The Moral Decoding of 9-11

[Peter Lemkin]

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The Moral Decoding of 9-11: Beyond the U.S. Criminal State
By John McMurtry
I was sceptical of the 9-11 event from the first time I saw it on television. It was on every major
network within minutes. All the guilty parties were declared before any evidence was shown.
The first questions of any criminal investigation were erased. Who had the most compelling
motives for the event? Who had the means to turn two central iconic buildings in New York into
a pile of steel and a cloud of dust in seconds?1
Other questions soon arose in the aftermath. Why was all the evidence at the crime scenes
removed or confiscated? Who was behind the continuous false information and non-stop
repetition of "foreign/Arab terrorists" when no proof of guilt existed? Who was blocking all
independent inquiry?
Even 11 years on these questions are still not answered.
But those immediately named guilty without any forensic proof certainly fitted the need for a
plausible Enemy now that the "threat of the Soviet Union" and "communist world rule" were
dead. How else could the billion-dollar-a-day military be justified with no peace dividend
amidst a corporately hollowed-out U.S. economy entering its long-term slide? While all the
media and most of the people asserted the official 9-11 conspiracy theory as given fact, not all
did. A Bay Street broker with whom I was improbably discussing the event in Cuba had no
problem recognising the value meaning. When I asked what he thought about the official
conspiracy theory, he was frank: "You can call it what you want, but America needs a war to pull
the people together and expand into new resource rich areas. That is what it has always done
from Mexico on. And that is what it needs now". When I wondered why none in the know said
so, he smirked: "It would be impolite", adding, "It affects the entire future prosperity of America
Ï’ Professor John McMurtry is a moral philosopher specializing in social value systems and life-value analysis. His
many articles and books have been internationally published and translated, and include multi-volume work for
UNESCO's Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS). He is University Professor Emeritus at the University
of Guelph, and an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
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and the West". And all the deaths? "It had to be done far less than it could have been". The 19
Arabs with box-cutters reducing the World Trade Center buildings to powder in a few seconds?
He shrugged.
Thus everyone since 9-11 is prohibited nail-clippers on planes to confirm the absurd including
15 of the 19 alleged hijackers being from Saudi Arabia and several apparently still alive after
crashing the planes into the buildings. 2 As for the diabolical mastermind Osama bin Laden, he is
never linked by credible evidence to the crime and never claims responsibility for the strike since
the videos of him are fakes. "Ground Zero" is a double entendre. All doubts are erased a priori.
Decoding the U.S. Theater of Wars and the Moral Driver Behind
One already knew that suspension of belief is the first act of fiction, and that instant culture rules
the U.S. One already knew that monster technical events are America's stock in trade. And one
already knew the long history of false U.S. pretexts for war - so well established that a young
strategic thinker a decade after 9-11 advises the right-wing Washington Policy Institute on how
to create a crisis by deadly planned incident to make war on Iran "it is the traditional way of
getting into war for what is best in America's interests".3 One further knew from past research
that the U.S.'s strategic leadership since 1945 had been Nazi-based in information and
connections and the dominant Central-European figures articulating it ever after across Democrat
and Republican lines have a common cause. For over 40 years, Henry Kissinger as Republican
and Zbigniew Brzezinski as Democrat have been protégés of David Rockefeller, selected as
Trilateral Commission and Bilderberg Group leaders, and capable of any mass-homicidal plan to
advance "U.S. interests". The banker-and-oil imperial line through David Rockefeller as
paradigm case goes back to the Nazi period to John Foster Dulles (an in-law) and his brother
Allen Dulles (OSS and then CIA Director), who Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg called
"traitors" for their support of the Nazi regime. The Rockefeller Foundation funded and
developed German eugenics programs in the pre-war years, Standard Oil supplied oil in
collaboration with I.G. Farben, and so on. 4
The supreme moral goal and strategic methods governing U.S. covert-state performance have not
only have been very similar in moral principle, but have deeply connected Rockefeller protégés
Kissinger and Brzezinski, and more deeply still the theoretical godfather of U.S. covert state
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policy, Leo Strauss, who was funded out of Germany by David Rockefeller from the start. The
inner logic of covert and not-so-covert U.S. corporate world rule since 1945 unified under Wall
Street financial management and transnational corporate treaties for unhindered control of
commodities and money capital flows across all borders is undeniable if seldom tracked. This
architecture of the grand plan for a New World Order is evident in both strategic policy and
global political and armed action over decades that have seen the objectives increasingly fulfilled
with constructed deadly crises as pretexts for war the standard technique.5 Behind them as first
post-Nazi historical turn lies the 1947 National Security Act (NSA) which created the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) and explicitly licenses destruction of life, truth and other societies as
institutional methods. The CIA is charged with designing, planning and executing "propaganda,
economic war, direct preventive action, sabotage, anti-sabotage, destruction, subversion against
hostile States, assistance to clandestine liberation movements, guerrilla murders, assistance to
indigenous groups opposed to the enemy countries of the free world". The linkage back to Nazi
methods and world-rule goal as the highest moral objective is not just one of corresponding
ultimate principles and strategic policy formation. It relied on Nazi SS intelligence sources and
means from the beginning of the covert terror state.6
There is no heinous means that is not assumed as the highest morality by this long-standing
covert institutional formation linking to the presidential office. It is an explicitly secret system
involving at least the Defense Department and the CIA, the former with many more operatives
and offices. The Special Activities Division (SAD) to carry out NSA criminal operations, for
example, also confers the highest honors awarded in recognition of distinguished valor and
excellence as did the earlier SS prototype in Germany. What people find difficult to recognise
is that these actions, whether by the SAD or other system operations, are conceived as the
highest duty, however life-system destructive and mass murderous they are. All participants are
super patriots in their own view, as were the Nazis. Contradiction between declared and actual
values, however, is a central mode of the covert system. For example, what can be considered a
high duty in the perpetual U.S. "war on drugs", the most morally obligatory commitment of the
U.S. state, is at the same time a war against and with other drug operations to transport illegal
hard drugs into the U.S. itself.7
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We might see here a parallel between foreign mass murder and domestic mass murder in 9-11,
with both regarded as high patriotism in this supreme morality. In the background of America's
Reichstag Fire and likewise disclosing the unlimited geo-strategic action that can be
operationalized as necessary and good, the post-1945 U.S. control of international sea-lanes
made the covert U.S. state the world's dominant narcotics controller so as to fund secret criminal
war actions from South-East Asia to Latin America, entailing the addiction of its own peoples. 8
This woeful method has been long known by experts, but came to be public knowledge in the
Reagan-state funding of the death-squad Contras of Nicaragua as "the moral equal of our
Founding Fathers" (a tribute he is said to have given later to the drug-running warlords and
jihadists of Afghanistan). These moral contradictions seem insane, but this is so only if one does
not comprehend the underlying supreme morality of which they are all expressions. Even U.S.-
sponsored death squads torturing and killing tens of thousands of poor people across Latin
America before 2000 and their return as direct covert U.S.-state method from Iraq to Syria after
9-11 called "the Salvador option" 9 is regarded as necessary and obligatory to "defend the
Free World and our way of life". They entail ever more total U.S. world rule and selfmaximizing
position by strategic deduction from the supreme morality's first premises. The
covert nature of the mass-murderous operationalization is never from moral embarrassment. It is
solely to ensure effectiveness of execution against "soft" and "uninformed" public opinion, to
terrorize people in situ from continued resistance, and to annihilate its leadership and community
agency all the way down. Throughout the deciding moments of execution of the underlying
supreme value program, global corporate money demand multiplication is always the ultimate
value driver - as may be tested by seeking any covert U.S. action or overt war which is not so
regulated beneath saturating propaganda of lawful intentions of peace and freedom.
