Gandhi, Popular Mechanics, and The 9/11 Truth Movement

Ben Chaput | March 16 2005

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win.”
Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi said this referring to his struggles for Indian independence from Britain, but it is just as relevant to the 9/11 truth movement today. If we look at the movement in terms of these stages we can see the progress we have made, and how far we still have to go.

1. “First they ignore you”

From the minute the first plane hit the towers many Americans knew that something was fishy about the whole thing. From the incredible collapse of the towers that looked like a controlled demolition, to the instant naming of Osama Bin Laden as the prime suspect, real students of history saw this tragedy as a classic CIA psy-ops. Almost immediately on websites and chatrooms, small papers and magazines, patriots voiced their concerns and suspicions. However the mainstream media quickly began the cover-up. Nineteen Muslim terrorists hijacked planes with boxcutters. Two of the biggest buildings in the world collapsed from relatively small fires in hours. Osama Bin Laden planned it all from a cave in

Afghanistan, and financed the whole operation for less than a million dollars. Anyone who thought critically about the attacks saw through the lies and realized that something was wrong. But no one in the mainstream media would report about these questions. Instead they began to beat the war drums and fan the flames of hatred with false videos of Palestinians celebrating the attacks. It would be months before information began coming out in dribs and drabs: public officials warned not to fly, firemen reporting bombs going off in the buildings, Israelis receiving mysterious warnings about the attacks. Eventually there were simply too many questions being asked to simply ignore them.

2. “Then they laugh at you”

Now the globalist-controlled media had to do something about the thousands of people who weren’t buying the government’s official story. So anyone who didn’t fall in line was ridiculed. “Loonies”, “Wingnuts”, “Tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorists”. It didn’t matter that the governments official story was more far-fetched than something out of The X-Files, they had the big microphones in front of them and could say whatever they wanted, because they didn’t dare interview anyone credible who questioned their story. But brave men and women still kept it up on webpages and independent newspapers, refusing to be cowed by the propaganda machine of the globalists, and the movement kept growing.

3. “Then they attack you”

This is the stage we are reaching now. The tidal wave of anger and suspicion has grown too big to simply ignore or laugh off as the ramblings of madmen. The criminal cabal we call the U.S. government realizes that real patriots won’t be silenced that easily and have went on the attack. The Popular Mechanics cover story: Debunking 9/11 Lies is a classic piece of yellow journalism by the corporate creator the term, Hearst Corporation. The article is written by Benjamin Chertoff, allegedly a cousin of Department of Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff. If you look into Michael Chertoff’s past you will find he has been accused of representing alleged terrorists. This shows how the globalists are all tied together in this gross conspiracy against the United States of America. Chertoff’s article takes some easily disputed fringe theories and attacks them, trying to discredit the entire movement. This tactic is known as setting up a straw man, and is typical of yellow journalism. The article ignores such evidence as CIA insider trading, hard evidence of explosions in the WTC, and the mysterious collapse of WTC building 7. It also outright lies about NORAD intercepting planes before 9/11. This is what the mainstream media considers “debunking”.

This is a good sign, it shows that our efforts are starting to have an effect, but it is only the beginning. We can’t get complacent or slow down our work because the globalists have a huge advantage in money, power, influence, and exposure. But the one advantage we have is numbers. More and more people are waking up every day and rejecting the government lies, demanding that the truth be told to all Americans. It may seem impossible, but we should look to Gandhi for inspiration. He stood up to the British Empire at the height of its power and eventually succeeded. If we stay true to our beliefs and do what we know is right we will succeed as well, and return our great Republic to the People once and for all.