The Washington Post: A leading Japanese politician espouses a 9/11 fantasy
The only good thing about 9/11 is to see brave figures rising, like Fujita, Gage, Jones, Jersey Girls & many others restoring the face of truth. This article can be one of those defining examples of how influential media are sabotage a serious and fact based discussion about what happened on September 11, 2001. The presentation of an authoritative and genuine politician from Japan, who risks his neck for the sake of truth.
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Title: A leading Japanese politician espouses a 9/11 fantasy
Source: The Washington Post
Url: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/07/AR2010030702354.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
YUKIHISA FUJITA is an influential member of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan. As chief of the DPJ's international department and head of the Research Committee on Foreign Affairs in the upper house of Japan's parliament, to which he was elected in 2007, he is a Brahmin in the foreign policy establishment of Washington's most important East Asian ally. He also seems to think that America's rendering of the events of Sept. 11, 2001, is a gigantic hoax.
Mr. Fujita's ideas about the attack on the World Trade Center, which he shared with us in a recent interview, are too bizarre, half-baked and intellectually bogus to merit serious discussion. He questions whether it was really the work of terrorists; suggests that shadowy forces with advance knowledge of the plot played the stock market to profit from it; peddles the fantastic idea that eight of the 19 hijackers are alive and well; and hints that controlled demolition rather than fire or debris may be a more likely explanation for at least the collapse of the building at 7 World Trade Center, which was adjacent to the twin towers.
As with almost any calamity whose scale and scope assume historic proportions, the events of Sept. 11 have spawned a thriving subculture of conspiracy theorists at home and abroad. The only thing novel about Mr. Fujita is that a man so susceptible to the imaginings of the lunatic fringe happens to occupy a notable position in the governing apparatus of a nation that boasts the world's second-largest economy.
We have no reason to believe that Mr. Fujita's views are widely shared in Japan; we suspect that they are not and that many Japanese would be embarrassed by them. His proposal two years ago that Tokyo undertake an independent investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks, in which 24 Japanese citizens died, went nowhere. Nonetheless, his views, rooted as they are in profound distrust of the United States, seem to reflect a strain of anti-American thought that runs through the DPJ and the government of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.
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Mr. Hatoyama, elected last summer, has called for a more "mature" relationship with Washington and closer ties between Japan and China. Although he has reaffirmed longstanding doctrine that Japan's alliance with the United States remains the cornerstone of its security, his actions and those of the DPJ-led government, raise questions about that commitment. It's a cliche but nonetheless true that the U.S.-Japan alliance has been a critical force for stability in East Asia for decades. That relationship, and its benefits for the region, will be severely tested if Mr. Hatoyama tolerates elements of his own party as reckless and fact-averse as Mr. Fujita.
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Thanks for the links.
In my message, I e.g. contrasted WaPo's coverage of the issue with that of the Washington Times:
"Explosive News"
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/22/inside-the-beltway-70128...
Let's sow the seeds of some journalistic competition.
Brilliant! So did I!
Brilliant! So did I!
Payback time!
I'd suggest it's high time for us to give something back to Mr. Fujita. He stood up for the cause in his senior position, he informed his peers and he pushed the japanese gov. (when he was in opposition) during now famous televised parliamentary interpelations on the 9/11 evidence. His efforts seemed to be always more about the truth and evidence than cheap political gestures.
This is clearly a lame attempt by WP (and Langley hairbrainers) to put some presure on Fujita's political party and peers at home via nominally "respected" D.C. publication. We should help diffuse it by any creative means possible. One could be contacting journalism or ethics dept. on major universities,
showing it as textbook propaganda example, name calling, not focusing on the evidence/material presented by Fujita etc.
