36,067 --> 00:59:37,533
is gravity.
1003
00:59:37,533 --> 00:59:39,667
This means that all the
potential energy contained
1004
00:59:39,667 --> 00:59:43,233
by the object is converted
into vertical motion.
1005
00:59:43,233 --> 00:59:45,333
As soon as the falling
object hits an obstacle
1006
00:59:45,333 --> 00:59:47,300
and breakage occurs,
the speed must decrease
1007
00:59:47,300 --> 00:59:50,067
because some of its energy
needs now to be converted
1008
00:59:50,067 --> 00:59:52,500
into physical breakage.
1009
00:59:52,500 --> 00:59:54,867
It takes energy to
break things apart,
1010
00:59:54,867 --> 00:59:57,700
and that energy must come
from within the system.
1011
00:59:57,700 --> 01:00:00,133
Thus the falling rock
cannot keep falling
1012
01:00:00,133 --> 01:00:02,600
at freefall speed and break
apart at the same time
1013
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:06,500
because it doesn't have
enough energy to do both.
1014
01:00:06,500 --> 01:00:09,833
Let's go now to the Twin Towers,
and ask a simple question.
1015
01:00:09,833 --> 01:00:11,833
Assuming that the top
section on the left
1016
01:00:11,833 --> 01:00:13,967
contains enough potential
energy to destroy
1017
01:00:13,967 --> 01:00:16,067
the rest of the tower, and
assuming we dropped both
1018
01:00:16,067 --> 01:00:18,467
upper sections at the
same time, which one would
1019
01:00:18,467 --> 01:00:19,933
hit the ground first?
1020
01:00:19,933 --> 01:00:22,533
It would be the
second, of course.
1021
01:00:22,533 --> 01:00:24,667
As it finds no
obstacles in its path,
1022
01:00:24,667 --> 01:00:26,300
the section on the right
would quickly accelerate
1023
01:00:26,300 --> 01:00:29,233
to freefall speed and
maintain it all the way
1024
01:00:29,233 --> 01:00:31,033
to the ground.
1025
01:00:31,033 --> 01:00:33,433
The section on the left
instead needs to use
1026
01:00:33,433 --> 01:00:35,967
some of its energy to
destroy the structure below,
1027
01:00:35,967 --> 01:00:38,967
so it could never
achieve freefall speed.
1028
01:00:38,967 --> 01:00:41,333
In the case of the
Twin Towers, however,
1029
01:00:41,333 --> 01:00:43,600
both upper sections fell
with an acceleration
1030
01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:46,033
close to freefall
speed, as if their path
1031
01:00:46,033 --> 01:00:49,700
had been practically
free from obstacles.
1032
01:00:49,700 --> 01:00:52,400
It took each tower
between 10 and 12 seconds
1033
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:55,067
to collapse to the ground,
while an absolute freefall time
1034
01:00:55,067 --> 01:00:58,133
would have been 9.2 seconds.
1035
01:00:58,133 --> 01:01:00,500
In other words, both upper
sections of the towers
1036
01:01:00,500 --> 01:01:03,333
found enough energy
to destroy 80,000 tons
1037
01:01:03,333 --> 01:01:05,733
of healthy structure
below while accelerating
1038
01:01:05,733 --> 01:01:07,667
to near freefall speed.
1039
01:01:09,067 --> 01:01:11,467
This is, as we have said,
absolutely impossible
1040
01:01:11,467 --> 01:01:13,233
by gravity alone.
1041
01:01:13,233 --> 01:01:15,600
The law of momentum
conservation won't allow it.
1042
01:01:15,600 --> 01:01:19,367
- A building cannot do
freefall with huge structural
1043
01:01:19,367 --> 01:01:22,633
steel structural system
in place to support it.
1044
01:01:22,633 --> 01:01:25,700
- The Twin Towers could
not have come straight down
1045
01:01:25,700 --> 01:01:29,600
through the resistance of
80,000 tons of structural steel
1046
01:01:29,600 --> 01:01:32,700
at the speed of
practically freefall.
1047
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:35,767
That just would not happen.
1048
01:01:35,767 --> 01:01:38,533
- If in fact it actually
hit and made an impact,
1049
01:01:38,533 --> 01:01:41,700
was effectively crushing
anything, pushing hard
1050
01:01:41,700 --> 01:01:46,067
on this core structure
below it, the core structure
1051
01:01:46,067 --> 01:01:49,267
is gonna push back
equally hard and that's
1052
01:01:49,267 --> 01:01:52,067
what's gonna cause the top
section of the building
1053
01:01:52,067 --> 01:01:53,300
to slow down.
1054
01:01:53,300 --> 01:01:55,633
- As energy is drained
away from the system
1055
01:01:55,633 --> 01:01:59,067
to deform those members,
it would slow down
1056
01:01:59,067 --> 01:02:03,067
the descending mass and
cause a descent at less-than
1057
01:02:03,067 --> 01:02:04,567
freefall speed.
1058
01:02:04,567 --> 01:02:06,467
- [Voiceover] There is only
one way for those buildings
1059
01:02:06,467 --> 01:02:08,067
to have collapsed at
the speed they did.
1060
01:02:08,067 --> 01:02:12,367
- The buildings fall at a
speed which can only occur
1061
01:02:12,367 --> 01:02:16,100
if the structure has been
removed, the vertical structure.
1062
01:02:16,100 --> 01:02:18,467
- [Voiceover] The same
Shyam Sunder from NIST
1063
01:02:18,467 --> 01:02:21,100
has acknowledged that
freefall can only be achieved
1064
01:02:21,100 --> 01:02:22,967
with the absence of
a structure below.
1065
01:02:22,967 --> 01:02:25,300
- Freefall time would
be an object that has no
1066
01:02:25,300 --> 01:02:27,667
structural components below it.
1067
01:02:27,667 --> 01:02:29,467
- [Voiceover] But what
could have removed
1068
01:02:29,467 --> 01:02:30,800
the supporting structure below,
since the falling section
1069
01:02:30,800 --> 01:02:33,567
didn't have any extra
energy to do so?
1070
01:02:33,567 --> 01:02:36,067
- The fact that it's
coming down at freefall
1071
01:02:36,067 --> 01:02:40,200
says all of the energy is
being used to just make it
1072
01:02:40,200 --> 01:02:42,933
go straight down, which
means it's coming down
1073
01:02:42,933 --> 01:02:47,733
through itself and not breaking
up the building as it goes.
1074
01:02:47,733 --> 01:02:50,300
Something else has to
be clearing the way.
1075
01:02:50,300 --> 01:02:52,467
- [Voiceover] There is
only one known way to allow
1076
01:02:52,467 --> 01:02:54,633
that kind of acceleration
while removing the supporting
1077
01:02:54,633 --> 01:02:56,100
structure.
1078
01:02:56,100 --> 01:03:00,133
- A building cannot do freefall
without it being blown up.
1079
01:03:00,133 --> 01:03:02,133
That's the only way it
could come down at freefall.
1080
01:03:02,133 --> 01:03:04,567
- The only way that a
building can accelerate
1081
01:03:04,567 --> 01:03:08,167
as it collapses is by
having preengineered,
1082
01:03:09,500 --> 01:03:13,600
precisely timed, and
precisely placed explosives.
1083
01:03:14,700 --> 01:03:17,400
In other words,
controlled demolition.
1084
01:03:17,400 --> 01:03:19,567
(small explosion)
1085
01:03:21,233 --> 01:03:23,733
(eerie music)
1086
01:03:26,167 --> 01:03:28,800
- In March of 2004 I
went with my brother
1087
01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:32,133
on a protest march commemorating
the first anniversary
1088
01:03:32,133 --> 01:03:36,067
of our invasion of Iraq
and at that time my brother
1089
01:03:36,067 --> 01:03:38,833
told me that there were
people who had suspicions
1090
01:03:38,833 --> 01:03:41,267
that the United States
government or people within
1091
01:03:41,267 --> 01:03:45,667
the government had
been responsible for
the 9/11 attacks.
1092
01:03:45,667 --> 01:03:49,200
And when my brother told
me this, I immediately felt
1093
01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:52,467
such a sense of
revulsion and distaste,
1094
01:03:52,467 --> 01:03:55,967
it was as if he had
exposed himself to me.
1095
01:03:57,367 --> 01:04:00,233
And I felt that it was
completely beyond the bounds
1096
01:04:00,233 --> 01:04:03,467
of decency and good taste
for him to have said
1097
01:04:03,467 --> 01:04:06,167
something like that and
so I changed the subject,
1098
01:04:06,167 --> 01:04:10,067
I did not ask any questions
about it, I just didn't want
1099
01:04:10,067 --> 01:04:11,400
to hear about it.
1100
01:04:15,133 --> 01:04:19,567
In May of 2006 my husband
asked me to read a book review
1101
01:04:19,567 --> 01:04:23,733
of two of Professor David Ray
Griffin's books about 9/11.
