The 9-11 Truth Movement is Bogus (Don't buy their books)
I am so sick of the 9-11 truth movement. It’s the most divisive thing the left has encountered since the COINTELPRO and CHAOS programs of the FBI and CIA in the sixties and seventies. It bugs the crap out of me for a ton of reasons. First, it’s bad science. Its primary criterion for truth is whether or not it supports this New World Order hypothesis. I’m not buying that one either. Oh, but what about WTC 7? It fell into its own footprint in under 7 seconds. Well, isn’t that just mysterious. Or not? Buildings fall down. It’s happened before and it will happen again. My guess is that it caught on fire and something within it could handle the heat. I’m no scientist and neither are most of the people listening to and buying this garbage. Let’s be honest.
Why should random and peculiar events be evidence of anything sinister? They shouldn’t.
Strange events occur everyday in car wrecks and home fires and tornadoes and hurricanes and so forth. Just pick up a copy of Ripley’s believe it or not. Strange things do occur. Is the New World Order the cause of all of these strange occurrences? Give me a break. But that’s the point. The chief motive behind all of this pseudo-science garbage is an effort to support the theory that claims there is a super-secret group of extremely wealthy people who are satanic whatchamacalits and freaky deakies who are trying to control the world and depopulate and yada yada yada yada. It’s horseshit. When confronted with this nonsense just ask for the evidence. All that can be provided is innuendo or a suspicious lack of evidence. They don’t have any evidence. All they have is an intense fear and inner suspicion. Here’s a link to a tiny bit of info on it. I apologize for all of the advertising on the page. It seems primarily intended to sell you his cooked up DVD’s. http://www.infowars.com/bg1.html
But the real reason this stuff bothers me is that so much of the effort is devoted to undermining and slinging slander on actually credible people on the left end of the spectrum. I mean these are people who have devoted their entire lives to affecting positive change in the world. Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman, David Barsamian and anyone else who doesn’t believe them. Either they’re in on it or they’re being used by the people who are. So now they have training programs to teach unwitting kids how to distrust the very people that they should trust. It’s a huge disinformation campaign against these activists. Here’s some video:
This guy cracks me up. All of the points he accuses Chomsky of are things he himself commits much more frequently. Chomksy is usually very careful about citing evidence to support his claims. In fact he is famous for it. Chomsky has debated and won against some of the most powerful intellectuals out there. I mean it’s like listening to a living legend, like Marx or Kant or Mill or any of the other great philosophers. This guy in the video doesn’t compare, but he has the audacity to say that Chomsky uses little tricks to confuse you. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Notice how this guy dismisses the lives of the East Timorese as if they didn’t matter.
That video was in response to these:
None of this would bother me if I too weren’t suspicious of something myself. I think all this 9-11 truth nonsense has been cooked up by the right-wing to discredit, misdirect, and otherwise delude the New Left, who in their opinion are all a bunch of conspiracy theory loonies. So they feed them a bunch of garbage about 9-11 and the bohemian grove and skull and bones and so forth. Then you throw in some nonsense about how paying taxes, global warming, and the women’s liberation movement were all a part of the plan to enslave us. It’s laughable, but people are eating this crap up like it was donuts and chocolate syrup pancake caramel drizzles. Stupid kids are buying into it and establishing another deluded population base, like the Christian right, who will one day give up on the conspiracy nonsense but the residual effects of distrusting Global Warming as nonsense and despising taxes and hating women will all be left over. So they’ll vote republican. Other evidence of this is the fact that all over the place you see people using these conspiracy theories as ammunition for supporting the war. Like you’re either in support of the war or you’re one of those crazy conspiracy theorists. Here’s a quote from one of them:
