Solving the Marathon Bomb Mystery, Part 9: What Is the Role of a Library?

by Mary W Maxwell, LLB

Dear Mr David Leonard, President of the Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116

Greetings!

From my youth I recall the ground floor of the BPL as a quiet, uneventful place. Today (October 23, 2017) it was all hell’s-a-poppin,’ especially thanks to the WGBH newsfeed, and activities for readers. Anyone would be uplifted just being there. Congratulations to you and your staff.

I walked over to the “bibliographical assistance” desk and asked the very helpful librarian four questions. First, “Do you have a special section of books that deal with ‘Nine Eleven,’?” and second, “Is there a particular section that handles conspiracy theory in regard to 9/11?”

She said “Yes, we definitely have a section on 9/11, and I’ll check the catalogue for conspiracy in particular.” She then handed me a paper with the Library of Congress number HV6275 for conspiracy.

Third, I then asked “And do you have a place devoted to books about the Marathon bombing?” She typed in “Marathon bombing” and named some titles, such as Michele McPhee’s Maximum Harm (I tried not to grimace) and fourth, “May I also have the conspiracy section on Marathon?”

“No, there apparently isn’t a section on that.”

I myself am the author of a conspiracy book entitled Marathon Bombing: Indicting the Players.  I’d better provide you with a copy for the BPL, Mr Leonard, — possibly mine is the only one so far on that subject. I am a proper scholar and your shelves already have books authored by me, on human evolution.

Visiting Section HV6275

Off I went, then, to read your books on the conspiracy of 9/11. I was confident you would stock all nine of David Ray Griffin’s well-researched books, such as The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 (2004), and 9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press (2008).  Griffin is a 78-year-old professor whose earlier books were on theology.

I would have bet money that the BPL also carried Kevin Ryan’s well-sourced book Another Nineteen – meaning, say, the men who bought United Airlines put options just before the big day. And since Elias Davidsson’s Hijacking of America’s Mind on 9/11 is in 770 libraries, I presumed (but erroneously) that the BPL has it. Elias is the fussiest scholar I know. In the Hijacking book he traces all the phone calls from the planes on 9/11.

I found the HV6275 section; it’s on the second floor under a banner that says “Law and Politics.” Practically made me salivate. I didn’t mind bending down to find the offending conspiracy books on a low shelf. Alas, none of them are investigations of 9-11 truth! They are about the awfulness of conspiracy theory.

For example:

Conspiracy Theories: The Roots, Themes and Propagation of Paranoid Political and Cultural Narratives, by Aaron Gulyas;

Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas, by Cass Sunstein (5 copies available);

and

Among the Truthers, by Jonathan Kay (7 copies available).

Believe me, in my day we did not refer sarcastically to seekers of the truth as “truthers.” (Was Galileo a truther? Was Luther?) The blurb of Kay’s book says:

“From left-wing 9/11 conspiracy theorists to right-wing Obama-hating “birthers” — a sobering, eyewitness look at how America’s marketplace of ideas is fracturing into a multitude of tiny, radicalized boutiques—each peddling its own brand of paranoia.”

I’m one of the truthers and am not paranoid — I think I’ve got facts right but will always shift over to another position if good evidence pops up. And the great authors I mentioned — Griffin, Ryan, and Davidsson — show no signs whatsoever of paranoia. I don’t even agree that they are “peddling” their ideas.

Thus we have name-calling in Section HV6275.  Is that OK on the shelves of a big city library? I think it is.  I think just about anything can be offered to the readers of Boston. But the number of copies on hand – 7 in the case of Kay’s book — makes me think the book was promoted by the BPL. If so, on what grounds?

Or on what grounds was the decision made to skip David Ray Griffin’s very compelling account of the problems in the official 9/11 story. Have we become a nation in which it is wrong to say anything about the bad deeds of government? I expect there is a whole section at BPL of books about our revolutionary heroes, such as Tom Paine. Dear me, are they in danger of being tossed out?

I found this quote by Thomas Jefferson (in a letter to Joseph Cabell, dated 1816):

“I felt the foundations of the government shaken under my feet by the New England townships. There was not an individual… whose body was not thrown with all its momentum into action…. God bless you, and all our rulers, and give them the wisdom, as I am sure they have the will to fortify us against the degeneracy of our government.”

The Homeless

Excuse me for sounding negative, O President. My day today at the Library was very happy. I liked seeing the bedraggled old men enjoying your comfortable chairs upstairs. They weren’t even pretending to be reading a book, but no one disturbed them.

I had visited the BPL previously this year, on September 7^th.  I came up from the Deep South where I had been staying in Motel 6’s. In my campaign for the US Senate (now ended) in Alabama, I needed to travel all over that state. My trip to Boston was to attend a lecture at the Watertown Public Library by Chris Bollyn (on the topic of 9/11, no less!).

The next day, when I decided to inspect the Marathon finish line, I dropped in to the BPL and inquired if I could get a Library Card. Your very courteous clerk asked me for my address. I said “Well, I don’t exactly have a fixed address now, I am sort of homeless.” He replied without a hint of condescension “All right, if you get into a shelter, come back with the shelter’s address and we can use that as your address for a Library Card.”

