THE HANDSTAND

JANUARY 2004

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Even phony Kean commission concedes something wrong with official story

.9/11 coverup falling apart
By John Kaminski
skylax@comcast.net



"If what I say is right, the whole U.S. government should end up behind
bars."
— Andreas von Bulow



To most Americans, the first inkling that something was wrong with the official story of the 9/11 catastrophe occurred about a year after the event, when President Bush resisted setting up a panel to investigate the events of that dark day.

Why would he not want to investigate the greatest crime in American history? many wondered. Then, he badly underfunded it. Then, he tried to name infamous power broker Henry Kissinger to head it. Since then, Bush has stonewalled a committee of his own choosing, one stacked with political functionaries that is ill-equipped to conduct either a police or forensic investigation — and, perhaps most revealing, one that accepted the government's version of who the guilty parties were before they examined any evidence!

To date, there has never been anything revealed to the public about how the U.S. government KNOWS that Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda were the actual perpetrators of 9/11.

Today, millions of Americans realize — simply from watching thousands of cop shows on TV — that the one most interested in covering up a crime is the one most likely to have committed it. Many more millions also realize that the foremost beneficiaries of the attacks and mass killings of 9/11 are the same people who are now waging wars that are based on some very suspicious rationalizations, most of which since have been exposed as outright lies.

Shockingly enough, even Thomas Kean, chairman of the committee constructed to cover up this greatest crime in American history, blew the whistle the other day that the attacks could have been prevented. Whether this will develop into a real investigation, or whether Kean's remarks were nothing more than what is called "a limited hangout," remains to be seen. But Kean's comment was evidence that a much larger percentage of the American people is beginning to sense that the "they hate our freedom" rationale uttered by the president is clearly bogus, and there is much more than meets the media eye happening about 9/11.

To a far smaller number of Americans, the official 9/11 story began to smell much earlier than when Bush tried to stall the official investigation.

When top Bush administration officials immediately and in unison denied knowing that jetliners could be used to attack American landmarks right after 9/11, a number of alert reporters immediately pointed out that this very subject had been under government study for almost a decade. And when U.S. officials immediately released a list of the alleged hijackers, the lie was immediately visible to those with eyes to see: how could they deny knowing this possibility of a massive jetliner attack existed, yet be able to name the alleged hijackers almost instantly because these individuals had been under surveillance for months?

If they could name the alleged hijackers, then they couldn't deny knowing the possibility of using planes as weapons existed, could they?

As astonishing events unfolded after the tragedy — the hasty passage of the Patriot Act (approved by Congress despite virtually no one in Congress reading it before voting for it), which nullified large portions of the U.S. Constitution; constant "terror alerts" about which no evidence was ever produced; the war against Afghanistan which was claimed to be a response to 9/11 yet was planned long before 9/11; and the war against Iraq, which was waged because that nation supposedly threatened America with weapons of mass destruction (which have never and will never be found, unless planted) and had ties to that mystery terror group called al-Qaeda (since proven to be lies) — many more millions of Americans began to understand that the new peril they were in was not from some shadowy worldwide terror group but from unscrupulous demagogues in Washington who would invent any story — and kill any number of people — in order to improve the fortunes of the very military/industrial power brokers who illegally brought them to power in the first place.

In the mind of these many more millions of Americans, a new syllogism began to take shape: if they lied about why they went to war in Afghanistan and they lied about why they went to war in Iraq, how stupid would Americans have to be to believe what they said about 9/11?

And yet, through two years of intense flag waving, during which most Americans were too terrified to say anything critical of those who were ostensibly protecting us from this new wave of worldwide terror, the lies became cast in stone. The media, owned by the same shameful specimens who own the weapons making companies, refused to even entertain the notion that the U.S. government could tell blatant lies to its own people, never mind murder thousands of them in one day.

Worse, what passed for the political opposition was afraid to even whisper what was becoming obvious in the minds of so many Americans with functioning brains — that the initial signs of a deliberate air defense standdown, the phony mythology about Muslim hijackers, the funny way all those buildings in New York happened to fall, the tiny hole in the Pentagon that was supposedly caused by a giant airliner, and the curiously comatose behavior of our president when the nation he was supposed to be leading was under dire attack — that 9/11 bore a multitude of evidential suggestions that it was an inside job, executed to give right-wing crazies a better shot at looting the treasury of their own country in a variety of ways. This scenario has now obviously come to pass.

And that is really where we stand today. Shockingly, while millions around the country and billions more around the world are certain that this is what happened, not a single major politician now chirping about irrelevant subjects in order to be permitted to run for the office of president against the world's top mass murderer has uttered even a
single syllable that these millions of Americans who believe something
is very wrong with the official 9/11 story just might be right.