1102
01:04:25,133 --> 01:04:27,367
And by this time I had
seen Michael Moore's movie
1103
01:04:27,367 --> 01:04:30,600
Fahrenheit 9/11 and I
had, I guess I had been
1104
01:04:30,600 --> 01:04:34,100
softened up to taking
in new information.
1105
01:04:34,100 --> 01:04:36,833
So I read this book review
and thought oh my gosh,
1106
01:04:36,833 --> 01:04:39,500
there is a lot here
that I haven't known
1107
01:04:39,500 --> 01:04:43,167
and I need to find
out more about.
1108
01:04:43,167 --> 01:04:46,067
So about a week later after
I had read that book review
1109
01:04:46,067 --> 01:04:49,900
I went online and I read a
lengthy article by Dr. Griffin.
1110
01:04:49,900 --> 01:04:53,733
I think it was called Why
the Official Account of 9/11
1111
01:04:53,733 --> 01:04:55,433
Cannot Be True.
1112
01:04:55,433 --> 01:04:58,833
And it was very well documented,
very highly footnoted,
1113
01:04:58,833 --> 01:05:03,067
lengthy article, very precise
and specific and very well
1114
01:05:05,367 --> 01:05:08,233
backed up and I got to
the end of the article
1115
01:05:08,233 --> 01:05:10,767
and I sat there, I was
in my office at the time,
1116
01:05:10,767 --> 01:05:13,933
I sat there and I felt
my stomach churning.
1117
01:05:13,933 --> 01:05:16,600
I thought maybe I
was going to be sick.
1118
01:05:16,600 --> 01:05:20,067
And I leaped out of my
chair and ran out the door
1119
01:05:20,067 --> 01:05:23,967
and took a long walk
around the block,
1120
01:05:23,967 --> 01:05:27,967
around several blocks,
and just broke down.
1121
01:05:27,967 --> 01:05:30,733
I understand now that what
was happening was my worldview
1122
01:05:30,733 --> 01:05:33,600
about my government being
in some way my protector,
1123
01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:36,333
almost like a parent,
had been dashed
1124
01:05:36,333 --> 01:05:39,333
and it was like being cast
out into the wilderness
1125
01:05:39,333 --> 01:05:42,567
I think is the closest way
to describe that feeling
1126
01:05:42,567 --> 01:05:45,900
and I sobbed and I sobbed,
felt like the ground
1127
01:05:45,900 --> 01:05:50,200
had completely disappeared
beneath my feet and
1128
01:05:50,200 --> 01:05:54,200
I knew at some point
during the walk that I knew
1129
01:05:55,367 --> 01:05:58,067
that I was going to
have to become active
1130
01:05:58,067 --> 01:06:01,467
in educating other
people about this,
1131
01:06:01,467 --> 01:06:04,600
that there was, that for me to
retain any sense of integrity
1132
01:06:04,600 --> 01:06:07,367
I was going to have
to take some action.
1133
01:06:07,367 --> 01:06:10,567
I couldn't just let
something like this go.
1134
01:06:10,567 --> 01:06:14,733
- We are experiencing a
public reaction to our quest
1135
01:06:17,067 --> 01:06:18,200
for the truth.
1136
01:06:19,567 --> 01:06:24,233
What we experience, almost
universally, is marginalization.
1137
01:06:24,233 --> 01:06:26,967
We're told you don't
represent the mainstream,
1138
01:06:26,967 --> 01:06:31,067
you're a bit kooky, we're
going to scapegoat you,
1139
01:06:32,133 --> 01:06:34,100
we're going to dismiss you.
1140
01:06:34,100 --> 01:06:35,967
- Psychological terms can
be used to hurt people
1141
01:06:35,967 --> 01:06:38,967
as well as to help people.
1142
01:06:38,967 --> 01:06:41,633
And we can marginalize people.
1143
01:06:41,633 --> 01:06:43,833
We can call them, we can
say that they're nuts
1144
01:06:43,833 --> 01:06:46,833
if they believe something
that the majority of us
1145
01:06:46,833 --> 01:06:48,367
do not believe.
1146
01:06:48,367 --> 01:06:50,900
This has been happening
with people who have been
1147
01:06:50,900 --> 01:06:53,467
learning about 9/11 and
are trying to do something
1148
01:06:53,467 --> 01:06:54,933
about it.
1149
01:06:54,933 --> 01:06:57,633
We get called things like
conspiracy theorists.
1150
01:06:57,633 --> 01:07:01,667
It can be a very difficult
thing to be called.
1151
01:07:01,667 --> 01:07:04,500
People call your
sanity into question.
1152
01:07:04,500 --> 01:07:07,300
They call your common
sense into question.
1153
01:07:07,300 --> 01:07:10,467
They call your
judgment into question.
1154
01:07:11,867 --> 01:07:15,100
You may be much better versed
on a subject than they are
1155
01:07:15,100 --> 01:07:19,167
but if their views are in line
with the majority opinion,
1156
01:07:19,167 --> 01:07:22,233
they feel that they have
grounds to judge you
1157
01:07:22,233 --> 01:07:26,567
and to marginalize you and
as a society it's not just
1158
01:07:26,567 --> 01:07:28,667
person to person that
we marginalize people,
1159
01:07:28,667 --> 01:07:30,900
our media will
marginalize people,
1160
01:07:30,900 --> 01:07:33,233
the government will
marginalize people for having
1161
01:07:33,233 --> 01:07:37,067
unpopular views and so this
is something that people
1162
01:07:37,067 --> 01:07:40,433
who are looking at 9/11
are very much up against.
1163
01:07:40,433 --> 01:07:44,667
- Another thing that happens
is that we human beings
1164
01:07:44,667 --> 01:07:47,700
tend to have a need for
closure, and simply not knowing
1165
01:07:47,700 --> 01:07:50,933
is uncomfortable, we're taught
that we're supposed to know
1166
01:07:50,933 --> 01:07:53,567
and we don't wanna appear
stupid and we wanna have
1167
01:07:53,567 --> 01:07:57,833
an opinion for everything
and so when there's this
1168
01:07:57,833 --> 01:08:01,733
social, societal pressure
to not only have an opinion,
1169
01:08:01,733 --> 01:08:03,667
but to reach closure
about something
1170
01:08:03,667 --> 01:08:05,567
and then once we have
come to our opinion,
1171
01:08:05,567 --> 01:08:08,400
whatever that is, it can be
very difficult to challenge it.
1172
01:08:08,400 --> 01:08:10,300
And there's something
that goes on with people,
1173
01:08:10,300 --> 01:08:12,700
it's this phenomenon of
scapegoating, and scapegoating
1174
01:08:12,700 --> 01:08:16,567
goes back to the ritual
back in the Old Testament
1175
01:08:16,567 --> 01:08:19,267
when the rabbis would recite
the sins of the people
1176
01:08:19,267 --> 01:08:21,567
over the heads of goats
and then send them out
1177
01:08:21,567 --> 01:08:24,167
to the desert where
presumably they would be
1178
01:08:24,167 --> 01:08:26,767
attacked or killed or whatever
but it was a ritualistic
1179
01:08:26,767 --> 01:08:30,167
way of transferring the guilt
or the blame of the people
1180
01:08:30,167 --> 01:08:32,967
onto these goats who were then
called of course scapegoats.
1181
01:08:32,967 --> 01:08:35,367
And when something bad happens,
especially something that's
1182
01:08:35,367 --> 01:08:39,467
just terrible or preposterous
or very, very evil,
1183
01:08:41,700 --> 01:08:44,567
there's an immediate need
to find out who did it,
1184
01:08:44,567 --> 01:08:47,333
find fault, adjudicate the
fault, adjudicate the blame,
1185
01:08:47,333 --> 01:08:49,767
and then punish
the transgressor.
1186
01:08:49,767 --> 01:08:52,467
And so what happened
right after 9/11 is that
1187
01:08:52,467 --> 01:08:55,733
this was our country and even
though most of us, of course,
1188
01:08:55,733 --> 01:08:57,767
are not New Yorkers,
we took it personally.
1189
01:08:57,767 --> 01:08:59,533
This is something
that happened to us,
1190
01:08:59,533 --> 01:09:01,500
it wasn't just something that
happened to the 3,000 people
1191
01:09:01,500 --> 01:09:02,967
who died, this was something
that happened to me
1192
01:09:02,967 --> 01:09:05,433
and to my country and
people identify with that.
1193
01:09:05,433 --> 01:09:08,833
And so there's this sense
of fear and oh my God,
1194
01:09:08,833 --> 01:09:11,067
it could have happened
here and I remember people
1195
01:09:11,067 --> 01:09:13,767
in San Francisco and
even Kansas were afraid
1196
01:09:13,767 --> 01:09:15,067
that they might be bombed.