This recent WP hit piece is as almost stupid as any pointed editorial propaganda written in totalitarian countries of the world. We can leave it as open gate for the curious minds out there to actually use it as jump board to their own investigation. On the otherhand we can also put some pressure on the editorial board of the WP, because this is evidently beyond substandard yellow journalism performance. Yes, they might pre-filter your complaining phone calls, most of your email or snaimail complaints might go directly to a bin. But I think it's still worthy to launch a campaign against WP on this article. The buck must stop here.
Thanks
Major Media Propaganda Rag
The major corporate media exists for apparently one primary reason - to shape and steer public opinion in the interest of its corporate owners and allies, not to report information.
The establishement seem very concerned about alternative public opinion of 9/11, likely because 9/11 is a major cornerstone of their ongoing domestic and international agendas, not because skeptics of the official story are wrong.
Very well stated!
Like "radio free Europe" during the cold war, we now have the paradox of "internet free Americas" during the PNAC war.
You know what to do.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/07/AR2010030702354_Comments.html
Comments are not enough!
Yes article comments, however beyond ridiculing the editors and showing their true colors, these are a bit pointless, usually used only for channeling opinions/emotions away.
We should embrace other more long-term methods, distributing the article widely to critically thinking public and the tiny pockets of restspectfull journalist out there as a study case..
For instance, the issue of timing!?, Fujita has had come out years ago! this is quite important, they are either too afraid to cover directly the 9/11 truth conferences, so they just smear here and there haphazzardly, or this was more coordinated effort alongside that recent weirdo shooting at Pentagon, Ahmadeenejad etc.
channel our emotions away?
If we didn't channel some of our emotions away - would that make things better or worse?
(I don't know the answer to this one).
As we know, shills are on the job
Interesting comment:
"kathleennathan wrote:
darrylmason wrote: You're very dedicated to your work, FrankIBC. Almost 100 comments posted over an incredible 15 straight hours, and counting, with your longest pause between commenting coming in at about 40 minutes ...."
And Frank|BC did not cease his work at that point either, since he chose to ignore his outing as a shill and continue to post bull.
Yeah, it's easy to guess which ones are paid
by the sheer prolific nature of their posting.
There was one shill on Amazon I dealt with who posted prolifically, but only between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. After that, deafening silence until the next morning.
Is it just me, or...
Has 9/11 Truth just bifurcated into a whole new realm of dialogue, both globally and in the USA. Seems it's suddenly everywhere all at once, the taboo subject going mainstream. What is interesting is how the more it's attacked the faster it moves, since stories on it, compell those who haven't done so already, to investigate it, and as we know, there's a fire hydrant of information out there, and it's a one way street, where people do not tend to ride the fence and once they've changed their mind, don't tend to change it back again. It must be the fastest growing social movement right now in the world. I also find it interesting that the 9/11 Truth Movement actually gave birth to that Tea Party Movement we've been hearing so much about. We started that, when we and a bunch of Ron Paul supporters went to the Boston harbor and dumped 9/11 Commission Reports into the water.
Good work everyone. Keep it up, we're making headway, big time - and so history, looking back, will begin to get this thing straightened out, for the sake of learning, truth, and justice.
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What comes next? Most likely the powers that be will use their control of the media to frame the public's perception. They will decide how they want to use 9-11 Truth for their own agenda i.e. blame and demonize the U.S. in order to prop up an 'international' solution.
That's why you should give Alex Jones credit for always talking about the big picture view of the power elite's agenda(s). It may be time for all of us to speak about the deep involvement in 9-11 by Israel and international bankers so as to prevent the public from so readily accepting the solution proposed by the same.
Keep talking about the New World Order.
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A VERY courageous suggestion.
Israel ...FINALLY
Maybe the time just wasn't right but, until now, dicussions involving the Israeli government and Zionism have been disallowed, if not censored, here. I hope the time is right, now, because the two things are completely and inextricably intertwined.
Out of respect for the deep personal sensitivities that I've perceived on the part of several members here, I've steered clear of discussing either in my comments. But, it is no more an indicator of bigotry, racism, or hate speech to talk about these topics than it is unpatriotic to want truth about 9/11.
