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George Walker Bush do solemnly swear that
I will faithfully execute the office of

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President of the United
States that I will faithfully

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execute the office of the
President of the United States.

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Bush as taking control of the White
House through an election that

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was basically an apartheid
election before five months before

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the elections held in November of
2 thousand George Bush\'s brother

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Jed because the governor of
Florida and the Secretary of

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State of Florida who\'s in charge
of the voting who happened to

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also be the chairwoman of
his presidential campaign.

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Katherine Harris.

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She has his

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campaign chief.

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He got his brother is the
governor running the election.

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And they took advantage of a JEB
bush and Katherine Harris and the

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Secretary of State made a
deal with a private company

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spent $4 million gave it to DBT database
technologies to purge the voter rolls.

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We have a statute that says we have to have

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a private company to do this.
We put it out for bad.

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They got the bed. And I think I\'m
done with his interview went.

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Well let me just say let me
just show you the contract.

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If I could Mr. OK.. Well

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Mr. Roberts I\'m not trying to give
you a tough time with Roberts.

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They made up a list of 94 thousand people.

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And they remove them from the
voting rolls of Florida.

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Said they can\'t vote.

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The reason they said they can\'t vote
as he said they\'re all criminals.

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And in Florida if you\'re a convicted
criminal you you lose your right to vote.

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In fact almost none of them were

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convicted criminals of ninety four
thousand ninety one thousand at least were

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completely innocent of any crime
except that over half of them

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were guilty of being black or

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Hispanic no spin and I needed to know have you
ever busted no ions being ticket probably.

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25-30 years ago I guess someone like that.

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But that\'s about it.

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You think you should be allowed to vote if
he had a speeding ticket have some food

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And almost all of those
voters vote Democratic.

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Now you have to understand
that in the State of Florida

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the entire presidency of the
United States was determined.

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In the state of Florida by 537
votes that\'s it 537 votes.

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Then we moved on to a Supreme Court
in America which was basically fixed.

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In fact the members who voted to
give George Bush the election.

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One of them actually said we better stop

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the vote count in Florida
Supreme Court stopped it it was

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a completely political decision
by people put in by his father

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And his political allies.

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So maybe it\'s best rather than saying
President Bush President Bush.

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Even Al Gore who lost
the race through theft.

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He\'s so ingrained in the system.

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He\'s a very rich kid.

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He was a senator he\'s part of the power structure
that he was more concerned about saving

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The image and a 40 of the power structure
than he was about getting the votes counted.

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After the election I felt it
was time to go back and have

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a second look to investigate
what happened in Florida and

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the idea was to try to speak to the voters
and analyze what actually happened how

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the recount was sabotaged and why the
Democrats also didn\'t educate voters enough.

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They registered them but
they didn\'t educate them.

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So this is an indictment
really of the political system

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of both political parties and
of the American media which

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failed to do a good job to

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a 350 news crews in Palm Beach
Florida but they miss the big story.

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They did not really understand what was
actually happening to the voters of Florida.

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As we all know the television news media in
America called The election prematurely.

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They called bush as a winner when in
fact the election was too close to call.

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When all the votes had not
yet been counted that

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might have affected the election itself but

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beyond that they fail to really investigate
how voters in Florida with disenfranchised.

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They didn\'t really report on the
on the way in which the people

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who had been in prison were disqualified
from voting often improperly.

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They didn\'t really report on the racial
bias of the exclusion of voters.

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They didn\'t really report on the on
the problems of the butterfly ballot.

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An other words there was
no background offered.

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There was no attempt to really
ensure that all votes were counted.

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And that\'s really the essence
of democracy count every vote.

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And all those who are uncounted.

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And as a consequence the man that won

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the national majority Al Gore lost

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the election because of Florida\'s
electoral votes and because of

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the intervention of the United States
Supreme Court parts of the story we\'re

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told but a lot of the story was not

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told and that\'s why we made the
film counting on democracy

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Thank what I took out of
that more powerfully than

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any other impression was
realizing how committed much of

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the mainstream press is not to the left or the
right but simply to the status quo and to

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a certain type of stability the story of

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the wipeout of the Black
voters was reported in Europe.

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I report I uncovered the story.

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I report it for BBC
television are reported it in

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the Guardian observer newspapers and I
couldn\'t report it in the United States.

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Editors here did not want to hear anything

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but how wonderful our
election system is and how

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democratic it felt as if they had
all said Okay he\'s the President.

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And our job is to accept that.

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And the story is over

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We\'re not going to go back over that graph.

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We saw lots of commentary saying
time to move on time to move on.

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I remember The New York Times ran a
front-page news analysis piece by

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RAW apple explaining the
whole upset election might

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seem discomforting right now but

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after Americans had gotten used
to seeing a George Bush looking

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Presidential on TV newscasts
they would come to accept

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the idea tonight after I count a recount.

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And yet another manual recount
Secretary Cheney and I are honored and

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humbled to have won the state of Florida
which gives us the needed electoral votes

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The election.

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So now

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we have a a guy in the White House is
talking about bringing democracy to Iraq.

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Yet we\'ve got a guy who made sure
that there was no democracy in

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Florida Bush received not the
majority of the popular vote.

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He Al Gore his opponent received
a majority of the popular vote.

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And Bush was put into office by a five
to four vote of the Supreme Court.

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There was a political coup you might
say really not an election or COOH

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Well the election of 2 thousand
was the end of the republic.

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This is corporate America as one.

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Putting in place a president who was not

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elected getting the Supreme
Court to delay and delay.