1197
01:09:15,067 --> 01:09:17,067
In the next couple
weeks there was the idea
1198
01:09:17,067 --> 01:09:19,167
that America is under attack
and we've got to do something,
1199
01:09:19,167 --> 01:09:20,633
and one of these things
that we need to do
1200
01:09:20,633 --> 01:09:22,633
is we need to identify
the enemy and punish them
1201
01:09:22,633 --> 01:09:24,533
or fight against them
or do something about it
1202
01:09:24,533 --> 01:09:28,633
and so there was
this scapegoating of
Osama bin Laden first
1203
01:09:28,633 --> 01:09:31,833
and Arabs and "terrorists"
later and then we got into
1204
01:09:31,833 --> 01:09:33,533
this whole thing on
the war on terrorism
1205
01:09:33,533 --> 01:09:37,233
and so once this connection
with an identified scapegoat
1206
01:09:37,233 --> 01:09:41,400
has been made and he becomes
a channel for our fear
1207
01:09:43,900 --> 01:09:46,533
and anger and even
fury and hostility,
1208
01:09:46,533 --> 01:09:50,067
then that becomes difficult
to dislodge and people become
1209
01:09:50,067 --> 01:09:51,900
comfortable in knowing that
we have found the enemy,
1210
01:09:51,900 --> 01:09:53,733
we have found the problem
and we are doing something
1211
01:09:53,733 --> 01:09:54,567
about it.
1212
01:10:00,033 --> 01:10:03,933
- We start to ask question
and we hear worse rumor,
1213
01:10:03,933 --> 01:10:08,400
the government, our own
government, may be involved.
1214
01:10:08,400 --> 01:10:11,400
And we start to be
disoriented, we don't know what
1215
01:10:11,400 --> 01:10:13,100
to think about it.
1216
01:10:13,100 --> 01:10:16,200
It's like having hot and
cold at the same time.
1217
01:10:16,200 --> 01:10:19,567
Something cannot be hot
and cold at the same time.
1218
01:10:19,567 --> 01:10:22,167
It cannot be Al Qaeda did it,
1219
01:10:22,167 --> 01:10:24,933
the American government did it,
1220
01:10:24,933 --> 01:10:28,600
the airplane made the
building collapse,
1221
01:10:28,600 --> 01:10:30,433
there were explosive.
1222
01:10:30,433 --> 01:10:33,467
It makes us very, very
uncomfortable and we go back
1223
01:10:33,467 --> 01:10:36,667
to every time we hear
some more news like that
1224
01:10:36,667 --> 01:10:38,467
we go back in the
state of shock.
1225
01:10:38,467 --> 01:10:40,333
It's easier to just go in
front of the television,
1226
01:10:40,333 --> 01:10:44,333
have barbecues, have
friends over, have parties,
1227
01:10:44,333 --> 01:10:47,100
and forget about
this whole mess.
1228
01:10:48,467 --> 01:10:50,333
However, doing that
doesn't help really because
1229
01:10:50,333 --> 01:10:53,533
our body, our minds know
something is going on
1230
01:10:53,533 --> 01:10:56,633
and when we deny it,
we push something down
1231
01:10:56,633 --> 01:10:59,567
and it starts to
gnaw on our bones,
1232
01:10:59,567 --> 01:11:02,800
on our organs, pretty
soon we will experience
1233
01:11:02,800 --> 01:11:04,233
aches and pains.
1234
01:11:04,233 --> 01:11:07,367
It is believed that 96%
of the aches and pains
1235
01:11:07,367 --> 01:11:09,767
and physical trauma
we experience within
1236
01:11:09,767 --> 01:11:13,433
catastrophic illnesses
stem from a trauma
1237
01:11:13,433 --> 01:11:15,967
that has not been dealt with.
1238
01:11:15,967 --> 01:11:18,767
So it is very important
to deal with a trauma
1239
01:11:18,767 --> 01:11:21,067
in the best possible way.
1240
01:11:21,067 --> 01:11:23,800
One of the ways to deal
with a trauma is to find
1241
01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:24,800
the answers.
1242
01:11:25,900 --> 01:11:28,633
(dramatic music)
1243
01:11:30,167 --> 01:11:33,133
- A lot of people have been
wondering why there's been
1244
01:11:33,133 --> 01:11:36,167
this massive level of
denial of people around,
1245
01:11:36,167 --> 01:11:38,100
the incidents surrounding 9/11.
1246
01:11:38,100 --> 01:11:40,467
And I think there are
several reasons for this.
1247
01:11:40,467 --> 01:11:42,733
One is that we tend to
be creatures of habit
1248
01:11:42,733 --> 01:11:46,567
and beliefs are habits
just like eating, drinking,
1249
01:11:46,567 --> 01:11:50,067
or sleeping, and we tend
to believe and then become
1250
01:11:50,067 --> 01:11:53,733
attached to and even identify
with our personal beliefs
1251
01:11:53,733 --> 01:11:56,233
and then we'll defend them if
they're challenged in any way.
1252
01:11:56,233 --> 01:11:58,733
There's a wonderful quotation
from the American humorist
1253
01:11:58,733 --> 01:12:00,833
Will Durant where
he once said that
1254
01:12:00,833 --> 01:12:03,467
it's not what we know
that gets us in trouble,
1255
01:12:03,467 --> 01:12:05,933
it's what we think we
know that ain't so.
1256
01:12:05,933 --> 01:12:08,833
One of our most cherished
beliefs is the belief
1257
01:12:08,833 --> 01:12:10,367
in American goodness.
1258
01:12:10,367 --> 01:12:12,333
We've been taught since the
time we were little kids
1259
01:12:12,333 --> 01:12:14,333
that America is the
leader of the free world,
1260
01:12:14,333 --> 01:12:16,367
that this is the land of the
free and the home of the brave.
1261
01:12:16,367 --> 01:12:18,800
You know, we wave the
flag, I remember growing up
1262
01:12:18,800 --> 01:12:22,400
watching Superman, at
the end of every episode,
1263
01:12:22,400 --> 01:12:25,833
they would talk about the
fight for truth, justice,
1264
01:12:25,833 --> 01:12:27,333
and the American way.
1265
01:12:27,333 --> 01:12:29,233
This is something that all
of us, is very close to
1266
01:12:29,233 --> 01:12:30,633
in our hearts.
1267
01:12:30,633 --> 01:12:33,500
- [Voiceover] Fights a
neverending battle for truth,
1268
01:12:33,500 --> 01:12:36,067
justice, and the American way.
1269
01:12:40,233 --> 01:12:42,433
- So when any information
comes up that might challenge
1270
01:12:42,433 --> 01:12:44,733
this belief in American
goodness, a lot of people
1271
01:12:44,733 --> 01:12:46,767
experience this phenomenon
of cognitive dissonance
1272
01:12:46,767 --> 01:12:49,067
and simply cannot deal with
it, intend to either deny it
1273
01:12:49,067 --> 01:12:51,267
or push it away and for some
people they just do not even
1274
01:12:51,267 --> 01:12:55,433
wanna go there just because
it's too uncomfortable.
1275
01:12:59,233 --> 01:13:03,400
- We face a lot of difficulty
looking at 9/11 objectively.
1276
01:13:05,467 --> 01:13:08,533
We've all been raised
to believe that we're in
1277
01:13:08,533 --> 01:13:11,167
the greatest country
that ever existed.
1278
01:13:11,167 --> 01:13:13,767
That this couldn't happen here.
1279
01:13:13,767 --> 01:13:18,067
Our founders, founding
fathers did not make the same
1280
01:13:18,067 --> 01:13:22,233
mistakes, they were perhaps
excellent psychologists.
1281
01:13:24,433 --> 01:13:28,233
They knew human nature, they
knew that man was capable of
1282
01:13:28,233 --> 01:13:30,133
great harm, great evil.
1283
01:13:31,733 --> 01:13:34,067
They also knew man
had great good.
1284
01:13:34,067 --> 01:13:36,367
They knew that they
could create a system
1285
01:13:36,367 --> 01:13:37,867
based upon values.
1286
01:13:39,700 --> 01:13:43,300
Liberty, democracy,
freedom, freedom from
1287
01:13:43,300 --> 01:13:45,733
cruel and unusual punishment.
1288
01:13:45,733 --> 01:13:48,700
They never made the mistake
of trusting individuals
1289
01:13:48,700 --> 01:13:50,533
or individual systems.
1290
01:13:52,467 --> 01:13:57,200
They knew, with a healthy
skepticism, that people were,
1291
01:13:57,200 --> 01:14:01,367
and power would always seek
to undermine democracy.
1292
01:14:04,067 --> 01:14:06,500
- 9/11 truth challenges
some of our most
1293
01:14:06,500 --> 01:14:09,133
fundamental beliefs
about our government
1294
01:14:09,133 --> 01:14:11,067
and about our country.
1295
01:14:11,067 --> 01:14:13,767
We are indoctrinated from
an early age to believe
1296
01:14:13,767 --> 01:14:17,633
that America is good at
that we are exceptional.
1297
01:14:17,633 --> 01:14:20,800
We are the shining
beacon in the darkness,
1298
01:14:20,800 --> 01:14:23,233
a voice for freedom and justice.
1299
01:14:23,233 --> 01:14:26,467
This patriotic indoctrination
is carried out by schools,
1300
01:14:26,467 --> 01:14:30,633
the military, churches, the
media, and other institutions.
