But first the biggest scoop in the history of all journalism, so have a seat: the attacks of September 11th were not the work of Osama Bin Laden, but of the Bush administration. The towers of the WTC did not collapse because of the airplanes that flew into them, but were blown up by the government. The hole in the Pentagon was not caused by an airplane, and finally: five of the alleged hijackers are definitely still alive.
I plucked this scoop off the Internet, thanks to a few hundred readers who drew my attention by email to the reality surrounding September 11th.
A question to those readers, who commonly call themselves “a concerned citizen” and “certainly not an activist:” Why does the editorial staff of the Volkskrant not write about what really happened in the United States? The argument that everything we saw on live television was different than what was being said then and is being said now, is over the top and irrefutable. One reader e-mailed me, saying “Just look at the film clip on that website.” “If you listen closely you can hear nine explosions before the collapse of the first tower.” I have watched and listened to the film clip three times, but I didn’t hear nine explosions. Yes, you hear noise, sirens, people screaming and a couple of muffled bangs. But who says those are explosions in the basements? Why couldn”t it be collapsing ceilings or floors high in the towers? And who can prove that the filmmaker didn’t add those noises in afterward?
Well, why doesn’t the editorial staff write about it? Why don’t the editors make mincemeat out of the investigation following September 11th, which by the way was done by people who are Bush contributors?
And while I’m at it: there is also something fishy about the attacks in London, just look on the Internet.
Is it true? Could it be true? Authorities on the editorial staff to whom I presented those questions do not see any conspiracy theory and hold nothing of the alleged evidence circulating on the Internet either. September 11th has been adequately sorted out and analyzed; the perpetrators are known and anything else that continues to be contended about it is nonsense.
There is a similar case, by the way. After the plane crash in Bijlmer rumors surfaced for years about men in white suits who supposedly scoured the entire area immediately following the accidents. There was nobody who ever really seen them, there is no evidence, but there are still people who believe that those white suits were there and that they did something shady. Clearly these types of insinuations are part of the grief process in a large disaster.
But that is not enough for the questioning readers. You are dancing to Bush’s tune. But he also lied about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, is usually the response when I say that the editors are not interested.
The latter is indeed a valid point, but in my opinion there is a world of difference between maliciously killing several thousand fellow countrymen on American soil and the invasion in Iraq.
Relevant above all is the question of what exactly the editors should then investigate. Journalists do not have access to any of the retrieved evidence. For conspiracy theorists that are cause for even more suspicion: See, they are keeping something a secret. But how can you demonstrate from Wibautstraat in Amsterdam that an entire investigation commission was pulling a con job? And furthermore, doesn’t something like that always come out in the end? Yet we also know that Bush knew that there were no weapons of mass destruction. If all this gets out, while the US is still in Iraq, then wouldn’t it surely have gotten out a long time ago that the statements about September 11th were twisted?
What is wisdom? If the newspaper reports big on all insinuations made on the Internet, and then writes about the phenomenon without examining it for itself, it is blamed for not taking the matter seriously. When it does nothing, the same thing happens. Moreover, coverage in a serious newspaper like the Volkskrant feeds the rumor mill: see, they are writing about it, too. Then the possibly made up reality of the Internet suddenly becomes reality. But if there is one thing we have learned in the meantime, it is that a lot of things on the net never come close to the truth.
