1 00:00:07,811 --> 00:00:12,315 I support a new investigation wholeheartedly, it’s a given, 2 00:00:12,315 --> 00:00:15,839 and when you stop and think of what’s happened 3 00:00:15,839 --> 00:00:18,016 in the last nine years 4 00:00:18,016 --> 00:00:23,156 where a voluntary investigation has taken place 5 00:00:23,156 --> 00:00:28,533 by people like Architects and Engineers and other scientific groups 6 00:00:28,533 --> 00:00:34,421 and have put forth a plethora of knowledge that questions 7 00:00:34,421 --> 00:00:39,342 what the government said about the event. 8 00:00:39,342 --> 00:00:45,114 And so we need an investigation to look at this, 9 00:00:45,114 --> 00:00:47,519 take up all of the information 10 00:00:47,519 --> 00:00:50,690 that these voluntary groups have put forward, 11 00:00:50,690 --> 00:00:58,104 and pursue that scientific knowledge that’s there to its conclusion. 12 00:00:58,104 --> 00:01:02,585 And that conclusion is that something happened and, 13 00:01:02,585 --> 00:01:04,326 and it wasn’t, 14 00:01:04,326 --> 00:01:07,928 and it’s not what the government led us to believe happened. 15 00:01:07,928 --> 00:01:09,558 This is very serious. 16 00:01:09,558 --> 00:01:14,052 We’re talking about an event in American history that, 17 00:01:14,052 --> 00:01:16,251 there’s no comparison, by and large. 18 00:01:16,251 --> 00:01:19,402 Here, it’s initiated three wars, 19 00:01:19,402 --> 00:01:22,715 one war in Afghanistan, in Iraq, 20 00:01:22,715 --> 00:01:25,631 and a war on terror, 21 00:01:25,631 --> 00:01:28,152 which is obviously not a war, 22 00:01:28,244 --> 00:01:33,903 but it’s a device to sustain the American efforts 23 00:01:33,903 --> 00:01:37,403 to fund the military industrial complex. 24 00:01:37,403 --> 00:01:42,731 That’s what’s at stake, and of course, the view is that, 25 00:01:42,731 --> 00:01:46,206 who’s going to get, who’s going to initiate this investigation. 26 00:01:46,206 --> 00:01:48,217 Now there’s only two possibilities: 27 00:01:48,217 --> 00:01:53,161 one is the Congress, the other is the people. 28 00:01:53,161 --> 00:01:57,588 Now the Congress has not seen fit to pursue this, 29 00:01:57,588 --> 00:01:59,614 for obvious reasons why. 30 00:01:59,614 --> 00:02:02,536 Members of Congress or political leaders 31 00:02:02,536 --> 00:02:05,312 have a stake in their own, 32 00:02:05,312 --> 00:02:10,319 perpetuity: getting reelected, staying in power, 33 00:02:10,319 --> 00:02:15,447 and so they do not want to associate themselves 34 00:02:15,447 --> 00:02:19,717 with issues that are not a win-win. 35 00:02:19,717 --> 00:02:23,489 And since the government and the media 36 00:02:23,489 --> 00:02:27,141 have marginalized these efforts 37 00:02:27,141 --> 00:02:30,118 to reexamine what happened on 9/11, 38 00:02:30,118 --> 00:02:34,154 and they’ve marginalized it to such a degree, you know, 39 00:02:34,154 --> 00:02:35,984 calling these conspiracy theories - 40 00:02:35,984 --> 00:02:39,662 we’re not talking about any conspiracy theory here, 41 00:02:39,662 --> 00:02:41,938 we’re talking about scientific evidence 42 00:02:41,938 --> 00:02:45,713 that has been put forth for any reasonable person 43 00:02:45,713 --> 00:02:48,495 to look at and question and say hey, 44 00:02:48,495 --> 00:02:50,835 there’s something wrong here. 45 00:02:50,835 --> 00:02:54,953 And so, that’s where we’re at, at this point in time, 46 00:02:54,953 --> 00:03:00,210 and it’s vital for us to get to the bottom of these events, 47 00:03:00,210 --> 00:03:03,986 what led up 9/11, what happened on 9/11, 48 00:03:03,986 --> 00:03:07,604 and what happened in the aftermath of 9/11. 49 00:03:07,604 --> 00:03:10,104 All of that must be reexamined. 50 00:03:10,104 --> 00:03:14,071 And, of course, what you get from political leaders is, 51 00:03:14,071 --> 00:03:17,625 and we saw this with Gerald Ford when he was President, 52 00:03:17,625 --> 00:03:20,330 and he pardoned Richard Nixon, 53 00:03:20,330 --> 00:03:22,769 with the approach that the people 54 00:03:22,769 --> 00:03:24,881 couldn’t take another crisis like this. 55 00:03:24,881 --> 00:03:26,801 That’s not so. 56 00:03:26,801 --> 00:03:29,286 The American people are stronger than we realize, 57 00:03:29,286 --> 00:03:31,523 and they have some fundamental values 58 00:03:31,523 --> 00:03:34,891 which have been covered over by the government. 