1301
01:14:33,300 --> 01:14:36,567
It's repeatedly hammered
home throughout our lives.
1302
01:14:36,567 --> 01:14:39,633
Over and over and over again.
1303
01:14:39,633 --> 01:14:42,333
No wonder Americans go into
denial at the suggestion
1304
01:14:42,333 --> 01:14:44,867
that our government
committed a crime
1305
01:14:44,867 --> 01:14:46,800
against its own people.
1306
01:14:46,800 --> 01:14:50,733
Many people respond to these
truths in a very deep way.
1307
01:14:50,733 --> 01:14:53,067
Some have a visceral
reaction like they've been
1308
01:14:53,067 --> 01:14:55,067
punched in the stomach.
1309
01:14:55,067 --> 01:14:58,267
To begin to accept the
possibility that the government
1310
01:14:58,267 --> 01:15:02,333
was involved is like
opening Pandora's box.
1311
01:15:02,333 --> 01:15:04,933
If you open the lid and
peek in a little bit,
1312
01:15:04,933 --> 01:15:08,133
it's gonna challenge some
of your fundamental beliefs
1313
01:15:08,133 --> 01:15:09,600
about the world.
1314
01:15:09,600 --> 01:15:13,067
- Some people might think
that if you believe in
1315
01:15:13,067 --> 01:15:17,133
9/11 truth or question the
official story that it means
1316
01:15:17,133 --> 01:15:19,967
you can't love your
country or that we would
1317
01:15:19,967 --> 01:15:21,867
feel bad about our country.
1318
01:15:21,867 --> 01:15:24,867
Our country does have
phenomenal ideals.
1319
01:15:24,867 --> 01:15:29,300
Those ideals transcend any
government or individuals.
1320
01:15:29,300 --> 01:15:33,367
Those ideals the founders
set up so for us to practice
1321
01:15:33,367 --> 01:15:35,200
and to fight for.
1322
01:15:35,200 --> 01:15:39,400
Our system was never designed
to provide a free ride
1323
01:15:39,400 --> 01:15:42,700
for us to loaf and not
continue to safeguard liberty
1324
01:15:42,700 --> 01:15:44,067
and freedom.
1325
01:15:44,067 --> 01:15:47,067
But the ideals of our
country are great and
1326
01:15:47,067 --> 01:15:49,633
they are still possible for us.
1327
01:15:51,067 --> 01:15:54,567
And we should continue
to fight for those.
1328
01:15:56,467 --> 01:16:00,667
9/11 is central to
marshaling the public will
1329
01:16:02,233 --> 01:16:05,567
to move in a direction
that it doesn't want to go.
1330
01:16:05,567 --> 01:16:07,533
To become a different
kind of country.
1331
01:16:07,533 --> 01:16:09,667
Not the country
that we grew up in,
1332
01:16:09,667 --> 01:16:13,667
but a foreign country
that, with foreign values
1333
01:16:13,667 --> 01:16:17,833
of torture, illegal
wars, threats, threats
to our emotions,
1334
01:16:21,700 --> 01:16:24,600
threats to our sense of safety.
1335
01:16:24,600 --> 01:16:26,233
This is terrorism.
1336
01:16:26,233 --> 01:16:28,800
It's terrorism by
our government.
1337
01:16:28,800 --> 01:16:31,733
These things should
not be tolerated
1338
01:16:31,733 --> 01:16:36,500
unless we want to tolerate
being led in a direction
1339
01:16:36,500 --> 01:16:39,733
on false information
then we need to be
1340
01:16:39,733 --> 01:16:41,400
closer to the truth.
1341
01:16:46,367 --> 01:16:50,367
- I thought that it was
a matter of real concern
1342
01:16:52,867 --> 01:16:55,867
that planted stories
intended to serve
1343
01:16:55,867 --> 01:16:59,533
a national purpose
abroad came home and were
1344
01:17:01,867 --> 01:17:04,633
circulated here
and believed here
1345
01:17:06,067 --> 01:17:09,633
because this would mean that
the CIA could manipulate
1346
01:17:12,600 --> 01:17:15,467
the news in the United
States by channeling it
1347
01:17:15,467 --> 01:17:17,633
through some foreign country.
1348
01:17:17,633 --> 01:17:19,967
And we're looking at
that very carefully.
1349
01:17:19,967 --> 01:17:24,133
- [Voiceover] Do you have any
people being paid by the CIA
1350
01:17:29,500 --> 01:17:33,100
who are contributing
to a major circulation
1351
01:17:34,267 --> 01:17:36,133
American journal?
1352
01:17:36,133 --> 01:17:40,833
- We do have people who submit
pieces to American journals.
1353
01:17:40,833 --> 01:17:45,067
- [Voiceover] Do you have
any people paid by the CIA
1354
01:17:47,967 --> 01:17:51,300
who are working for
television networks?
1355
01:17:57,400 --> 01:18:00,367
- This I think gets into
the kind of, getting into
1356
01:18:00,367 --> 01:18:02,600
the details, Mr. Chairman,
that I'd like to get into
1357
01:18:02,600 --> 01:18:04,967
in executive session.
1358
01:18:04,967 --> 01:18:08,567
- At CBS we have been
contacted by the CIA,
1359
01:18:11,067 --> 01:18:13,067
as a matter of fact by
the time I became the head
1360
01:18:13,067 --> 01:18:15,867
of the whole news and public
affairs operation in 1954
1361
01:18:15,867 --> 01:18:18,700
relationships had
been established and
I was told about them
1362
01:18:18,700 --> 01:18:20,767
and asked if I'd
carry on with them.
1363
01:18:20,767 --> 01:18:24,933
- [Voiceover] Do you have any
people being paid by the CIA
1364
01:18:29,633 --> 01:18:33,800
who are contributing to
the national news services?
1365
01:18:38,100 --> 01:18:39,067
AP and UPI.
1366
01:18:41,433 --> 01:18:44,067
- Well again I think we're
getting into the kind of detail,
1367
01:18:44,067 --> 01:18:45,700
Mr. Chairman, that
I'd prefer to handle
1368
01:18:45,700 --> 01:18:47,567
in executive session.
1369
01:18:47,567 --> 01:18:50,067
(eerie music)
1370
01:19:01,100 --> 01:19:04,167
- The media seems to
function as the prime
1371
01:19:04,167 --> 01:19:07,333
enabler of the 9/11 events.
1372
01:19:08,900 --> 01:19:12,233
That you can almost see
the media as a kind of
1373
01:19:12,233 --> 01:19:14,767
a national mind or a global
mind, that it's hard to
1374
01:19:14,767 --> 01:19:17,200
think outside of what
we see on television
1375
01:19:17,200 --> 01:19:19,067
and in newspapers.
1376
01:19:19,067 --> 01:19:21,233
And if they're presenting
repeatedly one version,
1377
01:19:21,233 --> 01:19:25,300
they are very convincing
and so the media is part
1378
01:19:27,800 --> 01:19:31,400
of the problem and if
we knew the media better
1379
01:19:31,400 --> 01:19:34,933
we would have known this
before 9/11 so when the media
1380
01:19:34,933 --> 01:19:38,933
told us who it was and didn't
question, we would have
1381
01:19:38,933 --> 01:19:41,500
questioned the media.
1382
01:19:41,500 --> 01:19:43,500
But that's another
part of our system
1383
01:19:43,500 --> 01:19:45,433
that we have not faced
1384
01:19:45,433 --> 01:19:49,300
is that our media really
does not serve the people
1385
01:19:49,300 --> 01:19:50,800
the way that we think it does.
1386
01:19:50,800 --> 01:19:52,567
It does serve government,
it serves business interest,
1387
01:19:52,567 --> 01:19:55,800
and it is blocked
out like a mind guard
1388
01:19:57,200 --> 01:20:00,433
against the 9/11 truth,
the truth of what happened.
1389
01:20:00,433 --> 01:20:02,733
So if we're waiting
for people in the media
1390
01:20:02,733 --> 01:20:07,133
to come forward, it's probably
not going to be happening.
1391
01:20:07,133 --> 01:20:10,867
The Catholic church has
had a terrible crisis
1392
01:20:12,067 --> 01:20:16,467
with priests that abused
young children sexually,
1393
01:20:16,467 --> 01:20:19,000
and it was hard for
anyone to believe
1394
01:20:19,000 --> 01:20:20,633
that this could happen.
1395
01:20:20,633 --> 01:20:23,133
It was hard for the
priests, I'm sure, who knew.
1396
01:20:23,133 --> 01:20:26,967
So when we ask, well wouldn't
somebody have come forward?
1397
01:20:26,967 --> 01:20:31,133
I don't know that there
were any, or many, priests
1398
01:20:32,533 --> 01:20:35,000
that came forward and
confronted the Catholic church
1399
01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:36,867
on the sexual abuse.
1400
01:20:36,867 --> 01:20:38,433
These were good men.