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When under the tenth amendment
every decision about the voting

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in Florida should be made by
the Florida Supreme Court.

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Not the US Supreme Court which the
Constitution rules out in matters of election.

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And they were stolen by

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the Secretary of State that lady who has
now been rewarded with a seat in Congress

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the President\'s brother they are losing

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president candidates brother was
governor and he took part in it.

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And the court did by five to four.

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To five should have recused
themselves should have just

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withdrawn from the case when Gore
versus Bush came before the court.

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Why one of them Scalia had a son

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who was working for the bush team of
lawyers before the Supreme Court.

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Does Justice Scalia recuse himself as
he should because it\'s honored arguing.

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Now he wants to kill gore

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He wants to make sure
that the bad guys win.

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Thomas wife was busy getting

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Curriculum Vitae of potential people
to serve in a bush administration.

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Clarence Thomas should have recused
himself and withdrawn from the case.

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In which case it would have
been four to three for Gore

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who would now be president
and Iraq and Afghanistan.

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I could guarantee would
not have been knocked

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down in order to benefit
Halliburton and vector.

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And back of that there\'s some interesting
organization going on which is hard too

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determine Opus Dei.

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Both Scalia and Thomas have connections with
Opus Dei which is secret Catholic order.

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Originally fascist General Franco in
Spain was sort of godfather to it.

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And we don\'t know much about it.

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I make no charges but I
simply bring up questions.

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Why not ask questions of these people
does it suit Opus Dei that wishes

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president now we\'re getting
into God territory which

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I normally would stay away from as

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any good American should if not my
business other people\'s religions.

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But bushes born again.

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It\'s why he uses biblical
language evil. He evil.

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He evil do it. Well that\'s
theological language.

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Say he\'s Batman it\'s a dishonest
man ruthless man evil do.

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And he believes the end
of the world is coming.

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He\'s born agains believe in Rapture.

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They don\'t care about this world.

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When it ends he\'s gonna be lifted up.

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George W Bush will be lifted up in a state
of rapture into the bosom of Our Lord.

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Also among the board again
category that\'ll not.

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That kind of Protestant is Tony Blair

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it has become like his wife Roman Catholic.

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So now we have two boys who
think that Jesus wants them for

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sunbeams and were willing to put at risk.

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I\'m extrapolating on my own
just from the evidence at hand.

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This is mostly humorous.

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You can judge it as you may but
to believers in our Lord\'s

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coming and Armageddon and the end of

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the world this is the way Ronald Reagan
used to tar and made him very popular.

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In the southern states those states don\'t
have much in the way of population.

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But they have a very strong born-again
Evangelical Christians Protestants.

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And they believe in our Lord returning
at any moment they are the swing vote in

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those states because of the
Electoral College they don\'t

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have much population but they have a
lot of electoral votes among them.

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The Electoral College was Devise you call
yourself democracy and you\'re very un-American.

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The founding fathers did not want
democracy in the United States ever.

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They also did not want
tyranny a king or Hitler.

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They wanted a republic and they
divide is the Electoral College.

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So the majority could
never control anything

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So you have a popular vote out there
and those days it was just for

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Congress then there was
one electoral vote per

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congressmen one per Senator in

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the state and some other officials and
they get together and decide the election.

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So Scalia was doing is he was going back

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to the Electoral College
in order to put together

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a majority to put in

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his candidate who will probably

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hastened the end of the world at an
over Scalia we\'ll be hearing rapture.

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He may be or it may be

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I got to the corner of a ighteenth Street him
and there was a street side vendor there

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with his cart and he had the car of

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his car door opened and he
was listening to the radio.

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And I stood and I listened to the reports.

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And I couldn\'t believe what I was hearing.

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But just then one of the buildings fell
and I\'m not sure which building it was at

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that point but I was completely
stunned as as as everyone was.

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And I walked slowly down 18th Street.

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And suddenly I looked over
and there was a there was

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a young man Oh I would
say in his late thirties

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standing in the middle of the street in the
middle of Luckily no cars were coming.

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And he was crying hysterically

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and I walked over to him.

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And there put my arm around him.

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And I said Did you lose someone and
he said no but it\'s so terrible.

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And I took him and I loved him over and I

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kind of put him next to a
car where he was safe.

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Never for a moment thinking
that I might floss someone.

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I never occurred to me.

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And I I walked on and I guess I
came to the doctor\'s office.

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I realized that my nephew worked in the
Second World trade tower on the 84th floor

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My my nephew\'s buddy was found.

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The next the next week he had
gotten out of the building

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but was crushed by the building when it fell
he was found not far from the building.

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Has been taken an early trained to work.

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If he had taken a later train
wouldn\'t have been there

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We spoke on the phone actually
what he called my office

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about 08:00 AM we were making
plans for the weekend.

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We\'re actually going to stay in the hotel and
it\'s connected to the World Trade Center.

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We were going to come back
on the weekend and spend

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the weekend in New York we
were together since they were

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16 years old we met very early and he was
the only person for me for 34 years.

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The morning of September 11th.

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We both went to work and
I was in a meeting.

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And I heard that the plane had
hit the World Trade Center.

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So I ran to my phone.

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I had a message from him saying
that it was the other building

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As soon as I heard the
second building was hit

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I wanted as much information

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as I could I left a message on my
answering machine that Sean I\'m home.

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I went home. I heard from him at 930.

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At which point I select.

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Are you thinking he\'s going to tell
me he\'s on Broadway or something.

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And he said I\'m on a 154.

