LOST IN A FOG

Lost in a Fog by James Hufferd, Ph.D. Coordinator, 911 Truth Grassroots Organization * Here’s one overwhelming, and for us daunting, reason the media’s and officialdom’s portrayal of us 9/11 Truthers as delusional flakes and babbling nut-cases often finds nodding and even scornful resonance in and with the general public: a lack of common reference. 9/11 has been very selectively, following strict instructions I’m sure, referenced by folks in these same oxygen-deprived quarters – amongst our mass society’s giant talking-head gods on Olympus. For nearly a dozen years, 9/11 along with follow-up reminders has been presented (used) as a battering ram, a cudgel, a pseudo-patriotic rallying point, and an excuse for daylight robbery of the public and closing down the controls over and latitude of citizens a little tighter and a little tighter. Never do the cyber-age gods define 9/11 or dissect it or refer to any of its details. Never have, never will unless somehow forced. As a result, in the overwhelming public mind, the whole of 9/11 today is represented by one simple cartoonish mental image, most worthy of Beep! Beep! The Road Runner: that of an airplane flying straight into a high-rise building (and its nose peeking just a bit out the other side). Over and over and over and over, it’s the same. A variety of angles, but still the same. Nothing more ever – it speaks for itself. And probably over 99% of the U.S. public, despite our best efforts to date, has never, at least since 9/11/01 itself, or maybe a day or two after, seen any other arguably genuine images of the 9/11 crimes themselves except that one and the one-day inane leaked frame of the Pentagon. And then, suddenly, out of the blue, along there comes a brave 9/11 Truther, one of us, and asks Joe or Jane Citizen if he or she is aware that controlled demolition, not airplanes, actually is responsible for the collapse of those buildings in New York? Or if he (she) is aware that neither kerosene nor office-material fires can be hot enough to melt steel? Or that those buildings fell at virtual free-fall velocity neatly into their own footprint? Or even that Building 7 wasn’t even hit but fell anyway? It’s like someone you know (or not) approaching you on the street and asking you out of the blue if you know that Johnny Jukes, suspected of murder in Tishmingo, or Baghdad, AZ, has been busted for cocaine 12 times in 2 years? Or his wife had an affair with the alleged victim? Or, what’s your take on the Hindenburg verdict? And, you wonder why people pick up on the media’s and two administrations’ suggestion that we 9/11 Truthers more than might be “crazy”? The man on the street already knows what happened on 9/11 – he’s seen it with his own eyes at least a hundred times, thank you just the same! Now, if you ask if she (he) thinks the government/media could be covering something up about what happened on 9/11, you’ll get an answer like “probably” or “it wouldn’t surprise me” a high percentage of the time. Or, also if you ask the same question about Roswell, Area 51, Cyclamates, the Fed, or possibly bed springs or meal worms in Big Macs. I’ve been astounded by the course of an online debate I’ve been carrying on for two days with a guy who derided my responses to him as “Truther tricks” and “Truther shell games”, in comments on an Amazon.com review of David Ray Griffin’s Cognitive Infiltration. He said that all of the contextual circumstances convinced him that Osama bin-Laden had devised and commanded the 9/11 attacks by the hijackers to bring down the buildings, just as commonly portrayed. I responded that he needed to start with the easily-available forensic evidence of the crime, which, if examined, would prove that OBL and the 19 could not possibly have brought about the physical results of 9/11 using scalpels and airplanes, and it followed that they couldn’t have accomplished that result, period. When I provided a litany of the physical evidence proving that some form of energetic demolition, and not fires or planes, would have to have been employed to destroy in the way they were the three WTC buildings, he interpreted it as a “rant”. Then, mindful that the burden of proof rests always on the affirmative, I challenged him to provide me even a single shred of evidence that clearly supported the truth of the Official Conspiracy Theory. He declined, because I’d “never accept it”, and suggested that his standard of evidence was obviously higher than mine. He swore that he had already reviewed all of the “Truther evidence”, and kept referring to the Middle East situation as tending to bear out that the designated culprits had, indeed, been guilty of the atrocity. It finally occurred to me, from his seeming refusal to deal with or coherently comment on any item in my summaries of logical reasoning from evidence, and his failure to cite any contrary evidence, that he didn’t know what the term itself “forensic evidence” meant. (In the end, he responded, “oh, do you mean the way the buildings fell or something?”) Geesh! What does it take? It takes a shared basic point of reference, for one thing – something that’s been systematically obliterated for this particular pivotal piece of the nation’s heritage in order to reshape it into the most-powerful weapon of mass destruction in existence. We have our work more than cut out for us here, too, in devising a way to locate and tap into an instant shared recognition of some kind of our common property, the basics of what happened to us. Our awareness of this massive hurdle to be overcome and our thoughtful attention to it is needed urgently if we are to move forward as effective whistleblowers. JH: 6/14/13

