Black
Ops
Conspiracy and 9/11
by
Clyde Wilson
by Clyde Wilson
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Our late friend
Murray Rothbard used to point out to those who scoffed at "conspiracy
theories" that history is indeed full of real conspiracies,
and that often conspiracy provides a more satisfactory explanation
for an event than the "lone nut theory" that is popular
with government spokespersons.
The continuing
drumbeat of speculation that 9/11 may have been a U.S. government
"black ops" mission, a charge coming from what seems to
be a respectable minority of seemingly informed observers, tells
us much about the sad condition of the American polity.
I am inclined
to think that none of us can possibly have enough information to
know the full truth about 9/11. We will not have such information
for years, very possibly never. Why, we still don’t know the full
truth about the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations. In my always
humble opinion, the incompetence demonstrated by our rulers before,
during, and after 9/11 would be alone enough to bring down any government,
without the need for revelations of complicity – if we had a responsible
democratic regime.
I am not a
"conspiracy theorist," but, like any old newspaperman, I am a skeptic.
In the years of my misspent youth as a reporter I saw police chiefs,
mayors, newspaper executives, and other dignitaries lie and distort
and suppress the truth. I am inclined to suspect that such is even
more likely among the feds, for whom the stakes are much greater.
Is the U.S.
government capable of such an atrocity? I take this to be true:
the politicians who wield the immense powers of the U.S. government
will murder Americans if it serves their agenda and they can get
away with. To think otherwise is to take an excessively naïve attitude
toward Power. Those politicians have a lifetime record of self-serving
and lack of moral principle – else they would not be where they
are. Power corrupts. Power can only be checked by counter Power.
The U.S. government exercises much power that is unchecked, unresponsible,
and clandestine. This has been habitual and institutionalized at
least since World War II.
 Can
we judge that the official government story of what happened on
9/11 is unreliable?
We know that
politicians lied about the sinking of the "Maine," Pearl
Harbour, the Gulf of Tonkin, Waco, and Iraqi WMD. This administration
has engaged in more systematic and frequent deception of the public
perhaps than any other in recent times. And has been successful
at it because the public has never been more ignorant and the media
more craven.
 Yes,
thoughtful citizens have every reason to suspect some self-serving
deception in the government story, though this does not necessarily
imply actual complicity in the atrocities. It might imply a cover-up
of incompetence, irresponsibility, negligence, and fecklessness
in high places. The strongest argument against the black ops theory,
it seems to me, is that such an accomplishment is beyond the imagination
and the competence of the politicians in power.
The most important
point here is that Power is by its nature dangerous, acquisitive,
and corrupting and must always be watched and questioned by people
who wish to retain their freedom. This we have nearly forgotten,
but was a watchword to our Founding Fathers. So, let's keep on doubting
and challenging official "truth."
September
18, 2007
Dr.
Wilson's [send him mail]
most recent
book is Defending
Dixie.
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