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Opinion / Legals

Mountain Views News Saturday, September 7, 2013

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OPINION

Mountain Views News Saturday, September 7, 2013

STUART Tolchin..........On LIFE

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INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY

Like many people in Sierra Madre I was shocked to learn about the murder
of young Treavor Robinson. I knew Treavor a few years back when he was just
eighteen and was the youngest person in the Improv Comedy Class that my son
and I attended. I came to know a little bit about Treavor and once gave him a ride
to Pasadena. As I recall, that day he was hitch-hiking to Los Angeles to visit his
biological mother and the ride to Pasadena was part of his long journey to Los
Angeles. By now you probably know the story of his death. He was once more
visiting his mother in South Los Angeles and was standing in front of his mother’s
apartment when, according to Police Reports, a car pulled up and an automatic weapon was fired
and Treavor was struck in the back and, after being rushed to the hospital, died of his wound.

Let’s be clear. There are no suggestions that Treavor was affiliated with any gang. In fact he was
the ex-Student Body President of Wilson Middle School in addition to being a talented musician
and actor and working in association with a Youth Ministry. I have been thinking about Treavor all
week but this article isn’t really about him. . .

The number of shooting deaths across the United States numbers into the thousands. It’s odd,
isn’t it, that individual incidents like the death of Treyvon Martin or Oscar Grant garner so much
publicity while the thousands of other equally senseless killings receive so little notice. It seems
to me that the only cases that receive much attention are those incidents wherein it is possible
to scapegoat some alleged perpetrator and demand punishment. Was the killer a racist or was it
another example of unjustified violence by the police? To my mind what is needed is not more ways
to punish the evil-doers but instead a way to stop the shootings and the killings before they happen.

Over the weekend I had an interesting conversation with a forty-year old African-American man
who had spent several years teaching in one of the East-Coast inner-cities. He proclaimed that the
major reason that young men were so out of control was that they lacked what he called “individual
responsibility”. Kids were allowed to run free at all hours and their behavior was completely
unknown to their parents. He proclaimed that parents had relinquished their responsibility to
their own kids and were so involved in the narcissistic pursuits of their own life that they failed to
properly monitor their own children. He further insisted that the lack of proper parenting resulted
from the fact woman were giving birth while they were still children themselves. He said that
the whole society was just too sexualized and that kids growing up were deprived of individual
responsible role-models.

I tried to extrapolate from what he said and started by tracing this back to slavery. The families
of slaves were broken up and children were taken from their parents. The unspeakable things that
were done to slaves deprived them of their own integrity. The unavailability of jobs, even after
emancipation, forced the families to scatter.

But at this point the man interrupted me and said—“Slavery-Schmavery” that’s got nothing to do
with individual responsibility for behavior in the twenty-first century. Certainly arguments can be
made that individuals growing up in the worst kind of environments have risen, through their own
efforts, to positions of success. This argument is not persuasive to me Many studies have concluded
that the chances of success for a child growing up with a dysfunctional family in a middle to upper-
class neighborhood has a much greater chance of success than does an individual growing up with
a responsible loving family in an impoverished neighborhood.

Interesting, isn’t it? These studies tell us that if your friends and neighbors do well, then you
probably will do well too. Without being judgmental, I am suggesting that what School and
Education should be about is to help people acquire the habits that will make their lives go more
smoothly so they are not experienced as a total renouncement of identity. There should be more
emphasis on teaching all of us how to live. Maybe we can even be taught how to get along in our
marriages and how to parent and how to resist temptations and all that sort of thing that sounds so
ghastly. Really, I am sure that this is a better alternative than locking up the huge and unprecedented
numbers of young men of color that are now subject to our Criminal Justice System

My point is that the kind of responsibility we should be talking about is not just the responsibility
of young parents overburdened by the problems of their own lives. What need to be focused on
instead are pathways to educate all of us in ways to ease the burdens of our own lives. We all have
the individual responsibility to make this happen.

9/11: THE DAWN OF A
NEW AGE---DIRECTED
ENERGY WEAPONS

Next Wed-nesday marks the twelfth
anniversary of 9/11 and I thought it appropriate
to write a word in remembrance of what I
consider the worst single day in American history. Yet, to date there
has been no definitive satisfactory explanation of what happened that
day, how it happened, who did it, or why it was done?

After more than a decade of government investigations led by the
FBI, CIA, and NSA culminating in The 9/11 Commission Report
(2004) and The National Institute of Standards and Technology Report
(2008), and a variety of private studies led by citizen groups like the
9/11 Truth Movement, there has been no definitive explanation of
what happened on that fateful day. Oh, there have been a number of
lame attempts to explain the events that fateful day.

The lamest is that of our own government. For twelve years they
have steadfastly stuck to the scenario that the attack was carried
out by 19 Al-Qaeda jihadists with box cutters who high-jacked four
American airliners, slamming three of them into WTC1, WTC2, and
the Pentagon, killing nearly 3,000 Americans in broad daylight. The
whole operation was supposedly being run by Osama bin-Laden from
his bat cave command post high in the mountains of Afghanistan with
a laptop and a cell phone.

The fourth jetliner crashed short of its alleged target, the Capital or
White House. Despite the story of heroic passengers saving the day,
the widespread debris field at the crash site, together with eyewitness
reports strongly suggest it was shot down by an air-to-air missile fired
by a pursuing fighter.

However, the most interesting and hotly debated of the attacks were
those at the World Trade Center, not the Pentagon. For nearly eight
years another explanation has been gaining popularity among those
“conspiracists” who claim the attack was an inside job accomplished
somehow by a controlled demolition using some sort of militarized
nano-thermite steel cutting explosives.

These conspiracists even have an explanation of how the explosive
charges were secreted in the buildings, who was behind the plot and
why it was carried out. But what they can’t explain is the obvious lack
of debris at Ground Zero or how any kind of high-tech explosive could
turn 1.25 million tons of building materials used to construct the 110
story Twin Towers into talcum powder-like dust, not to mention the
47-story WTC7 and all the other WTC buildings turned to dust that
day.

There should have been a pile of debris 13 to 14 stories high where
each tower had previously stood, or about 13.2% of each building
should have remained as rubble. This is true for all the buildings
destroyed in the WTC complex. And it really doesn’t matter if their
demise was caused by jetliners or explosives, only 2% of the ruined
buildings remained in the rubble. Where is the missing 13% of rubble?
One thing for certain, it isn’t at Ground Zero!

So what happened to the World Trade Center? Where did the Towers
go? Well, according to one researcher, Dr. Judy Wood, the buildings
were “dustified” by a new weaponized Directed Energy Technology.
What remained of the buildings was reduced to dust and eventually
blown away... gone with the wind... so to speak.

Dr. Wood, who earned her Ph.D Degree from Virginia Tech and
is a former professor of mechanical engineering, has conducted a
comprehensive forensic investigation of what physically happened at
the World Trade Center. In her book, appropriately named Where Did
The Towers Go? Wood calls the phenomena “dustification,” and says
it is the only explanation of how the buildings were turned into fine
powder with so little debris being left behind.

Dr. Wood says that what we witnessed on 9/11 was “the dawn of a
new age,” a horrifying demonstration of a new type of Directed Energy
Weapons.

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LEGALS

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