American Conspiracies - Jesse Ventura [98]
Our country has changed since 9/11. We’ve been frightened into half the people saying torture’s okay now, if it prevents terrorism. Americans are marching in the streets to try to stop someone who’s sick from going to the doctor, but where is the outcry now that it’s been proven that the whole Iraq War was trumped up? Maybe something stopped in us all on 9/11, and we’re stuck back there collectively and can’t truly move forward until we have a new, independent investigation to get to the bottom of what really happened.
The 9/11 Truth Movement has a growing number of groups—Political Leaders, Architects and Engineers, Firefighters, Lawyers, Medical Professionals, Pilots, Religious Leaders, Scholars, Scientists, Journalists and Other Media, and Veterans. Check them out online, get involved as I have. But if you challenge the status quo, be prepared for retaliation. That’s what seems to have happened to Charles Lewis, the man with whom we began this chapter’s revelations. After he noticed another lapse at LAX as a Quality Control Manager—this time observing a Saudi Airlines 747 disembark a host of passengers into the cargo area—his security clearance got revoked. He’s currently unemployed.
WHAT SHOULD WE DO NOW?
When enough people came to question the Warren Commission, the door was opened for Congress to do a further investigation and come to a different conclusion about the Kennedy assassination. That should be precedent enough, now that it’s become clear the 9/11 Commission was a whitewash, for Americans to call for a new and honest investigation into the greatest attack ever perpetrated on our soil. Was our own government asleep at the switch, or might it even have played a role in what happened? It’s time to demand an answer, as independent truth-seeking groups from many walks of life are already calling for.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
THE WALL STREET CONSPIRACY
THE INCIDENT: America’s worst economic crisis since the Great Depression occurred in the fall of 2008, brought on originally by the collapse of a housing bubble that damaged financial institutions and caused the stock market to plummet.
THE OFFICIAL WORD: Huge corporations like AIG and Goldman Sachs were considered “too big to fail,” and received multibillion-dollar bailouts from the federal government in order to prevent economic collapse.
MYTAKE: The government has conspired to keep the “fat cats” in business, while the American taxpayers are left holding the bag. CEOs that should be going to jail for scams beyond belief are instead reaping the biggest bonuses ever. Corporations basically run the government, and the same players that made the mess still have a stranglehold on our future.
“Too much cannot be said against the men of wealth who sacrifice everything to getting wealth. There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American, insensible to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent only on amassing a fortune, and putting his fortune only to the basest uses.”
—Theodore Roosevelt, 18951
If you’re surprised to find what’s been happening to our economy in a book on American conspiracies, you shouldn’t be. This may be the granddaddy of all plots, one that’s been going on for almost a century (although I’m not one who blames all our national woes on the Trilateral-Bilderberg-Bohemian-Grove crowd). Before diving into what I’ve been learning about the big financial institutions and their cronies in government and at the Federal Reserve, let me suggest you quickly review the earlier chapter about the Wall Street plot to overthrow FDR and the insights of Professor Carroll Quigley.
The economy, and how it got into its current