9/11 Six Years Later & The Obfuscation Of Facts .., AAR - Lionel Options

[rob balsamo]

This article seems to start out as a hit piece.. but read it in full. He makes a great point.

9/11 Six Years Later & the Obfuscation of Facts Thanks to the So-Called Conspiracy Theorists

Translation: the tin foil hat-wearin', full-fledged, Elvis is alive, Area 51, Loch Ness Monster, crop circle nut case.  The idiot, the crazed loon who would dare think that either (a) the government or a contingent thereof was somehow involved in 9/11 either by letting it happen or making it happen (the LIHOP and MIHOP theories that I don't care to explain) or (B) the full account of what happened that beautiful Tuesday morning is at best incomplete.  I'm in the latter group.  

And while our country's history is replete with references to lies that enabled us to enter into war, viz. the sinking of The Maine, Pearl Harbor, the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, not to mention miscellaneous acts of varying terrorism from the JFK and RFK assassinations, Watergate and the impeachment of the greatest President in my lifetime for giving in to the advances of a zaftig fellatrix, I realize that anything is possible but there just simply isn't any credible evidence that this administration was involved in any acts attendant to 9/11 including the favorite theory of a controlled demolition.

That's not to say none of that happened, I'm merely saying there's nothing to indicate this administration's complicity in ordering such or looking the other way.  Could an administration have been sick enough to do such?  Absolutely....

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My comment below the article...

Well Said Lionel

Pilots For 9/11 Truth have not offered one theory or pointed blame, yet we seemed to get lumped in with the various "conspiracy theorists" from "No-Planers" to "Podder's" to any type of smear you can think of just because we are professionals questioning the govt regarding one of the most influential events to occur in our modern world since Pearl Harbor. Feel free to email us if you would like to chat.

Be sure to check out http:// patriotsquestion911.com

Rob Balsamo
Co-Founder
http:// pilotsfor911truth.org

[Devilsadvocate]

...Now *there's* a journalist doing his job...! (IMG:http://pilotsfor911truth.org/forum/style_emoticons/default/salute.gif)

[Carl Bank]

Wow, isn't that brilliant?!

feels the need to add the entire text here: Carl

9/11 Six Years Later & the Obfuscation of Facts Thanks to the So-Called Conspiracy Theorists
By Lionel on September 11, 2007 - 11:54am

Six years ago today the 9/11 conspiracy theorist was born.  Translation: the tin foil hat-wearin', full-fledged, Elvis is alive, Area 51, Loch Ness Monster, crop circle nut case.  The idiot, the crazed loon who would dare think that either (a) the government or a contingent thereof was somehow involved in 9/11 either by letting it happen or making it happen (the LIHOP and MIHOP theories that I don't care to explain) or (B) the full account of what happened that beautiful Tuesday morning is at best incomplete.  I'm in the latter group. 

And while our country's history is replete with references to lies that enabled us to enter into war, viz. the sinking of The Maine, Pearl Harbor, the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, not to mention miscellaneous acts of varying terrorism from the JFK and RFK assassinations, Watergate and the impeachment of the greatest President in my lifetime for giving in to the advances of a zaftig fellatrix, I realize that anything is possible but there just simply isn't any credible evidence that this administration was involved in any acts attendant to 9/11 including the favorite theory of a controlled demolition.

That's not to say none of that happened, I'm merely saying there's nothing to indicate this administration's complicity in ordering such or looking the other way.  Could an administration have been sick enough to do such?  Absolutely.  Again, history shows us that to make an omelet, you have to break a few eggs.  Pearl Harbor was necessary for FDR to get us into WWII and if that took two and a half thousand American deaths, then let the eggs break.  You do know that we knew about Pearl Harbor, don't you?  Hell, we hoped that Japan would attack Pearl and that Hitler would be stupid enough to honor the Tripartite Act.  It did and he was.  Or do you think that's a conspiracy theory also?  If you're in the Bill O'Reilly set you maintain this naiveté and shudder upon thinking that Uncle Sam could be so nefarious.

