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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
First of all, Farhad, it would be easier to accept your voice as a "sober voice of reason" if you didn't throw around words like "million" and "billion" so much. Sloppy, sloppy. Less hyperbole would suit your case better.
Second, if there are people who doubt the official explanation of the vents of September 11, 2001, it's because of the fact that over the last couple of decades, both the government of the U.S and the broadcast media have lost the trust of so many people in this country. They lie, spin and twist the truth constantly to fit their ends, so why should anybody believe them anymore? Hardly surprising that in the wake of Bush's dive to use the events of that awful day to further his own ends (to the extent of brushing aside any idea of actually punishing the guy who was responsible), a lot of people simply don't believe that it happened the way the government says it did.
Me, I wasn't there. I've no particular reason to disbelieve the events as described by most people. But then again, knowing how rapacious and ugly are the people running the country at the moment, I wouldn't be at all surprised if it ever did come out that they had a hand in it. And that's got nothing to do with my ability to parse reality - it's got to do with Bush and Cheney being such self-serving, evil scum. If the White House crew want people to believe them, maybe they should think about telling the truth now and then. It might help.
I can't say I know what Farhad Manjoo's reasons for picking this particular example for this article, as all I know about Mr. Manjoo is the articles I've read by him here, and I'm not a mind reader either. I suspect he chose it because:
So yes, I would imagine he was aware that it would attract this attention, as he does seem reasonably intelligent (yes, some of you likely disagree, that's fine. I don't expect to change your mind regarding that, just like I don't expect you to change your mind regarding how you feel about 9/11).
People who agree with the "official" version of what happened that day can't understand how the "conspiracy" people can believe what they do based on the evidence and information they've seen, and the same thing applies the other way around. This article talks about how that divide came to be and is extremely unlikely to be bridged. But the comments are mostly saying, "My side of things is right, why can't the rest of you see that."
That hundreds if not thousands of people all cooperate to take the world's biggest secret with them to the grave, in this interconnected electronic instant-on world we live in, than any other possible explanation.
I also believe it's more plausible that time traveling space aliens built the pyramids as opposed to an absolute monarchical society with ready access to a nearly limitless supply of free labor.
Will Salon ever find a subject about which Manjoo can display something other than complete ignorance?
They haven't yet.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/656453/reverend_jeremiah_wright_barack_obamas.html
Most people do not want the truth and do not have the wherewithal to understand or process even the most simple logical or scientific inconsistencies. Those that do will be met with ridicule because the authorities want this kept quiet and swept under the rug because it is just too blatant and obvious once you understand that it was all a scam and heist done by those in power and protected by those they own, the press.
Best not look at the evidence - it does no good.
Sorry, did I understand correctly that this dude thought that the airliner that crashed into one of the WTC towers was armed with a missle? Does this guy know anything about how airliners are constructed? There are no hardpoints that you could attach a missle on an airliner. You can't even modify an airliner to be missle-capable.
And, even if there were, what would be the point? So, you're going to crash an airliner into a tower. It weighs tons, is traveling at hundreds of miles an hour and is packed with explosive fuel. But at the last second, you fire a missle? For what? To increase the impact?
Totally dumbass.
Manjoo writes:
All rely on photos to make their case, the same images that the rest of us use to support our version of the story.
My doubts -- and those of many, many, many others -- rely on the fact that Building 7 was clearly demolished. There are a lot of other problems with the official conspiracy theory, but you don't have to get farther than Building 7 to know that it's fucked up. You start there and the rest unravels.
I don't have to prove exactly how 9/11 was pulled off. I only know the official conspiracy is bunk, which is what matters -- that's the useful information. Was the Pentagon hit by a missile or a plane full of people from Dulles? Who cares? Building 7 was demolished and the official conspiracy theory denies this -- indeed has no explanation for this.
Once you get that far, you have your information: it was an inside job. It is a distraction to feel obligated to try to show how it was carried out -- does that really matter? How could you in any case without access to the crime scene?
Tip to Manjoo: it is the urge to follow the herd and deny facts that leads people to embrace the official conspiracy theory. The official theory just doesn't hold up:
Why do buildings fall at the speed of gravity? Why would the one hit second, the one hit more off center, the one that had the least amount of fuel burning inside of it (we all saw it shoot out the other side) fall first? Why did news reporters and firemen report major explosions in the basements (base charges, common with demolition)? Why was the steel at the bottom of "ground zero" liquefied for days, as you would expect in a demolition? Why did members of the official investigation team have to fight to even get access to the site? All of this is more suspicious, again, because Building 7 was obviously demolished.
None of these questions come from pictures or make conclusions based on shaky science; they all come from the public record.
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