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Monday, March 17, 2008 12:00 AM

How photos support your own "reality"

Why do 9/11 deniers see an alternative story in pictures of the attacks? Because we all interpret images according to our biases.

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  • Monday, March 17, 2008 08:44 AM

    Nitwits and Crimethink

    Maybe the questions on your list don't get asked because people like you call people names when they do? Nitwits? By what measure? Yours?

    You can't even get your facts straight, there were no "people standing on buildings" cheering, they were Israelis' and and they were on top of a van. They worked for a company called Urban Moving, and after their agents were arrested, the entire operation closed up and moved, leaving cell phones and laptops behind. The "movers" themselves some of whom we now know, were in fact Mossad agents, were released, and we were told, "Nothing to see here, move along please."

    If you ask about them, you are an "anti-semite". If you point to the videos and the pictures, people like Farhad do this post-modern deconstructionist bullshit. And if you ask too many questions you support the terrorists. The system works.

    You have your questions and I have mine. And if you had spent any time researching this issue (as you obviously have not) your questions about the Israelis have been asked in dozens of books, web sites, youtube videos, seminars, and in the press and on TV.

    The problem is people who know nothing about the issues, and who smugly, smugly, believe they "know the truth" will smack any question down, every time, by spouting exactly the same kind of insults as you just did.

    Oh, and when you say "outrageous theories" you are quoting Bush. Good job! Good German!

    "We must speak the truth about terror. Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th, malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists themselves, away from the guilty."

    G.W. Bush speaking before the UN General Assembly 11/10/2001

    Maybe you should ask those "tough hard questions" yourself a little more often.

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