David Ray Griffin - 9/11 Ten Years Later. When State Crimes against Democracy Succeed

Advance Praise for David Ray Griffins
9/11 Ten Years Later

Our civilization cannot survive if we do not confront the unanswered questions about 9/11. David Ray Griffin does that with the same clarity and meticulous documentation that characterized his preceding books. Frightening as the enormity of the truth about 9/11 may be, we should also bear in mind that it is a window of opportunity for addressing a whole range of problems threatening the lives of our children and grandchildren. I am sure those who follow will recognize David Ray Griffins body of work as one of the most important contributions of the last decade.

Niels Harrit, Associate Professor Emeritus, Nano-science Center,
Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen

Anyone who has actually studied Griffin's writings on 9/11 knows that the evidence against the truth of the official account is overwhelming. It is not surprising that the mainstream response has been to ridicule and ignore rather than to engage in reasoned discussion. What is disappointing is that leading liberals and responsible journalists have joined in by affirming ideas that contradict basic science and condescendingly rejecting solid research without examining it. In this book, Griffin describes the behavior of these journalists and attempts, in a remarkably charitable spirit, to understand it.

John B. Cobb, Jr., author of The Earthist Challenge to Economism and
(with Herman Daly) For the Common Good

Why yet another book on 9/11? Because, as David Ray Griffin points out clearly and persuasively, 9/11 continues to be not only the greatest crime in American history, but also the most strenuously covered up, and certainly the crime with the greatest political consequences. He shows how over a decade the events of 9/11 and the reports on them have been used to attack the American democratic system. Above all, he documents the success of this attackby the refusal of the media, the academy, and religious institutions to openly discuss these matters, and by the numbers of critics who at one extreme have made fools of themselves in echoing the Orwellian official version, and at the other extreme have been either fired or silenced after their dissent from it.

Peter Dale Scott, poet, former Canadian diplomat, professor at the
University of California (Berkeley), and author of American War Machine

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I must begin by thanking two people without whom I would not be here to write these acknowledgments.

My wife, Ann Jaqua, nursed me through a series of life-threatening crises, brought on by a staph infection, that almost took my life in 2010.

It only almost did so because of a superb team of physicians in Santa Barbara, especially my heart surgeon, Dr. Phillip West. After working on me for two hoursthe aortic valve, having become infected, had become largely separated from my heartDr. West had an assistant warn my wife that he might not be able to save me. But after five more hours of extraordinarily tedious work, he did so.

Whereas I was brought to the point where I could write again by Dr. West and Ann, along with her daughtersJennifer, Alison, and Sara Jaquaand many others, this book also would not have been possible without the help of several other people. Here I must especially lift up two: Tod Fletcher and Elizabeth Woodworth. Besides proofreading the entire manuscript, both of them helped the writing of this book in many other ways. I owe Elizabeth special thanks for checking all the references as well as preparing the index.

I also wish to thank several others from whom I received significant assistance: Matthew Everett, Mark Gaffney, Richard Gage, Niels Harrit, Jim Hoffman, Barbara Honegger, Frank Legge, Massimo Mazzucco, Dennis McMahon, Aidan Monaghan, and John Wyndham.

is based on a lecture delivered during a 15-city May June 2010 tour, which was organized by Matthew Naus of Milwaukee.

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A lecture in Seattle on May 27, 2011, arranged by Ben Collet, Richard Curtis, and Mark Snyder, provided the basis for .

on May 27, 2010, and reprinted as Building What? How State Crimes against Democracy (SCADs) Can Be Hidden in Plain Sight in Censored 2011: The Top 25 Censored Stories, edited by Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips with Project Censored (New York: Seven Stories, 2010).

is based on an essay entitled Tim Russert, Dick Cheney, and 9/11, which was posted June 17, 2008, at Information Clearing House.

is based on a lecture entitled 9/11 and Nationalist Faith, which was delivered October 19, 2007, at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. This lecture was sponsored by the Veterans of Hope Project, located at Iliff and led by Professor Emeritus Vincent Harding, and by Colorado 9/11 Visibility, led by Fran Shure.

INTRODUCTION: 9/11 TEN YEARS LATER

T he words in the title of this book9/11 Ten Years Later are often followed with an exclamation point. The exclamation point may be a way of expressing, by members of the 9/11 Truth Movement, amazement that the truth has not already been publicly revealed. The exclamation point might be used by detractors of this movementperhaps along with an expletiveto express their feeling that it is time for these people to get a life. The exclamation point might reflect a position somewhat in the middleof spouses of members hoping that no more years of their family life will be oriented around the work of trying to get the truth revealed.

In any case, for reasons discussed in this book (especially the final two chapters), there is nothing surprising about the fact that the 9/11 crime has not been revealed. Those who have gained control of a state in an ostensible democracy have many means not only for orchestrating major crimes, but also for preventing those crimes (including their crimes against democracy itself) from being publicized.

What is somewhat surprising, perhaps to the perpetrators themselves, is the fact that the 9/11 Truth Movement is still alive and, in fact, continues to grow. The first professional 9/11 organization, Scholars for 9/11 Truth, was formed in 2005, and since then a dozen professional organizations have been created. It was not until 2006 that architect Richard Gage started Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth with one memberhimselfbut now over 1,500 architects and engineers have signed its petition. Some of the organizations, such as Scientists for 9/11 Truth and Actors and Artists for 9/11 Truth, have started up only in the past two years.