OUR MANDATE: CHANGE THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM

OUR MANDATE: CHANGE THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM
by James Hufferd, Ph.D.
Coordinator, 911 Truth Grassroots Organization
The issue of the government + corporate establishment’s gross, transparent mischaracterization of the devastating 9/11 crimes (the “New Pearl Harbor”) and disavowal/taboo-ization of any serious investigation or questioning thereof most clearly parallels, to my mind, the turbid atmosphere at the beginning of the organized Abolition movement 180 years ago, in the early 1830s. Those in the hypersensitive South with any semblance of anti-slavery tendencies or even reservations were pilloried, ostracized, ruined financially, defrocked and, if they didn’t relent or disappear, murdered with the sanction of the community and without benefit of police or trial.
Because, they were quite simply “out of line” for forcing the more vulnerable members of the community to intelligently confront and consider matters already preemptively decided for them and closed.
The half-crazy unconventional few who did, nevertheless, think and feel (like the courageous Grimke sisters of South Carolina) had to flee north to make their stand and never slept without one eye open. These are our worthy predecessors; let us be worthy of them!
In the by-then largely non-slave (not all anti-slavery) North, in Cincinnati, a multi-night student debate at Lane Seminary on the subject of slavery – held over the initial objections of that institution’s illustrious faculty and administration – broke down at the end into riots throughout the city. The debates’ subject – the Southern economic system relying on involuntary slave labor – was not to be mentioned, not to be discussed, anywhere. Because the nation’s leaders had deemed that public order and national well-being depended on it not being.
These days, the nation, following the government + corporate establishment, doesn’t by and large reject or refute the call of 9-11 Truth for revelation and justice ensuing. The public, following the establishment’s lead, simply doesn’t respond to or even consider the matter, at least openly. Whereas, as little as three years ago, you’d be hooted or branded a crank for questioning or demanding a 9/11 investigation, now, after maybe a perfunctory, usually inane query of mild protest, such as how such imbeciles as Bush and Cheney could have pulled such a thing, or how such a conspiracy could be hushed up by all of its participants, there follows, more often than not, agreement to the extent that “I wouldn’t be surprised, given the other boneheaded things the government has done.” But, not accompanied by any particular feeling of injustice or resolve to set things right.
To me, that sort of response that has become increasingly common betokens widespread misunderstanding of the context, or of what’s at stake in permitting the most wanton and tragic crime in American history – a crime destructive far beyond itself – to slide, its true perpetrators to continue to hide under rocks, or, in some cases, out in the open.
One hundred seventy-five years ago, back in the 1830s and beyond, ardent Abolitionists despaired of ever convincing a majority of Americans of the horrible wrongness of slavery and of permitting its arch-defenders and beneficiaries to call the shots. And even the people who knew the truth were mostly too meek to speak up in support of emancipation and an end to the slavocracy system that was unjustly holding millions in degradation and hostage. Yet, when it finally became safe for the political system to act, with the even half-hearted support of, and finally without vigorous retaliation from the voters, the political system did so act and the core evil was exorcized.
And, when enough of the public “gets it” today, I am convinced that the political system will again feel constrained to act by authorizing a real investigation of 9/11, rather than be voted out of office.
And, I therefore conclude that that’s the outcome we as 9-11 Truthers need to continue to work toward – to at last change the conventional wisdom in this country about 9/11, which should be our constant mission, instead of sliding off as a group to feature other worthy goals and causes, best left up to other organizations with our encouragement. Because, none of the other causes out there are, in my opinion, as worthy of our efforts as the seminal, prosecutable crimes we are pledged to see rightly adjudged for the world’s betterment. And for the accomplishment of that, we need to work night and day to bring about a beneficial change in public knowledge and in the conventional wisdom in this country and abroad about 9/11, just as the organizations and arguments directed toward the reality that the government was lying about the JFK assassination and the Vietnam War gradually changed the conventional wisdom in the country related to those realities.
To accomplish as much, we need to work and recruit tirelessly, those of us who know and care about the compound crime and lies related to 9/11 to inform the public adequately of the convincing evidence and its meaning. Our lofty goal is to transform the conventional wisdom and the torpor still abounding in this country into the understanding and indignation needed to successfully and implacably demand a full accounting and justice. That is, to turn the conventional wisdom and win the day.
And nothing short of that will, I believe, ever prevail. Nothing. Accordingly, I say, let’s take a deep breath, redouble our common resolve, and bring it on.
JH / December 7, 2011