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CONFRONTING THE EVIDENCE -- A CALL TO REOPEN THE 9-11 INVESTIGATION -- TRANSCRIPT AND SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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When George W. Bush took office in 2000, he brought with him Vice-President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Deputy Secretary for Defense, Paul Wolfowitz, all of whom had served together previously in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. Paul Wolfowitz in particular had long been recognized as the intellectual force behind a radical, neo-conservative fringe of the Republican party. For years, Wolfowitz had been advancing the idea that the United States should reconsider its commitments to international treaties, international law, and multilateral organizations such as the United Nations. A radical plan for American military domination first surfaced during the administration of George H. W. Bush. In 1992, Paul Wolfowitz, working in the Department of Defense, was asked to write the first draft of a new national security strategy. A document entitled, "The Defense Planning Guidance." The most controversial elements of what would later become known as the Wolfowitz Doctrine, were that the United States should dramatically increase defense spending, that it should be willing to take pre-emptive military action, and that it should be willing to use military force unilaterally, with or without allies. This new reliance on military force was necessary, according to Wolfowitz, to prevent the emergence of any future or potential rivals to American power and to secure access to vital resources, especially Persian Gulf oil.
Out of power during the Clinton presidency, Wolfowitz and his colleagues affiliated themselves with a number of influential conservative thinktanks. In 2000, they would craft yet another proposed national security strategy. This one, published by a rightwing thinktank, calling itself the Project for the New American Century. At its core, the document revived the Wolfowitz Doctrine. It called on the United States to increase the military budget by up to 100 billion dollars, to deny other nations the use of outer space, and to adopt a more aggressive and unilateral foreign policy that would allow the United States to act offensively and preemptively in the world. The elimination of states like Iraq figured prominently in this grand vision. But even these hardline conservatives knew that the Wolfowitz Doctrine was likely too radical to win the support of the foreign policy establishment, their own Republican party, and the American people. In their defining document, written in September of 2000, a full year before 9/11, they acknowledged that "the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one absent," in their own chilling words, "some catastrophic and catalyzing event like a new Pearl Harbor." One year later, that event would arrive.
David vonKleist is the host of the popular radio program "The Power Hour." He is the maker of a new film, "9/11 in Plane Site." Alright, David, please come out here. Welcome. Before I start, I want to thank any of the listeners we've got out there of the Power Hour for helping to keep us on the air. How many listeners do we have out there? I know there's a few of you. I thank you. And the listeners know this is going to be a team effort. If we're to get the information out about what truly happened on September 11th, we have to somehow overcome the mindset and the brainwashing that's been subjected upon the American people for not just the past several years and not just the past several decades, but for several generations. Right off the bat I'm going to say a word, we're going to play some word association, I want you to all scream the first word that comes to your mind. Are you ready? "Conspiracy ... theory." Now there are two words in that phrase. The active word is theory. By definition a theory is an idea, a supposition, a concept. Here's an example. In theory, if I purchase a raffle ticket, I could win a prize. Now as long as you don't buy that raffle ticket, that win is theoretical. But once you buy one raffle ticket, it becomes a possibility. And the more raffle tickets you purchase, the more possible and eventually probable your win becomes. That's what it is with a conspiracy theory. When you have no evidence, it is a conspiracy theory. But once you have one piece of evidence, no matter how circumstantial or clumsy it may be, it becomes a possibility. And the more evidence you gather, the more possible and eventually probable the conspiracy is. Now we have to keep this in mind when we look at all of the information about September 11th.
Now about six weeks ago, I released a documentary film called "9/11 in Plane Site." Curiously, there were some individuals that somehow found a way to write a review on this documentary three weeks before it was released. They said all kinds of things, like this was manipulated footage. Yeah, that's what it was! It's doctored photographs. Yeah, photo workshop. That's the ticket. Yeah. I assure you that what you see on that video is unmanipulated, unaltered video footage and photographs. So let's put that to rest right away. For those of you who have seen the documentary, I actually held the DVD from CNN entitled "America Remembers" right up into the lens of the camera, and yet some still say, it was manipulated footage. There are some folks who just don't want us to consider the possibility that maybe there was something other than a terrorist with a boxcutter in his hand that was responsible for slamming planes into targets on September 11th. Now, you've seen some of the clips here about the Pentagon. Two and a half years ago I wrote an article called "From Deception to Revelation," and I was summarily raked over the coals for even having the audacity, the unmitigated gall to suggest that something other than a 757 had hit the Pentagon. People said I must have been part of a Cointelpro operation -- Artichoke, that's what it was! And now, and I don't even want to bring up some of the websites out there that claim to want to know "What Really Happened," some of them really want to snoop around to find out what's really going on. You can figure it out. But when people look at these videos, these videoclips in "9/11 in Plane Site," the big question comes up, "Dave, you're saying that no plane hit the Pentagon, and maybe the planes were switched that hit the towers. Wait a minute, what happened to the plane? You have to tell me what happened to that plane. Where are those people? You must have some sort of an idea!" Well, yeah, I do, and if I came forward with that idea it would be a conspiracy theory, wouldn't it? The whole point of the project "9/11 in Plane Site" was to stick with video evidence and photographic evidence, and ask questions. And that's all we did. Boy, some people really hate it when you ask questions.