These lines of underlying moral institution, policy, strategic plan, and massive life destruction at
every level are indisputable facts of the covert and official faces of the U.S. state, but are
typically not connected to the September 11, 2001 attack. Since most people cannot believe their
own government or the "leader of the free world" could execute such a sabotage action as "9-11"
in which thousands of American themselves died, these behavioral reminders forge the unifying
meaning. Worse still occurred in the last "war" before 9-11. In the background providing graphic
example of how the covert U.S. state apparatus is structured to attack and murder U.S. citizens
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themselves to strategically maximize implementation of its supreme value program of
transnational corporate money sequences over all barriers, there is the now known Operation
Northwoods. Very familiar to the 9-11 truth movement, but unpublicized since its release under
freedom of information laws, this Department of Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff plan proposed
that the CIA and other operatives covert operatives "undertake a range of atrocities" to be
blamed on Cuba to provide pretext for invasion. "Innocent civilians were to be shot on
American streets; boats carrying refugees fleeing Cuba were to be sunk on the high seas; a wave
of violent terrorism was to be launched in Washington DC, Miami and elsewhere. People would
be framed for bombings they did commit; planes would be hijacked".10 All would be blamed on
Castro the Communist in place of bin Laden the Islamicist, and invasion of desired resistant
territory would be achieved as a triumph of American freedom and interests over its enemies.
Operation Northwoods was not, however, okayed by President Kennedy - perhaps another reason
for his assassination and replacement by more pliant presidents to represent "America's
interests" in accord with the supreme morality. Underneath the stolen election of George Bush Jr.
in contrast - whose family made its money, in part, by serving the covert financial requirements
of the Nazi regime before and during the 1939-45 War - was a domestic and foreign
administration which would push further than any in the past to advance "U.S. interests" to fullspectrum
world rule. Its project included reversing the Roosevelt New Deal and the social state
within the U.S. itself - "an anomaly" as Bush Jr. expressed the historical perspective and ethic at
work. This plan was more explicit in the published Project for the New American Century
formed from 1997 on. It even supplied the need for a 9-11 event in its 2000 version, the year that
Bush Jr. was elected and the year before 9-11. To indicate the "non-partisan" nature of the
planning, Democrat National security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski had already hinted at the
usefulness of a 9-11-style domestic attack to move policy forward in his 1998 book, The Grand
Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives.11
The Moral Compass of 9-11
As a moral philosopher with social value systems as my primary object of analysis, my first
thoughts in understanding "9-11" were of the system motives, known methods, and objective
interests driving the event which could coherently explain it. Whatever the immediate hold of the
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official conspiracy theory on the public mind, a rational explanation is required which is
consistent with the suppressed facts and the organising geo-strategic plan on both sides of the
event.
For over a decade before 9-11, there were three U.S.-propelled global trends that almost never
come into the understanding of 9-11 itself. 9-11 truth seekers themselves have focused on the
foreground technics and the transparent motive for oil. But these are undergirded by deeper seashifts
of geopolitical and economic wars of seizure and destruction by other name against which
the world's people were rising. To compel books of analysis into one unifying frame,
transnational corporate-rights treaties from NAFTA to the Maastracht Treaty to the WTO
overrode all other rights across borders; the private "financialization" stripping of social sectors
and welfare states had advanced across the world; and the totalizing movement of the system
across all former "cold war" and cultural borders was "the new world order" in formation.
Together these vast shifts towards transnational money-sequence rule of all reversed centuries of
democratic evolution. And every step of the supreme value program was life blind at every step
of its global operationalization.12
Yet states and cultures were so sweepingly re-set into unaccountable transnational corporate and
bank rule that few recognised the absolutist value program being imposed on the world. Fewer
still recognised all was unfolding according to plan.
