Americans Who Pay Attention, 9-11 Edition

Most Americans believe what the media tells them to believe, but they also talk about what the media tells them to talk about.

For some years after 9-11, Americans talked about those events a lot, focusing on the areas that the media told them to, i.e. how to properly get revenge.
Should we just kill Afghan villagers, or should we also invade and destroy Iraq?
What about the military budget? Was it enough to double it, or was it best to triple it?


How about the Bill of Rights? Was it enough to give up the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments, or should we also give up the Magna Carta?

Any questions about physics, of course, were verboten, as were any questions about the massive national security apparatus already in place, which appeared to have failed miserably. And why were the people in charge that day not court martialed? Why were they given medals and promoted, instead?

The media didn't ask those questions, so neither did most Americans.

And now, of course, questioners are sternly told not to "live in the past".

Instead, we all are supposed to talk about the 2016 election.

There are still Americans who pay attention to the events that turned us down this road of revenge, repression and ruin, however. Props to them.

This is a Guns and Butter interview with four Americans who are suing to force the FBI to give evidence in their possession to Congress, thereby obeying a 2014 law passed. I didn't know there was such a law, or that the FBI hadn't complied, or that Americans were paying attention and working to make it so. These are the kind of people that make up for the rest of the herd, imo. Big props to them.