“The Secret History of 9/11,” SBS TV, 12:00-1:00 a.m. 11 September 2008.

A NEW-OLD WAR

In my last weeks in the classroom as a full-time teacher and the first weeks of my early retirement, in what was the spring of 1999, a series of meetings finalized the organization, the leadership and the financial backing for a coordinated suicide attack that had been initially proposed to Osma Bin Laden and al-Qaeda in 1996. That attack was centred on the crashing of two airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. Five years and five months after that series of meetings, on 9 September 2001, two hijacked airliners crashed into the Twin Towers and the Towers collapsed. A War on Terrorism had begun.(1)

Between that spring of 1999 and the autumn of 2001: President Clinton expressed the view that “the greatest regret of his presidency was his failure to take serious action against al-Qaedi and Osama Bin Laden.” George W. Bush’s presidency had begun; I had moved to Tasmania from Western Australia in what Downunder is called a sea change; I had gone on my pilgrimage to the Baha’i World Centre and begun to receive a Disability Support Pension. In the spring of 2001 I also began a new life of publishing extensively on the internet.-Ron Price, Pioneering Over Four Epochs: A Personal Memoir, and thanks to (1)Internet Sites on “The Secret History of 9/11,” SBS TV, 12:00-1:00 a.m. 11 September 2008.

When the War on Terror began
I was ready for I, too, had been
part of a long and secret war for
some four decades with all the
ideal forces and confirmations
rushing to support, reinforcing
and opening doors, razing those
impregnable castles to the ground
so that I could attack the right and
left wings of the hosts wherever I
lived and had my being, so that I
could break through the lines of
the legions and carry my attack to
the very centre of earth’s powers.

I had tried to be firm in that Covenant;
I had tried to show fellowship and love;
I had travelled north to south and east
to west,across two continents:my spirit
attracted, my resolution firm, striving
for magnanimity—at least some of the time;
my intention pure—well, as far as possible.
I tried to avoid controversy—as far as I
was able. My thought at peace—as far as I
was able. To each, it seems, we had our
engagements with only some doors opening
and some thoughts at peace and only partly
pure in this world with its dust and ashes.

Ron Price
12 September 2008

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