“THIS VIDEO HAS MY FULL SUPPORT.YES, IT IS MEANT TO STATE AN OPINION AND I DO IT OPENLY. I AM TIRED OF EVERYONE ACTING LIKE A BUNCH OF PUSSIES AND RUNNING AWAY FROM WAR. WE NEED TO FIGHT BACK. IF YOU BELIEVE IN THESE CONSPIRACY THEORIES, YOU'RE DEFINITELY PART OF THE PERCENTAGE WHO IS MENTALLY RETARDED. I DON'T CARE WHO TELLS ME WHAT, I AM NOT GOING TO LET A BUNCH OF FAGS AND IDIOTS (BUT MOSTLY FAGS) TELL ME THAT OUR OWN GOVERNMENT DESTROYED MILLIONS OF PEOPLES LIVES FOR FUCKING OIL, OR BECAUSE BUSH IS A NEO NAZI.1. 9/11 WAS NOT PLANNED BY OUR GOVERNMENT.2. THE TERRORIST ATTACKS ON 9/11 WERE COMMITTED BY TERRORISTS, DON'T YOU THINK THAT MAKES SENSE?3. YES, WE NEED TO BE IN THIS WAR. IF WE PUSS OUT LIKE EVERYONE WANTS US TO, WE WILL BE LEFT OPEN TO ATTACKS ONCE AGAIN.4. I DO NOT HATE EVERYONE FROM IRAQ OF AFGHANISTAN OR ANYWHERE IN THE MIDDLE EAST BUT IF THEY HATE ME, I'VE GOT NO OTHER CHOICE.I AM POSTING THIS VIDEO BECAUSE I AM SICK AND TIRED OF ALL OF THIS. I'M TIRED OF SEEING NOTHING BUT DEATH WHEN I WANT TO SEE VIDEOS OF THE MAGNIFICENT WORLD TRADE CENTER.I'M TIRED OF SEEING PEOPLE WHO WALK BY THE WORLD TRADE CENTERS' FOOTPRINTS EACH DAY AND DON'T THINK ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO DIED THERE.I'M TIRED OF GOING EVERYWHERE AND HEARING PEOPLE TELLING ME BUSH DID THIS.”
It goes on a bit longer but I’ll cut it off there. This sort of nonsense doesn’t help anyone. As you can see above, it just fuels the passion of the right. What Chomsky and others are famous for is pulling the rug out from under their feet. And they’re doing a damn good job of it, but years from now they’re going to show pictures of real activists who are concerned with the lives of people all over the world, who are interested in real institutional analysis and real solutions, standing next to a picture of a placard reading “9-11 was an Inside Job.” And suddenly all their life’s work will be flushed down the drain, because even if it were true, no one will ever convince the people of the world. Occam’s razor: All things being equal, the simplest answer is most likely correct.
Why should random and peculiar events be evidence of anything sinister? They shouldn’t.
Strange events occur everyday in car wrecks and home fires and tornadoes and hurricanes and so forth. Just pick up a copy of Ripley’s believe it or not. Strange things do occur. Is the New World Order the cause of all of these strange occurrences? Give me a break. But that’s the point. The chief motive behind all of this pseudo-science garbage is an effort to support the theory that claims there is a super-secret group of extremely wealthy people who are satanic whatchamacalits and freaky deakies who are trying to control the world and depopulate and yada yada yada yada. It’s horseshit. When confronted with this nonsense just ask for the evidence. All that can be provided is innuendo or a suspicious lack of evidence. They don’t have any evidence. All they have is an intense fear and inner suspicion. Here’s a link to a tiny bit of info on it. I apologize for all of the advertising on the page. It seems primarily intended to sell you his cooked up DVD’s. http://www.infowars.com/bg1.html
But the real reason this stuff bothers me is that so much of the effort is devoted to undermining and slinging slander on actually credible people on the left end of the spectrum. I mean these are people who have devoted their entire lives to affecting positive change in the world. Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman, David Barsamian and anyone else who doesn’t believe them. Either they’re in on it or they’re being used by the people who are. So now they have training programs to teach unwitting kids how to distrust the very people that they should trust. It’s a huge disinformation campaign against these activists. Here’s some video:
This guy cracks me up. All of the points he accuses Chomsky of are things he himself commits much more frequently. Chomksy is usually very careful about citing evidence to support his claims. In fact he is famous for it. Chomsky has debated and won against some of the most powerful intellectuals out there. I mean it’s like listening to a living legend, like Marx or Kant or Mill or any of the other great philosophers. This guy in the video doesn’t compare, but he has the audacity to say that Chomsky uses little tricks to confuse you. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Notice how this guy dismisses the lives of the East Timorese as if they didn’t matter.
