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By Dr. Kevin Barrett, http://www.barrettforcongress.us
Since mid-2004, a series of scientific polls has shown high levels of support for the LIHOP (let it happen on purpose) interpretation of 9/11. According to this interpretation, top US officials knew the attacks were coming and intentionally allowed them to succeed.
But until fall 2008, no scientific poll in North America had found significant (double-digit) support for the hypothesis that most independent experts believe is best in accordance with the facts: That top US officials orchestrated 9/11, including the controlled demolition of three World Trade Center skyscrapers. This interpretation, known in the 9/11 truth community as MIHOP (made it happen on purpose) has now entered the mainstream, according to polls commissioned by the Barrett for Congress campaign.
In surveys of households with two or more registered voters, at least one of whom has voted in a recent election, the Barrett campaign found that 22% of voters in Wisconsin's conservative, rural Third District say that 9/11 might have been an inside job. And in a nationwide poll the Barrett campaign found that 33% in similar households either believe the World Trade Center was taken down in a controlled demolition, or that we need an investigation of possible controlled demolition.
What makes these numbers especially significant is that regular voters in multi-voter households are presumably on average older, wealthier, whiter, more settled, and more invested in the system than the general population. The fact that large numbers of such people either espouse or are willing to contemplate MIHOP suggests that the truth about 9/11 is slowly making its way into the US mainstream.
One seemingly disappointing result of the Wisconsin survey was that support for LIHOP was only 24%. Since earlier polls had shown higher levels of support for the proposition that top US officials intentionally allowed 9/11 to succeed, this result suggests that belief in LIHOP is growing very slowly, if at all. By contrast, the same polls suggest that support for MIHOP and controlled demolition is growing rapidly. What might account for this disparity?
Perhaps LIHOP is an inherently unstable position, due to both its theoretical improbability and its many tensions with the empirical facts. If this is the case, we can expect people to fall off the LIHOP bandwagon and either embrace the full MIHOP "inside job" position, or return to a guarded acceptance of the Official Conspiracy Theory (OCT).
LIHOP's theoretical improbability is obvious upon reflection. Is it really plausible that top US military and intelligence officials, especially those who avidly desired a trigger event to launch pre-planned wars, would, upon learning that by an amazing coincidence just such an event had been planned by their enemies, decide to simply look the other way? Had there been actual hijackings on 9/11, the hijackers could have dive-bombed nuclear power plants and rendered much of America's most populous and productive region, the eastern seaboard, permanently uninhabitable. Such a genuinely disabling attack, while it would serve the purpose of actual enemies, would hardly be considered an acceptable possibility by US strategists.
All military thinkers, whether they are radical Muslims who want to bring down the US empire, or neoconservative radicals who want to unleash the US empire, know that the only successful military operation is one that decreases the enemy's desire and/or ability to fight...or increases one's own fighting capacity. 9/11, as would have been obvious to its planners, radically increased the US capacity to fight, by rallying the American people to a "war on terror." No anti-imperialist Muslim would be stupid enough to do that. Nor would any US strategist be stupid enough to "look the other way" and allow a kamikaze attack from the air to go ahead, given the possibility that such an attack could be genuinely disabling if nuclear facilities were targeted.
LIHOP is not only theoretically untenable, but also at variance with numerous facts, the most important of which fall under two rubrics. First, there is no evidence whatsoever of involvement by extremist Muslims. Had Arab hijackers actually boarded the alleged attack planes, the evidence that they had done so (boarding passes, CATV videos, official passenger lists, testimony by airline employees) would have quickly been made public, alleged hijackers would not have turned up alive after 9/11, and Bin Laden and his associates would have quickly been indicted. Second, the controlled demolition of WTC buildings 1, 2 and 7 could only have been accomplished and covered up by insiders.
