Words relevant to 9/11 truthism are practically everywhere. A needed break from the walk is good in that it lets me cite an example from three days ago:
“We are a family,” Marcus Halley writes. “We are incredibly connected to one another, even if at times we fail to live into that relationship with integrity, and even if at times we would like our relationship to be different or even not exist. Nevertheless, we are connected across oceans, cultures, languages, and religions. God calls us to be concerned about others because they are human and worthy of life and love. Our well-being is tied together.
“Regardless of our nation of origin or current residence,” He goes on, “we all live in the midst of some strained relationships. In learning how to love each other well — especially when we don’t agree — we would do well to remember the Xhosa proverb popularized by Archbishop Desmond Tutu during the height of apartheid in South Africa. ‘I am because we are,’ illustrates that the fullest version of our humanity is expressed in relationship to other people.”
Halley is rector of a church in Minneapolis. Just above is his commentary on a passage in the Book of Acts for Wednesday — from Forward Day by Day, a quarterly that follows the Episcopal Church’s daily and Sunday lectionaries. Some people try to live the way he tries to, whether they consider themselves religious or not. As for Halley, he may be clueless about the lies cloaking the murderous attacks of September 11, 2001, but has plenty of other responsibilities and can’t begin to delve into the details of the crime of the century and its coverup.
An errand took me today to Easthampton, MA, where I’m tapping this out in the Emily Williston Memorial Library and Museum, a quaint and quiet place insulated from many of the stresses and distractions that keep the lies of 9/11 from becoming perfectly obvious to billions of people.
This small library has two of David Ray Griffin’s books, The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 (2004) and Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory (2007). It probably helps that Griffin’s 9/11 books are published by Olive Branch Press in Northampton. Mainstream book publishers have taken a hike from anything challenging the government’s 9/11 narratives. So have the mainstream news media, whose conspiracy of silence abets the government’s.
I brought along an old paperback copy of M. Scott Peck’s People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil (New York, Touchstone: 1983) to read somewhere else after the library closes. I’m sure this library once had some of Peck’s books*, but no longer.
– Mark
David Ray Griffin has done this country yeoman‘s service. But even he has his dark moments. In one of his books he wrote: “They [the perpetrators of 9/11] know we know, and they know we can’t do anything about it,“ an attitude not unlike that expressed in the old saying: “The most noble causes are always lost causes.”
But that’s forgivable. Who doesn’t have a moment of hopelessness from time to time? It has been a long battle, with success still unachieved. But your truth walk across the state and the petition recently filed in NYC by Lawyers Committee for 9/11 Inquiry increases the chances for success.
I recently happened to meet a prominent activist with the Church of Stop Shopping (q.v.), based in Brooklyn, who was leading a protest against a proposed pipeline that would carry fracked gas into the new luxury buildings near the Christian Science Monitor complex in Boston, and told him you and Bruce were walking across the state in support of 9/11 truth, and he looked slightly shocked and said, “The long way?” I said yep. He was speechless, which was, for him, highly unusual.
Regarding what you and Bruce have done, I’m not going to use the word “hero,” because the minute one does everybody runs for the exits. But that doesn’t mean I can’t think it.
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As to the presence of evil in the world, my view is that it’s built-in and here to say stay, since good only has meaning in relation to opposing evil. To lose evil would be to lose the good as well. It is not possible to imagine the absence of space or time, and, I regret to say, evil, I believe, is in the same category. Try to imagine a world without evil, and tell me what you come up with.
We’re kind of trapped. Even at our most rational and idealistic and determined, we’re trapped. As M.LeClerc wrote: “All things consist of a restless union of irreconcilable oppositions.” I tend to agree and see the world as intrinsically paradoxical. I think God, after having created the world, was the first being to become aware of the law of unintended consequences, and perhaps author of the hit song, “Non Potes Semper Capere Quod Aves.” (God can take a joke once in a while, yes?)
But I also believe the evil in the world can be reduced, and that’s a goal worthy of almost any sacrifice.