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That\'s when I knew he wasn\'t coming home.

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When we realize that and the smoke
was filling the area where he

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was we took the opportunity

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To say goodbye I was able to
tell them how much I loved

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him and put him made me very happy.

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A particularly disturbing thing is that

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my government is using the
events of 911 and the names of

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those who died for their purposes of
gaining territory that\'s filled with oil.

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I don\'t want my husband\'s
death to turn into the

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precipitating factor for
more killing and more depth.

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As one who lost a cousin
that terrorist attack on

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September 11th I and many other New
Yorkers avert concern about fighting

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terrorism and was important for us
to say to our president and New

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World that I\'ll fight for terrorism is not
an opportunity to declare war in our name.

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One of the more significant
works that I did was also

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a collaborative work called
our grief is not a tried for

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war which was about public performance that
happened shortly after September 11th.

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It was first performed on September 22nd

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We\'re a 100 artists to it all wearing

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black all wherein dust mask which became

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sort of the symbol of New York because the
air was so putrid from the burning towers.

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And all warning signs that said our
grief is not a cry for war and we stood

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silently for one hour with our
hands on each other shoulders.

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We did a program on the second
day after the attack where we

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said grief anger and what else are
we feeling because already it

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was clear that Bush was going to use

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this tragedy and turn it into an
occasion to save his presidency.

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By militarizing the whole culture.

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I understand the reaction that
people have when you are wounded.

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When you are threatened

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We don\'t always react with objectivity.

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But I understood from the way I was controlling
those reactions that it could be done.

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And I was hoping to find other family
members who would join me in this voice

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for dialogue I did not hear of Peaceful
Tomorrows for until very recently.

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I had gone to Senator
Schubert\'s office last fall

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to to protest the resolution
that was before the Senate

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To give the President the right to
declare war without going to congress.

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And I had no signs.

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So I took the only thing I found
handy before I left which

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was the poster the my nephew
giving his description.

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And I wrote at the bottom
of it not in his name.

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I am very moved to be able to
introduce Daryl badly to you.

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Lost his only child DR. badly
on September 11th 2001.

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Center. Mr. President.

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I urge you to listen to
the world leaders who are

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strongly advising against
going down the path of war.

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We there was September 11th Families for
peaceful tomorrow\'s traveling to Iraq

00:22:11.885 --> 00:22:16.819
last month who\'d afghanistan last year we
saw the grids are the victims of violence.

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They\'re victims of internal wars.

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Bombing and brutality.

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Were you on September 11th the lost
a brother or sister or a mother.

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We met our own twins in Iraq and
Afghanistan persons there who lost

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a loved one just like ours just as
much loved as I was just as chairman

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There are grazers arteries.
They\'re paying their fears.

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Hopes are the same as our own.

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Shall we continue the death destruction a
disease that has already been heat the water

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up when you say no thought
at all levels today.

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A group of family members was

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dedicated to ensuring that a
Independent Commission was created.

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We began our activism

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trying to get that established by
visiting Washington by holding a rally

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writing letters going to the media
very a number of different ways.

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We met with incredible resistance
when we finally achieved

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the goal of legislation creating a commission
I want to say that we were not celebrating.

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We were weary we weren\'t disillusioned
So we went to the signing some

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some of the family members
who were instrumental

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in getting that bill passed
wouldn\'t even attend.

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That\'s how strongly we felt about
how the White House hadn\'t had.

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Changed it and diminish the ability
of the commission but so we went to

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the signing and President Bush

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came up to the podium and he was
followed by Henry Kissinger

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We did not know that the appointment
of the Commission that was going

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to be announced at the same
time as the bill signings.

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So I said to the family member next
to me on that Henry Kissinger and

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he said yes and I said What
is he doing here and Steve

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answered me and said he must be
Bush must be appointing him today.

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Henry Kissinger and I said
my reaction was isn\'t he

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a war criminal today I\'m pleased to
announce my choice for Commission Chairman.

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Dr. Henry Kissinger.

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Dr. Kissinger is one of our nation\'s most
accomplished and respected public servants.

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He worked at the White House
as national security adviser

00:24:45.045 --> 00:24:50.964
Representative America abroad as a
Secretary of State for two presence.

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He is a distinguished author academic Army
veteran and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Henry Kissinger was the architect of
American policies that resulted in

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incredible human suffering and countries
like Chile Vietnam Cambodia Laos East Timor.

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If the very policies of
imperial America that

00:25:20.200 --> 00:25:23.229
Henry Kissinger implemented
that has created

00:25:23.230 --> 00:25:27.824
such resentment against the
United States and has provided

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A fertile ground for for the worst
kinds of terrorist activity.

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Luckily it wasn\'t just the families
who recognized that there was

00:25:36.830 --> 00:25:41.134
a up swell of world opinion and certainly in
the United States against that appointment.

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And now Kissinger has been
replaced by Governor Tom Kane.

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But I do want to say that that
commission is absolutely stall.

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They have not gotten security clearance for
the Commissioners and their staff yet.

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They haven\'t been given access
to classified documents.

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And I believed those stall
tactics are continuing.

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As frightens me it should
frighten all Americans

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Okay first of all we have to start
out with a lot of people think that

00:26:14.630 --> 00:26:16.459
George Bush planned or knew about

00:26:16.460 --> 00:26:20.359
September 11th the attack in advance
there\'s no evidence of that at all.

00:26:20.360 --> 00:26:22.864
So I want to get that clarified right away.

