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December 02, 2007
Worst. Drawing of a Bat. Ever.
I find it interesting that Scott Stantis can devote five days to attacking Arianna Huffington because she has a blog where people can post their thoughts for free, and then spends one day criticizing Rudy "Sex On The City" Giuliani and one day on the 9/11 truth seekers. Gee, of those three topics which do you think has the most potential? I'm betting nobody would say "making Arianna sound like a German dominatrix." But as our president would say it's "hard work" actually having to do research on things like who could be our next president or what really happened on 9/11.
As for the 9/11 "conspiracy theorists," I have a simple solution: give us all the facts. The only reason people have to form theories about events like this is because the government refuses to share with the public all of the evidence. Why the secrecy? The 9/11 Commission was a joke, and if I remember correctly it was supposed to be a two part report and they decided they didn't need the second part. There are so many things that happened that morning that have never been explained believably that of course people are going to wonder what the heck went on and if our government had something to do with it or let it happen so they could have their own Pearl Harbor event like PNAC suggested.
And for those of you that say, "Conspiracy? Pushaw - our government could never conceal a conspiracy like that" I'd like to point out a few little conspiracies like taking us to war with Iraq, opening secret prisons around the world to hold people without criminal charges, and the outing of a CIA agent. People are just now accepting that those were conspiracies, but is anybody doing anything about punishing the people behind them? Heck even Scooter Libby got his sentence commuted, and now we learn that the President himself lied to then-White House Spokesman Scott McClellan about his personal involvement. If the President and Vice President were involved in a conspiracy to commit treason by outing the CIA agent who was a part of the investigation of the nuclear capabilities of Iraq and Iran, whose to say they're completely innocent when it comes to 9/11?
I don't know. Nobody knows for sure. And that's my point. The facts have dribbled out about Iraq and the prisons and torture, and they've been slow to come out on 9/11, but there are far too many unanswered questions about that day for people to simply chalk up conspiracy talk to a few nuts wearing tinfoil hats.
The one big issue for me that has always made me question what exactly happened that day has been the collapse of the third World Trade Center tower. What's that you say? Only two buildings fell down? Don't feel bad - even my own Dad didn't remember that WTC 7 fell into its own footprint even though it wasn't hit by a plane and it was across the street and behind another building from the two main towers. So far the only explanation given was that there was a fire in the basement(?), and I'm sorry - that doesn't cut it. So call me a conspiracy theorist, but until someone explains how a steel structure can collapse like that when no other steel building in history has fallen due simply to fire, I'm going to question it.
I won't even get into the scrambling of only two fighter jets when four planes were hijacked.
But really we already have proof that this government knew there was a potential for attacks and did nothing about it, which would mean they were "conspiring" to do nothing in the face of imminent terrorist attacks. The August 6th PDB. The July meeting with Conde and Ashcroft. The Minnesota FBI agent who realized that people on the terrorist watch list trying to take flying lessons yet nobody listened to her. Ashcroft suddently taking private aircraft that summer after flying on commercial jets up until then. There are plenty of things that we know for sure happened that let us know that this government had warnings that something bad was going to happen, yet they did nothing. Does that make it a conspiracy to bring down the towers and hit the Pentagon? I don't know. And that's the whole point.
So go ahead Stantis, call people who want to know the truth "batty." Crack jokes about the deaths of nearly 3000 people on US soil because our government didn't do everything in its power to stop it. Hardy har. Maybe next week you can make jokes about those silly conspiracy theorists that think our government lied us into war in Iraq. Oh wait - that would be more hard work - best you spend the next five days making fun of Nancy Pelosi's looks.
Comments
The Furnace a 9/11 crackpot conspiracy theorizer? I never saw it coming...
I don't think the attacks were a conspiracy by anybody except the goddamn Muslim terrorists, personally, but obviously you feel otherwise. I figure if you keep digging for the truth you'll find out the same thing. But I think you're right about the bat drawing thing, that's typical of Stantis, and of course of the three topics this week Arianna is the least compelling despite being the most days.
Posted by: Snowman at December 2, 2007 03:27 PM
