The FBI is instructing local police departments and
"communities against terrorism" to consider anyone who harbors
"conspiracy theories" about 9/11 to be a potential terrorist, in a
circular released to local police departments.
The memo thus adds 9/11-official-story skeptics
to a growing list of targets described by federal law enforcement to be
security threats, such as those who express
"libertarian philosophies," "Second Amendment-oriented views," interest
in "self-sufficiency," "fears of Big Brother or big government," and
"Declarations of Constitutional rights and civil liberties."
A newly released national poll shows that 48 percent of Americans either have some doubts about the official account of 9/11, or do not believe it at all.
The FBI circular entitled "Potential Indicators of Terrorist Activities
Related to Sleepers" says that people who should be 'considered
suspicious' of possible involvement in "terrorist activity" include
those who hold the "attitude" described as " Conspiracy theories about
Westerners." The circular continues: "e.g. (sic) the CIA arranged for
9/11 to legitimize the invasion of foreign lands."
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"Sleepers" refers to "sleeper cells," in FBI jargon, which are
terrorists awaiting orders to be activated into terrorist activity.
In 1998 it was declassified by the Pentagon that the Joint Chiefs of
Staff had approved a plan, in 1962, to attack and kill US citizens to
"provide justifications for US military intervention in Cuba." The plan
was code-named Operation Northwoods, the face page of the declassified document is below.
The FBI document also includes as reason for suspicion of involvement in terrorist activities:
The document cites "fury" at the "global policies of the U.S."
Among well-known doubters of the official 9/11 account are many military officers, law enforcement personnel, firefighters, and pilots, all working through affinity groups. One is US Army Major General Albert Stubblebine, who has said of the three buildings which fell on 9/11:
"Excusing violence against Americans on the grounds that American actions provoked the problem."The latter is an apparent reference to thinking such as the "blowback" doctrine, which criticizes US foreign policy and links alleged errors in that policy, such as the invasion of iraq, to terrorist activity.
"They didn't fall down because airplanes hit them. They fell down because of explosives went off inside. Demolition."Most recently, former Fox News anchorman Ben Swann has questioned the official 9/11 story.
This September 11th a group of citizens, architects, and engineers, led by families of 9/11 victims, unveiled an international ad campaign
questioning the official version of 9/11. The campaign is sponsoring
signs and billboards around the world which ask the question: "Did you
know a third tower fell on 9/11?"
The 9/11 issue has been actively pursued on the Internet, and largely excluded by the major media. However, news organizations such as Time have covered the architects and engineers billboard campaign, sponsored by a group called 2,000 Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth.
Bloggers and other citizens have long argued that the science employed by the official story is impossible, and that the three towers must have been destroyed by some other means.
As the FBI circular states, some argue that 9/11 was planned by a
covert, relatively small but well-placed coup faction within the US
government "to legitimize the invasion of foreign lands," notably Iraq
and the Middle East. In 2005 General Wesley Clark, former presidential
candidate, said that he was given a copy of a memo by a ranking member
of the Bush administration that revealed that war hawks in the Pentagon
planned on attacking "seven countries in five years," with Iraq only the beginning.
Other federal law enforcement agencies have been criticized for sweeping
characterizations of potential terrorists, which demonize
Constitutionally protected activity.
In 2011, 18-year law enforcement
veteran James Wesley Rawles warned
that the Department of Homeland Security was being trained to consider
as potential terrorists, among other people, those who had expressed
"libertarian philosophies, "Second Amendment-oriented views,"
"Self-sufficiency (stockpiling food, ammo, hand tools, medical
supplies,) "Fear of economic collapse," "fears of Big Brother or big
government," and "Declarations of Constitutional rights and civil
liberties." Since Hurricane Katrina, food stockpiling consultants and
merchants have reported greater-than-ever activity and interest in storing long-term supplies of non-perishable food and water supplies.
In 2012 NetworkWorld.com reported on an entire set of "Communities Against Terrorism" circulars coming out of the Bureau for justice Assistance.