WHAT IS THE WAR ON TERROR?

What is the “War on Terror”? By James Hufferd, Ph.D. Coordinator, 911 Truth Grassroots Organization # # # Even non-interpretable views in the house of mirrors we all currently live in or moving shadows on the walls of a cave can at least clearly indicate that something is occurring. I can’t agree with people – even those with scientific credentials – who say that physical matter doesn’t actually exist because it’s all at base vibrating energy and most of it unimaginably vast empty space separating a few scattered particles, instead of all solid or liquid or whatever without gaps. Because all they’ve done in so observing is describe how what passes perfectly well as solid matter someone can safely sit on or use to hit a cricket ball or dispatch a fly is actually composed (or maybe even just one perspective on that). Matter is precisely whatever it is, not necessarily what we’ve been told it is, or always thought it to be, or say it is now. It’s the same with the so-called “War on Terror”. I have concluded from lots of stuff I’ve read, all of it researched and composed credibly by people I think are sane enough, honest, and know what they’re talking about, that al-Qaeda is basically a western asset invented by the CIA and White House 30 years ago to give disappointingly feckless tribesmen in Afghanistan adequate spine to counter the Soviets, and that it’s since been cultivated, funded, and called upon to do successive administrations’ (U.S. and British primarily) dirty work, including in Libya and Syria. But then, we all hear that al-Qaeda and Taliban, credibly alleged to be funded and in cahoots with the imperialists and Zionists, are the western allies’ intractable enemy (and thus, all of ours), and have been all along in unending pitched battles in Afghanistan and Pakistan. And meanwhile, the designated enemy’s top leaders, according to a likewise unending series of reports, are almost daily being picked off by drones, some of them, apparently with the more-fearsome names, killed over and over and then showing up again, like so many 9/11 “hijackers”. Soldiers coming back from over there swear they’ve been engaged and their comrades martyred in fierce firefights and via roadside bombs planted by the invincible Taliban and al-Qaeda forces and operatives, who simultaneously plot killings in the United States. So, the thing about al-Qaeda is that it is documented as being prominent to this day among pro-imperialist forces in various places as well as being the arch-enemy over there. The really odd thing about the Taliban, which the might of the U.S. and allied militaries find impossible to defeat even with their virtually unlimited ultimate doomsday weaponry, siphoning from our society trillions of dollars over time, is that it’s the same basic outfit, then actually constituting Afghanistan’s government, that the rag-tag “Northern Alliance” of Afghan tribesmen, jumping the gun against U.S. orders, routed and vanquished in about a week back in 2002.Huh? (Almost as intriguingly, the second most-reviled “al-Qaeda terrorist leader” of the time, more than a little bit comically, one Mullah Omar, an aging cleric, was reported at the same time by NPR to be leisurely sashaying across the country very openly from coffee shop to coffee shop unmolested, with Bush regime spokesmen and their Afghan toadies on the ground over there unperturbed. “We have plenty of time to round him up,” they said; then never did). So, what can be the answer to all of these simultaneously amusing and infuriating contradictions and conundrums? Though it may be too much to ask of the psychopaths in control what’s really going on, if the enemy on the ground that the U.S. and other militaries have been battling by now in a dizzying array of Middle Eastern countries for a dozen years and counting really are, as we’re told, anti-western, anti-American organized arch-terrorists, then how does that square with all of these truly weird enigmas? We know (I think we do) that western troops have been engaged in lethal combat against somebody. Then, against who? (And what if regular people are too busy living their lives and don’t want to know?) Well, ok then, let’s turn the scenario completely around, and imagine that our country is being massively invaded sometime in the future, and the Executive Branch and the invisible directors of the New World Order have ordered the U.S. military to “stand down” and not resist (not an unimaginable occurrence). Would that mean that the hordes of invaders pouring in would encounter no resistance whatsoever? Well, I should say not! All kinds of irregulars and unauthorized militia units would arise and organize all over the country to repel the horrid foreign invaders. And, these units could easily be bestowed with names by the controlling media such as “al-Qaeda in the Northeast”, or “al-Qaeda in the Rocky Mountains”, or “al-Qaeda in Dixie”. What I’m attempting to infer is that the so-called “enemy” forces reported in the Middle East and elsewhere are most likely just, or at least primarily, patriotic locals rallied to defend their homes and homelands from foreign attack, their numbers steadily, systematically increased by American drone strikes, atrocities, rumors, and mass bombings of noncombatant civilians to prolong the hatred and the war. And the “terrorist incidents” in Britain, the U.S., and elsewhere in allied countries are commissioned and staged as part of a new updated Operation Gladio, from among Middle Eastern lists of specially-groomed recruits bought and managed by western intelligence. I know someone is going to say to me, “You just figured that out now?” I’m thinking! I’m thinking! But, unless I’m profoundly mistaken, it’s not that the “War on Terror” doesn’t actually exist. It’s not a fraud in that way. Instead, it’s really more like the misnamed New Operation Gladio plus the Middle Eastern Patriotic Resistance, in my estimation, with perhaps a few odd Central-Casting recruited bad guys and fall guys thrown in. And with 9/11 squarely at the root of the whole mad and deadly bubble machine, it’s easily as bizarrely misbegotten and mad as the wars of Hitler ever were. If I’m anywhere near correct, how can they ever live it down? They have more than 9/11 to answer for now, and more to explain if publicly exposed. Anybody have a better theory? JH: 5/30/13

