I've spent the past week watching the film “Zeitgeist” (Zeitgeistmovie.com). It's a conspiracy film, a genre I rarely take seriously, but this one's worth watching, even if it is heavily biased. The movie’s source of allure is Peter Joseph, the movie’s creator with an immense amount of information at his disposal.
Joseph divides his work into three sections. The first section is devoted to the astrological basis of Christianity and, by extension, most Western religions past and present. This part isn't particularly alarming or definitive, but Joseph does have an interesting perspective. The second part is what gets me. He asserts that Sept. 11 was a false-flag operation that the Bush administration utilized to create a perceived enemy. In the end, I can't say I entirely believe him, but I will say the Sept. 11 commission's report is vague at best.
Have any of you read it? I haven't, and there's a reason for it. It looks like any other American history or biography paperback with requisite colors (red, white and blue), but it's four inches thick. The report should be an objective explanation of incidents that led to and occurred on Sept. 11, but with important omissions and fuzzy science, its definitive status is questionable. For example, when referring to the source of the terrorists’ funding, the report claimed it "is of little practical significance." Will someone tell me why it is of little practical significance? I personally consider it fairly important. Furthermore, if “Zeitgeist” is to be believed, the funding came from a Pakistani general who was dining in Washington, D.C. at the time of the attack.
Other omissions seem to be even more jarring. The BBC and other news-oriented organizations reported six out of the 19 alleged hijackers were not only not on the planes, but in fact still alive. Some of them were actually living in the Middle East at the time. Of course it didn't help that investigators "found" the passport of one of the hijackers and the passport belonged to a man who was still alive and presumably nowhere near New York at the time. On a side note, the collapse of WTC 7, which was not hit by a plane, was not even mentioned in the report.
From this article, you might think I'm trying to persuade you that it was a setup. I'm not. I do not think “Zeitgeist” was able to convince me of this, but it was enough to make me question the validity of the commission's report. Most conspiracy theories thrive off of unexplained mysteries, and since many "facts" in the report seem skewed or absent, it's hard to blame theorists for their beliefs. The report was not thorough enough, nor did it allow for various perspectives (all information stated in the book was a unanimous decision; therefore, anything that one person disagreed with will not be found within its pages). While I understand the commissioners were under strain to produce it in a timely manner, their answers are completely unacceptable.
I only mentioned a few of the discrepancies, but if you do some research (Google), you'll find plenty to wonder about. The report being paraded about as the one truth is a joke at our collective expense, and I cannot say it answered the questions it was asked. It represents only one point of view, and through its unwillingness to address all the facts has ripped holes in the thin veil of the American reality. I really doubt any of the conspiracy theorists will hit upon any significant amount of "real truth,” but maybe they'll pressure the government into doing it.
