> On Behalf Of Jim Devine Friday, March 16, 2007 10:34 AM >"It's been said that evil happens when good men do nothing. And as the >Democrats prove, it also happens when mediocre people do nothing."
>-- Bill Maher, LAT op-ed, March 16, 2007 >Jim Devine / "The truth is more important than the facts." -- Frank Lloyd Wright I was struck by the applicability of this quote to the issue of whether discussion of 911 was germaine. Paul Z points out that responsibility for 911 is important because that event became the root justification for our wars in the Middle East. It is surely that and much more, including the erosion of civil liberties and at least the early stages of a police state here at home. Moreover, the big IF question, the question of our government's involvement, raises the prospect that the relationship between us citizens and our government will be acceptable to us, whether we accept a society in which terror is used against us citizens as a tool to further state policy. So, whether we choose to dismiss the "IF" as untrue, or not, I do not see how we can dismiss it's potential significance, particularly in the context of the erosion of civil liberties, etc., that has occurred. Turning to the matter of whether our government was involved, the "IF," it is possible that a definitive case can not yet be made. But there is a very solid case that the buildings did not simply collapse as a result of the aircraft-induced damage and fires. The laws of physics would have to have been suspended for the buildings to fall at free-fall speed. Moreover, it would have been impossible for the fires to have caused the molten steel found in the building's wreckage. These are facts (and there are others) that render the official story impossible and that very strongly support controlled demolition. From there, one can reason with somewhat less certainty that the whole constellation of events, including access to place the explosives, failure of air defenses, the incestuous nature of the 9-11 Commission and its flawed report, etc., could only have been brought about by persons of high authority and control within the US government. "...[E]vil happens when good men do nothing." Peter Hollings