WHY I WILL REMAIN A 911 TRUTHER TO THE END

Why I Will Remain a 911 Truther to the End by James Hufferd, Ph.D. Coordinator, 911 Truth Grassroots Organization * The reason I am a 911 Truther – someone who perceives the fact that the truth as to how the destruction and death episodically dealt on 9/11/01 was caused, and by and for whom, has been withheld and blocked from the public – can be distilled into two words. It has nothing to do with vengeance, nationality or political affiliation. The words are due process with the objective of serving justice for the ultimate consequential crime. Not social justice, which figures into the equation because, from the evidence I’ve seen, the several-part operation, or crime spree, appears likely to have been deliberately perpetrated by people belonging to or obedient to the beck and call of one narrow ilk of humanity. The victims and targets of the violence wreaked have turned out ultimately to be virtually all the rest of us on earth outside that limited-size clique. And the patsies and immediate targets were members of a different but infinitely-vaster human ilk who had little, and probably nothing at all, to do with the actual criminal conspiracy, but have been irresponsibly and diabolically hounded and murdered, their lives and homelands ravaged mercilessly as a result – in the name of self-defense! So, what is it that impedes the Constitutionally-guaranteed processes systematically leading to justice, the hallmark and lynchpin of the beguiling but false image America sells to the world, in this instance? It is undoubtedly the self-justifying assumption by the controlling élite that they are rightfully shielded from the class self-criminalization that would result if the damning evidence serious inquirers know exists proving what happened and what could not have happened were ever released into appropriate green-lighted legal proceedings. They, as a class, are able to block those proceedings and the accompanying admission of that evidence, so they do. In consequence, it is the infinitely-recited and replayed cover story, and pieces thereof, that many of those unwilling to question grab and hold onto. They hold tenaciously, despite the story’s apparent absurdity, even though it has been poked full of holes by assaults of hard evidence, revealed to anyone who will but look to be riddled with contradictions and impossibilities, in effect, sunk. But still, it is never publically permitted to be questioned. That being the case, why isn’t the public at large buying the unavoidable conclusion, following from the evidence that’s there for anyone to see? That being that the government and its mouthpiece media have lied from Day One and are shielding what can best be described as homicidal psychopathic criminals placed in key positions, for doing and daily covering up such a deed through a ruse intended to blame uninvolved and oblivious others? It’s precisely because the feckless public is largely comprised of idiots, in the original Greek sense. The root word for idiot in ancient Athens, with its effective form of democracy, designated venomously a “non-participant” in the direct government by citizens that materially affected everyone’s life. “Idiots” were people who, eligible to meaningfully participate, opted out because they thought it wouldn’t matter. The message? Definitely, don’t be one of those! But, weren’t there uninterested people like that around when the United States Constitution was enacted and put into effect? Yes, there were. But there were demonstrably fewer of them proportionately than now. So, has the intelligence level of the population changed? Apparently, it has. A study just released by researchers at the University of Amsterdam reveals that, with women of lesser testable intelligence steadily giving birth to by far the most offspring each generation since Victorian times, the average IQ of western populations has declined by about 14%. This would largely explain our catastrophic loss as an international population of the capacity and tendency to act and respond effectively. And, by that count, it’s small wonder our nations won’t wake up and resist the plundering of available funds and faux news generated daily via minutely choreographed business plan into an endless series of farcical charades diverting the public and spawning and shielding patent charlatans and traitors. The real reason practically none of the above will listen anymore to anyone without a dance cape and cane, even as HAARP manipulation crumbles, shakes, and bakes the earth to ooch us around, is because we’re living in an Age of Idiots! And it was no wonder, either, that the veritable utopia of Athens succumbed to chaos within a generation, if many didn’t bother to show up! But our good thing going, while down, has a little life yet. JH: 5/23/13

