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"911 Revisited: Scholars Discuss the Facts", documentary.

"A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader."  --Plato

"There is no path to peace.  Peace is the path."  --Mahatma Gandhi

"When someone demands blind obedience, you'd be a fool not to peek."  --Jim Fiebig

"The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes."  --Justice Felix Frankfurter, US Supreme Court Justice

"For it is a truth which the experience of ages has attested, that the people are always in danger most when the means of injuring their rights are in possession of those whom they entertain the least suspicion."  --Alexander Hamilton

"The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media."  --William Colby, former CIA director

"The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb.  This allows it to sway the emotions of the masses."  --Albert Einstein

"We are on the verge of a global transformation all we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order"  --David Rockefeller

"The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, all the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just keep your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions.''  --Frank Zappa

"Terrorstorm", documentary.

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

"The most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed..."  --Steve Biko

"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism"  --Thomas Jefferson

"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face," Bush screamed back. "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"  --George W. Bush, quoted by three attendees of a November 2005 meeting in the Oval Office with Republican Congressional leaders regarding renewing the controversial U.S. Patriot Act

"Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms."  --Aristotle

"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."  --Robert Heinlein

"The Great Conspiracy", documentary.

"Dissent is the mother of assent."

"The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests."

--Ralph Nader

"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."  --William Blake

"Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future."  --John F. Kennedy

"The world is divided in to three classes of people: a very small group that makes things happen, a somewhat larger group that watches things happen, and the great multitude which never knows what happened."  --Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, 1931 Nobel Peace Prize winner

"Zeitgeist", documentary.

"I will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty"  --Joseph Pulitzer, (1847 – 1911), established the Pulitzer Prizes

"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock."  --Ben Hecht (1893 - 1964)

"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.  --Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)

"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."  --Aristotle

Sworn Congressional witness Clint Curtis testified that U.S. Congressman Tom Feeley (R-Florida) asked him to create "vote-rigging" software.  Congressman Feeley (still in office) voted No on 4/15/2008 for HR-5036, which proposed to fund paper ballots.  The Bill did not pass.

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." --Josef Stalin

"The high office of President has been used to format a plot to destroy the American's freedom, and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of their plight."  --John F. Kennedy at Columbia University, 10 days before his assassination

"Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death."  --Adolph Hitler

"The easiest way to gain control of the population is to carry out acts of terror the public will clamor for such laws if the personal security is threatened."  --Joseph Stalin