[A-List] Rosie O'Donnell & Economist Paul Craig Roberts on 9-1

[Charles Brown]

*	From: Paul Zarembka 
[In case you didn't catch the story, a few days ago on her program
averaging 30 million viewers, O'Donnell asked how it was possible that WTC
7 -- not hit by a plane -- fell so perfectly as in a demolition.  Here is
her followup, after people like O'Reilly and Scarbrough took her on. P.Z.]

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2007/020407pledgesallegiance.htm

"Here's O'Donnell's blog entry in full.

    '9/11 affected me deeply, as I know it did many Americans. The falling
of the twin towers served to remind me that many of the assumptions
Americans have about their lives are rooted in false feelings of security.
In light of this reminder, I have begun doing exactly what this country,
at its best, allows for me to do: inquire. Investigate. America is great
in so many ways, one of which is the freedom to speak, and indeed think,
freely. I have, of late, begun exercising the rights bestowed upon me by
the democratic system I value, and the exercising of these rights has
taken the form of an inquiry into what happened five years ago, an inquiry
that resists the dominant explanations and that dares to entertain ideas
that push me to the edge of what is bearable. I have come to no
conclusions and, given the scope of the subject, will not for some time.

    'If the very act of asking is so destabilizing for people, than I have
to wonder whether the fabric of our democracy is indeed so raveled it is
beyond salvage. My own belief is that the act of asking is itself
reparative, because it brings to life the values on which our constitution
rests. I am, therefore, pledging my allegiance, hand over heart, trying,
as always, for a rigorous truth.'

"O'Donnell should be applauded for refusing to shut up amidst a climate
that has seen many call for her to be fired by ABC simply for questioning
official pronouncements regarding both 9/11 and the Iran hostage crisis,
with one talking head, failed actor Danny Bonaduce, even calling for her
execution.

"The events of the past two weeks have underscored that fact that the real
extremists are the feverish Neo-Cons that have called for retribution
against O'Donnell simply for exercising her first amendment rights and
asking questions that are shared by a sizable majority of the American
public."
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Also, an important economist taking on those wish ing to debunk skeptics
of the official story:

     http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17422.htm

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan
administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal
editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review.  [Roberts is
thus a conservative not, however, the author of the book he is
reviewing; P.Z.].

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(Vol.24) TRANSITIONS IN LATIN AMERICA AND IN POLAND & SYRIA, forthcoming
         Research in Political Economy, P.Zarembka,ed, Elsevier hardback
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