KLRU
Please Reconsider 9/11
RECEIVED Mon., Aug. 21, 2006
Dear Editor,
Louis Black, I empathize with your feelings of despair and outrage concerning the state of affairs in our country [“Page Two,” Aug. 18]. I am also concerned with the apparent contempt you have for those who question our government's version of the events of September 11, 2001. I know that to even contemplate the complicity of powerful U.S. citizens is a gigantic mental hurdle, whose crossing may plunge one into a further state of fear and sleeplessness. Realizations that may follow hardly bring a sense of order.
It has already been said that 9/11 is the Kennedy assassination for this generation. As you indicated, most are inclined to believe official USA government reports. All it seems to take is saying it over and over ... lone killer ... Osama bin Laden ... lone killer ... Osama bin Laden ... acted alone ... hates freedom.
To me it seems that you confronting the chaos of reality is acknowledging the determination of our country's enemies and the horrid political landscape that their attack created. I, on the other hand, see this reality as one created by those who profit from continual warfare, where more and more money is just not enough to satisfy a spiritually devoid appetite, and murder accompanied by outright treason are not accompanied by evidential smoking guns.
Your dinner-party partners may not have had what it takes to change your mind. Do the actions of our government, which lately seem to resemble that of a dying beast, have a better chance of doing so?
Louis Black, I empathize with your feelings of despair and outrage concerning the state of affairs in our country [“Page Two,” Aug. 18]. I am also concerned with the apparent contempt you have for those who question our government's version of the events of September 11, 2001. I know that to even contemplate the complicity of powerful U.S. citizens is a gigantic mental hurdle, whose crossing may plunge one into a further state of fear and sleeplessness. Realizations that may follow hardly bring a sense of order.
It has already been said that 9/11 is the Kennedy assassination for this generation. As you indicated, most are inclined to believe official USA government reports. All it seems to take is saying it over and over ... lone killer ... Osama bin Laden ... lone killer ... Osama bin Laden ... acted alone ... hates freedom.
To me it seems that you confronting the chaos of reality is acknowledging the determination of our country's enemies and the horrid political landscape that their attack created. I, on the other hand, see this reality as one created by those who profit from continual warfare, where more and more money is just not enough to satisfy a spiritually devoid appetite, and murder accompanied by outright treason are not accompanied by evidential smoking guns.
Your dinner-party partners may not have had what it takes to change your mind. Do the actions of our government, which lately seem to resemble that of a dying beast, have a better chance of doing so?
Sincerely,
Ben Kleiman
Ben Kleiman
