Hi Don,
I've had the opportunity to meet and have a long conversation with Dr. Griffin and his wife. They are 100% straight-shooters. They are about as opposite of the craven self-promoters that you have misconstrued Dr. Griffin to be as can be possible.
Dr. Griffin is someone just like you, me and others who contribute here who are sincerely attempting to get at the truth about 9/11.
Dr. Griffin has little to gain financially from his efforts, and puts himself at great risk of suffering the fate of a Dr. David Kelly, Cliff Baxter, Gary Webb or Paul Wellstone.
Somedays, Don, you just seem plain ornery. :) As do I on a lot of occasions. But I think that your disparagement of Dr. Griffin is simply misguided. Let's face reality. Dr. Griffin is vastly more effective than anyone on this thread at raising eyebrows among the American people. For that he is to be congratulated and admired. And not be treated to what appears to nothing but a jealous hissy-fit.
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Re: Wargames and the Standdown --
As to Dr. Griffin's lack of research into the various wargames being simulated on 9/11, in the Q&A session following Griffin's speech, he directly addresses the issue and states that he had not done the exhaustive research that has been done by Michael Ruppert (see Chapter 19 of "Crossing the Rubicon") but that Dr. Griffin was in basic agreement with Ruppert, particularly regarding the fact that the chain of command on wargames seemed to end in the Vice-President's office. Griffin agrees with Ruppert's conclusion that there is every appearance that Dick Cheney was the mastermind of 9/11.
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Re: he most carefully avoids any mention of the Israeli connections to the events of 9/11, or how that connection is tied into PNAC.
Let's be reasonable about this. Dr. Griffin's lecture was a one hour "call to arms" for the religious people in America to first of all educate themselves, and then to take action. In his book "The New Pearl Harbor", there is abundant evidence that Dr. Griffin has studied PNAC. Hell, it was PNAC's white paper that gave Griffin the title to the book, ferchissakes. You are simply off your rocker with this wild accusation that Griffin is cutting PNAC too much slack. As to the speculations that Mossad was involved in 9/11, the key word is "speculation". There is no smoking gun tying Mossad to 9/11. Dr. Griffin would lose much more credibility with the general public by wild speculations in that regard, although it would be gratifying to some like you and me who both see the ultra-Zionist agenda being furthered by 9/11.
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Re: On the evidence of foreknowledge, he limits himself to two hearsay accounts
Have you read either of Dr. Griffin's books, Don? In the books he is much more expansive than he could possibly have been in a one hour presentation. Keep in mind that the transcript of the Madison event runs to nine pages. Or 14 if you include the notes, which he could not in the oral presentation.
911citizenswatch.org>
So, comparing these nine pages to the 200 to 300 pages in each of the books is rather silly.
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Re: He begins his rant with a sermon on the religious implications of 9/11. Aside from the fact there is no religious tie in of any kind, mixing politics with religion is an instant turn off to a very large cross section of the population.
Please take a look at the videos on this page:
theocracywatch.org
Have you lost any grasp on reality? The U.S. is currently being run by a bunch of rightwing religious nutcases who are waging a Crusade against the Muslim world which was implicated in 9/11 as being guilty of a war on our civilization. Of course religion is at the very heart of what occurred on 9/11. Although it does appear to be the case that what really happened is that 9/11 was perpetrated by Christians and blamed on Muslims so that Christians could steal the Muslims' oil. So, in that sense, 9/11 is more about thievery than religion. But they do seem to mix into quite an explosive cocktail of deceit, superstition, arrogance and xenophobic genocide.
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Re: IMO, Griffin should be tarred, feathered and ridden out of town on a rail.
IMO, you should lay off the whiskey before further embarrassment at the keyboard. And avoid making accusations about Dr. Griffin's purported profiteering; an accusation that is wildly off the mark.
Your friend, Ray :) |
