Voter's Guide to Ballot Question 2

"Shall Vermont's Congressional Delegation be advised to demand a new, thorough, and truly independent forensic investigation that fully addresses the many questions surrounding the tragic events of September 11, 2001?"

The voters in Lincoln, Vermont approved the article, becoming the first town in the United States to call for a new 9/11 investigation. Burlington voters were not yet ready to ask for a new 9/11 investigation, with 37% voting for it and 63% against. Two of the city's seven wards, the downtown wards in which we were more successful in distributing films and literature, did in fact approve the measure. We had hoped for majority support across the city, but 37% support represents a HUGE success in terms of educating people in just a few months. One year ago, the the idea that 37% of the voters would support a new 9/11 investigation would have been unthinkable. Burlington Free Press report.

> We Deserve Honest Answers, by Doug Dunbebin, 2/28/07

> Jon Gold interview of Peter Garritano about ballot initiative, 2/24/07

THE VOTER'S GUIDE

If you disagree with any one or more of the following statements, then you agree with us that the 9/11 Commission Report was insufficient, and you should vote "yes" for a new investigation.

I am certain that negligence on the part of any of government officials did not contribute to the success of the 9/11 attacks. Disagree = vote "yes"
[more info]

I am familiar with the reports, denied by the Bush Administration, that the Bush Administration was given fairly specific advance warning of the 9/11 attacks by several different countries, but I am certain that none of these reports are true. Disagree = vote yes. [more info] [Senator Leahy: Bush let it happen]
[still more info]

I have watched the so-called “Bin Laden Confession Tape” which the Bush Administration promotes as real, and I am certain that the round-faced man depicted in that tape is Osama Bin Laden. Disagree = vote yes. [Bin Laden expert agrees that video is faked] [more info] (The Bin Laden in the "confession tape" is "E", below)

I am satisfied with the fact that no government officials have been reprimanded, demoted, fired, or otherwise punished for any failures in preventing the 9/11 attacks from unfolding as they did. Disagree = vote yes.
["Please explain why no one in any level of our government has yet been held accountable for the countless failures leading up to and on 9/11" One of hundreds of questions presented by the Family Steering Committee to the 9/11 Commission but never asked, let alone answered.]

The 9/11 Commission investigation was successful in identifying failures on and before 9/11 even though the 9/11 Commission conducted its work on the basis that its job was “not to assign blame”. Disagree = vote yes. [more info]

The 9/11 Commission was correct in concluding that the question of who bankrolled the 9/11 terrorists was “of little practical significance." [more info] Disagree = vote yes.

The 9/11 Commission was correct in ignoring reports that the head of Pakistan’s intelligence service (ISI), General Mahmoud Ahmed, who was meeting with U.S. government officials in Washington just before and on 9/11, ordered the wire transfer of $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, alleged 9/11 ringleader, shortly before 9/11. Disagree = vote yes. [more info]

It does not matter that many FBI, military and intelligence veterans have stated that the 9/11 Commission failed to address many significant issues, that the 9/11 Commission report is therefore flawed, and that the validity of the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission is in doubt. Disagree = vote yes.
[more info]

I am familiar with what has been said by government informer Randy Glass and government agents Robert Wright, Sibel Edmonds, and Coleen Rowley, among many others, about squelched pre-9/11 intelligence-gathering efforts, and the 9/11 Commission was correct in not investigating these claims. Disagree = vote yes. [more info]

I know that the 9/11 Commission did not consider the testimony of hundreds of first responders that explosions occurred prior to and during the collapses of the World Trade Center buildings, and that’s perfectly okay with me. Disagree = vote yes.

It does not bother me that the Bush Administration actively resisted the creation of the 9/11 Commission for 14 months. Disagree = vote yes. [more info]

It does not concern me that Bush and Cheney, without explanation, refused to testify without the other before the 9/11 Commission or under oath. Disagree = vote yes. [more info]

It does not matter that government scientists are completely unable to explain the sudden, free-fall collapse of World Trade Center Building 7, a 47-story skyscraper, at 5:20 p.m. on 9/11, and that the 9/11 Commission ignored this event entirely. Disagree = vote yes. [more info] [NYPD eyewitness account] [BBC reported collapse before it happened]

The 9/11 Commission was correct in dismissing the fact that the number of put options on the stocks of United Airlines and American Airlines were unusually high in the days before 9/11. Disagree = vote yes. [more info]

The unprecedented failure on 9/11 of the most sophisticated defense system in the world to intercept any one of four wayward airliners, in one case for more than an hour and a half, is not a failure worth investigating, understanding, or making sure can never happen again. Disagree = vote yes. [more info]

It makes sense to me that the independent clocks and wristwatches that were permanently stopped by events at the Pentagon all reflect times more than five minutes before Flight 77 is said to have struck the building. Disagree = vote yes. [more info] (Flight 77 is said to have struck at 9:37; the stopped clocks and watches all show a time of around 9:32)

[stopped clock on Navy website] [stopped clock now at Smithsonian]

There is no doubt that Hani Hanjour, a novice pilot who failed a competency test required to rent a small Cessna airplane one month before 9/11, was able to fly a 757 through very difficult maneuvers and then into the side of the Pentagon, just inches above the ground, at an estimated speed of 350 to 400 m.p.h.
Disagree = vote yes. [more info]

It doesn't bother me that credible eyewitness testimony, including testimony from two Pentagon police offers, establishes that the 757 that allegedly crashed into the Pentagon was on a flight path that was inconsistent with the one in the official story and that made it impossible for that 757 to have caused the exterior and interior damage that was done at the Pentagon. Disagree = vote yes. [more info]

It makes sense to me that Mohammed Atta, alleged 9/11 ringleader, would have packed his last will and testament into his luggage which he expected would be (but which was not) placed onto his flight that crashed into the World Trade Center. Disagree = vote yes. [more info]

Christie Todd Whitman, the head of the EPA, was right to advise New Yorkers just after 9/11 that the air in New York was safe to breathe, even though the evidence indicated otherwise and thousands of New Yorkers are now sick and dying as a result of relying upon this advice. Disagree = vote yes. [more info]

The Bush Administration was right to remove cautionary words from reports issued by the EPA after 9/11 regarding the toxicity of the air in New York. Disagree = vote yes. [more info]

The claim by members of the 9/11 Commission that the Pentagon lied to them should not be investigated and casts no doubt on the validity of the 9/11 Commission Report. Disagree = vote yes. [more info]

It does not bother me that the FBI now says that it has no hard evidence linking Osama bin Laden to the 9/11 attacks. Disagree = vote yes. [more info]

It doesn’t bother me that more than five years after 9/11, not a single person has been charged with planning the attacks of 9/11. Disagree = vote yes.

It does not bother me that according to Seymour Hersh and other commentators and investigators, the United States Government deliberately allowed Osama bin Laden and / or top Al Qaeda members to evade capture on several occasions after 9/11. Disagree = vote yes. [watch 6-minute video clip]

The consequences of 9/11 are not important enough to justify spending more than we already spent on the 9/11 Commission, even though we spend more than that amount ($15 million) every two hours in the Iraq war. Disagree = vote yes.

It does not bother me that the “Jersey Widows”, the 9/11 survivors who fought for more than a year to get the 9/11 Commission into existence, say that the 9/11 Commission failed to answer 70% of their questions and are calling for a new investigation. Disagree = vote yes. [more info] [more info about the questions]

The U.S. Government has earned my trust so that I don't need any supporting evidence in order to believe whatever it says about 9/11. Disagree = vote yes.

Also see this list of questions and the following discussions:

procedural and intelligence questions and

physical anomalies and questions.