December 21, 2005
In his defense of the end of the pretense of constitutional rule, Dick Cheney says
"you know, it's not an accident that we haven't been hit in four
years." Of course he's right. And since Cheney warned Americans last
year that a vote for Kerry was inviting another 9/11, maybe that's how
he means it to be heard this time, too: the veiled threat of a
protection artist.
Remember the claims
of Ground Zero firefighters, contradicting the official account, that
they had actually recovered the black boxes of Flights 11 and 175? Mike
Bellone and Nicholas DeMasi said the boxes were seized by federal
agents, who then told them to keep quiet about it. They didn't, though
their story never even rippled the mainstream's consensus fabrication.
(But I wonder what the world would sound like if everyone bullied into
silence by one method or another found their voice at the same time.)
Now comes corroboration
from Dave Lindorff, a Counterpunch fixture who has perhaps the best
insight over there on the darkness and the weirdness of America's
present condition. (Alexander Cockburn, Whiteout aside, has a awful Chomskyite blindspot when it comes to deep politics, let alone high weirdness.)
Lindorff writes:
A
source at the National Transportation Safety Board, the agency that has
the task of deciphering the date from the black boxes retrieved from
crash sites-including those that are being handled as crimes and fall
under the jurisdiction of the FBI-says the boxes were in fact recovered
and were analyzed by the NTSB.
"Off the record, we had the
boxes," the source says. "You'd have to get the official word from the
FBI as to where they are, but we worked on them here."
That
federal authorities, across agencies, perpetuate a lie regarding the
recovery of the World Trade Center black boxes strongly suggests that
both the voice and the flight data recorders contained information that
would seriously damage, if not outright deflate, the Great Myth to Make
War By. (I say "contained" because I expect they were effectively
destroyed shortly after falling into federal hands.) As Lindorff
writes, the data could prove "whether [the hijackers] were getting
outside help in guiding them to their targets."
Will we ever
know what was on the recorders? Probably not. But as I've said before,
we already know enough. We haven't answered the how, and likely never will, but I think we have the who and the why.
Ironically,
tragically, it's the how - the popular mechanics of the stage
magician's craft - that consumes most of the fuel of the "9/11
movement." As it was meant to, so the perpetrators could grandfather
their innocence with the passage of time and opportunity for justice.
Afraid that'll be it
for me until next week. I have a lot of subjects on the go, but no time
at the present to get to them. However you observe them or don't, happy
holidays.
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