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First of all my idea that
George Bush knows about

00:26:25.520 --> 00:26:28.579
anything at all you get you better prove
it to me you know the idea that he

00:26:28.580 --> 00:26:30.619
has his great that he\'s capable of having

00:26:30.620 --> 00:26:36.124
this huge brilliant scheme to increase
his own authority is very unlikely.

00:26:36.125 --> 00:26:39.634
But here\'s a BBC television
did find I was able to report

00:26:39.635 --> 00:26:44.254
again in in Europe but not
here which is that bush

00:26:44.255 --> 00:26:48.394
had put limits on investigations by

00:26:48.395 --> 00:26:52.204
our intelligence agencies on investigating

00:26:52.205 --> 00:26:56.644
the money behind the terrorists
before September 11th.

00:26:56.645 --> 00:27:00.694
Because Saudi Arabia is a source
of almost all the funding.

00:27:00.695 --> 00:27:06.814
And you could not touch the guys that we\'re
giving the money to make Al-Qaeda operate.

00:27:06.815 --> 00:27:11.674
Now lot of this we believe came was
determined in a meeting in Paris.

00:27:11.675 --> 00:27:17.629
In 1996 the cobalt towers were
attacked within Saudi Arabia

00:27:17.630 --> 00:27:25.630
19 American military people were were killed
while they were sleeping. That was al-Qaeda

00:27:26.090 --> 00:27:28.549
Saudis rather than go after these guys and

00:27:28.550 --> 00:27:31.159
capture them basically went to
them and said how much does it

00:27:31.160 --> 00:27:35.929
cost for you to go play in
Afghanistan and standard Uzbekistan.

00:27:35.930 --> 00:27:38.959
And by the way it\'s not just
paying them protection.

00:27:38.960 --> 00:27:43.474
Money get lost. They actually wanted Al-Qaeda
to spread the word of Wahhabi Islam.

00:27:43.475 --> 00:27:48.799
And sell to a Central
Asian republics republics

00:27:48.800 --> 00:27:54.139
the kind of vicious small minded feudal
state that they haven\'t Saudi Arabia.

00:27:54.140 --> 00:27:56.869
Course Al-Qaeda. Keita is
vision was that it\'s not

00:27:56.870 --> 00:28:00.154
feudal enough and it\'s not terrible enough.
Don\'t forget.

00:28:00.155 --> 00:28:02.509
I just want to remind people forget this

00:28:02.510 --> 00:28:05.269
often in Europe the guys who
attacked America didn\'t attack

00:28:05.270 --> 00:28:12.319
america because we are the center of
globalization and powerful capitalist expansion.

00:28:12.320 --> 00:28:15.004
This these guys do not represent
The Wretched of the Earth.

00:28:15.005 --> 00:28:19.144
These guys are Saudi billionaires
but Bush did not want

00:28:19.145 --> 00:28:23.569
any investigation of this of
the guys behind Al-Qaeda until

00:28:23.570 --> 00:28:26.209
after September 11th I even
have the documents from

00:28:26.210 --> 00:28:32.494
the FBI secret documents that were dropped
off by FBI agents to me and my team at BBC

00:28:32.495 --> 00:28:35.479
which said that the investigation of

00:28:35.480 --> 00:28:42.274
the bin Laden family which had been
stopped was reopened on September 13th

00:28:42.275 --> 00:28:46.024
of 20012 days after the attack.

00:28:46.025 --> 00:28:48.319
In other words before
the attack you couldn\'t

00:28:48.320 --> 00:28:51.079
touch the American side of the
bin Laden family and why there\'s

00:28:51.080 --> 00:28:56.164
a long financial political relationship
between the bin Laden\'s in the bushes

00:28:56.165 --> 00:28:58.489
except for Osama Osama they\'ve we\'ve

00:28:58.490 --> 00:29:01.519
always been hunting because
he\'s a he\'s a complete maniac.

00:29:01.520 --> 00:29:05.389
However the rest of the
family which is connected to

00:29:05.390 --> 00:29:09.904
the Bush family financially and connected
of course to the Saudi Arabian royals.

00:29:09.905 --> 00:29:12.529
They are off limits to
investigation and it was

00:29:12.530 --> 00:29:15.304
very important that they\'d be
investigated because these guys

00:29:15.305 --> 00:29:18.799
their organization that they were
fronting in the United States

00:29:18.800 --> 00:29:23.929
called whammy world
assembly of Muslim youth.

00:29:23.930 --> 00:29:27.679
Some of it\'s very nice activities
that they do but lot of it

00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:32.869
a lot of their people have been
involved in recruiting jihadis.

00:29:32.870 --> 00:29:36.889
And recruiting people for
they were promoting.

00:29:36.890 --> 00:29:38.674
I saw tapes that they\'d made.

00:29:38.675 --> 00:29:42.049
Promoting hostage taking
promoting suicide bombings

00:29:42.050 --> 00:29:45.589
promoting murder of civilians
and attacks worldwide.

00:29:45.590 --> 00:29:46.909
I mean these are not nice guys.

00:29:46.910 --> 00:29:52.189
And one of their people was in fact the
conduit for an Osama bin Laden audio tapes.

00:29:52.190 --> 00:29:55.339
So these are guys who really probably
should have been investigated.

00:29:55.340 --> 00:29:57.259
They really are dangerous but why weren\'t

00:29:57.260 --> 00:30:00.079
they because it would have
set the Saudi Arabians.

00:30:00.080 --> 00:30:02.389
And we broke that story.

00:30:02.390 --> 00:30:04.099
You couldn\'t get that story
in the United States.

