Posted by
Mike on Sunday, May 01, 2011 8:01:39 PM
http://www.westernperspective.blogspot.com/
John Paul II who has now been beatified by the Catholic Church once
identified New York City as the world's capital. To understand the
problems facing our nation and where the world is heading today, we must
take a look back to the days of the Reformation which took hold of
Europe in the early 17th century. The primary consequence of the
Protestant Reformation was, in the words of the historian Belloc, the
isolation of the soul of Europe and Western man. This of course carried
over into the American colonies divorced from the culture of the Roman
Empire and from authentic Christian values.
Only from this perspective can we hope to gain a true understanding of
the events of September 11, 2001 centering on Manhattan in New York
City. Such an attack on civilized society, even if it were
technologically possible, would have been inconceivable within the moral
framework of Europe prior to the Reformation, where life was
considered sacred and government was built around the conditions for
securing human happiness. A brave attempt to reconstitute these values
took place in 1776 in America and the Republic under the principles of
the Declaration of Independence based upon upholding life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness.
The twin evils of capitalism and socialism both sprang from the division
within Europe consequent upon loss of faith. Nowhere was this more
devastating than in Britain which was, prior to the Reformation, an
integral part of the Roman Empire. The other areas affected, primarily
in the far North and East, and isolated villages high in the Alps, would
never have brought about the total shattering of European unity to the
extent that actually occurred, the dispossession of the vast majority
and concentration of wealth by only a few. The rapid growth of
capitalism within the former British colonies occurred as a direct
result of moral breakdown in Britain.
The Roman ideal of equality was lost in Britain and throughout Europe.
It began to reawaken in the newly formed republics in France and in
America as a basic principle of their respective revolutions. Without
the moral restraint provided within the Church, injustice prevailed
throughout the West, leading to ever more destructive wars, and a
general state of discontent and unhappiness coexisting with ever greater
material progress.
The 2001 attack in New York happened at the peak of this era of division
within the civilized world. With the absence of a true moral standard,
people within society, making power their idol, consequently could not
accept the obvious fact that 9/11 was orchestrated from within the
Untied States government. Even during the presidency of John Kennedy,
who later became a casualty of the Cold War, there had been plans to
carry out domestic terrorism in order to gain popular support for an
invasion of Communist Cuba through Operation Northwoods which Kennedy
summarily rejected. The same type of terrorism was carried out in
post-war Italy with Operation Gladio.
When given two plausible alternative explanations for what happened on
9/11, why would many of the American people accept the official
government version fraught with logical inconsistencies, omissions and
contradictions without a thorough honest investigation? Is this not due to
worship of wealth, prestige and power?