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9/11 truth is an inside job!
the rise and fall of the 9/11 truth movement

"Truthiness" - a word coined by comedian Stephen Colbert that refers to wanting to believe that things are true even when they are not

Ministry of Truth: the government department in George Orwell's novel 1984 in charge of propaganda

On this page

• 9/11 truth activists vs. 9/11 truth

related pages:

• Big Tent disruption tactic: all opinions are not created equal
• famous 9/11 skeptics:
  politicians, military officials, 9/11 family members who want a real investigation
• Complete "No Plane" Timeline:
  the history of how the "no plane" hoaxes disrupted the 9/11 truth movement
• peace movement strategy
• unity: beyond false divides
• conspiracy gatekeepers: who promotes "no plane" hoaxes?
• No Planes and No Gas Chambers: Holocaust deniers infiltrate 9/11 truth

Initially, and to the credit of its first generation of leadership, the truth in "9/11 Truth" referred to its absence from the official record, and the need for an independent accounting. (A recent echo of this is heard in the title of 9/11: Press for Truth.) Now, it means the Revealed Truths of the vying catechisms of "Inside Job": almost exclusively demolition, missiles and TV fakery. So it isn't enough anymore to say the Official Story is a lie, though it is, since the popular unofficial stories are as well. And perhaps told by the same storyteller.
-- Jeff Wells, "Grassroots Wisdom" Rigorous Intuition blog, 2007-09-14
http://rigint.blogspot.com/2007/09/grassroots-wisdom.html

"If a history of this (9/11) movement is ever written, I think it should acknowledge how many of the original and the most effective/responsible people involved were marginalized as the disinfo freaks, big tent airheads, and ignorant fascistic elements took over."
-- "truthmod" post, November 19, 2008, www.truthmove.org/forum/topic/1310/page/2

While there are many views on precisely what constitutes "9/11 truth" among those who disbelieve the official conspiracy theory offered by the Bush administration, and the full story may never be precisely established, the common denominator for the "9/11 truth movements" is that 9/11 was not a surprise attack. Due to the successes of the 9/11 Truth Movements in shifting public understanding, the volume of parallel efforts that pretend to be part of a"Truth Movement" yet promote hoaxes increased substantially during the 2004 election season (see "COINTELPRO").

Stephen Colbert invented the word truthiness

There are two 9/11 truth movements - those who are trying to document serious evidence, and those that merely echo stuff they read on line or in books without making effort to verify the claims. Most of those pushing the no plane hoax(es) are sincere, but that sincerity doesn't make them any less wrong.

The 9/11 truth movements "peaked" in March 2004 at the International Inquiry into 9/11, held in San Francisco, California. Shortly after that, the flood of nonsense claims masquerading as investigations accelerated (most dramatically with release of the film "911 In Plane Site") and the "movement" split into two factions -- those that think the no-plane claims are worth including (some of them do persuade some people about complicity) and those who prefer to focus only on claims that have evidence. Perhaps the best way to determine whether a "9/11 truth" website, book, or movie is being careful or sloppy (or deceitful) is to see whether they understand that the "no plane hit Pentagon" claim was just a hoax to distract and discredit the skeptics. In a few cases, some authors and activists who previously gave some credibility to those claims have since retracted their support for them. If there is any hope for the "9/11 truth" movement, it will involve refocusing on the evidence that has the strongest proof, and excluding the hoaxes and those who push the hoaxes.

Perhaps the best advice for bystanders is to focus on the best evidence of Cheney's complicity and WHY 9/11 was allowed, not the personalities of the truth movement.

We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity. The "tide in the affairs of men" does not remain at the flood; it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residue of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: "Too late." There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance of our neglect. "The moving finger write, and having writ moves on ..." We still have a choice today; nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation.
-- Martin Luther King, April 4, 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

John Kennedy, Junior was asked (shortly before he went down in a plane crash) if his magazine was going to reopen the issues surrounding the murder of his father. His reply was too much time had passed for it to be politically relevant.

9/11 truth needs to be politically relevant in the very near term, not decades from now, to achieve the needed goals.

The JFK truth movement succeeded in one way - most people don't believe the Warren Commission report. But it ultimately failed, since it was unable to undo the damage caused by the coup in Dallas - and no President since has cut the military industrial complex budget. The JFK coup led to the Vietnam war, Watergate, October Surprise, Iran-Contra, Oklahoma City, 9/11, and now the permanent war for Peak Oil "that will not end in our lifetimes."

When the Patriot Act is repealed and Homeland Security reverts back to its pre-9/11 structures, perhaps then 9/11 truth would be considered a success. When a large proportion of the public accepts the paradigm of how "false flag" operations happen, and how terror events can be allowed to happen, they will no longer be a useful tool for bamboozling the public.

Tying 9/11 truth to civil liberties protections and the fundamental issues of Peak Oil is probably the best path for making 9/11 truth more practical for political change. Ideally, 9/11 truth could lead to reductions in the military budget so these resources could be used for permaculture solutions to Peak Oil and climate change.

