I have a fifty dollar gift card with Target, and ten dollars left on it. I bought a pair of dumbbells and a pair of snow boots with the gift card. I wanted ear muffs, but they were out. I own a pair of thin gloves and want a thicker pair, but the pairs at Target are more than ten dollars. I can't decide on what to get at Target with my remaining ten dollars. I also have a gift card with Walmart of fourty or fifty dollars. I can't decide what to get at Walmart either. Gggrrr why can't I make a decision on anything?!

            I know where Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda are. I know where all the dangerous communists and other radicals are. I know the hideout of every powerful individual and group who has shot at, bombed, or otherwise tried to kill Americans. The rest of America knows too, they just don't know they know. None of the killers are, or have ever been, immigrants. None of them belong to the lower economic class. None of them are attacking us from the outside. The U.S. has nothing to worry about from international terrorism and everything to worry about from domestic terrorism, the most powerful terrorist group being the government.

         By now it is common sense that the Salem Witch Trials, McCarthyism, Satanic Panic, Vietnam/Laos/Cambodia were both entirely baseless and entirely government-run. Both in men and money. Yet few of us are willing to even consider the theory that the September eleventh attacks, as well as the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan, were entirely baseless and entirely government- run witch hunts.

". . . these are the characteristics of a witch hunt. Thou shallt: 1 Judge an accused person guilty before seeking evidence. 2 Apply whatever pressures are necessary on suspects, including beatings and torture, to extract confessions and obtain accusations against others. 3 Accept any incriminating evidence, however dubious or vague. 4 Emphasize what you want to hear and ignore testimony or evidence inconvenient to your theory. 5 Create or employ false evidence if necessary to convict. 6 Threaten anyone speaking in favor of the defendant as a suspected accessory. 7 Treat the accused as having no normal rights because he or she is so dangerous. 8 Be prepared to accept secret accusations, to hide the accusations from the accused, and to protect the identity of the accuser. 9 Search and expand the hunt for other witches acolytes, and supporters. Always assume that this witch is only the tip of the iceberg. 10 Justify and excuse all errors by appeals to the National Security, Protection of Society, or The Good of the State. Of course, we know that not every one of these characteristics will be present in every witch hunt, but there will be a preponderance of them" (Rapley 30-31).

". . . now let us define a miscarriage of justice: when laziness, stupidity, over eagerness, cupidity, inexperience, a desire for fame or promotion, personal prejudice, pr similar compunds of human error result in failures of proper procedure or due process that lead to an innocent person being found guilty, a miscarriage of justice has occurred" (Ripley 139).

"They range from the apparent stand-down of our immense military arsenal (for over an hour and a half) to the small hole and lack of debris at the Pentagon. There was Bush’s bizarre, uninterrupted photo op in a Florida elementary school, and then there is the matter of the remains of Flight 93 being scattered over eight miles of Pennsylvania farmland, a fact which suggests the plane may have been shot down. The official story seems wrong on all of these points" (Heller).

"If you’ve forgotten, WTC7 was a 47-story building that was not hit by an airplane or by any significant debris from either WTC1 or WTC2. Buildings 3, 4, 5, and 6 were struck by massive amounts of debris from the collapsing Twin Towers, yet none collapsed, despite their thin-gauge steel supports" (Heller).

"WTC7 mysteriously imploded and fell to the ground in an astounding 6.5 seconds" (Heller).

"To restate this, a rock dropped from the 47th floor would have taken at least 6 seconds to hit the ground. WTC7, in its entirety, fell to the earth in 6.5 seconds. Now, recall, we’re supposed to believe that each floor of the building "pancaked" on the one below. Each of the 47 floors supposedly pancaked and collapsed, individually. Yet WTC7 reached the ground in 0.5 seconds longer than freefall. Is this really possible" (Heller).

 ". . . did not even visibly move the building when it slammed into it. How, I wondered, could a building that did not visibly move from a heavy high speed projectile collapse at near freefall speed less than an hour later" (Heller).

"Familiar with elementary physics, including principles of conservation of energy and momentum, this seemed quite impossible if the towers were indeed "pancaking," which is the official theory" (Heller).

"freefall in a vacuum (read, absolutely no resistance on earth) is 9.2 seconds. According to testimony provided to the 9-11 Commission, the tower fell in 10 seconds. Other data shows it took closer to 14 seconds. So the towers fell within 0.8-4.8 seconds of freefall in a vacuum. Just like WTC7, this speed seemed impossible if each of the 110 floors had to fail individually" (Heller).

"There is a principle in physics called the Law of Conservation of Energy. There is also the Law of Conservation of Momentum...even if the 110 floors of each tower were hovering in mid-air, the "pancake" theory would still have taken a minimum of 15.5 seconds to reach the ground" (Heller).

