Painful 9/11 Truth
September 5th, 2007
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention
Many technical analyses cast doubt on the official explanation of the collapse of three World Trade Center buildings, including those presented by an impressive new group: Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. More difficult than discovering the truth, however, is convincing most of the public to accept the bitter truth.
Americans easily block out painful truths. Powerful societal forces keep much of the population distracted and uninterested in complex issues. Entertainment-oriented mainstream media contribute to mass ignorance. And the political establishment often buries the truth, uses propaganda and manipulates citizens. Intelligent, strong-willed people can fight all these.
But on a deeper level, many truths are blocked psychologically, because they produce too much pain. This results when truths sharply disagree with strongly held beliefs. The conflict produces cognitive dissonance that can block full acceptance of the disturbing truth. People fall victim to self-manipulation and self-delusion. Truths are dismissed and false beliefs remain embedded.
When it comes to 9/11, we face the strong belief that only Al-Qaeda caused 9/11. But analyses by many experts reveal the collapse of three WTC buildings was not caused by the two airplanes exploding into the two towers. Without getting into details that one can spend many hours examining on a number of websites, the general view is that the buildings were brought down by controlled demolition.
If correct - IF - the immediate reaction is like a cosmic big bang. It would have taken considerable effort by a number of people with expertise and access to the buildings to rig them so that they could be intentionally collapsed when the two jets hit the towers. Tough questions flood in: Who could have engineered all this? Could foreign agents accomplish such complex actions - and if they did, why not take credit for it? If Americans did it, why would they intentionally inflict inevitable mass death and devastation? Worse, they seemingly knew about the plan to fly the jets into the towers.
Post-9/11, why have the government and official investigations not come to the same controlled demolition conclusion? This might be explained if the government was involved.
Pull one string and the whole 9/11 story unravels as your imagination triggers unending questions. Can Americans support a reinvestigation and rethinking of the 9/11 event? Or would they rather avoid even more pain and preserve the official account that places all blame on Al-Qaeda? So easy to criticize those who offer different explanations as conspiracy nuts.
After all, the new truth would be so shocking that we would have to question our political and government system. Could there have been such malevolence somewhere in our government? Did a monumental conspiracy push us into attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq? Did petroleum and corporate interests shape 9/11?
Like other groups, Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth wants a new, honest and comprehensive study that considers all the evidence for controlled demolition. First, let the technical truth emerge. Then, if necessary, cope with the inevitable political, conspiracy and other questions. But let us not allow a possible painful truth block the primary task of determining once and for all what caused the collapse of the WTC towers and building no. 7.
If there were non-Muslim forces - possibly U.S. government ones - that played a major role in the WTC catastrophe, then let us have the courage to face the truth. Suppose some element of our government played a secret, awful role. If we do not uncover it, then we are vulnerable to repeat nefarious and unimaginable activity in the future - possibly to impact the 2008 presidential election. Discovering 9/11 truth would enshrine the wisdom of the old adage: the truth hurts. That means suffering the pain of revealing lies and cover-ups. Mourning over the deaths of building victims and heroic first responders would expand with new anger. And another reason to hate and oppose the Iraq war would surface.
If those that believe the official 9/11 story - especially elected officials - trust their views, then let them support a serious investigation to test the validity of the controlled demolition hypothesis. If they fear and reject doing so, then let us see that as suspicious and unacceptable.
As a former engineering professor with growing skepticism about the official WTC story, I joined Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth; you can learn about the controlled demolition findings and other similar truth-seeking efforts at www.ae911truth.org. You choose: seek the truth yourself or take the easy way and just criticize those who question the official story.
To sum up, horrific possible answers can cause us to shun a question. But clearing our minds of fears of painful truths is essential to clearing our nation of destructive lies. Otherwise, we stay stuck in a delusional democracy.
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6 Comments Add your own
1. Greg Markowski | September 8th, 2007 at 5:04 am
The following quote is directly applicable:
“The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous they cannot believe it exists at all .”