In 1969, newly elected Nixon escalated the war on Vietnam. Many in the peace movement felt discouraged that their protesting and other actions were not slowing down the war. It was revealed years later that Nixon had secretly threatened north Vietnam with nuclear attack. The Vietnamese realized he was bluffing, he did not have the support of the US public to do that -- and they ignored the threat (and Nixon eventually stood down). It is possible that the collective efforts of the 9/11 truth movement have had positive impacts behind the scenes that we may learn about in the future.

Some 9/11 truth activists have wondered how this effort is going versus similar initiatives to expose the coup against President Kennedy. New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison was on the "Tonight Show" about 5 years after the coup in Dallas, although he was not treated well. NBC also did a show about him that was about as pleasant as the Popular Mechanics 9/11 article. He had a mix of positive reactions from ordinary citizens (who were skeptical of the official story) but never got the positive press that he deserved for his independent investigation.

Garrison's independent investigation was the ONLY legal process against any of the conspirators (a story told in the film "JFK" by Oliver Stone, although Garrison's auto-biography "On the Trail of the Assassins" is even better than the film). His prosecution was sabotaged by fake witnesses inserted into his legal strategy, similar to the "no-planes" claims that sabotaged our credibility (especially in the Washington, DC area).

9/11 Five Years Later: How We Won, And Lost
Emanuel Sferios of septembereleventh.org (the original 9/11 truth grassroots outreach campaign) has written an excellent memoire of his involvement in the early days of 9/11 truth -- how we won (by spreading the information far and wide) and how we lost (no political changes have happened). He suggests one of the reasons for our loss is the massive propaganda barrage that has succeeded in associating 9/11 truth with the kookiest claims, instead of the best evidence.

www.septembereleventh.org/five_years_later.php
9/11 FIVE YEARS LATER: WHAT HAVE WE ACCOMPLISHED?
An Assessment of the 9/11 Truth Movement
By Emanuel Sferios
September 11, 2006

Jamey Hecht

http://poetrypoliticscollapse.blogspot.com/2008/09/seeking-to-hire-ignorant-ghostwriter.html

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2008
Seeking to Hire Ignorant Ghostwriter for Book That Already Exists

Beginning on the day of the attack, the 9/11 Truth Movement ran the same inevitable course repeated by domestic dissent and political critique so many times: formation, momentum, growth, penetration by unidentified representatives of the critiqued; disinformation campaigns; factionalization, and fizzle. It is always possible, however, to rebuild and extend the work of social repair that such movements represent. Apart from that utopian ambition, it’s inherently valuable just to make sense of the attacks and assassinations, the engineered coups des etats and the falsely triggered wars. That sense-making happens in paperback-and-podium argumentation pitched at various levels of sophistication for various audiences; it happens in documentaries; and it can happens in the arts. It cannot happen in the courts: published in September 2004, Mike Ruppert’s Crossing the Rubicon was a solidly documented, robustly argued legal case against Dick Cheney and others, constructed strictly around means, motive, and opportunity. Though it remains the 2nd or 3rd best-selling book on 9/11 after the Kean Report itself, Rubicon has been resolutely ignored by the mainstream media and gone unchallenged by any legal (or other) representative of those it accuses. The way to get media attention is to publish – wittingly or unwittingly – a true story mixed with a poison pill of disinformation.

http://rigint.blogspot.com/2006/11/back-to-wilderness.html

Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Back to the Wilderness

These days in the 9/11 Truth demimonde, early and clear-eyed researchers like [Peter Dale] Scott, Paul Thompson and Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed are rarely heard over the likes of Morgan Reynolds and the thermate/"mini-nukes" debate, and rather than contributions such as the discovery of 9/11's concurrent war games we have "scholars for 9/11 Truth" tearing one another new impact holes over speculation on space-based beam weaponry. If you think that indicates progress, and that we're closer to 9/11 justice than we were three years ago, I don't know what more to tell you.

Anthony Lappe, GNN
from the foreword to
"The Big Wedding: 9/11, The Whistle-Blowers, and the Cover-up"
by Sander Hicks

Over the course of the last four years, the so-called "9/11 Truth Movement" has become a model of open-source citizen participation, engaging people from all walks of life from around the world in an inspiring collective search for the truth. But it has always been plagued by a glaring contradiction: it has relied almost exclusively on the reporting of mainstream news sources at the same time it rails against the mainstream press as players in the grand cover-up. But by far, the most troubling aspect of this fledgling movement lurks on its fringes. Thousands of hours are spent debating theories that defy rational thought and mounds of physical evidence. The planes were fakes! The passengers had been let off at a secret location, and drone planes flew into the towers. No, the planes were actually missiles! See look at the "pods" on the bottom of these blurry video stills. It has been nearly impossible for the responsible members of the movement to distance themselves from the lunacy.
Anonymous characters popped up with names like "Web Fairy," and were taken seriously by thousands of seemingly intelligent people. A bizarre alternative universe emerged in which the more outlandish the claim, the more it was taken as gospel. Those who questioned the podpeople and their equivalents were dubbed government stooges. It was farce that took on aspects of magical realism -- a fantasy world which one day will quite possibly be exposed as a deliberate disinformation program designed to taint the dedicated seekers of truth as paranoid "conspiracy theorists."

