Don't believe the 911 Hype coming up on Showtime. Bush is not John Wayne. He sat on his butt for nearly half an hour that morning and did nothing in front of a class full of kids, and it's all on film.
Posted Wednesday, August 31st, 2003 by symbolman

If you want the TRUTH about what Bush was doing on the morning of 911 watch my Flash Animation "Bush Knew - An American Requiem", which includes facts about where and when and what was happening, according to actual news sources.

My flash film is based on the film shot locally on the morning of 911 when Bush showed up at the Booker elemetary school for a photo op. According to many media sources Bush KNEW about the situation when he was in the limo on the way to the school, was told again at the curb in front of the school and went on in anyway. He sat in that class room with full knowledge - and was even told about the second tower being hit right there in front of the kids - but made the decision to stay put for 29 MINUTES and read a BOOK ABOUT A GOAT.

THIS is a Hero? This is a Leader? Nevermind that he ran the rest of the day from hole to hole - at one point he made some kind of screwy badly video'd speech that really gave no one any info and frankly frightened me and many others - it was so bad that it looked on it's surface like someone had actually CAPTURED him and was holding him hostage. Well, that's sort of true. Karl Rove and the other puppetmasters were spinning like mad, and reality was getting in their way, it was too, too huge to contain.

Here's a GREAT resource for info on that day Re: Bush's whereabouts.

So, apparently SHOWTIME (who should be ashamed of themselves for falling into bed with Karl Rove and utilizing basic Stalinist propaganda) is preparing to air a movie made by a right wing cohort in complete denial that he's assisting in creating same said propaganda, called "The Big Dance".

They are cleaning up that messy day when Bush RAN LIKE A BUNNY. You know it, we all saw it. There is no denying it, unless you use Canadian money to make a FALSE and MISLEADING (sort of like a LIE, eh Bush?) film that will be considered a High Black Comedy by anyone with half a brain.

If it wasn't so serious. And that's the worst part. You want to talk about dishonoring ALL THOSE DEATHS, well, here it is - no better way to mock the dead than to make a faked history of that day. Once again, look at all the american people (like the troops in Iraq) who literally have their DEATHS marginalized to make Bush LOOK like some kind of leader.

Remember, it's all about HIM. All of it. So - obversely, HE SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE, right?

The death of ALL these people was a SECURITY BREACH and it HAPPENED WHILE HE WAS IN CHARGE.

The deaths and mutilation of our American Troops IN IRAQ and elsewhere are BUSH'S FAULT. He LIED them into it and he should be HELD ACCOUNTABLE. And this isn't even mentioning the fact that BUSH has YET to attend even ONE Funeral of ANY Troop killed in Iraq.

Didn't he say himself that he was going to usher in the Age of Responsibility or am I finally buying into the constant drumbeat of their propaganda which twists and turns on a nonlogical rollercoaster that changes by the minute and refutes itself in the next newpaper - even to the point of the White House and Dept of Defense revising the White House website when they decide that the word MAJOR would work better next to the word COMBAT now in a Speech given back in MAY! (Like it has nothing to do with what comes out of the mouth of the man they say "Says what he means and means what he says...")

"It's like having a blind, brain-damaged parakeet as president."

But I digress. Not hard when you are screaming FOUL while they create a constant barrage of human rights violations, war crimes, environmental revocation, etc, etc. It never stops, along with the Up is Down, War is Peace, Bush is President Orwellian chatter by the Media - the sworn enemy of Truth who can literally be bought for a BEER AND PEACH COBBLER. (After they are treated to sensory deprivation by being forced to live in Crawford, Texas and exiled to cheap motels - of all the beautiful places a personage could live and they choose a god forsaken piece of burnt clay filled with peasants, doves for the shooting, and a mayor that talks like a school dean, scared to death that someone may mention the word PEACE there and actually Mean it.) [You might want to listen to ourTake Back the Media's Radio show #8 this week where Stranger and I take on this whorefest between Bush and his presidential kneepad wearing crew - the Media.]

