“Fahrenheit 9-11” an alternative view to the mainstream media's spin on 9/11

This is just one of many documentaries that examines the attacks that took place on September 11^th 2001. I was 15 at the time, but many of the current college students were like 5 at the time. So, in case you are not familiar with the details... there was a presidential election in 2000. The results were questionable and highly suspect. It seemed the election had been rigged in favor of George W. Bush. It more than seemed... it was pretty glaring that there might as well not have even been an election. The American people were pretty pissed off. There was protesting at the presidential inauguration. The general sentiment was not very patriotic.

“What does any of this have to do with September 11^th?” you may ask...

In political science there is a concept called “a rally 'round the flag event” which is basically an event that garners public attentions and generates a sentiment of patriotism. People will get behind the government after such events.

After September 11^th, public sentiment had seriously shifted. Before September 11^th questioning the government was a hot topic. After September 11^th, if you questioned our government, you were kind of afraid of being considered a terrorist.

There was a lot of hype on the major news networks about “terrorists” who had supposedly been behind the attacks. The news channels would use the word “terrorists” dozens of times an hour so that the idea was engrained in the heads of anyone watching the news. There are plenty of documentaries that get into discussing whether “terrorists” or whoever the news networks fingered for the attacks were actually involved. We can discuss those documentaries and “false flag” events another time.

“Fahrenheit 9-11” discusses more in depth how after those attacks, the American government seemingly used those attacks as a “rally 'round the flag event” to pursue two wars with two countries that were in no way connected with the attacks.

With the help of the mainstream media, the government generated a belief that Arabs or Muslims or some sort of middle-easterners were responsible for the attack. Suddenly you have all these impressionable young men talking about wanting to “kill me some rag heads”...

The news was constantly taking about the “terror level” or something like that... Like we had to be afraid of another attack and the threat had better not be forgotten. It was basically this color coded construct used to constantly remind us that we should be afraid and that we need the military to protect us.

When our government passed the North American Free Trade Agreement (or NAFTA) in 1994 I was like 9, so many of today's college students were not even born. They won't remember the controversy around it. NAFTA basically made it much easier to send all of the factory jobs over seas. So, for many young men who would have made a living working such jobs, it left them pretty fucked. The military, however is touted as an excellent job opportunity. They will receive exceptional pay. They will receive training.

And then they were sent over seas to the middle east to kill civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq. Some of these civilians, if not all of them are innocent. These civilians in Afghanistan had been invaded by Russia in previous decades, and if they have become a bit militant, it may be from constantly having to defend their homeland from invaders. They might just be a product of their environment. If someone came into my home town with flame throwers and tanks and attempted to burn down buildings, shoot people and burn people alive, I have no idea what I would do. Some people might use guerrilla warfare tactics to fight back. I'm just glad I am not posed with the situation, and I dislike hypothetical questions.

But, to get back to the actual documentary “Fahrenheit 9-11”, it discusses how the September 11^th attacks were used to legitimize wars that were in no way connected to these attacks.

It does not really discuss in depth how George W. Bush's family has ties with munitions companies and oil companies that profited immensely off of those wars. But maybe that would be something to touch on in the future.

It does not touch on shell shock or post traumatic stress disorder and how horribly that affects the young men that are sent over seas to do the killing... but that is a whole nother topic as well.

For now, here is the current youtube link to the documentary. If this link stops working,
I am sure you can find this documentary elsewhere

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY0OCdHICCo

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