Editor,
Call me crazy, but I just don't believe the official story of Sept. 11, 2001.
I believe Flight 93 was shot down, resulting in the wreckage coming down in three locations up to eight miles apart. And why did the U.S. Air Force stand down in New York? Was it al-Qaida? Was it the confusion stemming from multiple war games and military exercises?
Even though Condoleeza Rice said no one could have imagined using airplanes as missiles, the CIA was running a simulation on Sept. 11 of airplanes flying into buildings. In May 2001, by presidential order, Cheney was given control of all war games and exercises. Were they games, or was it real?
How did President Bush see the first plane hitting the World Trade Center? No one saw the first plane hit except the people who were there. How did the Secret Service know Bush wasn't a target on Sept. 11 unless they knew the targets?
Bush remarked after the attacks, "Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of Sept. 11, malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists - themselves - away from the guilty." Isn't the biggest conspiracy to claim that there are no conspiracies?
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The World Trade Center needed more than $200 million in renovations. Larry Silverstein purchased the World Trade Center in July 2001 for $124 million and collected $4 billion from insurance claims after it was destroyed.
If we really lived in a democracy, the entire U.S. government would be swinging from the street lamps covered in tar and feathers or packing peanuts. When some Americans complain that generation 9/11 is lazy, they aren't talking about its ability to perform mindless tasks for minimum wage, which buys less and less useless stuff. They are questioning the sacrifice of an entire nation that is so afraid of being fired that it won't go on a national strike until the government resigns.
Instead of attending a protest of sound and fury signifying nothing for one hour a year, how about not going to class for a week, or taking a month off work, or really giving your life for freedom? The time has come for a nonviolent American revolution, not a new American civil war.
The thousands of Americans who died on Sept. 11 have not died in vain. The thousands of Americans who died in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have not died in vain. We should shock and awe the world with democracy.
Brian Fejer
UNM student