What has been least appreciated about the long-term strategic plan unfolding on both sides of
what was immediately called "9-11" Call Emergency! -- is that supreme banker and global
money director David Rockefeller had summarized "the plan" to fellow money-party elites
across borders at the Bildersberg meeting in Baden Baden Germany in June 1991 - exactly at the
same time that the Soviet Union and its resistant barriers fell.13 Bear in mind that Rockefeller
among other initiatives appointed both Kissinger and Brzezinski for the lead in both the
supranational Bilderberg and Trilateral strategic bodies of which he was the lead patron, not to
mention financed the unemployed academic Leo Strauss out of Germany to be the godfather
"philosopher" of the "new world order". Rockefeller speaks very precisely to his fellow "elite of
the elite" of the Western world where only Americans and Europe are invited and reportage
excluded:
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"A supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and bankers is surely preferable to
the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries", Rockefeller said. 14
Observe the foundational new concepts in place of responsible government and democratic
accountability. They are now consigned to "past centuries". A "supranational sovereignty" has
replaced them and is morally "preferable". Rockefeller is not exaggerating. By 1991 a
"supranational sovereignty" had already developed in the form of transnational treaties
conferring override rights of "profit opportunity" on transnational corporations and private bank
rule of government finances across borders procedurally trumping any elected legislatures and
their laws which are inconsistent with their thousands of treaty articles, even when the system
eventually leads to world depression as now.15 The source of the legitimacy of governments,
ultimate sovereignty, has now passed as preferable to "an intellectual elite and bankers": more
exactly, academic strategy servants and transnational money sequences overriding all human and
planetary life requirements a-priori by the supreme moral goal.
Ask which function of the world's people and means of life is not now in debt to Wall Street and
the private global banking system it leads. Ask which means of life from food and water to autos
and pension cheques is not thus ultimately controlled, or which commodity is not under
oligopolist corporate sway. The "surely preferable" objective was already achieved by 1991 or in
advanced global institutional motion. Now supreme over all else so that all else is now
accountable to it, and it is not accountable to anything above it, "the plan" seemed all but
accomplished by Rockefeller's own considered words.
But what if people resist the new world rule with no life coordinate or constraint at any level of
its execution? We may recall that during the death-squad rule of the Argentina generals at this
time in which civilians were murdered and tortured in the thousands, National Security Adviser
Kissinger congratulated the junta on their "very good results - - The quicker you succeed the
better." Kissinger also heartily approved of the earlier massacres and torture in Chile. The
resistance was in this way pre-empted long before the Soviet Union fell, and after 1990 had no
block in the Middle East and Central Asia either. "The plan" has been very long term. Kissinger
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the geo-executer was originally appointed to high office by Rockefeller (to lead the Council on
Foreign Relations back in 1954), and to give a sense of the long-range trajectory of the plan
design was, incredibly, the U.S. administration's first choice for an "independent 9-11
Commission". The obviously not-independent Kissinger was still not a problem for "the free
press" and official discourse. But when he was required to disclose his business connections, he
withdrew to stay covert in his ongoing backroom capacities and enrichment.
The 9-11 sacrifice is better understood within the deep-structural context of the unfolding plan.
Thus David Rockefeller gave special thanks to media like "the New York Times, Washington
Post, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings
and respected their promises of discretion" in co-operating with the plan. Rockefeller was again
precise:
This plan for the world would have been impossible for us to develop if we had been
subjected to the light of publicity during those years. 16
The plan's next decisive steps were in fact already in motion as Rockefeller expressed gratitude
for the media black-out. A new strategic manifesto from the Pentagon was in preparation entitled
"Defense Planning Guidance on Post-Cold- War Strategy," completed on February 18, 1992. 17
Prepared under the supervision of Paul Wolfowitz, then the Pentagon's Undersecretary for
Policy, it was disclosed in March of 1992 by the New York Times. After the first invasion of Iraq,
it became known as the Project for the New American Century, publicly released from 1997 to
2000 prior to 9-11. Again we may note the long arc of planning control, crisis and war as
required. Item 6 of the strategic plan defined the agenda in general terms: "In the Middle East
and Southwest Asia, our overall objective is to remain the predominant power in the region and
preserve U.S. and western access to the region's oil."
Oil-rich Iraq had in fact been invaded not only to privatize its peerlessly high-quality surface
oilfields but to destroy its region-leading socialist infrastructure. Iraq became accessible for
invasion as the arms-bankrupted Soviet Union was in collapse. We may observe that the covertly
genocidal destruction of Iraq bridged Republican and Democrat administrations over three
changes of government disclosing how the covert state operates as a moral constant across
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party fronts. The actions confirm and express the one supreme moral goal identified above. They
bridge from Saddam himself as CIA-payroll killer and war proxy against Iran to recapture lost
Iran oilfields dating from 1980 to 1988 to the fall of the USSR in 1991 as the axis of the longterm
strategic plan of global turnaround to "America's century" still to come before and after 9-
11. But between 1990 and 2003 Saddam was transmuted from former ally to aggressor against
Kuwait in an invasion given an official green light from the U.S. government, to "mushroom
cloud" threat with invented "weapons of mass destruction". In fact, National Security Adviser
Wolfowitz explained after the invasion found nothing of the kind: "[We had] virtually no
economic options with Iraq because the country floats on a sea of oil." Observe how the invasion
is conceived as obligatory for a reason that expresses the supreme value goal. Observe that it
occurs less than two years after 9-11, which gave the open-cheque justification for the bombing
and occupation which allowed the expropriation of Iraq's society's oil resources.
The problem was not the evil Saddam or the "weapons of mass destruction", the standard reverse
projection.18 The problem was the Iraqi people themselves and their developed oil-funded social
life infrastructure between the supreme oil-fields and their U.S. corporate control and
privatization. 9-11 was, thus, first the justification for invading Afghanistan to clear the way
for pipelines into the former Soviet republics from the Caspian Sea region pipelines that
prompted the U.S. representative to predictively warn the Taliban: "Either you accept our offer
of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs."19 9-11 was then the necessary basis
of justification for the bombing of Baghdad for the unifying supreme objective.
In fact, seldom published in the corporate media keeping the glare of publicity away from the
supreme moral objective, the publicly owned and managed oil revenues of Iraq had been
invested since the 1950's in Iraq's advanced social infrastructure, leading the Middle East with
free higher education, high health standards, and near universal livelihood security. The world's
oldest civilisation was robust in organisational capacities long before the CIA-asset Saddam was
installed. Despite his murdering his way to the top in this function, even Saddam could not
destroy the system because socialist government had been achieved decades earlier by a
powerful oil-workers' union base and a population glad to have all education free, an efficient
low-cost foods delivery system, and the most advanced public healthcare system in the Middle
East. So there was not only the "sea of oil" as a motive to assert U.S. control in the new
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"supranational sovereignty" of the world. Just as important in this ultimate moral cause, what the
U.S. covert state always seeks to destroy by any means, is a successful social infrastructure
without private big oil, bankers and transnational corporations free to control it towards higher
profit opportunities.
