the same convenient response to fall back on: Of course he said that, he’s probably a government agent.
My point is that there is great danger in the way facts can be spun or strung together to give credibility to what is otherwise a wild-eyed conspiracy theory. It is our responsibility to look at everything with a skeptical eye, and also to be aware that many will try to twist reality to serve their own agenda or reinforce their worldview.
Terrorism drills run in London on morning of 7/7 bombings: Judi McLeod, “Business Exec Confirms Same-Time- as-Attack Underground Bombing Exercise,” Canada Free Press, July 14, 2005, http://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/cover071405.htm
See also: Peter Power interview on ITV News July 7, 2005: http:// www.youtube.com/watch? v=JKvkhe3rqtc
Haroon Rashid Aswat tried to set up terrorist training camp in Oregon: Alan Cowell, “Briton Sought on U.S. Terror Charges Appears in London Court,” New York Times, August 9, 2005, http:// www.nytimes.com/2005/08/09/international/europe/09london.html
Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta: Terry McDermott, “Seeing What We Want to See; How Could It Be That, Despite the Facts, People-and Computers-Place One of the Sept. 11 Hijackers in Places He Probably Wasn’t?” Los Angeles Times, August 26, 2005.
In Chapter 39:
“We have no choice” on the financial bailouts: There are many great examples of panicked reaction from our leaders as the financial crisis unfolded and wore on. For example, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said: “If we don’t do this, we may not have an economy on Monday.”
See also: Joe Nocera, “36 Hours of Alarm and Action as Crisis Spiraled,” New York Times, October 2, 2008, http://www.newsweek.com/id/197810/page/1
Bailout recipients: “Tracking the $700 Billion Bailout,” The New York Times, http://projects.nytimes.com/creditcrisis/recipients/table
“Let justice be done, though the heavens fall”: “The States: Though the Heavens Fall,” October 12, 1962, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,829233,00.html
“In America, the law is king”: Thomas Paine, Common Sense, http://books.google.com/books? id=e0oqAAAAYAAJ
“The desire of dominion…” Thomas Jefferson, “A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law,” Boston Gazette, 1765.
“If you love wealth greater than liberty…”: William Vincent Wells, The life and public services of Samuel Adams, (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1865).
In Chapter 46:
Freedom is the exception: Thomas Sowell, Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One, (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2004): 31, http://books.google.com/books?id=0AShGTKZzWgC
As I said before, this list is far from complete, so I hope you’ll continue exploring on your own. We’ve also started a website, the address of which is listed somewhere in this book, that will link to many of the sources we used and will also serve as a repository for new information as it develops. Happy hunting!
Glenn Beck
[1] This list is provided as a representative sample, and is far from comprehensive. See Appendix R, pp. a321.
[2] See Appendix N, subsection 10.3.
