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Neo-cons, not military, behind 9/11
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by Letters to the Editor
Sunday, January 27, 2008
In his article (“Barrett alleges discrimination at 2 UW schools,” Jan. 21) Pedro Oliveira Jr. misstates my position, writing, “Barrett was heavily scrutinized in fall 2006 for his public affiliation with the belief that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center were perpetrated by the U.S. military.”
In fact, I have no affiliation with any such belief. The U.S. military consists of over 100,000 men and women, the vast majority of whom are loyal, patriotic Americans. Indeed, many military officers, including a general and several colonels, have bravely joined the 9/11 Truth Movement. And the 9/11 Truth Movement’s favorite Republican candidate, Ron Paul, is by far the biggest recipient of campaign contributions from U.S. military personnel. This suggests that the military is ahead of other American institutions in opposing and exposing the 9/11 crimes of high treason and mass murder. Indeed, it seems to be our military, not Congress or the people, that stands between Dick Cheney and his coveted attack on Iran!
The 9/11 Truth Movement believes the government’s story of what happened on Sept. 11 is false, and that the preponderance of evidence suggests that it was an inside job — not an act “perpetrated by the U.S. military.” Our top suspects are not military personnel, but neoconservative members and former members of the Bush administration and their allies in the United States and foreign intelligence services.
For example, the former president of Italy, Francesco Cossiga, recently stated that 9/11 was perpetrated by members of the CIA and the Israeli Mossad, and that this fact is known to the world intelligence community. Just last week the probable next prime minister of Japan, Yukihisa Fujita, discussed the controlled demolition of the World Trade Center during a session of Parliament and asked whether Japanese police could arrest George W. Bush for complicity in the attacks.
Neither Mr. Cossiga and Mr. Fujita, nor other 9/11 truth seekers, see “the U.S. military” as the main suspect in the crimes of 9/11.
Kevin Barrett
9/11 Truth Movement
Former lecturer, University of Wisconsin
khidria@merr.com
Anonymous (January 28, 2008 @ 1:58am):
Barrett. The fact that you constantly whore attention from a COLLEGE PAPER is kinda pathetic.
Please find some mainstream source to quote you.
Wait, you can't.
Please be quiet.
Anonymous (January 28, 2008 @ 2:14am):
Kevin, maybe he did it, maybe he didn't. If we don't know now we may never find out the truth. But shouldn't we maybe focus on what we do know, and what may ultimately be even worse? 900 lies, using 9/11 (whether al-Qaeda or Bush did it) to invade Afghanistan and Iraq, clusterbombing civilians, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, domestic wiretapping, renditions, the list goes on...
And I'm sure you mean well, but look at your approach. You'll never find out yourself, and honestly, you turn a lot of people off to your ideas. Look at the press: journalists and commenters alike label you as crazy, and the rest of the "truth movement" alike. Maybe you're activists, but to the rest of the world you appear as crazy conspiracy theorists.
Anonymous (January 28, 2008 @ 3:57am):
"The U.S. military consists of over 100,000 men and women..."
Really? Just 'over 100,000'? Not even close to accurate. Try again.
Anonymous (January 28, 2008 @ 5:29am):
Really does the Badger have to give a forum to this man and this claptrap nonsense, yeah people from the CIA blew up the World Trade center. What unadulterated bullsh*t, in a country where we know the moment a bomb is dropped in Iraq, troop movements, invasion plans, battle plans, the inside of the President's Colon etc, the CIA is holding back on the biggest secret of all, the World Trade Center was an inside job!!! Carried out by an organization that can't even keep the names of it's covert employees secret.
I don't know who is the bigger Idiot, Kevin Barrett or the University of Wisconsin for giving this man a spot on the lecture circuit.
Anonymous (January 28, 2008 @ 5:51am):
These are some excellent points made by Kevin Barrett. The military is made of people from all walks of American life, and they simply do their jobs. And Mr. Oliveira's piece appears to be just another irrational and emotional diversion.
