What gives, honestly, with our representative’s stonewalling of the many scientific and intuitive questions which are being asked of the 9/11 Commission Report, and the (mainstream) media’s apparent total lack of curiosity or interest? If our own government isn’t guilty of some sort of cover-up you wouldn’t guess it from the arrogant, ad hominem way it has attacked the questioners rather than respond to the valid questions being asked. Should we not be curious that such blatant evidence of controlled demolitions (go to ae911truth.org) was withheld from the official report? What’s at stake is not so much the incompleteness of a report but its very integrity. Was such omission intentional, criminally, or was it just plain incompetence, racing with mob mindset to reach a top-down foregone conclusion? Either way, it warrants a real investigation that follows, not ignores, highly evolved and developed standards and principles of proper investigative methodology and protocols.

Why not, for one of the largest, most serious crimes in the history of this nation having such devastating worldwide consequences? Ever watch a TV crime show? If the evidence isn’t fully reconciled by the conclusion and they catch the wrong bad guys too early into the show, you know it’s back to the drawing boards and a more careful look at the evidence, all evidence without bias wherever it might lead. Authentic investigations do it this way and don’t rely on unreliable coerced, (waterboarded) confessions (thrown out by courts of law). They also cross examine key witnesses and chase down contradictory testimony to find out who’s been lying under oath and why. Why should we accept anything less? Why were these most basic principles of true fact finding ignored and short-circuited by a people’s government which over the years, with just reason, spent so much time and energy and money perfecting? The government has left its people no choice but to ask: Was there a hidden agenda? It’s only healthy and American to want to know the truth so we can act on it, uniting us, not ignore it or run from it in denial and fear, leaving us helplessly ruled in a cloud of uncertainty and misinformation by others all too anxious to move on. Moving on is fine and helpful for those circumstances (loss of a loved one) beyond which we have no control. But where a possible wrong can be righted, how and why would our leaders expect us to move on?

This is leadership at its worst. Ignoring possible wrongdoing suggests guilt. Under the Patriot Act, and the new but not-so-secret interpretations of it, our democracy and freedom, if you can still call them that, are in serious danger. We need to get our priorities straight and take control of our own agenda, not politely partake in our government’s, being fooled into thinking this is what makes us democratic. Any and all discussion to further improve our status as a nation and a people becomes meaningless if we are unwilling to step up and demand adherence to the governing principles and gains we have made so far. That time was yesterday. It has come but not yet gone. It’s up to us. Go to Jenningsmystery.com for more intuitive questions we owe it to ourselves to become familiar with and to be thinking about . . . and talking about, not privately in shame but publicly in earnest.

Let the people decide for themselves after they are allowed to hear key officials responding to the tough questions they were never asked nor required to answer. Only by confronting what we might think is a cancer can we ever learn its cause and hope to find a cure.

Nick van Nes
West Tisbury

A copy of this letter was sent to Cong. William Keating.