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...when you write: "If anyone ever needs an example of the harm that 9-11 conspiracy theories without good evidence can do, there's one right there!"
The OP cites another example of the sad fact that a fair percentage of americans are uninformed, quasi-literate, undereducated rubes and slack-jawed chowder heads lacking even an iota of critical thinking skills. That these dolts continue to exhibit those characteristics by, in this case, clinging to one of the many "inoperative" excuses for the Iraq invasion -- that Saddam played a pivotal role in planning and paying for 9/11 -- is hardly surprising.
But what does that have to do with the alleged "...harm that 9/11 conspiracy theories without good evidence can do...?" Do you honestly think that these very same dysfunctional illiterates have sorted through the physical, circumstantial and anecdotal evidence, read the official 9/11 Commission whitewash, done the background reading from "unofficial" sources, swapped information with friends and co-workers, participated in online discussions, met with local 9/11 truth groups -- then took a couple of weeks to sort it all out, applied those same underdeveloped critical thinking skills to the problem and decided, exclusively on its merits, that the official myth is true?
Do these morons sound to you like the kinds of people who would make an effort to see possibilities beyond the wildly fantastic official conspiracy theory? Do you imagine that they would see the holes in the official myth, which is so riddled with anomalies and coincidences that the odds against 9/11 occurring as portrayed by US governmental, mass media and doctrinal institutions are way beyond those against completing an inside straight flush? Do you think they would be stimulated by what's become one of the all-time great detective stories and true crime mysteries? And that they would act on these puzzles by doing much more than ordering an extra-large pizza for delivery and popping the fifth Bud Lite of the late afternoon?
I don't think the 9/11 truth movement has had much to do with turning these people into slobbering idiots; they had a pretty good head start on that long before BushCo invaded DC.
From your screen name, I assume you live in the UK. If you do, then you've got your own budding national security state and massive surveillance apparatus jump-started largely by 9/11 and then boosted by 7/7/05. But if you haven't been to the US lately, and whatever impressions you may have were formed during visits in the '80s or '90s, I suggest you come back over and have another look around. We've turned from a country of rugged individualist emulators and can-do types (or at least wannabes) into a gaggle of scared, timid, manipulated, nervous and nearly dysfunctional ninny reactionaries afraid of anything or anybody who fits the profiles the DHS has kindly supplied for us.
Plus, we've had a couple more decades of precipitous decline in public education, lock-down media consolidation so that five corporations now control more than 80 percent of all content doled out by mainstream sources, and an administration so inherently depressing just by their very existence -- not to mention their trillion-dollar addiction to repression, malevolence, greed and genocide -- that people have almost forgotten what it's like to live in a relatively free society, a place where the TSA dimbulbs don't feel you up just so you can be allowed on a plane.
So when I maintain that the current brand of american dullard -- BushBot to the end, drowning in wingnut fundie religiosity and utterly intolerant of any other belief system, media-manipulated into wage slavery and political orthodoxy, in hock up to his/her eyeballs and still consuming tomorrow's garbage, scared shitless most of the time and often armed to the teeth, bigoted and racist towards all designated enemies of the state, poisoned by wingnut radio and TV "news," ignorant of the most basic facts and ideas that people elsewhere in the world take for granted... when I write that this monster has become much worse than anything you might have experienced 10 or 20 years ago, that's my frame of reference.
And looping back to 9/11, that was the single, soul-purging, catalyzing event that sanctioned and kick-started the entire BushCo/PNAC war machine. Because of the massive slack conferred on these monsters in the aftermath of 9/11, they've been able to go on an imperialist rampage abroad and launch a bloated national security state at home -- and all this with the complicity of the "opposition" party.
Many determined people around the world are making a serious effort to undermine the administration's claims to the righteousness of its actions by yanking the justifying event right out from under them, exposing the obvious lies and hopefully making an airtight case for high treason against a dozen or so high-ranking current and former BushCo officials -- with Cheney, Rumsfeld and GW at the top of the list. When the public insists on either vilifying or ridiculing the 9/11 "troofers," they're simply doing BushCo's PR work for them.
Personally, I want to make their remaining lives one continuous, frightening, inescapable hell on earth. And, absent congressional will for impeachment, the best way to do that is to dismantle their claims of legitimacy, starting with stolen elections in 2000 and taking an honest, eyes-wide-open look at who benefited from 9/11. Sure as hell wasn't me, and probably not you either.
Oops. Another essay when a couple of points and a brief question or two was the original intent. Stop me before I type again...
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