Let's get back to the point -
How is it that conspiracy among oil company executives/politicians can be somehow unbelievable, while conspiracy solely among people who just happen to live on the last remaining oil-rich land is to be expected?
Anonymous (January 28, 2008 @ 7:15am):
Kevin Barrett tells the truth and our current executive branch lies. This is a knowable fact.
All students at UWM should DEMAND that he be hired to teach again. Our collective souls have suffered enough.
The Good guys have to win sometimes. Kevin is a good guy!
Anonymous (January 28, 2008 @ 7:59am):
When is this guy going to quit dragging the UW along with him? He was a contract employee for one year. That doesn't give him the right to sign himself as a member of the UW community for life.
Anonymous (January 28, 2008 @ 8:18am):
"Neo-cons, not military, behind 9/11"
Isee, it was the JOOOS!!!!
Was this all predicted in the Protocols?
Anonymous (January 28, 2008 @ 8:19am):
I guess you have a lot of time on your hands now that you can't find a job. I predicted this long ago in a comment on a badgerherald article:
"(October 11, 2006 @ 9:08am):
Maybe we are giving Barrett too much attention. Let him finish teaching this course, and then we'll see how easy it is for him to find a job in academia."
Anonymous (January 28, 2008 @ 9:30am):
How is Kevin Barrett still writing in our school newspaper. Last time I checked, he doesn't have any association with the the school anymore. I realize he has a lot of time on his hands but can he not get his crazy editorials published in any real newspapers?
Anonymous (January 28, 2008 @ 9:47am):
What's the matter Kevin? Run out of money for the bootleg copies of "V for Vendetta" you keep in your car trunk?
"Barrett told reporters the former Georgia congresswoman [McKinney] was a hero of the movement as he passed out bootlegged DVDs of 'V for Vendetta.'"
http://blogs.jsonline.com/allpoliticswatch/archive/2007/12/11/quot-truthers-quot-rally-for-cynthia-mckinney.aspx
Doesn't Wisconsin enforce intellectual property right laws? Where's the arrest warrant for this moonbat?
Anonymous (January 28, 2008 @ 11:26am):
Is it suspicious to anyone that Osama Bin Laden has not yet been captured? Moreover, isn't is strange that OBL has not even claimed responsiblity for 9/11?
Anonymous (January 28, 2008 @ 12:05pm):
Although bin Laden has not been indicted [5] for the September 11, 2001 attacks, he has claimed responsibility for them [6] in videos released to the public ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden
Anonymous (January 28, 2008 @ 12:07pm):
AARgggggggg,
Revenge of the Living Troofers!!!!
Anonymous (January 28, 2008 @ 12:10pm):
Controlled demolition is done from the bottom of buildings, not the top, to take advantage of gravity, and there is little dispute that the collapse of the two towers began high in the towers, in the areas where the airplanes struck.
Moreover, a demolition project would have required the tower walls to be opened on dozens of floors, followed by the insertion of thousands of pounds of explosives, fuses and ignition mechanisms, all sneaked past the security stations, inside hundreds of feet of walls on all four faces of both buildings. Then the walls presumably would have been closed up.
All this would have had to take place without attracting the notice of any of the thousands of tenants and workers in either building; no witness has ever reported such activity. Then on the morning of Sept. 11, the demolition explosives would have had to withstand the impacts of the airplanes, since the collapse did not begin for 57 minutes in one tower, and 102 minutes in the other.
Anonymous (January 28, 2008 @ 12:29pm):
my biggest point is that if it happened the way the said it did then why hasnt 1 person been held responable for 9/11. 1 person from NORAD, FAA, the us miltary. I quote the 9/11 report "NORAD is goverened by law", which means u mess up u goto jail. If it happened like they said i did someone should have been put in cuffs.
