I tend to have a very low opinion of the 9/11 conspiracy theorists in general, regardless of whether you're coming at it from an position of support
or skepticism. This is because:
1. If they're totally wrong and there was no government conspiracy involved in the 9/11 attacks on any level, then they are merely jaded, paranoid,
gullible, and sprinkled with the occasional narcissistic or schizophrenic nutball. If such is the case, then their efforts to mislead the public and
sabotage science and education are reprehensible. To say nothing of the damage and disrepspect for the victims and their families.
2. If they're totally right and there is a massive government/NWO conspiracy to create a terror state for control and co-opting the nation into
dismantling itself for absorption into a world government dedicated to genocide, surveillance, slavery, and kicking puppies.... then the way the 9/11
Truth movement has conducted it's investigations and whistle blowing campaigns is utterly and completely ineffectual at making their case, providing
evidence, and bringing the matter to the attention of patriots in the legislative and judicial system. Incompetence of the highest magnitude which has
only managed to convince other jaded and disillusioned folk and the snake-oil charlatans who prey off of them. It's little more than a platform for
stoking the ego or wallet of those who wish to present themselves as patriots and heroes, as the lone wolf renegade who breaks apart from the herd and
uncovers the slaughterhouse... perhaps rebuking or assailing a sense more of rejection from society at large by saving it from the jaws of the beast,
or looking for that chance to gloat; somewhere deep down saying "I told you all so, I was right, and you should be ashamed of how I was treated".
Meanwhile, there is no justice those who died... no accountability from those responsible. Like JFK, the conspiracy will never stop morphing and
changing... always a new thread, a new angle, a new villian... but never a conviction or closure.
So on the one hand, 9/11 truthers are either deluded... or incompetent on the other. Now, government is rife with conspiracies... be they simple
sexual promiscuity blackmail scandals, or large under-the-table operations which run completely counter our laws and political position. Such as
trading armaments to hostile nations in exchange for hostages (Iran-Contra), political assassination attempts (Castro; Failed), or False Flags (Gulf
of Tonkin).
The problem being, that quite a bit of shady & strongarm bullcrap went on in the name of ramping up the "war on terror"... and quite a few actual
conspiracies were uncovered by insiders and professional journalists/investigators which didn't get the attention or criticism or inspection they
deserved. The outing of Valarie Plame, the fudging of intel from unreliable sources taken at face value to pad the case for war with BS, as well as
what appears to be a near textbook recreation of conditions from the Standford Prison Experiment in the systemic failure of tier 1A of Abu-Ghraib
prison. Conditions which promote behavior conducive to abuse and torture in a manner which can be used to gather Intel, but could be also be blamed on
a few "Bad Apple" soldiers while offering plausible deniability to whomever was responsible for the "oversights".
Ted's version was truncated a bit for time format, but for a more comprehensive and more graphic presentation, Mr. Zimbardo gives a hour and a half
presentation on the subject
at this link.
So, to me, the entire issue is rather moot. Either there's nothing to uncover which stands up to serious inquiry, or there was and the truthers
borked the case so thoroughly that the perpetrators have unequivocally gotten away with it. By either measure, I don't find them worth giving the
time of day. Personally, I think it's more a case of the former - and that too many "9/11 Investigators" are coming at the issue like lawyers
trying to build a case. Coming at it from the mindset of an investigator for who's concern is for establishing the validity and credibility of
evidence and letting it speak for itself would be more useful. Sadly, this is almost never the case. Truther camps have factioned like religions
centering around various espoused theories, and many of whom claiming the others are all disinfo. What precious little research has even come close to
peer-review has been criticized for it's lack of controls and methods, but even were it satisfactory the results do not merit the extent of the
implications the movement has attributed to them.
