Reply #37: You related my story. I am a critical thinker too and very rational.

[Trish1168]

I'm a scienist. But I saw those buildings fall with my own two eyes. I remarked at the time that I was surprised that it looked so much like controlled demolition, never thinking that it really could have been.

My husband thinks I'm crazy. I can't discuss this with most co-workers. Most can't conceive of our government being behind this. I couldn't either a few years back.

My turning point was the Iraq war. I could plainly see the bait and switch. One minute its Osama...the next Saddam. Clearly, Iraq didn't attack us, and it didn't appear to me as if they posed a threat. It bothered me that we were, for the first time, going to invade and occupy a country that never did anything to us. What freaked me out was the media coverage. I mean there was not a word about our drastic change in policy. He we are, being imperialistic. My God, this was what Hitler did (invading smaller countries)....yet, not a word was allowed onto television suggesting that this was even a different policy, never mind questioning the acceptability of it. Seeing the media creeped me out....freaked me out. I knew then that our media was REALLY CONTROLLED.

Then, after the 2004 election....I suspected the election was stolen (I refused to believe our country is that stupid and I was right). Then I read everything I could find to try to figure out what happened to my country. That's when I stumbled on to Griffin's book "The new pearl harbor". I also read many other books (foreign policy books...books on Bush's lying....Bush biographies....books on neocons....web pages on the PNAC).

I don't care if people think I'm crazy. What distinguishes us is our open mindedness. But, it seems to me so obvious what is going on. Its my supreme frustration to be helpless and powerless and what is worse is that so many don't get it.

Now we have a terrorist surveillance program....only we're the terrorists. That's what people don't understand. We genuinely have to fear our government for the first time in our lives, and this is a deeply depressing thought.

I applaud your rationality and my own. I fear everyone else will come around....too late.