May 6th, 2010

This has been a very informative class. I wish I had not been late the last day of class because I really enjoyed reading my Guantanamo Diary, and I was very interested in hearing what my classmates had to say about the book. I do think that the class ended on a very intersting note: do not accept what is told to you when it comes to American government. I infact, have learned that already when it came to 9/11. In all the accounts, people say they heard the building explode, and the architects say that the building was designed to withstand heat greater than what the plane's jet fuel inflicted upon it, I did watch loose change, and I just finished watching former Congresswoman Cynthia Mckinney's interpretation of 9/11. She is skeptical about the whole event because she knows what went on. When she sat on the pannel overseeing the Defense Department budget, during fiscal year 2006, the panel became allarmed at the trillions of dollars missing from the Defense budget. She was not answered as to what happened to the money, and that further fueled her mistrust of the Bush administration. What I cannot understand is why the U.S would do such a thing to its own country? That is also the reason why I do not like to believe conspiracy theories, because I cannot believe that our own country would launch attack against its own innocent citizens. However, I will no longer turn a blind eye to either side of the truth because I know that there are many sides to a story, and when it comes to government whether the issue is over Guantanamo, secret detention camps of the CIA, torture, rendition and so furth, or 9/11, the government will always have insider information which it does not want the citizens to find out. I believe that the American people have been lied to time and time again, and it is actually making me want to run for U.S Congress when I become eligible per the Constitution!