Who Are We? And Who Are They?

Who Are We? And Who Are They? By James Hufferd, Ph.D. Coordinator, 911 Truth Grassroots Organization * The persistent, seemingly universal resistance to our message of Follow and Apply the Evidence (a resistance that never mentions the evidence it resists) has nothing to do with the truth, even with disputing it. It’s all about protecting the order, ultimately, of the cosmos as these people see it. For them, it’s about protecting the integrity of the whole, universal fabric of things, of a functioning economy of course benefitting them, of civilization, of culture, their put options and martinis (or lemonade if they are a little lower) in the afternoon, from all being ripped apart, the whole thing unraveling. We believe that people should promulgate and adjust their own conditions of life, on their own and through their representatives in government. They believe that everyone should fall into line behind the dictates of the few or even the One in command of the most vital money, regardless that few (or One) be self-indulgent, heartless jackasses – setting the tone for their followers. Ultimately, we in 911 Truth are challenging the oppression that has thus been foisted in obedience, iron-clad, over the earth, people and planet. This is an oppression that has blocked and muted our meaningful direct participation and intervention by voice in opposition to their psychologically-brilliant selling of all or most elements of their program of fact-replacement, coercion, plunder and murder as something desirable and necessary “to protect us”. They are the drivers of the New World Order, beginning in earnest with 9/11 and moving forward, shocking and impoverishing everybody else, based on that. They the spiders have anesthetized we the beetles, a precious few of whom, resistant, have woken up to recover a different vision. They have taken full, if bumpy, control of the world as we slept. They’re the real hijackers, deniers, shape-shifters. We represent their hated past and dogged present. They mustn’t give the facts a platform! But we probably won’t all be exterminated like the Cathars (although we could be swept up if too successful; that’s not our present problem). Evil probably can’t remain hidden forever; too many inquiring minds will suspect. And what we, 9/11’s “Truthers”, resisters of lies, will turn out, if noted at all, to be – guides or bywords - is up to us. JH: 5/14/13