00:30:04.100 --> 00:30:06.514
For anything we want a

00:30:06.515 --> 00:30:08.854
Bbc and the Guardian papers won

00:30:08.855 --> 00:30:11.959
a California state university
award journalism school

00:30:11.960 --> 00:30:15.154
Award for the most
censored story in America.

00:30:15.155 --> 00:30:17.329
This is this is played all over the world.

00:30:17.330 --> 00:30:20.809
In fact I just talked to Noam Chomsky
a few days ago and he was saying

00:30:20.810 --> 00:30:24.289
that he had read the story on the front
page of The Times of India and was

00:30:24.290 --> 00:30:27.859
wondering why it wasn\'t in the US And
I said No I\'m why did you why wasn\'t

00:30:27.860 --> 00:30:31.474
it in the US you\'ve written the
book Manufacturing Consent.

00:30:31.475 --> 00:30:34.399
They can\'t allow this information
to the US because it takes

00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:37.744
away George Bush as the great
hero and starts bringing up

00:30:37.745 --> 00:30:40.549
the idea of the Bush family
as being connected to

00:30:40.550 --> 00:30:44.149
the people funding the terrorist not
that again not to push plan the attack.

00:30:44.150 --> 00:30:48.904
But he\'s the question is how much
protection is there of the people behind

00:30:48.905 --> 00:30:52.009
The attackers That\'s a very
serious question which is

00:30:52.010 --> 00:30:55.984
not being addressed before
the American public.

00:30:55.985 --> 00:30:59.059
They also wanted to
investigate why were there

00:30:59.060 --> 00:31:02.119
intelligence failures why
didn\'t our FBI we\'ve paid

00:31:02.120 --> 00:31:05.929
a trillion dollars to our intelligence
agencies over the past few decades I

00:31:05.930 --> 00:31:10.174
mean a trillion dollars we\'re
talking big big big money.

00:31:10.175 --> 00:31:14.794
And yet we didn\'t see this coming
why they don\'t want to ask that.

00:31:14.795 --> 00:31:17.209
And again it\'s not because Bush planned it.

00:31:17.210 --> 00:31:21.379
But because if you ask why we weren\'t
looking you end up going back

00:31:21.380 --> 00:31:22.999
to a few names that ought to be

00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:25.984
investigated I don\'t know what
all things that they\'ve done.

00:31:25.985 --> 00:31:31.409
But investigations say we ought to
be looking at Shake Abdulla box

00:31:31.410 --> 00:31:37.734
add Nanker shaggy and others who may be
involved in funding terrorism worldwide

00:31:37.735 --> 00:31:40.839
and not necessarily
willingly but money goes

00:31:40.840 --> 00:31:44.154
to charities that they fund which
end up in the wrong hands.

00:31:44.155 --> 00:31:49.119
Now who is shakeup doula box he\'s
the guy who saved hearken oil in

00:31:49.120 --> 00:31:55.449
the 19 eighties from bankruptcy Park and
oil is George W Bush\'s oil company.

00:31:55.450 --> 00:31:57.294
So you\'ve got the guy who funds

00:31:57.295 --> 00:32:02.094
the President oil company maybe a guy
whose money ended up in the hands

00:32:02.095 --> 00:32:04.779
of the people killing us why isn\'t there

00:32:04.780 --> 00:32:09.099
an investigation congressmen
wanted to know one woman.

00:32:09.100 --> 00:32:11.499
One Congresswoman Cynthia
McKinney asked why aren\'t

00:32:11.500 --> 00:32:14.334
reinvestigating these guys and they
destroyed her political career

00:32:14.335 --> 00:32:16.839
the Times wrote The Times
actually wrote that.

00:32:16.840 --> 00:32:19.509
She said that George Bush knew
about the attack in advance

00:32:19.510 --> 00:32:23.214
and didn\'t tell anyone so his
business partners would make money.

00:32:23.215 --> 00:32:28.854
The quotes a complete
absolute fabrication ally.

00:32:28.855 --> 00:32:30.804
It\'s completely out of the air.

00:32:30.805 --> 00:32:36.084
It this Congresswoman Cynthia
McKinney never ever set it ever.

00:32:36.085 --> 00:32:39.849
And when I challenge the New York Times
on it plant challenge them on it.

00:32:39.850 --> 00:32:42.444
I said what\'s the source
they couldn\'t find.

00:32:42.445 --> 00:32:45.039
They told me always progressional record.
It wasn\'t there.

00:32:45.040 --> 00:32:48.759
They know there\'s a fabricated they
literally fabricated the quote.

00:32:48.760 --> 00:32:51.519
We were able to locate

00:32:51.520 --> 00:32:56.879
a an an American diplomat for American
diplomat who was in Saudi Arabia.

00:32:56.880 --> 00:32:59.614
And he said he was issuing visas.

00:32:59.615 --> 00:33:05.509
At the demand of the US State
Department to two people who clearly

00:33:05.510 --> 00:33:11.959
were involved in terrorist activities
but there was terrorism that we liked.

00:33:11.960 --> 00:33:14.609
It was Osama bin Laden\'s gang or

00:33:14.610 --> 00:33:20.959
the precursor groups the jihadi groups
which are being recruited by the US.

00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:24.874
Cia and State Department
being given false visas

00:33:24.875 --> 00:33:28.954
which Spring Min was forced
to issue out of Saudi Arabia.

00:33:28.955 --> 00:33:34.324
Sent tonight states for training
to go fight in Afghanistan.

