9-11 Truth / Spying on Democracy - September 11 2013 - Coast to Coast Am - C2CAM Date: 09-11-13
In
the first half, Italian filmmaker and investigative journalist
Massimo
Mazzucco talked about his ongoing research into the 9-11 attacks, and
why he's concluded that the official version of the events is false. In
recent years, the Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911Truth)
have brought forward a solid scientific argument that Mazzucco believes
both confirms the theory of controlled demolition of the Towers, and
disproves the official theory that the collapse was due to gravity.
"When
they tell you that four people who had never flown a jet before (they
only flew little airplanes), suddenly jump into the cockpit of
planes...and perform maneuvers that are described as never seen before
by air traffic controllers, and practically impossible by military
pilots with 30 years of experience," you don't need to be a conspiracy
theorist to doubt the official explanation for 9-11, he remarked.
Mazzucco pointed out that it was unlikely that none of the four black
boxes were ever found, as well inconsistencies in the official story
regarding the collapse of Building 7, which they blamed on fire. He also
revealed the little known fact that by the year 2000, the Port
Authority, which owned the Twin Towers, was facing an asbestos removal
bill of about $1 billion-- the cost of building new towers.
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Appearing
in the second half, Executive Director of the National Lawyers Guild
and host of the "Law and Disorder" radio show in New York, Heidi
Boghosian, addressed the extent to which the US government is actively
acquiring personal information on Americans through their phone calls,
emails, and Internet usage. She warned that the government now has the
means to suppress the most essential tools of democracy. For instance,
they have spied on some reporters, and threatened them with charges of
espionage and conspiracy. We really have "an affront, not only to the
Constitution, but for an open society where we can keep the government
in check rather than having them control us," she stated.
She
cited how multinational corporations have sometimes partnered with the
government in their surveillance efforts. For example, a secret program
called the Hemisphere Project actually paid AT&T employees to work
alongside DEA agents, sharing phone records dating back to 1987, without
a judicial warrant. "It's a simplistic argument to say that if we don't
have anything to hide, we have nothing to worry about," she said.
"Because the more we allow spying on various aspects of our lives" (via
such technology as drones, RFID, video cameras, and biometrics), our
rights are whittled down, and "we have virtually no privacy left." Yet,
Boghosian remains hopeful that there's a sea change taking place, among
both US citizens and lawmakers, and that the current surveillance
overreach will be scaled back.