The Purpose of this page is to Highlight both my animation, showing like it really was, and a wonderful, brilliant piece of writing by Bevin Gilmore who is associate with VoterMarch.org, titled:

THE 1911 TRIANGLE FACTORY FIRE - NEW YORK CITY (The past is not prologue)

In NYC on September 11, 2001, over 3000 people died unspeakable deaths the likes of which the city had not seen since the great Triangle fire of 1911. They are not so different, these 2 events nearly a century apart. It is the behavior of power that has changed. Back then people grieved for a few weeks, then the collective sorrow of the city gave way to anger and a determination that this kind of senseless tragedy would never again happen in their city. They would do whatever necessary to stop it. A thorough, 4-year investigation (albeit one outraging hostile business interests) forged ahead with the help of leaders like Bob Wagner and Al Smith, producing an ocean of information and a raft of reform legislation.

The common element in both tragedies is that they did not have to happen and could have been prevented. In 1911 factory owners had few legal obligations to workers. Doors could be locked, fire escapes ill-maintained; flammable material unregulated. When asked about Fire Protections, the owners dismissed the question, bragging that the building was certified 'fireproof.' Yes, the structure was fireproof. The flesh and blood inside was not. Demands were made and ignored, but the interests of business were dominant.

In September 2001 we learned that something akin to this applies to the US Presidency. Despite widespread belief that the First Job of the presidency is the protection of US citizens from enemy attack, this belief is mythical and cultural; it has no basis in fact. There is no standard, such that the current occupant's demonstrated unfitness and criminal negligence in the runup and aftermath of 9/11 is of no consequence. (The president may even invite people to kill Americans, as this one did, with no liability). When asked about National Security and why the attacks proceeded unhindered, others were dispatched to lie. True, the Towers lay in a No Fly Zone, but the air force only acts on traditional hijackings; no one could have anticipated this. The official Big Lie: the nonresponsive and nonsensical answer. Demands are made and ignored. The interests of business remain dominant.

After every tragedy, there is always a primal search for answers and explanations. Without accountability, the social contract collapses. Since 9/11/01, the willful obstruction of justice and overt sabotage of any real investigation persists, as does the stand-down that would punish it. Nonresponses to critical questions reveal a deep contempt for the public. In deed and aftermath, the events of that day never ended, but are replayed again and again. The names of the dead change; the script is the same.

No one can say that NY and other centers of action were not equal to the task of a major investigation. Just like in 1911, they were all prepared and ready to do what was necessary, but their efforts were ignored to death by a lying, criminal White House, a handful of cheap war-profiteering pirates, and the politicians that stand by and do nothing to challenge them. There are no Wagners or Smiths anymore. We are left with people who are leaders in name only, a shadow of their predecessors (who doubtless also had reasons to fear the business powers-that-were).

We look back then and find heroes. We look forward to today and see only cowards.

We are left to our own devices to speculate, as best we can, on the most obvious evidence of negligence (like "finding a trout in the milk"). Where once real statesmen rose to the occasion, we now have 8 x 10 glossies of contrived "leadership" of the person most responsible for creating the conditions for the attacks to succeed (subject, of course, to substantial campaign contribution).

Instead of being held accountable, he is lionized. But it is the equivalent of putting the Triangle factory owners in charge of the fire investigation.

Back then people who heard that 'new sound' -never to be forgotten- of bodies smashing with a 'thud' onto the sidewalk from one of the 'tall buildings', looked down at row after row of the bodies of young women, mostly teenagers, recognizing many of the same faces from their strike a year earlier, when they had demanded better workplace conditions in vain. These dead were the bounty of industry intransigence that escaped unscathed in 1910.

Within weeks it was learned that the same factory owners were still locking their factory doors, doors that were the only escape to safety but instead had become death traps with piles of bodies crushed up against them. But the statesmen knew what they had to do. The status quo, triumphant the year before, would feel the seismic shift. Even if the perpetrators of negligence continued to walk free, the red light flickered and then flamed, stopping them in their path. From then on, the rules were changed irrevocably in New York, where everything seemed to happen first, and were changed irrevocably all over the nation for countless thousands and millions more to come.

A wretched event became the epiphany for change, and out of its darkness and now-sacred ground came light and the tools of justice.

But the past is not always prologue. On September 11, 2001 and forever after, a new generation's wretched event became the green light for a succession of September Elevenths, the pretext for a rollout of actions of immeasurable greed and destruction and the braggart's sick words of empire; where not truth, but calculated lies were served; where people's accounts were placed under lock and key with instructions for others to commit the same treason, all dutifully recorded in print by their handmaidens. In the beginning, when people could only stare, mourn or hold a catch of breath for those still dying, these other creatures circled the inferno like scavengers and plotted how the dead and soon-to-be dead would be used for their aims, the wars they 'would have,' the dictatorship they would dictate, the propaganda they would ply to the soon-to-be corrupted, who would give their consent for any frenzied scapegoat or a dose of insider 'spin' (the new secret handshake); the rights they would smash not with arms but a legal instrument brazenly called by these heretics the 'Act' of a 'Patriot,' and few would have the courage to look beyond its cosmetic appeal to see the cheap gaud of a grinning whore.

