Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

There has been a breakthrough in the 9/11 truth movement. The Lawyers for 9/11 Inquiry filed a petition with the U.S. Justice Department to open a grand jury investigation of 9/11, and they got back this response:

That sounds cooperative but in a vague, curt, and non-committal way.  But, what a strange world we live in. Here, the 9/11 truth movement is huge and growing, with all kinds of professionals organized to support it: architects and engineers, lawyers, doctors and nurses, firefighters, demolition experts...it seems that there is a 9/11 truth group for everything... yet, the government and the media blissfully go on talking about the events of 9/11 as if no one disputes the official story. 

But, let's not kid ourselves. Government is government; and government first, last, and always, protects itself. Prosecutors, and more importantly, judges, work for the government. Government is who issues their paychecks. And it's the judge you have to worry about, whether on the basis of some technicality, he or she is going to dismiss the whole thing. 

But, let's consider what is at stake. It isn't just 9/11. It's the whole basis, rationale, and justification for the wars we've been fighting, especially the war in Afghanistan, which, after 17 years, is still raging- and with no end in sight. 

The War in Afghanistan was started because of 9/11. The whole basis on which we attacked that country was 9/11. So, if the official story of 9/11 is false, then the whole justification for launching that war on Afghanistan, which started with its own "Shock and Awe" campaign of aerial terror, was bogus, which means that, from the very beginning, that war was an atrocity, a war crime, a criminal act of vast, unspeakable proportions. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in Afghanistan, and most of them were regular, ordinary people, that is, civilians. 

But, it's even worse than that because when we approached the Taliban government and demanded that they turn over Osama in laden to us, their response was NOT to tell us to go to Hell. Their response was to ask us to show them the evidence against bin laden. Our response  to that was to tell them to go to Hell. Then, instead of telling us that we could go to Hell, they offered to extradite bin laden to a third and neutral country for trial. 

Now, why wasn't that good enough for us? If bin laden was put in custody and sent to another country, he would have been contained, right? And whatever evidence we had against him (and no evidence has ever been presented against him, and no arrest warrant was ever issued for him) could have been given to prosecutors in that country. 

So, why wasn't that good enough? Wasn't it better than having a war? Did I mention that hundreds of thousands of people, mostly Afghans and Pakistanis, have been killed in that war.  What gave us the right to kill all those people? Why wasn't what the Taliban offered good enough?

Of course, I don't think there is any chance that Osama bin laden did 9/11, and I don't think there is any chance that the George W. Bush administration didn't know that. I think that, from the start, 9/11 was just one of the "ruses for war" that Professor John Quigley likes to talk about. 

So, even if the official 9/11 story were true, launching the war on Afghanistan was completely and totally unnecessary and unjustified. In a word, it was illegal according to international law. It was criminal. And the magnitude of the evil involved with it, is comparable to only very few things in history.  

So, what do I expect in this case? I expect a fight. And if the judge involved has to make an outrageous decision in order to squash it, I assume he or she will make it. Of course, the lawyers could appeal it, and the worldwide phenomenon of 9/11 truth will go on regardless, and it is probably the largest, widest, and most dispersed challenge to U.S. government authority that has ever occurred. It is already of historic proportions. 

Is this the thing that is going to push the official 9/11 story over the edge? We shall see.