And in the so-called American free press, our prostituted media
continue a total blackout on the subject, as evidenced by the total
silence that accompanied the recent filing of a lawsuit by 9/11 widow
Ellen Mariani again President Bush for obstruction of justice and
treason.

This is a travesty of mind-boggling proportions. Like the entire
Congress that goosestepped late at night while it knocked over the U.S.
Constitution, here we have the complete political spectrum — every
single rich man who has declared his intention to run for president —
not daring to admit what millions of Americans know beyond doubt in the
sincerest depths of their hearts — that 9/11 was conceived, devised,
planned and carried out from the offices of power in the United States,
principally Washington, but also New York and Langley, Virginia, and
quite possibly Tel Aviv.

You have only to look at the psychologically palsied and putrescent
behavior of the official 9/11 investigative body, the Kean commission —
as well as the insane and demonic actions of every single functionary in
the Bush Administration — to know in your heart that it's true.

And realize the jeopardy we are all in.

Fortunately, there are many scrupulous personalities who haven't
bought the shallow lies and who have worked doggedly since that dark day
to bring the cynical deceptions to light.

They have analyzed the fall of the WTC towers and concluded they
were most likely demolished. Why else would so much of the rubble have
turned to powder and the towers themselves exploded at the top? Why else
would WTC7 have fallen in the same manner of the others when it was not
hit by a plane?

They have talked the Pentagon scenario to death and concluded there
was no legitimate trace of jetliner rubble to be found, written that a
hole of that small type was most likely made by a missile, and concluded
that reports of identifying the DNA of every passenger on Flight 77 in
that rubble was simply an impossible lie if the fires were hot enough to
have melted virtually every trace of the crashed airliner.

They have concluded beyond doubt that the alleged maneuvers of the
Pentagon jet could never have been accomplished by someone who did not
do well in a small plane at a jerkwater flight school.

Many people have asked me, what are the best 9/11 sites? This is a
sampling of some of them. Study them. Hone your arguments. Talk to
people.

http://physics911.org/net/modules/
http://www.serendipity.li/wtc.html#what_actually_happened
http://www.serendipity.li/wot/anti-war.htm)
http://serendipity.ptpi.net/wot/holmgren/11.htm
http://911research.wtc7.net
http://wtc7.net
http://911research.wtc7.net/talks/wtc7>
http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=82574&group=webcast
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4582.htm
http://www.radiofreeamerica.tv/video/2003-12-12/911-group.swf
http://news.globalfreepress.com/
http://www.911-strike.com/
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=22004
http://home.comcast.net/~skydrifter/exp.htm
http://whatreallyhappened.com/blackmail.html
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=45885;title=APFN

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/oct2001/bond-o05.shtml
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/main/dayof911.html
http://www.media-criticism.com/Baltimore_Sun_911_Letter_09_2003.html
http://portland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=44629&group=webcast



(Apologies to the many good ones excluded; I'm only one guy. These
are just a few of the ones I happened to have used.)

When you read through these and understand their contents, you will
understand beyond question that everything you hear from the mouths of
presidential candidates, government officials and TV commentators is a
lie. That there is so much evidence to convince you that 9/11 was an
inside job, that our leading officials are criminals and mass murderers,
that you, as a functioning human being on this earth, have no choice but
to try to convince your neighbor that something must done if we are not
to go quietly into this police state prison that has been prepared for
us.

And yet, with all the comprehensive and inspired research that has
been done (really, the Kean commission only needs to read the internet
before recommending mass arrests for virtually all of the American
government's leadership) there are two glaring areas that continue to
delay the search for justice about 9/11.

The first involves the suspicious investments prior to 9/11, in
which millions of dollars were made by betting the price of certain
airline stocks (and other companies, some of which were located in the
WTC towers) would go down. Financial laws guarantee a degree of
confidentiality in these transactions, even those these laws principally
protect crooks with large amounts of money who are often doing something
the law does not permit. Nevertheless, the laws are set up to protect
these identities.

Had America a great and honest leader, he (or she) would suspend
these laws and name the beneficiaries of these suspicious transactions,
reasoning that the greater good was served by tracking down the real
perpetrators of the 9/11 mass murder instead of protecting the
identities who clearly knew that 9/11 was going to happen before it did
happen. Could there be any clearer path to uncovering the real criminals
who killed all those people in New York and Washington (and later in
Afghanistan and Iraq)? No, there couldn't. Any genuine investigation
into the crimes of 9/11 would start (and quite possibly finish) right
here.

