Citizens Press District 1 Congressman for New Investigation of 9/11

On February 6, 2007, five concerned citizens were "permitted" to speak with Mike Thompson, US Representative, District 1, via conference call. During the brief call (10-15 minutes) the concerned citizens presented information and called for a new investigation into what really happened on September 11. Prior to the meeting a letter was composed and forwarded to the Congressman for his review.

Dear Congressman Thompson:

We the undersigned are your constituents in Yolo County who are scheduled to speak with you by telephone on February 6th at 10:30AM. We’re concerned about the direction our nation has taken especially since the events of September 11th, and we feel that these events deserve further scrutiny.

After September 11, 2001, we were told that "9/11" "changed everything". We were also told that nothing would ever be the same in America again and that we were now in a state of ongoing emergency; "all cards were on the table".

Benjamin Franklin once warned that those who are willing to exchange their freedom for more security deserve neither.

Since September 11th, much in our Bill of Rights and Constitution was nullified, for example, by the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act; the latter destroys "habeas corpus", a person’s right to challenge their detention in court. Bush’s "signing statements" have undermined Congress itself in that Bush in these statements refuses to abide by laws that Congress has enacted. The un-American use of torture has been openly advocated by Bush and Cheney. Surveillance of law-abiding citizens has been promoted. Executive Orders have been written, giving Bush extra-Constitutional powers. An unending "war on terror" has been embarked upon, and the United States now has a policy of pre-emptive attack on any nation it so chooses. Somalia has been the target of recent air strikes. Two nations – Afghanistan and Iraq – have so far been bombed, invaded, and occupied with enormous costs, in dollars and in human lives, to Americans and to innocent Iraqi and Afghani civilians in their own countries. What Eisenhower warned us about – "the military industrial complex" – has grown exponentially with gargantuan infusions of our tax dollars; over ten billion dollars per month is spent on the war.

All of this, and more, has been "justified" by the mass-murder known as "9/11".

Yet many questions remain about "9/11" itself, and its aftermath. Think about it. "9/11" was most certainly a crime, and yet no real criminal investigation was ever conducted. There was no official “crime scene” with investigative agencies taking samples, photographing, etc., and then following the trail of the evidence. Instead, with the country still traumatized, the evidence at “Ground Zero” was destroyed as rapidly as possible, the steel shipped out of the country on barges. (Fire Engineering Magazine protested in a blistering editorial about this in about early 2002, but to no avail.) We were given a story about Muslims with box-cutters, and expected to simply take the word of our “leaders” and to blindly believe what they told us through the media.

Partly because of the lack of a real investigation, a huge body of research has been done apart from the reluctantly formed, circumscribed and under-funded “9/11 Commission”, headed by Bush-crony Philip Zelikow as Director. Many articles have been written, and books and videos of an informational and educational nature independently produced in order to get the facts of “9/11” to the public – facts largely unreported in any U.S. media – such as the implosion, in less than seven seconds, of a THIRD tower, WTC Building 7, at 5:20 in the afternoon of September 11th. This 47-story steel and concrete structure was not hit by an airplane or significant debris; its rapid implosion was not mentioned in the 9/11 Commission Report. (See http://wtc7.net/videos.html for CBS and NBC video of this implosion.)

The website http://www.patriotsquestion911.com lists page after page of senior military, intelligence service, law enforcement, and government officials critical of the 9/11 Commission Report. Pilots for 9/11 Truth, on the web at http://www.pilotsfor911truth.org, is an international organization of aviation professionals and pilots that does not accept the 9/11 Commission Report as a satisfactory explanation, and seeks a new investigation. Veterans for 9/11 Truth, at http://v911t.org, is dedicated to “presenting evidence exposing the deception and lies … concerning the events of that tragic day”. Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice at http://stj911.org, the Journal of 9/11 Studies at http://www.worldtradecentertruth.com , and Scholars for 9/11 Truth, at http://911scholars.org/ are groups of credentialed academics who work to expose the falsehoods and reveal the truths about “9/11”, and provide evidence and peer-reviewed research.

David Ray Griffin, Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Theology, Emeritus, at the Claremont School of Theology and the author of twenty-five books, has written the definitive critique of the 9/11 Commission Report. It’s entitled The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions, Olive Branch Press, 2005. For further research, this book is highly recommended. To take one quote, from page 13: “… the Commission failed disgracefully. The Commission’s mandate, as Kean and Hamilton pointed out, was to investigate ‘facts and circumstances relating to the terrorist attacks of September 11th’ and then to provide ‘the fullest possible account’ of those facts and circumstances. What the Commission actually did however, was only to provide a fairly full account of those facts and circumstances that are consistent with the official conspiracy theory about 9/11. Every fact inconsistent with this theory is either distorted or entirely omitted.”

Congressman Thompson, before speaking with us on February 6th, please take a few moments out of your busy schedule to familiarize yourself with some of what we in the Movement call “9/11 Truth”. Watch the implosion of WTC-7 on your computer at http://wtc7.net/videos.html; this would take only a minute or two. Go to a few of the above websites, and learn about the thousands of distinguished individuals that support what we are saying here. Watch the popular documentary video Loose Change; it’s only an hour and a half in length and available on your computer at http://www.loosechange911.com.

A poll conducted by the International Zogby Institute found that by mid-2006, 42% of the American public questioned the “official version” of the events of “9/11”. That percentage has increased since then, and we count ourselves among that number.

A crime that has had, and is having, such an impact on our world, our country, and all of our lives is surely deserving of a completely independent investigation. We hope that you will support us in this effort to seek true justice, and to change the disastrous direction in which we find our nation headed.

We look forward to our talk with you on February 6th.