Tuesday, July 03, 2007
The Lunatics Who Never Stray From The Path
I had an encounter with another devout follower of the “9/11 cover-up” cult recently. The usual nonsense; 'a knowing gleam in the eye (a cross between a deer in the headlights and a serial killer about to pounce) and the big question I've grown sick of; “So do you think there was a cover up?” I initially answered this completely out of context question in the same manner of response I usually use when I see the rant coming. I acted naïve and confused, “cover up of what?...” A legitimate and convincing response to an absurd question regarding events of over five years ago that had nothing to do with the non-political mundane conversation we were having. Then he went off with the usual memorized lines of “statistics” regarding the velocity of a “pancaking” building in free-fall, how “steel doesn't melt,” and how, “no Arab names were on the flight manifests of the crashed aircraft.” Rather than just roll my eyes up, eventually I made the stupid decision to honestly answer his more stupid question; “I think a group of Al Queda terrorists did it, and jets flying into buildings might do enough damage to make them fall (considered a foolish response to the brilliant minds of the 9/11 paranoia wing of leftland). Then the usual secret insight, born-again rebel sound bites flew; “Operation Northwoods,” “Oil Corporations,” “Profit and greed”... Yawn, what an asshole (I realize that “name-calling” is bad form...but so is being and asshole).
Regarding “secret government plans” (i.e. "Operation Northwoods") from decades ago, regardless of the original circumstances, I don't think that anything circulating on the Internet to millions of people can be really called a “secret plan” now. It's an issue of time and semantics I suppose but, give me a break, a “secret plan” that everyone can read, millions do read, and millions believe? A secret plan that was declassified before supposedly being carried out, and then plastered all over the Internet? That's one shoddy “conspiracy” if you ask me. Doesn't “secret” mean....secret? If only the authoritarian freaks from leftland would be so kind in declassifying secret projects when their “system” is the one in power. I don't recall the former Soviet Union declassifying and making public much stuff (beyond spaceflights, a week after they occurred). Likewise for any contemporary society claiming the torch of “revolutionary socialism” -- not big on information variety or exposes'.
I'm not an engineer, and I've never encountered one of these 9/11 conspiracy connoisseurs who was either. In my latest conversation with previously mentioned clown-freak, all the memorized “facts” from innumerable conspiracy web sites bounced through the air as if he was an engineer (he wasn't) and I was supposedly stupid or “unaware” for not knowing or believing them -- “There's no use ever talking to you if you haven't read the stats regarding the little green men who live in your pillow” (yes, that's a caricature, but it captures the essence of these people's thinking process).
After all the cliché rambling, a final even more cliché classic from leftland; “I'm not taking a side.” Well, there ya have it! Guess what, we're “taking a side” every time we get up in the morning! A conservative has no difficulty saying that they take a side. Why are the left's constant statements of disdain toward free capitalist society and sympathy for its totalitarian enemies always made with the phony qualification that they are somehow, magically, “not taking a side?”
All over the world, people – often majorities – believe the 9/11 -- U.S. government conspiracy B.S. It's become the left's latest rallying cry (tied with “global warming”). The theory of a U.S. Government/"oligarchy" conspiracy now has the popularity of a Starbucks latte and yet these freaks still think they're some rare insiders privy to secret knowledge – back to leftland's default prime motive; “I'm better than you.”
One thing can be absolutely certain when confronting the lefts' conspiracy theory nut-parade; the one possibility we can definitively rule out (in their eyes) is that Muslim terrorists trained to hijack airplanes and later crashed them into buildings killing innocent people.
Apparently (and, this is the repeated line of thinking among the types I'm writing of), anyone who believes “the government's story” (e.g. Common sense based on facts and not paranoid speculation) also, doesn't' know that a Jewish neo-con conspiracy has allowed George Bush to seize power-- “under the Patriot Act” -- and establish a fascist police state.
You may not notice that America is a dictatorship now, where “voices and opinions are muzzled,” but that's just “because you can't see it.” You need leftland's X-ray vision. You need a mediocre life, and need to compensate for your insignificance with passionate delusion. Meanwhile, a real enemy of free civilization (Islamo-fascism) needn't be conspiratorial at all. Their chess moves are announced or displayed daily, and we're handing them the keys to the car while rambling incoherent nonsense about unclassified “secret” government plots, engineering physics we know nothing about, and the esoteric truth of urban legends concocted by middle class pampered brats with too much time on their hands and a serious deficit of common sense.
Public “education” + media political PR – common sense = ”ignorance is strength.”
A fascinating video (I think) that you may or may not wish to incorporate into the issues addressed above; a plane crashing into a solid concrete wall at very high speed. All sorts of arguments have been made regarding what happens, or “should” happen, when a high speed aircraft hits a solid object (like the wall of the Pentagon). Although an aircraft is heavy, and jammed full of equipment and “objects,” it is essentially a hollow tube of relatively light weight material (that's so it can fly – duh). Is it so hard to believe that it becomes unrecognizable after a high impact (don't forget to add igniting fuel into the equation).
A really big hat tip to Eject Eject Eject.
...Oh yeah, this too is an excellent -- and comical -- accessory in the "debate."
