September 11, 2011

by Helen Tansey

For days now I’ve been watching videos and reading stories about 911 with the intent to write a blockbuster article about the events of that most traumatic day, or about the loss of our liberties, or about the thousands of young lives lost due to the wars we’ve engaged in since, or about the utter failure of the 911 Commission tasked to truly investigate what really happened, BUT I can’t seem to get beyond my own lack of faith in the American public. Every time I’ve thought up an angle to a storyline, my mind seems to wander to the thought “people won’t get it” so what’s the point. So I think well maybe they’ll get this or want to read about that, but they don’t.

No. For some queer reason American’s seem perfectly content having their realities constructed for them, rather than opening their own glorious minds and building their own beliefs.

From where I sit it seems the majority of the American public is perfectly okay with how this single act drastically altered and continues to reverberate through American life, and the entire world stage for the worse; certainly not for the better. From where I sit the majority of the American public fails to see that by giving their intellectual power away to an inanimate entity serves zero purpose when getting to the bottom of what “factually” happened on that fateful day. Lastly, the majority of the American public, from what I can gauge, appears content being fed what to think by a media establishment who long ago abandoned anything remotely close to journalistic integrity…hell, they even admit it yet the listeners and readers keep going back for more. Talk about Pavlov’s theory in action.

It was 10 years ago today thousands of moms, dads, brothers, sisters, grandmas, grandpas, cousins, uncles, aunts and friends vanished. Poof. Gone. All in the blink of an eye. It was all so surreal and utterly unimaginable. While trying like hell to make some sense out of what I was witnessing, I was told within minutes of the first plane hitting the second tower who the “evil doers” were and why they attacked us. I was told to be afraid because our nation was under attack by terrorist elements who hated us and our way of life. I’ve been told everyday since to be afraid of Al Queda, the Taliban, Muslims in general, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, mosques, white guys with gun permits, rednecks, bubba’s and former military. Hell, I’ve even been told to be afraid of the Amish who sell raw milk and little kids who sell lemonade for crying out loud.

Everything being sold by the fed’s these days is laced with “fear”. Everything. Name me one thing; just one damned thing the fed’s having delivered that wasn’t based on fear over this last decade. You’d think that after awhile the American public would wake up to this incessant fear mongering and say enough already, but they aren’t and they won’t out of fear they may be wrong. Well, big clue, you wouldn’t be wrong.

And all of this fear based mush stems from that one fateful day – September 11, 2001. For eight long years I bought the official “government” tale about 911, but I was also one who kept waiting for answers from my government to a variety of questions that no one ever seemed to want to answer….we must protect state secrets and all dontcha know.

But then one day, a poster here at the T-Room turned me onto a lecture series conducted by a new group of professionals called Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth. After watching these normal everyday American’s speak to similar questions I’d been having, I quickly realized there was way more to what truly happened on that day than I realized and I needed to take on the responsibility to learn it.

These architects, engineers, scientists and firefighters were talking about a building I completely forgot about – Building 7. I can remember thinking to myself when that building collapsed “how in the world could this building have collapsed when no plane flew into it. What in the world is going on?”

After wading through the AE911Truth information, I found myself letting go of the official narrative, and instead, opening my mind to the possibility that maybe, just maybe, I didn’t have all of the facts surrounding this tragedy right. So, I did what I always do, I began researching and the more I watched footage from that day, and the more I read investigative reports by journalists I hardly knew, the more I realized how in the dark my clinging to the official version was to my own detriment…to my country’s detriment.

The moment I allowed other information in was the moment I stopped being afraid. I learned that the government’s woven tale of 911 was less than accurate and even less than scientifically based. But most importantly, I learned not to live in fear anymore. Maybe you too have grown weary of being sold fear, fear, fear and are opening your mind to opposing information that is opposing scientific information that counters the official government version.

If so, make the time to watch this latest Architects & Engineers for 911 Truth documentary. Yes it’s long, but you know what, it’s more than worth taking the time to watch it; especially if in the end you too are free from the government’s constant fear mongering….