Unravelling the Supreme Moral Doctrine behind the U.S. Covert State
The genocide of Iraq, as the long-opposing "evil empire" was in free-fall, is the most important
strategic anchoring prior to "9-11". Covert strategic policy to forward the supreme goal is by
now self-evident, but the inner moral logic is assumed not penetrated. The most influential of
Rockefeller's protégés in this regard is the "philosopher king" of the U.S. covert state, Leo
Strauss. While he never worked in a philosophy department or has any training in logic, his
concept of "natural right" fits exactly to the "supranational sovereignty" of private moneysequence
rule of the world what "the intellectual elite" Rockefeller refers to invoke as "moral
anchor", "right" and "justice". The moral thought system is not unlike that of Mein Kampf
without the racist rant, camouflaged everywhere in practice by the method of big lies "noble
lies" as Strauss exalts them.20 The innermost value driver is a perpetual war of dispossession of
the weaker for the private transnational money-capital multiplication of the rich.
Nothing in this doctrine is too mendacious, greed-crazed and murderous if it fulfills the plan of
this limitless private-capital rule as ultimate moral ground and compass. In Strauss's canonical
teaching of U.S. national security advisers and intellectual following, the ruling moral absolute is
expressed by the core master idea behind the "supranational sovereignty" of an "intellectual elite
and bankers":
"limitless capital accumulation - - - the highest right and moral duty".21
This is the ethical absolute of the covert U.S. state and its strategic decision structure. And there
is no internal limit within this moral universe to life means seizure from poorer societies and
resource looting for the supreme goal. It is the natural and absolute Good.
To justify its meaning, the Straussian canon adopts a potted reading of Western moral and
political philosophy from Plato through Hobbes, Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx and Weber. This
impresses American political operatives of the faith, but Strauss is a failed philosopher turned
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down by Paul Tillich for his post-doctoral Habilitation and only saved from academic ruin in
Germany by Rockefeller grant money. While not taken seriously as philosophy anywhere else, it
is worth decoding its talmudic involution for the borrowed ideas that drive its covert state
disciples and neo-fascist public "intellectuals" in America. The ultimately organising idea is to
commend all forms of conquering and limitlessly expanding private capital as "natural right
and law" with genocidal subjugations justified in glowing moral terms. For example, "noble
lies" is the moral category for limitless mendacity. One may wonder how educated people can be
so bent out of moral shape. So I now concisely provide what cannot be found elsewhere: the
inner logic of the supreme doctrine as perversions of great thinkers. Its framework of meaning
and value helps us to understand why the 9-11 event could easily follow for the managers of the
covert U.S. state and its Straussian planners as not at all anomalous or evil within their moral
logic. 9-11 follows as a maximally rational and unique tool to achieve the objectives in fact
achieved by 9-11, and the geo-strategic cabal behind it is servilely linked from the beginning to
the dominant private transnational corporate and banking interests exemplified by David
Rockefeller.
To understand this brutal moral universe and its connection to 9-11, the 9-11 wars and a
globalizing police state, we need to understand the deformations of its basic organising ideas.
Plato's idea of "the noble lie" means, in fact, a myth or parable to communicate an underlying
truth about the triadic human soul of reason, spirit and appetite which, Plato argues, should be
reflected in the construction of the ideal state (in which the rulers are communist in their
common property to keep them uncorrupted and true). But through the prism of U.S. global
money-party rule a la Strauss this idea becomes the principle of lying to the public to keep the
vulgar herd the people themselves - ignorant and obedient. The philosophies of Hobbes and
Hegel are also grist for this mill. Hobbes argues that "man is moved by a restless desire for
power after power that ceaseth only in death", but this brute desire in the "State of Nature" is
tamed by "the covenant of peace" ordered by the internal sovereign as absolute. Via Strauss and
the U.S. covert state this becomes right is might and the ultimate "natural right" is limitless
private capital power and empire with no end of totalization across the peoples and lands of the
world. Hegel too suits a fascist-capitalist reading since he argues "the State is the march of God
through the world", and war itself is history's test of which State is a higher realisation of "the
absolute Idea". But Hegel still envisaged a "universal state" to supersede the competitive privateJournal
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property division of capitalism in the "universalization of right and law on earth". Once again
U.S. private money-capital power with no bound, the supreme moral goal in the Rockefeller-
Strauss doctrine, is opposite to the classical philosophy it invokes. Once more dialectical
development of reason to more coherently inclusive conception and life is reversed into one-way
private money capital sequences maximized to rule the world with the U.S. military as its
instrument of force and terror.
However it conceals its meaning, all positions come down to this underlying value code as may
be tested on whatever transnational money-sequence demand, right or war is launched next. 9-11
construction in such a moral world does not violate this value code. It expresses it in selfmaximizing
strategic turn to achieve the ultimate goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche may provide the best fodder for the doctrine when he advises that "life is
essentially appropriation, injury, overpowering of what is alien and weaker, imposing of one's
own forms, and at its mildest exploitation" in his superman vision of "beyond good and evil".
For philosophical Nietzscheans, this is code for the inner meaning of the angst of artistic
creation. But this meaning is predictably lost on the U.S. covert-state school seeking the
"supranational sovereignty" of "limitless capital accumulation" as the supreme good with the
"intellectual elite" as servants to it. Karl Marx's link of capitalism's success to productive force
development is the ultimate equivocation upon which this ruling doctrine depends making no
distinction between productive capital providing life goods and unproductive money sequencing
hollowing out the world by money-capital multiplication. Marx, it must be acknowledged, did
not made the distinction himself since this mutation of capital came a century after his death.22
Finally Max Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism does not ground this doctrine
of "limitless capital accumulation as the highest right and duty" with the state to serve it, as
Strauss again torturously suggests. In fact, Weber deplores any such perversion of public
authority. His capitalist model is a young Benjamin Franklin speaking of money saved and
invested as like having "a breeding sow", not a transnational money-sequence juggernaut of ecogenocidal
expansion. Revealingly, Benjamin Franklin and "the protestant ethic" in general were
most concerned about non-waste, which Strauss explicitly excludes from the meaning of
"limitless capital accumulation". For Leo Strauss and his U.S. "national security" disciples, the
capitalist may waste as much as he wants by "natural right". Further, in complete inversion of
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source, the greed worship of the U.S. state, its patrons and its academy disciples reverses the
model of the "spirit of capitalism" exemplified by Benjamin Franklin in proprietary claim on
knowledge and inventions. He, in fact, refused to patent his famous Franklin Stove because he
believed that no innovation or new knowledge from which other people could benefit should be
denied them - just as he himself had benefitted from the community of knowledge and science as
the distinguishing feature of being a civilised human being.
