The Third Wave

No, not that third wave - rather, the third wave of figures who are going public with their doubts of 9/11. Charlie Sheen went public about two weeks ago, and the story went supernova by the standards of the 9/11 truth movement. Alex Jones even appeared on CNN's Showbiz twice, in the process becoming the first member of the 9/11 truth movement to go onto mainstream media and say "they DID it," not "they had prior knowledge" or "they didn't take action." (According to his radio show, Jones was scheduled to appear a third time, but CNN higher ups told them to "kill it," even though the show got its highest ratings of all time while covering the Sheen story.)

The first wave was the group of informed patriots who went public shortly after 9/11. The second wave was government figures and people of similar prominence, such as Paul Craig Roberts, Michael Meacher, Andres von Bulow, Professor Stephen Jones, and so forth. The third wave is people who already have a media platform, such as Charlie Sheen, and Ed Asner, who went public shortly after Sheen. The fourth wave will presumably be people of prominent positions in the Bush administration at the time of 9/11.

Predictably, there has been a backlash to the Sheen story, with hit pieces coming out in embarrassing profusion in both print media and television. They are all quite formulaic, and yet some of them stand out.

The most obnoxious hit piece, in the print media category, is Marina Hyde's article in the UK's Guardian Unlimited; you have to read it for yourself to appreciate the sheer, distilled obnoxiousness above and beyond the normal obnoxiousness of such pieces.

But it is George Bush's assertion that he saw the first plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Centre before any footage of it had been released that tells Charlie he's on to something. "I guess one of the perks of being president is that you get access to TV channels that don't exist in the known universe," he continued in a manner which in no way suggests he once had a monstrous coke problem. "It might lead you to believe that he'd seen similar images in some type of rehearsal as it were, I don't know."

The arrogance is astounding, in that she brings up a factual point that he raises, and responds with an ad hominem attack. This is the formula of most of these attacks; ignore all the points that were made to focus on Sheen's past. This is after Sheen's second appearance on the Alex Jones show, where he specifically challenged his critics to "challenge him on the facts."

This has a happy ending, however - Hyde was inundated with emails from incensed readers to the point where she had to write this sheepish followup article, claiming that she was just poking fun at the subject. This is further evidence that the tide is turning against the mainstream media and their hit pieces.

Best in show, however, goes (as always) to the Hannity & Colmes piece. Most of the guys on the show weren't too bad, saying that we should "refute" Sheen, and/or encourage questioning authority; but Hannity, with his typical insufferableness and his face that cries out for a fist in it, was actually asserting that to question the official 9/11 story is to spit in the face of the victims' families. (It's actually been my observation that a lot of the victims' families are the ones who are most vocal when denouncing the official story - for instance, they asserted that the GOP chose NYC for the 2004 RNC in order to capitalize on 9/11.

But the main point of the Hannity & Colmes piece was this guest they had on, who was saying that 9/11 conspiracy theories are popular because they provide an alternative to the "terrifying reality" of Islamic terrorism - shadowy, could strike at any moment, we're helpless, and so forth. Let's set aside the fact that this theory was presented without any evidence whatsoever and instead take a gander at this list of questions about 9/11 that weren't brought up (taken from infowars.com):

- Does fear of Islamic terrorism answer why NORAD completely reversed its standard operating procedure on the day of 9/11?

- Does fear of Islamic terrorism answer why three steel buildings, one that was not hit by a plane, collapsed from fire damage for the first and only time in history?

- Does fear of Islamic terrorism answer why firefighters and WTC workers reported bombs going off inside the towers?

- Does fear of Islamic terrorism answer why several of the named 9/11 hijackers are still alive?

- Does fear of Islamic terrorism answer why Pakistan ISI Director General Mahmud Ahmad instructed Ahmad Umar Sheikh to hotwire $100,000 to the alleged 9/11 lead hijacker, Mohammad Atta and why Mahmud Ahmad on the morning of 9/11 was meeting with former clandestine CIA officer and CFR member Rep. Porter Goss and Skull and Bones/CFR member Senator Bob Graham. Does it answer why since September 4th, he had met with top brass at the CIA, the Pentagon and the White House, including Colin Powell, Richard Armitage, Joseph Biden and George Tenet?

- Does fear of Islamic terrorism answer why on September 10th 2001 according to Newsweek, "a group of top Pentagon officials suddenly cancelled travel plans for the next morning, apparently because of security concerns."

- Does fear of Islamic terrorism answer why a record number of 'put' options, speculation that the stock of a company will fall, were placed on American and United Airlines in the days preceding September 11th. This despite a September 10th Reuters report stating 'airline stocks set to fly.'

- Does fear of Islamic terrorism answer why a leaked FBI document, 199I WF213589, outlined disgust at a Bush administration directive that succeeded in blocking anti-terrorism investigations related to the bin Laden family and Saudi charities that were front groups for Al-Qaeda?

- Does fear of Islamic terrorism answer why the secret service allowed President Bush to remain in a known and completely unsecured location amongst hundreds of school children when he could have been a target?

- Does fear of Islamic terrorism answer the thousands of other physical, circumstantial and eyewitness evidence that directly contradicts the official fable of 9/11?

Perhaps Ms. Hart can tell us just where all these fearful Islamic terrorists are? Would we have caught some in the net at Guantanamo Bay? Turns out not to be the case, unless you think delivery drivers, chicken farmers, sack makers and taxi drivers are hell-bent on blowing up stuff.

These questions will all be addressed sooner or later, because people are beginning to wake up and seek alternate sources of information; it's becoming obvious how controlled the mainstream media is. With every individual who goes public, pressure increases on the mainstream media - what are they going to do when, say, Tom Hanks goes public?