The Ghosts of 9-1-1

Posted in Reviews, 9/11, Truth on September 11th, 2007

REVIEW - The Ghosts of 9-1-1 as found in:

on the Justice of Roosting ChickensReflections on the Consequences of U.S. Imperial Arrogance and Criminality

by Ward Churchill
2003

Before the media understood who had carried out the 9/11 attacks - never mind why - they proclaimed the attacks “unprovoked” and “senseless”. This inexplicable exhortation to innocence was within days encapsulated by Newsweek - “Why, do they hate us so much?”

Ward Churchill:

The question was and remains boggling in its temerity, so much so that after a lifetime of spelling out the reasons, one is tempted to respond with a certain weary cynicism, perhaps repeating Malcolm X’s penetrating observation about chickens coming home to roost and leaving it at that.2 Still, mindful of the hideous human costs attending the propensity of Good Americans, like Good Germans, to dodge responsibility by anchoring professions of innocence in claims of near-total ignorance concerning the crimes of their corporate state, one feels obliged to try and deny them the option of such pretense. It is thus necessary that at least a few of those whose ravaged souls settled in upon the WTC and the Pentagon be named.

If you think yourself innocent because ignorant are you ready and willing to become culpable via knowledge? (If not, would it be impertinent to suggest your innocence lacks innocence?) The question has just been put before you: knowledge with all its weight or ignorance with its pretense to innocence? “I didn’t know,” isn’t going to cut it folks.

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