It also concerns me to consider the great unknown that is the United States government. With their ability to control the media, or at least to a certain extent, they are able to lead the country to believe what they want the citizens to believe. This is what interests an exploration into the theories of government conspiracy. Some people believe that the World Trade Center towers were also rigged with explosives to help aid their collapse, and others believe that the government deliberately planned the attacks. I do not believe that the government could do things that extreme. However, there are some instances that make you wonder, for instance, the evidence behind the moon landing, or Area 51.
Personally, my imagination runs wild wondering how much involvement the CIA, or agencies we might not even know about, has in situations like these. A high percentage of people have watched movies or television shows with heroes like Jack Bauer or James Bond, which take them through the life of a secret agent fighting terrorism or other forms of evil. In Hollywood, the main character always stops the bad guy right before anything happens. What happens in real life when they fail? What happens if Al Qaeda demands billions of dollars from the United States government, but they refuse? Is the result is a violent attack on the World Trade Center? Perhaps there was a heroic figure like Jack Bauer on board the plane taken back over and crashed in Pennsylvania. Perhaps this attack was preventable, but the government failed to disclose any details. I hold no evidence of this suggestion but believe that it is not a farfetched suggestion. I pray that my statements are in no way legitimate, but to imagine this concerns me. We as Americans often do not know what is going on with our government, even if we think we do.
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Just as a navy seal cannot reveal his position of attack and how he will strike, a great nation should also be careful to inform their citizens with too much information if they wish not to be figured out and flanked. Therefore, is it all the government's fault for controlling the media or possibly editing what is said over the news? It should be a priority to have “top secret” documents in which only reliable people can see. So though our nation is secretive, are they really concealing a 9/11 hoax? Or could this scare of being misinformed by our authorities also come from our own doings as citizens? Television shows such as 24 or movies like Vantage Point all create scenes of conspiracy and treason within our own government. I choose to believe this is not true as well as understanding that the things we watch on T.V. or in the movies are staged and made to thrill.
So, is it possible we were only scaring ourselves into what we believe? What if our government is asking the same questions? What made Al Qaeda attack? Why there weren’t any plane remains in the pentagon debris and how did an airplane make an almost perfectly shaped hole in the outside layer? Maybe this is why they confiscated the highway surveillance tapes that saw the plane hit the pentagon, to figure it out before someone else did. Maybe we're still at war to figure out how to place our agents and agencies in places where we could keep this from happening again.
Still, I believe we have a just nation, a nation that fights for freedom and good will. The moment our government became corrupt enough to conceal unjust and ill information, I believe it would be we who would be under attack. Imagine keeping a nation quiet after an event like 9/11. Who in all authority could stop the questions of a determined and revengeful America? I seems very unreal that our U.S. government could control millions of people to believe one thing when yet a complete separate doing is the cause. Yes, panic from 9/11 could stir emotion and heartbreak, but it also spurs questioning and the need for answers, and I believe our country would go no less than having them. Who in all authority could stop a determined and questioning America?
So to plea innocence for our commander in chief, I believe we were all unaware of 9/11’s attacks. If our government retained information that we were unaware of, it was not of the events that occurred that day. The moment the first plane stuck the first tower, I happen to think our whole nation had no clue what to do. We were not attacked from outside our borders; we were attacked from the inside. Before 9/11, all our enemies have crept in from outside. Before 9/11, America had not seen terrorism to this extreme. Before 9/11, our government kept secrets about where we were attacking other countries. Before 9/11, were had been rebuilt from Pearl Harbor and our wounds had been healed. Since 9/11, we have been pierced and we have been made vulnerable to all our foes. Since 9/11, we have made it know that we will not tire, and that we will live on. Our government, I believe is verbally sound in informing us. What they do to protect us and how they do it may be unknown. But to hide 9/11 as some kind of a hoax would be close to impossible. No one could ever sweep the debris from ground zero under the carpet and keep it from seeping out.
This is the one problem with America today, and a big reason why we ended up in Iraq. President Bush portrayed his message about the war on terror in a manner in which there were only two options. Everyone must be either with the country, or against the country. It is not fair to pigeon-hole my general wonderment into blasphemy, and accuse it of being unpatriotic. Let’s not be so hasty to create such strong arguments. The facts were that information was withheld from the American people because the government has a slight control over what is said in the media. I used those facts as leverage to say that I sometimes wonder what actually happens. I also stated that I, like a child afraid of the dark, am scared of what is in the world that I am being “protected” from. The government may have the right to withhold information from me for the good of the country, but that doesn’t mean that I am always okay with it. I am also well aware that TV shows are staged and meant to thrill, but they are also meant to spark imagination. I have fortunately held on to my imagination, because I believe that it is something that helps me get through a long day of serious lectures, business discussions, studying for tests, and the like. I try to encourage others to use their imaginations, and loosen the tension that busy people bring to this world. Back to more wondering…..I wonder what the world would be like if everyone woke up in the morning and took one big exhale to relax before they accused the alarm clock of waking them up on the wrong side of the bed.
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