The Terror Conspiracy: Deception, 9/11, and the Loss of Liberty – Jim Marrs
The Terror Conspiracy: Deception, 9/11, and the Loss of Liberty – Jim Marrs, The Disinformation Company, Ltd. (2006) 482pp. (OBT) ***
After waiting more than two and a half months for an Amazon.com book order (Inside Job by Jim Marrs), only to have the order summarily terminated for what I can best estimate as vague and irrational reasons, this reviewer has come to the conclusion that this will be his last order with Amazon.com. In the meantime, I was able to find the Terror Conspiracy at Powell’s Books, un updated version of Inside Job, with plenty of new content. Fortunately, it took only about a week or two for this order to be fully processed and delivered.
For those familiar with any other of Jim Marrs’ works, particularly Rule By Secrecy, you know that Marrs can be exceedingly conspiracy minded, though it is always interesting to read of groups as varied as Skull and Bones, The Council on Foreign Relations, the Bildebergers, The Trilateral Commission, and the Masons. Now, Marrs brings this alternative history sensibility to The Terror Conspiracy. In his opening pages, Marrs cites the peculiar coincidence of military “war games” on the morning of 9/11/01: “ . . . It appears likely that plans for staging a variety of war game exercises [on 9/11/01] were designed to be so distracting that they may well have contributed to the success of the actual strikes.”(p.13) And then there’s this: “ . . . It was no surprise that the [9/11] Commission’s report called for a number of sweeping changes in government structure and policies – all without exception aimed at gathering more power to a centralized authority armed with vastly increased budgets.”(p.168) There’s also this astute observation: “ . . . Both Bush’s neocons and Muslim terrorists operate from the same ideology – both believe the end justifies the means and that people must be frightened into accepting religion and nationalism for the greater good of morality and a stable state.”(p.260) And again: “‘This administration is the most secretive of our lifetime, even more secretive than the Nixon administration,’ said Larry Klayman, chairman of Judicial Watch . . . ‘They don’t believe the American people or Congress have any right to information.’”(p.238-39) And finally: “‘[Conservative] does not describe the Bush administration at all,’ added [Michael] Ventura, [of the Austin Chronicle]. ‘They ignore Congress almost completely on crucial issues; they feel no obligation to inform American citizens of the White House’s deliberations or even its policies, whether or not national security is at stake; they concentrate tremendous power among the very few. That is not conservative. There is only one word that adequately describes the bent and preference of George W. Bush’s White House: totalitarianism.’”(p.342-43)
With the exception of an appendix piece written by Barbara Honegger, there isn’t a lot that is terribly new in Marrs latest work. What Marrs does do well, though, is to bring together otherwise disparate pieces of information and events to form a coherent narrative. The evidence that the 9/11/01 attacks were an “inside job” now seems overwhelming. Marrs must be commended for his efforts in being among the bold and the few to raise his voice in print against an increasingly fascistic entity (a.k.a. the administration of George W. Bush).
After waiting more than two and a half months for an Amazon.com book order (Inside Job by Jim Marrs), only to have the order summarily terminated for what I can best estimate as vague and irrational reasons, this reviewer has come to the conclusion that this will be his last order with Amazon.com. In the meantime, I was able to find the Terror Conspiracy at Powell’s Books, un updated version of Inside Job, with plenty of new content. Fortunately, it took only about a week or two for this order to be fully processed and delivered.
For those familiar with any other of Jim Marrs’ works, particularly Rule By Secrecy, you know that Marrs can be exceedingly conspiracy minded, though it is always interesting to read of groups as varied as Skull and Bones, The Council on Foreign Relations, the Bildebergers, The Trilateral Commission, and the Masons. Now, Marrs brings this alternative history sensibility to The Terror Conspiracy. In his opening pages, Marrs cites the peculiar coincidence of military “war games” on the morning of 9/11/01: “ . . . It appears likely that plans for staging a variety of war game exercises [on 9/11/01] were designed to be so distracting that they may well have contributed to the success of the actual strikes.”(p.13) And then there’s this: “ . . . It was no surprise that the [9/11] Commission’s report called for a number of sweeping changes in government structure and policies – all without exception aimed at gathering more power to a centralized authority armed with vastly increased budgets.”(p.168) There’s also this astute observation: “ . . . Both Bush’s neocons and Muslim terrorists operate from the same ideology – both believe the end justifies the means and that people must be frightened into accepting religion and nationalism for the greater good of morality and a stable state.”(p.260) And again: “‘This administration is the most secretive of our lifetime, even more secretive than the Nixon administration,’ said Larry Klayman, chairman of Judicial Watch . . . ‘They don’t believe the American people or Congress have any right to information.’”(p.238-39) And finally: “‘[Conservative] does not describe the Bush administration at all,’ added [Michael] Ventura, [of the Austin Chronicle]. ‘They ignore Congress almost completely on crucial issues; they feel no obligation to inform American citizens of the White House’s deliberations or even its policies, whether or not national security is at stake; they concentrate tremendous power among the very few. That is not conservative. There is only one word that adequately describes the bent and preference of George W. Bush’s White House: totalitarianism.’”(p.342-43)
With the exception of an appendix piece written by Barbara Honegger, there isn’t a lot that is terribly new in Marrs latest work. What Marrs does do well, though, is to bring together otherwise disparate pieces of information and events to form a coherent narrative. The evidence that the 9/11/01 attacks were an “inside job” now seems overwhelming. Marrs must be commended for his efforts in being among the bold and the few to raise his voice in print against an increasingly fascistic entity (a.k.a. the administration of George W. Bush).
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