Three explosive revelations hit near 9/11 anniversary

First and foremost, on August 26, Alex Jones reported that 9/11 Heroes will not be Welcome at Ground Zero. In Jones’ own fiery words, “First Responders–including police, fire fighters, EMTs and others–have been barred from attending the ceremony commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.” No one wants to see or hear about the scars.

Jones continued, “Instead, warmongering politicos including President Obama and former President George W. Bush will grandstand at Ground Zero, trampling upon the memory of those who lost their life while stifling the living heroes who have increasingly questioned the official story, the lack of care for those who got sick and other travesties. Instead, responders enrolled in health care programs are screened through terrorism databases, literally adding insult to injury. What’s more, such databases are increasingly used by Homeland Security to control access to jobs, benefits and more.”

I might add this compounded travesty of justice and common decency is the true measure of how low the American government has sunk and also how frightened the robots that run it have become. To deny the right of those who ran into the chaos the right to be present at the ceremonies honoring the sacrifice of their brothers and sisters in response is savage. But then look at the five wars we are engaged in from Iraq and Afghanistan to Pakistan, Libya, Somali, and god knows how many others covertly. We seem hell-bent on destroying the world for oil and hegemony, both of which will be denied once the world fully realizes our intentions and lines up against us as we once did against the Third Reich.

Jones’s quote was amplified with an impassioned and eloquent eight minute video speech, introducing a nightly TV show at infowars.com and prisonplanet.tv to be shown weeknights at 7PM central, starting Thursday September 1, 2011.

Second, this August 27 article, How Much Gold Was Under WTC Complex? by Keith Johnson of American Free Press appears. This story started with a coin dealership running a TV ad for a 9/11 10^th anniversary commemorative coin, hyped as “clad in .999 pure silver actually recovered from vaults beneath the ashes of ‘Ground Zero.’” It jarred retired NYPD Captain Tom DePrisco to tell the New York Daily News in late January, “That’s pure [expletive deleted].”

DePrisco had been assigned to the Office of Emergency Manage in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, assisting the recovery of precious metals buried in a two-story vault under the rubble of WTC Building 4 to transfer the cache to another vault at the Brooklyn Naval Yard World. The operation started on Oct. 16, 2001, ran for two days. When reminiscing about walking into the vault, he said, “It was like a scene out of [the James Bond movie] Goldfinger . . . endless net stacks of gold, silver and platinum bars—a half billion dollars worth.”

According to the news piece, DePrisco said, “We never recovered any other precious metals. So it boils my blood that anyone would sell a fake coin claiming to be made with silver recovered from Ground Zero.”

The Daily News contracted the coins’ dealer, who said that they were authentic and added “they have a complete chain of custody for the merchandise and claim to have bought these items from a company that purchased from a bank, storing silver bars, coins, et in its vaults under the WTC.” I’d love to know the name of that bank and see its books. I mean, nearly $1 billion worth of gold, silver and other precious metal stored beneath the WTC before 9/11, and nobody at NYPD is asking more questions. Where’s the FBI, the CIA, the IRS?

In fact, to this day only $230 million has been officially accounted for. That cache was retrieved from the earlier mentioned, two level, 6,000-square-foot vaults kept by the Bank of Nova Scotia. They reportedly lost $200 million in gold resulting from the attacks. Other estimates propose there was another $750-million in precious metals that could have been kept in other vaults or evacuated post-haste from the Nova Scotia vault before the Towers came down . . . Call it “wealth for thought” or “finders keepers, losers weepers.”

Third, on August 28 from Brad Wilmouth comes, Fox News Highlights Bloomberg Decision to Exclude Clergy from 9/11 Ceremony. Believe it or not, “Friday’s O’Reilly Factor on FNC gave attention to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s decision to exclude all clergy from taking part in the upcoming commemoration of the 9/11 attacks.” Perhaps, I suggest, this was to offset barring First Responders from the events. No conflict, no truth, know nothing. Substitute host Juan Williams introduced the segment.

He presented Mayor Mike’s statement that: “Everybody would like to participate, and the bottom line is everybody cannot participate. There isn’t room. There isn’t time. And in some cases, it’s just not appropriate.” So the ever practical, cost-time efficient mayor in him popped up: no time, no room. And perhaps there was no need for more conflict? But such is life.

The first guest, Dr. Anthea Butler, from the University of Pennsylvania, thought the mayor “might not want to set a precedent,” yet she thought “a tenth anniversary is the absolute appropriate time to have people of different faith traditions there to help memorialize those who have gone on.” And it seemed to her “a little callous to say that there can’t be any clergy because there isn’t any time. There’s time for everything else,” she said. “Why isn’t there time for something, some symbolic gesture, something inner faith, something that would comfort the people who had loved ones they lost in the towers on 9/11?” It would probably dissolve some of the B.S. in the air as well.

