'Back
to school' no longer stands out as September's main event
to me ...ever since 9/11.
It's
hard to believe that September 11, 2006 marks five years
since the devastating terrorist attacks on America. I for
one believe it is extremely important to remember and
recount what happened that day, so that we don't lose sight
of the nature and goals of the enemy we face in
this war on terror.
I've
heard some say we need to 'move on', that we've 'remembered'
enough. Others question if it's too soon to
remember through movie images such as
Flight
93 and World
Trade Center. Still
others, such as Bill Clinton try to censor accounts such as
"The Path to 9/11" which airs this September 9th
and 10th on ABC.
Five
years later there are still those who believe and promote
9/11 conspiracy theories, such as Kevin
Barrett who will teach a class on Islam at the
University of Wisconsin this fall, despite the protests over 60
state legislators. He is a hero to conspiracy theorists.
The
community of 'believers' who propagate their 9/11
conspiracy 'doctrine' over the internet and in
articles and even books
have even found their way to air their theories on C-SPAN. As
WorldNetDaily
reports: some of the conspiracy theories that began
almost immediately after the attacks of 9/11 include: "4,000
Jews had supposedly been warned to stay home from the World
Trade Center that day; Flight 93 had been shot down over
Pennsylvania by the U.S. military; George W. Bush's delay in
ending his visit with elementary school students when told
of the World Trade Center attacks signaled that perhaps he
had prior knowledge of the events" ....that 9/11 events
were an 'inside job.' Time
magazine talks about Why
9/11 Conspiracy Theories Won't Go Away this week.
But,
even though I've had numerous readers send me articles and links
and DVDs with these conspiracy accounts, I'm not a
'believer.' There are too many accounts to the contrary, and common
sense realities that they fail to answer, such as (just to
name a few): If it wasn't an airplane that hit the Pentagon,
what happened to the pilots and passengers who were on
board that flight,
including Author and founder of the Independent Women's
Forum, Barbara Olson? What do they say to all those
at the Pentagon who saw the airplane fly into the building,
and those
who were witnesses who escaped to tell about it, such as
Lt.
Col. Linda Herbert in her book, The
Pentagon Miracle? who we've had on the show which
will re-air on September
7th and September
13th.
My
purpose here is not to argue these
or other conspiracy theory points. My purpose is
to simply point out that the truth about one of the
most serious events in U.S. history, the terrorist attacks
of 9/ll, is under attack itself...and that some
on the far-left and on the far-right are saying the same
things...the
same things our enemies are saying...who
are the ones with the real ones with a conspiracy.
I'm not
interested in speculations.
I'm interested in hard facts...in the
truth. And while I will probably receive unnumbered
responses to what I've just said
from conspiracy believers, what I've said needs to be
said because it is estimated
that 1/3 of Americans are starting to believe some of these conspiracy
theories, proving
once again what Nazi propaganda chief Joseph
Goebbels said, "If the lie is big enough and told often
enough, it will be believed." I'm glad the
government has started to address these conspiracy theories and
speculations. The
sad thing is that there are some people who are more
interested in believing what they believe than in knowing
the truth.
September
11th, 2001 changed the world forever. Let's not let the
enemy be victorious on the ground, in the air, or
through propaganda tactics...even, and especially, within
our own country.
Sharon Hughes
is Founder and President of The Center for Changing Worldviews
and a radio talk show host on KDIA AM1640 in San
Francisco, RIGHTALK.com, and
online at Oneplace.com. Her column appears in many
recognized news sites and publications, most recently FRONTPAGEMAG.
She also writes for
NewsBusters.org.,
a division of The Media Research Center. For
further information visit her Websites www.changingworldviews.com,
WOMANTalk.us,
and Blog http://changingworldviews.blogspot.com.