That video was in response to these:
None of this would bother me if I too weren’t suspicious of something myself. I think all this 9-11 truth nonsense has been cooked up by the right-wing to discredit, misdirect, and otherwise delude the New Left, who in their opinion are all a bunch of conspiracy theory loonies. So they feed them a bunch of garbage about 9-11 and the bohemian grove and skull and bones and so forth. Then you throw in some nonsense about how paying taxes, global warming, and the women’s liberation movement were all a part of the plan to enslave us. It’s laughable, but people are eating this crap up like it was donuts and chocolate syrup pancake caramel drizzles. Stupid kids are buying into it and establishing another deluded population base, like the Christian right, who will one day give up on the conspiracy nonsense but the residual effects of distrusting Global Warming as nonsense and despising taxes and hating women will all be left over. So they’ll vote republican. Other evidence of this is the fact that all over the place you see people using these conspiracy theories as ammunition for supporting the war. Like you’re either in support of the war or you’re one of those crazy conspiracy theorists. Here’s a quote from one of them:
“THIS VIDEO HAS MY FULL SUPPORT.YES, IT IS MEANT TO STATE AN OPINION AND I DO IT OPENLY. I AM TIRED OF EVERYONE ACTING LIKE A BUNCH OF PUSSIES AND RUNNING AWAY FROM WAR. WE NEED TO FIGHT BACK. IF YOU BELIEVE IN THESE CONSPIRACY THEORIES, YOU'RE DEFINITELY PART OF THE PERCENTAGE WHO IS MENTALLY RETARDED. I DON'T CARE WHO TELLS ME WHAT, I AM NOT GOING TO LET A BUNCH OF FAGS AND IDIOTS (BUT MOSTLY FAGS) TELL ME THAT OUR OWN GOVERNMENT DESTROYED MILLIONS OF PEOPLES LIVES FOR FUCKING OIL, OR BECAUSE BUSH IS A NEO NAZI.1. 9/11 WAS NOT PLANNED BY OUR GOVERNMENT.2. THE TERRORIST ATTACKS ON 9/11 WERE COMMITTED BY TERRORISTS, DON'T YOU THINK THAT MAKES SENSE?3. YES, WE NEED TO BE IN THIS WAR. IF WE PUSS OUT LIKE EVERYONE WANTS US TO, WE WILL BE LEFT OPEN TO ATTACKS ONCE AGAIN.4. I DO NOT HATE EVERYONE FROM IRAQ OF AFGHANISTAN OR ANYWHERE IN THE MIDDLE EAST BUT IF THEY HATE ME, I'VE GOT NO OTHER CHOICE.I AM POSTING THIS VIDEO BECAUSE I AM SICK AND TIRED OF ALL OF THIS. I'M TIRED OF SEEING NOTHING BUT DEATH WHEN I WANT TO SEE VIDEOS OF THE MAGNIFICENT WORLD TRADE CENTER.I'M TIRED OF SEEING PEOPLE WHO WALK BY THE WORLD TRADE CENTERS' FOOTPRINTS EACH DAY AND DON'T THINK ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO DIED THERE.I'M TIRED OF GOING EVERYWHERE AND HEARING PEOPLE TELLING ME BUSH DID THIS.”
It goes on a bit longer but I’ll cut it off there. This sort of nonsense doesn’t help anyone. As you can see above, it just fuels the passion of the right. What Chomsky and others are famous for is pulling the rug out from under their feet. And they’re doing a damn good job of it, but years from now they’re going to show pictures of real activists who are concerned with the lives of people all over the world, who are interested in real institutional analysis and real solutions, standing next to a picture of a placard reading “9-11 was an Inside Job.” And suddenly all their life’s work will be flushed down the drain, because even if it were true, no one will ever convince the people of the world. Occam’s razor: All things being equal, the simplest answer is most likely correct.