In addition to releasing the contents of the black boxes that were
found in the wreckages of the three disaster venues of 9/11, as well as
the contents of the footage taken by the confiscated security cameras
near the Pentagon (which could clearly reveal what actually did hit the
Pentagon), the names of the investors who profited from insider trading
in the days prior to 9/11 would give us a clear look at who the actual
perpetrators of this unspeakable crime actually were.

It is a way to solve the crime, and it is clear. Logical people must
assume that those who would prevent this method of solving this crime
clearly have some involvement in it. This is beyond debate.

The second area most researchers have failed to make any real
headway in is the involvement of Israel and its intelligence agency the
Mossad in the planning and carrying out of the 9/11 attacks. Sure,
Israel was one of those many countries that gave advance warning to the
U.S. that something like this was about to happen (you remember, those
warnings that Bush and his thugs insist they never got, but fortunately
were reliably recorded by the other countries themselves).

The facts are that the evidence for Israeli involvement is
substantial. Two workers in an Israeli company located in New York got
advance warnings by e-mail two hours before the attacks. Israeli "art
students" were shadowing the alleged hijackers for many months during
their sojourns in flight schools around the United States. Five Israelis
were arrested for dancing in celebration shortly after the planes hit
the towers; two had connections to the Mossad. And, perhaps foremost, in
the city with the largest Jewish population in the entire world,
virtually no Israelis were killed in the 9/11 attacks.

Taken together, these coincidences are too astonishing to ignore.
And given Israel's history of "false flag" operations (conducting terror
and getting the blame shifted to another country), its involvement
throughout history in attacks on its own citizens and Jews around the
world to get them to behave in a certain way, its ponderous influence on
the American congress and the American media, and the words of former
Israeli prime minister Netanyahu, who immediately after the attacks said
they were a very good thing for Israel, many millions of people believe
that Israel was really the driving force behind 9/11, simply to get the
Americans to continue to do their bidding in the Middle East, which as
you can see by subsequent events, clearly is continuing to happen.

The withholding of information by the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission of the names of the men who profited from the suspicious
trades in the days before 9/11, and the hidden role of Israeli
intelligence in a caper in the biggest Jewish city in the world in a
complex owned by Jewish businessmen continue to be the two most
significant uninvestigated aspects of 9/11, and the ones most likely to
lead to a genuine finding of fact about what really happened on this
tragic and significant day.

Unfortunately, the powers that be are doing everything they can to
impede investigation into these two areas, as well as into all other
areas of information about 9/11.

Thus, it stands to reason, just on the basis of rules established in
all those TV detective shows, that the powers that be are the ones who
committed these heinous crimes, for the purpose of regimenting society
more to their liking, because a regimented society is more profitable,
and those under the thumb of a totalitarian capitalist dictatorship, as
we are now, are far less likely to solve crimes and discover the
perpetrators of the horror of 9/11 that changed the fundamental nature
of the nation and the world in which we live.

It's not too much to demand honesty and accountability. Insist your
favorite presidential candidate tell you about what he knows about 9/11,
the insider trading, and Israel's influence. The answers you receive
will tell you exactly what kind of candidate you're supporting.


John Kaminski is the author of "America's Autopsy Report," a
collection of his Internet essays. For more information, see
http://www.johnkaminski.com/
Contributions to the author who otherwise derives no income from
these essays are always gratefully accepted.
To read more of Kaminski's essays, see
http://www.rudemacedon.ca/kaminski/kam-index.html

They got the wrong guy

By John Kaminski
skylax@comcast.net



War is peace, Orwell said. It has never been clearer than now.

The theatrical apprehension of fallen Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein from his pathetic hole in the dirt is a prima facie example of how the American vision of life and the world has become totally twisted. It was the culmination of an unjust war against a defenseless people, this ritual roughing up of a tired old man who was never more than a puppet following the orders of the master manipulators who always planned to do
him in when it became convenient.

Saddam was never a danger to America, despite all the pre-war rhetoric that has all been proven false.

George W. Bush — and Bill Clinton and the elder Bush before him — killed many times more Iraqis than Saddam ever did. The 20,000 or so Iraqi innocents who perished in the recent bombing of the Cradle of Civilization were at least ten times more than the number of political malcontents who ran afoul of the murderous machismo of Saddam's inflexible rule, and the utter destruction of this functioning nation-state was certainly something Hussein never contemplated.

What the United States has done to Iraq is something far worse than Saddam Hussein ever would or could have done. Saddam was never a danger to his neighbors; that was all Zionist media spin. The only country in that region that was worried about him was Israel, because he represented an inflexible stumbling block to the expansionist aims of
the demonic Jewish state.

