[Peace-discuss] 911 and Gore Vidal

[n.dahlheim at mchsi.com]

Facing the awful truth of 911 as an inside job orchestrated theatrically by the Bush Administration to 
shift the dominant political narrative and paradigm to discussions of terrorism (and away from the 
more pressing concerns facing the planet, namely the mushrooming ecological crisis) so that a crazy 
bunch of lunatics can implement their designs for planetary domination is difficult for progressives to 
face.  It means that the "opposition" Democrats have been either knowingly or willfully ignorant of the 
political peril into which the Executive Branch has plunged the country.  Understanding 911 means 
accepting that the system is broken and that the ritual of voting that tacitly legitimizes the centralized 
political and economic systems will no longer suffice for those who genuinely want real social 
democracy.  We need to look seriously at restoring local self-sufficiency as the basis for real 
democracy.  Local business and local government must be the trained focus of any activism.  They must 
be built with community in mind and they must be built to withstand the coming political and economic 
storm.  The centralized system is hurdling along a path that will suck all who place faith in it into a 
wormhole---one leading to a dark netherworld.  When important progressives such as Lewis Lapham at 
Harper's and Gore Vidal are seriously considering the detailed scholarly work of Dr. David Ray Griffin on 
911 demonstrating the culpability of the Bush Administration for the destruction of the World Trade 
Center towers by demolition, it is time to wake up!