An Iron Wall of Silence.

It is remarkable that after 9/11, we the citizens who were perplexed by the disaster were craving for answers, led, of course, by the Widows of 9/11,a collaboration was unfolding between the two parties to suppress all outflow of information on this event.

Starting with Mr.Cheney's request, not once but twice, to Mr.Daschle, not to call for a Senate inquiry on this event,one effort after another has been stonewalled with not even a squeak from our Democrats.When, reluctantly, the 9/11 panel was commissioned, its independence was compromised by the composition of the panel itself and the manner in which it went about questioning the main players.The most glaring example was the questioning, if one can call that, of Mr.Bush and Mr.Cheney together, without any oath.

Even during the election campaign, Mr.Kerry and the Democrats, limited themselves to criticism of the War on Iraq on the manner in which was conducted ( too few men, too little armor, too little money) and did not venture into the territory of why we are there in the first place. Almost to a man or a woman our Democratic senators and Congressmen have been totally silent on this issue.The only person who has spoken out, Senator Joe Lieberman, claimed that it was a just war without providing any reasons for thinking so.


That silence reached a deafening chorus when the tortures at Abu Ghraib were revealed by Sy Hersh.Senators who saw pictures and videoptapes of those tortures ( not available to citizens) came out shaken but have retreated since then into a stoic silence that shames them and shames us.

There is only one courageous man left in our Senate which has become a den of silent collaborators in the destruction of our Constitution.That old man, carries a tattered old copy of our Constitution with reverence and speaks to all who would listen that our Emperor has no clothes and does not deserve the sycophancy he so easily obtains.

http://byrd.senate.gov

the silence around 911, PNAC, EVOTING, TORTURE, CORP. CORRUPTION, PATRIOT ACT, DU, PREVENTIVE WAR, MASSIVE DEBT., is DEVASTATING.

:cry:

peace

Indeed.

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Very well stated.

Because of that man, I have taken to carrying the little blue copy of the Constitution with me too. It reminds of what once was an ideal.

n/t

Thanks for this post. We must remind each other every day that we must never give up in our search for 9/11 truth.