** It's not anti-semitic to discuss and/or criticize the Israeli government/Zionism. It's anti-semitic NOT to! Zionism is the REAL enemy of the Jews.
My initial work began with 911 Truth. I originally thought that it was the lynch pin to discovering/understanding the larger picture. But, just like "the light came on" for me one day about 9/11, the same thing occurred for me about Israel/Zionism. THAT's the REAL lynchpin. In both cases, I was spitting angry for being fool enough to fall for the propaganda of either of them, let alone both. I now work in two movements.
Just as a critical mass is quickly being reached by those waking up to 911 truth, the same is happening concurrently with Israel/Zionism. Not surprisingly, as both feel the terror of losing control of their "story," the more desperate and foolish their acts and statements and stooges become.
I agree with the commenter who stated that "anti" articles like this one do more for the movement than many "pro" things that we might do. We should thank these poor souls, as we owe them a deep debt of gratitude for their unintentional assistance.
bbruhwiler8, I hope that, as a major player at this blog, you will kick open this door and continue leading the way. Just as so many here bemoan the fact that the peace movement hasn't been able to - or won't - embrace the 911Truth movement, blind to the critical connection they share, the same is true for 911Truth and the movement working to "out" Zionism and their puppetmaster, The House of Rothschild.
Important things are worth repeating, so here goes:
It's not anti-semitic to discuss and/or criticize the Israeli government/Zionism.
It's anti-semitic NOT to!
Zionism is the REAL enemy of the Jews.
I have no problem at all
I have no problem at all with discussing evidence that points to Israeli involvement in 9/11. I do have a problem with trying to hijack the movement toward a political agenda that not all of us share. I'm not accusing you of that, but I've certainly seen this tendency.
I don't think it's as simple as saying, "The Zionists did it." There are many forces that drive history. Sometimes these forces converge, sometimes they conflict. I believe that 9/11 was a convergence of the interests of various sectors of the global ruling elite. Certainly 9/11 served the interests of right-wing zionism. But it also served the interests of many Christian Euro-Americans. And a sector of the Saudi Arabian ruling class. And the Pakistani regime.
I do believe that committed ideological zionists within the U. S. government were central in the planning and execution of 9/11. But it was a partnership of devils, and we should never allow our movement to be steered toward the contempt of one devil over another.
Amen
Couldn't have said it better!
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Absolutely, Bruno
> Keep talking about the New World Order.
Absolutely!
Cause 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB WITH OUTSIDE HELP, PLOTTED BY ILLUMINATI!!
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I think that the obsession
I think that the obsession with the "New World Order" is detrimental. It's a vague, speculative term that attempts to describe a unifying paradigm that links a broad range of actual State Crimes Against Democracy with wildly speculative (and unproven) ones. I also believe that it reflects a certain ideological tendency that attempts to inject a particular political agenda into our movement.
This is from the Feb. issue of American Behavioral Scientist:
"The SCAD construct is designed to move beyond the debilitating, slipshod, and scattershot speculation of conspiracy theories by focusing inquiry on patterns in elite political criminality that reveal systemic weaknesses, institutional rivalries, and illicit networks." (Lance deHaven-Smith, "Beyond Conspiracy Theory: Patterns of High Crime in American Government" Feb. 2010 American Behavioral Scientist)
Whenever I find people attempting to point out the ultimate puppet-masters, they always seem to bring "debilitating, slipshod, and scattershot speculation" into the discussion.
The reason our movement has advanced is because of the meticulous work of scientists, like Steven Jones, and sober professionals like Richard Gage.
"PLOTTED BY ILLUMINATI!!!"
sounds legit...
You got me missing the downvote button, sugar. ;)
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My curiosity was piqued
in November (or December) 2004 when early activist Jimmy Walter was ridiculed by Geraldo on Fox News in what was no more than a 3 minute hit piece.
