With only ten percent of the 21st century under our belts, it’s still too early to give the appellation of ‘Crime of the Century’ to the hijacking and kamikaze crashing of airliners into the twin towers of the World Trade Center complex and into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, but it most certainly was a crime of gigantic proportions. And despite the ridicule heaped upon any explanation — ignominiously called conspiracy theories — other than the official one, there can be no doubt that there was indeed a conspiracy at work on that day. Unless you believe that the separate hijackings were unrelated, the very fact that four different planes were hijacked is proof that a criminal conspiracy existed. The extent of that conspiracy is the real question, and unfortunately for those who want to see truth prevail, that question is just one of many for which we will likely never be given satisfactory answers.
The Constitution established a federal government of limited powers, limited not only by their explicit and full enumeration in Article 1, § 8, but also by the enumeration (but by no means an exhaustive one) in the Bill of Rights of certain important rights upon which the government must not trespass. Any power exercised by the government which does not fall within the list given in § 8 has been usurped, either from the people themselves or from the states, and being extra-Constitutional, is therefore illegitimate. Now the Bill of Rights is not so much a limit on the powers per se, but rather a limit on the means by which such powers may be exercised.
