Instead of Asking Why the Government Would Kill Its Own Citizens on September 11, 2001, Perhaps We Should Want to Know Why Money and Power Were Worth the Lives Lost

This week we remember the attacks on September 11, 2001 and the 2,977 American deaths that were either the responsibility of or purposely not stopped by the intelligence community of the United States. There really is no other way to look at it given the facts of the day, and what resulted from the event was an increase in government power, profits to defense contractors, the introduction of the surveillance state, and perpetual warfare in the Middle East and elsewhere. The psychopaths who orchestrated or allowed Americans to be killed in order to further their own power and money are disgusting and should be held accountable. To believe the official accounts of what transpired from the 9/11 Commission or the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is to be naïve.

As I wrote last year and the year before, there were many coincidences surrounding that day, including: the Bush administration planning to take out the Taliban prior to September of that year, the most powerful intelligence force on earth being “tricked” and “eluded” by nineteen inexperienced airline pilots and hijackers, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) tracking two of the hijackers and intentionally withholding this investigation from the Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the CIA pressuring the Saudi Arabian government to issue passports for the hijackers so that they could come easily to the United States and commit a terror plot, the Israeli intelligence connection, the FBI allowing al-Qaeda to have access to some of the federal government’s databases and information through the Saudi-funded PTech, the fact that $2.3 trillion was announced missing the day prior and there was no need to do anything about it because the budget office at the Pentagon was hit the next day, the Pakistani government wiring $100,000 to the lead hijacker right after the head of that country’s intelligence community met with the director of the CIA, President George W. Bush’s lie to the public that the federal government could not have known that aircraft would be used as weapons while agencies within the same government were practicing scenarios involving just that on and previous to the attacks, the fact that an airplane was able to evade the most powerful of defense systems and fly perfectly level with the ground to hit the Pentagon directly, the shorting of airline stocks by the rich and powerful the day prior, an addition of insurance onto the World Trade Center buildings the summer beforehand that made the owner of the buildings richer when the towers fell a few months later, the fact that the World Trade Center towers were constructed to withstand the impact of commercial jets but somehow got hit in the right spot in both buildings to cause a chain of fires that were not stopped by the sprinkler systems, the fact that heat alone should not have been able to take down WTC Building 7 and the CIA office inside of it, the FBI being alerted beforehand to one hijacker’s interest in taking control of an airplane but not landing it, al Qaeda-linked operatives attending flight schools across the country, and the passports of a couple of the hijackers being found completely undamaged and conveniently near the site of the crash. But yeah, these were all just coincidences and showed that our well-intentioned government simply had a bunch of severe intelligence failures on the one day where it really mattered. Maybe Americans should get a large refund in their taxes since their money was not being used appropriately or to stop terrorists. Instead, it was being used to overlook everything that was going on so that the terrorists could successfully pull off a plot.

If even after reading through the sources linked in those two articles you are still not convinced that the 9-11 attacks were a false-flag operation and that the federal government would never do such a thing, consider Operation Northwoods. In 1962, the deep state, if you will, wanted justification to go to war with Cuba to eliminate the Fidel Castro regime, but since the American people were not on board with it at that time, they needed to be manipulated into that line of thinking by having the CIA conduct terrorist and psychological operations against American citizens (even plans to kill innocent people). The CIA wanted to have a mock airplane be switched in for a real commercial airliner flying over Cuban airspace and be destroyed by a radio signal (the original aircraft would then make an emergency landing where the passengers could exit safely). It also wanted to hijack civilian ships, destroy American military vessels, stage fires and riots on and in front of military bases, destroy boats of refugees fleeing Cuba, assassinate Cuban refugees and broadcast it live on television, and detonate plastic bombs throughout the United States and arrest fake agents so that it was made to be believable. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Lyman Lemnitzer presented the proposal to President John F. Kennedy’s Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, and it was rejected by that administration (Kennedy was later assassinated). If you think that the United States government would not kill its own people to accomplish agendas and military objectives, think again.