1401
01:20:38,433 --> 01:20:40,600
Many good men had to have
known and stayed silent
1402
01:20:40,600 --> 01:20:43,800
and allowed this to go on,
allowed it to be covered up.
1403
01:20:43,800 --> 01:20:47,733
To paraphrase Upton Sinclair,
it's hard to get a man
1404
01:20:47,733 --> 01:20:51,067
to understand something that
his livelihood depends on
1405
01:20:51,067 --> 01:20:53,100
him not understanding.
1406
01:20:53,100 --> 01:20:57,900
Likewise, it's hard to get a
man to disbelieve something
1407
01:20:57,900 --> 01:21:01,633
that his livelihood
depends on him believing.
1408
01:21:03,400 --> 01:21:06,600
And so we have multiple
portrayals in this situation
1409
01:21:06,600 --> 01:21:10,200
with people with
power with knowledge.
1410
01:21:10,200 --> 01:21:12,600
Some of whom like
to kid themselves,
1411
01:21:12,600 --> 01:21:15,667
some of them protect
themselves from the knowledge,
1412
01:21:15,667 --> 01:21:17,667
most of them are scared.
1413
01:21:19,100 --> 01:21:21,667
And so we need to know that
the people that are approached
1414
01:21:21,667 --> 01:21:23,433
about 9/11 truth are scared too.
1415
01:21:23,433 --> 01:21:27,433
They may get angry, but
this is very disturbing.
1416
01:21:31,567 --> 01:21:36,467
One of the great flaws that
the Greeks told us about
1417
01:21:36,467 --> 01:21:39,633
and warned us was
excessive pride.
1418
01:21:39,633 --> 01:21:43,733
The thinking that we're
above such things,
1419
01:21:43,733 --> 01:21:45,267
that it could happen
in other countries
1420
01:21:45,267 --> 01:21:48,800
but it couldn't happen here,
that's a lack of humility,
1421
01:21:48,800 --> 01:21:51,100
and that's excessive pride.
1422
01:21:51,100 --> 01:21:53,467
And so not being able
to see our dark side
1423
01:21:53,467 --> 01:21:56,267
or our weaknesses is the
most dangerous thing.
1424
01:21:56,267 --> 01:21:58,133
When we can see them,
we can deal with them,
1425
01:21:58,133 --> 01:22:01,467
we can interpret, and
that's a strength.
1426
01:22:02,700 --> 01:22:04,800
The woman that doesn't
know that her husband
1427
01:22:04,800 --> 01:22:08,100
has had affairs before or
doesn't know that he's abusive
1428
01:22:08,100 --> 01:22:12,300
is worse off for not having
known, for being in denial.
1429
01:22:12,300 --> 01:22:16,467
Knowing the truth is empowering,
and we can cope with that.
1430
01:22:17,633 --> 01:22:19,333
We've coped with the
Great Depression,
1431
01:22:19,333 --> 01:22:21,800
we've coped with World
War Two, we've coped with
1432
01:22:21,800 --> 01:22:25,133
a great number of things
and it would get our country
1433
01:22:25,133 --> 01:22:29,700
back on track in the
values that we believe in,
1434
01:22:29,700 --> 01:22:33,367
and there wouldn't be anything
stopping us from being
1435
01:22:33,367 --> 01:22:36,933
the kind of country
that we believe we are.
1436
01:22:38,367 --> 01:22:42,467
- The observation that pride
is one of the basic human
1437
01:22:44,233 --> 01:22:46,567
flaws is absolutely correct.
1438
01:22:48,900 --> 01:22:52,633
This is especially true
for Americans because
1439
01:22:55,300 --> 01:23:00,067
we for a long time looked
at other nations and say oh,
1440
01:23:00,067 --> 01:23:03,833
they're in such bad shape
but luckily we don't
1441
01:23:05,233 --> 01:23:08,400
have those problems, we
don't have leaders who would
1442
01:23:08,400 --> 01:23:12,567
do those things that were
done in the Soviet Union
1443
01:23:15,067 --> 01:23:19,233
or done in Germany or done in
Japan and on down the list.
1444
01:23:21,533 --> 01:23:23,800
So this is a type of pride.
1445
01:23:25,200 --> 01:23:28,700
A feature of American history
that makes us particularly
1446
01:23:28,700 --> 01:23:32,800
liable to this pride is
this notion that's called
1447
01:23:36,633 --> 01:23:40,800
exceptionalism, that America
is the exceptional nation.
1448
01:23:43,067 --> 01:23:47,300
And that began from the
beginning as this country
1449
01:23:47,300 --> 01:23:51,800
was formed the people would
say well, there was so much
1450
01:23:51,800 --> 01:23:55,900
evil in the European
countries, so much cheating,
1451
01:23:58,567 --> 01:24:02,733
so much lying, so much using
the people for the ruler's
1452
01:24:04,333 --> 01:24:06,767
purposes, but not in America.
1453
01:24:08,633 --> 01:24:12,467
We have leaders that are
free from those sins.
1454
01:24:14,233 --> 01:24:18,400
So I think this has made 9/11
particularly difficult for
1455
01:24:22,433 --> 01:24:23,867
Americans.
1456
01:24:23,867 --> 01:24:27,067
We find that the Europeans
in the 9/11 movement
1457
01:24:27,067 --> 01:24:29,967
don't have such a problem.
1458
01:24:29,967 --> 01:24:34,300
We found that the Japanese
don't have a problem.
1459
01:24:34,300 --> 01:24:37,067
They do not believe
that the United States
1460
01:24:37,067 --> 01:24:40,333
is the exceptional
nation in this sense,
1461
01:24:41,767 --> 01:24:45,400
that we are somehow, our
leaders are above the sins
1462
01:24:46,500 --> 01:24:48,667
that affect other leaders.
1463
01:24:58,133 --> 01:25:01,700
Now most people are very
convinced that we're going
1464
01:25:01,700 --> 01:25:03,367
the wrong direction.
1465
01:25:04,267 --> 01:25:05,933
The polls show that.
1466
01:25:07,367 --> 01:25:11,367
We have a terrible debt, we
didn't move out of it the way
1467
01:25:13,633 --> 01:25:17,800
that we should have because
the people who were in charge
1468
01:25:23,867 --> 01:25:27,133
did not have that as
the primary priority,
1469
01:25:27,133 --> 01:25:30,067
that is to help the
ordinary people.
1470
01:25:30,067 --> 01:25:34,233
We also see that the
constitution has been gutted.
1471
01:25:39,100 --> 01:25:43,267
We're doing many things
that prior to 9/11 were
1472
01:25:44,667 --> 01:25:48,500
inconceivable, that we
would just accuse someone
1473
01:25:53,133 --> 01:25:56,967
of a crime and put them
in prison indefinitely
1474
01:25:59,400 --> 01:26:03,567
without a trial and this
happens, this has happened
1475
01:26:06,400 --> 01:26:09,700
to many people including
many Americans.
1476
01:26:12,633 --> 01:26:16,800
We have this, what's called
extraordinary rendition
1477
01:26:19,133 --> 01:26:23,300
where people have been taken
out of the United States
1478
01:26:25,267 --> 01:26:30,067
or some other country and
taken to a third country
1479
01:26:30,067 --> 01:26:32,400
where they will be tortured.
1480
01:26:35,267 --> 01:26:39,700
We know there has been an
enormous amount of torture.
1481
01:26:39,700 --> 01:26:43,200
No one has been brought
to trial for that.
1482
01:26:46,667 --> 01:26:50,133
So we are now as many
commentators are saying
1483
01:26:50,133 --> 01:26:53,633
we are now living in
a post-legal society.
1484
01:26:55,100 --> 01:26:58,833
We're living in an unlawful
society where is it lawful,
1485
01:27:00,200 --> 01:27:02,733
that question no longer counts.
1486
01:27:04,433 --> 01:27:08,100
What happened with the
killing of bin Laden?
1487
01:27:09,300 --> 01:27:12,200
Most commentators
say it was murder.
1488
01:27:14,800 --> 01:27:18,100
No one will be
punished for that,
1489
01:27:18,100 --> 01:27:22,100
in fact the president's
poll ratings will go up,
1490
01:27:23,167 --> 01:27:24,233
have gone up.
1491
01:27:26,133 --> 01:27:30,600
So there are many things
that people would say
1492
01:27:30,600 --> 01:27:34,767
in the last 10 years, this
country has gone way downhill,
1493
01:27:39,067 --> 01:27:43,167
not only economically and
militarily, but legally,
1494
01:27:48,167 --> 01:27:52,333
spiritually, our
own self-respect is
being undermined,
1495
01:27:55,300 --> 01:27:59,067
is being destroyed, by the
things that the government
1496
01:27:59,067 --> 01:28:02,367
is doing and nobody
is held accountable.
1497
01:28:03,667 --> 01:28:07,433
We have these two wars,
both of them illegal,
1498
01:28:08,800 --> 01:28:13,300
both of them based on
lies, both of them killing,
1499
01:28:13,300 --> 01:28:17,600
we don't have exact
figures but they're in
1500
01:28:17,600 --> 01:28:19,500
the millions of people.
