{"id":25969,"date":"2015-11-21T17:10:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T21:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=25969"},"modified":"2015-11-21T17:10:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T21:10:46","slug":"we-the-people-911-and-the-election-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=25969","title":{"rendered":"We The People, 9\/11 and The Election of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->San Rafael, CA<br \/>\nNovember 21, 2015<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>Every four years, politicians who aspire to reach the White House have<br \/>\nthe opportunity to connect with <em>We The People<\/em> to capture our attention<br \/>\nand legitimize their ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>They must do so by resonating on a deep level with a broad spectrum of<br \/>\nopinion as they articulate fundamental principles while being sufficiently<br \/>\nunique to distinguish themselves from their competitors.<\/p>\n<p>This year is no different but it is marked by an unusually high concern<br \/>\nfor national security because of the rise of ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing wars since the 9\/11 attacks have drained our treasury,<br \/>\nstrained our military resources, and put our reputation for world leadership<br \/>\nunder exceptional challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Yet for many of us, the issue of 9\/11 itself remains central to a complete<br \/>\nunderstanding of what ails our nation today and what needs to be done<br \/>\nnow in the best interest of <em>We The People<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If in fact 9\/11 was a false flag event engineered to provide a pretext for war,<br \/>\nthen virtually everything associated with it&#8212;-from The Patriot Act to NSA<br \/>\nspying to humanitarian interventions to the NDAA provision for indefinite<br \/>\nmilitary detentions to full spectrum dominance and to the war against<br \/>\nISIS&#8212;should be re-evaluated and arguably discarded.<\/p>\n<p>In the 14 years since the attacks in New York and Washington, a great deal<br \/>\nof research has been done by those unwilling to accept the official narrative.<br \/>\nMuch of that is of high quality as well as being apolitical in that it focuses on<br \/>\na search for the &#8220;truth&#8221; rather than to mindlessly blame the Democrats or the<br \/>\nRepublicans.<\/p>\n<p>Recent bipartisan efforts by members of both the House and Senate are taking<br \/>\non new urgency because of the escalating terrorism by ISIS. To the extent that<br \/>\nthe original 9\/11 attack by Al Qaeda and the new attacks by ISIS are the product<br \/>\nof Western intelligence agencies designed to bolster a New World Order smacking<br \/>\nof American hegemony and the military industrial complex, then a far different<br \/>\nresponse to the perceived threat is required than merely &#8220;bombing the bastards<br \/>\nback to the Stone Age!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shock and Awe&#8221; made for good TV and public relations for selling the Iraq War<br \/>\nagainst Saddam Hussein. And styling Gadaffi as a tyrant who justified our<br \/>\nefforts at regime change in Libya was great for selling the public on ousting him.<br \/>\nBut creating two failed states and launching new attacks against Assad in<br \/>\nSyria has seen the rise of ISIS at enormous cost.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, Walter Jones (Rep N. C) and Steven Lynch (Dem Mass) proposed<br \/>\nHR428 which was designed to release the 28 redacted pages from the Joint<br \/>\nCongressional Inquiry into 9\/11. That report has been classified by President Bush<br \/>\nas well as by President Obama.<\/p>\n<p>These Congressmen and their 20 cosponsors have pushed for release of the<br \/>\nreport in the name of transparency and informing the public regarding aspects<br \/>\nof the attack that have remained hidden and which implicate foreign governments.<\/p>\n<p>To the extent that Saudi Arabia appears to be one of the named sponsors and<br \/>\nto the extent that ISIS is a direct extension of the Wahhabist ideology that<br \/>\nfuels that monarchy, the relevance of those 28 pages takes on new urgency for<br \/>\nthose wanting to take effective action in fighting terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>One of the people working behind the scenes for release of the 9\/11 Report is<br \/>\nformer Alaska Senator Mike Gravel. Gravel is uniquely qualified both morally<br \/>\nand politically to speak on this matter since he was the individual who read the<br \/>\nPentagon Papers into the Congressional Record in 1973 in the context of the<br \/>\nWatergate Scandal.<\/p>\n<p>That noble act was instrumental in informing <em>We The People<\/em> about the Viet Nam<br \/>\nWar and criminal acts by the Nixon Administration that led to his impeachment,<br \/>\nas well as an end to that long war.<\/p>\n<p>Who will be the Mike Gravel of 2016? Who will read the 28 pages into the<br \/>\nCongressional Record? Which presidential candidate will be moved to serve<br \/>\n<em>We The People<\/em> and divulge the truth of what really happened in 2001?<\/p>\n<p>Gravel claims that 9\/11 is the &#8220;cornerstone of runaway government!&#8221; Yet,<br \/>\nironically, he has endorsed Bernie Sanders for president rather than Rand Paul<br \/>\nwho back in June held a press conference calling for release of the Report. That<br \/>\nmeans that Gravel prefers a New Deal type approach for dealing with the economic<br \/>\nwoes of our nation that Sanders promotes rather than a Libertarian one which is<br \/>\ncentral to Senator Paul&#8217;s views.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s fine and well within the realm of legitimate political discourse. But if Gravel<br \/>\nwants to be fully consistent with his stated belief that investigating 9\/11 is central<br \/>\nto dealing with ISIS, ending the excesses of the national security state and having<br \/>\na coherent foreign policy, then he should forthwith call up his colleague and urge<br \/>\nSanders to get on board with releasing the Report.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, that is the best way to serve <em>We The People<\/em>, speak truth to power<br \/>\nand start the restoration of the American Republic. Anything less than that is<br \/>\ntoo timid for dealing with the current crisis and confronting the dark forces of<br \/>\ntyranny who have usurped power here at home and are imposing a <em>New World<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Order<\/em> abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump hinted at this when he challenged the record of Jeb&#8217;s brother for<br \/>\nnot keeping us safe, but his remarks fell far short of what Gravel, the LaRouche<br \/>\nteam and others are proposing. As the article below claims, according to former<br \/>\nBush CIA Director, George Tenet, Bush and Cheney did not keep us safe and<br \/>\nconspired to hide their complicity.<\/p>\n<p><em>We The People<\/em> must find our collective voice either with a presidential candidate<br \/>\nas our champion or in some other form if future 9\/11s are to be prevented and some<br \/>\nmeasure of peace established for our progeny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">References:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">1.\u00a0 HR428:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/113th-congress\/house-resolution\/428\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/113th-congress\/house-resolution\/428<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">2.\u00a0 Alex Jones interview with Mike Gravel:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nitJ_sORf3E\"><span class=\"s4\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nitJ_sORf3E<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (starts at 3 minutes into the video)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">3.\u00a0 Rand Paul Press Conference:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/larouchepac.com\/campaign\/28pages\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/larouchepac.com\/campaign\/28pages<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">4.\u00a0 Former CIA Director: Bush and Cheney blocked investigation of 9\/11: <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s5\"><a href=\"http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=114014\">http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=114014<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">5.\u00a0 CIA created ISIS: <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-atlantic-alliances-holy-war-against-the-islamic-state-isis-natos-role-in-the-recruitment-of-islamic-terrorists\/5399540\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-atlantic-alliances-holy-war-against-the-islamic-state-isis-natos-role-in-the-recruitment-of-islamic-terrorists\/5399540<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">6.\u00a0 Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard:\u00a0 Stop Illegal War on ISIS:\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=114226\"><span class=\"s4\">http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=114226<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">7.\u00a0 Jeffrey Steinberg:\u00a0 Release the 28 Pages Now:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/larouchepub.com\/other\/2015\/4246wake_paris.html\"><span class=\"s3\">http:\/\/larouchepub.com\/other\/2015\/4246wake_paris.html<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}