Given these and other problems, why have so many people embraced LIHOP? Psychologically, it is far easier to blame 9/11 on an external enemy, abetted by inaction or incompetence by US officials, than to believe that top US officials actually orchestrated the demolition of the World Trade Center with more than two thousand people inside. Those who accept LIHOP, like those who hold the incompetence theory, can continue to hate and fear the alleged external enemy, rather than turning their anger squarely on their own treasonous leaders. They can accept the paranoid "there are people out there who want to kill us" meme and its attendant Islamophobia. In short, they can remain more or less within the belief system that 9/11 was designed to inculcate, which is now the majority belief system in Western society. It is much easier, psychologically, to remain within hailing distance of the dominant belief system of ones society, than to step completely outside of it -- especially if stepping out reveals that belief system, and those who inculcate and espouse it, as utterly and irredeemably evil.
In short, MIHOP is the "red pill" that moves people outside the matrix of the dominant us-versus-them belief system. MIHOP's penetration of the American mainstream is therefore an extremely important phenomenon.
What accounts for this mainstreaming of MIHOP? First, since 2006, a groundswell of expert opinion has grown up in support of the case for controlled demolition, and many of these experts have effectively presented the case in terms graspable by laypeople. Second, the 9/11 truth movement as a whole has strongly embraced MIHOP and made it the focus of most 9/11 activism. Third, the powerful emotional barriers that form the only meaningful impediment to universal acceptance of MIHOP have gradually receded as the shock of 9/11 dissipates over time.
The Barrett campaign's poll findings suggest that 9/11 truth activists should continue to focus on MIHOP and controlled demolition, which are becoming increasingly acceptable in mainstream America. The Barrett campaign strongly urges all people of good will to support the efforts of Richard Gage and the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth (http://www.ae911truth.org) who are doing so much to shift the weight of public and expert opinion and expose the truth about 9/11. Conveying the Architects and Engineers' message to architects and engineers in your area is one of the most effective actions you can take to ensure that the full truth of 9/11 continues to emerge.
Why do they step in the way of a true 911 commission?
Why do they use it for campaigning but shun 1st responders who are dying?
Since GWB took office can anyone recall any initiative he had part of that wasn't a lie?
Then why is it that we question his criminality?
While he erodes your freedoms and threatens your constitution.
Look up FEMA on youtube....we got problems people!
Visit infowars.com
Peace and good luck
Thus, the point and purpose of a power-limiting Constitution is made plain. A hard cap on power serves to cap the inevitable corruption that runs parallel to it.
Knowing the absolute truth about 911 (assuming it was even possible to) might serve as a benchmark to free people - telling us exactly how far down the road to tyranny we really are. Beyond that, I don't know.
It was via the buddy system on Odigo software, which allows one to communicate to a large group of people that share a trait, such as the Hebrew language, that thousands of Israelis were warned not to go to the twin towers on 9/11.
American Securities and Exchange Commission says Israeli citizens, sold short a list of 38 stocks that could reasonably be expected to fall in value as a result of the pending attacks. These speculators operated out of the Toronto, Canada and Frankfurt, Germany, stock exchanges and their profits were specifically stated to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Christopher Bollyn
We talked to their private security staff, we talked to people who were there with Larry Silverstein on 9/11… they said he got a phone call telling him not to show up to work, and he called his daughter and she never showed up either. Rudowski Prison Planet
The Readers Digest ran a story during the WTC construction stating explosives would be built into the buildings to facilitate their eventual demolition. Update… Paul Laffoley worked in the 1960's for Emery Roth and Sons, a New York City architectural firm. On Radio Orbit on February 21 2007, he said he helped to design the WTC with explosive charges built into the towers, in order to take them down neatly at any time.
The President said he witnessed the first strike at 8.46 AM, while he was in the hallway of the school waiting for the cue that would televise his visit across America…
THE PRESIDENT: I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower -- the TV was obviously on. And I used to fly, myself, and I said, well, there's one terrible pilot. I said, it must have been a horrible accident. But I was whisked off there, I didn't have much time to think about it. And I was sitting in the classroom, and Andy Card, my Chief of Staff, who is sitting over here, walked in and said, "A second plane has hit the tower, America is under attack." …Obviously there was a link from New York right into the schoolhouse, which could only have been set up by his own people.