59 00:03:34,891 --> 00:03:39,368 And so, what we need to understand is the people 60 00:03:39,368 --> 00:03:41,290 can handle this investigation, 61 00:03:41,290 --> 00:03:45,434 wherever it leads and whatever it uncovers, 62 00:03:45,434 --> 00:03:48,289 and they’ll handle it maturely. 63 00:03:48,289 --> 00:03:53,120 And that is vital to the survival of our democracy. 64 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:55,007 And absent that, 65 00:03:55,007 --> 00:03:58,890 we are in very serious difficulties for the future. 66 00:03:58,890 --> 00:04:04,027 There’s only two venues where a solution can be applied to, 67 00:04:04,027 --> 00:04:08,484 and one is the Congress, our political leaders, 68 00:04:08,484 --> 00:04:09,889 and the other is the people. 69 00:04:09,889 --> 00:04:14,390 A & E 9/11 Truth has put together a petition that will be 70 00:04:14,390 --> 00:04:15,994 submitted to the Congress. 71 00:04:15,994 --> 00:04:20,304 I want to applaud that effort, 72 00:04:20,304 --> 00:04:23,638 but I want to be realistic and tell you that, 73 00:04:23,638 --> 00:04:27,904 that the Congress, under the present circumstances, 74 00:04:27,904 --> 00:04:31,110 may not be all that responsive, unfortunately. 75 00:04:31,110 --> 00:04:36,348 But that’s changing, because as you begin to get public officials 76 00:04:36,348 --> 00:04:41,916 who will own up to their interest in having the investigation take place, 77 00:04:41,916 --> 00:04:45,722 you’ll overcome the peer pressure 78 00:04:45,722 --> 00:04:49,090 that exists within the Congress to not act, 79 00:04:49,090 --> 00:04:53,341 or to castigate any member who stands up asking for action. 80 00:04:53,341 --> 00:04:56,918 So that’s a dynamic that will go on over time. 81 00:04:56,918 --> 00:05:02,380 I think the other dynamic could deal with the subject a lot more rapidly, 82 00:05:02,380 --> 00:05:08,841 and that is the possibility of going to the people with an initiate process. 83 00:05:08,841 --> 00:05:10,850 Now, we have twenty-four states in the United States 84 00:05:10,850 --> 00:05:16,097 where people can make policy decisions irrespective of the government. 85 00:05:16,097 --> 00:05:21,897 And what we’re attempting to do now is to draft an initiative 86 00:05:21,897 --> 00:05:23,246 for the state of California, 87 00:05:23,246 --> 00:05:26,540 then take that identical language 88 00:05:26,540 --> 00:05:30,460 and take it to other states so that we can get maybe five, 89 00:05:30,460 --> 00:05:36,516 ten states across the country that would all vote at the same time, 90 00:05:36,516 --> 00:05:41,670 which would be November 2012. 91 00:05:41,670 --> 00:05:44,961 Which means that the issue of a new investigation 92 00:05:44,961 --> 00:05:49,280 would become part of the electoral process 93 00:05:49,280 --> 00:05:55,136 and would be a hot potato political issue for the people running for Congress 94 00:05:55,136 --> 00:05:57,058 and the people running for President, 95 00:05:57,058 --> 00:05:59,170 because it’ll be so visible at the time. 96 00:05:59,170 --> 00:06:04,313 This is the only way I can see to overcome 97 00:06:04,313 --> 00:06:07,884 the fact that the media won’t pay attention to the subject. 98 00:06:07,884 --> 00:06:12,303 But the media here too exist under peer pressure. 99 00:06:12,303 --> 00:06:17,343 Unless you see somebody in the media substantially stepping forward 100 00:06:17,343 --> 00:06:22,354 and calling for this, the others will just stay quiet. 