Prior to that night, I was already pretty anti-war and anti-Bush administration policy, and the first time I watched Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 (which espouses the "incompetence" theory but does very well document how the administration seized on the event to further a political agenda), it practically seemed like a religious experience. However, I still accepted that 19 hijackers caused all of the destruction.
If a 3 minute hit piece could arouse the curiosity of yours truly, imagine how many people have begun to question 9/11 thanks to the Washington Times article, Jesse Ventura's 9/11 episode, the CBC Fifth Estate program, etc.
The ripple effect is spreading far and wide.
It sure is spreading fast now
and it's a one way street, as your experience shows.
What I find interesting, is that every member of Congress was given A&E4911T's Petition, signed by 1000 Professionals. That they are doing nothing about it, would suggest that they are prepared to allow themselves to be corrupted and participate in Misprision of Treason, rather than look into it and face the truth, no matter how horrific.
It is their inaction which is hurting the USA, not the information - it's the cover up and the spin which is the problem now both for them and a complicit and controlled MSM as the propaganda arm of various government agencies including the CIA.
This thing appears to be sweeping the globe now, as history looks back with near 20/20 hindsight.
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The Cover-up is being Uncovered
at a faster rate than ever before now.. And information, including hard evidence for govt. complicity is being disseminated by agents for truth in places like the NY Times, CNN, and Washington Post. How many curiosity seekers are now googling Building 7, perusing AE911Truth or the Patriots site? How many are now aware of the Jersery Girls and Bob Mac... and nanothermite?
Not only is their mud not sticking, but it's backfiring-- like a karmic boomerang. This is a harbinger for more disclosure and more desperation on the part of the perps and their lapdogs. Their desperation will become ever more obvious, and their attempts to smear will further backfire as we disseminate, enlighten, and enlist converts to truth on a global basis.
We need to step up the Misprision of Treason campaign now.
i was surprised to see geraldo. . .
. . . give effective air time to alex jones, as world911truth posted here earlier today. geraldo (who in the 70s brought the zapruder film to television) and bill maher (who got fired from abc for saying something "politically incorrect" about 9/11) are the most disappointing of the mainstream press corps. you'd think they'd know better. wondering if they can ever be won over.
even more surprising ...
was the comparative lack of sneering, mock incredulity in geraldo's interview w/ Alex - there was almost a hint of respect toward AJ from the msm frontman
WaPo; libelous and treasonous
I hope Fujita sues. I posted this as a comment and sent it to the letters editor and the ombudsman at this mockingbird rag:
letters@washpost.com,
ombudsman@washpost.com
the Washington Post said, "Mr. Fujita's ideas about the attack on the World Trade Center, which he shared with us in a recent interview, are too bizarre, half-baked and intellectually bogus to merit serious discussion. He questions whether it was really the work of terrorists; suggests that shadowy forces with advance knowledge of the plot played the stock market to profit from it; peddles the fantastic idea that eight of the 19 hijackers are alive and well; and hints that controlled demolition rather than fire or debris may be a more likely explanation for at least the collapse of the building at 7 World Trade Center, which was adjacent to the twin towers."
The question is not whether there were terrorists; it's who the terrorists were. The WaPo suggests that anyone questioning the official 9/11 conspiracy theory is part of a "lunatic fringe", and that normal, responsible people simply accept what the public has been told about 9/11; i.e., that the attacks were solely the responsibility of Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, and that the Bush Administration and US intelligence and defense establishment just "couldn't connect the dots," despite the great body of public evidence which contradicts that claim.
