I don’t suscribe to any of the conspiracy theories floating around. While the 9/11 truthers do have some valid points, I also realize that their arguments are easily discredited in many cases. I also don’t believe what the government has told us concerning 9/11. I find it hard to believe that a commission can determine exactly what happened in a time period of two years. Our government can’t find OBL but we can know everything about the events leading up to 9/11? We know far too little about what is going on in government to come to that conclusion.

I do have a question for you. Why do you believe that our government would never resort to a false flag operation? It’s happened before in our country. As an Air Farce officer, I imagine that you are well educated. Have you not studied our 19th century history? Our government used claims of Indian and Mexican aggression to justify wars with those peoples. The Gulf of Tonkin incident is still debatable (some say there were no attacks; some say there was no second attack; some say there was a second attack but it wasn’t successful; some say the government told the complete truth; some believe what the current administration’s NSA report says about the incident and our government’s culpability). What about the events leading to Hitler’s seizure of power? The legislation passed in the aftermath of the Reichstag fire was awfully similar to the executive orders that Bush has signed.

Why would do people continue to ignore history? Putting your head in the sand won’t change history or make you any safer. I’m not looking for reasons why you think that the Bush administration won’t do this. I’m looking for reasons why you, as well as others, think that it is not possible for the Bush administration, or any of the future administrations for that matter, to use a false flag operation to seize power on the scale of what Hitler did after the Reichstag fire (look at how the Bush reacted to 9/11 and then imagine how he or any of the front-runner candidates would respond to a dirty-bomb incident in a major city). The stage is certainly set for such an event to happen. Why do people continue to think that it is impossible for something like that to happen?

Yes, the above-mentioned administrations all abused the power elected to them. Does this excuse the Bush administration? I think not.

You call it incompetence; I call it an agenda. Some of the most perfect crimes are committed in full view. The government knows that most citizens are apathetic or self-absorbed. This is called opportunity.

The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people. ~Frank Kent

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

At what point to do we quit calling each other names and come together and speak out for change?

Don’t underestimate the degree to which “suspected terrorists” have been dehumanized. I have talked to too many people, whom I would otherwise respect, that fully support the president in disregarding principle and precedent in the name of “fighting terror.”

Ron Paul writes about this in his latest Texas Straight Talk.

you don’t want them to HAVE that power, because the next guy could be a deranged madwoman.

Don’t underestimate the degree to which “suspected terrorists” have been dehumanized. I have talked to too many people, whom I would otherwise respect, that fully support the president in disregarding principle and precedent in the name of “fighting terror.”