Re: 911 WAS an inside job.
UQ Wire: Kevin Ryan - A Personal Decision
Friday, 10 June 2005, 1:46 pm
Opinion:
www.UnansweredQuestions.org
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A Personal Decision
By Kevin Ryan
June 9th 2005
Have you ever found yourself caught between several hundred million
people and their most cherished lies? After writing a letter to a
government scientist, pleading with him to clarify a report of his
work, I found myself in just that situation. The letter was circulated
on the internet and for a brief time I became a reluctant celebrity. Of
course I stand behind what I wrote, although it was originally intended
as a personal message, not an open letter. Since many have asked for
clarification, here is my message to all.
[For background to Kevin Ryan's personal story seeŠ UQ Wire:
Underwriter Speaks Out On WTC Study & UQ Wire: 9/11 Whistleblower Kevin
Ryan Fired - UQ Wire Editor.]
To me, the report in question represents a decision point, not just
for the US, but for humanity as a whole. We're at a point where we must
decide if we will live consciously, or literally give up our entire
reality for a thin veneer of lies. In the US these lies include cheap
propaganda that passes for journalism, police-state measures that
promise security, and mountains of debt that paint a picture of wealth.
Additionally we've adopted many implicit self-deceptions, like the idea
that we'll always enjoy a limitless share of the world's resources, no
matter where these are located or who might disagree.
All people lie to themselves. It's one of the most important things we
have yet to accept about our own nature. We lie to ourselves to justify
our past actions, to protect our self-image, and to promote ourselves
relative to others. This lying is at the root of many of our problems
(e.g. nationalism and racism). Until we see this, and strive to
understand if not control it, the resulting problems will continue
unchecked and the outcome will be certain. Any organism or society that
makes self-deception its modus operandi will make many bad, and
ultimately fatal, decisions. The day will come when we are collectively
fooling ourselves in such a way that we essentially trade everything we
have for what's behind our fantasy curtain. It appears that day is
near.
The official conspiracy theory of 9/11 is a key part of our current
self-deception. More importantly, this story may be our last chance to
see just how critical our situation is so that we can all stop, and
begin working together to solve the real problems we face. These
problems, for the US and the world as a whole, amount to a growing
storm of factors including environmental changes, resource depletion,
and growth in resource usage.[1,2] Undoubtedly the secret Energy
Taskforce report of May 2001 would verify this, and help us to
understand that our government is responding to some of these threats
with a carefully laid out plan. This plan assumes that people cannot
rise above their own natural, ego-based self-deception, and therefore
few of us will survive the coming storm. In essence, they're betting
against us.
Anyone who honestly looks at the evidence has difficulty finding
anything in the official story of 9/11 that is believable. It's not
just one or two strange twists or holes in the story, the whole thing
is bogus from start to end.[3] In my previous job I was in a position
to question one part, the collapse of three tall buildings due to fire.
But this isn't really a chemistry or engineering problem, and may be
best approached initially through statistics.
The three WTC buildings in question weren't all designed the same way
and weren't all hit by airplanes. The only thing they seemed to have in
common were relatively small and manageable fires, as indicated by the
work of firefighters right up to the moment of collapse. From the
government's report we know that only a small percentage of the
supporting columns in each of the first two buildings were severed, and
that the jet fuel burned off in just a few minutes.
To follow the latest "leading hypothesis", what are the odds that all
the fireproofing fell off in just the right places, even far from the
point of impact? Without much test data, let's say it's one in a
thousand. And what are the odds that the office furnishings converged
to supply highly directed and (somehow) forced-oxygen fires at very
precise points on the remaining columns? Is it another one in a
thousand? What is the chance that those points would then all soften in
unison, and give way perfectly, so that the highly dubious "progressive
global collapse" theory could be born? I wouldn't even care to guess.
But finally, with well over a hundred fires in tall buildings through
history, what are the chances that the first, second and third
incidents of fire-induced collapse would all occur on the same day?
Let's say it's one in a million. Considering just these few points
we're looking at a one in a trillion chance, using generous estimates
and not really considering the third building (no plane, no jet fuel,
different construction).
How convenient that our miraculous result, combined with several other
trains of similarly unlikely events, gives us reason to invade the few
most strategically important lands for the production of oil and
natural gas. As I said, this is not about chemistry or engineering. Our
continued dependence on this highly improbable story means that we have
a desperate need to believe it. It is, in fact, a psychology problem.
Solving the problem is a personal challenge, and involves at least
three steps. First, we have to admit we were wrong, and that we were
fooled. This is not easy for most people, but congratulations to the
neo-cons for noticing that their political opponents seem to be least
able to admit they were wrong on any significant issue. Secondly, we
have to see that terrorism is actually much worse than we feared
because the terrorists are in charge. Such a pause on a national scale
would be dramatic to say the least. If we get to the third step we
begin to realize the scope of change necessary to move forward in a
conscious manner. Obviously the US government must be substantially
changed and/or forgiven. New cooperative, multinational agreements
would need to be implemented immediately.[4]
If you make it through step one and care enough about people to work
for step three, you may face ridicule and isolation. You may lose your
income and some friends, but if we continue down the same path there's
a real chance you're going to lose those anyway. On the upside you may
be able to hold on to some sense of integrity. The only thing you can
be certain of is that we're all in this together. No matter how you
voted, what credentials or positions you hold, or what faith you have
in people, you will face the consequences of our collective
self-deceptions. Now is the time for each of us to decide between a
stormy reality and what's behind the fantasy curtain.
FOOTNOTES:
1.
http://www.energybulletin.net/primer.php
2.
http://www.worldwatch.org/press/news/2005/05/12/
3.
http://www.septembereleventh.org/newsarchive/2005-05-22-571pglie.php
4.
http://www.peakoil.net/uhdsg/UppsalaProtocol.html
