Those who attended this year’s 9/11 “truth” conference at West Park Presbyterian Church in Manhattan were urged to examine the events of 9/11, including the anthrax attacks of 2001, in view of them being not “conspiracy theories” but a legitimate study of SCAD, or “state crimes against democracy.”
Ever since the 1960s, the Central Intelligence Agency has pushed the meme that any questioning of the U.S. government’s official conclusions on a range of incidents, most notably the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, but also including other assassinations, coups, and political scandals, are to be pejoratively labeled as “conspiracy theories.” The Obama administration reinforced this policy with former White House “information czar” Cass Sunstein, who is married to the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, advancing the notion that conspiracy theories are to be targeted in campaigns of “cognitive infiltration.” Sunstein even suggested taxing, fining, or banning conspiracy-related speech in violation of the Bill of Rights.
Attendees at the September 12 conference, titled “Declassify the Truth—9/11 Transparency On The Rise,” heard Professor Lance deHaven-Smith from Florida State University present the recent history of SCADs, including 9/11-anthrax, the assassinations of President Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy, Reverend Martin Luther King, and Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone and the attempted assassinations of President Ronald Reagan and Alabama Governor and presidential candidate George Wallace. DeHaven-Smith also categorized the mail anthrax received by the Senate offices of Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy as attempted assassinations.
Participants also heard author John Perkins recount highlights from his popular book, “Confessions of an Economic Hitman,” on how U.S. intelligence and Wall Street conspired to assassinate a number of foreign leaders.
There was a wide consensus that if the 28 classified pages in the Joint Congressional Inquiry on 9/11 intelligence failures are released to the public, the investigation of 9/11 will see new doors opened for further examination. The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee that wrote the report, former Senator Bob Graham, has called for the release of the 28 pages. A bipartisan group of senators and representatives, including Senators Rand Paul (R-KY), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Walter Jones (R-NC), Thomas Massie (R-KY), and Stephen Lynch (D-MA) are sponsoring bills in their respective chambers calling for the release of the 28 pages.
Presidential candidates are being asked about their views on the release of the 28 pages. In addition to Paul, GOP candidate Carly Fiorina said she favors the release of the pages. On the other hand, Senator Lindsey Graham opposes release because he said it will harm the interests of “U.S. allies” in the Middle East region. WMR’s editor told the conference that based on Graham’s reference to “allies,” the 28 pages refer to not only Saudi Arabia but also Kuwait, Qatar, and the most controversial U.S. “ally,” Israel.
Referring to 9/11 and the anthrax attacks as state crimes against democracy is a way to push back against corporate media interests and U.S. government agencies that argue that any discussion of wider plots involved with 9/11 and anthrax are merely unsubstantiated fringe “conspiracy theories.” By referring to 9/11 in the context of state crimes against democracy with the potential for future grand jury investigations of the additional parties involved in the terrorist attacks on passenger planes and the connected anthrax attacks, the critics of the 9/11 truth movement can be disarmed by the rationality of addressing the attacks in an academic and legal framework.
There is also the possibility that probes of 9/11 and anthrax can be linked to other SCAD attacks in other countries, including the London and Madrid transit bombings; the “Charlie Hebdo”/kosher market attacks in Paris; the Bali, Mumbai, and Bangkok bombings; terrorist attacks in Oslo, Copenhagen, Sydney, and Stockholm; the Tokyo subway Sarin gas attack; and others around the world. An international approach to SCAD attacks might even raise the level of discussion to the United Nations and regional international bodies such as the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.
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Brilliant piece of writing. Gladio operatives are alive and well. Mrs. Sibel Edmonds has written extensively on operation Gladio. According to her it falls as much on the U.S. as it does NATO.
We have been lied to for far too long.
Those who care enough to look into this can see that it was a false flag terror event, or at least known to occur and allowed to happen.
So here we are in 2015 and the economy is still crap. Elections next year… so do we have another war to look forward to either shortly before or after the election? More terror for Americans and then use the fear to get them to attack somewhere.
The Million Mask March started off as a single protest in Washington D.C. in 2013. It has since grown in to what has been dubbed the largest mass protest in human history with over 500 simultaneous protest around the world. Also with countless nation and world wide street actions on a weekly and monthly basis including such things as clothing drives, street protests, feeding the homeless and in some cases traveling to help those in times of need. To remind the world that fairness, Justice, and freedom are more than just words.