911 Avoiding the hard questions

February 3rd, 2006 at 13:23 Björn Hallberg

Spurred by the courageous move of the Scholars for 9/11 Truth people are perhaps finally starting to ask the hard questions. Though they will no doubt be shouted down and intimidated by the militarist acolytes and the automaton pundits out there. People who have now staked their careers as “terrorism experts” and written books on 9/11 as well as profited greatly, politically and economically, from the “war on terror.”

Miami Herald ROBERT STEINBACK - I was 8 years old when President John Kennedy was shot to death in Dallas in 1963. If grace favors me, I’ll be 62 when documents related to the assassination are released to the public, and 84 when the Warren Commission’s investigative files into the tragedy are finally opened.

Since Kennedy’s assassination, Americans have lurched between demanding to know and plugging their ears: The Pentagon Papers, My Lai, the King assassination, Watergate, Iran-contra, the savings-and-loan debacle, Monicagate. Lately, however, it would seem the public’s verdict is in: Don’t tell us. Keep us in the dark. We don’t want to know.

This is the worst possible time for probe-ophobia to grip us. Our nation was irretrievably transformed by 9/11 — and yet there remain troubling questions about what really happened before, during and after that day. Rather than demanding a full and fearless vetting to hone in on the truth and silence the conjecture about 9/11, many Americans remain unwilling to peer into the microscope.

And true enough, esoteric theories are flurishing, to such a degree that the fundamental problems with the official version are overlooked or dismissed out of hand. But I guess that is part of the plan. Of course, scholarly review is not as easy to dismiss.

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