1) Whenever we look at the 'official' media/government version of 9-11, and then the reams of alternative information that is available; a huge disparity exists. Nearly two years after this tragic event transpired, what do you really think happened?

I don't find it that difficult to believe that a group of terrorists could plan for years, hijack a few planes, and ram them into American symbols of power like the Trade Center Towers and the Pentagon. Hell, terrorist groups like the PLO have been hijacking planes for years. However, this was the first attack of its kind on American soil and I did expect a more thorough investigation than what the American public received. There are numerous unanswered questions that the media seems to be ignoring. The main one that comes to mind is why Air Force jets weren't scrambled to intercept the other hijacked planes after the first plane crashed into the Trade Center.

What also bothers me is that after I sat in shock and watched the planes hit, I then witnessed the towers just slide to the ground. It reminded me of how demolition experts implode buildings to bring them down. Till this day I don't grasp how a plane hitting a building could make a building drop straight down so cleanly. The government’s explanation of jet fuel melting the steel girders just doesn't cut it. Again, the media didn't investigate this either.

The media simply isn't doing its job. Conspiracy theorists can speculate as to the why, but I don't care too much about the why. I care about the facts, and the facts say tough questions weren't asked. This in itself should cause a person to wonder what really happened. All I do know is that a large scar was left on this country on 9-11, and while our president felt it was worth going to war over, our media didn't think a full investigation about the incident was needed. There is something odd in this picture. I think your recent book raises some important questions that need answered.

2) When historians write about secret societies, one of the keys to their perpetuation is 'secret knowledge'. From your perspective, what IS this 'secret knowledge'?

It would be real easy to get abstract here and start talking about arcane secrets held for centuries by a handful of people. Books have been written on these "ancient secrets" and "rituals" ... from the claim that the Holy Grail is really the royal bloodline of Jesus Christ to the claim that we were created as a working class by aliens to mine gold in the Middle East. I have studied everything from ancient Sumeria, the myth of Atlantis, the Barvarian Illuminati, the Knights Templar, all the way to the Olmecs and the Mayan culture in South America. While all of this is fascinating as literature and may be sprinkled with a few truths, I really don't think it is all that relevant to what the "power brokers" are currently up to in the world. The use of ritual and the guarding of ancient knowledge has long been one of the most effective ways to bond groups of people together in a common goal. Look at the Catholic Church. The power brokers operate under a similar cloak. So it doesn't really matter what their exclusive secrets or rituals are, what matters is they are "exclusive".

3) The core of control in our current society is the creation of money, specifically by the international bankers and the Federal Reserve System. Explain how money is used to enslave a nation.

Money creates a servant class. Any time you create a debt, you have control over the person that is indebted to you. The private bank, called the "Federal" Reserve, loans money to the American government. To pay this money back the American government has to tax its citizens. A cycle of dependency is created. The fact is, as an American citizen you are merely a servant of the Federal Reserve. You pay taxes on everything you do. Even the land you live on incurs a yearly tax, or a "sharecropper" fee.

Why do you think credit cards are so freely handed out? People with bills have to keep working and don't have a chance to get out of the debt loop. This also keeps them distracted from what is really taking place in the world. Keep producing little slave so we can live off the fruits of your labor. In biblical times charging interest was called usury. Today it is an accepted business practice. Perception is everything, and those that control the instruments of perception (the media) controls the people.

4) One of the most glaring examples of political/media deceit is the JFK Assassination. If you had to fill in some of the gaps not covered in the Warren Commission Report, what would they be?

I don't have a dump truck big enough to fill in the gaps left behind in the Warren Commission report. I think most of the American public realizes by now that that report was useless. Numerous theories have been presented, and instead of the government or media attacking the facts presented, they attack the person presenting the facts. They figure if you discredit the source you discredit the facts. Basic forensic evidence has proven that the assassination didn't go down the way the Warren Commission claimed. But until the American public cries out and demands the truth, the government has no motivation to give them the truth. You want to know who killed JFK? Look at who had motive and who had the most to gain. Better yet, look at who had the most to lose had he remained in office. This little wrinkle in American history went down about 40 years ago. Why is it relevant today? If they can kill a president, what can't they do?