The question you must ask is whether the conspiracy that people speak of is in fact possible.  If you answer "no," stop reading immediately.  Click your heels and give Auntie Em a call ‘cause you're in Oz.  Anything's possible when it comes to our government.  This is not an "I Hate America" moment but just a rational realization that governments are made of people and some of them can be quite nasty.

I've absolutely stopped even mentioning anything about my questions about some of the "official" account of what happened on that dreadful day because the audience can't handle even the questions attendant thereto.  You would think that once people heard the first fact that made them say "Hmmm?" they'd be insatiable in wanting to learn more about what actually happened and what they think they think they recall seeing.  Let me repeat, most of you think you think you recall seeing and hearing the events of that day.  You don't.  But don't bother.  It'll shatter your world.  It's like the idea of your parents conceiving you.  You know it happened but the idea of dear ol' Mom in a French maid's outfit sickens you.  You'd just rather not think of it. 

It's more fun to think of a bearded creepy guy ordering a bunch of ragtag Muslims to commandeer disintegrating planes (at least in the Flight 93 case).  Where is that pesky plane?  Why was debris found miles away?  Miles away!  Hello, McFly!  Wake up.  It's more fun to enjoy this collective repository of what we think happened.  Did you recall bin Laden denying any culpability after 9/11?  No.  Why isn't he listed on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted as being wanted for 9/11?  Why bother asking now?  It's six years later and frankly, who cares?

Then there are the Alex Jones characters whom people point to as the nut's nut in the conspiracy world.  With his frenetic, evangelical delivery and repeated references to new world order and blah blah blah, he gives the impression that any inquiry into the facts is insane and a waste of time.  He's the most vocal of the so-called 9/11 truth seekers.  He's done more harm than good.  He's inadvertently encouraged at times fanaticism because when you present questions regarding something of this magnitude, you have to be careful and methodical.  Image the difference between chopping lettuce and cutting a diamond.  The latter requires steady and diligent slicing.  So does dissecting and parsing the various issues in this matter.

All I know is this.  Without 9/11 we'd never be in Iraq.  Had those two towers not fallen and had New York's Finest put those fires out, there'd be no Iraq.  There wouldn't be 3774 Americans dead.  Neocon agendas wouldn't have been pursued.  And the acolytes of Strauss would have had no petri dish to export and inspire freedom, liberty and you know the rest.  Everything about 9/11 and our invasion of Iraq was a lie: no WMD, we weren't greeted as liberators, "Mission Accomplished," Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11, you know the rest.  Lie after lie after lie.  So why should I believe anything this administration says about anything?

But there has been no credible evidence linking this administration with 9/11.  Repeat, no evidence.  But that doesn't mean I've no questions about what happened.  So many things were odd, strange and not consistent with what many of us feel is normal.  No one will ever forget Dubya sitting there in a Florida classroom attempting to read "The Pet Goat" (and not "My Pet Goat") all the while looking dazed.  Or more dazed than usual.  Come on, you don't think that was odd?  The United States is under attack and no Secret Service contingent whisks him away to a safe location.  Instead he sat there not only endangering his life but those of the kids.  After all, terrorists have televisions.  They could see which public school he was visiting.  It just doesn't make sense.

But that doesn't mean he knew anything or ordered anything.  You hear the refrain a lot: "9/11 was an inside job."  OK, then Lucy, ‘splain.

If a future administration were to try something as dastardly as what the Alex Joneses of the world suggest, it should learn a few pointers in how to pull it off from how we have reacted to 9/11.   

First, just do it in front of everybody; hide nothing.  When someone asks questions look aghast and suggest that no one would be stupid enough to do something so obvious.  Emphasize the inordinate number of people required to pull off something of that organizational and logistical complexity.  Also remind people that no one can keep a secret nowadays.  Can you say JFK?  That was 44 years ago and nada.  Not a peep.  A believable peep.

