By Paul Craig Roberts
September 11, 2018
This is the 17th
anniversary of 9/11. During the years that have passed large numbers of experts
have established conclusively that the official government account of the event
is false. Every year fewer people believe the unbelievable conspiracy theory
that a handful of Saudi Arabians outwitted the entirety of the US National
Security State and attacked with hijacked airliners the World Trade Center and
the Pentagon.
Nevertheless, the official story still stands, just as the
official story of President Kennedy’s assassination still stands despite
majority disbelief, just like the official story of Israel’s attack on the USS
Liberty still stands despite all evidence to the contrary. In the US the
government never corrects its proven lies.
People all over the world
are amazed that Americans could witness videos of the two towers blowing up
floor by floor and the obvious controlled demolition of Building 7 and conclude
that they were witnessing buildings collapsing from asymmetrical structural
damage and limited, short-lived office fires.
The 9/11 fabrication and
the Osama bin Laden myth were used by the Cheney/Bush regime to destroy the
civil liberty protections in the US Constitution and to elevate the executive
branch above both domestic and international law. This has culminated in yesterday’s
declaration of US lawlessness by President Trump’s National Security Advisor,
John Bolton, who stated that the US government will use any and all means to
protect US and Israeli war criminals from prosecution by the International
Criminal Court. The cost of 9/11 far exceeds the WTC buildings and the lives
that were lost. The real cost is the US Constitution, the separation of powers,
civil liberty, and the rule of law.
