The Real Truth About 9/11

Every once and awhile someone disagrees with me and doesn’t accept some of my fundamental thoughts. Yeah I heard your jaws hitting the floor. So it’s like this, I received a reply this morning to one of my rants about 9/11 and how I’m upset because I can find no plane parts at the Pentagon. The writer is writing under the annon name of Vince because he is famous and well known and that’s the way it is. My life is filled with famous and well known people - nothing I can do about it. So here is the letter from ’Vince.’ Vince says it may be posted anywhere people want so it’s a nice little gift.

The Real Truth about 9/11 by Vince March 31, 2006

"I’m going to tell you what I think, Spanner, and I don’t do this for anyone else. I believe that the world is more connected than it has ever been before. More people have actually seen how other people live. More people are able to see the breakdowns in their own societies. And they don’t like it. They see where it leads. They can also see with their own eyes the biggest discrepancies between the way people in the world live. And they want to do something about it. They want to say, you rich fucking bastards, you drive your cars wherever you want with oil you steal from us, you live fifty miles from where you work and you ride in billion dollar transit systems, you fly all over the world and you dump your cheap shit on us. We can’t turn around with smelling a fucking Big Mac, tripping over spilt Coca Cola and hearing fucking Brittney Spears. They want to say, leave us the fuck alone, you bastards. We don’t want to be like you.

So they try everything they can.

But some people want to believe, no, this isn’t about them, this is about us. It’s about me. It’s about my government oppressing me, as if they can tell anyone else in the world a thing about oppression. Some people can only see themselves as victims and can never imagine that someone else is even more pissed off. And might actually do something about it.

This isn’t about American citizens or Canadian citizens. We are the most loyal followers of capitalism imaginable. You give us money, we pump every dime right back into the system and borrow more. We are the most played, flayed, done people in history. Our masters won, they don’t need to convince us, or oppress us, or conspire against us. We’ll kill our next door neighbour for free cable. We value cars and jeans and TV’s and computers above all else.

If we stop driving cars and eating food that comes from thousands of miles away - if we stop buying the consumer shit, then maybe something will have to be done to us. But we’re a long way from that.

Yes, the activists should worry about something else. They should worry about how much of the world’s resources go to keeping us so fucking comfortable. Anti-globalism? There wouldn’t be globalism if we didn’t demand it. Activists should either start trying to convince people that we need to live more like the Amish, or at least we should eat food that grew on our own fucking continent and stop driving our whiny kids around in tanks - or they should start worrying about what the rest of the world thinks about us. Our government is oppressing us? Our government is conspiring against us, lying to us? Our government loves us, we do everything it asks and more.

But the way we see Conrad Black? That’s the way a billion people see me. And you. And even the bottom rung in North America is fucking Conrad Black to almost the entire rest of the planet. And they’re pissed off about it. There are activists in the rest of the world, too, but they can’t have street protests, they can’t march down the Champs Elysees or Ste. Catherine street. What can they do? That’s the other side, the rest of the world, the people who were too late to get into the party, doors closed, we’re all full, sorry folks, you gotta watch your kids starve to death and your parents die from drinking contaminated water.

People’s beliefs are important to them. People who believe in God need to feel that there’s something more than just these sixty or seventy or eighty years we get here. I need to believe that the rest of the world isn’t helpless children. I need to believe that not everyone has been as well played as us.

I believe what happened on 9/11 was a continuation of years of activism by people on the other side of the world. Activists who can’t march, or start online petitions or have sit-ins or get protest songs played on the radio. They did the only kind of activism they could. They have a long tradition of it. I believe it was Custer’s Last Stand. When the Indian Wars were almost over and the natives were losing every battle, Sitting Bull convinced every other native leader to join with him so they could win one epic battle. He knew, and they knew, it would be the last battle they would ever win but they knew how important it was for future generations to hear the story of how they once defeated the great US Army. He knew it was important for their souls. They hadn’t sold their souls for Disney World vacations.

I believe there are people who know their grandchildren are going to be secular, are going to be investing in the stock market and worrying more about what some pop star says than what their grandparents say. They know their grandchildren are going to shrug their shoulders and say, "There’s nothing can we do, pass the Budweiser, did you see that chick in accounting?" They want someone to be able to say, "Once upon a time, we fired an arrow into the heart of America and made it bleed."

And I think it playes right into the hands of our consumerist leaders to take these activists out of the equation and to make it all about OUR GOVERNMENT OPPRESSING US, poor us, boo hoo us.

It wasn’t a bank robbery or a plan to get soldiers into our streets. We’re not the victims here, we’re the bad guys. Our way of life is not sustainable for the planet. After 9/11, brielfy, very briefly, people talked about how, maybe, western culture was a little guilty here. Maybe we brought this on ourselves by the way we live our lives and the way we treat the rest of the world. You want to find a conspiracy? Find out what happened to that idea ’cause no one ever talks about that anymore. Now we’re not guilty of anything, now WE’RE the fucking victims, WE’VE been lied to by our government, our government fired missles at itself to oppress US.

I think looking to the American government for being behind this takes us further away from the real issue, takes the people who really are the victims, the people whose poverty pays for our lifestyle, out of the picture. It makes them victims again because now we don’t even believe they did anything to fight back.

Well, I think they did. I think a few guys figured out that an airplane full of fuel is a bomb. Now, once they acted some guys who are used to taking advantage of any situation and turning it in their favour did exactly that. And I think they’re taking advantage of conspiracy theories, too. I think they’ve infiltrated and are passing around huge amounts of misinformation, just like they did with every other ’movement’ in America because it keeps people busy and it keeps us from looking at ourselves and our lifestyle as the real menace to the world.

Hell, maybe the American government even started this whole idea that it wasn’t a plane that hit the Pentagon as soon as people started to look to western culture as being culpable, as being part of a global problem. No, no, this has nothing to do with the rape of the rest of the world to service every petty need we have - this is all about lying to us and oppressing us. It’s almost too perfect. How can we keep people from asking why someone would do this to us? Say we did it to ourselves. There’s no one else, we’re not doing anything bad to anyone else, no one’s mad at us, why would anyone be mad at us? I remember when the US government started saying, "They hate us because of our freedoms," and a million guys tried to say, ’no, you idiots, that’s not it, we hate you for very specific reasons, here they are...’ and that’s as far as they got. Okay, so someone realized we can’t go down that road, better take it out of the picture completely. Better to say no one did this to us. They don’t hate us, we did this to ourselves.

And it’s working because we’re not about to change our consumerist ways one bit, and we have no idea why someone halfway across the world would be mad at us and we’re not about to look into that. Pretty soon you’ll actually see film clips of missisles hitting those buildings and some poor Arab schmuck will be called crazy when he mentions hijacked airplanes.

Sorry this is so long, but I haven’t ever said it to anyone and it was a little bottled up. I’ll go now." Vince.