I was staying at an expensive hotel in Copley Square. I could have cried at how nicely “the other half” of me got treated. So thank you for that.

On my way out I saw a sign near your elevator that said “Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote Oklahoma on a table in the Ladies Room.” “Oklahoma where the wavin’ wheat can sure smell sweet, when the wind comes right behind the rain.”  I love all that stuff.  And I die for libraries.

Thank you for listening.

Yours sincerely,

Mary Maxwell, PhD, LLB

P.S. Allow me to append the Bibliography of my 2011 conspiracy-laden book, Prosecution for Treason: Epidemics, Weather Wars, Mind Control and the Surrender of Sovereignty:

 Bibliographical Essay

How wonderful it was to discover persons who worked night and day for decades to uncover facts that we all would have learned except for suppression by the media. For starters there are Rodney Stich, Eustace Mullins, and Antony Sutton. Another two lads are British: Admiral Barry Domville and A. Ramsey, a member of the House of Commons, both of whom were imprisoned by their own government during World War II because they knew of the fakery involved (the mind-boggling fakery).

I am beholden to the Internet for making me aware of such persons. Also I obtained many of the books, pre-loved, from alibris.com. Most of them are not in big bookstores or in most libraries. How’s that for disgraceful? But in big libraries you can find old gems that were not popularized much, such as the ones by Lane, Kubek, Jordan, and McCarthy. Was I ever humbled to learn that the bad rap Sen Joe McCarthy got was unfair. He wasn’t paranoid about Communists in the State Department. They ran the place openly!

I realize I have a lot of ’splainin’ to do to show why my sometimes extreme-sounding statements should be given credence. But I myself can never be certain that the sources I used are truly reliable. I went through about a thousand books and chose the 250 here because they seemed insightful. In a few cases I at first tossed a book aside, such as the ones by Jim Keith and John C. Coleman, as I found in them some statement that I doubted, yet brought them back on board later when other readings clued me in.

I did list two samples of blatant, hilarious disinfo – J. Tucker’s book on terrorism, and James Clarke’s on presidential assassinations. You simply could not be fooled reading them. There is also another kind of misinfo, one that is very helpful, as when an author appears to be a loner (like me) but must surely have a pipeline to major insiders. The books below by Livingstone, McGowan, and Eppersson appear to be that type, and, fascinatingly, the ones by Canning.

There is one type of ‘controlled press’ that really irks me: the stuff that either tells the sad facts of this world, or intellectualizes about Orwellianism, without bothering to say what can be done. One should assume that they are ‘atmosphere setters’ – paid.

Can’t explain why I find the MK-Ultra survivors sincere – not to mention inspiring! I gladly take the risk of trusting Brice Taylor.

As for the Freemasonry books, Masons should take a look at them. I agree with John Robinson (not to be confused with John Robison, an Illuminati whistleblower in 1798) that Freemasons seem to be a continuation of the Templars.

Frankly I went light on that club out of fear of litigation. Some mind-control victims, such as Neil Brick and Kathleen Sullivan, have been threatened with suit for alleging that their ritual abuse took place in Masonic halls. If Masons did sue Sullivan, couldn’t she ask in court how libel laws can protect secret societies? If a club refuses to say what it does, isn’t the public entitled to entertain suspicions?

Books that I tagged ‘B’ for biology’ and ‘L’ for law are clean. Ah, remember when you could assume that all science publications were clean? That was because each writer really did police himself lest he lose his career.

Oh, there’s only one book listed here that I did not read, Vladimir Binhi’s Magnetobiology. I tried, but it was over my head. I include it to indicate that there really is a scientific field covering such ‘science fiction’ things as ELF waves and weather modification. Becker’s book on electric medicine is readable and full of hope.

Fact is, the reader nowadays has to read several books on a topic in order to come to a judgment of the accuracy of any of them. Has my book given off trustworthy vibes? If yes, that doesn’t mean that the truth can be found here. How would laypersons like me and thee know who really thought up 9/11, or AIDS? It is a guess.

I steered clear of the subject of the holocaust, as one Australian, Fredrick Toben, is now doing time in a labor camp for his publications, as is Ernst Zundel, an American/Canadian extradited to Germany against the laws of US and Canada. It is my impression that Zundel was jailed in order to provoke Germans and also in order to harm ordinary Jewish folks. WW II was deliberately mis-taught to us.

After finishing my manuscript I came into possession of OP.JB by the British spy, Christopher Creighton. To me it seems plausible. It will break the hearts of those who fought for either side (the sides being not ‘Allies and Axis,’ but, really, ‘people and cabal’).

I note that he, Creighton, resents having been tricked into it by Desmond Morton. Greg Hallett’s stunning book calls Morton, i.e., MI6, “higher than the Crown.” Hmm. An immensity in those four words?

Let me now give credit to my thesaurus. No, it is not an electronic one, or even a bound-book thesaurus. It is my sister. Whenever I need a word (or a line from a poem) I call her, any hour of the day or night. She never lets me down. Thanks, Sis!