1501
01:28:21,433 --> 01:28:25,100
Countries that had no
attack planned for us.
1502
01:28:28,067 --> 01:28:30,133
Everyone agrees now.
1503
01:28:30,133 --> 01:28:34,433
Afghanistan was not
planning to attack America,
1504
01:28:34,433 --> 01:28:38,600
Iraq was not going to attack
America, and yet we have killed
1505
01:28:39,733 --> 01:28:41,667
millions of the people.
1506
01:28:42,933 --> 01:28:46,933
How can we have any
self-respect if this continues?
1507
01:28:49,233 --> 01:28:53,933
So that's the approach I
would take, try to help people
1508
01:28:53,933 --> 01:28:58,100
make the connection between
the ruin of our nation
1509
01:29:02,167 --> 01:29:03,900
with 9/11.
1510
01:29:05,567 --> 01:29:07,700
- The point is that the
story we are telling
1511
01:29:07,700 --> 01:29:11,867
is painful because once
you have seen 7 going down
1512
01:29:13,267 --> 01:29:15,633
you get a sensation that
there's something wrong here
1513
01:29:15,633 --> 01:29:20,300
and your immediate reaction
is maybe I shouldn't
1514
01:29:20,300 --> 01:29:23,667
look into this because
this may lead me to places
1515
01:29:23,667 --> 01:29:26,167
where I do not want to go.
1516
01:29:26,167 --> 01:29:29,300
Fact is that we do not
want to be lied to.
1517
01:29:29,300 --> 01:29:33,633
And we do not want to
lie ourselves, both.
1518
01:29:33,633 --> 01:29:37,467
So as you realize that the
people who we have selected
1519
01:29:37,467 --> 01:29:41,633
have lied to us to an extent
that is so beyond imagination
1520
01:29:44,633 --> 01:29:48,367
to ordinary people is
very painful, actually.
1521
01:29:50,500 --> 01:29:53,967
But as a consequence since
now we have something
1522
01:29:53,967 --> 01:29:56,867
that we are not
supposed to talk about
1523
01:29:56,867 --> 01:30:01,033
it is downright destructive
to our Western civilization.
1524
01:30:02,667 --> 01:30:06,600
You can blow up any good
company by either start to
1525
01:30:06,600 --> 01:30:10,467
discussing politics,
religion, or 9/11.
1526
01:30:10,467 --> 01:30:14,833
Yeah, then it's not fun
anymore because usually people
1527
01:30:14,833 --> 01:30:17,967
divide on this subject
and there's something here
1528
01:30:17,967 --> 01:30:20,033
we cannot talk about.
1529
01:30:20,033 --> 01:30:22,433
That means the language
is deteriorating
1530
01:30:22,433 --> 01:30:25,733
and this is what you've seen
observed with Western culture
1531
01:30:25,733 --> 01:30:30,733
in the last 12 years, we're
ending up like Eastern Europe
1532
01:30:30,733 --> 01:30:34,300
was 20 years ago, gray
and gray and gray,
1533
01:30:34,300 --> 01:30:36,867
absolutely nothing's
happening because if you have
1534
01:30:36,867 --> 01:30:39,700
the secret police sitting
next to you in the bus
1535
01:30:39,700 --> 01:30:41,933
there are some thing
you do not talk about.
1536
01:30:41,933 --> 01:30:44,400
Which means that everybody
knows that everybody knows
1537
01:30:44,400 --> 01:30:47,100
that everybody knows
that everybody knows
1538
01:30:47,100 --> 01:30:49,567
that we should not talk
about this, and particularly
1539
01:30:49,567 --> 01:30:51,667
in the mainstream media.
1540
01:30:51,667 --> 01:30:55,300
As a consequence, it's true,
marriages are breaking up,
1541
01:30:55,300 --> 01:31:00,067
families are breaking up,
parents are not talking
1542
01:31:00,067 --> 01:31:02,067
with their children,
children are not talking with
1543
01:31:02,067 --> 01:31:05,100
their parents because of this.
1544
01:31:05,100 --> 01:31:09,267
So you end up with a society
which is soaked with fear
1545
01:31:11,400 --> 01:31:13,800
and lies, we accept the lies.
1546
01:31:15,733 --> 01:31:19,067
Downright lies for going
into the war in Afghanistan
1547
01:31:19,067 --> 01:31:22,500
and Denmark has been involved
in a total of seven wars
1548
01:31:22,500 --> 01:31:24,067
in 2001
1549
01:31:24,067 --> 01:31:28,133
So we have society of lies
and fear and all power
1550
01:31:29,567 --> 01:31:33,667
is based on fear, and all
wars are based on deception,
1551
01:31:35,067 --> 01:31:38,600
and wars is the most
profitable business of all.
1552
01:31:39,933 --> 01:31:42,733
- Until we completely
destroy the government's
1553
01:31:42,733 --> 01:31:47,267
official myth and get some
real truth told out there,
1554
01:31:47,267 --> 01:31:50,767
all the evils that have
happened since 9/11
1555
01:31:50,767 --> 01:31:53,133
are going to continue.
1556
01:31:53,133 --> 01:31:55,467
The corporate wars of
aggression, the taking away
1557
01:31:55,467 --> 01:31:57,867
of our constitutional rights,
1558
01:31:59,567 --> 01:32:02,600
the destruction of this country.
1559
01:32:02,600 --> 01:32:06,267
- If we're a part of a
collective, part of a nation,
1560
01:32:06,267 --> 01:32:10,400
then we will also have
a dysfunctional nation
1561
01:32:10,400 --> 01:32:12,367
if we don't know the truth.
1562
01:32:12,367 --> 01:32:15,167
We can't have a
functional nation
1563
01:32:15,167 --> 01:32:17,400
if we're operating on lies.
1564
01:32:19,567 --> 01:32:22,333
(haunting music)
1565
01:32:24,667 --> 01:32:27,267
- I've come across a
song by a performer named
1566
01:32:27,267 --> 01:32:32,133
Weird Al Yankovic which sort
of sums up what I was feeling,
1567
01:32:32,133 --> 01:32:34,800
what I've heard other
people talk about when they
1568
01:32:34,800 --> 01:32:38,567
had to deal with the 9/11
information, and the lyrics go
1569
01:32:38,567 --> 01:32:41,800
"everything you know is wrong,
black is white, up is down,
1570
01:32:41,800 --> 01:32:44,367
"and short is long, and
everything you thought
1571
01:32:44,367 --> 01:32:47,133
"was so important
doesn't matter".
1572
01:32:47,133 --> 01:32:50,467
That was what it was like,
it was like a very sudden
1573
01:32:50,467 --> 01:32:53,633
shift in my priorities and
what I thought I needed
1574
01:32:53,633 --> 01:32:57,267
to be doing with my life
and just how I regarded
1575
01:32:57,267 --> 01:33:01,400
the entire world and how I
regarded the people in it.
1576
01:33:01,400 --> 01:33:05,067
If we can think of our
worldview as being sort of
1577
01:33:05,067 --> 01:33:09,200
our mental and emotional home,
on the day that I learned
1578
01:33:10,600 --> 01:33:13,967
that 9/11 was probably
an inside job was the day
1579
01:33:13,967 --> 01:33:17,433
I lost that home and
was sort of cast out
1580
01:33:17,433 --> 01:33:21,067
into the wilderness, an
extremely uncomfortable feeling.
1581
01:33:21,067 --> 01:33:25,200
And when I've tried to talk
with people in the past
1582
01:33:25,200 --> 01:33:29,367
few years about 9/11 I see
that sort of discomfort
1583
01:33:29,367 --> 01:33:32,733
come up with them many times,
to the point where they will,
1584
01:33:32,733 --> 01:33:35,433
I think all of us will
do just about anything
1585
01:33:35,433 --> 01:33:37,933
to defend our homes,
to defend our families,
1586
01:33:37,933 --> 01:33:41,733
and so I see that with people
and I saw that with myself
1587
01:33:41,733 --> 01:33:44,533
when my brother tried to
talk with me about it.
1588
01:33:44,533 --> 01:33:46,933
Don't mess with me,
don't mess with my home,
1589
01:33:46,933 --> 01:33:51,367
don't mess with my comfort
with how things are.
1590
01:33:51,367 --> 01:33:54,267
So that was very difficult.
1591
01:33:54,267 --> 01:33:56,667
- When 9/11 happened,
a lot of things
1592
01:33:56,667 --> 01:33:57,900
were taken away.
1593
01:33:57,900 --> 01:34:01,367
Lives were lost, fears
were instilled, hatreds
1594
01:34:01,367 --> 01:34:02,900
were stirred up.
1595
01:34:02,900 --> 01:34:05,967
Those are some of the most
intimate parts of one's psyche,
1596
01:34:05,967 --> 01:34:07,500
what makes one human.
1597
01:34:07,500 --> 01:34:10,967
More was taken away from
us than those lives,
1598
01:34:10,967 --> 01:34:12,900
as tragic as they were.
