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August 11, 2011 · 9:04 pm

No, I am not Looking for a God Damned Security Blanket

I hate to sound like a one trick pony, a one note trumpet, a single issue politician,  but I also don’t like being called crazy.

Over on the Huffington Puffball there is a particularly condescending article about

Building owner Larry Silverstein got $10 billion in the insurance settlement

9/11 conspiracy theories.  First, the title of the article is: From JFK to 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Thrive.

Admittedly, I think that both of these events were inside jobs, involving highly placed people in the U.S. government (LBJ, for example), but they are very different events and deserve to be treated separately.

Then, they have this little gem: Conspiracies can be a “security blanket” for explaining away the horrific, asserts Patrick Leman, a University of London professor who researches 9/11 theories. “It stops us from having to confront the unpredictability of life.”  First, if you just replace the word “conspiracies” with “official explanations” you have a true statement.  Secondly, he’s saying we are delusional.  We are not delusional.

Their arguments are evolving, albeit slowly and not in a constructive direction.  At first, when we talked about the impossibility of steel framed buildings collapsing straight down at near freefall speed, they just shouted “You’re nuts!”  and called us heartless and un-American.  When we talked about building 7 they said “I bet you believe in Bigfoot, too, har, har.  When we pointed out that the head of security for the World Trade Center was Marvin Bush, they said “You’re paranoid” and “I just can’t believe our government would do something like that,” totally ignoring the fact that our government has done similar things in the past (Gulf of Tonkin, attack on the USS Liberty, using the accidental sinking of the battleship Maine to start the Spanish-American war).  When we pointed out that in the founding statement of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), signed by Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and many other prominent neo-cons, it was written “a Pearl Harbor style event would be required to fully  implement our agenda” they said it would be impossible to have a conspiracy  that size.  (No, it wouldn’t)

So now, they still say  that we’re nuts, but they say it in a politer way.  There is one other argument they are using more and more, I found a few of them in the comments section below the article, and it is a very disturbing argument indeed.  “It doesn’t matter any more.  We can never prove anything so just let it go.  Move on.”

In other words, forget 9/11.

It’s not going to happen.  I think that a conspiracy of highly placed people which included Vice President Cheney, presidential brother Marvin Bush (and maybe Jeb but definitely not George because why tell the dumb guy), and building owner Larry  Silverstein, as well as possibly Rumsfeld and Rove, arranged for explosives to be planted in WTC 1, WTC 2 and WTC 7.  The airplanes were just for show.

I’m not crazy and I’m not going to shut up.

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April 22, 2011 · 8:35 pm

Jason Linkins Pisses Me Off

I doubt that George knew (why tell the dumb guy?) but I'm convinced little brother Marvin was in it up to his eyeballs.

Normally, I like  Jason Linkins, who writes for the Huffington Post – he’s a bright enough guy, he writes clearly and I agree with him more than 50% of the time – but today’s column seriously pissed me off.  He dismisses those of us who think that Sarah Palin is not Trig’s mother, but his grandmother,  by saying we’re a bunch of whacko conspiracy theorists engaging in backwards logic.  I admit that sometimes I work backwards – out here in the land on news consumers, what else can we do? – we see the news, we feel instinctively that they are lying to us, and we try and figure out what’s going on.  We theorize. 

But I am not an irrational person and if someone can prove me wrong, I’ll cede the point.  I no longer believe that crop circles were made by aliens, for instance.

But then he says that everybody who believes that Trig is not Sarah’s daughter also believes in Area 51, Bigfoot, and a whole lot of other conspiracy theories including that 9/11 was an inside job.  I believe that one, too, and I don’t like it being dismissed lightly.

 Trig birtherism, and the belief that 9/11 was an inside job, are both based on quite a bit of evidence – and lack of it.
They have nothing to do with flying saucers, bigfoot, Obama’s birth certificate or any of the others on that list that he throws into the mix just to try to make them look ridiculous. 

What about the flight attendants not noticing she looked pregnant?  What about that 20 hour flight?  What about her staff being surprised when she told them she was 7 months pregnant?

re 9/11: What about the Larry Silverstein confession, the PNAC “Pearl Harbor” statement, the identical collapse of building 7 which was not struck by a plane and did not have a similar structure, what about Bush’s whereabouts from 9/11-9/13, what about the fact that he just happened to be at a beautiful photo-op in front of school kids (I’d find the whole thing much more believable as a surprise if he’d been playing golf or clearing brush, as was his routine), what about the fact that Marvin Bush was director of security for the WTC, which was closed inexplicably several times in the months prior to 9/11, what about the lack of physical evidence at the Pentagon (I remember the Lockerbie incident – how investigators were examining the LUGGAGE for clues), what about the amazingly swift, and uncharacteristic, insurance settlement…the list goes on and on.

No, in both these cases, there is plenty of unexamined evidence, there are plenty of unanswered questions, and you cannot just sweep them under the rug of revisionist history by saying hahaha, you’re all nuts just like the birthers.

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