In short, it is important to recognise how twisted the covertly ruling doctrine is. No element of it
is life coherent or true to the classical thinkers in which it costumes itself. In the end, only the
transnational U.S. money party has any place in its rights and obligations, and any sacrifice of
other life to its supreme goal is legitimate linking back to the Nazi-U.S. corporate axis that
nearly destroyed the civilised world once before.23
Money-Capital Power Ueber Alles: How Economic Rationality Leads the Plan
The U.S. culture of money-sequence "rationality" is the underlying intellectual and moral
disorder which leads to "limitless money capital accumulation" as the supreme moral goal. In
formal terms, the equation of rationality to atomic self-maximization is assumed a-priori across
domains. With globalizing Wall-Street-led "financialization", this "rationality" becomes equated
to private money-sequence multiplication across all borders as the ultimate Good. This is the
innermost mutation of value logic and goal, the moral DNA, from which the cancerous world
system develops on both sides of 9-11.24
This first principle itself is, in fact, built into formal economics, decision and game theory, and
strategic science, as I explain step by step in "Behind Global System Collapse: The Life-Blind
Structure of Economic Rationality."25 It is axiomatic but unexamined, life-blindly absolutist but
not recognised as morally problematic. To make a long story short, competitive selfmaximization
in the market is assumed to produce "the best of possible worlds" by mathematical
proof. "Pareto efficiency" is believed to demonstrate this by private money exchanges between
self-maximizing atoms a priori stripped of all life properties, relations, society, conditions of
choice, and all natural and civil life support systems. Pareto himself recognised outside this
formula what has since been covered up. Not only is the formula consistent with most having
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remaining impoverished by the "optimum" of "no-one worse off", what none who cite "Pareto
efficiency" as a standard academic mantra ever acknowledge or even recognise. Pareto himself is
in no doubt of the implication. As the fascist party he belongs to rules Italy and Rockefeller
creates the Council of Foreign Relations, he asserts with approval: "Very moral civilized people
have destroyed and continue to destroy, without the least scruple, savage or barbarian peoples".26
We glimpse here at the roots the supreme morality built into "economic science" itself.
Yet, as demonstrated in "Behind Global System Collapse", even the most liberal canons of
America, including John Rawls' classic A Theory of Justice, are grounded in the same meta
principle.27 Rationality and value are equated to self-maximizing gain with no limit within gametheoretic
interactions as the sole limiting framework of "limitless money capital acquisition".
The generic equation defines, indeed, the dominant intellectual and economic mind-set of
America and the global system in action since 1980. The cabal internal to U.S. national security
strategic planning follows the moral logic to its most radical conclusions with no constraints by
life or law. The one absolute moral meaning is the spread of U.S. economic, military and
political power as good for all, or, more exactly in Straussian language, limitless private
transnational money-capital expansion as the highest right and moral duty. Only what is
consistent with or serves this supreme morality, it follows, deserves to exist. This is the alpha
and omega of the covert doctrine and state, and careful reading can find no disconfirmation
beneath the rhetoric of "noble lies".
The Iraq Paradigm: Genocide Strategy From 1990 On
The Iraq line of the geostrategic plan from 1990 to 2001 and after is a paradigmatic articulation
of the covertly ruling moral logic. It launches into the theatre of war as direct war attack when
U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, is instructed to green-light Saddam's already known
plan to invade Kuwait in 1990: "The US. has no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts, such as
your dispute with Kuwait", she advises. To formalize the lie as official and traditional, she
reports: "Secretary Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the
1960s, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America".28
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The dispute was, in fact, over Kuwait's drawing out oil from reserves underlying Iraq as enabled
by the colonial split of the oil-rich Kuwait province from Iraq - the classic divide-and-rule policy
holding also in the division of oil-rich Kurdistan among four manufactured states. Saddam had
good reason to trust the U.S., not only by the long-term official promise of neutrality but as
blood-mix ally when he waged a U.S.-supported war of aggression against Iran - which still
remains the target. Note the big lie to provoke the supreme crime of war has remained without
any glare of publicity that might derail the plan. When Saddam did exactly as planned by
invading Kuwait, Bush Sr. raved about the Nazi-like aggression against a weaker country in the
reverse projection that always defines the covert U.S. state before, through and after 9-11. So in
the same name of "preventing aggression" U.S. "defense" forces invaded Iraq to destroy any life
capacity it had to defend itself always the strategy since the defeat in Vietnam. The genocide
began by the massacre of many tens of thousands of fleeing soldiers. Recall the weeping young
woman, the Kuwait ambassador's daughter, planted next to baby incubators falsely claiming the
monster Saddam had murdered the babies. This reverse projection was soon to be made real
thousands of times over inside the victim society of Iraq.
Reverse projection of evil is the meta law of U.S. psy-ops propaganda in the deadly conflicts and
wars it covertly starts. This is the supreme moral program in action as "noble lies". In this case,
the air-bombing after surrender continued from U.S. and "special ally" Britain as "sanctions of
Iraq" to "prevent aggression" again the reverse projection. In fact the bombs continually fell on
the water and electricity infrastructures of the defenceless people and against all lines of repair to
restore either "the line in the sand against Iraq aggression". We might bear in mind that
Wolfowitz was Undersecretary of Defense under Secretary Cheney at this time, their positions
not unlike those at the time of 9-11.
Air-bombing, as Bertrand Russell long ago pointed out, is inherently fascist in erasing the killed
and maimed from sight while ensuring impunity for the bombers of defenceless people. But all
such mass murder is only collateral damage to the supreme moral goal as "natural right and law".
