By Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff
New research in the journal American Behavioral Scientist (Sage publications, February 2010) addresses the concept of “State Crimes Against Democracy” (SCAD). Professor Lance deHaven-Smith from Florida State University writes that SCADs involve highlevel government officials, often in combination with private interests, that engage in covert activities for political advantages and power. Proven SCADs since World War II include McCarthyism (fabrication of evidence of a communist infiltration), Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (President Johnson and Robert McNamara falsely claimed North Vietnam attacked a US ship), burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist in effort to discredit Ellsberg, the Watergate break-in, Iran-Contra, Florida’s 2000 Election (felon disenfranchisement program), and fixed intelligence on WMDs to justify the Iraq War.1
Other suspected SCADs include the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald, the shooting of George Wallace, the October Surprise near the end of the Carter presidency, military grade anthrax mailed to Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy, Martin Luther King’s assassination, and the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 on September 11, 2001. The proven SCADs have a long trail of congressional hearings, public records, and academic research establishing the truth of the activities. The suspected SCADs listed above have substantial evidence of covert actions with countervailing deniability that tend to leave the facts in dispute.2
The term “conspiracy theory” is often used to denigrate and discredit inquiry into the veracity of suspected SCADs. Labeling SCAD research as “conspiracy theory” is an effective method of preventing ongoing investigations from being reported in the corporate media and keep them outside of broader public scrutiny. Psychologist Laurie Manwell, University of Guelph, addresses the psychological advantage that SCAD actors hold in the public sphere. Manwell, writing in American Behavioral Scientist (Sage 2010) states, “research shows that people are far less willing to examine information that disputes, rather than confirms, their beliefs . . . pre-existing beliefs can interfere with
SCADs inquiry, especially in regards to September 11, 2001.”3
Professor Steven Hoffman, visiting scholar at the University of Buffalo, recently acknowledged this phenomenon in a study “There Must Be a Reason: Osama, Saddam and Inferred Justification.” Hoffman concluded, “Our data shows substantial support for a cognitive theory known as ‘motivated reasoning,’ which suggests that rather than
search rationally for information that either confirms or disconfirms a particular belief, people actually seek out information that confirms what they already believe. In fact, for the most part people completely ignore contrary information.”4
Sometimes even new academic research goes largely unreported when the work contradicts prevailing understandings of recent historical events. A specific case of unreported academic research is the peer reviewed journal article from Open Chemical Physics Journal (Volume 2, 2009), entitled “Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust for the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe.” In the abstract the authors write, “We have discovered distinctive red/gray chips in all the samples. These red/gray chips show marked similarities in all four samples. The properties of these chips were analyzed using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The red portion of these chips is found to be an unreacted thermitic material and highly energetic.” Thermite is a pyrotechnic composition of a metal powder and a metal oxide which produces an aluminothermic reaction known as a thermite reaction and is used in controlled
demolitions of buildings.5
National Medal of Science recipient (1999) Professor Lynn Margulis from the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst is one of many academics who supports further open investigative research in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. Margulis recently wrote in Rock Creek Free Press, “all three buildings were destroyed by carefully planned, orchestrated and executed controlled demolition.”6 Richard Gage, AIA, architect and founder of the non-profit Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Inc. (AE911Truth), announced a decisive milestone February 19, 2010 at a press conference in San Francisco, CA. More than 1,000 architects and
engineers worldwide now support the call for a new investigation into the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade Center complex on September 11, 2001.7
Credible scientific evidence brings into question the possibility that some aspects of the events of 9/11 involved State Crimes Against Democracy. Psychologically this is a very hard concept for Americans to even consider. However, ignoring the issue in the context of multiple proven SCADs since World War II seems far more dangerous for
democracy than the consequences of future scientific inquiry and transparent, fact-based investigative reporting. Anything short of complete, open discourse based on all the evidence about these critical issues in our society relating to the possible continuation of SCADs is simply a matter of censorship.8
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Peter Phillips is professor of sociology at Sonoma State University, President of Media
Freedom Foundation/Project Censored, former director of Project Censored, and coeditor
of Censored 2010.
Mickey Huff is associate professor of history at Diablo Valley College, Director of
Project Censored/Media Freedom Foundation, and co-editor of Censored 2010.
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1 Lance deHaven-Smith, “Beyond Conspiracy Theory: Patterns of High Crime in
American Government,” American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 53, No. 6, (February,
2010): pp. 795-825. For more studies on SCADs and related issues see all articles for
American Behavioral Scientist, Sage publications, Vol. 53, No. 6, (February, 2010),
online at http://abs.sagepub.com/content/vol53/issue6/.
For more background reading on this subject with specifics on the controversial
cases mentioned in this paragraph, see the following scholarly works: Robert Abele, The
Anatomy of a Deception: A Reconstruction and Analysis of the Decision to Invade Iraq
(New York: University Press of America, 2010); Bob Coen and Eric Nadler, Dead
Silence: Fear and Terror on the Anthrax Trail (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2009);
Daniel Ellsberg, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers (New York:
Viking Adult, 2002); Steve Freeman and Joel Bleifuss, Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
Exit Polls, Election Fraud, and the Official Count (New York: Seven Stories Press,
2006); Robert Griffith, The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate.
(Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987); David Ray Griffin, The
Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7: Why the Final Official Report About 9/11
Is Unscientific and False (New York: Olive Branch press, 2008); Mark Crispin Miller,
Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008 (New
York: Ig Publishing, 2008); Kenneth O’Reilly, Hoover and the Un-Americans: The FBI,
HUAC, and the Red Menace (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983); Robert
Parry, Trick or Treason: The October Surprise Mystery (New York: Sheridan Square
Press, 1993); William Pepper, An Act of State: The Execution of Marin Luther King
(Updated) (New York: Verso, 2008); Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber, Weapons of
Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush’s War on Iraq (New York: Tarcher
and Penguin, 2003); selected works of Peter Dale Scott, including Deep Politics and the
Death of JFK (1993, 1996), Drugs Oil and War (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield,
March 2003), The Road to 9/11 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), and The
War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War (Ipswich, MA: Mary Ferrell
Foundation Press, 2008); Norman Solomon, War Made Easy: How Presidents and
Pundits Keep Spinning us to Death (New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2005);
Lawrence Walsh, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-up (New York:
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997); Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, The
Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2nd Edition,
2003);
2 Ibid.
3 American Behavioral Scientist, Sage publications, February, 2010, Vol. 53, No. 6,
online at http://abs.sagepub.com/content/vol53/issue6/. Specifically, see Laurie A.
Manwell, “In Denial of Democracy: Social Psychological Implications for Public
Discourse on State Crimes Against Democracy Post-9/11,” American Behavioral
Scientist, Vol. 53, No. 6, (February, 2010): pp. 848-884.
4 “How We Support Our False Beliefs,” Science Daily (Aug. 23, 2009) online at
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090821135020.htm. For the full study see
Steven Hoffman, Ph.D., et al, “There Must Be a Reason: Osama, Saddam and Inferred
Justification,” Sociological Inquiry, Volume 79 Issue 2, (2009): pp. 142-162.
5 Niels H. Harrit, Jeffrey Farrer, Steven E. Jones, Kevin R. Ryan, Frank M. Legge, Daniel
Farnsworth, Gregg Roberts, James R. Gourley, Bradley R. Larsen, “Active Thermitic
Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe,” Open
Chemical Physics Journal, Vol. 2 (April 3, 2009): 7-31, online at
http://www.bentham.org/open/tocpj/openaccess2.htm.
6 Lynn Margulis, “Two Hit, Three Down, the Biggest Lie,” Rock Creek Press, February
2010, Vol. 4, No. 2, p. 6, and online at
http://rockcreekfreepress.tumblr.com/post/353434420/two-hit-three-down-the-biggest-lie
7 Richard Gage, AIA, Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth, Press Conference,
February 19th, 2010, SF, CA, online at http://www.ae911truth.org/info/160. See the
Conference announcement video online at
http://www.youtube.com/ae911truth#p/c/891B0945A34D98F7/0/R35O_QQP8Vw
8 For more on issues of media censorship see Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff, eds.,
Censored 2010 (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2009).
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9/11 revealed to the whole world a group so powerful that it trumped all the power of borders and govts all over the globe, it trumped the laws of physics and challenged the intelligence of every person on the planet, and worst of all it destroyed the integrity of all of the Main stream media in every nation on earth.
Now the economies of every nation have been under siege to leave room for this group to figure out a way to hopefully win over the population as it changes everything every individual family has ever believed about who they are as they begin to see how insecure the future will be for their children and grandchildren..
The wars were blamed on politicians but it’s getting more obvious everyday that there were many more who were really pulling the strings and showing the entire world exactly what was possible if need be,, which went along way to get others to fall in line and remain silent even tho they knew exactly what was taken place and why.. Self preservation has a power all to itself…
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Gary;a democracy is a system of government in which ”human” rights trump so called ”property rights.” Democracies Gary,feature government by the people,for the people,not rule by a minority of wealthy persons or corporations who weild power over the masses via personal wealth.
I can not speak for you,but as for me I really do not need ”represenitives”to make decisions for me ! Do you not possess your own mind,will,needs,aspirations ? Does your life belong to you alone,or does your life partialy belong to so called represenitives,who supposedly always have your best interests in mind,even as they deprive you of life,property and freedom ? Being that you have accepted the arguments of slaveowners and racists as being arguments supporting liberty and the common good,perhaps then you indeed do lack any ability to reason or even live your own life !
Why should you be so eager to praise the so called ”rule of law”over the rule of man,when it is man that drafts and impliments the law ? Just as there are unjust men,there are and always have been unjust laws ! The many laws supporting slavery,the legal denial of voting rights to females and legislation which facilitated the forced sterilization and incarceration,”in mental institutions”of tens of thousands of disabled and or impoverished American citizens during the first half of the 20th century are just a few examples which prove that the written law is not always moraly superior to unwritten legal or moral codes based upon tradition,community need and or common sense.
Speaking of slavery,democracy and freedom.I dare to argue that men known to have denied human beings life and freedom in order to promote their own economic advantage, are hardly persons whom’s opinions, concerning the said subjects should be highly respected ! Humans long for liberty largly because of what we are,not because of who we are, or because of individual capabilities, and or accomplishmemts.Being that freedom is a common human desire and being that all humans ”except those who have committed the worst of crimes”deserve to be free,it is simply insane to abide by the opinions or actions, of men who failed to reconize the full humanness of an entire race of human beings ! I must point out that many of this nations so called founders,”the real founders were the working class people and the slaves”,feared both slave uprisings as well as revolts by the common people.In the case of the black slaves,I suspect that the elite ”founders” were very aware of the full humaness of those persons,which is likely why Jefferson,for example feared a vengfull slave uprising in which the slaves would take revenge upon their owners by enslaving those owners ! Jefferson knew very well that only humans could take an interest in enslaving other humans ! Besides,while many animals will seek freedom when bound,what creature other than we humans would seek both freedom and vengance upon captors ? Whatever the case may be,slaveowners should never be credited as being patriarchs of freedom ! Learn to think for yourself Gary !
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