I woke up that morning rather groggily my mother was away so I'd had a bit of a get together the night before and was rather delicate. My mate came round about 11 and told me the Towers had come down. My first reaction was so what? This was simply the latest in a long line of terrorist bombings around the World and being British I was well used to bombings on the mainland. Then my mum phoned she was worried as she was in London and that's ALWAYS a target. Then my mums ex came round saying put the tv on. All this wasn't helping my hangover so I grumpily turned it on.
So I watched.
I remember thinking this was like a movie with reportage courtesy of Chris Morris the Satirist. Even the coverage of Princess Di's death wasn't as OTT as this? Hell there'd just been a bombing in Africa where we'd seen the shocking footage of the naked bottom half of a dismembered woman splattered over the one o'clock news now that was really nasty so y'know c'mon BBC just calm down? It was just another terrorist bombing ffs get a grip and carry on. But no the hype just kept building the drama the drama!!! And all the time the looped footage of the plane going in over and over.
And I turned to my mate and said, “This is a Magic Trick”.
What I meant was as a seasoned newshound I was used to how the news was presented but the sheer emotional manipulation, the deliberate ramping up of hysteria and the drama the drama!!! were NEW! I'd never seen this kind of approach before or since even 7/7 was presented on msm more soberly even if that coverage owed a lot to 9/11. This wasn't a report on a terrorist attack covered on rolling news networks this was a SHOW an EVENT a David Copperfield EXTRAVAGANZA of Fear,Tragedy and the complete abandonment of balanced reporting bias and the kind of EMOTIONEERING worthy of fucking Hollywood Schmaltz like The Shawshank Redemption doing all it can to make you cry.
The reporters were shaking like they were orgasming over the idea of thousands of people dead the excitement the spectacle and oh the sheer drama while feigning Rita Hayworth level over dramatic Grief! And it was like a vortex of hysteria I'd seen before in hoax tv shows like Ghostwatch the dramatic whipping up of titillation and terror that didn't fool me and neither did this. When the media try to push on you the idea we are telling you this is really really important it's pure instinct to say let me be the judge of that. To weigh events yourself not to be told so.
I smelled Shenanigans as did my mate we consciously didn't get sucked into the narrative we refused to suspend our disbelief. We kept our heads. It wasn't to demean the dead we were genuinely sorry for them, not for the country of America that patriotic brainwashing is a portal to Hell. The innocent victims died that day not the whole country. A lot of hysterical diarrhea fuelled the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq the Americans are too vulnerable at being used by their Establishment for corporate whims. And I truly love my American friends because they are the first to point it out. It's two countries on one half the bovine on the other the Brave. The events of that day were dreadful a disgusting waste of life but to an outsider when a sober fusty institution like BBC news is doing every single emotional manipulation in the book like a straight to video hollywood schmaltz fest about a kid with cancer or something by God we smelled a Rat.
So we spent the day (after mum's ex had gone) spliffing up and boozing watching with a sense of detachment. And that night pretty late the reporters started talking about this guy called Osama Bin Laden and we clapped our hands and shouted “Ah THERE we Go!!!” we now had the villain of the piece a Dick Dastardly tying Penelope Pitstop to the Railway Tracks black hearted baddie! We had it the big piece of the puzzle. We took the piss as they showed OBL giving a speech shouting the ingredients of chicken soup at the tv. That's the level of contempt we had for the bullshit trumped up rabbit from a hat tale we were being tantalised by. And the bigger picture began to form. In less than one day we suspected the Military Industrial Complex not this regional guerrila fighter from the mountains.
9/11 was crowbarred into being the defining moment of the Century by a Power hungry Establishment and a complicit media. As Andyh says all possible evidence is gone so all possible relevance is now diluted to the point of insignificance. Everything we saw that day is suspect everything we think we know is probably wrong. It's a hoodwink on a truly amazing scale. Every 9/11 group was infiltrated and destroyed from within. We have been successfully deflected from any possible answers to that days events.
It took years of planning and years to build up to. The gradual building up of conspiracy theories in the mainstream publics consciousness,the embedding of doubts in official narratives,the deliberate leaving mistakes in the footage (everythings a red herring). It stands as the ultimate psyop the ultimate magic trick every single clue leads through ever more convoluted roads to nowhere. The most audacious hijacking of human consciousness ever. It has infected everything in it's wake.
Since then the same tricks have been tried with Sandy Hook, The Batman Shootings, The Boston Marathon, The Gifford Shooting, 7/7 over and over with ever decreasing effect. The secret of a truly great magic trick is to do it once to leave it's audience spellbound once because it maybe the greatest trick you've ever seen but it's only the greatest the first time you see it. Because when the Establishment tries that shit again you'll be primed to be ready for it.