Williams then asked Father Edward Beck, ABC FAMILY CHANNEL Catholic Priest to respond. Father Beck pointed out, “There was certainly room and time in the months following 9/11 for clergy persons to be at triage centers, to be at relief centers helping and ministering to those who were lost and family members looking for them . . . Also, the first recorded victim of this tragedy was a Catholic priest, Father Michael Judge . . .”

He added, “I think that we have mayor here, too, who champions the mosque being built next to Ground Zero, saying it’s all about religious expression, that people should be able to express themselves religiously and freely. Yet, he’s not permitting it here. It seems to me a contradiction. How can you have one and not the other?” That does seem to be a problem, Father.

Williams said “ . . . Let me just turn the tables here . . . maybe the mayor is saying . . . you religious leaders, whenever you get involved, you have a divisive influence on the whole process . . .” In other words, says this writer, religion removes the focus, i.e., that “there were radical Muslims who were involved in this attack.” But then what of the fact that many 9/11 experts point to the involvement of the Mossad and/or Zionist Jewish Americans involved, notably Larry Silverstein, owner of Tower 7 and lessee of the WTC Complex?

Silverstein & Partners had the insurance raised from $3.2 billion to $3.5 billion in case of hijacked airliner attack by terrorists a month before the tragedy. How prescient. Silverstein also made $500 million in insurance on his Tower 7 demolition and stood to profit greatly, along with his partners. That wasn’t even mentioned in the debate.

Should we have a rabbi present at some time to mitigate the anger some feel against these individuals? I speak as the invisible participant here.

Williams continued, “Maybe he [Bloomberg], doesn’t want people . . . involved in building the mosque to be invited or been told no, we’d rather have different representatives than your religious faith at this ceremony.” That would be exclusionary, wouldn’t it?

Father Beck pointed out “That you can’t deny that religion is an undertone and overtone of 9/11. These are religious fanatics [the purported hijackers] who perpetrated this heinous act, and they wanted to silence all other religious and cultural voices . . . So aren’t they in fact, winning if you are now silencing religious and cultural voices . . .”

And I ask, Father Beck, perhaps the perpetrators were American fanatics, like George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, et al, who wanted to use Muslims as patsies to allow the US to attack Muslim countries for their oil, like Iraq, Afghanistan, now Libya? Could that not be the case: A false-flag operation?

Williams answered Beck with “Right, what about divisive?” I ask, what about Fox News being divisive? It’s not just religion that is divisive. It’s politics and an unfair and imbalanced press, now on the block for its abuses, including wire-tapping 9/11 victim families.

Father Beck answered Williams, “Why can’t it be uniting? Why can’t you have religious leaders from all—

Williams interrupted, “are you saying: Let’s just keep religion out of it? Is that his [Bloomberg’s] argument? Father Beck then answered . . .”Remember Yankee Stadium two weeks later? The Prayer for America? All those religious people gathered . . .” Williams added, “Including Muslims.” Father Beck said: “Of course, including Muslims.” Williams answered, all right, Dr. Butler, what do you say?”

Dr. Butler said, “I think that I agree with Father Beck here. I mean he’s making more out of this than it should be. I mean, you know, for shame, Mayor Bloomberg, really. Because it is the one moment where you could show that religion can do something positive.”

And I question, should not religion be separated from government as the founders wished it to be?

Butler continued, “And in the weeks after 9/11 . . . you had all these memorials set up to people who were missing in the Towers. I just don’t understand why he wants to make this more political than it has to be. Answering her own question, she said “Because it has now become a political thing that he has not invited any clergy members.” Egos are involved.

Williams said, “But wait a second, Dr. Butler. It’s become political because of the arguments not only over the mosque near Ground Zero, but, you know, people say, ‘I don’t want a mosque built out in Tennessee.’ You know, people are worried. That’s what I’m saying.”

Butler said, “Yes, yes, they absolutely are worried.” Williams responds, “Maybe he [Bloomberg] is saying there is too much religion.”

Butler: “Yes, people absolutely are worried, but this is a moment where he could change that tune. He could change the tenor of that conversation. And he is not taking the opportunity to do so.”

Williams: “Dr. Butler, Father Beck, thank you both for coming in.” And this writer’s apologies to all the many Muslims who weren’t there to speak for their faith, albeit faith must be moderated to let government govern, and the religious provide spiritual strength. Amen. Shalom. Salemaleikum. Peace, please, to all.

The original article of this conversation sans this writer is linked above.

Jerry Mazza is a freelance writer, life-long resident of New York City. An EBook version of his book of poems “State Of Shock,” on 9/11 and its after effects is now available at Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com. He has also written hundreds of articles on politics and government as Associate Editor of Intrepid Report (formerly Online Journal). Reach him at gvmaz@verizon.net.