\u201cAftermath: Unanswered Questions From 9\/11\u201d (Guerrilla News Network DVD)<\/p>\n
Review by Kent Manthie<\/p>\n
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. \u201cAftermath\u2026\u201d is about a half hour of talking heads. In eleven segments, eleven different \u201cexperts\u201d hold forth on various \u201cunanswered questions\u201d related to 9\/11. Things like: \u201cWhat did the Bush Administration know and when?\u201d \u201cWhat ties did the US Government have, if any, with the terrorists?\u201d They had to stick that \u201cif any\u201d disclaimer so as not to seem too far out in left field \u2013 the \u201cif any\u201d is not dealt with. But it\u2019s just a hack job, a bunch of insinuations, fears voiced, anger vented and questions posed.
\n 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.
\n When I suddenly saw Alex Jones as one of the eleven people who deal with these \u201cunanswered questions\u201d, 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 \u201csomeone in the know\u201d. He is just an annoying prankster who peddles unsubstantiated rumors disguised as \u201cinvestigative journalism\u201d. I know the people who read that crap and they usually are people who have a medicine chest full of psych meds.
\n One \u201cunanswered question\u201d I didn\u2019t see raised here was the whole issue of whether an airplane even flew into the Pentagon at all. Recently I\u2019ve 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\u2019ve heard about a total absence of any airplane wreckage from the scene, eyewitnesses who say they never saw an airplane. There\u2019s 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\u2019t get it from Alex Jones\u2019s website or Jim Marrs or any other of those wackos.
\n 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 \u2013 hell, the Republicans in the House won\u2019t even think about renewing the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Our privacy and the US Constitution, which isn\u2019t worth the paper it\u2019s 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\u2019s better done differently.
\n 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.
\n That is one of the things I didn\u2019t like about \u201cAftermath\u2026\u201d \u2013 the last \u201cunanswered question\u201d – was \u201cWhat can we do about it?\u201d 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\u2019s 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) \u2013 KM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cAftermath: Unanswered Questions From 9\/11\u201d (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. \u201cAftermath\u2026\u201d is about a half hour of talking heads. 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