RON SOLDWISH COLUMBUS, oh
jeff bogenreev (January 28, 2008 @ 3:20pm):
It's sad that popular mechanics had to publish a debunking study, but such are times. Case closed. Oh by the way Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy and yes we in fact did land on the moon.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1227842.html
Anonymous (January 28, 2008 @ 4:17pm):
Here is link to videos with English sub-titles of Yukihisa Fujita's (he is a member of Japanese legislature) presentation and questions to Japanese Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee including the Japanese Prime Minister, Finance Minister and Foreign Minister.
http://www.911video.de/ex/jap111.htm
Anonymous (January 28, 2008 @ 6:04pm):
Is it suspicious to anyone that Osama Bin Laden has not yet been captured? Moreover, isn't is strange that OBL has not even claimed responsiblity for 9/11.
No look how long it took to capture:
Geronimo
Sitting Bull
Bonnie and Clyde
Jessie James
Al Capone
The Zodiac Killer
The Boston Strangler
Henry Lee Lucas
and all were right here in our own country with every law enforcement agency looking for them at the time. Now place a man (Osama) in a foreign country that most Americans are unfamiliar with, surround him with supporters, while looking for him also try to fight a war and get a country kicking and screaming to enter the 20th century at least and no, I'm not surprised at all we haven't found Bin Laden yet.
We also haven't found D.B. Cooper or Jimmy Hoffa either.
Anonymous (January 29, 2008 @ 2:03am):
Elements within our U.S. Govt purposely allowed Sep 11th to happen:
· Hijacked airliners flew all around the eastern U.S. for hours without any military response??? How could Osama bin-Forgotten make our air force stand down, or did Cheney do that???
· The Pentagon was struck by a hijacked airliner 45 minutes after two other hijacked airliners struck the WTC, without the airliner being intercepted, approached, chased, or even seen by our air defenses?
· The Gov't still refuses to release clear video of whatever happened at the Pentagon to this day, six years later??? Why???
· The massive WTC-7 building was 350 feet from the nearest tower, was not hit by a plane, yet it imploded in a controlled demolition at 5:20 pm??? It housed many govt offices, & the over-insured owner said the building was pulled. Why???
The Bush/Cheney regime is using 9/11 as a pretext to brazenly subvert our U.S. Constitution, launch illegal invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, (Iran?), & grant themselves dictatorial powers here at home! They have committed high treason & must be impeached & imprisoned while we still have the Bill of Rights!
I urge everyone to watch "Loose Change" free on the web for proof that 9/11 was a false-flag attack! Also Google terms like 911 truth & visit www.911truth.org www.911blogger.com www.ae911truth.org & www.truthnews.us & other patriotic websites.
Peace
Anonymous (January 29, 2008 @ 9:29am):
I urge everyone to read Cracked Magazine's debunking of "Loose Change" free on the web.
http://www.cracked.com/article_15740_was-911-inside-job.html
It is funny as hell... and 100% more truthful than Dylan Avery on a good day.
Anonymous (January 29, 2008 @ 9:33am):
Bernard Brown was a Pentagon employee. His 11 year-old son died on board Flight 77 (the one that hit the Pentagon). The father happened to not be at work that day, or else you could have had the horrific situation where the son would have been a hostage on the plane that, upon crashing, killed his own father. Remember this is a real, actual person, who actually lost his son.
Now listen to Avery say that Bernard Brown was in on the conspiracy and intentionally took a day off to "go play golf" while his own son...was being burned alive in a plane crash he helped plan. Playing golf, while his son dies.
http://911myths.com/LooseChangeCreatorsSpeak.pdf
Dylan Avery, who knows this is fiction. Who has seen the evidence he left on the cutting room floor proving these planes were hijacked. And he accuses this grieving father of murdering his own son...
...Because it will help sell his movie and advance his film career.
Really, the whole Loose Change thing would be funny if it wasn't for the murderous lies and horrific deaths.
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