Too few would ask, why are the perpetrators of negligence out front where the statesmen should be? Why are the accountable not held accountable? Why are they allowed to profit from their crimes? There is silence, a tentative protest, then it is gone. Some might even stop and recall precisely, only one year earlier in that awful place of strife in the Middle East, how they squandered their one chance to strike out for truth, but instead did nothing.

Let's be clear on the losses sustained: We have lost a core value of citizenship. We are denied the right to investigate our own murders. We are denied accountability from civil servants, their actions and inactions. We are denied the ability to chart our own destiny in the aftermath of this tragedy, a self-appointed and self-serving elite deciding for us, bending everyone else to their will, for all intents assuming the imperial structure and exact conceit of the old hated Communists. But this has always been the refuge of weak men without talent or merit.

We are permitted to watch more murders as they play out while others do nothing: the murder of the truth, the murder of our vote, the murder of our resources, the air we breathe, the murder of our rights, the murder of our jobs, our economy, our treasury; the murder of our soldiers, at their front with self-aggrandizing taunts, at their back by the congressional knife. The list goes on like a broken record, changing names: EPA, TIPS, GAO, Energy Dept., Homeland Security, Enron, Haliburton.

How quickly the 'thud', now high-tech explosive in sound, is forgotten. If there is a new sound, it is that of the cackle: Ridicule and badgery masquerading as argument, hatred masked as religion. The chicken-hero and beloved scapegoat: I will save you from the "iraqi type." Bring back the strawmen to amuse, ideology to replace thought. Now the dead (Arabs), no matter how innocent, may be safely scorned - they lie elsewhere. The heathens resume breaking all the rules, quaint relics of the past like fair play and common decency. The sick game - shhhhhh, it's a secret joke only we clever insiders get - the Need for Unity having passed, Berating those "Money-grubbing New Yorkers" (Translation: Jews. Permission: To hate. New Twist: Divide and cackle, disrupt and conquer).

(Arab semites, Jewish semites. Same difference. Interception, AngloAmerican).

The bullies are back on the playground, spinning way, and the coarsening of a nation bereft of principles is complete. Everywhere is bankruptcy in this Promised Land. Led here by its nominal 'leaders.'

Where there is civic greatness somewhere, unreported, it is passed on in rumors, reflected and made real by word of mouth, along with the stories of scientific lies or the elect-trickery of new voting machines.

But knowledge for the most part is hoarded into secret places so that the once Proud Community - autonomous, therefore determined to turn despair into action so this WILL NEVER again happen ANYWHERE in America, that the unspeakable deaths of their neighbors, loved ones and fellow citizens will not have been in vain - is now coralled and twisted into a mob of half-humans, buoyed up only by the incessant chant of kill, Kill, KILL.

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We'll be posting more links here throughout the week and leading up to 911 - send in anything you'd like to us to honor those poor people who died due to our Govt's inability to employ diplomacy in even the slightest. This even could have been avoided, or dealt with by a serious and intelligent Govt who protects the people; or in the least someone of actual presidential calibre doing what they swore to do on Inauguration Day.

Watch my flash film "Bush Knew - An American Requiem", pass it around. Get the word out, don't let them steal this issue and make Bush a Hero. He isn't and no amount of Denial and revisionism can change that fact. If you must watch this degenerate film (and I must admit I am tempted as it will be laughable in many ways) please watch it with people you can convince otherwise, or people who will write editorials and emails demanding the TRUTH. Don't watch it alone and bump up the Nielson ratings.

Remember, the Bush administration has packed the minimal 911investigative board, tied their hands, refused to comply with requests, marginalized and ignored the survivors and their families, and alloted a whole 3 million dollars to investigate this. A lousy 3 million bucks. They SPEND 1 BILLION A WEEK on a lost war that your great grandchildren will be paying off - if we live, now that we are all targets- thanks to Bush.

