Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #152838 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 214 pages

Synopsis
"I studied American history, so I knew that the US government had fabricated 'incidents' as an excuse to go to war several times before. Nevertheless, although the thought did cross my mind that 9/11 might likewise have been arranged, I did not take this possibility seriously." So writes David Ray Griffin, an eminent philosopher and theologian, in his introduction to The New Pearl Harbor. From this sceptical vantage point Griffin brings together an account of a terrible tragedy that is far more logical than the one we've been asked to believe. Gathering stories from the American press, from the work of other researchers and the contradictory words of members of the Bush administration themselves, Griffin presents a case that leaves very little doubt that the attacks of 9/11 need to be further investigated. He begins with these questions: Once radio contact was lost with the various hijacked aircraft, why weren't jets immediately scrambled from the nearest military airport, something that is routine procedure, according to the FAA's own manual? And why did the administration's story about scrambling jets change in the days following the attacks? The disturbing questions don't stop there: they emerge from every part of the story, from every angle, until it is impossible not to doubt the official story, and suspect its architects of enormous deception. Long a teacher of ethics and theology, Griffin writes with compelling and passionate logic, urging readers to draw their own conclusions from the evidence outlined. The New Pearl Harbor rings with the conviction that it is possible, even today, to search for the truth; it is a stirring call demanding a real investigation into what happened on 9/11. David Ray Griffin has been a professor of philosophy of religion and theology at the Claremont School of Theology in California for over thirty years. He is co-director of the Center for Process Studies there and the author or editor of over twenty books.

About the Author
David Ray Griffin has been a professor of philosophy of religion and theology at the Claremont School of Theology in California for over thirty years. He is co-director of the Center for Process Studies there and the author or editor of over twenty books.

Customer Reviews

Disturbing account of events
I still remember seeing the twin towers collapse and could not help but think that there was something not quite right and this book merely confirmed my fears.
This book is excellently written in a concise and structured manner. It gives evidence, hipothetical accounts of what may have gone wrong and why it went wrong.
Would recommend also to those who enjoy reading "Conspiracy Theory" books.

Good book, some dubious elements
I first read this book after having been involved with the 9/11 Truth Movement for a long time. David Ray Griffin provides a lot of solid evidence that the United States government was complicit in the attacks, while not explicitly saying this is what happened. His book provokes you into critically analysing the events of that day for yourself instead of relying on the 9/11 Commission Whitewash.

There are some things I disagree with, such as Griffin's contention that whatever hit the Pentagon was not flight 77, but overall this is a good book. I recommend it.

Withering deconstruction of the official myth
On its own, The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 presents a very convincing case that the official version of events regarding the 9/11 attacks is, to put it bluntly, a pack of lies. Dispassionately and with a total lack of histrionics, David Ray Griffin makes a case which I guarantee you will find hard to argue with. When read in conjunction with Griffin's related work, The 9/11 Commission: Omissions and Distortions, the impression one is left with is that democracy no longer exists in the USA.

Ask yourself one question; how big a conspiracy are we facing, when a ostensibly democratic government could engineer a diabolically ingenious event such as 9/11 in order to give it the green light to wage endless wars of imperialistic aggression against whomsoever it wishes, and at the same time to gain the backing of official institutions, media and foreign governments, whilst ensuring its members make a nice fat profit into the bargain? Just how far, and how high, has the corruption spread?

The answer to that question is, as far as it possibly can. Any system which is corrupt at the top has to be, by its very nature, corrupt all the way up its hierarchy. As highlighted by David Ray Griffin, and without even examining any of the reams of other evidence that exists, far from being a democratically elected President, George W. Bush is an idiotic, despotic figurehead who was selected to advance a New World Order agenda of global domination in the hands of a super-rich elite who have, are, and will continue to, treat the human race like a huge herd of wealth-generating cattle.

The events of 9/11, when followed to their logical conclusion, suggest the existence of an agenda which is frightening in the extreme, and paint a bleak picture for the future of large numbers of the human race. Anyone who has done any additional research into the New World Order will know that mass depopulation of Planet Earth (from 6.5 billion to about 2 billion) is part of their plan, and 9/11 is one of the events which (they hope) will help them achieve their goals. To help prevent this agenda from reaching its conclusion it is essential to understand the real truth behind 9/11, and in this regard David Ray Griffin's work is almost second to none.

"We are grateful to the Washington Post, the NY Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But now the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards world government. The supra national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries." - David Rockefeller, at the 1991 Bilderbergers meeting in Baden-Baden.

"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists." - J. Edgar Hoover.