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One of the standard claims of 9/11 “truthers” is that they are merely sceptical individuals with a healthy and understandable desire not to swallow US government propaganda at face value. The mantra “just asking questions” allows them to pose as wary and intelligent souls too accustomed to the concept of duplicity in high places to accept the “official story” of Al Qaeda’s role in planning and perpetrating the largest mass casualty terrorist attack in modern history.
It also allows them to adopt an indignant tone when dealing with their critics, and to conflate attempts by debunkers to undermine their claims with both unquestioning acceptance of an “official cover-up” […] and a systematic effort to deprive them of freedom of speech. It goes without saying that in the process the “truthers” set up two straw-men for them to knock down, but then they’re not very good at dealing with tougher critics. The “just asking questions” approach has further advantages to those of a paranoid mindset and a less than scrupulous approach to evidence and facts […]
the claim that one is “just asking questions” is liberating, as it frees the truther of the obligation of actually constructing a coherent alternative theory - based on the evidence at hand - which is more convincing than the “official theory”. Why worry if the WTC towers were brought down by controlled demolitions or not? Why worry if the hijackers were patsies or ghosts? Why worry if the Pentagon was hit by a missile or a jumbo jet piloted by remote control? Why worry if the passengers of the four planes are alive or not? […]
9/11 conspiracy theorists and their supporters do not actually outline a scenario which explains how and why the US government (in cahoots with the Israelis, or the military-industrial complex, or whoever else) slaughtered nearly 3,000 people - most of whom were American citizens - in a co-ordinated series of attacks which were then blamed on Arab Islamist terrorists.
Most truthers lack sufficient moral courage to produce a real theory about 9/11 being an ‘inside job’ which combines motive with method and which can be tested against the evidence. Deep down, they know that once they venture into specific claims their case will be torn to shreds, and they will be exposed as ignorant frauds.
it makes the task of a truther an easy one: all he or she … has to do is google to get the appropriate “story” from Prison Planet, 9/11 Blogger, What Really Happened or a similar website. Hey presto, they get what they want: “The FBI said there were no phone calls from AA77!”; “4,000 Jews didn’t turn up to work at the WTC on 9/11!”; “Silverstein ordered the demolition of WTC7!” And so on and so forth.
9/11 conspiracy theorists and their supporters do not actually outline a scenario which explains how and why the US government (in cahoots with the Israelis, or the military-industrial complex, or whoever else) slaughtered nearly 3,000 people - most of whom were American citizens - in a co-ordinated series of attacks which were then blamed on Arab Islamist terrorists.
it makes the task of a truther an easy one: all he or she … has to do is google to get the appropriate “story” from Prison Planet, 9/11 Blogger, What Really Happened or a similar website. Hey presto, they get what they want: “The FBI said there were no phone calls from AA77!”; “4,000 Jews didn’t turn up to work at the WTC on 9/11!”; “Silverstein ordered the demolition of WTC7!” And so on and so forth.
the claim that one is “just asking questions” is liberating, as it frees the truther of the obligation of actually constructing a coherent alternative theory - based on the evidence at hand - which is more convincing than the “official theory”.
Originally posted by pteridine
I discounted that video.
Originally posted by pteridine
Tezza can't even prove Melbourne exists.
Originally posted by TheAntiHero420
Translation: bend over and take it like a good citizen. Don't ask questions, we will give you the answers. Mike if you have kids, or planning too, when they go to school tell them if the don't know the answer not to ask their teacher questions. They'll come home singing a song about the president, saying "Iraq we've always been at war with Iraq" and next thing you know they'll turn you into the cops for having thoughts and feelings.
Originally posted by mmiichael
Originally posted by TheAntiHero420
Translation: bend over and take it like a good citizen. Don't ask questions, we will give you the answers. Mike if you have kids, or planning too, when they go to school tell them if the don't know the answer not to ask their teacher questions. They'll come home singing a song about the president, saying "Iraq we've always been at war with Iraq" and next thing you know they'll turn you into the cops for having thoughts and feelings.
The US government, special interest groups, foreign powers, rob blind the American public. Concerned people try to do something about it.
Helpless hardwired automatons search for bits of minutia, circumstantial and anecdotal data to support looney toons conspiracy theories.
8 years later, where's your documented cited revelatory UNOFFICIAL STORY on paper and being shoved under the nose of legislators.
On Youtube?
M
Originally posted by rush969
reply to post by Lillydale
As I recall, this thread is about a “3 year long investigation” by a group of citizens from southern California into the attack at the Pentagon.
In their investigation they “concluded” “unequivocally and irrefutably” that the U.S. Gov´s version of the 9/11 attacks is a “monstrous lie”.
And what did this investigators base their findings on?????
EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS. Let me repeat that, EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS.
What about ALL THE OTHER EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS OUT THERE????
(They only take what they want to use.) I REST MY CASE.
About the DNA, I´m afraid you are the ignorant one Lillydale.
How many things in your body can survive a big long fire? Can some bone fragments still have usable DNA data? How about a fraction of your fingernail or some teeth?
Sure, that can happen but it did not. Not one passenger or airline crew body survived the fire or crash. There were no remains in this crash. Sorry.
In a big crash and fire like this, can there be remains that didn´t burn completely and still have usable information in them? How about belongings?
Many belongings provided identities of many of the passengers. Documents, Ids, credit cards, luggage tags , cell phones, and even jewelery. Even a very small fragment of a credit card or a passport can identify a person.
You know, not absolutely everything burned down to ashes.
Nuclear DNA testing (along with dental records and
fingerprints) of the remains from the victims aboard
American Airline (AA) Flight 77 and within the Pentagon
was useful for identifying 178 of the 183 victims. Five
missing individuals (four within the Pentagon and one
aboard the airplane) could not be identified due to lack of
biological material from the crash.
Originally posted by rush969
As I recall, this thread is about a “3 year long investigation” by a group of citizens from southern California into the attack at the Pentagon.
In their investigation they “concluded” “unequivocally and irrefutably” that the U.S. Gov´s version of the 9/11 attacks is a “monstrous lie”.
And what did this investigators base their findings on?????
EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS. Let me repeat that, EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS.
What about ALL THE OTHER EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS OUT THERE????
(They only take what they want to use.) I REST MY CASE.
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Originally posted by mmiichael
You have no case. The CIT scam has been outed.
Originally posted by pteridine
reply to post by Lillydale
"Sure, that can happen but it did not. Not one passenger or airline crew body survived the fire or crash. There were no remains in this crash. Sorry."
----Prove it Lilly. You made the statement.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
Are you claiming that the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory in Rockville, MD faked all of their data?
[edit on 27 September 2009 by weedwhacker]