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roger noehren
, October 07, 2010
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Having read several excellent books by David Ray Griffin, which systematically dismantle the official version of the events of 9/11 2001, I am interested in this book, but since all 47 copies in Powell's possession are stored in remote warehouses, it is unavailable for perusing in the store. I will therefore go to Laughing Horse Books to look at a copy prior to purchase. I heard it discussed on KBOO this morning. It seems that the Obama administration is making a concerted effort to debunk the very strong evidence that 9/11 was an inside job by infiltrating the 9/11 Truth movement and arranging to have articles published in major periodicals that support the official story and attempt to discredit those who question it.
Just last week President Obama claimed to be disgusted and outraged when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran declared to the UN that most people in the world believe the United States was behind the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. He was shocked, shocked that anyone would make such a hateful claim - as if he were hearing it for the first time. Former National Security advisor (at the time of 9/11) and subsequently Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice once said that no one could imagine that terrorists would hijack airplanes and fly them into buildings, even though she herself had delivered a memo to "President" W suggesting that such an attack was imminent.
The Oregonian ran a front page story on Monday (Oct 4th) about how Ahmadinejad is hardly alone in suspecting US government complicity in the attacks. While the article is itself clearly an attempt to discredit proponents of alternative theories about 9/11, by stating that "Those who say the attacks might have been an "inside job" usually share antipathy toward the U.S. government, and often a maverick sensibility. Besides Ahmadinejad, high-profile doubters include Cuba's Fidel Castro and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Former Minnesota Govenor and pro wrestler Jesse Ventura has questioned the official account...".Well, we all know that those guys are all crackpots, so by inference anything that they believe must be false - right?
The article goes on to site various conspiracy theory debunkers and suggests that some of the theories are "tinged with anti-Semitism because of the close U.S.- Israeli alliance." Ultimately the main argument to refute evidence that "controlled demolitions destroyed the twin towers and the Pentagon was hit by a missile" and that WTC #7 also collapsed in the manner of a controlled demolition (an event completely ignored by the 9/11 commission) and that flight 93 was probably shot down by an air force jet. is that "All this would require hundreds if not thousands of people to be in on the plot."
The article cites a US State Department website as saying: "Conspiracy theories exist in the realm of myth, where imaginations run wild, fears trump facts, and evidence is ignored." In all his books, David Ray Griffin very carefully studies the official record and compares it to the published facts and eye witness accounts of what transpired. He doesn't speculate about what might have happened, but points out how what did occur differs from what is purported to have happened.It is the official version of events Griffin contends that dwells in the realm of myth and is therefore the real "conspiracy theory."
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