Chauntecleer of the Pricking Cock

This is the letter that I just now wrote to the school newspaper. It is on a very touchy subject: 9/11. By writing and posting this letter, I am declaring my stance to the world, and I shall be seen by many, and probably even most, as totally insane. But that is ok. This letter likely has many typing errors because I haven't proofread it yet, and I was dead tire when I wrote it. I am sorry about the length, but as we all know, I'M A RANTING RAMBLER! Here it is:

Dear The Daily Cougar,

As the subject to this email suggests, I am interested in writing a series of letters to The Cougar that is centered on an extremely sensitive issue, but it is an issue that I regard of the utmost importance. I am speaking about, of course, the 9/11 issue.

This email is only an inquiry by its nature; it is not to be considered for print. I am certain that the subject of 9/11 has been written about ad nauseam in the newspaper, but I believe that I can provide a different view that, in my opinion, needs to be listened to at the very least. I am an alumnus of UH who graduated in May of 2005, and I admit that I am somewhat out-of-the-loop in regards to the stories that you have printed over the past year, so it may be possible that my point-of-view has already been presented.

My view of what happened on September 11th is definitely not in accordance with the mainstream account that was given to us by our corporately-controlled media. Those who believe similarly to me on this issue are typically ostracized as "tin-foil hat nut jobs" or simply "conspiracy theorists." My view, if expressed in the newspaper, would certainly cause consternation amongst those who are not prepared to hear it. What is my view? To summarize it down to its barest essentials, I believe, based upon what I have researched, that the 9/11 terror attacks were not planned by Osama bin Laden, as the American media has so unilaterally pounded into out heads. I believe, as the journalist Webster Griffen Tarpley writes in his book 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in the USA, that the real perpetrators of the attacks were (and are) a small "rouge network" of USA-based terrorists that are comprised of very wealthy and powerful members of business, government, and the military. I believe that this relatively small consortium of elites planned and carried out the horrible events of 9/11 in order to start an unending war in the Middle-East AND to deprive U.S. citizens of their rights (need I say Patriot Acts I and II?).

I am also proposing that this elite, invisible "shadow government" has nearly complete control of what we see reported in the media in much the same fashion that The Party of Orwell's novel 1984 has control over theirs. Our media, and especially the TV media, is an extraordinarily prevalent force in our modern life; indeed, many people become addicted to television and cannot function without it. Unfortunately, there is a great percentage of Americans who do not do their own research, and such citizens are at the mercy of what the "authorities" decide to tell them. The "authorities," in this case the corporate owners of the media establishment, cannot be completely trusted to report the truth 100 percent of the time because they have an agenda to uphold; that agenda is money. The money and power connection between wealthy individuals/corporations and government has been strongly documented, and if media moguls see that they can make a lot of money by broadcasting news that is aimed to keep Americans in a constant state of fear, they will work with the Official Party Line to make that happen. How is the average American, who views around 4 hours of television a day and displays little curiosity into putting in the effort to research news events, to defend oneself against the onslaught of televised political pundits and develop an opinion of one's own?

I wish to present my case of 9/11 in a series of letters in The Daily Cougar. One letter is not enough space for me to present my argument. The first few letters would actually have nothing explicitly related to 9/11; I wish to focus first on our media's all-encompassing presence in our lives and how it influences our values. Above all, the media is an industry, and an industry's primary goal is to make a profit. When we grew up, we nearly all desired to become attractive and successful adults. But what is attractive? And what is success? Those two terms are qualitative in nature and up for debate, but I believe that we all have a good idea of what the mainstream consensus of those two terms are. The ideal of feminine beauty in our society is to be cardboard-thin, dress revealingly, and wear oodles of make-up. The ideal of masculine beauty is to be tanned and muscle-bound. The mainstream ideal of success is to get rich, own three or four Lexuses and have two vacation houses in Aspen. If the terms attractiveness and success are subjective, then how can we know the mainstream consensus of what those two terms mean? It is because the media suggests these ideals and values to us through (including but certainly not limited to) mediums such as fashion/beauty magazines and action-hero movies. As kids, we are bombarded with these suggestions from birth, and a lifetime subjected to such advertising and subliminal messages tends to leave its effect on the American Psyche. I wish to argue that long term exposure and dependence on the media (especially television) leads to a condition known as mind-control.

After I discuss the media for a letter or two (and keep in mind that I am no media scholar; I am just someone who has become interested in this subject and has done minor research in it and has thenceforward formulated my own opinions on it) I would wish to focus the next letters on 9/11 itself. I believe that I would not even state my official view in the first letter actually pertaining to the specific subject of 9/11 but rather simply state facts and contradictions of that day.

Some include:

- The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were the first steel-framed buildings to collapse from fire in history. Never before or sense has it happened, and there have been fires much more intense in skyscrapers than the ones on 9/11, and yet those buildings did not collapse.