5) Why do you feel that it is so hard for many people to accept the fact that there is a monied-elite working behind-the-scenes (i.e. a conspiracy) which is serving THEIR best interest and not ours?

I don't like the term conspiracy. The media has redefined that word to represent kooks and whackos with paranoid delusions. However, there is an elite class and to think they don't band together to work for their own goals and interests is absurd. To think they don't use every tactic available to them, which does include media manipulation, to obtain their goals is even more absurd. If the mass media decides to take parts of language and redefine it for their own purposes, I certainly am not willing to propagate their language manipulations. So I don't speak or write in abstract words or concepts. I write and speak in a simple language the media can't manipulate.

However, most people are happy living out their lives of quiet desperation and their daily routines. It has become so ingrained in them that the thought that it was all for nothing would shatter them. People are basically selfish. If they are given the material things they want in life they could careless about anyone else. Again perception of reality is the issue. You take a wild bull and put him in a 1/2 acre pen, that bull is going to fight like hell to tear that fence down to get free. You put that same bull in a 10 acre pen and he will think he is free because his vision doesn't allow him to see the fence surrounding him. Eventually the rancher can day by day decrease the size of the pen until the bull could be standing in a 10 ft square pen and believe he is free because his perception was slowly manipulated. Americans are the bull in the big pen, and only a few of us have taken the time to see the fence slowly closing in.

6) When one studies the global power system, they come to realize that world government is nothing more than an intricate organized crime syndicate with those at the top of the control pyramid involved in drug trafficking, money laundering, embezzlement, and violent retribution against certain individuals who threaten to expose their dirty dealings. When you think about it, these people make the Mafia pale in comparison. Please comment.

What's to comment on? I think your question summed up the reality of the situation fairly well. However if anyone doubts the dirty hands of our government, then please explain why within months of the U.S. taking over Afghanistan the price of street heroin dropped 30% because the market suddenly became flooded. Can I prove a direct link to the U.S. government? Nope, but I think it is a safe assumption considering that the Afghani's had no way in hell to produce and ship opium with the U.S. controlling the country. So, you tell me who was doing it. I don't deal in theories. I deal in fact, and at the very least plausible fact.

7) We seem to suffer from the "Pax Americana" syndrome where most Americans feel we will never be knocked from our perch as king of the hill. Yet historically, every dynasty prior to ours has fallen. Do you feel the USA is in danger of this happening in the near future?

The history books tell us Rome always falls. While a lot of researchers and authors can put forth numerous reasons why the U.S. is set to fall and have China take its place, I disagree. The power brokers created the U.S. For the first time in history a ruling class created a system so perfect the peasants were unable to realize they were peasants. Everyone in the U.S. thinks they are free and control their own lives. The U.S. constitution was set up so that no ruling class or dictator had to rule the populace by violence or war, but by giving the citizens enough rope to enslave themselves. The citizens are doing this by exchanging personal liberties for security. The citizens are doing this by sucking the tit of big media, and in their complacency disregarding anything that runs counter to what they have been conditioned to believe.

The power brokers have the perfect system to prosper under. As long as the citizens believe they control the government they have no reason to revolt. So now, the main goal of the power brokers is to create little USA's all over the globe. I think China will fall to a power broker controlled "democracy" long before the U.S. will be written off by these guys as no longer worth using. The USA is the power broker’s crown jewel. I think the U.S. slave system has become the standard by which all countries will be ruled.

8) The AIDS virus - whether as a government created disease or a cover story to allow tens of thousands of people to die on a daily basis - is our current age's Black Plague. What is your take on this situation?

There is no doubt in my mind that AIDS was created in a laboratory. I can't think of the source off the top of my head, but I do remember reading a 1960's government proposal for researchers to come up with a biological warfare agent that could kill a targeted population. The requirements for the government’s "hypothetical" agent described AIDS perfectly. I don't believe in coincidences. I mean; 20 years later we now have the same type of biological agent described by the government killing entire populations. Need I also mention that AIDS has become a billion dollar industry?

