Freedom of Information — what a great concept. What could be more American? But at a time when technology had made it easier than ever before to have a robust exchange and debate of ideas, our options for the World Trade Center were reduced to one unpopular, illegitimate plan. That is not opinion, but established fact. Officials failed us, the media failed us, and we will fail not only ourselves, but generations to come, if we accept what their direspect and dishonesty have fashioned.

No one can point to a single debate in the media, as the future of Ground Zero was being planned — because even many journalists were hoodwinked into thinking that it was a matter of private property being built with private funds. Even more offensive, it was made to seem that 9/11 Families were opposed to new Twin Towers, when for many of them the opposite was true. The flood of propaganda made it, from the beginning, the World Manipulation Center.

What’s more, no one can point to a single straightforward answer from the officials we have been asking for an audit since 2007. The closest we came to a direct answer was when we spoke to the Counsel for Congressman Rangel, then Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, and he said, “You don’t really think the Congressman is going to cross the mayor, do you?” It was a shock when we began to recognize, contrary to conventional wisdom, how much Michael Bloomberg was and is pulling the strings.

If officials had only listened, at the many breakdown points along the way, and done their Constitutional duty to respond in good faith to the people’s petitions for redress, the fallacies they have been building upon, especially for the last few years under Christopher Ward’s leadership of the Port Authority, would have been exposed — which means teachers and truckers would not now be paying through the nose for a World Trade Center that no one but a handful of people ever asked for — or to be more precise — fenagled.

We are going to start posting below the latest round of contacts we have been having with the powers that be. When we are finished we will finally be ready to print and distribute “The Swindle At Ground Zero — Selling America Short” and after we do, it will never be possible for honest people to ever again pretend that what is being built at Ground Zero is honorable or inevitable.