ASYMMETRICAL IDEOLOGICAL WAR

ASYMMETRICAL IDEOLOGICAL WAR By James Hufferd, Ph.D. Coordinator, 911 Truth Grassroots Organization *** There is a force that is very seriously considered by the kingpins of the New World Order’s transnational (though strongly tilted toward U.S.) high offices of Propaganda & Obfuscation and Persuasion & Obliteration as a realistic threat to their massive but thin as optic-fiber gossamer control over the earth and its downward-spiraling destiny. It’s not the almost pre-horse and buggy pop-guns of citizens who might otherwise be stamp-collecting, or the sulfur, steam, and ball-bearing pressure bombs (a form of IED) allegedly common to Arab and Afghan Muslims and tougher-to-villainize pro-freedom Caucasian fighters. No! It’s the people who have dared tip-toe past all the “Warning! National Security!” signs to peek through the curtain, and who applied the laws of nature and physics to what they saw. It is WE who keep shouting silently, deprived of a mic, in the face of the NWO Empire’s fast-forwarding daily spin-meister liars in open, if not widespread, response to their shoddy narrative, with the message that they surely invent and enormously lie about the “War on Terror” as the sparks fly upward. We shout defiantly, but are seldom heard, being denied a platform: “No! No, it’s not so! The War on Terror is a lie!” But, we declare it, because we among humankind are not afraid of our own tiny shadow nor of their enormity, or of finding no one walking along beside us even if only to bear witness. But we are harbingers, not fools. We walk with faith in the eventuality that truth, even if beyond our current Dark Ages, will shine forth, stand out in relief. Because the shape and substance of the truth is often right there in front of us if we pay attention. Others think fuzzy and lazy, to conform what’s there into what they’re told to see. But we, alone in a frenzied crowd, don’t need to make things up about conspiracies or self-serving delusions that others must have in order to report something different from reality. No, we just report what they would if they were truthful and not held in line like iron filings lined up by a magnet of un-freedom, theoretically individual, but as anyone can observe if willing, controlled. And we relate all that we see of the magnet and its pathological control by illusion, fear instilled by almost-daily shock events and their shallow and sham reportage, all the way back to 9/11, the hinge between the former world and now, the mother and key to all false-flag activity since. Here’s a tip: Google “FBI set up terrorists” and see all of what you find. You may have already known this – it’s clearly in the public domain, and from some clearly “mainstream” sources. Read it well. This is a bit of knowledge, of awareness, that we need to keep repeating in conversations with friends, in letters to the editor, in emails and correspondence, and in Facebook, Twitter, and wherever else we can, ad nauseum: that people should, at minimum, never discount the distinct possibility that, whatever the horrific event, whether it be “natural” or foisted by human agency, the Feds or their rewarded servants, in liege to the NWO itself, actually did it. Depending, they could have done it by HAARP, hypnotism, betrayal, double-speak, bait-and-switch, reliance on the public forgetting, or whatever. And the deed is done accordingly to punish, control the general mind, or gain impunity to carry out unspeakable, inhuman attacks. But if we can just get that word out and about, we can turn a sufficient share of the public’s perception, here and abroad. At first, no one will believe us. They will call us something vile and put our contention completely out of mind as something way too wacky and sinister. But if we don’t stop saying it – everywhere, at every opportunity – and if we take care not to refer categorically to any one act as a false-flag unless we have virtual proof that it is, people will start to wonder if “terrorist” acts in general and even really horrific weather or seismic events might not actually be set-ups. That will be an alarming fad for the controllers – who will inevitably protest too much, as evidence of it spreads! And, once enough people, being tipped-off about the insiders’ M.O., begin to notice the contradictions and absurdities in the false, self-serving narrative being offered up daily, showing most that the easily-provable as false official story of 9/11 is bogus should become a piece of cake. I bet the Russians under the U.S.S.R. – who knew their news was cooked – wouldn’t have bought it if it had happened there! And then, enough of the U.S. public, becoming newly-aware, would be irate enough at their country being economically pillaged, trashed, and played for fools, duped into being supporters of gangs of truly unjustified murderers and destroyers on a grand scale overseas to make it an issue – to demand justifying evidence supporting the fairy-tale of a 9/11 foreign terrorist attack. Which doesn’t exist! That’s how Vietnam ended. The public demanded justification. There was none. So the charade, and the war, ended. That’s how the FED was driven into retrenchment – except for its fascist coup attempt – in the 1930s. For this tried and true technique to work with the current ratocracy and the cover-up, we have to spread the word about the common origin of the related rash of “terrorism” and shock. JH: 4/24/13