9) The Nazi's, Russians, and CIA have done extensive research into mind control for decades (i.e. MK-ULTRA, etc), then in later years carried it out on cults, prisoners, and mental patients. What do you think they have discovered as to how human beings can be controlled en masse?

I think they have found that 90% of the population is scared of free will and taking responsibility for their own actions. Everyone needs something to believe in. I think they have learned that they can exploit this basic trait to their advantage. People like to be told what to do. Organized religions have used this technique for centuries. It's easy. I don't think mind control is all that difficult to accomplish. People will do and act as they are told if they are constantly fed a diet of propaganda.

10) If the average American citizen had a chance to look into the Air Force's deep dark Project Blue Book files, what do you think they would learn about the subjects of UFO's and alien intelligence?

I have never seen a UFO or a little green man. However, I think it is fairly absurd to believe that as vast as the universe is that we are its only inhabitants. I have certainly come across enough credible evidence to suggest something is going on in our skies.

But like I say, I am not good at theories. All one has to do is look at some of the recent technological jumps we have made in the last 50 years to understand that we haven't made these jumps on our own. I mean technological advancements are made in small researched steps and follow a quite orderly process of research and development. Fiber optics technology came from nowhere to a fully developed technology in a very short time. Is it a coincidence that people who allegedly saw the Roswell crash saucer up close described the saucer as containing control systems similar to what we now call fiber optics? And this was in the 1940's when no one had any concept of, or a need for, fiber optics.

The mass media would have you think that the only people to claim the existence of UFO's are crackpots and nut jobs. Hell, maybe some of them are. But that doesn't change the fact that numerous high ranking former military personnel are now coming forward and beginning to uncover the veil of secrecy. This doesn't change the fact that perfectly normal and respected airline pilots have reported seeing them.

I don't know if we have little green men anywhere, but I do think it isn't out of the scope of reality to think we may have a few crashed UFO's somewhere and we are back engineering them to come up with all of our recent technological leaps. The problem with any issue that involves some speculation is you have extremist on both sides of the issue clouding the facts. I think the truth is in there somewhere.

11) Please elaborate on how education (from kindergarden through college) is used to assure that citizens will be docile, 'proper thinking' cogs in the societal wheel.

In the elementary grades kids are taught that they must act like every other kid in class. If they can't or won't their individuality is dulled out of them with medication. As for thinking, kids aren't taught to think. They are taught to feed back to the teacher word for word what they want to hear. When you get to high school the goal is the same: stifle individualism. The same goes for college. Memorize what your professor says is true and you will pass. Mix in your own take on something and you fail. The sole purpose of education is not to promote free thinking and individualism, but to create robots that see things and interpret things the way they have been told. The average kid comes out of high school, if they make it through high school, so demoralized and beaten down they can either go with the flow or just say fuck it. We have more kids under 18 in jail than in our entire history. Is this really cultural progress?

12) Most people don't realize it, but war is nothing more than one elite class using their poor people to kill the poor people of another elite class. Why are we so historically gullible to fall for this ruse, especially when it comes to wag-the-dog patriotism?

Again, people are too caught up in their own lives to look at the world outside their subjective selves. They have the right wing preaching to them in one ear and the left in another. The truth lies somewhere in between, but no one is willing to take the time to figure out what it is. It is much easier to just jump on whatever bandwagon looks good at the moment. The right wing flag waivers are no better than the left wing peaceniks - neither one of them takes the time to sift through the bullshit rhetoric and find the truth, and the Truth is they are both on the same side.

13) I've heard from many people who have researched the above subjects and said that after their eyes had been opened, they realized that almost everything they've learned (or been conditioned to accept) has been a LIE. What reaction did you have when you tore open the veil of illusion and saw that it was all bullshit?

