First and foremost, and as stated on the home page of this web site, consumercide in no way condones the use of violence as a means to any end, and the abominable terrorist actions of September 11th 2001 simply reinforce that message. However, something more must be understood than the 'CNN picture' of the world, and there are many highly relevant but far less popularised antecedents to the terrorist attack on the United States. 

The events of "911" precipitated huge quantities of net discussion in email discussion & chat groups across the net. Participants from all over the world often debated issues similar to those that are discussed in the following essays. Activist and Alternative media web sites are now bulging with such essays, and this is merely consumercide's contribution to the attempt to increase understanding upon the real issues at stake. These discussions and opinions tend to express a common dissent to the 'government issued and approved' picture of events leading up to and following the attacks. Such dissent indicates that the standard rendering by mass media is woefully inadequate in coming to grips with what is really going on, and why it is occurring in the first place. This has been so much the case that even famous mainstream US journalist Dan Rather, in May of 2002, noted that there was a climate of enforced journalistic silence regarding the 'hard questions' that should be asked of the US government after the attack. He likened the situation of 'patriotic' pressure to keep this journalistic silence as a feeling parallel to the oppression of having burning tyres placed around dissident's necks, such as occurred during South Africa's apartheid.

And this brings us to the reasons for the inclusion of this section on the web site. If we are not to understand the antecedents to the terrorist attacks, then we cannot in any way move towards a peaceful solution to these profound problems. For peace comes with the real solution to the differences between peoples of the world, not the mere crushing and oppression of one of those peoples and their voice. That is what brought about the events of terror in the first place. The west may single out an individual 'bogey' man or group, but it cannot fight an ideology with anywhere near as much success. Actions must be taken to directly engage with peace. If you do not understand these statements to be of substance now, perhaps they will ring truer to you after reading some of the following essays. 

Note: Consumercide by no means asserts that the contents of all of these essays are accurate in their entirety, but it does offer a challenge to anyone to show that the general thrust of these works are less accurate than that of western mass media and its present coverage of the issues related to the attacks. Any submissions to this effect, if received, will be posted on the site.