What a Difference

What a Difference by James Hufferd, Ph.D. Coordinator, 911 Truth Grassroots Organization _____ According to Mark Twain, “If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.” And in accordance with that reasoning, I conclude that only one party shows it thinks it makes any difference by trying to prevent it. And the real reason it doesn’t make any difference, presuming it doesn’t, is because, at any level above dog-catcher, it’s all a show, to absorb our likes and hates and raging preferences for this and whatever other outcome, while the real decisions and directions are dictated from elsewhere. I don’t think the mounting evidence for this conclusion would even amount to news for Mark Twain. On 9/11, they said, 19 Middle Eastern (meaning “Muslim”) hijackers – a certain 19, with faces, breaths, addresses and biographies, allocated precisely amongst 4 purported airliners, - plowed these respective self-same planes at 500+ mph into 3 buildings registering varying damages as a result (a fourth building merely following suit on its own a few hours later). With the soft ground completely swallowing up and sealing over the wayward fourth plane, even while various parts of it were left strewn out for miles above ground not far away. Now, there, friends, is a riddle! Besides the utter absurdity of all of that manifestly fictional ridiculously-choreographed narrative, the second biggest problem with it is that there was no reasonable evidence that would satisfy a juror of any Muslims at all having boarded or been on board any such planes, or even that any of said airliners (a specific eminently-identifiable type of aircraft, let alone the particular individual identifiable members of that set specified) ran into or anywhere near any of the fortunately solid and securely-labeled specified buildings. When I tried to Google the simple question, “Are boarding gate cameras at all airports?”, nine of the ten specific links to the “most relevant” articles on the first response page curiously referred to locations in the Far East – China and Japan – and the tenth had something to do with Morocco. So much for that, I thought. But needless to say to a gang of staunch Truthers, no boarding camera footage, if there was any recorded that day, of the airline flights specified were ever offered or even referred to – even if fake – to clearly show whether or not any of the despicable Muslims (or any of variously-listed regular passengers, for that matter) had boarded. The only conceivably germane evidence brought forth was the suitcase allegedly left, for some unknowable reason, in a rental car at Logan (Boston) airport, along with Mrs. Olson’s admittedly bogus cell phone (or was it seat phone?) call from somewhere on high over Pennsylvania. All of which led David Ray Griffin, our stalwart mastermind of 9/11 information, to conclude that there was “no credible evidence of any Middle Eastern hijackers”. Add in the footage from all the dozens of surveillance cameras that we know panned the section of the Pentagon allegedly struck from every angle, all of them confiscated – for keeps. At least some of them, we can assume, would in all likelihood have revealed the truth or falsity of the government’s contention as to what happened there. Prima facie conclusive evidence withheld! Justice denied! And the big piles of massive steel beams from the WTC, practically all removed by orders from the top before investigators could get to them! Damn the Constitution – full speed ahead! Compare all that fantastic dearth of evidence – very much of it willful, the rest simply not – with the local government of Boston’s plea for videos or still photos from everyone in the vicinity of the bombing incident there. The release of blow-ups (if dare I use that term) of the faces of two likely operatives in the deed completes the daunting, breathtaking contrast. Evidence of the prima facie critical or conclusive sort was hidden and kept a secret in the case of the magic-trick distractions concealing the 9/11 bombings, leading to our inescapable presumption, judged as radical, or at least delusionary, by some, that the whole narrative was cooked up or conjured. Meanwhile, evidence of nearly the same sort was today set before the whole world in Boston, with the heartfelt plea, “Who are these mugs?” Now, the latter presiding organ today was not, apparently, the U.S. government, but an agency of an American city. Not proving for a minute that agents within the federal government don’t already know the precise identity of whoever is implicated by those pictures. Just one strange “coincidence” stands out for me concerning this fresh, new, not unlikely false-flag incident and its recent siblings at this point in time: Doesn’t it strike you as passing strange that all, or nearly all, of the most-recent assorted shock events currently convulsing this troubled nation and, more pointedly, its electorate should take place within the radius of a couple of hundred miles of coastline (Hurricane Sandy, Sandy Hook, previously a virtually unimaginable East Coast earthquake, and now this)? In precisely the little corner of the country that, along with California, has been the most resistant to militarization and the emerging U.S. police state? I think the term would be “piling on”. Watch for identities of the young men fingered by the photos – as likely as not, judging from recent history, a case of planting the explosive charges by hypnosis – to find out, very likely, who, in terms of countries or regions, the “free world” is fixing to hit with a violent and cathartic big-brother strangle-hold next. The TV networks’ counsel of fear seems dead-on in this case, mole-hill though it may be. (Or new, magic Himalaya). JH: 4/18/13