The mainstream make no mention of the tremendous damage to WTC’s 4, 5 & 6, or the missile like object seen streaking toward impact simultaneous with the air strike in the South tower, visible at 5 min 50 sec in, 911 The Explosive Reality… the best 911 docco.
Or that the, “…smoking gun” evidence justifying war on Afghanistan was the one hundred thousand dollars wired to Mohammed Attar prior to the 911 attacks, the stooge who sent the money got it from Pakistan Military Intelligence who received it from the CIA.
The Alex Jones connection… forty eight days before the 911 attacks on July 25 2001, he said in his weekly radio broadcast that Osama Bin Laden might be thinking of attacking the WTC… Surely that is just too cute. No sign of a plane at the Pentagon, else where is the wreckage, nor in Pennsylvania, a cruise missile appears to have struck the Pentagon.
Wow. This has been thoroughly debunked. Come on conspiracy nuts - you've had 7 years! At least come up with original bullshit. Blaming 911 on the Jews? You're betraying the fact that you are (i) insane, (ii) unintelligent and (iii) boring.
Andrew, it's been 7 years, and you have to be both extremely stupid and extremely incurious to believe that it's possible that "... thousands of Israelis were warned not to go to the twin towers on 9/11" and/or that "American Securities and Exchange Commission says Israeli citizens, sold short a list of 38 stocks that could reasonably be expected to fall in value as a result of the pending attacks."
These Jew-haters are just making shit up, and let's hope that you're not that stupid to believe in their fantasies.
Sadly, what is quite indicative of your intelligence level is that you think Martin Timothy is exclusively talking about Israelis, and not about Jews.
This man tried to warn the FBI for months and months before the attacks: http://www.infowars.net/articles/december2006/0...
Your link to an Alex Jones website proves nothing. I must also note to you that Alex Jones got famous telling people, back in the 1990s, how the Bill Clinton presidency and the U.N. and FEMA were going to enslave all dissenters. Also, you should look on youtube for the wild claims that Alex Jones was making during Y2K. Please tell me you wouldn't have been one of those dumbasses who took that conspiracy nut seriously when he told you that the government was coming after you on January 1, 2000.
The put options (putatively valued at around $5 million) would never matter to big business interests or to a sovereign. There was similar trading the year before, and the year before that one, and the year before that one. In any event, all that talk reminds me of Austin Powers ("ONE MILLION DOLLARS!").
I don't understand why you've accepted the fiction, without any evidence, that people were forewarned and that the Israelis were involved. The people who manipulate you have had 7 years to make their case, and their case comes down to unnamed sources put upon us by conspiracy nuts. Yet you've accepted all of that as fact.
I don't think you're afflicted with the disease of anti-Semitism - that is, hatred of a group of historically hated people who never did anything wrong to you. I'll give you that. But it seems like you are hopelessly follow those nutjobs.
You also strike me as a person who doesn't listen to the arguments against your position.
First, there's no official story. Second, there is an immense consensus of historians, scientists, journalists, inside sources, eyewitnesses, etc. that 19 hijackers did the attacks without the help of the U.S. or Israeli governments. The burden of proof is on you (as you seem to support the truther nuts) to support a different theory of the crime.
As an analogy, there's no official story on the Holocaust. Nonetheless, there's an immense consensus as to its existence and effects. I'm not sure if you're a uneducated, psychotic Holocaust denier, but you certainly seem to pal around with them. In any event, the burden of proof is on the Holocaust deniers to prove their stupid claims.
"The proof used to blame Osama Bin Laden has been discredited ..."
That's because you're susceptible to believing in dumbass unsourced lying claims on bizarre conspiracy websites.
911 conspiracy nuts get NOTHING correct.
And your swipe at the 911 Commission is laughable.
Two Hundred and forty out of a population of eleven million, turned out for the parade Alex Jones organized in NY on September 11 2004, to protest official inaction in the face of a mountain of evidence, indicating the official 911 story is a load of codswallop, and demanding a new, thorough and open investigation.
In 2007 he was arrested by a group of bored looking police, with a few bemused bystanders looking on.
Really?