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Release the 28 pages

One may consider that our Republic is predicated on the “choral principle.”

This concept pertains to the proper placement of the voice, or citizen, in participating in the creative process of communicating and manifesting profound and beautiful ideas, or policies, which express and elevate the intention of the composition, or nation-state republic.

Each unique individual voice, or citizen, acting on, yet bound by the whole composition, or constitution, increases the densities of ironies and harmonies generating a more perfect understanding of ideas and statecraft.

Yet, for this principle to be positively pertinent, the citizen’s actions must be premised on a developed moral intellect. A passion for wisdom and justice is a prerequisite.

Wisdom, for the joy of discovery, and justice to honor the past, and to improve posterities’ potential.

With these virtues in mind, our war on terror, in which we have covert/military operations in more than 100 countries, which has led to mass deaths of innocents and mass displacement of humanity, is misguided and malevolent. Only the most servile, obsequious supplicant could remain silent over this perpetual war of aggression.

Would a people be criminally complicit when condoning numerous conflagrations that culminate to the ultimate calamity — World War III?

Of course, to foster reason and virtue, the aid of inspiration and insight are necessary. Such insight might may well be in the classified 28 pages of the 9-11 Inquiry. The suppression of these pages by the Bush and Obama administrations, under the auspices of national security, has been challenged by those who have read them. They promote the release of these pages to the public in the pursuit of justice for the 9-11 victims, their families and first responders and the untold thousands slaughtered in the aftermath.

These suppressed pages could lead to the financing and logistics of 9-11, while correcting misinformation and false narratives.

Why speculate on their content and the implication of the FBI’s obfuscation of thousands of 9-11 documents, when House Resolution 14 is at hand? HR14 simply requests the declassification of the pages to the public.

There are more than 50 supporters of this bill in the House, but a concerted conscientious crescendo is needed to break the silence.

This is where you must place your voice in support of HR14, and put the public back in republic. This joyous citizens’ chorus is imperative to regain our preamble’s national identity, lest we be completely repossessed by the royal dictate of imperial fascist rule.

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