Cheney and 9/11

Everything is linked.

Paul Weyrich co-founded the **Heritage Foundation** in 1973 and the **Council for National Policy** in 1981. (He also co-founded the Moral Majority)

In **July 2001**, (shortly before 9/11) he helped write “The Integration of Theory and Practice”, a long-term plan which called for the use of **deception, misinformation, and divisiveness** to allow conservative evangelical Christian Republicans to gain and keep control of seats of power in the government of the United States.

>Our strategy will be to bleed this corrupt culture dry. We will pick off the most intelligent and creative individuals in our society, the individuals who help give credibility to the current regime. Our movement will be entirely destructive, and entirely constructive. **We will not try to reform the existing institutions. We only intend to weaken them, and eventually destroy them**…. We will maintain a constant barrage of criticism against the Left. We will attack the very legitimacy of the Left…. We will use guerrilla tactics to undermine the legitimacy of the dominant regime

>We will take advantage of every available opportunity to spread the idea that there is something fundamentally wrong with the existing state of affairs. … contribute to a vague sense of uneasiness and dissatisfaction with existing society. … **We need to break down before we can build up. We must first clear away the flotsam of a decayed culture.**

>There will be three main stages in the unfolding of this movement. The first stage will be devoted to the development of a **highly motivated elite** able to coordinate future activities. The second stage will be devoted to the development of institutions designed to make an impact on the wider elite and a relatively small minority of the masses. The third stage will involve changing the overall character of American popular culture…

Weyrich saw the Christian Right’s vision of traditional values as the legitimate and moral side. The other side, cast as the camp of secular liberalism, he saw as immoral and illegitimate. While Weyrich saw these opponents as in rough alignment with the two main political parties, his aim was never merely about electing Republicans. He was about forging a revolutionary Christian nationalist movement to undermine the legitimacy of what he saw as a liberal, secular democratic order.

In 2020, Trump attended a meeting and gave a speech at the Council for National Policy. His entire administration consists of Heritage Foundation or Council for National Policy members, yet he claimed to know nothing about Project 2025.

Note that on 9/11, Trump’s buildings became the tallest in New York, and he bragged about it on the day of the attacks. 9/11 also conveniently allowed for the **Patriot Act**, which began the weakening of our rights.