1 in 3 Americans say U.S aided 9/11 - New York Post

[TonyGosling]

This has disappeared off the New York Post website where it originated!
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/one_in_3_americans_say_u_s__ai ded_9_11_nationalnews_thomas_hargrove______and_guido_h__stempel_iii.ht m

As a US wide poll it's extremely damning and extremely authoritative - the reason these things disappear is clear to me - either an IT mole inside the paper or a lawyer outside sending a threatening legal letter disrupts the verification of such stories by busy journalists.


ONE IN 3 AMERICANS SAY U.S. AIDED 9/11
http://www.911omissionreport.com/poll_1_in_3.html

SURVEY SHOCKER

By THOMAS HARGROVE and GUIDO H. STEMPEL III
The plots thicken

August 3, 2006 -- More than one-third of Americans suspect federal officials assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could go to war in the Middle East, according to a new poll.

The survey also found that 16 percent of Americans speculate that secretly planted explosives, not burning passenger jets, were the real reason the massive Twin Towers of the World Trade Center collapsed.

The national Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll of 1,010 adults also found that anger against the federal government is at record levels, with 54 percent saying they "personally are more angry" at the government than they used to be.

Widespread resentment and alienation toward the national government appears to be fueling a growing acceptance of conspiracy theories about the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Suspicions that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job quickly have become
nearly as popular as decades-old conspiracy theories that the federal
government was responsible for President John Kennedy's assassination and
that it has covered up proof of space aliens.

Seventy percent of people who give credence to these theories also say
they've become angrier with the federal government than they used to be.

Thirty-six percent of respondents overall said it is "very likely" or
"somewhat likely" that federal officials either participated in the
attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon or took no action to
stop them "because they wanted the United States to go to war in the
Middle East."

"One out of three sounds high, but that may very well be right," said Lee
Hamilton, former vice chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist
Attacks Upon the United States (also called the 9/11 commission).

His congressionally appointed investigation concluded that federal
officials bungled their attempts to prevent, but did not participate in,
the attacks by al Qaeda five years ago.

"A lot of people I've encountered believe the U.S. government was
involved," Hamilton said. "Many say the government planned the whole
thing. Of course, we don't think the evidence leads that way at all."

University of Florida Law Professor Mark Fenster, author of the book
"Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture," said the
poll's findings reflect public anger at the unpopular Iraq war,
realization that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction
and growing doubts of the veracity of the Bush administration.

"What has amazed me is not that there are conspiracy theories, but that
they didn't seem to be getting any purchase among the American public
until the last year or so," Fenster said.

The survey found that people who regularly use the Internet and not
mainstream media are significantly more likely to believe in 9/11
conspiracies.

The survey was conducted by telephone from July 6 through 24 at the
Scripps Survey Research Center at the University of Ohio under a grant
from the Scripps Howard Foundation. The poll has a margin of error of 4
percentage points. Scripps Howard

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"What has amazed me is not that there are conspiracy theories, but that
they didn't seem to be getting any purchase among the American public
until the last year or so," Fenster said.


That is the measure of the expert and indeed easy way the American public have been fooled. Short concentration spans - sound bites - totally controlled media at all levels - it all becomes so easy to fool the majority. (actually that sounds a bit like the modern UK as well!)
My American friends just cannot bring themselves to actually face up to the truth - that their non-elected government has not only lied to them, but was totally complicit in all that happened that fateful day.

Also, in many respects they are genuinely scared to question their own beliefs, 'that their government would never do anything to harm them'.

But, IMHO this is the major question, just when are they going to find the courage to try to do anything about it? It's never too late.

I asked a friend in the USA - "what does God Bless America really mean, at least when the shrub quotes it?". To date, he has never been able to actually tell me.