101 00:06:22,354 --> 00:06:28,570 The program that I think most likely to succeed, 102 00:06:28,570 --> 00:06:30,487 but I want to use that word advisedly, 103 00:06:30,487 --> 00:06:38,137 because we will have difficult limitations with an initiative at the state level, 104 00:06:38,137 --> 00:06:46,915 because we can vest the investigation with subpoena powers, 105 00:06:46,915 --> 00:06:50,804 indictment powers, the powers of a grand jury, 106 00:06:50,804 --> 00:06:52,573 but we can’t go beyond that. 107 00:06:52,573 --> 00:06:57,157 But we’ll be restricted to those powers for that particular state, 108 00:06:57,157 --> 00:06:59,599 so if we have several states involved, 109 00:06:59,599 --> 00:07:05,743 that gives us a larger venue to exercise this unusual power. 110 00:07:05,743 --> 00:07:09,203 What would happen if we discover something – 111 00:07:09,203 --> 00:07:13,257 and when I say discover, the scientific work’s already been done 112 00:07:13,257 --> 00:07:17,102 by these volunteers across the country – 113 00:07:17,102 --> 00:07:20,192 no, what I’m talking about will someone come forward 114 00:07:20,192 --> 00:07:23,131 and fess up to being party to a conspiracy 115 00:07:23,131 --> 00:07:26,825 to bring about what happened on 9/11. 116 00:07:26,825 --> 00:07:30,797 Now, people will say, nobody stepped forward at this point, 117 00:07:30,797 --> 00:07:32,507 well of course nobody stepped forward! 118 00:07:32,507 --> 00:07:35,256 Who’d want to step forward, they’d probably get killed, 119 00:07:35,256 --> 00:07:37,852 first off, or they’d be marginalized, 120 00:07:37,852 --> 00:07:40,950 or just look at what happens to whistleblowers in our country. 121 00:07:40,950 --> 00:07:46,072 So no, nobody’s going to step forward who’s done a criminal deed, 122 00:07:46,072 --> 00:07:49,933 and nobody’s investigating it, that’s the tragedy! 123 00:07:49,933 --> 00:07:54,172 We’ve never really had an investigation of the criminality 124 00:07:54,172 --> 00:07:56,517 of what took place on 9/11. 125 00:07:56,517 --> 00:07:59,600 And so now, if you begin that process, 126 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:02,323 somebody may well come forward, 127 00:08:02,323 --> 00:08:05,901 and who knows where it will lead. 128 00:08:05,901 --> 00:08:08,643 I know one thing: If you do nothing, nothing happens. 129 00:08:08,643 --> 00:08:11,848 If you do something, something good might happen. 130 00:08:11,848 --> 00:08:15,110 And good, in that regard, is something more informative 131 00:08:15,110 --> 00:08:18,428 to the people of this country about what happened on 9/11 132 00:08:18,428 --> 00:08:22,264 than what the government has laid on as a fabric, 133 00:08:22,264 --> 00:08:24,445 which makes no sense at all. 134 00:08:25,777 --> 00:08:27,857 Look at the evidence! In fact, 135 00:08:27,857 --> 00:08:29,815 I’ll say this very categorically: 136 00:08:29,815 --> 00:08:33,481 any reasonable person who looks at the evidence 137 00:08:33,481 --> 00:08:37,217 that’s been brought forward by the various groups 138 00:08:37,217 --> 00:08:41,698 who focus their research capability on what happened on 9/11, 139 00:08:41,698 --> 00:08:45,128 any reasonable person looking at that has got to come away 140 00:08:45,128 --> 00:08:48,581 with the feeling that something has to be done, 141 00:08:48,581 --> 00:08:52,309 a real investigation has to be put forward. 142 00:08:52,309 --> 00:08:57,241 One of the reasons I am so adamant for a new investigation, 143 00:08:57,241 --> 00:09:01,925 particularly by citizens, is because whatever is revealed, 144 00:09:01,925 --> 00:09:04,137 I, in my heart of hearts, 145 00:09:04,137 --> 00:09:09,253 believe that it will have an unbelievable psychological effect 146 00:09:09,253 --> 00:09:10,794 on the American populace, 147 00:09:10,794 --> 00:09:12,936 and I think we need that. 148 00:09:12,936 --> 00:09:18,993 We need for the American people to wake up and to question authority, 149 00:09:18,993 --> 00:09:24,836 and that can save this country from going into a tyranny, 150 00:09:24,836 --> 00:09:27,857 which I think it’s pointed in that direction now. 151 00:09:27,857 --> 00:09:32,446 And so, an investigation, and the results of an investigation of 9/11, 152 00:09:32,446 --> 00:09:35,607 could wake up the American people to, really, 153 00:09:35,607 --> 00:09:39,873 what is going on and why they need to participate 154 00:09:39,873 --> 00:09:43,233 as citizens in their own governance.