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In reply to the discussion: NYT BOMBSHELL: Significantly MORE 9/11 NEGLIGENCE Than Has Been Disclosed [View all]JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)If government officials charged with defense of the country knowingly fail to act to prevent an attack, while simultaneously also planning a global agenda of wars and repressive measures they intend to implement immediately afterward by using the attack as the pretext, then they are assuming responsibility for the attack. They have decided in favor of it. They are the government, they are not mere bystanders who fail to act as good Samaritans. They are abusing their position to assure that the attack happens. This is morally indistinguishable from planning the attacks in the first place.
This was obvious after 9/11, when a slogan like "Bush Knew" was still incendiary. One of the more unfortunate developments since then (partly due to elements within the 9/11 truth community who created a false polarization around their most extreme and impossible theories) is that liberal opinion has practically come to accept some level of LIHOP, but to do so without any strong moral outrage, to view it as somehow constituting the opposite of "conspiracy," or as "not as bad."