Take a few thousand half-truths, misunderstandings, amateur analysis, hunches, suspicions, mistakes, historical quotes, incompetencies, guesses, and a lot of extra time; add a dash of Bush hatred and a pinch of ignorance of Islamic fundamentalism and world affairs; stir in the blogosphere for a couple of years and what you get is the “9-11 truth movement”.
The only thing that outrivals a feminist zealot is a 9/11 truther. Crusaders for mistaken causes out to convince the world of the enlightened truth that has opened their eyes and made them the most dangerous of converts.
Conclub has looked into the arguments of the blame the victim crowd and has (wisely) concluded that an administration that has waged the war in Iraq as incompetently as it has and was apparently unable to manufacture a few small piles of ‘WMD’s’ to placate the home grown opposition cannot be expected to have managed to plan and execute what would have been one of the most elaborate, difficult and malicious conspiracies in the history of mankind.
And if you attempt to lose your sanity by wading into the google blackhole of “9-11 conspiracy”, the one thing you’ll find is that the 9-11 truthers basically cannot agree on any one theory at all. It is a strange amalgamation of hundreds of pet theories, rumors, suppositions and self-important revelations. The only thing they can agree on is that it somehow, someway, must be Bush’s fault and absolutely not the followers of the Religion of Peace seeking to blacken the eye of the Great Satan and usher in the age of a new worldwide caliphate.
I suppose that would be too much of a ‘conspiracy’ for even them to swallow.
In the end the ’9-11 truth movement’ earns only a ‘nice try’. It simply fails the smell test. The facts don’t support it and blind hatred of a president should not spawn the origin of entire political ideologies. Bush will soon be gone and one has to wonder what will become of the fervent foot-soldiers of the latest conspiracy theory. Perhaps they can take up coin collecting to pass the time.
In the end, we were able to debunk each of these assertions with hard evidence and a healthy dose of common sense. We learned that a few theories are based on something as innocent as a reporting error on that chaotic day. Others are the byproducts of cynical imaginations that aim to inject suspicion and animosity into public debate. Only by confronting such poisonous claims with irrefutable facts can we understand what really happened on a day that is forever seared into world history.–the editors of PM
Categories: Culture, Idiots, The Global War on Islamofascism
Tags: Idiots
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You have to think about who the editors at the PM are, they are in on it too. Actually, i wouldn’t be surprised if you were to blame for 9/11 as well.
LOL
Well said my friend. I wish I could explain to the world how the Infidel Sage and I used to banter (usually under the influence of alcohol) about various conspiracies cooked up by the government. A young Sage would throw out the theories of the tri-lateral commission or the black helicopters or the ‘all seeing eye’ on the back of the dollar bill. I would argue that his hysteria is a bit unwarranted. For him to refute the Truthers in such convincing fashion. . .well. . . lets just say 15 years ago he might have been a truther.
And then he became an adult.
I would never have been a ‘truther’. A conspiracy is really only two or more people planning to carry something out and history is awash with conspiracies both true and imagined. And I do believe parts of history were really far different than the watered down, simple mush that has been spoonfed to us as dimwitted Americans. I continually look for ‘why’ as much as the ‘how’ when I look at both current events and history. You also have to look at evidence and compare what you can find to history and what has come before. If it doesn’t add up or make sense then it doesn’t pass the test. I have my suspicions on other historical ‘conspiracies’ but I have to stick with, especially in the role of advocate and activist, what I know to be true.
Okay, you guys watch the documentary, and tell me there were “no explosions”, which would be contrary to what the demolitions experts say (plenty of them). You don’t even have to be a demolitions expert though. Just see the film footage, of which there are many clips. At he bottom of the screen at: http://www.patriotsquestion911.com are an assortment of impressive documentaries. The “911 Mysteries” one is an especially good one. Consider watching it with a friend instead of renting a moveie at the video rental place. The discussion following it would make for an enjoyable, talkative evening.
Also, there are dozens of small clips if you don’t have the interest or time to watch the entire documentary. Just google up “video 911 truth evidence explosions”. As the many other films show up in the row of clips that you can click onto and watch, you’ll seeunder or along side it (if you don’t often go there to the videos) the time of the clip, many often only 5-10 minutes long.
There are plenty more pieces of evidence, besides the explosions aspect. Read statements on the aforementioned site. Like the unprecedented NORAD stand down. Many pilots have statements too. Many air traffic controllers do.
You will find that the many understandable questions you can’t help but have if you really considered this, are answered sufficiently in the documentaries, which you could then research thereafter, so you might want to jot down thoughts here and there, and then see if you can disprove it (you can’t).
Incidentally, David Ray Griffin who wrote “The New Pearl Harbor” with excruciatingly researched detail of it, has just come out with a third book on the subject. The second book was called something on the line of: “The 911 Omissions Report”. This third one is called: “Debunking 911 Debunking” which shows the impossibility of the government story, and BS within the NIST report, and PM. Remember, the public debate challenge offered up the the 911 truth movement has been turned down ob the PM and NIST people. Why decline, if the opportunity to dismiss the truth movement is possible?
I hope that you explored some of the links, specifically the wikipedia one on the false flag operations I’d left in other thread.
I am so appreciative that you all are taking an interest enough to discuss this. The 911 movement is only growing bigger and gaining more credibility. Some though haven’t the capacity to think beyond comfort levels. Thank you for being more open-minded than that though, by merely being able to discuss and consider what seems otherwise unfathomable. However the massive evidence speaks for itself. It’s on film!
excellent reply bluebonnet! There are way to many things that are unexplained. Why does Popular mechanics have to come out with a book to debunk 9/11. Why not our own government? Oh wait PM owned by our government.haha. I would gladly believe the government if they released videos of the pentagon and actually explained the events we saw that day. Math and logic doesn’t lie. The “facts” don’t add up in a logical persons mind after taking a look at the multitude of errors in the 911 commisson report and debunking idiots(popular mechanics:take a look on youtube:loose change vs PM).
It’s amazing to see that there’s still someone out there who thinks that Bush and company were competent. Not just competent, but amazingly, shockingly so!