The air bombing of Iraq's water and electricity supplies dressed in one big lie after another
continued in slow mass-murderous destruction of the people and their social life infrastructures
years on end. Denis Halliday, United Nations Humanitarian Co-ordinator for the mission finally
called it "genocide" (Wikipedia calls it "the Persian Gulf War") when he resigned in 1998 to
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protest against "the crimes against humanity". But no-one knew until the U.S. Department of
Defense Intelligence got out that the first sweep of Iraq was planned down to the mass killing of
the infants and children. September 11 in 2001 is better understood in this wider context of
strategic planning by the covert U.S. terror state. For years the non-stop bombing of the people's
central life-water support system deliberately engineered mass dying from diseases of children in
the hundreds of thousands.
What was predicted by Harvard Medical School researchers from the continuous civilian
infrastructure bombing by the U.S. military - the deaths of over 500,000 children - was verified
by the counts scientifically taken at the risk of researchers as the bombing continued month after
month with NATO support.29 Full-spectrum corporate money-sequencing through Iraq under the
Comprehensive Privatization Program would only be enabled by "9-11" down the road. But first
the bases of advanced social life organization needed to be destroyed. The later-leaked U.S.
Defense Intelligence document entitled "Iraq Water Treatment Vulnerabilities" expresses the
moral DNA at work. I cite the key lines of U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency reports because
they reveal the character of the supreme moral goal and its strategic planning. "With no domestic
sources of water treatment replacement or chemicals like chlorine" and "laden with biological
pollutants and bacteria", the leaked Defense Intelligence Agency report says (italics added),
"epidemics of such diseases as cholera, hepatitis, and typhoid" will "probably take six months
before the [drinking and sewage water] system is fully degraded". The document continues,
Conditions are favorable for communicable disease outbreaks [by the one-way air bombing]
with the "most likely diseases during next sixty-ninety days of diarrheal diseases (particularly
children) acute respiratory diseases (colds and influenza); typhoid; hepatitis (particularly
children); measles, diphtheria, and pertussis (particularly children); meningitis including
meningococcal (particularly children), cholera". "Medical Problems in Iraq", dated March 15,
1991, reports that the "water is less than 5 percent of the original supply - - diarrhea is four times
above normal levels - - Conditions in Baghdad remain favorable for disease outbreaks". The fifth
document in June reports "almost all medicines in critically short supply" and "Gastroenteritis
killing children - - in the south, 80 percent of the deaths are children".30
In short, no limit to covert U.S. planning of indiscriminate mass murder for the supreme goal
exists. The number who died in 9-11 suddenly pales in comparison. In all cases, it lets "those
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inimical to U.S. interests" know that there is no limit to how far the covert terror state will go for
the supreme moral code not yet decoded. Combined with wars of aggression before and after 9-
11, raining fire and explosions on civilians from the air so that no defense or escape can be made,
saturating the fields of public meaning with big lies civilly dangerous to unmask, and bringing
vast enrichment and new powers to transnational corporate conglomerates and their past and
present CEO's of the acting U.S. state all become clear in their ultimate meaning once
decoded. As the Democrat U.S. Secretary of State responded to the question of the 500,000
killed children, "we think the price was worth it". No price is too much to pay for fulfilment of
the transcendent project of the global U.S. state and its private capital rule as "the Free World".
"Those inimical to our interests" are those who oppose or are in the way of it, and thus "hate our
freedom".
The Strategic Logic of Value through 9-11
By 2000 it was very clear to the U.S. strategic planners that the opening up of the Middle East
and Central Asia after the fall of the Soviet Union had to be further pursued before it was too
late. The great regret for the planning personnel of the coming Bush Jr. administration such as
Paul Wolfowitz was that Iraq had not been taken over on the first invasion. The need for "full
spectrum dominance" across the Middle East and Central Asia was thus the essential argument
of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), with the prescription that no other
"regional power" was able to contest this dominance. The PNAC more explicitly recognised the
strategic necessity for what Zbigniew Brzezinski had already called for in 1998 in The Grand
Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives namely, "the circumstance of
a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat" to ensure public support for "the
United States, as the sole and, indeed, the first truly global power". The now once untouchable
Central Asia, formerly of the USSR, was thus targeted as essential not only for its vast oil
reserves, but to complete rule of the "first truly global power".
The Project for the New American Century was more explicit than Brzezinski in 2000, the year
before 9-11. As former Defence Minister of Canada, Paul Hellyer, lucidly puts it in a recent
address (italics added): "The authors of this American Mein Kampf' [the PNAC] for conquest
recognized the difficulty of persuading sophisticated Americans to accept such a gigantic change
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in policy. So they wrote the following (subsequently removed from the record): Further, the
process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary changes, is likely to be a long one,
absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event like a new Pearl Harbor.'" 31
Excepting the Vietnam War ending in military defeat but vastly enriched armaments and
connected private bank and corporate interests - the hitherto favoured strategic-plan mode had
been local death squads along with pervasive American media propaganda against the victims as
"communists" and "sponsored by the USSR". But once there was no remotely equal opponent in
mass-kill capacities and transnational trade treaties now bound governments within corporaterights
law as overriding domestic laws and policies, anything became permissible. The plan for
the "supranational sovereignty" of "limitless capital accumulation" in "full-spectrum power"
required only 9-11 to derail world-wide peace, environmental and anti-corporate globalization
movements growing into uncontrollable civilian capacity across borders and continents.
People were waking up to the one-way destruction of life systems at all levels. Iraq was not alone
in the genocidal clearance of former socialist infrastructures uniting peoples across ethnic lines.