Americans refuse to confront the ugly facts about this. They refuse to acknowledge that America has become the real evil empire.

The reasons for invading Iraq have been proved beyond any doubt to have been lies. Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, nor did it have any connection to 9/11, the two reasons America used to unleash its murderous military might. These have been debunked beyond all question, and still Americans send their sons and daughters to slaughter and be sacrificed for the ugly perpetuation of these lies.

How Americans could continue to support these satanic fictions is something for the historians to contemplate. When you use obvious lies to go to war, then you are the criminals, you are the evil ones. But Americans simply will not or cannot admit this.

Bush's decision to go to war based on lies have already cost some 700 American lives, with more than 5,000 other casualties, and thousands more stricken with a variety of diseases related to vaccines, radioactive weaponry, and other unspecified hazards. Plus there's the nearly $200 billion expended from the Treasury that has not gone to either pay our military for such arduous duty or rebuild the country we have just destroyed.

This money is literally a highway robbery of the American people directed by favored American corporations who have reaped billions virtually without lifting a finger. American corporations who have contributed mightily to George Bush and his fascist associates are
overseeing the greatest robbery in history (eclipsing the previous record set by Bush the Elder in his plundering of American banks in the late 1980s).

But the American criminal behavior, you must remember, goes much deeper. For 12 years, America and Britain have bombed Iraq constantly, destroyed its civilian infrastructure, and caused the deaths of a half million children who were deprived adequate medical care and nutrition, all this after more than 100,000 were killed in the first Gulf War, all this after a century of exploitation and mass murder by — who else? —
America and Britain.

Americans refuse to see that the war against the Muslim world has been going on for more than a thousand years, and nothing has basically changed. We install leaders who do our bidding, and then when we find a more lucrative way to fleecing that part of the world., we do away with them, just like the Shah of Iran.

Either Americans remain oblivious to the pain we inflict on this part of the world, or worse, we know what we are doing, which makes us sadistic killers in order to maintain our posh (though rapidly deteriorating) lifestyles. This is the real American way — mass murder for money.

War is peace. America is creating a hell on earth. This mission has been accomplished in Iraq and Afghanistan and many other places. And now the criminals who engineer these inhuman scams seem to want to make America itself into the same kind of place, what with arrest without trial, poisoned medicines and medical care you can't trust, the imprisonment of citizens who challenge the banks' warped fictions, and even the end of an authentic voting system.

Even in the obvious onslaught of all these atrocities, most Americans — perhaps brain-damaged by long-term exposure to flouride, radioactivity, food additives and other debilitators — prefer to believe the obvious lies spewed out by TV PR types (there are no legitimate journalists remaining in mainstream media, only paid shills) that America is still the world's last bastion of freedom.

Well, that's a lie, just like war is peace. In reality, America is the new Nazi state, goose-stepping around the world.

Americans are now like what they call "trusties" in the prison of the world. They are like favored lackeys on the plantation of the planet. But soon, as capitalism continues to self-destruct around the world, they too will be tossed into the slave quarters, treated like Iraqis, and consigned to caves like Saddam found, hiding from the mindless might that has been unleased in order to further the fortunes of the elite, and pound and poison cannon fodder like us into nonexistence.

Saddam is not the real criminal here. He didn't destroy his own country. He only offed some political opponents, something that happens very often right here in America.

The real mass murderer is Bush. The corporate TV stations continue to treat Bush as, if not a hero, at least someone who is operating the righteous machinery of democracy.

Democracy is as much of a lie as war is peace. Democracy is the new buzzword for tyranny. There is a robbery going on here which may be too late to stop. The siphoning of money, resources and even water from the people who rightfully own them to the military-backed corporations who wrongfully control them signals a new dark era in human history, a new totalitarianism frequently predicted in the literature of visionaries like Orwell and Huxley, but never actually witnessed, at least on American soil.

Now with all these free-speaking people put in prison for merely trying to accurately describe what is happening — Leonard Peltier, Ernst Zundel, Charles Sell, Rick Stanley, the list has always been endless — we are witnessing the dawn of a new Dark Ages in which you must believe what you hear on television of you will ultimately lose everything you have.

Stay tuned for "red alert," during which you won't be able to leave your houses so they can come around and take you away one by one.

The American dream is now a nightmare from which there is no escape.




John Kaminski is the author of "America's Autopsy Report," a
collection of his Internet essays. For more information click
http://www.johnkaminski.com/

To read more of Kaminski's essays, click
http://www.rudemacedon.ca/kaminski/kam-index.html