Opinion

What happened on 9/11?

Aren’t you curious by now? It’s been over a decade since it happened. 9/11. The day America was attacked. By who? For what? Why would someone want to fly a plane into the world trade centers, the global center of corporate capital and economic power? Why would someone want to blow up the Pentagon? Why are these targets symbolic? What happened on February 27, 1933 in Berlin, Germany? What happened on September 11, 2001 in America?

What are these buildings symbolic of? Who are the benefactors of this corrupted so-called “system?” Who benefits from the economy, who profits from exploitation? The head honchos, the ring leaders, the crony capitalists, the top of the 1%, the richest people in the world, the people making more than 1 billion dollars a year, the top dogs? What do these skyscrapers next to Wall Street signify, what does the pentagon stand for? What goes on in these headquarters of world business, what’s hidden in the top-secret files, what information don’t we know about governmental corruption in the global superpower, what is driving American foreign policy, why does the American government spend 60 percent of its budget on the military? What happens to the world when huge buildings hold offices where workers sit behind computers and play with numbers on the internet? How does this game create social and class divisions on a global scale? How does the economy thrive on imperialism? Why would it be meaningful to attack the ringleaders and writers of the rules, the owners of the capitalist casino, the fortune 500s, the CEOs, the big wigs, the money guys, the sorcerers of the stock market, the insurance companies, the investment bankers, the profiteers, the beneficiaries, the wealthy, the superrich, the upper class, the Bilderberg group, the puppet-masters of these phony politicians who are presented to the public on television and radio sound-bytes, the multinational corporations, the top executives, the dollar bill, the exploiters, the oppressors, the richest people in the world, the most emblematic buildings of the financial district, the imperial headquarters, the most recognizable signifiers of American economic power?

Are you so deeply asleep, trapped in the American dream, where money and material desires are seen as the highest signs of achievement, where whatever they sell you or tell you you believe in, where over 3,000 advertisements a day bombard you and give you false needs and products, dreams of becoming rich, glorifying materialism and consumerism through pop culture, where the music industry is controlled by corporations who dictate what type of lyrics can be played on your radio stations, with a government whose federal bureau of investigation used a counter-intelligence program to disrupt the political activities of civil rights leaders, groups and organizations, to purge the country of people they said had “communist-ties,” were revolutionaries, social-activists, freedom fighters or “threats to democracy,” that you never bothered to do some research about the loose ends and unsolved mysteries of 9/11? How did world trade center seven fall? Why were there explosions in the basement of the buildings before the planes crashed into them? Why was no evidence of a plane found at the pentagon? Why are some of the 19 “terrorists” alive still? Why was the government conducting war games on the morning of 9/11 that simulated a plane flying into a building? Why have you never asked questions about this infamous day in world history?

Look for Part Two next week.

Michael Langley '13

Opinion Editor
Michael Langley is a senior English major from New Jersey. He is the editor of the Opinions page and he also writes a weekly column, "Let Me Bring This Down To Your Level."