Foiling democracy

Tin foil hats on.

There are a lot of questions remaining about 9/11. Doubts remain over the passenger lists (why the hijackers weren't on them and how the Feds knew who they were so quickly when they were all vapourised in the crashes), over the ability of the hijackers to fly planes, over cockpit recordings that have not been released, over who knew what and who should have done what.

The CIA has a report that names names, but you won't be seeing it just yet.

Am I saying that the Bushistas rigged 9/11? No. Am I saying they knew it might happen and allowed it to? No.

But I'm saying that it is conceivable. It's conceivable that the people who run America just might not care about a few thousand deaths -- why would they? These are people who make decisions that cause thousands of deaths, and unavoidably so (when you decide on safety standards, you know that you are accepting X deaths in doing so; when you set policing levels ditto; you have to make tradeoffs and you know they have costs).

There is only one way to answer the questions. Provide the truth. Release the cockpit recordings. Release the film snatched from cameras that recorded the last minutes of the Pentagon plane. Tell us honestly what you knew and when.

Why not? We know why not but we allow these people to lie to us. We read media that lie for them and we never allow ourselves to think until years after the fact when the truth of how venal they were comes out and it no longer matters.

No one would have believed the American gov't would run guns and dope so that it could fund rightwing terrorists that opposed an elected government but it did (although astonishingly those responsible are not in jail and one, Reagan, was widely feted on his death recently).

Accountability is the cornerstone of democracy, not the election of officials every now and then. How easily that's forgotten?

posted by Dr Zen @ 10:20 am