Taboo Elephant Deceives Blind Turtles

(Conspiracy Nation, 01/22/07) -- "Taboo" is a Polynesian word. Taboo is a series of restrictions primitive peoples impose upon themselves for no apparent reason. In academia, the primitive peoples mostly avert their eyes from certain taboo things, for example the puzzling circumstances of September 11, 2001. A relative few however have noticeably violated the 9/11 taboo. Peter Dale Scott and David Ray Griffin have assembled essays by academic 9/11 taboo-breakers into a volume, and risk the wrath of great god Radaban. "Radaban is displeased!" warn some, while others cringe and prepare sacrifices.

Turtles mostly stay in their shells and peek out cautiously. Only when it's absolutely safe will they venture forth from their tenure. So bold behavior amongst the species is news in itself. And for Scott, Griffin, et al. to move in violation of taboo is especially astonishing. What's next? Will the turtles open a conspiracy theory department amidst the sacred groves and inside the hallowed halls!?

One of these brave turtles, Carolyn Baker, an adjunct professor of history and author of U.S. History Uncensored, has written a review of Scott & Griffin's new book, 9/11 and American Empire (http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20070121&articleId=4538). "Surely there can be no higher duty for academics and other intellectuals at this time than to expose the big lie of 9/11, thereby undermining the primary pretext for the global domination project," is Baker's plea.

Based on Baker's review (op. cit.), the collection of essays in Scott & Griffin's book resembles the tale of the blind men and the elephant.

There are several versions of the story. ("Blind Men and an Elephant," Wikipedia, Jan. 22, 2007). "[A] group of blind men (or men in the dark) touch an elephant to learn what it is like. Each one touches a different part, but only one part, such as the side or the tusk. They then compare notes on what they felt, and learn they are in complete disagreement. The story is used to indicate that reality may be viewed differently depending upon one's perspective."

The U.S. government has become a de facto secret society, having security-level initiation degrees of secret, top-secret, and above top-secret. So the few brave turtles describing 9/11 in 9/11 and American Empire, not initiates into the government secret society, are sort of like blind men.

The elephant is the puzzling circumstances of September 11, 2001. It is taboo to question the revelations of the great god Radaban on the subject. "Whoever does what is prohibited and violates the taboo, becomes himself taboo." (Freud, Sigmund. Totem and Taboo). By violating the 9/11 Elephant Taboo, Baker, Scott, Griffin, et al. risk being declared themselves taboo, i.e., ostracized by the other turtles.

The elephant angle on 9/11 also brings to mind the proverbial elephant in the living room. The elephant in the living room is an English idiom for an obvious truth that is being ignored, for various reasons. ("Elephant in the room," Wikipedia, Jan. 22, 2007). The great god Radaban's revelations, a sacred cow, do not stand scrutiny. The holy writ of 9/11 is unbelievable, but the taboo orders us not to notice. Those who violate the taboo by questioning the 9/11 sacred cow risk being ostracized by the turtle colleagues, i.e., being themselves declared taboo.

"It was six men of Indostan
To learning much inclined,
Who went to see the Elephant
(Though all of them were blind),
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind." -- ("The Blind Men and the Elephant" by John Godfrey Saxe)

Baker, Scott, Griffin, et al. are "blind" because they are not U.S. government secret society initiates, and so haven't the security clearance to access all the documents. But at least they have ventured forth from their shells in a forthright attempt to describe the elephant, a.k.a. the sacred cow. Right there smack dab in the living room, the elephant glares at the other turtles, who tremble and avert their eyes. A few brave turtles though have astonishingly (for turtles) not only looked at the elephant, but have even sniffed the beast. Thunder is heard in the distance. The great god Radaban is displeased.

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