Commentary
Tuesday, September 11, 2001
 

Nobody denies that Tuesday, September 11, 2001 will be one of those momentous days that changes the course of history. The question that will be asked and that nobody can answer, is in what direction that day will take us.

Most of us are still reeling, aching and grieving from the events of Tuesday. Despite the current pain and grief, many people eventually will begin asking why the tragedies happened. The media and spin doctors want to know how four planes could be hijacked and how the nation’s security measures failed to warn of even one of the events. As usual, such questions address the symptoms and not root causes.

The root question is not why the attacks succeeded, but why did they take place? That is, why would a handful of men be motivated to launch such gut-wrenching and horrible acts of destruction? Why would such men willingly die so horribly? What was their cause? What was their motivation? Focus on these root questions and the answers to our future hopefully appear.

We agree that justice must be served. More than a dozen participants have already paid the ultimate price because they were directly involved in the acts of destruction. The people who remain are the supporters and masterminds behind the project. We must seek justice and find those people, but are Americans willing to seek and recognize the ultimate root cause?

More than 150 years ago Frederic Bastiat identified the problem in two words: legal plunder.

Fundamentally, all humans are creatures of economics. We all must eat, must provide shelter, provide clothing and essential needs. Providing for essentials is founded firmly upon the principles of liberty. Deny those principles and you deny people the right to choose their destiny. When denied opportunities to provide such essentials, when people are deprived of their rightful property, and people are deprived of any say in forging their own destinies, humans often respond with revolution and violence.

Too many people ask questions. Few are providing answers or solutions. The problem is fundamental: legal plunder.

Yet, there is hope. NESARA, The National Economic Stabilization and Recovery Act, is built upon principles of liberty and designed to halt the legal plunder madness. NESARA does not pretend to be an ultimate political solution, but only a solution that is politically doable, practical, and hopes to stop the maddening political chaos we see about us. We need time and space to breathe, time and space that becomes available through sounder monetary and fiscal policy.

Despite the agony and confusion we are all experiencing, we see a silver lining to Tuesday’s events. What happened Tuesday is causing many Americans, and many people around the world, to pause and reflect, and that is good. On Tuesday legal plunder came home to taunt Americans. We can do much to honor those who died innocently by not returning violence with violence or returning hatred with hatred but return both with justice. We can encourage liberty in other lands as well as our own. We can demand the end of legal plunder and encourage prosperity for all people, not just a few.

Bastiat predicted Tuesday’s events more than 150 years ago. Legal plunder begets legal plunder and ultimately revolution. Liberty begets liberty and ultimately peace. If we do not stop legal plunder, then we can expect the tragedies of Tuesday to continue.

Tuesday has changed us all. Forever. Tears will flow for a long, long time and none of us are immune to the emotions we all now feel. The road to a peaceful political solution is available. Hope is within our grasp. How will we respond?

The NESARA Institute