Someone Forgot It Was A “Gun-Free Zone”
March 15, 2008 by sonofmaron
Is it a sign from the forces above?
Ten days ago, the Cornell Student Assembly overwhelmingly rejected a resolution that would favor concealed carry at Cornell. In their minds, Cornell’s “gun-free” status was clearly enough to deter anyone who wishes to do harm, and self-protection was unnecessary.
Three days ago, a man robbed Cornell’s favorite lunch truck at gunpoint, right smack in the middle of Cornell and its “gun-free zone.”
The Student Assembly would probably say that the robber forgot about Cornell’s “gun-free” status because it wasn’t advertised widely enough. I would venture a guess that the robber knew with absolute certainty that the lunch truck operators could in no way defend themselves against a gun.
Campus security could not prevent Virginia Tech, or Northern Illinois, or the lunch truck robbery. When will we learn our lesson?
Uh… buh… what?
Paul Craig Roberts, former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal and assistant secretary of the US Treasury during the Reagan administration
“David Ray Griffin is America’s bulldog on 9/11. His demand that the amazing contradictions in the story be explained resonates with millions of people.”
Jim Hightower, author of Swim against the Current and editor of The Hightower Lowdown
“No matter how you feel about who is responsible for the 9/11 attack, at least we need a through independent, unbiased investigation. In this book, Griffin provides 25 useful questions—-contradictions worthy of honest answers.”
Bill Christison, former senior CIA official
“David Ray Griffin, writing specifically for members of Congress and the media, has presented the often incredible but true details of 25 major contradictions in the Bush administration’s accounts of 9/11. This book, based on careful research but written in a fast-moving, readable style, blows apart the notion that The 9/11 Commission Report presents an accurate account of what happened on September 11. It makes crystal clear the need for a new investigation.”
Lorie Van Auken, widow of Kenneth Van Auken, killed at WTC 1 on 9/11/01, and member of the Family Steering Committee for the 9/11 Commission
“When the smoke finally cleared from the pile of rubble on September 11, 2001, we were left with a host of burning questions. The 9/11 Commission did not provide the answers, despite their extensive mandate. 9/11 Contradictions is a work that needed to be written. With characteristic clarity and focus, David Ray Griffin masterfully lays out the most critical of these questions. Now the challenge is to finally get real answers.”
Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and presidential briefer
“So who cares that the 9/11 Commission chose to believe that Dick Cheney did not enter the White House bunker until “shortly before 10:00, perhaps at 9:58,” twenty minutes after the strike on the Pentagon. Surely the vice president would not fib, so the Commission threw out the testimony of several eyewitnesses, including Norman Mineta, the transportation secretary. Mineta must have been making it all up when he testified that he joined Cheney in the bunker at about 9:20 and heard Cheney reaffirm an apparent stand-down order just before the Pentagon was struck. Such conflicting testimony is typical of the many serious “9/11 Contradictions” documented in David Ray Griffin’s highly readable book. We need a truly independent investigation to put Cheney and Mineta under oath, along with the still unidentified “young man” who, Mineta reported, kept coming into the bunker and, after telling Cheney “the plane is ten miles out,” asked Cheney whether “the orders still stand”—-about 12 minutes before 125 people in the Pentagon were killed. What were those orders?”
David L. Griscom, research physicist, Fellow of the American Physical Society, retired from the Naval Research Laboratory
“Because the 9/11 attacks became the excuse for myriad disastrous changes in U.S. foreign and domestic policy, unraveling the true history of those events is the paramount exigency of our times. By virtue of pointing out an astonishing number of irreconcilable contradictions in the official story of 9/11, David Ray Griffin’s 9/11 Contradictions is a must read, not only for the Congress and the press, but also for any American concerned about the truth, because those contradictions suggest that we have not yet been told the truth about 9/11.”
Jack Keller, Emeritus Professor of Engineering at Utah State University and member of the National Academy of Engineering
“This book describes in very straightforward and non-technical terms some major inconsistencies in the government’s official story about the events on September 11, 2001. It points out many attempts in the 9/11 Commission’s report to cover up evidence . . . . As an engineer, I am especially troubled by the cover-up of evidence relevant to the collapse of the three major World Trade Center buildings. I hope that Congress and the public will heed this call for a full and impartial investigation to determine what really did happen on that fateful day.”
Joel S. Hirschhorn, former official at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and author of Delusional Democracy: Fixing the Republic Without Overthrowing the Government
“The Congress and the press may not pay attention, but this scholarly yet accessible analysis is must reading for Americans concerned about good government and effective democracy. Every reader will reach the only logical conclusion: 9/11 truth is not yet known.”
Catherine Austin Fitts, assistant secretary of housing in the George H. W. Bush administration
“According to St. Timothy, ‘God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.’ In 9/11 Contradictions, David Ray Griffin, demonstrating once again what a fearless spirit and powerful mind can do, shows the official account of 9/11 to be so riddled with contradictions as to be essentially worthless.”
Book Description
In 9/11 Contradictions, David Ray Griffin shows that the official story about 9/11 is riddled with internal contradictions. Two contradictory statements cannot both be true. These contradictions show, therefore, that individuals and agencies articulating the official story of 9/11 have made many false statements. Congress and the press clearly should ask which of the contradictory statements are false and why they were made.
This book is purely factual, simply laying out the fact that these internal contradictions exist. As such, the book contains no theory. Politicians and journalists who deal with the issues raised herein, therefore, will not be giving credence to some “conspiracy theory” about 9/11. They will simply be carrying out their duty to ask why the official story about 9/11, arguably the most fateful event of our time, is riddled with so many contradictions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdzel3uU8Zs
Harvard antiwar activists caught with embarrassing ignorance…