Wednesday, April 30, 2008
The 9/11 Truth Movement and Me
Just got back from Los Angeles and the LA Times book fair, which is an incredible event. Essentially the LA Times takes over the entire UCLA campus for two days to celebrate books. I was on a panel Sunday morning on books about "checks and balances," or the lack thereof, in government. The book fair was also something of a community festival, with plenty of booths set aside for political and other activist groups, including several tables for what is often referred to as the 9/11 Truth Movement. These are people who, by and large, believe that elements of the American government had some hand in the 9/11 attacks. Many of the movement's leaders have been critical of "The Commission," since I am perceived as an establishment journalist who has bought into the government's official line on 9/11. The book fair presented me with a chance to meet my critics, and so I went over and introduced myself. It was a pretty civilized conversation all in all, must have lasted an hour, and the results are available on Youtube. com, posted by a couple of the "truthers." It's in five parts, and here's the link to the first of them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poZy8CPaQ4U. Phil Shenon
7 Comments:
you should have just told those guys to move out of their parent's basement
They look exhausted from their Star Trek conference weekend...
any substantive comments about the subject matter? any critique of ideas or disputes of facts about probably the most crucial singular historical event of the 21st century? what do you think about all those mimetic wargames? the NRO's "plane crash" drill, the JCoS/NORAD live-fly hijack drill with blips inserted on radar screens? does any of this jive with the official account that the 'administration' (junta) gave that 'no one could have ever imagined this'?
hey jeremy:
no.
There we have it. The level of discourse surrounding pervasive treason at very high levels of our government.
oh come on dude, it was a joke! unless you’re ready and willing to raise an army and re-take Washington, what good does it do to ask more questions? it’s clear, they screwed up and went to war against the wrong country! what do you want, a medal?
Notice how they're anonymous? But I digress. And the "anti-Truthers", the folks who did swallow the Kool-Aid of the 9/11 commission truth, and dare I say a Bush supporter? Can't see beyond their own fear. Fear that some crazed Muslim is going to hurt them, and the spirit of fight: truth, justice and the American way is merely a quote from a bad Superman T.V. show. These people are fearful that they don't look beyond today. Hey Philip or supporters of Phil. The gun-loving Americans out there, after watching the DNC and RNC, did Barack Obama or John McCain talk about removing the Patriot Act 1 and 2, all the civil rights violation that the Bush Crime Family implemented after 9/11? No? Imagine Obama execute what Bush put in? Scary? Imagine what will happen to your guns? Even more scarier? Well guess what, it is, oh and, when in the history of the United States has a Democratic president take guns away from the people? Name me one president who told a group of Americans to turn your guns over to the police?
Never
Republican? George W. Bush, after Katrina. But it was the police who did it in Louisiana? Guess what, the local and state law enforcement were ordered by Bush's FEMA to confiscate the guns of the people, so that they would receive federal funding
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-taU9d26wT4
Guess what, you're freedom is now history because you don't care to ask
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
That's why WeAreChange is so important. At least they're questioning the event surrounding 9/11 Are you?
Time-Out!
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