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Members and movement attacked from several directions
Three professors who are members of Scholars for 9/11 Truth have been threatened
with the loss of their positions for their research and teaching about the events
of 9/11. Other attacks are coming from national magazines, such as TIME and
U.S. NEWS, which have cover-stories this week suggesting that those who believe
9/11 involved a conspiracy may need psychological counseling. In addition, the
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Popular Mechanics
have published pieces intended to bolster the official account of 9/11.
“This flurry of activity suggests that the government is becoming desperate
in its efforts to keep the truth about 9/11 from the American people,” said
James H. Fetzer, the founder and co-chair of the society. “But I don’t
think it’s working.” Fetzer finds attacks on faculty members, including
Kevin Barrett, a humanities instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Bill Woodward, a professor of psychology at the University of New Hampshire, and
Steven Jones, a physics professor at Brigham Young University and the society’s
co-chair, especially disturbing.
“According to the government, 9/11 is ‘the pivotal event of the
21st century,’ which changed everything”, he observed. “So
it obviously deserves to be studied. College and universities are the institutions
that undertake the study of significant historical events. The very idea that
faculty should not be studying the events of 9/11 verges on the absurd,”
he remarked. “And since the official account-that the events of 9/11 involved
19 Islamic fundamentalists hijacking four commercial airliners and perpetrating
terrorist acts under control of a man in a cave in Afghanistan-involves a conspiracy,
it is impossible to study 9/11 without dealing with conspiracy theories.”
Fetzer thinks the administration wants to suppress serious research on 9/11
because the official account cannot withstand scrutiny. “What the government
has told us is just fine if you are willing to believe impossible things,”
he observed. “Its truth requires violating laws of physics and engineering
that cannot be violated and cannot be changed.” He offered a recent piece
from NIST that attempts to resolve “frequently asked questions”
as an illustration. “We have posted it on our web site at st911.org along
with several critiques. I invite anyone to review that exchange to determine
if the official account has any basis in science. It does not.”
An article from Popular Mechanics that has been turned into a book doesn’t
fare any better, he observed. Since there is no objective foundation for the
official account, there is no ground to suggest that skeptics of the official
account need psychological counseling. “Rationality is the tendency to
accept, reject, and hold-in-suspense beliefs on the basis of logic and evidence,’”
Fetzer stated. “Given what we know now, those who continue to defend the
government’s account are the ones whose beliefs cannot be justified by
logic and evidence, not the critics. The situation abounds with ironies.”
“Sometimes I wonder if the general public realizes the government has
been lying to us about 9/11 from the beginning.” He cites the recent acknowledgment
from the FBI that it has “no hard evidence” connecting Osama bin
Laden to 9/11 and the President’s response during a press conference that
Saddam Hussein had “nothing” to do with 9/11. Only this week a Senate
Intelligence Committee report explained that Saddam not only was not collaborating
with bin Laden but opposed him. “These were reasons we were given for
going to war,” he said. “If the government has been lying about
them, we already know the government has been lying about 9/11.”
Scholars, a non-partisan society of students, faculty and experts dedicated
to exposing falsehoods and revealing truths about 9/11, includes physicists,
mechanical engineers, civil engineers, pilots, and aeronautical engineers among
its members. “We have no funds and no budget but are doing this because
we believe the American people are entitled to know the truth about their own
history. Even I find it difficult to believe that the American government could
have attacked the American people and killed 3,000 civilians to promote its
political agenda, but that is where the evidence leads.”
Contact information:
James H. Fetzer, Ph.D.
Founder and Co-Chair
Scholars for 9/11 Truth
(608) 835-2707 (home)
http://www.d.umn.edu/~jfetzer/
http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org (st911.org)
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