www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/060706_questions_grave.shtml

THE NY TIMES PUTS 9-11 QUESTIONS IN THE GRAVE
As Sad As It Was Predictable
Story Marks the End of a Sequential and Planned Campaign to Discredit Authentic 9/11 Researchby
Michael C. Ruppert and Jamey Hecht

[It’s pretty easy to deconstruct and demonstrate, step-by-step, how the 9-11 movement was led into the Valley of the Little Bighorn and massacred before the public eye. It’s too bad that so many of its self-proclaimed leaders acted as willing accomplices while the real 9-11 pioneers; skilled and experienced investigators, journalists, professors and academics could only sit back and watch the “assisted” suicide take place. 9-11 has been sent to the dustbin of history and the sad part is that it has all been done before.
Few would listen to our warnings. There are great lessons here for the future if another opportunity should present itself to break through into the mainstream. But that would have to be something as big as 9-11 and I’m not sure the remnants of this free nation could stand something like that. – Michael C Ruppert]

flight77.info

welcome to flight 77.info -
documenting the legal process to obtain government-held video recordings related to flight 77 on 9/11:

UPDATE 6/7/6
the 9/11 truth movement, today, is fueled by the theory that something other than a 757 hit the pentagon on 9/11. if you're interested in being a happy member of the group of people known now as 'the 9/11 truth movement' - you're going to have accept a few things: 1) no 757 hit the pentagon. 2) aliens may have been involved in the overall 9/11 plot. 3) if planes actually did hit buildings on 9/11, they were likely loaded with missiles... also, know your JFK assasination trivia well, and have an original theory to throw out to the group from time to time. you get special cool points for insights into JFK and aliens. [this is not a rip on the JFK assasination or UFO crowd]
this is the way it is NOW. i don't know how the 9/11 truth movement was originally. i got into the scene late (about 2 years ago). it doesn't really matter the way it was originally - now it is just an echo of hope that the truth will bring the real conspirators to justice. now, the 9/11 truth movement is a playground for people who prefer theories over accuracy, and a field filled with opportunities for profit.
now, there is very little actual on-the-ground, real-life investigation. those who prefer theories over accuracy don't want to spoil those theories with FOIA requests or other investigations that might actually lead to the uncovering of evidence. i've witnessed this from the 'inside', and have seen the flurry of panic to protect certain theories. but that's okay; that's people's lives. and if you're thinking of becoming a member of the 9/11 truth movement, don't fool yourself that you're joining a mission to bring truth to light.

www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?
az=view_all&address=125x79026
Edited on Wed Mar-29-06 07:49 AM by bronco2121

i know it has become unpopular (for some reason) on DU to criticize the new direction of the... well, i wouldn't call it the '9/11 truth movement' anymore - it's now more like the 'big tent 9/11 anything-coulda-happened movement'.
so if you're the kind whose eyes might bleed if you read anything critical of either the 'scholars for 9/11 truth' or the happy shiny music video known as 'loose change'... DO NOT view these URLs:
http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/st911/index.html
http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/12/1787340.php
bronco
flight77.info

they had some people speak who weren't on the list of speakers that I took great offense with ... I'm never going to go to another event like that again, that's for sure!
(from a well-respected speaker who went to several 9/11 truth events)

The movement has become a total joke now. It is really sad. It is all ego for people. They don't care about the truth. They just care about being popular. How else can one interpret the "excitement" over the NYT article? OR the number of speakers at the conference? IF all those speakers are bullshit it doesn't matter how many there are, after all. It's the sickness of our age... mass media and popularity dictate people's behavior. They measure success in terms of how much media coverage they get, how big their conferences are, etc. Very very sad.
(from an activist who spoke at the March 2004 9/11 Inquiry)

I have seen what Mike Ruppert and Jamie Hecht are saying coming. There is no doubt that the disinformation specialists have done a great job of divide and conquer. As increasingly wild theories bloomed, I shook my head in dismay. I wrote to a few people involved questioning why American's are so quick to scream at each other. Too many 'seekers of truth' were too easily suckered by the Pentagon distraction. Massive hole could have been blown in the official story at the WTC. The puppet masters have been very clever!
Fact is, some people, some groups have done an outstanding job of analysis. Fact is, the official story is the real CT. So many facets of it are sheer physical, mathematical, engineering impossibilities. There can be no doubt that this was an inside job.
In my view, those working in a professional way, those who are professionals in the disciplines that are relevant, should continue their work. There has to be recorded for history a through analysis of this type. Not because I have any hope that the perpetrators will ever be brought to account. I have come to understand very well that only a very few of us can see reality. Want to know the truth, however shocking. I know that the vast majority, with their condition minds, simply cannot grasp the issues. They prefer to believe the official fabrication.
Right now I do not see a good conclusion for the human race. At times I think the candle of hope is flickering badly. But somehow we have to keep that little flame going! If there is no hope, then we are all finished. I try and get through to a few people, to snap them out of their media induced torpor, to get them to understand the enormity of what we face. But, most people just don't want to know. It is too much to grasp. The implications are too frightening.
The lights are fading Mark. It is getting very cold.
(from an observer outside the United States)