| We've all seen the video. It figures prominently in
Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11". It is the
video of George Bush at Booker Elementary School being
informed by Andy Card of the second impact of a passenger
jetliner into the World Trade Center, then sitting there
for several minutes reading about goats. What damns
the Bush administration is not what is in this video, but
what SHOULD be in the video and is not. Ostensibly, Bush
and Card are reacting to a surprise attack, but Bush does
not act surprised, and Andrew Card does not act like a
man delivering an unexpected piece of news but instead is
merely delivering a progress report to which he already
knows Bush will not have an immediate response.
There is one more thing that should be in this video
and isn't, and that is the Secret Service, the protective
detail whose one and only job is the President's safety.
The fictional Sherlock Holmes solved the crime in
"Silver Blaze" deducing that it is the owner of
the house who is the criminal. How does he know? Because
the dog did not bark. The only criminal who could could
carry out the crime and not arouse the dog was a criminal
the dog already knew as a friend, the dog's owner.
Now let us turn our Sherlockian logic on 9-11.
Hijacked aircraft were wandering across the eastern half
of the country. In theory nobody could have known how
many there are or if more planes were not in the process
of being hijacked. How could they? Two of the planes had
crashed into the World Trade Center. There is an airport only four
miles from Booker Elementary School, and Bush's presence at the school was in the news media days
in advance. The Sarasota Herald Tribune announced Bush's visit
to Booker on September 8th, given the 9-11 planners three days to
include Bush as a target for a diving jetliner. Nobody could have
safely assumed he was not a target.
And yet the Secret Service did not rush in and remove
the President to a secure location, or at least to the
safety of the armored Presidential Limousine. That's
their job. That's what they do in the case of a real
surprise attack with so many unknowns. They don't do
anything else.
But the Secret Service did nothing. The dog did not
bark.
Bush defenders try to explain away Bush's inaction as
not wanting to upset the children. Michael Moore explains
away Bush's inaction by suggesting he hadn't been told to
leave. But Michael Moore failed to follow that line of
reasoning through to its logical conclusion; where were
the people whose job it is to get the President to a
place of safety in event of attack, the people who would
have, SHOULD have, pulled Bush out of there, children and
public appearances be damned! And as long as the children remained in that room, their lives were also at risk from a potential crashing plane. Let me repeat that last part. Keeping those people in that class room risked all of their lives, children included, from a potential inbound threat.
The Secret Service did nothing. The dog did not bark.
If the events of 9-11 were really a surprise to the
United States Government, then there is no way that the
Secret Service could know there wasn't a hijacked or
stolen plane headed towards Booker Elementary School that
very second. The Secret Service could not know that Bush wasn't in danger. The Secret Service could not know that all those teachers and children weren't in danger.
The Secret Service did nothing. The dog did not bark.
The Secret Service should be in that video but they
are not. From their inaction, it is clear that the Secret
Service KNEW FOR A FACT THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS NOT A
TARGET OF ONE OF THE HIJACKED PLANES. And the only way
anyone could know that for a fact at that particular moment is to
have known what the targets of the hijacked planes were,
at that particular moment, standing there in the school.
The Secret Service did nothing. The dog did not bark.
Quod Erat Demonstradum, the Bush Administration was
part of the 9-11 plot.
Start posting this story on other internet
sites and calling on those readers to write to
the media and to the congress.
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