III: Foundation-Funded Racism: Jeremiah Wright and Michelle 99Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens.” (“9-11 professor trained terrorists: Radical group
Weathermen assisted by Ward Churchill, World Net Daily, February 11, 2005) The parallels to
Wright are evident. An entire left CIA, foundation-funded domestic intelligence and
counterinsurgency network was primed to spout the “chickens coming home to roost” line right
after 9/11.
This blowback theory had broad appeal to morally insane leftists who wanted to see 9/11 as the
just punishment and retribution for US imperialist crimes. The problem was that 9/11 had been a
cynical provocation staged and manufactured by the CIA and the rest of the US intelligence
community to start a unilateral version of the war of civilizations.^20 Blowback was the most
insidious defense of the official 9/11 story. In honor of his role, blowback advocate Ward Churchill
had been awarded the Arlen Spector Award for 2005. Named in honor of the originator of the
“magic bullet” theory of the Kennedy assassination, the Arlen Spector Award goes yearly to the
person who offers the most imaginative and demagogic defense of an official big lie. This jest had
been mine, but the point was no jest.
The newspaper of record, as usual, attempts to obfuscate this issue: ‘On that Sunday after the
terrorist attacks of 9/11, Mr. Wright also said the attacks were a consequence of violent American
policies. Four years later he wrote that the attacks had proved that “people of color had not gone
away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West went on its merry
way of ignoring Black concerns.” “The violence of 9/11 was inexcusable and without justification,”
Obama said in a recent interview. He was not at Trinity the day Mr. Wright delivered his remarks
shortly after the attacks, Mr. Obama said, but “it sounds like he was trying to be provocative. ...
Reverend Wright is a child of the 60s, and he often expresses himself in that language of concern
with institutional racism and the struggles the African-American community has gone through,” Mr.
Obama said. “He analyzes public events in the context of race. I tend to look at them through the
context of social justice and inequality.”’ (“A Candidate, His Minister and the Search for Faith,”
New York Times, April 30, 2007)
Like Wright, Deval Patrick, and Weatherman veteran Ward Churchill, Obama embraced the
blowback theory of 9/11. Here are Obama’s remarks right after 9/11, which are worth citing
because they show his complete alignment with the left wing of the US intelligence establishment:
Even as I hope for some measure of peace and comfort to the bereaved families, I must also
hope that we as a nation draw some measure of wisdom from this tragedy. Certain immediate
lessons are clear, and we must act upon those lessons decisively. We need to step up security at
our airports. We must reexamine the effectiveness of our intelligence networks. And we must
be resolute in identifying the perpetrators of these heinous acts and dismantling their
organizations of destruction. We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of
understanding the sources of such madness. The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives
from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or
connect with, the humanity and suffering of others. Such a failure of empathy, such numbness
to the pain of a child or the desperation of a parent, is not innate; nor, history tells us, is it
unique to a particular culture, religion, or ethnicity. It may find expression in a particular brand
of violence, and may be channeled by particular demagogues or fanatics. Most often, though,
it grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair. We will have
to make sure, despite our rage, that any U.S. military action takes into account the lives of
innocent civilians abroad. We will have to be unwavering in opposing bigotry or discrimination
directed against neighbors and friends of Middle Eastern descent. Finally, we will have to