25 year ago, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was the Russian Representative at the United Nations when the attack on the World Trade Center happened on September 11, 2001. Watching a television screen, and seeing a jet crash into the old Trade Center, he initially thought he was watching a horror movie. He and other in his government acted quickly."President Vladimir Putin telephoned then-US President George W. Bush and affirmed that we stood with them. Subsequently, an appropriate resolution was adopted in the UN Security Council.”
At and around the offices of the National Security Agency (NSA) technicians and analysts William Binney, Kirk Wiebe and Thomas Drake, two of whom had built and developed the ThinThread surveillance system which they had been prevented by the NSA itself from deploying to protect America prior to 9/11, knew that the catastrophic failure had been allowed to happen.
On Sunday, In Manhattan, Independent Congressional Candidate Jose Vega, joined by LaRouche Presidential candidate Diane Sare and several others, conducted a “cross-generational forum” called “9/11 Plus 25: The Endless War Turned on You.” Drake, Wiebe and Binney, along with another member of the ThinThread team, Marc Milleur, were there, on the 25th anniversary of their and the nation’s humiliation to pose a question, posed most clearly by Tom Drake:
“My inspiration, my strength, and my purpose on an everyday level is standing in the future of the next generation, and particularly the youngest generations…. They’re poised, as they’re living now, to inherit (this.)
“The question is: What are you willing to give up? I keep asking the young people this because I know what I gave up, or was willing to give up and gave up. What are you willing to give up to protect and preserve and expand our fundamental…rights and freedoms, autonomy, agency, personhood, and individuality in a civic, civil community that is always concerned primarily with: Are we getting better? Are we forming a more perfect union between ourselves?
“I’m going to give you very quickly what the opposition is, and the phrase I’m going to use in this expanded form is “the banality of evil,” coined by Hannah Arendt. There are forces in this world who are anti-human and anti-life. What they want to set up, what they’re looking to set up, is a technocratic, feudal, fascist society. They want to control society. They want to be the owners of the human plantation. That’s not a world I want to live in.”
But the only way out of that plantation is to stand with those, such at those nations assembled at the BRICS conference, that have declared that colonialism is over. Chinese President Xi Jinping said at is first speech to the BRICS Conference September 12, “For the exact purpose of addressing these deficits and building a better world, I have put forward the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative and the Global Governance Initiative… [to] work together to build a community with a shared future for humanity.”
The difficult question, but the necessary question facing the world, is, do people have the questions to accept that the solutions may come from those they have believed to be their enemies? Are they prepared, for the sake of humanity as a whole, to change and advance that harmony of interests leading to a more perfect union? Are we willing to give up our axioms of failure, and accept the more perfect union that is based on Beethoven’s conception of humanity, as was presented in the Ninth Symphony concert performed by the Schiller Institute on September 11? It is this internal change which is the actual subject of a new security and development architecture. As Friedrich Schiller said in his poem “The Artists: “The Dignity of Man is in your hands—protect it! It sinks with you; with you it shall ascend.”
