9/11 'Truthers' uncovering disturbing anomalies

[conspiracy analyst]

http://www.vancourier.com/issues07/063207/opinion/063207op2.html

9/11 'Truthers' uncovering disturbing anomalies

By Geoff Olson

They're "nutcases" to Vancouver writer Terry Glavin, "gibbering
idiots" to British author and Guardian columnist George Monbiot, and
"conspiracy nuts" to U.S. political writer Alexander Cockburn. They're
promoting "nonsense," says David Corn, Washington editor of The Nation.
They're trafficking in "pure fantasy" that is "rotting peoples
brains," says Canadian military analyst and author Gwynne Dyer.

They're opponents of the Bush administration who reject the official
story on 9/11. And their most vocal critics hail not from the right,
but from North America's progressive left. Ignored by mainstream
media, and vilified by the alternative press, the so-called "9/11
Truth movement" probably wouldn't exist without the Internet. A huge
online presence, with thousands of blogs and websites, has inspired
the creation of films, DVDs and the organization of international
conferences. The movement has chapters across North America, including
in Vancouver.

According to its press release, the Vancouver 9/11 Truth Society "will
host an international conference to expose the realities, myths,
omissions and distortions of the official narrative of the events of
Sept. 11, 2001," from June 22 to 24 at the Vancouver Maritime Labour
Centre.

Among the speakers are Professor Michael Chussudovsky of the
University of Montreal, Professor Peter Dale Scott from Berkeley,
Canadian journalist Barrie Zwicker, and Robert Hordon, a former U.S.
air traffic controller.

Never mind Islam and Christianity-for a culture clash closer to home,
you only have to contrast the marginalized 9/11 conspiracy touted on
the Internet to the authorized 9/11 conspiracy advanced by government
sources and traditional media. These contending belief systems might
as well be from parallel worlds. As a media observer, I have never
witnessed a greater cultural divide. It's safe to say that the
nonofficial viewpoint is far from fringe, at least in numbers.
According to a New York Times/CBS News poll, from October 2006, only
16 per cent of Americans think the government is telling the truth
about 9/11 and the intelligence prior to the attacks. A Scripps-Howard
poll determined that one in every three Americans believe their
government aided or abetted the attacks of 9/11. This signals a
profoundly deep cynicism and suspicion among Americans about their own
government.

Of all the anomalies they cite, 9/11 activists believe they've found
their Rosetta Stone in Building Number 7 of the World Trade Center
complex, which collapsed hours after the twin towers came down.
Michael Hey, secretary for the Vancouver 9/11 Truth Society, writes by
email that there was a "sudden and total disintegration, symmetrical,
at a speed of near free-fall_ to date we know of only one way to
achieve this effect, and it does not involve flying airplanes into
buildings." He adds, "Of course, no airplane actually hit World Trade
Center 7."

"Hundreds of physicists, architects and structural engineers have
spoken out about the fact that the official explanation simply defies
the laws of physics." One of them is Professor Steven Jones, a retired
professor of physics at Brigham Young University, and a guest speaker
at the Vancouver conference.

The 9/11 Truthers find it noteworthy that the collapse of WTC 7 was
not mentioned in the Kean Commission's 9/11 report. U.S. and Canadian
media haven't paid much attention either. A search through a database
of Canadian newspapers yields only a half dozen reporter mentions
since 9/11.

A news clip from Sept. 11, 2001 has been making the rounds on YouTube,
of a BBC reporter announcing the news of the collapse of the Salomon
Brothers Building, aka WTC 7. As she repeats the information from her
sources, the Manhattan skyline can be seen behind her, with WTC 7
clearly visible-more than 20 minutes before its actual collapse.

Expatriate American author and political essayist Gore Vidal has
expressed his puzzlement that jets were not scrambled immediately on
the morning of 9/11 to intercept the planes heading for Washington and
New York. In Toronto recently, he qualified his position, pegging
himself as a "conspiracy analyst" rather than a "conspiracy theorist."
In a Globe and Mail interview, he rejects the notion that Bush
launched 9/11: "Clearly he didn't because it was beautifully
executed."

As for the rest of the progressive left, an attitude adjustment is in
order. When Monbiot, Dyer, Cockburn and co. shout down a significant
fraction of the public as "gibbering idiots" and "nutcases," this is
hardly the language of reasoned debate. It's the rhetoric of Fox News
anchor Bill O'Reilly, shock jock Don Imus and the Moscow show trials.

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published on 06/15/2007

[rodin]

[spiv]

Does it matter whether or not Bush (or indeed, any of his cronies) actually ordered 911? The point is, did they know about 911?? His reaction, whilst sitting in that classroom reading about goats, was very strange, his comments made about seeing the first plane hit the towers, his reaction to the press questions about was there any foreknowledge, all beg the question "Did he know??"

Whether one is a LIHOP or a MIHOP believer, there is some explaining to do, and thus far they seem to confirm their guilt with the way they have blocked proper investigations, got rid of evidence, and generally ducked and dived over the questions raised.

[gruts]

I like this bit....

[conspiracy analyst]

was interviewed in the Observer magazine this week making the same allegation that the Bush regime was probably responsible for 9/11.

[rodin]

I imagine Poppy was high in the food chain of 911. Neil's company handled WTC security. And Cheyney, Rumsfeld played major parts. Gulliani to. GWB may have been on a 'need to know' brief. His blabbing (twice) about seeing the first plane hit the towers is quite remarkable in its sloppiness - almost as if someone has put incriminating words into his mouth to be used against him when the time is right.

[Mark Gobell]

Poppy and his faction are at the root of this imo.

The global village idiot ?

I think not.