00:33:34.325 --> 00:33:37.879
So we\'re more than happy to let
these people fight in Afghanistan.

00:33:37.880 --> 00:33:39.409
We\'re kind of happy.

00:33:39.410 --> 00:33:43.024
We encourage them we even arm them and
gave them money to fight in Afghanistan.

00:33:43.025 --> 00:33:47.179
The point of spring Min was that
he\'s taking us back to the origin of

00:33:47.180 --> 00:33:51.499
these terrorists how they get so sophisticated
how they learned to fly planes.

00:33:51.500 --> 00:33:54.199
How did they learn this
logistical information

00:33:54.200 --> 00:33:56.959
how they learn how to set up
networks and work clandestinely.

00:33:56.960 --> 00:34:01.099
The answer is that they were trained
by the United States and it blew up in

00:34:01.100 --> 00:34:06.409
our face it\'s called blowback and the
intelligence community. It happens.

00:34:06.410 --> 00:34:10.770
Ok. And there should be an
honest discussion in America.

00:34:16.390 --> 00:34:19.969
The United States is not a normal country

00:34:19.970 --> 00:34:27.970
We are under a homeland to now under
military surveillance and military control.

00:34:29.045 --> 00:34:34.234
The President asked the
congress right after 911.

00:34:34.235 --> 00:34:38.970
Not to conduct a major investigation.

00:34:39.250 --> 00:34:45.889
As it might deter our search for terrorism
wherever it may be in the world.

00:34:45.890 --> 00:34:49.549
So Congress obediently rolled over.

00:34:49.550 --> 00:34:52.489
There was I remember Pearl Harbor.

00:34:52.490 --> 00:34:54.464
And I was a kid them.

00:34:54.465 --> 00:34:57.049
And within three years
of it hides enlisted in

00:34:57.050 --> 00:34:59.059
the Army I mean that\'s
what we did in those days.

00:34:59.060 --> 00:35:02.974
We did not go off to the
Texas Air Force and hide.

00:35:02.975 --> 00:35:05.389
I realized the country\'s totally

00:35:05.390 --> 00:35:10.429
changed that the government is
not responsive to the people.

00:35:10.430 --> 00:35:13.399
Either in protecting us from something like

00:35:13.400 --> 00:35:17.584
911 which they should have done
could have done did not do.

00:35:17.585 --> 00:35:22.204
And then when it did happen to
investigate investigate investigate.

00:35:22.205 --> 00:35:26.089
So I wrote to little books one called

00:35:26.090 --> 00:35:29.839
perpetual war for perpetual
peace in which I tried to

00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:37.804
go into the why Osama bin Laden If it were
he or whoever it was why it was done.

00:35:37.805 --> 00:35:44.209
And I wrote another one dreaming
warm on why we were not protected at

00:35:44.210 --> 00:35:47.209
911 which ordinarily would
have led to the impeachment

00:35:47.210 --> 00:35:50.734
of the President of the United
States were allowed it to happen.

00:35:50.735 --> 00:35:54.229
They said they had no information
since then every day

00:35:54.230 --> 00:35:55.504
the New York Times prints

00:35:55.505 --> 00:35:58.939
another mountain of people who
said they had worn the government.

00:35:58.940 --> 00:36:01.639
They had worn the government
President Putin of Russia.

00:36:01.640 --> 00:36:05.629
He had warned US President Mubarak
of Egypt. He had warned us.

00:36:05.630 --> 00:36:10.759
Three members of Mossad claimed that they
had come to the United States to warn us.

00:36:10.760 --> 00:36:15.589
At sometime in September something
unpleasant might come out of the sky and

00:36:15.590 --> 00:36:20.729
hard direction where we defended
and no we will not defend it.

00:36:20.730 --> 00:36:24.744
Has this ever been
investigated No it hasn\'t.

00:36:24.745 --> 00:36:28.089
There was some attempt
to the midterm election.

00:36:28.090 --> 00:36:32.709
There was a pro forma committee
in Congress which has done

00:36:32.710 --> 00:36:38.649
nothing for three years later.
This is shameful.

00:36:38.650 --> 00:36:43.959
The media which is controlled by the
great conglomerates which control

00:36:43.960 --> 00:36:46.329
the political system as

00:36:46.330 --> 00:36:51.444
an atrocious job of reporting those
sometimes good stories get in.

00:36:51.445 --> 00:36:56.664
I\'ve worn my eyes out studying the
Wall Street Journal which despite

00:36:56.665 --> 00:36:59.829
its dreadful editorial policies is

00:36:59.830 --> 00:37:03.494
a pretty good newspaper of record
which the New York Times it\'s not.

00:37:03.495 --> 00:37:07.489
If you read the Wall Street Journal
very careful you can pretty much figure

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out what happened that day.

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At the time of the first
hijacking according to

00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:18.844
law FAA it is mandatory
within four minutes of

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hijacking fighter planes from

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the nearest airbase military base go up to

00:37:26.270 --> 00:37:30.009
scramble that means go up and forced
the plane down find out who they are.

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If I know what\'s happening. For one
hour and 50 minutes I think it

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was no biter plane went up
during that hour and 20 minutes.

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We lost the two towers

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And one side or the
Pentagon why didn\'t they go

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out no description from
the government no excuse.

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A lot of mumbling stories which were then
retracted news stories replaced them.

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We no longer had a Congress which
would ask questions which it was

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proposed in place to do of the executive.

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We have a commander in
chief who like strutting

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around and military
uniform which no previous

00:38:09.890 --> 00:38:12.619
Commander-in-Chief ever did as they\'re

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supposed to be civilians
keeping charge the military.

