9/11: A Children's
Story?
Russell
Pickering | April 19 2006
The main article I will be referencing throughout
this discussion was titled, "9/11 Commission Comic - It's a giant
leap from 'Jughead' to 'The 9/11 Report'." Go ahead and read that
a couple of more times like I did until your mind adjusts.......I'll
wait........ok. Just like Joe Camel dressed up death-by-smoking for
children, so now is a major publisher turning the 9/11 Commission Report
into a "comic". But since 9/11 isn't really that funny they
describe what they're doing as, "turning the dense, painful breakdown
of the horrors of that morning in 2001 into a more digestible form:
the graphic novel."
In a bold effort to depict the tragedy of Sept. 11, artists Sid Jacobson
and Ernie Colón illustrated simultaneous events side by side
on the page, using the timelines of the hijacked planes as laid out
in the 9/11 commission's findings, to chilling effect. "I think
we have taken a terribly important document, which I wish every American
would read, and done it in a way that makes it far easier for people
to grasp," said publisher Thomas LeBien of Hill and Wang, a division
of the prestigious Farrar, Straus and Giroux. LeBien says the fast-paced
method and layout of the parallel attacks should go a long way in helping
people - particularly younger readers - grasp what happened. "If
you're 80- or 14-years-old, you look at those timelines and it becomes
more immediately clear the catastrophic nature of it all in a more gripping
way than you might get from the report itself," he said. But in
this case, LeBien insisted the artists just followed the script laid
out by the report and made no effort to politicize the events of the
day. "This is not a political document. It does not present an
analysis any more than the commission report did," he said. (1
& 2)
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If I'm not mistaken it sounds like the intent is that every American
from 14-80 should read it, and that it would be more digestible, fast-paced,
easier to grasp, clear, gripping and chilling, but not political. I'm
thinking of a word. What is that word again? Oh.......propaganda. The
following illustrations are actually from the "comic".
Are you calmed down and back in your chair
again?
"These books will appeal to consumers and to educators for course
adoptions.......Graphics can do things that no other medium can",
says LeBien. The 9/11 Report adaptation, he says, will "tell a
complex story with greater clarity. Not enough Americans have read the
original report." The adaptation LeBien explains, will "visually
walk you through the FAA and the Department of Defense. It will show
who is talking to who; offer a time line of the attacks; information
on Islamic fundamentalism; the transition from the Clinton administration
to Bush. Everything that's in the report, and it's all studiously apolitical,
just like the original report."
The importance of this and the effect that this could have should NOT
be underestimated. This is a powerful, well designed tool. It's even
being built into the original concept that "educators" can
adapt them for "course adoptions". This is Madison Avenue
at its worst and most despicable level yet.
The importance and power of indoctrination was understood many years
ago by the leader of a country who also had a "terrorist"
attack on his homeland, a Patriot Act known as the "Enabling Act"
(3), and a national ID card which we will have in May of 2008 in the
form of a REAL ID card (4). The "comic" apparently even has
some commentary on "Islamic fundamentalism". Didn't the other
leader have a group of people he hated too? It even "visually walk[s]
you through" government agencies. Thank goodness it's "studiously
apolitical" just like the real 9/11 Report.
That same leader had an interesting program known as, "Kriegsbücherei
der deutschen Jugend". That means, "War library of the German
youth" (5). Following is a sampling of their work.
It looks, fast-paced, easy to grasp, clear,
gripping and chilling. But we know it's not political - it's just true......right?
Like the 9/11 Commission Report. There were 156 of these, appearing
at weekly intervals from 1940 through December 1942. There were also
some special editions that were not for sale, rather used as rewards
by the Nazi youth group. If you want to fully grasp the power of comics
in culture then look back over the past two years at the top box office
movies. They are comics engrained in culture and reproduced in films.
This "comic" will become a part of our culture.
The fact that these were used as "rewards" for kids taps into
a secret weapon sometimes called the "nag factor". Toy retailers
proved some time ago that the way to get in the parent's heads and then
pockets was if they could get the kids to want something enough to nag
the parents for it. Then eventually they would get the parent's cash.
Mommy and daddy will you read me the 9/11 Commission report before I
go to bed?
And what about the overall demographic this will appeal to? Since America
has been purposefully dumbed down the simple visual mind is around every
corner. This type of material agrees with people at lower reading and
interest levels no matter what their age. People who might not watch
the news or read the actual 9/11 Report will pick up a story book with
pictures. Putting something into images also drives it deeper inside
the individual and cultural psyche. Remember the publisher said, "Graphics
can do things that no other medium can".
The other demographic that can be included in this is the young twenties.
There is a resurgence in comics these days. For now, it is hip for kids
14-20 to question 9/11 and "rebel". This can be observed by
popular 9/11 sites and groups on MySpace. How many teenagers will swallow
and "digest" this "comic" that would never pick
up a government document? It will appeal to those kids who are not the
questioning type.
The adult version of this is coming out soon in the Universal Studios
production United 93 April 28th (6). This film is synchronized with
the Moussaoui trial. The government and its influence on the media is
well known. After trailers, film critics, FOX news, reviews etc. people
will probably have more actual minutes of hype outside the theatre than
the total length of the film itself. It is purposefully designed this
way. This hero story is something everybody relates to and emotionally
connects with. It instills a feeling of sacredness in the average person
that makes them feel irreverent if they are eventually asked to question
it. If you want to get mythological, it could even be argued this film
is an archetype of the War on Terror. It has been referred to by Rumsfeld
as the point "America started fighting back". It's being woven
into the fabric of our society in every popular form.
The 9/11 Truth Movement has had a temporary success with the Charlie
Sheen phenomenon. An honest and popular man spoke out. But now the big
guns are coming. Notice that the one thing that isn't happening just
like Charlie has predicted? The government/media is NOT talking
about the facts. This is actually brilliant on their part. They are
simply creating heroic tales full of Technicolor images and emotion
to replace the truth. It may be successful.
My admonition is to read the writing on the wall now and prepare to
overcome their curve balls and sliders. We must be unified and intelligent.
It's time to quit arguing amongst ourselves and act. If we're divided
we will not survive their power machine and the imagery it conjures.
I'll see you at the Parliament building..........I'll be the one in
a mask!
V
Russell Pickering
www.pentagonresearch.com
(1) http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6305408.html
(2) http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/62569.htm
(3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act
(4) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_ID
(5) http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/kbuch.htm
(6) http://www.united93movie.com/index.php
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