“Aftermath: Unanswered Questions From 9/11” (Guerrilla News Network DVD)
Review by Kent Manthie
For you conspiracy buffs out there, this will be a welcome balm; for you with half a brain, it might be entertaining, intriguing and perhaps stimulating. “Aftermath…” is about a half hour of talking heads. In eleven segments, eleven different “experts” hold forth on various “unanswered questions” related to 9/11. Things like: “What did the Bush Administration know and when?” “What ties did the US Government have, if any, with the terrorists?” They had to stick that “if any” disclaimer so as not to seem too far out in left field – the “if any” is not dealt with. But it’s just a hack job, a bunch of insinuations, fears voiced, anger vented and questions posed.
Sure, there are some real unanswered questions about it all, but they are better dealt with in a more rational, thoughtful, deliberative way, not with a bunch of attention-grabbers who preen for the camera.
When I suddenly saw Alex Jones as one of the eleven people who deal with these “unanswered questions”, I lost any respect I may have originally had going into this. Alex Jones is a pain in the ass, over-the-top, publicity whore who loves to say provocative things and get his name bandied about as “someone in the know”. He is just an annoying prankster who peddles unsubstantiated rumors disguised as “investigative journalism”. I know the people who read that crap and they usually are people who have a medicine chest full of psych meds.
One “unanswered question” I didn’t see raised here was the whole issue of whether an airplane even flew into the Pentagon at all. Recently I’ve heard bandied about the idea that it was just a huge explosion, i.e., a bomb, maybe planted, that caused the fireball and subsequent hole in this massive office building for the military industrial complex. I’ve heard about a total absence of any airplane wreckage from the scene, eyewitnesses who say they never saw an airplane. There’s more to it than that, but I need to read up. I only bring this up because of the credence I read about it in certain trustworthy quarters, in other words, I didn’t get it from Alex Jones’s website or Jim Marrs or any other of those wackos.
A couple lawyers also are on camera here, pontificating on the legal aftermath of 9/11 and the (very real) abolition of our rights; the rollback of most of the gains in the past 40 years – hell, the Republicans in the House won’t even think about renewing the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Our privacy and the US Constitution, which isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on anymore, are also causes for great worry and alarm. Now the things that are brought up by people like Mike Judge, Mary Schiavo and Riva Enteen are worth exploring. But I would submit to you that it’s better done differently.
Rather than just repeating the same old rhetoric of helplessness, why not get out and do something about it yourself? Start agitating to stop the fraudulent voting machines, get better candidates elected, change laws, et cetera.
That is one of the things I didn’t like about “Aftermath…” – the last “unanswered question” – was “What can we do about it?” and for this one they had each person give some screed. Unfortunately, not one of them said anything at all about what anyone can do about anything, but rather just spewed more rhetoric. As if there is nothing anyone can ever do about it, like it’s all predestined, in the cards, so to speak. That is a pathetic attitude and I, for one, would rather see a video put out about how to start being an agitator; how to set up agitprop in your neighborhood. (http://www.disinfo.com) – KM.