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This thing is surrealistic now and
it is getting nastier and nastier.

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This government is culpable.

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Nothing less negligence.

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Why were we not protected with

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all the air bases fighter planes
up and down the Eastern Seaboard.

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Not one of them went aloft.

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While the hijackings took place.

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Finally to from oldest
field and Massachusetts

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arrived at the twin towers I think
at the time the second one was hit.

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If anybody had been thinking
they would have gone on to

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Washington to try and prevent
the attack on the Pentagon.

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They went back to Otis
back to Massachusetts.

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So I asked these questions which Congress

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should ask does not ask which
was pressed should address.

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But it\'s too frightened.

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Also in perpetual warfare perpetual peace.

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There\'s another question that
goes unanswered and head of

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the Pakistan Secret Service
was in Washington are weaker.

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So before 9-11 while he was there.

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And it was just a ceremonial visit with the
head of the CIA. They worked together.

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And he sent backward Islamabad.

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For one of his henchmen to wire up
a $100 thousand to Mohammed art in

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the United States which was duly

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done the FBI I think it was The Wall Street
Journal\'s where I got the story from

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only said American secret
services found out about this.

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They complained to the
Pakistani government.

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What is the head of your secret service
in Washington telling somebody send a

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$100 thousand to a guy that we
now know as the lead hijacker.

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Just a week before 911

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Times of India published the whole story.

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Wall Street Journal did a
pretty good version for them.

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Now shouldn\'t that be examined shouldn\'t

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wouldn\'t Congress be
interested in what is guy in

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Washington meeting with all our top secret
people says Okay send him a $100 thousand.

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Not one more word not one more word.

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Now in a country within a curiosity and
a public that was informed of anything.

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There\'ll be a great deal of outcry.

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I couldn\'t imagine this
happening in England.

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There\'d be questions in Parliament and the
papers would be full of it until it was solved

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Couldn\'t happen in Italy
which dearly loved as

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a conspiracy or Germany and
the United States everybody.

00:41:04.850 --> 00:41:10.309
Listens to 19th Century Fox TV news

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in which a bunch of loons just
scream and scream and scream.

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And with each scream they tell another lie.

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How are we ever going to have

00:41:20.450 --> 00:41:26.190
an informed citizenry which means then
how can we have an informed election

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Well I have the very bad habit of

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writing things for myself when
there are some when there is

00:41:43.730 --> 00:41:48.079
a major event and more often
than not don\'t even think

00:41:48.080 --> 00:41:52.519
of submitting it to a
journal or a newspaper all

00:41:52.520 --> 00:41:58.189
the more so because if you write
from a critical perspective

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fundamentally radically
critical perspective it

00:42:01.760 --> 00:42:05.884
is relatively difficult if not impossible.

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To get into into what is called the media.

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So I wrote these critical reflections
on September 11th which in

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my judgment suggests that

00:42:20.315 --> 00:42:27.540
above all the attacks on the Twin
Towers and also on the Pentagon.

00:42:27.730 --> 00:42:35.730
Do ring down the curtain on the
innocent American exceptionalism.

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And that really was my
point of departure as

00:42:39.890 --> 00:42:43.924
someone born in Europe as
a refugee from Europe.

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Of course had a different sort of
relationship to the way in which one

00:42:51.575 --> 00:42:53.809
reflects about violence.

00:42:53.810 --> 00:42:57.049
I mean this was a very violent to act.

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And that\'s the same time
an infamous violent act.

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But at the same time all things considered.

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If when keeps in mind the horrors of
the 20th century 3 thousand dead.

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Though each of the victim\'s needs to be
remembered and needs to be memorialized.

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Nevertheless seen in a
historical perspective.

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It struck me that 3 thousand

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dead is not all that out of the ordinary.

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And I repeat if when keeps in mind what
the what the 20th century was all about.

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In any case it also drove home.

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Secondly the fact that America
during World War two.

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While so many other parts of the
world and in particular Europe

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experienced the elimination of what one
could call the boundary between military

00:44:16.140 --> 00:44:20.224
Personnel and civilians in wartime

00:44:20.225 --> 00:44:23.509
the elimination of that
boundary did not take place in

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the United States for all intents and

00:44:26.360 --> 00:44:30.874
purposes except that moment of
Pearl Harbor there were really

00:44:30.875 --> 00:44:36.604
no civilian casualties during World
War Two American civilian casualties.

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And if you compare this
to the experience of

00:44:39.995 --> 00:44:44.910
Europe and you need us to say
we also have to include Japan.

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It is sort of mind boggling
that there should have been

00:44:49.910 --> 00:44:54.079
that exceptionalism at the
very time when America

00:44:54.080 --> 00:44:59.149
nevertheless was very centrally involved
in both World War one and World War II.

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The third thing that struck me as as

00:45:05.930 --> 00:45:11.839
worthy noting and that is that some
of the chickens coming home to roost.

00:45:11.840 --> 00:45:15.709
That is to say America has
had an experience of sort of

00:45:15.710 --> 00:45:20.299
raising up Frankenstein
leaders in particular in

00:45:20.300 --> 00:45:25.639
third world countries and then
not quite knowing how to in

00:45:25.640 --> 00:45:27.889
one way or the another clean up

00:45:27.890 --> 00:45:31.594
its act the United States doesn\'t
know how to clean up its act.

