A REQUIEM FOR TRUTH: THE FINAL TRAGEDY OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

[pberq]

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A REQUIEM FOR TRUTH: THE FINAL TRAGEDY OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

(Opinion)

By Carolyn Baker, Ph.D.

September 11th 2006, 1:49PM -

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During the past five years, as an adjunct professor of history, I have frequently required students to do an intensive research project on 9-11. On the front page of the handout of instructions provided is the above photo—two of New York’s finest from the former Emmy-award-winning television show, NYPD Blue. I chose this photo for its background (the Twin Towers) and the title of my handout which is: “Be An Information Cop.”

Very few American college students, like very few Americans in general, have a concept of critical thinking—thinking that is analytical, investigative, and dispassionately detached from vapid, emotionally-loaded concepts like “United We Stand” or “These Colors Don’t Run.” Many find it difficult to understand why their history professor would want them to investigate an event that is “so over” and which in their opinion is now “ancient history.” It then becomes necessary to explain to them what 9-11 has to do with current events such as the interminable war in Iraq, loss of civil liberties in America, a tanking economy, their own student loan debt, and the fact that when they leave college, they are not likely to find employment—unless, of course, they want to move to a third-world country and be paid one-fourth of what they would earn in the U.S. One of the most effective ways of helping them connect all the dots is to require them to become information cops and think, analyze, deduce, and evaluate in ways they have never done—and given the milieu into which they will graduate—may never do again.

On this fifth anniversary of the horror that gripped America on September 11, 2001, one thing feels extraordinarily appropriate to me: Acknowledging not only our grief for the innocent victims of that day’s butchery, but our grief for all of the valiant men and women who have sacrificed everything but their lives to illumine the reality of the coup d’etat that took place on that day as the United States government orchestrated the attacks then immediately implemented its pathetic, shabby coverup which non-questioning Americans have accepted ever since. I think of the 9-11 widows, the Jersey Girls, who have spent the past five years relentlessly shouting the evidence, refusing to be silenced. I think of Sibel Edmonds who, still under a gag order by the Justice Department, continues to write and speak all that she is able about the conversations she overheard on international wires before and on that infamous day. The venerable elder statesman and philosopher-sage, David Ray Griffin, whose books, The New Pearl Harbor and The 9-11 Commission Report: Omissions And Distortions offer his readers impeccable logic, documentation, and analysis. I think of FTW’s beloved Cynthia Mc Kinney who eyeball-to-eyeball, looked at Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, and said, “Mr. Chairman, I have a question….and my question in particular is about the four war games that were taking place on September 11th and how they may have impaired our ability to respond to those attacks.” My mind wanders to Barry Zwicker, another friend of FTW, whose documentary “The Great Conspiracy” further illumines the greatest conspiracy theory in the history of the world: the “official” story of 9-11 brought to us by the “9-11 Omission Report”. I reflect on other heroes and “sheroes” of 9-11 skepticism: Indira Singh, Michel Chossudovsky, Nafeez Ahmed, Paul Thompson, and many more.

(More at link . . .)

[goclark]

1. Excellent

Critical thinking skills are to be admired.

They drive some teachers wild however.

I loved the students that kept asking questions , the out of the box thinkers.

[mhatrw]

2. Nice piece. Thanks. n/t

[pberq]

3. You're welcome. Here's some more of the introduction

The point made here is of critical importance. By focusing only with physical evidence, the supporters of the OCT can trot out "specialists" who will say anything. This takes the focus off the more important issue of solving the crime.

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