A BILLION A WEEK. Don't they think we are watching, do they think we don't KNOW they are hiding something. As Jon Stewart on the Daily Show once said, "Do they think we're retarded?"

We'll be posting SHOWTIME'S Contacts so that you can blast them for their Stalinistic garbage and we also have Media links on our site to write to them as well - let them know that you are tired as hell of this crap and you're NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE. Make a NOISE.

Let's shine the light on this and make the roaches run away.

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Here's some contact information that's been passed along to us:

From: http://www.watchfarscape.com/news/article.php?newsid=283

FOR VIACOM INTERNATIONAL

Mr. Sumner M. Redstone
Chairman & CEO
Viacom International
1515 Broadway
New York, NY 10036

Mr. Mel Karmazin
President and COO
Viacom International
1515 Broadway
New York, NY 10036

SHOWTIME

East Coast
Showtime Networks
1633 Broadway
New York, NY 10019
Phone: 1 212-708-1600
Fax: 1 212-708-1217

Mathew C Blank (Chairman, CEO)
Frank Pintauro (Sr VP, Creative Director, Original Programming)

West Coast
Showtime Networks
10880 Wilshire Blvd. Stes. 1500 & 1600
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Phone 310-234-5200
Fax: 310-234-5393

Matthew Blank, CEO & Chairman, Showtime Networks Jerry Offsay, President, Programming, Showtime Networks Mathew Duda (VP, aquisitions and planning) Gary Levine (VP., Original programming)

CALL THEM - WRITE THEM - EMAIL THEM - Tell them this is Revisionistic Garbage and Propaganda - Tell them this is the most disrespectful show you've even had forced on you or the families of the people who died in those buildings. Tell them YOU WILL CANCEL your SHOWTIME!

online

1.Go to: SHOWTIME - NO LIMITS (Click Here)

2.Login with your name and email address

3.On the next page, select, "Ask a Question -- Submit a question to our technical support staff who will reply to you by e-mail."

4.Don't let the word "technical" throw you (you can ask programming questions, as you will see)

5.On the next screen there will be a form. Select the topic, "SHO Original Series," but leave the second menu blank (as this would be a new show)

6.Write your letter, and address it to Matthew Blank, CEO & Chairman, Showtime Networks and Jerry Offsay, President, Programming, Showtime Networks. Tell them that you want to see a huge disclaimer, that they should show the Booker Elementary film clip and tell the truth about Bush and 911 - and anything else you feel will help!

7.Sign it and send. Follow the rest of the directions. The mail is being forwarded, and they are reading it.

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HERE IS A SAMPLE OF WHAT ONE FAN OF TBTM WROTE TO SHOWTIME:

This is the letter I sent from Showtime's website. They want to get on the sinking ship, that's their funeral. There is plenty of competition.
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Hello. Your contact rollovers don't work for me, but even when one did, I find no direct contact for complaining about your GWBush pre-election year crapfest.

I won't waste much time addressing the many ways in which Showtime has offended me by taking this programming action, I just note that there are MANY who are fighting the illegal wars and NO INVESTIGATION (of the 9-11 disaster) that we have been treated to in this 'worst of all possible worlds' that the GOP wants us to live in.

How could you know what the truth is? How can you present fiction about the most significant disaster in US history? How can you side with the people who are holding my America hostage to THEIR incompetance? Bush ran like a scalded dog on 9-11, and no amount of Timothy Bottoms smirking in the camera is going to wash that ugly taste out of the mouths of those whose family members have died for the freedom and honor of America.

Bush hasn't been to a single funeral of the soldiers he has killed. He is no president, not even a man in my way of thinking about it----he is certainly NOT A HERO.

Suffice to say that I have cancelled my DirectTV Showtime subscription, which I have had for quite a few years. I enjoy your boxing, some of your shows, and am generally a fan of your service. But because you choose to stick your foot down my throat, we are no longer friends.

Leave propaganda to Karl Rove. I don't need it from my 'entertainment' services, and I won't STAND IT from corporations insensitive to the enormous backlash this fake president's behavior has created in the country. He will go down in history as a traitor, and Showtime will take a massive hit in protests of this sort.

And I will miss some cherished shows, but I have standards, even if you do not.

Please forward this complaint to your director of programming, and you might want to fix your contact rollovers so you can be 'fed back to' more easily.

Let them know we are NOT Happy about this!

Symbolman at Take Back the Media.