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And in this particular case here

00:45:35.135 --> 00:45:40.309
Ben Latin and then from there you come
to many other people who are being

00:45:40.310 --> 00:45:44.509
singled out for being the
incarnation of evil.

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So many of them we
ourselves brought along in

00:45:48.560 --> 00:45:52.549
any case once having written
the article and also insistent

00:45:52.550 --> 00:45:54.469
very strongly on the fact that there was

00:45:54.470 --> 00:45:59.329
a one peculiarity to this
moment and that peculiarity

00:45:59.330 --> 00:46:07.330
is that there is really in military terms
no counter power to the American military.

00:46:08.165 --> 00:46:16.165
In other words at the time that the notion
of superpower was generally accepted.

00:46:16.535 --> 00:46:18.409
The idea was that there was

00:46:18.410 --> 00:46:23.249
more than one superpower namely there
was above all the Soviet Union.

00:46:23.250 --> 00:46:30.489
Since 89 that second superpower has
disappeared and makes it all the more in

00:46:30.490 --> 00:46:34.299
my judgment more evident
that America represents

00:46:34.300 --> 00:46:38.919
something other than a
superpower namely an empire.

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That is an informal empire.

00:46:42.160 --> 00:46:47.409
That doesn\'t have a shall we
say Imperial bureaucracy.

00:46:47.410 --> 00:46:50.364
That has its representation

00:46:50.365 --> 00:46:55.689
in the outlying shall we say
provinces of the American empire.

00:46:55.690 --> 00:47:00.639
It\'s an indirect rule which is not to say
that they are not the naval bases the air

00:47:00.640 --> 00:47:06.204
bases and so on and so forth but still
it is an informal empire. The sort

00:47:06.205 --> 00:47:09.369
that seems to me.

00:47:09.370 --> 00:47:15.864
There\'s not really have
a precedent in history.

00:47:15.865 --> 00:47:19.824
I\'m inclined to say that even
compared to the American empire

00:47:19.825 --> 00:47:24.804
even the Roman Empire may be said to have
been something in the nature of a tea party.

00:47:24.805 --> 00:47:29.049
In any case having written
the article I tried to get

00:47:29.050 --> 00:47:33.669
it published which is just another
way of saying that they sent

00:47:33.670 --> 00:47:37.058
it to a few journals including

00:47:37.059 --> 00:47:45.059
21 journal that can be said to be
on the left no need to mention it.

00:47:45.265 --> 00:47:48.594
My name and

00:47:48.595 --> 00:47:56.595
It was not accepted there it wasn\'t accepted
in a number of places to which I sent it.

00:47:57.210 --> 00:48:05.210
And out of the blue I did sent it to
Le Monde which decided to publish it.

00:48:05.380 --> 00:48:11.409
And from there on there were if you european
publications that paid attention to it but

00:48:11.410 --> 00:48:16.869
I hold no particular time no particular
place a stake in the article.

00:48:16.870 --> 00:48:19.884
I wrote it as I said I
rolled it first for myself.

00:48:19.885 --> 00:48:24.669
And the only reason why it

00:48:24.670 --> 00:48:31.910
how should I say was I suppose turned
down by a number of places because

00:48:32.350 --> 00:48:39.439
the expectation was that one would just
uncritically rally around the flag.

00:48:39.440 --> 00:48:47.440
And it seems to me that is the function
of the critical intellectual to

00:48:47.600 --> 00:48:52.309
think analytically and the function of

00:48:52.310 --> 00:48:57.784
a historian to think contextually
even about those VMs.

00:48:57.785 --> 00:49:03.694
That are the most unsettling

00:49:03.695 --> 00:49:11.134
And at the same time the most
mobilizing around national symbols.

00:49:11.135 --> 00:49:13.789
And by virtue of that mobilization around

00:49:13.790 --> 00:49:18.390
national symbols simply eliminate
all critical discussion.

00:50:39.170 --> 00:50:41.540
Graham

00:50:50.620 --> 00:50:51.889
can

00:50:51.890 --> 00:50:54.149
have skewed

00:50:56.380 --> 00:51:03.060
to P c. Three

00:51:03.430 --> 00:51:11.359
senior to the freedom

00:51:11.360 --> 00:51:15.439
So you say Oh

00:51:15.440 --> 00:51:21.559
how very human snow.

00:51:21.560 --> 00:51:29.560
So we had the freedom to have known.

00:51:35.650 --> 00:51:37.890
That

00:51:48.310 --> 00:51:51.600
gives me used to

00:51:52.780 --> 00:52:00.780
maybe you guys see this

00:52:04.100 --> 00:52:12.100
the threads see annexed to plan which

00:52:12.895 --> 00:52:19.710
we have

00:52:25.410 --> 00:52:33.410
seen how

00:52:35.580 --> 00:52:43.580
when regain heavy snow can Italians have

00:52:50.410 --> 00:52:58.410
just suffered from the same people

00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:05.689
three lessons

00:53:05.690 --> 00:53:12.409
from the past

00:53:12.410 --> 00:53:17.340
again and that will bring integrated.

00:53:32.530 --> 00:53:38.580
You have to have

00:53:44.080 --> 00:53:48.544
your eyes see the mystery

00:53:48.545 --> 00:53:56.545
the threads across the sea
on next meeting planned.

00:54:39.520 --> 00:54:42.539
We have rules to fly

00:54:42.540 --> 00:54:46.100
53.

00:54:46.450 --> 00:54:54.450
The C. C is

00:54:54.990 --> 00:55:01.999
a class C Our next

00:55:02.000 --> 00:55:10.000
to that ground. With wings