Fortunately, my illusions were shattered fairly early in life. I was sent to Catholic high school, regardless of the fact I wasn't Catholic, because my parents felt that was the best shot I had for a decent education. They were right. I learned real quick what hypocrisy was all about. I learned real quick how people said one thing, then did another. I learned that the Vatican was the richest institution on the planet, and while they preached of helping others all they did was acquire more wealth. I learned that if I wrote a certain article for the newspaper my priest-teacher could withhold it from the paper for no reason at all. I learned just because someone was in authority didn't mean you had to give them authority. My high school experience was just a microcosm of the world.

Somehow during that time I stumbled on a few books by Robert Anton Wilson that dealt with reality and our perception of it. It's kind of funny, back then I thought I was this hip "punk rock" rebel and was totally disgusted by the sell-out of the 60's generation, and it took an old hippie like Wilson to "illuminate" me. Truth is found in places where we least expect. It's sad that most people are too blind to see it when they stumble upon it.

Besides, I think most people like the veil they live behind. Most people don't have the moral character or intestinal fortitude to live an ethical life. If the system is corrupt, they figure this gives them permission to be corrupt. Corrupt is easy. For once I would like this government not to do what they are entitled to or have the right to do, but stand up and do what is right to do. There is a difference.

14) Please give us your thoughts on the two-party political/corporate system, Votescam, fund-raising, and special-interest group "donations" to politicians.

The only system we have in this country is the money system. Those with the money get the power. The Democrats want to treat us as inept peasants and enslave us in exchange for a few social programs. Republicans don't have much interest in social programs and figure they can make us slaves by having us compete economically on an un-level playing field. That way if we lose they can say we didn't try hard enough. Both parties are fucked. Votescam and special interest influence are just symptoms of the disease. They aren't the cause of it.

15) If you were in a position of power to make definitive decisions in regard to the Middle East debacle, what would be the first steps you'd take?

Damn Victor, this Holy War has been going on for thousands of years. In addition, our U.S. foreign policy has done nothing but worsen the problem in the last 100 years, and you want me to figure it out and fix it? The bottom line is the Mid-East and its various cultures were once the foundation of civilization. We still have yet to decipher the Sumerian text, which most agree to be the father of modern language. The cultures in this area should be the proudest and most advanced in the world. Instead they bought a ticket on the religion thing, and after a few evil fucks corrupted what was once a beautiful text (the Koran), their culture has de-evolved into a bunch of murderous bastards bent on suppressing women, wiping the Jews off the face of the earth, and sacrificing their children to their blood thirsty god.

We need to stop our country’s need for their oil by developing our own sources and investing in alternatives. Once we make that our main goal, and there is no doubt the American industrial mind can succeed in doing so given proper funding, we pull the hell out of there and let those fuckers kill each other. Arabs will not be happy until every Jew is dead. Period. No amount of negotiation is going to change that fact. I was all for killing the Joseph Stalin inspired Saddam. The world is a much better place with him out of it. Now pull our troops out and let the fuckers forget about killing us and let them kill each other to see who gets the power.

Our policy towards the Middle East should be real simple ... fuck with us and we fuck back harder, but we have no intention of trying to negotiate your battles with the Jews or playing cop. If they send terrorists over here, we send bombs over there. They attack our embassy; we bomb an oil well. These terrorist are like rabid dogs. You don't try to tame a rapid dog. You shoot the fucking thing in the head and move on. As for the bleeding hearts that whine about the innocent casualties this policy may affect, get real. No one is innocent. All have fallen short of the glory of Allah. Now go hang with him and start banging your promised 40 virgins.

As for Israel, if the Palestinians (who have always been a nomad culture and booted out of just about every Arab country for being zealots and trouble makers) want their own country they can settle in the West Bank and shut up the fuck up. There are currently 1 million Palestinians living in Israel as productive citizens and suffer no persecution. Israel is a democracy, you idiots. But the truth is the Palestinians don't want a country. They want Israel abolished.

16) One subject that very few people talk about is how we don't make things in our country any more. In other words, our entire manufacturing base has been transferred to China, Mexico, and other third-world slave-labor locales where the workers make 40 cents an hour. My question is: what detrimental affects have treaties such as NAFTA and GATT had on this country?

