In a recent speech regarding the events unfolding in Afghanistan, the president of the United States repeated the assertion that the events of September 11, 2001 provide the justification for the twenty-year military occupation of that country and all the death and destruction and human misery which has resulted from that twenty-year war.
Beginning at about the one-minute-and-nine-second mark in this video of his speech from 16 August, 2021, Joe Biden says:
I want to remind everyone how we got here, and what America's interests are in Afghanistan. We went to Afghanistan almost twenty years ago, with clear goals: get those who attacked us on September 11, 2001, and make sure Al Qaeda could not use Afghanistan as a base from which to attack us again.
That the American people, and the people of the world, did not stage massive protests in response to such a demonstrably false statement by the president, and that the elected representatives of the people currently serving in Congress did not voice vehement objection to that statement and demand its retraction, is an absolute disgrace -- but of course the bigger disgrace is the past twenty years in which the people and their elected representatives have failed to stop the illegal military actions that have issued from September 11, long after the time when it became blatantly obvious to everyone that the "official" narrative of that day's crimes cannot possibly be true and is based on lies.
Recently, I have heard friends express disbelief at the level of extreme and harsh lockdowns which are being imposed on the people of Australia right now, and the way that the people of Australia have not "fought back" against the extraordinary curfews and restrictions on movement that are now in effect.
"That would never happen here in the US," they say.
But the fact is that the people of the United States have permitted even more devastating violations with barely a peep or even murmur of protest for the past twenty years: they have permitted a criminal cabal which has hijacked their country to use the armed forces of the United States to wage illegal wars of aggression in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and numerous other parts of the globe, all supposedly based upon the patently false official narrative surrounding September 11, 2001.
How have they permitted this to happen? Has everyone (or at least, the vast majority of the people) been snookered into accepting the official lies about the events of that day?
No. I would argue that there is virtually no one -- virtually no one -- who can look at the evidence available to us in 2021 and still swallow the official story. No one.
I would argue that everyone knows, deep down at some level, that the official narrative cannot possibly be true and must be an enormous lie.
However, the implications of that fact (that the official narrative, which has been repeated so many times from the very highest levels of the government, and which has been consistently reinforced by the propaganda machine of the national media, and which was again invoked by the current president in his lying speech of August 16 cited above, and which will be solemnly repeated over and over on this twentieth September 11 since the watershed day of 2001, is a big fat lie which is part of the coverup of the crimes that took place that day and the illegality of the wars which have been waged non-stop in the years following) are so devastating and so threatening to most people that they will actually suppress their own awareness that the official story cannot be true -- and in doing so, they will suffer an alienating disconnect from the part of themselves which actually realizes the truth.
This type of profound internal alienation, stemming from the suppression of something that is too threatening to contemplate, has a name: it is called psychological trauma (a term which began to be used during the 1970s to describe the alienation that was being observed in many of the veterans returning from the war in Vietnam). As I have written many times before, based on the work and teachings of psychologist and healer Dr. Gabor Mate, trauma is a disconnection from your own Self.
Below is an extended quotation from my 2020 book, Myth and Trauma, regarding the deliberate use of trauma-inducing events including the crimes of September 11, 2001 to stun the men and women of the world and to induce alienation (and its attendant symptoms and lack of cohesion, both at the individual and at the group level):
All of these assassinations [listed in the preceding sentences: John F. Kennedy in 1963, Malcolm X in 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968] have been conclusively shown by subsequent researchers to have been treacherously initiated, organized, executed, and then covered up by the very establishment forces that felt threatened by these charismatic leaders.
These were trauma-inducing events, carried out in public in a trauma-inducing manner. The evidence that murders such as the assassination of President Kennedy were not committed b a "lone nut" the way the official story insists that they were committed is so overwhelming that this evidence simply cannot be ignored -- which means that our higher self, aware of so much more than what the conscious mind allows itself to perceive, cannot fail to realize that the official story is a lie.
The reason that the egoic mind of so many men and women simply refuses to accept the truth -- the truth that we already know deep down, "in our gut" as we say, is that the truth in this instance is so jarring to the artificial reality that the "defense mechanism" of the egoic mind constructs for us that the egoic mind simply refuses to allow itself to see what is staring us right in the face.
The same can be said for the unsolved crimes committed on September 11, 2001, in which not two but three massive steel-framed skyscrapers collapsed into their own footprints, demolition-style, supposedly (according to the official narrative) due to fires. The evidence, which should be plain to everyone who lived through that trauma-inducing day in history, overwhelmingly demonstrates that the official story is a bald-faced lie. The implications, however, are so threatening to the rules by which we order our world that most of us suppress and refuse to see the evidence which is staring us in the face -- resulting in internal division, alienation, and a pervasive sense of background angst.
That the official story is a lie can be explained in four simple words: "Building 7, freefall speed."
Building 7, of course, refers to World Trade Center 7, which was a 47-story steel-frame building which was not struck by any airplanes and which suddenly collapsed into its own footprint, at a speed indistinguishable from freefall speed, on the afternoon of September 11, 2001, well after the collapse of World Trade Center Buildings 1 and 2 (the North and South Towers, also known as the Twin Towers).