1599
01:34:14,067 --> 01:34:17,133
Our right to form
objective opinions,
1600
01:34:17,133 --> 01:34:19,633
our right to have our
own feelings about
1601
01:34:19,633 --> 01:34:22,367
objective reality
was taken away.
1602
01:34:23,800 --> 01:34:27,533
We were psychologically abused
on September 11th and since.
1603
01:34:27,533 --> 01:34:30,467
The psychological
abuse has continued.
1604
01:34:30,467 --> 01:34:34,367
We need to stop the
psychological abuse
and the manipulation
1605
01:34:34,367 --> 01:34:36,667
of the American people.
1606
01:34:36,667 --> 01:34:40,967
If we don't then we are
participating in it.
1607
01:34:40,967 --> 01:34:44,100
None of us were trained
to look at the possibility
1608
01:34:44,100 --> 01:34:47,467
that the government
could do this.
1609
01:34:47,467 --> 01:34:50,767
There was no class in
graduate school about
1610
01:34:50,767 --> 01:34:53,767
government operations as such.
1611
01:34:53,767 --> 01:34:56,633
We were never taught to
entertain the possibility,
1612
01:34:56,633 --> 01:35:00,067
even though we now know these
things have been going on
1613
01:35:00,067 --> 01:35:02,500
for a very long time.
1614
01:35:02,500 --> 01:35:06,133
9/11 and facing the truth
about it is important
1615
01:35:06,133 --> 01:35:08,067
to the soul of America.
1616
01:35:09,433 --> 01:35:13,233
And the values that have
come from the official story
1617
01:35:15,133 --> 01:35:19,300
corrupt us emotionally,
mentally, and spiritually.
1618
01:35:21,733 --> 01:35:24,500
We don't deserve
to be corrupted.
1619
01:35:26,900 --> 01:35:30,533
- Later on as I
researched and integrated
1620
01:35:30,533 --> 01:35:33,467
more of the information I
also had to come to terms
1621
01:35:33,467 --> 01:35:37,533
with the very uncomfortable
feeling of being a dupe,
1622
01:35:37,533 --> 01:35:41,100
of being a sucker, of believing
what the government told me
1623
01:35:41,100 --> 01:35:44,867
without checking it
out for myself first.
1624
01:35:44,867 --> 01:35:48,133
I consider myself to be a
well-educated, mature adult
1625
01:35:48,133 --> 01:35:51,200
and to realize that I had
just absorbed the government's
1626
01:35:51,200 --> 01:35:55,067
story lock stock and barrel
without really questioning it
1627
01:35:55,067 --> 01:35:57,833
was very humbling,
it was not fun,
1628
01:35:59,500 --> 01:36:01,900
it really made me question
my own intelligence
1629
01:36:01,900 --> 01:36:04,467
and my own integrity for
having jumped so quickly
1630
01:36:04,467 --> 01:36:09,133
on the bandwagon in a way that
was very harmful and racist
1631
01:36:09,133 --> 01:36:11,967
towards people in
the Middle East.
1632
01:36:13,133 --> 01:36:16,767
So I spent actually a
very lonely summer with
1633
01:36:16,767 --> 01:36:19,500
every night
insomnia, nightmares.
1634
01:36:22,867 --> 01:36:27,300
Knowing that I wanted to
become active in exposing
1635
01:36:27,300 --> 01:36:30,133
this information and
feeling like if I did so
1636
01:36:30,133 --> 01:36:33,067
the government or people
within the government might
1637
01:36:33,067 --> 01:36:35,100
hunt me down and kill me.
1638
01:36:37,300 --> 01:36:41,467
Just general sense of paranoia
about having this information
1639
01:36:42,600 --> 01:36:44,767
and doing something with it.
1640
01:36:44,767 --> 01:36:47,333
And so it was a very long,
very difficult summer for me,
1641
01:36:47,333 --> 01:36:49,933
but during that summer I also
spent a huge amount of time
1642
01:36:49,933 --> 01:36:53,067
reading everything I could
get my hands on about 9/11
1643
01:36:53,067 --> 01:36:57,200
and becoming more and more
sure that the official account
1644
01:36:58,667 --> 01:37:01,133
was a complete lie and that
something needed to be done
1645
01:37:01,133 --> 01:37:01,967
about it.
1646
01:37:03,433 --> 01:37:04,600
- In this case the people
that we rely on to gather
1647
01:37:04,600 --> 01:37:06,267
the evidence aren't.
1648
01:37:08,600 --> 01:37:11,067
It's sort of like calling
the police and the police
1649
01:37:11,067 --> 01:37:14,367
won't investigate and then
you find out oh, one of the
1650
01:37:14,367 --> 01:37:17,733
police officers did it
and is covering it up.
1651
01:37:17,733 --> 01:37:20,667
- We know we've been
lied to about 9/11.
1652
01:37:20,667 --> 01:37:23,500
We don't know for
sure who did it.
1653
01:37:25,300 --> 01:37:29,467
We don't know exactly
how they did everything,
1654
01:37:29,467 --> 01:37:33,667
and that's why we need a new
investigation to find out.
1655
01:37:33,667 --> 01:37:35,933
Regardless of what anyone
thinks about how it happened
1656
01:37:35,933 --> 01:37:39,500
or who caused it,
there's no question that
1657
01:37:39,500 --> 01:37:42,533
the Bush Administration
took advantage of that
1658
01:37:42,533 --> 01:37:47,500
to deceive the Congress and
the American people into
1659
01:37:47,500 --> 01:37:50,367
unnecessary and illegal
wars of aggression
1660
01:37:50,367 --> 01:37:53,600
and to cramming down our
throats the Patriot Act
1661
01:37:53,600 --> 01:37:56,333
and the Military
Commissions Act.
1662
01:37:56,333 --> 01:37:58,933
And these evils are going on
now even under a different
1663
01:37:58,933 --> 01:38:03,100
administration and so it's
obvious that whichever party
1664
01:38:04,467 --> 01:38:08,733
is in power, the American
people absolutely need the truth
1665
01:38:08,733 --> 01:38:10,333
of 9/11.
1666
01:38:11,533 --> 01:38:14,467
(foreboding music)
1667
01:38:25,667 --> 01:38:28,967
- If we don't want greater
deceptions, if we don't want
1668
01:38:28,967 --> 01:38:31,833
more war based on these
deceptions, then we need to know
1669
01:38:31,833 --> 01:38:35,200
the truth and the way to find
the truth is an investigation
1670
01:38:35,200 --> 01:38:39,533
and in holding those
responsible legally accountable.
1671
01:38:39,533 --> 01:38:43,700
- We need an impartial,
scientific, and
legal investigation
1672
01:38:44,900 --> 01:38:48,067
as required by law
of any crime scene.
1673
01:38:49,533 --> 01:38:53,233
And we should not be treating
9/11 as a excuse to go to war
1674
01:38:53,233 --> 01:38:56,967
but rather as a criminal
act for which we have yet
1675
01:38:56,967 --> 01:39:01,867
to do the forensic analysis,
the scientific analysis,
1676
01:39:01,867 --> 01:39:04,967
all the disciplines
working together.
1677
01:39:06,167 --> 01:39:08,233
I know that's what we do
in our police department
1678
01:39:08,233 --> 01:39:11,600
in my home town, that's
what we expect in our
1679
01:39:11,600 --> 01:39:14,533
state government, law
enforcement, we expect
1680
01:39:14,533 --> 01:39:17,067
the international level,
international law.
1681
01:39:17,067 --> 01:39:20,933
I think that by putting
science together with the law
1682
01:39:20,933 --> 01:39:24,800
we will have a psychological
healing around the
1683
01:39:24,800 --> 01:39:28,967
impossible cognition that has
been produced on that day.
1684
01:39:33,433 --> 01:39:36,933
- Never forget that
this country is based on
1685
01:39:36,933 --> 01:39:39,867
only one thing,
due process of law.
1686
01:39:42,933 --> 01:39:46,533
And that just has stayed
with me ever since.
1687
01:39:46,533 --> 01:39:49,367
And the other day when they
got rid of habeas corpus,
1688
01:39:49,367 --> 01:39:53,433
which took some doing but
it was done after 700 years
1689
01:39:53,433 --> 01:39:58,067
we lost it and I kept
thinking of my grandfather
1690
01:39:58,067 --> 01:40:02,233
and I could hear his voice in
my head, due process of law.
1691
01:40:02,233 --> 01:40:04,567
Without that we are nothing.
1692
01:40:05,667 --> 01:40:07,733
- The cycle we're
going through right now
1693
01:40:07,733 --> 01:40:11,267
is the same cycle as
victim of domestic violence
1694
01:40:11,267 --> 01:40:12,800
are going through.
1695
01:40:12,800 --> 01:40:16,100
We feel helpless, we feel
hopeless, we need answers,
1696
01:40:16,100 --> 01:40:20,100
we need to get out of this
control zone that we are in.