— J. Edgar Hoover
A second problems is that how is a person with little or no technical education or, worse, functionally illiterate, going to be able to evaluate evidence presented to them? One needs to have some idea of what is plausible in the real world. The majority of people in this country, as far as I know, still think global warming does not exist or question whether it poses a significant risk.
On the other hand, most people have not seen the collapse of WTC 7 and are surprised if they are shown two or three film clips from the main TV channels. One can ask why haven’t the media shown it? Few people know anything about Positive Control Airspace, much less what it means, that it is illegal to fly above 18,000 ft. anywhere in the U.S. without a working transponder, why a working transponder is crucial, or that fighters are scrambled automatically if the airport or regional air controller loses communications with an airliner and why this is done quickly.
2. Mike Zimmer | September 8th, 2007 at 11:48 am
Cyrano’s Journal is to be commended for running this sober analysis from Joel S. Hirschhorn. There is much more that can be said on the topic of course. See for instance http://911research.wtc7.net/, and http://www.journalof911studies.com/.
I am not prepared to support any site financially that does not run sensible articles on the issue of 9/11. By sensible, I mean those that acknowledge the implausibility, indeed the fraudulent nature of the works by the 9/11 Commission and by NIST.
There are many other excellent articles out there, offering sound and well reasoned arguments why my above point is true. There are also far too many not so good articles, indulging in highly suspect speculation. However, the mainstream 9/11 Truth ideas represented by sites such as http://ae911truth.org/ are reasoned, and on the balance of probabilities, likely to be true.
Cyrano’s Journal deserves congratulations, and I intend to ship them a few bucks right now.
Regards,
3. George Thompson | September 8th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
It doesn’t help either when people like Alexander Cockburn, Christopher Hitchens and Noam Chomsky brush aside alternative 9/11 explanations as childish rubbish. What are these three men protecting? They are mostly progressive in many senses of the word and have spent their lives critiquing malformed US foreign policies and they won’t even look at the evidence? Some of the evidence is undeniable. I believe that these men and others like them have so much invested in the blowback theories from their post 9/11 work that they dare not debunk their own prose as literary scholars. This is exactly the cowardice and hubris that is antithetical to truth and democracy. With friends like these who needs Al Qaeda?
4. Bee Zee: GalaxyGarden.org | September 10th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Ode to Building 7: Remembering the Embers
B. Z. Bendigedig, P.I.
Oh mighty Temple of Security in death,
Hidden fortress of ultimate deception:
Your worms of molten thermite breath,
Ashes of twisted evil corruption
Beneath the apocalypse gloom,
Behind the surge of lies and daily doom–
Building 7 is there imploding into infinity
On that fateful dark day of deadly destiny
When America’s dreams melted into insanity.
Solid and secure center of rich cities
Standing witness September 11th in New York
When crashing airplanes interrupted our work:
Building 7 stood amongst the sad debris.
One-way windows reflecting flames,
Deflecting detection amidst the war games–
Then disintegrating conveniently to dust
Swept behind the scenes hidden with our trust
Icon of inevitability mystery and warlust.
Your shadow haunts our sweaty nights,
Reinforced command and control center,
24 hour blinking spymaster lights,
Clouds of death cough in wasting winter.
Cold silent surreality
Masquerading news amidst parades and militarity
Repression suppression repetition of authority–
Yet Building 7 collapses in a perfection of conspiracy
As Silverstein boasts of pulling away history.
“Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.”
— Bertrand Russell
B. Z. Bendigedig, P.I.
Perception Recovery Collective
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— Thomas Jefferson
5. novus.liber » Blog &hellip | September 10th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
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6. John Hanks | September 13th, 2007 at 8:13 am
I have signs in my car windows that say: “Crook media hides everything with Nothing” and “Non-profit media substitutes little crooks for big crooks” and “NO profit media! Pollution doesn’t need a tip.” I have become a local celebrity because I just speak my mind about how the crooks pull their cons from 911 to whatever.
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