re. re: Bush/9-11/WTC (Dealz) (Liberal and Proud)
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Date: 2008-05-08, 10:05AM PDT
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http://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/pol/672344844.html
Yeah, the 9/11 "Truthers" are an interesting bunch. There are always folks who will see a plot behind everything - hell, some folks think that there are AQ sleeper cells everywhere, just waiting to pounce on us in our sleep - - Low level paranoia is part of being an American, I think. UFOs, the Tri Lateral commission, the Illuminati, holocaust deniers, McCarthyists and even some religious folks (can you say Scientologist?) are just plain loopy.
In the bigger movements, I think there are grains of truth that lead to these paranoid fantasies: That 9/11 has served the neocon agenda does *not* mean that they caused it; That JFK's murder did ultimately make many folks rich does not mean a vast plot amoung rich folks killed JFK; That we have unexplained things in the sky does not mean the Space Brothers are coming to abduct us.
It is really interesting that some very smart folks buy into this stuff. I was living with a gal years ago whose father was an engineer working on the B-2 out in Palmdale. He said that in this facility, there was a VERY popular group (as in, a near majority of the engineers) that met to discuss "EBEs" - Extra Terrestrial Entities. He went to a meeting, got their literature and brought to me, knowing that I'd get a real laugh out of it. It was a HOOT - and these guys were SERIOUS. Old Charlie was every bit as amused (and amazed) as I was, but there it is - sometimes folks believe some weird-ass shit. I guess it serves a deep need for meaning or something; I dunno.
But to my more recent point: Where does this venom come from by some folks toward the 9/11 truthers? I see their paranoia as fairly harmless - so I have a hard time getting worked up about it. I have to think it's rabid partisanship or something like that. I dunno.
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