"But steel-framed skyscrapers have never collapsed from fire, since they’re built from steel that doesn’t melt below 2750 degrees Fahrenheit. No fuel, not even jet fuel, which is really just refined kerosene, will burn hotter than 1500 degrees Fahrenheit...This fact was known to firemen" (Heller).

"WTC7, which wasn’t hit by an airplane or by any significant debris, collapsed in strikingly similar fashion to the Twin Towers. There wasn’t even any jet fuel or kerosene burning in WTC7" (Heller).

 ". . . President Bush's repeated attempts to tie Sadam Hussein to Osama Bin Laden. . . even though no credible evidence was ever put forth to support it" (Alterman 301).

"Bush and company also repeatedly made the case for war by publicizing the claims of an Iraqi defector named Ihsan Saeed . . . long after the man was revealed to have repeatedly failed polygraph examinations and been rejected as unreliable by U.S. intelligence agencies" (Alterman 301).

 He is Abu Zubaydah. ". . . he informed his captors that bin Laden had personally rejected the idea of any kind of alliance with Hussein" (Alterman 301).

". . . the official 9/11 Commission staff announced it could find 'no credible evidence that Iraq and al Qaeda cooperated on attacks　against the United States,' or any 'collaborative relationship' at all between the two" (Alterman 302).

"Cheney told a CNBC interviewer '. . . there was clearly a relationship. It's been testified to. The evidence is overwhelming' . . . Cheney never once noted that　President Vaclav Havel himself had withdrawn the contention and blamed the confusion on a single intelligence officer with a drinking problem. Asked by the show's host whether he had claimed that the meeting had been 'pretty-well confirmed', Cheney replied,　'No, I never said that" (Alterman 302).

"Major General Anthony Zinny, who headed the U.S. Central Command from 1997 to 2000 and was late George Bush's　 special envoy to the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, observed after the war,　'It's another Gulf of Tonkin'. (After making this statement, Zinny was informed by the Bush administration that he 'will never be used by the　White House again'.)" (Alterman 303).

"Many have found that the 9/11 Commission not only failed to help us understand what happened, it also omitted or distorted most of the facts" (Ryan).

"If we are ever to emerge from this insanity, we need to know how three tall buildings collapsed due to fire, all on the same day, when no such thing has ever happened before" (Ryan).

"Not surprisingly, many of the contractors who contributed to the NIST investigation, like the company for which Nair works, just happen to depend on good relationships with the government in order to earn their living. . . federal projects worth in excess of $40 million" (Ryan).

"He had led the Oklahoma City bombing investigation and then was asked to lead the initial ASCE investigation into the WTC disaster. Perhaps someone else, with less experience in bombing and more experience in fires, would have been a better choice. But without authority to save samples or even obtain blueprints, the ASCE investigation was ineffective anyway. Corely himself ended up being a very versatile resource, however, providing testimony supporting the pre-determined conclusions many times, and even posing as a reporter during an NIST media session" (Ryan).

"Thornton’s partner, Richard Tomasetti, was reported to be behind the unprecedented and widely criticized decision to destroy most of the steel evidence" (Ryan).

 ". . . and the incredible statement that two-thirds of the columns in WTC1 (the North Tower) were completely severed. NIST’s report now indicates that only about 14% of the columns in WTC1 were severed, and in some photos we can count most of these for ourselves" (Ryan).

". . . like the unprecedented destruction of the steel evidence and the fact that no tall steel-frame buildings have ever collapsed due to fire" (Ryan).

". . . five years before his death, Skilling said that he had performed an analysis on jet plane crashes and the ensuing fires and that ‘the building structure would still be there’" (Ryan).

". . . which required fire resistance times of 3 hours for building columns and 2 hours for floors. From the start, his answers were not helping to explain fire-induced collapse in 56 minutes (the time it took WTC2, the South Tower, to come down). But he did give a better explanation of UL’s involvement of testing the WTC steel, even talking about the quality of the sample and how well it did. ‘We tested the steel with all the required fireproofing on,’ he wrote, ‘and it did beautifully’" (Ryan).

There are also those who have said they saw flashes at the bottom of the building, like demolition flashes. Visit www.wanttoknow.org for more info.

Alterman, Eric. What liberal media? : the truth about bias and the news . Ney York, NY: Basic

Heller, Dave. "Taking a Closer Look: Hard Science and the Collapse of the World Trade Center.

Ryan, Kevin. Propping Up the War on Terror: Lies about the WTC by NIST and Underwriters

Laboratories. Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2006.

Rapley, Robert. Witch hunts : from Salem to Guantanamo Bay . Montreal: McGill-Queen's

University Press, 2007. 30-139.