A far more democratic Yugoslavia was set up and destroyed by financial means in the same year
by the 1991 U.S. Foreign Operations Appropriations Law after the 1980's multiplication of
public interest rates to over 20 percent prime devoured social life support structures across the
world. This was the unseen financialization base of a global war against public and worker
economic and political powers that was reaping a cumulative global civilian reaction of
opposition to "the plan". 9-11 ensured against the fightback of financially dispossessed peoples
with the signature reverse operation - diversion to an external "terrorist threat" that stood in the
way of more sweeping transnational corporate wars on more peoples being dispossessed. Civil
war in Yugoslavia long targeted by Reagan's secret National Security Directive 133 as early as
1984 was predicted and occurred after the underlying employment and welfare structure of
multi-ethnic Yugoslavia collapsed under deliberate financial destabilization. (The villain of the
piece, Slobovan Milosevic, was himself a major banker). In oil-rich Somalia, two-thirds of its
territory had been leased out to four transnational oil companies by 1993 - a condition of lost
grounds of life for Somalians behind the primeval civil war ever since. These are merely
expressions of the underlying logic of value and the plan for its supranational rule beneath the
lights of publicity as "discretion". The examples are myriad from Latin America to South-East
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Asia to sub-Sahara Africa and the Middle East to Israel and Canada today. But a descriptive law
of the supreme moral goal holds across all diverse instances of its expression.
Strategic planning for the destruction of social life infrastructures of peoples for private money
capital gain without limit is the ultimate value program throughout from the U.S. to China.
The people of the U.S. are not exempt from their own system of covert state rule, although
democratic heroism here joins with the larger world against it. This is the ultimate moral
struggle on earth today. The moral politics of the disorder are the enforcement of the descriptive
law. This is the ruling meta program, and it is carcinogenic by its nature. The supreme motive
force it multiplies by is privately self-maximizing money possession (individual and corporate)
seeking to be limitlessly more. More = Better. Less = Militant Demand for More.
The "9-11" event is the epicentre of the supreme moral objective seated in Wall Street. It is best
understood as an ultimate strategic maximizer of the italicized formula. Exactly expressed, its
ultimately regulating axiology is private money inputs through all life to maximally more private
money outputs in ad infinitum progression: Money Life as Means More Money or,
formally, $ LasM $1,2,3,4--- N .
At the highest level of anchoring moral meaning, this private money-demand rule seeks to be
absolute and total across borders with no quarter. "Full spectrum dominance" is its military
method. Yet what distinguishes it from the Nazi rule it connects with as prior transnational
corporate partner in war making is that in the U.S. private money demand multiplication at the
top is the only organising value meaning. 97% of its money command is produced by private
bank notes of others' debt to the private bank system centred in Wall Street. Yet despite this very
narrow centre of control, almost no global territory or field of life is outside its rule and strategic
plan. The "Trans-Pacific Partnership" is but its latest expression - focusing on private
knowledge-patent money sequencing to rule out generic pharmaceuticals and other life-anddeath
knowledge commons from which higher profits cannot be made. The one underlying
common principle throughout all phases is transnational corporate and bank money sequencing
to more. Its converse is to override all life requirements at all levels, and strategically planned
crises and wars are the advancing lines of control and enforcement.
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What is not recognized through all the genocidal wars, ecocidal results, collapsing social life
support systems and falling wages, however, is that this ruling value sequence rationally leads to
"9-11" as maximal strategic payoff progression. "Absent some catastrophic and catalyzing
event", the Project for the New American Century declared before 9-11, " - - the U.S risks the
loss of a global security order that is uniquely friendly to American principles and prosperity".
Decoded, this meant in theory and practice more transnational private money sequence
progression to ever more control over all still-uncontrolled assets for more and richer returns
without limit of take or life destruction. But these are unspeakable lines of value meaning, and
that is likely why, for example, Wikipedia keeps altering the entry of my name with conspiracy
theory attributions and smears to ensure that such deep-structural diagnosis does not gain
currency. That is how this system works, and analysis will provide more variations of this
gagging method on 9-11 ahead.
The strategic necessity of the 9-11 event for "global security order" can even be asserted by the
principal architects of the administration under which it happened, and those who observe this
can be dismissed as "conspiracy theorists". Reverse projection is, as always, the essential
psychological operation. The documented but shouted-down logistics included V-P Cheney
having control of the air-defence of NORAD six months before the event to manage the
relocation of the stand-by fighter jets to Alaska and Canada on September 11, 2001, and more
broadly, no jet intervention for almost two hours until the full operation was completed. The telltale
signs that it was not the "foreign act of war" which was trumpeted were that President Bush
Jr. continued exposed in set-up photo ops with school children during the "attack on the U.S."
Not a wheel turned in U.S. jet intervention or homeland protection. No evident defensive action
or response whatever occurred. Until strategic security from public uprising and awareness was
established, the blame on foreign terrorists was repeated non-stop around the clock with no-one
raising a question.
Weeks thus passed in inaction. As the future director of the 9-11 Commission said years before
9-11: "The effort and resources we devote to averting or containing this threat now, in the
before' period, will seem woeful, even pathetic, when compared to what will happen after'."32
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And so one war of invasion after another was made upon entirely unproven sources of the
"attack" who were, in fact, states and peoples standing in the way of vast publicly owned oilfields.
These had to be taken for control by U.S. and allied state armies for the private
transnational corporations employing their leaders in and out of office. Money-sequence oil to
quadruple-plus more has been the story ever since.33 If 80% of the 19 claimed suicide agents
were from oil-ally Saudi Arabia, if none of their identity papers could have survived the
destroyed buildings, and if several of these "hijackers" were apparently still alive, why did none
of the vaunted "free press" ever investigate 9-11? The "noble lie" is built into every step.
The total demolition of the buildings on 9-11 was professionally executed impossible to
manage except by a technologically sophisticated state with intelligence support, as former State
Secretary for Defense of Germany, Andreas von Bülow, has concisely observed at the first-order
level: "To hijack four big airliners within a few minutes and fly them into targets within a single
hour and doing so on complicated flight routes! That is unthinkable, without backing from the
secret apparatuses of state and industry".34 Turning huge fireproofed steel-girded buildings in the
centre of New York into fuming debris in a few seconds and melting car bodies nearby extends
the problem of physical impossibility by jet fires. That is why the firemen were killed by being
"falsely told it was a fire, not military ordnance". The fire-squad commander who told me this
asked me not to name him because of the harm that might come to him "from the media" the 9-
11 gag again. Yet the core and deciding issue is strangely avoided by all:
Whatever the technics, every step before and after 9-11 took place in accordance with the
supreme moral objective and covert-state strategic methods to execute it. The smoking gun is
incinerated buildings. Every step "before" and "after" goes back to the motive, the crime
syndicate, the plan, the payoffs, the seizures and dispossessions.
