It’s an ill wind that blows no good. — Common saying, adapted
With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. — Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1963
We have known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community. — Dorothy Day
As Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) observed, one of the most segregated hours in the United States still occurs on Sunday morning when we attend church services. — Richard Rohr *
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This is a blog that got started a bit before Bruce Henry and I started walking across Massachusetts from Provincetown to the New York State line in Hancock with “9/11 TRUTH” signs on our backpacks and chests in mid-April 2018. Visitors who have lots and lots of time while staying home self-quarantining can go back to the first entry and “virtually” walk that walk.
Truth is contagious. Many “truthers” who start out pointing to the many impossibilities of the government narratives surrounding the September 2001 attacks soon join those who for decades have pointed to the impossibilities of government narratives surrounding the assassinations of President Kennedy in November 1963 and of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Senator Robert Kennedy in April and June of 1968.
Those three high-profile 1960s murders were coup d’etats by assassination. Such coups had occurred before and have since, in the United States and elsewhere. They have nothing to do with democracy but are paid for with tax-payers’ dollars as are the subsequent cover-ups. The September 2001 attacks were a coup d’etat by mass murder. All were pinned on “patsies”—-Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, Sirhan Sirhan, and Osama bin Laden and associates—-carefully cultivated over years before the acts. That most of the public at least for a time swallows the official line is testament to the invaluable roles played by compliant mainstream news and entertainment media including book publishers, and academia, all of which may as well be part of government.
People tend to “move on,” focus on more pressing matters of their lives even if logically they see they or their elders have been duped. Hence, “It is what it is.”
This year, responses to the deadly corocoronavirus pandemic and to the police killing of George Floyd, and responses to governments’ inadequate or wrong response, dominate “the news” and consciousness. And this pushes the realities of those coup d’etats further into obscurity.
“Every informed person is aware that elements of the U.S. government were involved in either the perpetuation or a coverup of the 9/11 attacks,” Paul Craig Roberts wrote a year and a half ago. “Although the United States is allegedly a democracy with a rule of law, it has taken 17 years for public pressure to bring about the first grand jury investigation of 9/11.”
Oops! The U.S Attorney for the Southern District of New York may be still stonewalling, as there is no sign that the requested grand jury investigation is under way. And the federal court in Washington, D.C., is still stonewalling on public pressure to declassify a mountains of 9/11 evidence withheld by the FBI and the Justice Department. Meanwhile, this country’s “free press” gives the legal efforts zero coverage.
— Mark Channing Miller
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* “Alternative Community” https://cac.org/alternative-community-weekly-summary-2020-06-06/#gsc.tab=0
** “9/11: Finally the Truth Comes Out?” https://foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/01/04/9-11-finally-the-truth-comes-out