Who Really Did It ?

I’ve spent these past 2 weeks watching the 9/11 Commission hearings on TV, and this extravaganza has indeed held many surprises. Chief among those revelations is that Osama-bin Laden and his al-Qaida cohorts, perhaps, are not responsible for 2 airplanes crashing into the World Trade  Center, one hitting the Pentagon, and a fourth coming down in a rural Pennsylvania field.

         Doggone it, I’ve been fooled for nearly 3 years into believing Middle East terrorists were responsible for inflicting more deaths on Americans than the Japanese caused at Pearl Harbor on December7, 1941.  Just proves how, when one thinks he has a tad of reliable information,he’s shown to be the ultimate dummy.

         The Congressional panel up in D.C., and the various government agencies they’re grilling, are in truly rare form. I’m truly grateful for their enlightening analysis of what happened on September 11, 2001.

         The panel Democrats are blaming George Bush and his Republican party for 9/11. They, in turn, say Bill Clinton and the Democrats caused that disaster nearly 3 years ago.

         Attorney-General Ashcroft is totally bewildered by events of that day. Federal-Prosecutor Ben Viniste says every American man, woman and child, apart from his own family, should be taken to the deepest point of the Pacific Ocean and forced to walk the gangplank---en masse!

         FBI chief Robert Mueller feels certain George Tenet and his CIA chums must bear full responsibility for that terrible day. For his part; Tenet says the FBI needs to be re-named---“Fumbling Bunch of Imbeciles”. That was promptly seconded and approved by the entire panel. At least a tad of agreement.

         After 3 days of hearings I found myself completely befuddled as to how bin Laden’s name was ever connected to the greatest disaster in American history. Why goodness sakes alive! The man must be completely innocent!

         Let’s get back to Mr. Mueller and Mr. Tenet. Incredibly, Tenet told the Commission his CIA goons would need another 5 years before they could effectively combat bin-Laden terrorism. What!! An old man with bad kidneys, walks with a cane, and the CIA needs 5 more years before they can take him on!!

Not one member posed the obvious question to George: “What’s happened to the 20 billion Congress has allocated to your agency these past 5 years?” No one asked---no one asked.

         Actually, the CIA evolved from the OSS following the Second World War.Since 1947 they’ve been involved in a 57 year assassination binge around the globe. Maybe these dudes should depart from la-la land and return to the world of reality.They could then devote more time and effort toward the facts of life. And al-Qaida.

         As for Mr. Mueller and the boys of J. Edgar Hoover, the much feared little man who caused Presidents to tremble (blackmail was his favorite tool) he liked to pose with machineguns blazing away, but in reality was a weird little individual with many quirky habits.  Really, really far-out quirky! A truly strange little weasel.

         Podnuh, the FBI is not a good model for competency.  Millions have been recently spent on new trials for federal prisoners convicted by shoddy evidence put together in shoddy FBI labs. What a SHAM!  Americans believed those labs were the most advanced anywhere. SNOW, podnuh, SNOW! You and I purchased that stuff for 50 years!

         As of this date 15,000 more federal inmates are awaiting re-trial. Many were put away by outright lying, many were actually framed for alleged crimes by the Feds (these dudes are not the shining knights their publicity department claim they are).  The FBI has the same shortcomings that all authority figures display. They just can’t recognize their limitations, some of which are severe.) The Commission panel again were in rare agreement. The FBI is in desperate need of major overhaul. They’re spending all their funding in court fighting false conviction cases.

         And now for the clincher, a little item to really send chills along your spine and cause nightmares unending. It’s being suggested a new federal agency be formed, modeled after England’s MI-5.It’s sole function will be to collect domestic intelligence.

         Ladies and gentlemen, a wiretap in every household. Federal scoundrels opening your mail. Snooping from high-altitude electronic eyes. Peering into your parlor and bedroom (a sneak peek into J. Edgar’s bedroom would’ve caused some gasps and raised eyebrows) The ever dangerous Internet. Yessir a Big Brother is looming in your near future.

         Every democracy since the beginning of recorded history has lasted but a few short 200 years.  We’re now 28 years beyond that average. And the cause of their demise? It wasn’t because of external forces. They all fell from within! The old self-destruct route, and we travel it now.

         This Homeland Security Agency has the potential for doing really ugly things.Someone is distributing powers to morons who should never be entrusted with authority.

         That combination, power and authority, bestowed on human beings is not a good blending.It’s a terrible mixture! Takes just a short while for those stooges to become totally confused. Their eyesight fails almost instantly. They’re unable to make a distinction between cattle, sheep, and people. They fall victim to the flock and herd mentality  .

         I’ve contacted my Congressman. Maybe you should contact him too. Tell Mr. Boucher to keep a wary eye on those scallowags at Homeland Security. Tell him a police state would be far more dangerous than any threat from foreign terrorists.

         What we need is someone with gumption to step forward and tell us what really happened on September11,2001.

M. L. Wilkinson

April, 2004