by chycho

A must read for every citizen of the United States of America is Gore Vidal’s “Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated.” It is a short read that provides a lot of information and raises many important questions about the American Empire.

What I personally got from reading this book was how articulate Timothy McVeigh was in expressing his opinion and forming an argument - Vidal shared many of their dispatches. This was surprising to me since Western Mainstream Media (AKA the government ) portrayed McVeigh as an illiterate lunatic. Gore Vidal proved otherwise. But this post is not about Timothy McVeigh or Gore Vidal, it’s about truth and the consequences of American apathy.

Yesterday, on September 27, the FBI released long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building. Unfortunately, however, the tapes are “blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited”

“‘The real story is what's missing,’ said Jesse Trentadue, a Salt Lake City attorney who obtained the recordings through the federal Freedom of Information Act as part of an unofficial inquiry he is conducting into the April 19, 1995, bombing that killed 168 people and injured hundreds more…

“The tapes turned over by the FBI came from security cameras various companies had mounted outside office buildings near the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. They are blank at points before 9:02 a.m., when a truck bomb carrying a 4,000 pound fertilizer-and-fuel-oil bomb detonated in front of the building, Trentadue said.

“‘Four cameras in four different locations going blank at basically the same time on the morning of April 19, 1995. There ain't no such thing as a coincidence,’ Trentadue said. He said government officials claim the security cameras did not record the minutes before the bombing because ‘they had run out of tape’ or ‘the tape was being replaced.’

“‘The interesting thing is they spring back on after 9:02,’ he said. ‘The absence of footage from these crucial time intervals is evidence that there is something there that the FBI doesn't want anybody to see.’”

Raw Video: New Look at Oklahoma City Bombing

There are many unanswered questions regarding this event, which is why, in 2007, former deputy assistant director Danny Coulson called for a new investigation.

“Mr Coulson spent 31 years in the FBI. Between 1991 and 1997 he was the deputy assistant director of the Criminal Division of the FBI in Washington, responsible for all violent crime cases in the United States…

“Mr Coulson said a federal grand jury is now needed to find out what really happened: ‘We have victims here and we have victims' families and we don't even know the answers. And the answer is frankly for a federal grand jury.’

“He argues this is the only way to prove whether other people were involved in the bombing in a wider conspiracy beyond Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, who was also convicted of manslaughter and conspiracy and sentenced to life in jail…

“Mr Coulson also says that FBI headquarters closed down part of their own investigation into a white separatist community called Elohim City, which conspiracy theorists believe was involved in the attack, with government knowledge.”

The Oklahoma City bombing was the pretence that the US government needed to introduce the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. A law that “had a tremendous impact on the law of habeas corpus in the United States.” It was a harbinger of what was to come with the Patriot Act, which was introduced after 911 and signed into law by George W. Bush on 26 October 2001. This law, in essence, rendered the US Constitution as nothing more than toilet paper.

"The Constitution is just a piece of paper" - G.W. Bush

I find it incredible that 14 years after the Oklahoma City bombing the FBI has the gull to release blacked out videos from the incident. I wonder how long it will take the FBI, or the CIA, or whatever organization is in charge of suppressing information about 911, to release all the tapes from the attack on the Pentagon - all 85 of them, not just a blurry short.

If you would like further information on the Oklahoma City bombing then consider watching the following two documentaries. The first is “Murder in the Heartland”, a 1995 independent production with a tremendous amount of information, news footage, and many in-depth interviews. The second is a 2007 BBC production which raises many of the same questions, albeit, it is sugar coated for mass consumption.

Oklahoma City Bombing: Murder in the Heartland

BBC - Conspiracy Files - Oklahoma City Bombing

Source: http://www.chycho.com/?q=Oklahoma_911