Friends,

Here something perhaps to think about as this powerful government and media tsunami of evil rushes across America. This morning after Mass a well educated 80 year old nun jubilantly came up to me to tell me how wonderful it was that we kill Osama Bin Laden. I asked if that is what Jesus would have done, or if He would be so positively elated about one human being slaughtering another? She said we had to kill him after what he did to us on 911 and might do again. I left with ever deeps sense that there was something terrible evil going on in the Catholic Church, so deep and so all permeating that we breath it in like air with no ability to see its awful personal and communal spiritual toxicity. But all it took to recognize that the depth of this evil in the Church is far from limited to the Catholic Church, when I turned on the TV and saw almost an entire society debauching itself in the erotic pleasure of revenge with the media egging them on, entering into it and advertising it. Hopefully at least the bishops, priests ministers and pastors of the various Christian Churches will take this moment to catechize their people that jubilation over revenge and/or human destruction is participation in the spirt of evil and can never be Christlike nor glorify the Father of all.

Charlie

WE Killed Him.

aren’t we great!

and, when we find out he was innocent, then what?

do we then call ourselves murderers?

do we then call those, who set him up as a scapegoat, patsy and media strawman in order to conceal what really happened and who really is resposible, murderers?

Or, do we give them the Nobel peace Prize, the medal of freedom, the gandhi Peace Prize, the medal of honor?

The killing of Osama Bin Laden by shooting him in the face, if it really was Osama bin Laden who was killed, and the ceaseless and extravagant media hype surrounding it, in no way invalidates a single piece of the scientific evidence that has been gathered which proves that according to the laws of physics the three WTC buildings could not have been destroyed, as they were, by a plane flying into two of them. Nor, does it invalidate any of the other incontestable documented evidence that reveals the 911 Government Commission Report and the official Government story to be a fabrication beyond a reasonable doubt.

Defenders of the 'official Government story' like to point out that Osama Bin Laden was caught on video proudly confessing to the crime in front of a group of his peers. The now famous 'confession' video was released in December of 2001 by the Department of Defense under growing international pressure to provide definitive proof tying Bin Laden to 9/11. And the defenders of the government's narrative present this oft-broadcast video as tidy proof of that narrative's validity. But as with so much of the 'evidence' covered at length in this paper, this 'definitive' proof is riddled with conflicting facts, quantum leaps in judgment, and, ultimately, inadvertent support not for the official story, but for the very skepticism about 9/11 that the 'proof' was meant to quell.

First of all, Bin Laden's initial reaction to 9/11 was not to take credit for the crime at all. In fact, he continually denied any involvement in 9/11 up until the 'confession' video was mysteriously presented. Almost no one in the U.S. has read Bin Laden's first statement in response to 9/11, which so conflicts the later 'confession'. Here it is, from September 17, 2001:

"I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent attacks, which seems to have been planned by people for personal reasons. I have been living in the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan and following its leaders' rules. The current leader does not allow me to exercise such operations."

We've been asked to accept without question his other statements of 'confession'. So how do we make sense of the above statement? Or how do we make sense of his second public statement in regards to 9/11, given on October 16, 2001:

"I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other humans as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children and other people. Such a practice is forbidden even in the course of a battle."

These comments obviously do not prove that Bin Laden did not orchestrate 9/11. But they do raise a crucial question. Why would a man spend six weeks denying a crime, then suddenly flip-flop 180 degrees and happily start taking responsibility for the originally denied crime? Most people - including scientists, CIA analysts, FBI, and other independent investigators, etc. - who have a working familiarity with the 'confession' video, know the answer to this question. And that is that the man in the video making the 'confession' is almost certainly not Osama Bin Laden, and the tape is a fake. The man shown in the video, though bearded, Arabic, and of darkish complexion, is much heavier than all known photos and videos of the actual Bin Laden. The man in the video is seen writing something down with his right hand. Bin Laden is well-known to be left-handed. And there are scores of other reasons to question the validity of the tape. In fact, "the FBI's page on bin Laden as a 'Most Wanted Terrorist' does not list him as wanted for 9/11, and when asked why, a FBI spokesman said, 'because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11'." The U.S. defence Deaprtment has publicly admitted that there is no documentation for the circumstances by which it came to possess the infamous tape wherein Bin Laden suppossedly confesses to 911, nor the circumstance by which this tape was authenticated. (Debunking 9/11 Debunking, pg. 21, David Ray Griffin, Olive Branch Press) For a detailed analysis on the bin Laden tapes, click here or here.

Make no mistake, this announcement n the eigth anniversary of George Bush’s foolish “Mission Accomplish” piece of patriotic theater, signals a clear intention to vindicate all the decisions of the past decade and continue on a similar course going forward. The media’s immediate focus on the “spontaneous” demonstrations of patriotic fervor that sprung up with echoes of “USA, USA” brings us right back to those September in 2001. The media propagated tenor of these celebratory gatherings, and the content of the President’s announcement, convey a strong message that the last decade’s wars have been worth it, and likewise that the extraordinary security measures and loss of civil right here at home have been equally worth it..

The death of a single individual is essentially being heralded as a justification for the deaths of at least hundreds of thousands (a figure largely comprised of civilians) in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. It somehow remedies all illlegal activity by the Bush and Obama people and all moral turpitude attendant to the use of “enhanced interrogations,” “extraordinary renditions,” killing civilians by the hundreds of thousands and destroying life for millions of men, women and children who did nothing to the U.S. or its people. Osama Bin Laden taking face shots that rendered him unrecognizabe, is being orchestrated to emotionally ratify the trillions of dollars spent on wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.. It squelches dissent on Patriot Act policies and the Homeland Security Theate of the Grotesque. It retroactively validates the Bush Administration’s open-ended waging of global warfare on anyone or any thing or any group that it chooses to pins the labele terrorist on. Prospectively, it opens the flood gates for those who pull Obama’s strings to terrorize domestically, in the Middle East and internationally anyone or any group they wish with the U.S. Government’s assets. Where will you and your Church stand when the immediate future—after November 2012—beomes a blood red carbom of the immediate past? Selling your mind, soul, heart and body to government, military, mass media and to the multi-nationals to make ends meet? Acquiesing to calling wickedness good?
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