1697
01:40:20,100 --> 01:40:22,967
And I think it's of utmost
importance to have a thorough
1698
01:40:22,967 --> 01:40:27,167
investigation by neutral
professional to give a serious
1699
01:40:27,167 --> 01:40:31,333
answer both from the scientific
and the legal point of view.
1700
01:40:36,333 --> 01:40:39,267
- I think at first glance
the truth about 9/11
1701
01:40:39,267 --> 01:40:43,433
can be retraumatizing and
people are afraid to look at it.
1702
01:40:46,367 --> 01:40:50,267
But if handled with empathy
and with compassion,
1703
01:40:50,267 --> 01:40:54,233
I think the truth about
9/11 allows us to connect
1704
01:40:54,233 --> 01:40:58,400
with people, it empowers us
as survivors of this in going
1705
01:41:00,367 --> 01:41:04,733
through and taking actions
about it, it can help us
1706
01:41:04,733 --> 01:41:07,633
overcome our own
feelings of helplessness
1707
01:41:07,633 --> 01:41:10,300
and loss of control
about what is going on
1708
01:41:10,300 --> 01:41:12,600
with our government.
1709
01:41:12,600 --> 01:41:15,200
It really can help set us free.
1710
01:41:16,667 --> 01:41:21,067
People have lived through
trauma and traumatic events
1711
01:41:21,067 --> 01:41:25,867
throughout history, and they
will continue to do that.
1712
01:41:25,867 --> 01:41:28,300
I think the resiliency
of the human spirit
1713
01:41:28,300 --> 01:41:32,633
in overcoming tragedy
cannot be overestimated.
1714
01:41:32,633 --> 01:41:35,133
- I want to give
people a sense of hope.
1715
01:41:35,133 --> 01:41:38,133
Eventually I was able to
realize that 9/11 presents
1716
01:41:38,133 --> 01:41:42,600
an opportunity for us to find
our sense of integrity again,
1717
01:41:42,600 --> 01:41:46,500
to find our sense of courage,
our sense of optimism.
1718
01:41:46,500 --> 01:41:49,133
That now that we know a little
bit more about how things
1719
01:41:49,133 --> 01:41:53,433
actually work, how wars are
actually created by governments,
1720
01:41:53,433 --> 01:41:55,800
how governments get
people to go to war,
1721
01:41:55,800 --> 01:41:59,167
we have an opportunity now,
a wonderful opportunity
1722
01:41:59,167 --> 01:42:03,133
which fills me with great
joy to do something about it,
1723
01:42:03,133 --> 01:42:07,133
to find a way to stop
this from occurring again.
1724
01:42:09,067 --> 01:42:11,333
- There will always be
people who cannot accept
1725
01:42:11,333 --> 01:42:13,567
the truths of 9/11.
1726
01:42:13,567 --> 01:42:16,867
Even if the perpetrators
publicly confessed,
1727
01:42:16,867 --> 01:42:20,700
but for most people the
truth can be accessed.
1728
01:42:22,267 --> 01:42:26,467
The 9/11 truth movement
is changing our country,
1729
01:42:26,467 --> 01:42:28,200
one person at a time.
1730
01:42:29,400 --> 01:42:31,833
- One of the leaders of
the 9/11 truth movement
1731
01:42:31,833 --> 01:42:34,733
has said something that I sort
of hold close to my heart,
1732
01:42:34,733 --> 01:42:38,067
it kinda keeps me going
when things get rough.
1733
01:42:38,067 --> 01:42:41,067
There is no greater joy
than coming together
1734
01:42:41,067 --> 01:42:44,167
with people of conscience,
and standing up together
1735
01:42:44,167 --> 01:42:45,567
for what's right.
1736
01:42:46,533 --> 01:42:49,300
(haunting music)
1737
01:42:59,867 --> 01:43:02,700
- Psychology professionals
are concerned about
1738
01:43:02,700 --> 01:43:04,833
silence in America.
1739
01:43:04,833 --> 01:43:07,833
The silence about what happened
about September 11th, 2001.
1740
01:43:07,833 --> 01:43:10,733
Secrets make us
sick, they tell us.
1741
01:43:14,633 --> 01:43:18,133
Secrets make us
psychologically unhealthy.
1742
01:43:19,567 --> 01:43:23,600
Whether held in silence
within us as individuals,
1743
01:43:23,600 --> 01:43:26,867
or held in silence
by an entire nation.
1744
01:43:28,333 --> 01:43:31,500
These psychologists
say that we're ignoring
1745
01:43:31,500 --> 01:43:33,600
the elephant in the room.
1746
01:43:34,733 --> 01:43:38,433
What they mean is in
our national living room
1747
01:43:39,800 --> 01:43:43,900
we are ignoring the abundance
of hard facts that prove
1748
01:43:43,900 --> 01:43:47,167
we have not been told the
truth about what happened
1749
01:43:47,167 --> 01:43:49,400
on September 11th.
1750
01:43:49,400 --> 01:43:52,567
Actually, professionals
from many different fields
1751
01:43:52,567 --> 01:43:56,733
decry our media for parroting
their government sources.
1752
01:44:03,400 --> 01:44:07,867
Rather than asking
hard questions, rather
than investigating
1753
01:44:07,867 --> 01:44:11,533
official claims and
honestly reporting their
1754
01:44:12,767 --> 01:44:14,533
independent findings.
1755
01:44:16,467 --> 01:44:20,633
Because of this parroting
by the media, we the people
1756
01:44:22,067 --> 01:44:25,600
have readily accepted
the story we've been told
1757
01:44:25,600 --> 01:44:29,067
about what happened
on that horrific day.
1758
01:44:29,867 --> 01:44:31,367
That horrific day.
1759
01:44:32,800 --> 01:44:36,233
A day that drastically
changed our world.
1760
01:44:38,667 --> 01:44:42,067
We'd have learned that if
we label those who question
1761
01:44:42,067 --> 01:44:46,200
our government's account of
that tragedy as conspiracy
1762
01:44:49,500 --> 01:44:54,133
theorists, we can quickly
silence honest discussion
1763
01:44:54,133 --> 01:44:57,733
of what really happened on 9/11.
1764
01:44:59,167 --> 01:45:02,400
Yet if we listened
closely to their questions
1765
01:45:02,400 --> 01:45:05,567
instead of silencing
or ignoring them,
1766
01:45:07,267 --> 01:45:11,133
we'd notice that a number
of serious researchers
1767
01:45:11,133 --> 01:45:15,300
are bringing hard scientific
evidence to our attention.
1768
01:45:16,733 --> 01:45:20,867
If we study this evidence,
we can easily see the truth
1769
01:45:20,867 --> 01:45:23,800
has been demolished
in our country.
1770
01:45:25,233 --> 01:45:27,767
That's why this
film has been titled
1771
01:45:27,767 --> 01:45:30,133
Demolition of Truth.
1772
01:45:30,133 --> 01:45:34,867
To be healthy as a nation,
we must be willing to open
1773
01:45:34,867 --> 01:45:36,867
our eyes and our hearts.
1774
01:45:38,300 --> 01:45:41,067
We must find the courage not
only to ask the difficult
1775
01:45:41,067 --> 01:45:45,233
questions, but to listen to
what may be challenging answers.
1776
01:45:48,067 --> 01:45:51,367
Since 9/11, thousands of
soldiers and millions of
1777
01:45:51,367 --> 01:45:55,167
innocent civilians
have been killed.
1778
01:45:55,167 --> 01:45:58,967
The war on terror keeps
escalating with no end in sight.
1779
01:45:58,967 --> 01:46:03,133
Because of 9/11, precious
civil liberties have been lost.
1780
01:46:05,067 --> 01:46:08,367
In the US and around the globe.
1781
01:46:08,367 --> 01:46:12,333
We Americans can be subject
to searches and seizures
1782
01:46:12,333 --> 01:46:13,833
without a warrant.
1783
01:46:15,067 --> 01:46:17,333
We can be detained or
imprisoned indefinitely
1784
01:46:17,333 --> 01:46:20,933
without charge, without
evidence, without a lawyer,
1785
01:46:20,933 --> 01:46:22,533
without a trial.
1786
01:46:22,533 --> 01:46:24,867
The psychology professionals
in this film tell us
1787
01:46:24,867 --> 01:46:28,967
that looking at the
truth of 9/11 isn't easy.
1788
01:46:28,967 --> 01:46:33,700
9/11 was traumatic and
looking anew at 9/11,
1789
01:46:33,700 --> 01:46:37,867
looking anew at 9/11 is
tough and even scary.
1790
01:46:43,300 --> 01:46:45,633
But we are resilient.
1791
01:46:45,633 --> 01:46:49,067
If we acknowledge our
fear and then decide
1792
01:46:49,067 --> 01:46:53,167
not to let that fear control
us, we can break the silence
1793
01:46:56,400 --> 01:46:58,900
and find healing in the truth.
1794
01:47:01,733 --> 01:47:05,900
Not only for ourselves, but
for our country and the world.
1795
01:47:09,867 --> 01:47:12,467
(twangy music)
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