truthmover wrote:
The 9/11 crime is so well hidden within compartmentalized operations, plausible deniability, sealed records, and Presidential pardons, that it might actually not be possible to conduct a meaningful investigation. We could hold the inquiry, but we're not getting Cheney to testify.
As JohnA has already pointed out, and as I'm inclined to agree, quite a bit of information has already come out that may well be legally actionable and could probably lead to the exposure of quite a bit more info -- even if we can't get Cheney to testify.
There are plenty of whistleblowers we could rally behind, for example.
Some good would certainly come of it, but then what would the movement be the day after it ended?
Surely there is no shortage of other worthy political causes we could then support? And, after a truly independent investigation of 9/11, surely the American public would then be in a better position to understand other issues too?
And if we don't secure a new investigation, are all our efforts in vain?
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Without any investigation I am quite satisfied that the movement has been and will be making progress in opening more people's eyes to the volume of information they haven't been seeing.
My thoughts:
1) Without a concrete political goal to point to, such as a new investigation, it seems to me that convincing people that 9/11 is or might have been an inside job is more likely to lead people to despair than to responsible citizenship. Too many Americans already believe that political action of any kind is pointless, when in fact many grassroots political movements have had many successes (though not consistently, of course).
2) It seems to me that we should be able to succeed in winning some kind of new investigation, especially on a local level (easier than winning anything on a federal level), given the poll numbers already in our favor. We just need a sufficiently well-organized effort, it seems to me.