Does the Washington Post editor really believe the 9/11 Commission Report is credible? The Commissioners and half their staff had political, profession, personal and/or financial conflicts of interest, most notably the Executive Director Philip Zelikow, who, in addition to other conflicts, had co-authored a book with Condoleezza Rice, served on Bush's NSC transition team from Clinton, created an outline of the Commission's final report prior to the investigation beginning, was an architect of the pre-emptive war strategy, and after the 9/11 Commission took a position working with Rice in the Bush Administration. The Commission accepted at face value statements from interested parties such as GW Bush, Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, JCS Chairman Richard Myers and others in the FAA, NORAD, FBI and CIA, and in some of its most critical passages used testimony that was obtained by torture from accused 9/11 participants. The 9/11 Commission interviewed Bush and Cheney together; not under oath; for just over 3 hrs; the session was not recorded; and Commissioner's notes were subject to review and confiscation. What honest person can accept w/o question an investigation so obviously compromised?
http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timelin...
Regarding reports of insider trading; the 9/11 Commission relegated these issues to an endnote, glibly dismissed them w/o presenting verifiable evidence, and begged the question by claiming that the entities making the few trades they addressed had "no conceivable connection to Al Qaeda." In addition to the highly publicized put options (in over 30 companies, in addition to AAL and UAL), the Federal Reserve increased the money supply shortly before 9/11, there was a massive increase in the purchase of Treasury Bonds shortly before 9/11, including a single $5 billion trade in early September 2001, and during the attacks there were hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal transactions being run out of the World Trade Center. Investigations into all of these things were snuffed out prior to the 9/11 Commission's investigation. See here for more info:
http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timelin...
The cases of stolen identity, double agents, doppelgangers and photos matching people who turned up alive after 9/11 protesting their innocence have in some, but not all, cases been resolved, which naturally leads to questions about who the hijackers really were, whether the US govt has accused the right people, and why there haven't been legitimate answers to the questions re: identity. See here for more info:
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a091601stillalive#a091601...
Regarding the destruction of WTC 1, 2 and 7: in Section 6.14.4 of NCSTAR 1, NIST admitted that the Twin Towers collapsed "essentially in free fall." Nowhere in the entire report does NIST actually explain how 15-30 stories of building mass were able to completely crush the lower 80-95 stories; they simply assert that "global collapse" happened.
http://wtc.nist.gov/NCSTAR1/
In its report on WTC 7, NIST admitted that there was "a freefall descent over approximately eight stories at gravitational acceleration for approximately 2.25 s" (48)
http://wtc.nist.gov/NCSTAR1/PDF/NCSTAR%201A.pdf
However, it's obvious from watching videos that WTC 7 was brought down by controlled demolition, and that NIST's claim that office fires caused girder expansion, leading to the failure of a single column and that this failure brought down the entire building in the exact manner of a controlled demolition is "bizarre, half-baked and intellectually bogus."
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/videos/index.html#building7
See here for many more reasons to question the "bizarre, half-baked and intellectually bogus" official 9/11 'conspiracy theory', and to question the Washington Post's motivations in publishing such a blatantly disingenuous and libelous editorial:
The Top 40
http://911truth.org/article.php?story=20041221155307646
And see The Complete 9/11 Timeline at HistoryCommons.org for a comprehensive overview of events leading up to, on and after 9/11, without the spin applied by mockingbird media such as the Washington Post:
http://www.historycommons.org/project.jsp?project=911_project
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very cool. . .
. . . i do think it's a good idea to have these kinds of replies at the ready for posting responses etc. on the mainstream press websites. i posted this on the wa post comments page:
"nice work! not only are 911 truthers into "fantasy" but they are very dangerous also. see evidence here
http://www.infowars.com/proof-that-911-truthers-are-dangerous/."
Is this the fight stage?
The Japanese are honourable people and the current government was elected by the population because it was a "change" to the blindly following the US predecessor and they will honour that!
Yuki's fellow politicians are educated on these matters and they have stayed out of it because of their relationship with the US and that they consider it "their" business. If the US makes it an issue Japan may just react with the truth....now this may be where it gets very interesting indeed.
Please support Fujita with comments and words of support as he is a very brave and honourable man.
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