Then accuse them of being un-American, preferably on O'Reilly's show.  Wait until the Alex Jones types come forward.  Wait further for the usual nuts that are attracted to this kind of stuff.  (I had a fellow tell me that he thought the planes were actually holograms.  Swear to God.)  The nuts, the kooks and the serious investigators will all get lumped together as the conspiracy nuts.  And oh, yes, keep repeating the term "conspiracy."  The word's now a pejorative and term of art for crazy.  As is the name "O'Reilly" but I digress.

And I'd also suggest to a future rogue cabal that the youth of the future certainly will have less distrust of the government than today's youth has.  Kids now have no suspicious bones in their collective bodies.  Clueless.  I'd tell them to sit tight.  Governmental complicity is unfathomable to the ignorant young folk and the greater the shock value the greater the incredulity over culpability.  I sound like a wizened coot, but kids today are lethargic and wouldn't take to the streets to protest anything unless perhaps it involved waiting for the latest iPod release.

But if you read European news accounts and listen to their news programs, they're awash in what the O'Reillys would dismiss as those dreaded and baseless conspiracy theories.  They marvel at our disinterest in 9/11 altogether except as a latter day that we shan't forget.  Funny, ain't it?  The same folks like O'Reilly who can't conceive of our government being involved in something as terrible as 9/11 can believe that Hillary murdered Vince Foster and that Bill raped women. 

But there has been no credible evidence linking this administration with and to 9/11.  I have questions, though.  Why have the workers at Ground Zero been lied to about the conditions that day?  Why was the biggest crime scene in this country's history cleaned up so hastily?  Why has absolutely nothing been constructed or built on the hallowed site of the WTC, a modern Gettysburg?

But why bother asking questions?  Next year will be the seventh anniversary of that horrible day followed by the eighth and so on.  We just move on, unfettered, uninterested  and too lazy to sift through the facts of what happened that day.  And when the facts look odd or inconsistent with reality or at best dubious, we just shrug our shoulders and sigh a collective "Oh, well."

Oh, well indeed.

[dv8]

Great article and pretty much on target. I've e-mailed it to a few of my nay-sayers whom will probably get sucked into the read because of its hit-piece like opening paragraph. Hopefully they will continue to read through once they realize it isnt. Thanks for the article Rob.

[Devilsadvocate]

...Did a bit of posting myself in that place; it ended up here, though (Not sure what i did wrong ) :

http://www.airamerica.com/lionel/node/164

[dMz]

Bump- it might be interesting to revisit this article a year later, after the 7th anniversary.

EDIT: Recent updates are at:
"Remembering 9/11 And Moving Towards A Re-united States", Kucinich
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/forum//index....showtopic=14585

Well, Seven Years On
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/forum//index....showtopic=14578

Less Than Half The World Believes Al Qaeda Was Behind 9/11 Attacks
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/forum//index.php?showtopic=8997

Why We're Planning To Prosecute Cheney And Bush, (To) deter future presidents and vice presidents from abusing power
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/forum//index....showtopic=14484

The Lies And Crimes Of 911, A presentation yesterday in Edmonton by Professor Anthony J. Hall
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/forum//index....showtopic=14503

Endnotes To The Lies And Crimes Of 911, by Professor Anthony J. Hall
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/forum//index....showtopic=14504

High Treason: 'pentagon Lied To The 911 Commission' ; Bush's Theory Falls Apart, Pilots for 9/11 Truth quoted w/link to site
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/forum//index....showtopic=14520

Twenty-six Things We Now Know Seven Years After 9/11, (a very conservative compilation)
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/forum//index....showtopic=14532

30 Million Will See 9/11 Truth Documentary In Russia, The InfoWar is getting hot
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/forum//index....showtopic=14547

9/11 Fact Sheet
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/forum//index....showtopic=13062