Sat, 09/12/2009 - 11:54am — lambert
But Paul Rosenberg did. He calls it totally innocuous, but judge for yourself:
We want truthful answers to questions such as:
- Why were standard operating procedures for dealing with hijacked airliners not followed that day?
- Why were the extensive missile batteries and air defenses reportedly deployed around the Pentagon not activated during the attack?
- Why did the Secret Service allow Bush to complete his elementary school visit, apparently unconcerned about his safety or that of the schoolchildren?
- Why hasn't a single person been fired, penalized, or reprimanded for the gross incompetence we witnessed that day?
See, there's your problem right there.
As we know by this time, accountability is anathema to Versailles.
I suggest that's the real problem with the petition -- and note how, in thoroughly bipartisan fashion, the Ds and the Rs worked together seamlessly to throw somebody who'd demanded it under the bus.
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It's the reason Amy Goodman will never be on Meet the Press
...she'd ask questions about the behavior of the whole system including the press corps, that has advocated the wrong side of every major issue since 1992.
In DC, if you don't cover up failure, you don't get ahead.
Failure for whom?
That's the question.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The way the petition was characterized
is that Bush and Cheney were rubbing their hands together and thinking "now we will watch as our Islamofascist allies murder thousands of our countrymen!" The questions you highlight show more of a concern with incompetence, panic and not following procedure. Doesn't seem like a provocative thing to sign one's name to.
It's why I want to slap anyone who uses the epithet "truther"
in the face. Why do the Village
's work for them?
The one movement that demanded accountability from the Bush Administration -- the only one that had first responders and widows behind it, the groups we assigned the greatest moral force to in these troubled times -- and we sold it down the river by nagging it about Building 7 detonations. They were asking America to treat 9/11 as a crime, with motive, opportunity, suspects, and possible collusion by American citizens. Because it turned into the War on Terror, the chance to go deeper was lost. Now the Village puts Truthers in opposition to Birthers, and trivializes both -- and we wonder why there's no investigation into Bush's crimes?
It's the same lesson the Village applied to the Left -- link those who ask sensible questions with the most extreme and implausible attentionseekers, then dismiss all of them as nuts. What the Village did to the 9/11 truth movement, it did to anti-war protesters then searchers for Katrina justice -- and you wonder why we're so marginalized? We take the gun the Village hands us, load it with bullets, then shoot ourselves in the foot, then bitch about the pain....
Wow, THAT was the petition?
See what a difference actually researching something does? I didn’t throw Jones under the bus, but was definitely guilty of not actually reading the petition. I see a few questions that could possibly raise a few eyebrows, but boy was this misrepresented in the worst way in the media. ugghh
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...
Me, too
They got me, to my shame. It's almost like you can't trust anything you read in the papers!
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi