July 23, 2005
This is a story about disappearing
terrorists, nonexistent bags, and botched investigations, but most of
all, this is a story about magic bombs.
It's Crime Scene Investigation 101. It's the
basic law of physics. It's so elementary, my dear Watson, that even a
dancer who was dazed from the shock of being seated directly over the
spot where one of the bombs was planted in the London tube carriage two
weeks ago could figure it out. In a seemingly innocuous article
in the British newspaper Cambridge Evening News, 32 year-old dance
instructor Bruce Lait, in an interview from his hospital bed, said that
"The policeman said 'mind that hole, that's where the bomb was'. The
metal was pushed upwards as if the bomb was underneath the train. They
seem to think the bomb was left in a bag, but I don't remember anybody
being where the bomb was, or any bag."
Read that last part again, very slowly, and let
it sink in. "The metal was pushed upwards as if the bomb was underneath
the train." "They seem to think the bomb was left in a bag, but I don't
remember anybody being where the bomb was, or any bag." And
the British authorities on the crime scene missed that, and just
assumed that it was a carry-on bomb? C'mon, how many times have you
seen that bad TV show where the eccentric detective figures out that
the crime was an "inside job" because the glass was outside the broken
window, not inside where it should have been. I repeat: Crime Scene
Investigation 101. Basic physics.
While describing the scene, Lait said about he
and his dance partner Crystal Main, "Out of that whole carriage, I
think Crystal and I were the only ones who were not seriously injured,
and I think we were nearest the bomb."
He went on to describe those sitting closest to
him and Main when the bomb went off. "I remember an Asian guy, there
was a white guy with tracksuit trousers and a baseball cap, and there
were two old ladies sitting opposite me." He described the woman whose
body was lying on top of him when he regained consciousness as a
"middle-aged woman who had blonde curly hair, was dressed in black, and
could have been a businesswoman."
Again, play close attention here. "We were
nearest the bomb." An Asian guy, a white guy, two old ladies, and a
blond businesswoman......and two dancers.
So.....if the bomb was in a bag carried on by
the terrorist, how could two dancers be "nearest the bomb"? And why
didn't the person who was the closest eyewitness see the bomber, or
even ANYONE, sitting where the bomb went off? Why was the metal pushed
upwards if the bomb was inside of the train carriage? Let's put this in perspective, piece by piece: "The metal was pushed upwards as if the bomb was underneath the train." "I don't remember anybody being where the bomb was, or any bag." "We were nearest the bomb." An Asian guy, a white guy, two old ladies, and a blond businesswoman......and two dancers.
Here we go again. Another terrorist event with
more questions than answers, questions that the major media (yet again)
aren't even asking. Hell, I'll even take a stab at answering them: The metal was pushed upwards because THE BOMB WAS UNDERNEATH THE TRAIN.
Lait didn't remember seeing anyone, or a bag
that could be holding a bomb, near the point of detonation because
there was no bomber sitting there, there was no bag. THE BOMB WAS
UNDERNEATH THE TRAIN. An Asian guy,
a white guy, two old ladies, and a blond businesswoman......and two
dancers. There was no Islamic radical, no Mideastern terrorist sitting
in that carriage. THE BOMB WAS UNDERNEATH THE TRAIN.
Dance partners Bruce Lait and Crystal Main were
nearest the bomb.....again, no Islamic radical, no Mideastern terrorist
sitting in that carriage. THE BOMB WAS UNDERNEATH THE TRAIN. We were praised by some, and criticized by others, for posting an article by Jeff Buckley (entitled "London Calling")
the day after the first London bombings two weeks ago that questioned
the motives behind the bombings, and that asked readers to view the
inevitable "official government response" with a healthy grain of
skepticism. Here's how Jeff so aptly put it:
"So, when you see the headlines dominated by
this story and the mounting evidence of lies, deception, and treason
being forever pushed to the back burner, be sure to ask yourself, 'Who
benefits from this?' Before you throw your support behind
administrations that only have doublespeak, deceit, and death to show
for their efforts, be sure to ask yourself, 'Who benefits from this?'
And, before you allow yourself to be steamrolled and swept away by the
inevitable surge of jingoistic retaliatory euphoria, be sure to ask
yourself, 'Who benefits from this?'" "Who benefits from this?"
So here we are, barely two weeks (and another
"symbolic" bombing episode) later, and the voices of the Far Right are
busy spinning this as yet another excuse for the war in Iraq.....even
though the suspected terrorists are Pakistanis. (Sound familiar? The
9/11 terrorists were mostly from Saudi Arabia, so...."Let's bomb
Iraq!") "Who benefits from this?"
Here we are barely two weeks later, and the
disciples of doublespeak are busy blaming a group of suicide bombers
with carry-on bags, even though those who died are the most unlikely
group of "suicide bombers" ever to commit an act of terrorism. "Who benefits from this?"
Here we are barely two weeks later, and Bush
and Company is using the London bombings to.....successfully.....push
through the renewal of the Patriot Act. "Screw the Constitution,
they're bombing us!" The official
spinmeisters are either ignoring the signs that something is just not
right here, or dismissing those of us who are questioning the official
response as the usual bunch of fringe conspiracy theorists.
Well guess what? If we don't keep asking the
hard questions, and demanding honest, straightforward answers to those
questions, then no one will. They've deceived us a million times
before, and if honest Americans....and Englanders....don't continue to
hold our public officials accountable for their actions and demand the
truth, then they will continue to spoon feed us lie after lie after
lie....until we eventually all suffocate under the weight of mass
deception. And THAT'S the Faulking Truth.
(Editor's note: A special thanks to http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ for once again pointing me in the right direction, and to Jeff Buckley for making us ask the "hard questions".)
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