- The ~10 second free fall collapses of both towers are physically impossible if one accepts the government-sponsored "pancake theory." I am no physicist, and in an actual letter submitted with the intention of print, I would certainly quote some specific experts on this matter, but as I understand it, the pancake theory holds that the top floors structurally weakened and fell onto the floors underneath them. The bottom floors could not withstand the pressure, and thus they gave out, as the government reports. Yet the towers fell at near free-fall speed, AND they fell STRAIGHT DOWN. If the pancake theory were true, wouldn't floors falling unto stronger bottom floors cause RESISTANCE and therefore DELAY the collapsing time? Also, wouldn't the resistance in such an event cause the collapsing floors to change direction instead of falling straight down?

- Steel melts at above 1,500 degrees C. Many scientists report that it is impossible for the fires of the world trade center to bun that hot in our real-life earth conditions. It would take a vacuum to enable a fire to get that hot on earth.

- Comparisons of the World Trade Center collapse and routine building demolitions show remarkable similarities. Also, the acceptance of pre-planted explosives is the most logical explanation for how the Twin Towers fell.

- Numerous eyewitness accounts tell of hearing and seeing explosives inside the Twin Towers.

- Larry Silverstein, the then owner of the World Trade Center complex, admitted in a program on PBS that he made the decision to demolish World Trade Center 7. This contradicts the Official Story that holds that the building collapsed through fire-alone. Additionally, this building was never even hit by an aircraft, and it was farther from the Twin Towers than many other buildings that still stand today. Plus the collapse of this building is not mentioned at all in the 9/11 Commission Report.


- There was a spike of insider trading of put options on American Airlines and United Airlines stock in the days before 9/11. This suggests that important people in America knew that the attacks were going to happen beforehand.

- It wasn't until 2004 that the technology to enabled cell phone calls on airplanes was unveiled by Qualcomm. This contradicts the Official Story's heroic cell phone calls made by the passengers of the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/biztravel/2004-07-19-aircells_x.htm


I am sorry that I am not providing all of my sources for my claims, but if I were assured that it were possible to print letters of these claims in The Daily Cougar, I would definitely take the time to gather all of my sources and present them so that all readers can have access to research this matter for themselves. As you can see, I would base my arguments on facts that seem to contradict the Official Story put out by our government and our media, and that is all that I really aim to do. As I stated before, I believe that a secret but powerful rouge network inside our government carried out these attacks for their own pernicious gains, and furthermore, I believe that the airplanes that were flown into buildings on that day were decoys that were used to provide us with an enemy to go to war with. Osama bin Laden functions in much the same way, or rather, seems to me, that Hilary Goldstein functioned as terrorist-boogeyman in Orwell's 1984. If we are convinced that we have something legitimate to fear, we will ask the government, no, beg the government to do whatever it takes to protect us. Unfortunately, the price of this "protection" seems to come at the cost of the very civil liberties that made this a great country in the first place. I think that our Founding Fathers would be turning over in their graves if they could see America now.

The very last letter that I hope to write for the newspaper, if my proposal is to see the light of day, would be covering the ramifications of what it would mean if all of my assertions were true. What if 9/11 is indeed the largest scam of world history? That would mean that all the actions that our country has taken since then...all of the political upheaval that it has caused since 2001, would be based on nothing but a lie of the most grievous kind. How would we respond as a country if the news got out AND the masses began to wake up and realize that they have been duped? How would we recover from this? How would we even BEGIN to make up for all of the mistakes made in the Bush era? The shame would be something on the order of the shame the Germans felt after the fall of Nazi Germany. Maybe it would not be on quite the same scale, but it would be horrific nonetheless.

I now bring my inquiry to a close. I simply wish to ascertain whether my views would find a place to be expressed in The Daily Cougar, or if they would be seen as too radical for the paper. I know from personal experience that most would probably not believe me no matter how well I backed up my evidence, and I know that many simply do not wish to think about something like this, and that is perfectly understandable. I rather wish that I didn't have to think about this; I have plenty of other things that I wish I could expend my energy towards rather than this gloomy subject, but I feel as though I would not be doing my duty to my friends, family, fellow Americans, and the community of Earth if I did nothing. There are many people who devote their entire beings to debunking what is seen in the 9/11 Truth community as a myth of the most dastardly kind, and needless to say, I am not one of them. I have my own goals to pursue and my own life to live; I do not profess to be as knowledgeable as I could be in this field. I am simply someone who has stepped into the world of these researchers, thought about what they had to say, and believed their explanations of the tragic events as being more logical and rational explanations than what our government told us. With these letters, I simply wish to open more discussion about this subject whether it is true that there is a conspiracy or not. I cannot convince anybody; they have to judge for themselves. But hopefully I can provide some reference material that might just help somebody think independently about this for themselves.

Thank you for your consideration,
Scott [The Pimpin' Playa]

*Screams*