Objectivity

Objectivity By James Hufferd, Ph.D. Coordinator, 911 Truth Grassroots Organization # Absolutely nothing is more essential to discovering and spreading truth than objectivity. Objectivity means that whatever is fully proven to me logically, by all evidence available, I will accept as true, whether I like it or not, whether it’s what I expected or not. For the sake of objectivity (the truth seeker’s Holy Grail), I choose not to retain any core beliefs that are impermeable to objective proof or lead-pipe logic applied to irrefutable evidence. Are you with me? If you want to be credible and accepted as reliable, rather than just a “conspiracy theorist” – a mad dog known to mindlessly chase and try to roll any and every car passing by – you must so choose, too. And to help persuade others of the value of your farther-reaching deduction involving 9/11 in particular, you should, all the more so, not go barking after every car or wagon, or even those wobbling on loose wheels, without objective proof in hand. While it’s fine (and no doubt unavoidable) to have a somewhat evidence-based opinion short of final proof in lots of cases, for the sake of everybody, not least yourself, please state it’s your considered opinion. Absolute objectivity is often said to be impossible. If that is true as an objective fact, the intent and effort to attain objectivity is not impossible. Rather it is essential. Unless you want to be regarded, sooner or later, as just one more yahoo, with which the world is already overflowing, and widely avoided by most. That being so, you can do none of us, your fellow humans, any real benefit despite your intentions. So, what factors and habits of mind are the leading deterrents of objectivity? Assumptions, regardless of their source, are one. I, for example, often assume that the Pentagon and Special Forces black budgets are as limitless as their deviousness and dark imaginations, operating under orders of the unitary executive of the NWO. Hence, when an exceptionally bad storm, leaving a weird storm track, or mayhem of whatever kind breaks loose somewhere, they, the usual, all-purpose suspects, must have plotted and done it, I just assume. And my brain – and possibly yours - goes to work inventing motives. Even though I know killer storms, earthquakes, and massive massacres have happened naturally or apart from the NWO for thousands of years and possibly still do. I’ve come close to being burned by this assumption. So, when I’m lacking beyond-reasonable-doubt proof of something, I’ve learned to say: “don’t discount that they might have done it, and here’s why.” And then I look for further evidence, one way or the other. To convincingly state that a report of something, no matter how official or widely accepted, does not add up logically, if it doesn’t, so that something else must have happened instead, is often much easier to substantiate than an alternative scenario. Air-tight proof that the official story of 9/11, for example, is at best a gross fabrication is of course ample and redundant; while positive details of what did happen remain arguable. By shrieking contrast, to pass along a rumor or some yahoo’s fanciful story as if substantiated fact without convincing real evidence to cite is tantamount to spreading disinformation, which it may be. For instance, what happened to the story that both Lanza’s father and that of the Aurora shooter were prime Libor witnesses set to testify? There is nothing the least bit “delusional” or compromising about truth-telling. You don’t have to stretch or invent stuff. It’s for discerning minds only. A second major enemy of objectivity, as a category, is myth. Myths are comfy pillows, backstops, permitting drowsy indulgers to rest and dream their lollypop dreams. Untroubled in their assurance, for instance, that “we are always the good guys, so we know our government would never do such a thing, and that it’s too stupid to think of it anyway.” Or, “the peddlers of outrageous conspiracy theories (those who deviate from the approved script) are just delusional, unpatriotic, uneducated, warped and bitter, enemies of decency, dupes, and fools. End of story: it’s just some bothersome nonsense anyway.” And when one of our former presidents famously lauded, over and over, “people who play by the rules,” I believe he meant our masses who stand in line and wait for orders from headquarters. Not people who question! Myths operate in America (though some seem to be falling away in Europe) as a shielding soap-bubble substitute for courage – the everyday courage to confront objectively. Given the choice, as we have been for a century now, people prefer to take their horror stories sitting down, on screen. But now, even the movie theatres aren’t safe anymore, and we might not have enough time to hide under the seats. Oh, ----! The real problem is not the inability, but the unwillingness to think. It’s no accident that a country that has resorted to rewarding not thinking is down in science and math! So, let’s clean up our act and show America and the world what objectivity really portends as a magic tool for moving beyond this darkest of dark ages! JH: 4/12/13