Flight 93: The New Media Campaign
by Russell Pickering
russellpickering@bresnan.net
Why has Flight 93 suddenly taken center stage? Plain and simple it is the last resort of the perpetrators to hide. As 9/11 Truth groups successfully move forward with the goal of awakening Americans to the facts of the four events that occurred that day, only one is in a remote, obscure field. Only one was unavailable for real inspection (even in photos) until the trial. Only one is embedded in a legend of heroism.
Is there any evidence that the story of heroism was a pre-planned cover story? Yes there is. In an interview with CNN’s John King in the vice president’s office on September 11, 2002 Cheney was reported to have made a very interesting statement.
“Word came that Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania. Aides frantically called the White House to find out whether a military jet had shot it down.
“'The vice president was a little bit ahead of us,’ said Eric Edelman, Cheney's national security advisor. ‘He said sort of softly and to nobody in particular, 'I think an act of heroism just took place on that plane.'" (1)
In the context of having just given shoot down orders they received word that Flight 93 had crashed. They had no idea why as evidenced by the fact they were trying to determine if a military jet had shot it down. But Cheney in an underground bunker with confusion raging everywhere and no knowledge beyond what his aides were telling him says, “I think an act of heroism just took place on that plane.”? Wait a second…..what could he have possibly based that statement on?
Even his aide noticed Cheney was, “a little bit ahead of us”. I would go so far as to say he was a lot ahead of everybody. There was absolutely no possible way that Cheney was aware of the alleged cell phone calls and most certainly he had not heard the cockpit voice recorder. Where did he get his idea from?
The least likely thing of all of the possibilities that could happen to that aircraft is that passengers would take control of the aircraft and cause it to crash. There is not even a historical precedent for such a thing. In retrospect we were told the 4 alleged hijackers had bombs, knives, box cutters and mace. They were overpowered? Inexperienced hijackers might have lost control of a plane they had never flown before, a bomb may have gone off, or maybe it was shot down.
In a typical Rumsfeldian slip Donald Rumsfeld in an address to the troops on Christmas Eve, “made a passing reference to United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers attempted to stop al Qaeda hijackers. But in his remarks, Rumsfeld referred to the ‘the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania’." (2)
How similar is a plane being shot down and American heroes taking control of an aircraft and saving America from another terrorist attack? Those are two completely different concepts with no similarity at all. If you were certain of the Flight 93 story how could you even think of the notion it had been shot down? Read the CNN article referenced here to see how the complicit media scrambled to cover this slip.
With the official story crumbling rapidly and being replaced by truth, the spin doctors are frantic. The first effort to direct the public’s attention away from the facts at the WTC and the Pentagon to Flight 93 occurred in January when the A&E channel aired its film Flight 93. The next diversion occurred March 27th when Rumsfeld made his first visit to the Flight 93 crash site in over four years and said, “This is so much more personal. ... I've already been to the others and have wanted to come here because it's also such an important site. It's important to pay respect to these heroes." (3)
The entire emphasis of the Moussaoui trial has now become Flight 93. For the first time in over 4 years they suddenly decide to release the alleged tape of the last minutes of Flight 93 and a couple of new wreckage photos. Everything else vanished into a hole in a field but apparently that recording and those new pieces survived. Why not play the last minutes of any of the other three flights? Why not the video of the Pentagon? It seems that never before seen footage of an aircraft actually impacting something would be more effective than a scratchy audio tape that was so hard to hear in the courtroom that they had to subtitle it. Notice that in the Pentagon evidence section they didn't even use any of the five video frames from the DoD. Why?
The most interesting comment of the Moussaoui trial was "Under cross-examination by defense attorney Edward B. MacMahon Jr., Fitzgerald [FBI] acknowledged that there was no evidence of any contact between Moussaoui and the hijackers." What? NO EVIDENCE. This trial is a diversion to give the American public the belief that there were hijackers and to further promote Flight 93 as a legend. (4)
I wonder if the trial will end around April 28th when the new Universal film United 93 is released (5)? I imagine so because trial officials were just on TV outside the courthouse saying how accurate it was. The film hasn’t even been released and they have already previewed it to promote it during the trial coverage!
Remember any reconstruction of Flight 93 is purely imagination. It is based on minmal physical evidence from the crash site which is only a hole, an alleged cockpit recording that has mysteriously been withheld for over four years, alleged cell phone calls which have never been proven and Dick Cheney’s underground bunker premonition.
I guess if I knew people were starting to learn that buildings don’t fall down by themselves and airplanes don’t disappear into thin air then I would direct everybody’s attention to a place that even photos don’t exist of and appeal to America’s emotions with a story that makes it feel irreverent to continue to examine facts.
Russell Pickering
http://www.pentagonresearch.com
(1) http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/09/11/ar911.king.cheney/index.html
(2) http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/27/rumsfeld.flt93
(3) http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/regional/s_437477.html
(4) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/06/AR2006030600781.html
(5) http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/united93
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