Reducing the Auto-Determination of Nations Requires the Plan
To reduce the "auto-determination of nations practised in past centuries" for the "supranational
sovereignty of an intellectual and banker elite" could only be made possible through "full
spectrum dominance" on the ground as the Project for the New American Century had
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independently explained, and "the catastrophic and catalyzing event" required was "9-11",
however it was accomplished.
Nicholas Rockefeller was already speaking of "the plan" eleven months before the "9-11" call
for emergency help when he said to his close friend, Aaron Russo: "There's going to be an event
Aaron...We are going to go into Afghanistan so we can put a gas pipeline to the Caspian
Sea...We are going to go into Iraq to take the oil and to establish a base in the Middle East and
we're going to go into Venezuela and try and get rid of Chávez - - -Through it, you fight the War
on Terror and then you go into Iraq - - the media can convince everybody that it's real - -"35 Lest
the reader doubt this witness, it has nowhere been disavowed any more than the patriarch's
disclosure of "the plan" itself which is also available on the right-wing Cato Institute website. All
express the underlying but observable moral law of motion of this ruling value system - to
acquire maximally more money demand for private use and control with no public or other
barrier across internal and external borders by war, trade treaty or any other means whatever
the sacrifice of others' lives. They do not count in the calculus. All life is an "externality". There
is no step of the covert U.S. state that does not obey the formula.
The legality of international treaty was and remains the transnational legal method already
established in the decade before 9-11 to provide the supranational framework of private
transnational money-sequence rule as the moral absolute to which all conformed. Coded as "the
global free market", it is neither free nor a market, but oligopolist corporate control of supply,
demand, and inert-state policy. In fact, the supreme morality as defined overrides all economic
interests themselves by absolute protection of private transnational "profit opportunity" alone -
with thousands of regulations across borders governed by this moral absolute. This too is testable
by examination of the articles of any transnational trade treaty in the NATO control zone. Policy
structures follow in line. Tax, financial, natural resource and investment policies are structured
by law and right to ignore all destruction of social and natural life and life capital bases to grow
transnational private money sequences to limitlessly more. This is why the self-multiplying
money sequencing with no committed life function has expanded in accordance with this moral
absolute through and after "9-11". Observe how the ultimately regulating principles of value
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prescription and description all conform to one axiological syntax across controllable
theoretical, economic, political, and other levels of the global system. 36
Thus whatever the world uprisings against it and however destructive of the planet's social and
ecological life bases, this law of motion remains the ruling constant. Not even the life
impoverishment of the growing majority and the collapsing of the biosphere itself are allowed to
modify its supranational ruling form. Even a tenth of one percent tax on its ruinous moneysequence
tides or fraction of legal tender to back them is off-limits. Not only 9-11 itself, but
global policy locks of every kind are the expressions of this ruling moral absolute as inviolable
and supreme, however much they destroy people's lives without any committed life function -
the normalization of private-bank compound-interest debts bleeding peoples dry, destabilizing
speculations in sovereign currencies and bonds, asset-stripping buyouts and disemploying
mergers, predatory repossessions of homes and loan-shark rates on poor debtors including
college students with no limit, endless takeovers of productive firms by foreign multinationals
with only banknotes, ecologically devastating mega-projects and loot-mining with no
environmental or social criteria, lethal armaments manufacture led by bribery for sales to
despots, Wall Street intermediations in every project with no life commitment, huge hauls of
financial lifeblood from public privatizations to equity capital multiplying outside of securities
regulations, stock-market derivatives exploiting fabricated money-sequence tides and futures at
the cost of hundreds of millions more hungry people, and - in general - limitless corporate
predation of societies' domestic resources, home markets, worker pay and benefits, and public
tax revenues. With all regulating life standards thus erased and repelled, a direct question arises:
Why would the sacrifice of a few thousand mixed-nation people and two iconic buildings count
against this covert value calculus if it reaped the world in payoff to the under one percent and
could always be blamed on the Enemy to achieve even more full-spectrum dominance of the
ultimate objective over all life and life systems that limit its growth and universalization?
Conversely, and in particular at the geostrategic armed force level, if any society does not yet fit
into the world system as function of it, armed invasion can now follow as "defense against the
terrorists" who have "attacked America" in 9-11. As U.S. General Wesley Clark has also
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reported for the public record, this strategic line of war has been explicit in "U.S. defense"
strategic planning for Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Iran, and Syria since 9-11.
The Ruling Group-Mind:
The Official Conspiracy Theory, the Free Press, and the 9-11 Turn
At first I thought the "9-11" event was merely allowed to happen like Pearl Harbour. But the
facts showed that only U.S. capacities could explain the logistics of the otherwise physically
impossible execution of the crime from the near free-fall acceleration of the fire-proofed
buildings into their footprints and the absence, inaccessibility and removal of evidence, to the
detailed police-state law ready to apply.
On the other hand, some evidence, such as the F.B.I. reports not followed up on and the many
people led to believe beforehand that there was a foreign plane attack coming, ensured that
people were ready to believe that only an alien conspiracy could explain the event. Moral outrage
would be directed at jihadist Arabs and at U.S. intelligence and defense forces for not doing
enough in time. In fact, this was the very scenario proposed before 9-11 by the man who came to
be the head of the 9-11 Commission.
But the immediate historic transformation of the powers of the Bush Jr. administration was the
most dramatic effect of the 9-11 event. Its apotheosis of power from near political dead-end to
master saviour and superpower leader above question was mythical in proportions. It completely
reversed the rising public smell of corruption from Enron, the biggest financial backer of Bush
Jr., which was then imploding as a giant energy-futures crime that had bankrupted California. It
reversed the unprecedented illegitimacy of a president by stolen election and vote repression who
had a record of alcohol and cocaine addiction and cultural illiteracy. It diverted all eyes from the
inside-dealing

[Lauren Johnson]

There's a better version of this at Wikispooks with sections hyperlinked. This is a very good article.