In August this year I received a note requesting advice on a new project. As the project in question was rather unique in scope – dealing as it did with founding a new religious order or church – the signatories of the note requested that I preserve their anonymity should I decide to report on their activities. Doing so would be quite welcome, though, “to gain first insights into the potential reach of such a project.” The note continued: “Now that almost 15 years have passed and the crimes of September 11, 2001, have yet to be prosecuted or the true perpetrators and instigators of the crime identified and named, investigations that deserve that name cannot be expected to happen for decades yet. As understandable and as legitimate as it may be to continue demanding the truth about 9/11 and for a decent crime investigation into the gruesome mass murder that happened on that day, it is unfortunately just as illusory and unrealistic to expect the demands to be met in real life. Given that the official legends promulgated by governments and media alike are thus going to continue to stand as truths, realpolitik tells us that rational arguments are no longer any use against them. Wherever legends have become official “true history” and have been declared state creeds on which governments base their power politics, rational critique has become obsolete.
It is for these reasons that we propose to found a new creed that states clearly its unshakable belief in the official stories of 9/11 and which celebrates the miraculous promotion of these myths to the ranks of solidly governmentally verified truths. As this involves in part violations of the laws of nature and statistics as well as those of logic or common sense, we have decided on a working title of “Church of Free Fall” for our project. We are working to achieve official recognition as a religious order for the “C. o. F. F.”. The C.o.F.F. – despite originating as a secular “knowledge community” -has its very own founding myths and miracles that are in no way inferior to those of established churches, as its Credo as attached below amply demonstrates. The Credo has been adopted officially by the International Section of the preliminary C.o.F.F. Episcopate, to serve as a firm foundation of the religious community. Further extensions of the Credo, including additional fundamental beliefs, dogmas, and rituals, are currently under development. The C.o.F.F. Credo bows to a realpolitik of war, observation, and “security” that has arisen from the dust and ashes of the WTC towers. The C.o.F.F. replaces strength-by-refusal with the joy of affirmation, celebrates the insanity of reality as well as the truly just Great War on Terror. Instead of fighting its enemies, the C.o.F.F. embraces its enemy in a stranglehold. You are welcome to publish our manifest.” Which I will do forthwith:
We trust in the one suitcase of 200
Which got left at the gate
And which revealed all the proof
We might ever have needed:
Teaching videos on how to fly a Boeing plane,
Instructions for airplane hijackers,
A Hamburg, Germany, registration form,
A diploma granted by the Technical University of Hamburg,
And the Final Will and Testament of Mohammed Atta,
The “Leader” of the hijackers.
We believe
That that man wished to carry his testament
With him onto his suicide mission,
Just in case his deadly flight
Failed to end in an enormous ball of fire.
Or because he figured
His testament naturally indestructible,
Just like the passport of his fellow hijacker Al Sugami
That was discovered unscathed next to the WTC.
We believe
That two airplanes are able to
Bring down three skyscrapers
The first time ever in the history of construction
That steel framed skyscrapers became
Pulverized by burgeoning fires alone,
While a plastic-and-paper passport
Is able to survive the inferno unscathed.