And for those of you that continue to ask the question, "Well, you have to tell me where's the plane? Where are the people?" I don't know. But let's consider this. Let's say, you put a loved one on a bus here in New York, and they're going to go to Boston. What, it's about 5-1/2 to 6 hours? Something like that. So you take him down to the Greyhound bus terminal, you put him on a Greyhound bus, they get on the Greyhound bus, they sit in the window of the Greyhound bus right over the logo that says Greyhound bus, they wave to you on the Greyhound bus as it leaves the Greyhound bus terminal. 5-1/2 hours later, "We interrupt this program to bring you a terrible news bulletin. It seems that a Greyhound bus has lost control and slammed into City Hall at Boston. There was a big explosion and everybody was killed. And of course, there is terrible mourning and memorial services and all kinds of terrible things going on. Well, about two weeks later somebody comes up with a photograph or a video of the bus just before it hit the City Hall and you know what? It says "Trailways" on the side. Question: "Where did the Greyhound bus go?" Do you know? I don't know. But we look at the information, the physical, the photographic and the video evidence and they scream the questions, "Where did those planes go, because they sure as hell didn't hit the Pentagon and whatever hit those towers has a very serious question as to whether or not those were commercial aircraft at all. This is where we are with this investigation that needs to be started right now. Now I want to ask the question, take a look around you, do you see any cameras from CBS, Channel 2, Channel 4, ABC, Fox, CNN? Are they here? No they're not. You want to ask the question why. Why is it, and I grew up here in New York City, I grew up in the Village, I grew up in Brooklyn, I watched those towers as they climbed their way into the sky, and when I saw them come down it hit me very hard, because this is where I spent my wonder years. And I have to ask the question, "Why is it that now I live in a very rural area?" I live in the center of the country, I'm out in the middle of flaming nowhere Missouri, a little town they call Versailles, Mercy Boo Cups, Monser! And I want to know how is it that me and William Lewis, the director, can go down there with tons of videos that were sent to us by our listeners, and again I thank every single one of you for sending us the videotapes because without your help, the video project would not have been possible. The networks will not provide video footage, they will not provide releases, and they will not allow America to see this video footage because some guy got on television a couple of months after September 11th and said, [does a bang-up job of mimicking Bush] "We've got to stop showing all of these videoclips of America being attacked no more 'cause we need time to heal." Once you see these videoclips in slow motion, you'll understand why they won't show them anymore. And for those of you who are curious, go to the Borders, or the Barnes and Noble and buy the CNN disc "America Remembers." The videoclips are right there.
Now, I don't want to take too much time, we're running really late, but there's a couple of points that need to be made. First of all, let this be seen as no political football. We have one party in this country. It is the U.S. Corporate Party with subparty A Republicans and subparty B the Democrats. We have to understand that the largest industry in this country is the defense contracting industry because it includes communications, agriculture, industry, technology, and anything else that you can name. And war means money. We don't have the Cold War, and we don't have the Russians to be boogeyman anymore. China's our biggest trade partner. The United States is a world power. We don't have a boogeyman. Well, golly gosh, don't you think that they need to create one? So I have to go back to where I started. Conspiracy theory. I will now give you an example of a conspiracy theory. On September 23rd, Condoleeza Rice had a news conference. And she stated, and I'm paraphrasing right now, she said "We have definitive proof that links Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban to the events of September 11, and we will release that information in due time." To this day, we're still waiting. We have not seen one piece of evidence that links Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban directly to the planning stages of September 11th, and when you have no evidence, and you charge somebody with conspiracy, that is a conspiracy theory, isn't it? The only difference is if you're George Bush & Company and the United States Government, you get to launch not one but two wars, half the world away, kill tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children, and contaminate the entire region for 4.5 billion years with depleted uranium. I don't know what the solution is, ladies and gentlemen, but the silence is deafening from the mainstream media and I think that the only thing that we have to do right now is to mount a massive million man media march in every city across this country and scream, "We want the truth!" And I will finish by making the same statement that I made at the end of my video when I will ask you all, "Where is your line in the sand?" Thank you very much.
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