While the obvious effects are that U.S. companies are now moving their factories outside the country for cheap labor and a small bottom line, thus forcing workers in the U.S. to take low-paying jobs in service areas (servants for the ruling class). A not so obvious by-product is that mom and pop stores are being run out of business by huge generic chains like Wal-Mart because they can't compete with cheap, shitty made products from foreign sources owned by American big business. This has an effect on society in that our choices are now limited in the types of things we can buy. If we want something Wal-Mart doesn't carry, we can expect to pay out the ass. This also kills the American dream in that it limits who can succeed in business in our society. Former store owners are now Wal-Mart clerks making non-unionized wages.

We used to have a bookstore here that not only sold bestsellers but also carried the most arcane and weird books anyone could want. Their in-store stock was the best I have ever seen, and I have been in tons of bookstores. When I want a book I don't want to wait for it to be "special" ordered, I want it on the shelf. This store even carried small press and self published books. Anyway, when the book giants like Borders started moving in, this little store could not compete with the prices and had to close its doors. The major bookstores weren't interested in carrying small press stuff, nor were they too happy when you asked them to order it. If the average book buyer doesn't see a book on a shelf, they have no idea the book, or books of its type even exist. This is an economic form of censorship.

I guess what I am trying to say is whenever economics alone dictate a market of any kind and service and community expectations are ignored ... the consumer suffers. Our society grows more narrow-minded, and narrow minds are easy to manipulate.

17) The more I study the corporate mainstream media, the more I see the dripping pathetic cowardice of the rank-and-file reporters in refusing to stand-up and tell the truth. With that in mind, how can we better get the word out to everyday Americans as to what is really going on in the world?

I don't think everyday Americans really care what is going on in the world. Sad but true. There is an alternative media out there for anyone willing to look. The major media by definition cannot provide any truth that may reflect badly on the corporations that own them or the advertisers that support them. It won't happen. I think the last bastion of free media left in this country is AM radio, but then your average American doesn't listen. The small press is a last bastion of freedom, but it mainly preaches to the converted and doesn't reach the common citizen that could benefit from it.

18) Taxation = slavery! Give us your insights.

It's real simple. If you work you should be entitled to 100% of your earnings. The constitution was never set up so that the government could levy an income tax on its workers. Sales taxes are understandable to a degree because you as an individual decide what you do or don't purchase. When it comes to your wages, if you are not receiving 100% of what you earn then you are a slave working for the person taking a cut out of your check. It has been estimated that the average American pays about 50% of their income in various taxes. Of course people don't realize this because most of it is taken right out of their checks before they get paid. So my question is; if you work eight hours a day but only get to keep four hours in pay ... aren't you a slave?

19) If you could list the three biggest historical fallacies that are still being taught in our school books, what would they be?

1. In 1960 Nixon, not Kennedy received the most votes in the popular election and Kennedy only won the electoral election because of underhanded tactics in the vote count in Chicago. Moral: get over it Al Gore and you liberal whiners. Getting fucked is part of life.

2. The main cause of the Civil War was not slavery. Why do you think there were blacks fighting for the south? You don't get the answer to this one kids ... do your own research. Hint: $$$$$$

3. Okay, this last one isn't in the history books yet, but were you aware that this new Palestinian leader - Mahmoud Abbas - who Bush seems to think the Israeli's should negotiate with, once wrote a book claiming the Holocaust never happened?

20) Finally, if you could stare into your crystal ball, what do you envision happening to our world within the next 2-3 years?

I think we will have more terrorist attacks in this country that will make 9-11 look like a picnic, and I think we will still have a "peace keeping" force in Iraq. The Jews and Palestinians will continue to sacrifice their children to their bloodthirsty gods, and Americans will still be sucking the tit of big media on wide screen TV's not realizing more and more of their wages are ending up in the coffers of a government run wild. AIDS will continue to kill millions, the Yankees will win a few more World Series, priest will continue to fuck children, and my poetry will continue to go unread.