Supposedly this collapse of Building 7 at freefall speed into its own footprint was due to fires started from debris which fell from the other towers. That explanation is so ludicrous that it simply cannot be believed, and I would argue that our deeper self (buried by our egoic mind in most cases) already knows that it is false. The reason our egoic mind refuses to allow itself to see that the official narrative cannot possibly be true is that the implications of that fact -- that the official story is a bald-faced lie -- obliterate the facade of what we believe to be true about the world around us.
There are many other aspects of the events of that day which demonstrate, almost as blatantly as the collapse of Building 7 at freefall speed, that the official story about the crimes perpetrated on September 11 is a criminal lie.
These include, but are not limited to, the complete failure of the military to scramble fighter-jets to intercept the other airplanes which continued to fly around for over an hour even after the Twin Towers had been hit, and the failure of any air defense weapons to stop (or even attempt to stop) a jet from hitting the Pentagon (if indeed a jet did hit the Pentagon), as well as the fact that numerous military drills involving aircraft were taking place on that same day by "astonishing coincidence," and also the fact that the crime scene of the collapsed towers of the World Trade Center was not investigated but instead was deliberately and rapidly destroyed and the steel carted away in short order, never to be subjected to rigorous forensic analysis.
All of these trauma-inducing events fall into the same broad pattern -- the same pattern we have been examining. The central feature of this pattern is the seizure of more and more of the gifts of heaven and of nature for the benefit of a privileged few at the expense of the many, coupled with the willingness to impose trauma as one of the tools available to enable that seizure and to prevent it from being corrected by men and women who would normally see what is going on and take action to apprehend and bring to justice those responsible, and to protect what belongs to the people from being monopolized by a privileged minority. 331 -333
Above is a short (and notorious) clip of some news footage from that day twenty years ago when these crimes were perpetrated against the people of the United States and the world -- a clip which lays out in stunning clarity abundant evidence supporting everything that I argue above. Here is the link to that clip, which I strongly recommend watching in its entirety, from start to finish, even if you have watched it before.
In that clip, a BBC News anchor matter-of-factly states:
Now, more on the latest building collapse in New York -- you might have heard a few moments ago, I was talking about the Salomon Brothers building collapsing, and indeed it has. Apparently that's only a few hundred yards away from where the World Trade Center towers were, and it seems that this was not the result of a new attack, it was because the building had been weakened, by this morning's attacks.
He then goes on to say, "We'll probably find out more about that from our correspondent, Jane Standley -- Jane, what more can you tell us about the Salomon Brothers building, and its collapse?"
He then turns to a screen on the wall where we see "our correspondent, Jane Standley," holding a microphone and with the Salomon Brothers building, very much intact, in the background!
In other words, she is talking to the BBC anchor who has just declared that WTC Building 7 (the Salomon Brothers building) has "indeed" collapsed, and in the background we can see Building 7, prior to its remarkable collapse -- a collapse so remarkable that we have to be absolutely astonished that anyone could have predicted that it would collapse in advance, since no steel-frame building had (prior to September 11, 2001) ever collapsed, even from raging fires which were far more catastrophic than anything seen in Building 7 at the time this clip was filmed.
And yet, somehow this BBC team already had the narrative that Building 7 collapsed "because the building had been weakened" somehow, by the earlier attacks on Buildings 1 and 2.
They had that narrative so well-prepared that the screen even features a subtitle below reporter Jane Standley at one point, which reads: "The 47 storey Salomon Brothers building close to the World Trade Centre has also collapsed."
Note that Building 7 (ie, the 47-story Salomon Brothers building) had eminently not collapsed when this caption was displayed beneath Jane Standley as she was standing with Building 7 in the background: many other observers have already pointed this out in the twenty years since this clip was filmed, and I have added a large red arrow in the screenshot below to point out the outline of the intact Salomon Brothers building, looming behind Jane Standley in the picture (she later moves to one side, allowing us to see the entire intact building).
When the building does collapse, it does so at shocking speed, indistinguishable from freefall speed, and into its own footprint: demolition style. But there was simply no way to predict that such a shocking collapse would take place. And yet the BBC already knew it would happen and were prepared with the explanation that would later be repeated in the "official" explanation of the events of that day: Building 7 "was weakened" by the collapse of the other WTC towers, and thus collapsed as well (perhaps out of sympathy).
The BBC even had the correct number of floors to list when it described the "47 storey Salomon Brothers building," as if their news team had time to do a bit of research prior to making the caption we see displayed on the screen above (again, all filmed prior to the demolition of Building 7).
They even knew, astonishingly, that no one would be injured in the remarkable freefall collapse of that 47-story tower, as you can hear the BBC anchor explain if you watch the entire clip above.
And, perhaps most remarkable to me, watching this well-worn clip again: Jane Standley repeats several times the word "trauma," and says that the people of New York and America are now "traumatized."
If this infamous news clip, from the BBC itself, does not prove beyond any doubt that the events of September 11 were pre-planned, and that they were deliberately designed to inflict trauma upon the good men and women of the world, then I don't know what does.
On this twentieth anniversary of that deliberately trauma-inducing day, I suggest we shake off the stupor and take the drastic step of listening to what we already know (all of us) -- and gain the clarity to see what we need to do: to demand that elected officials who continue to mouth lies about that day be scorned and upbraided for doing so, to demand that illegal wars of aggression which use September 11 as a false justification be stopped immediately, and to initiate aggressive investigations into the identities of those actually responsible for the crimes committed that day, and those who have collaborated to cover up the truth in the intervening twenty years.