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The Crime of the Age

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A. Scott Piraino
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It's easy to blame the Bush administration for the September 11th attacks. George Bush and his younger brother Marvin were certainly involved, as were many of the President's cronies. But this operation took years of planning and would have been impossible without the collusion of the FBI, the CIA, and our military.

Imagine the spectacle of our former President being dragged before a grand jury, a suspect in the mass murder of 3000 Americans. The Justice Department would be prosecuting the FBI and other rogue elements within our own government. There would be hundreds of trials -it would take years.

But that's what it will take to make the United States of America a Constitutional Republic again.

If we don't do this, if the Obama administration maintains the fiction of 9/11 at any cost, then America as we know it is already dead. Here at home we will endure the loss of our civil liberties, poverty, and civil unrest. More Americans will take to the streets in protest of our trillion dollar deficits, our unjust wars, and to demand accountability for 9/11.

The war on terror will continue, even though Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda were not responsible for 9/11. As for the "terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay, they will have to be detained forever. If they ever have a chance to defend themselves in court, they could present evidence proving that our government was behind the attacks.

One way or another America will have to face the truth, and either way it will tear this country apart.

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Silverstein, and all the other perpetrators have committed the Crime of the Age. They killed America on September 11th, 2001. The only thing worth saving now is the truth.

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I am a writer living in bucolic Spokane, Washington. It wasn't always this way, back in the day I was a restless wanderer. I left home and traveled to straight to Europe, came back and hitchhiked across America. I joined a carnival, then the (more...)
 
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