Of course, the 9-11 attacks made Operation Northwoods look like child’s play, and instead of an invasion of Cuba being the prize, this time, the War on Terror that resulted brought about justification for the George W. Bush administration to outright invade Afghanistan and Iraq and engage in covert and drone warfare in Somalia, Yemen, and Pakistan. Additionally, President Barack Obama expanded on this and added Libya and Syria into the mix (President Donald Trump increased airstrikes proportionally but did not add any new country). To this day, the United States still has 2,500 troops in Iraq and 900 in Syria; and the Joe Biden administration has not ceased on the opportunity to not only carry out airstrikes in those countries but also bomb points in Houthi-controlled Yemen.

Counterterrorism operations were conducted in seventy-eight countries, from Botswana and Mozambique to Algeria and Mauritania and Niger to Turkey and Kazakhstan to Indonesia and the Philippines to Brazil and Argentina and Colombia. As a result of the War on Terror, over 400,000 civilians were killed (and about 7,000 American military members and 8,000 contractors), with 4.5 million total deaths (counting military members and indirect causes). It is estimated that over $8.7 trillion (likely over $14 trillion with all factors considered) was spent on the war effort, and a minimum of 37 million people were displaced. The American Empire flexed its muscles around the globe and dominated the world through a series of wars.

And then, there is the profit that was made from having American troops blow up people and infrastructure overseas. Roughly $7 trillion of the war spending went to the defense corporations, which spent $2.5 billion and utilized 700 lobbyists to persuade the government to engage in these wars (not a bad deal for these companies that made back 2,800 times the lobbying fees in blood-for-profit). Just in 2020 alone (long after the initial invasion), Lockheed Martin was given $75 billion in contracts (now, that company is benefiting from American funding of the Ukraine War). Vice President Dick Cheney’s Haliburton received $8 billion in Iraq to clean up (even military members’ uniforms) and supply oil (Cheney was chief executive officer, or CEO, before joining the Bush administration), so when such a murderer and torturer as himself gives an endorsement to Kamala Harris for president, it should show you the type of status quo and pro-war candidate that Harris really is.

Big Tech firms were granted $44.5 billion in contracts, and this included: Facebook, Twitter, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon (whose director of security at Amazon Web Services previously worked for the FBI, in just one example of the revolving door partnerships between the federal government and corporations). Then, those same mega corporations went ahead and partnered with the government to spy on Americans and collect their data through the National Security Agency’s (NSA) Planning Tool for Resource Integration, Synchronization, and Management (PRISM).

The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism, or USA PATRIOT Act, completely obliterated the Fourth Amendment and violated a number of other rights of Americans. It and related legislation allowed for the bulk collection of data, wiretapping, the bypassing of warrants for metadata and “inadvertent” data sweeps from communication with foreigners, moving of warrants from strict judicial review to never-denied approval by secret courts (courts under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act), forced requests for third parties to reveal the data of their clients without their knowledge, monitoring of large sums of money, the ability for the government to initiate a search based on the content of book choices or online searches, and tapping of people’s telephone conversations within three hops of the original conversation with a foreigner (basically everyone). These actions and policies were largely carried out by the NSA and FBI, and it is clear that the surveillance state created right after the 9-11 attacks is here to stay and will not be removed as the War on Terror winds down. The Patriot Act essentially gave the bureaucratic state the power to control and monitor the population, and it got away with this blatant violation of our rights and the Constitution because people were conditioned to be more afraid of the terrorists than they were of their own government. Despite its name, the Patriot Act was about as unpatriotic of a law as you can get (and it was supported by both political parties).

If you still think that there is no motive for the government to have participated in the 9-11 attacks, perhaps there is no convincing you in the end. You would believe any sort of propaganda that comes out of the Washington, D.C. machine. However, for those who are sane enough to realize that there is a problem in the United States and that our rights and livelihoods are being eroded by a totalitarian government that has no regard for our well-being, action is required. Will we allow the government the freedom to run our lives, kill us, and profit from our ignorance, or will we stand up and hold the powers that be accountable for their heinous crimes against humanity?

Thank you for reading, and please check out my book, The Global Bully, and website.