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Edited on Tue Jan-02-07 05:40 PM by JackRiddler
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Every relevant news story or piece of evidence ends up here in a timely fashion and is debated from all sides.
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I despair. It's all pointless. The truth of 9/11 has been obscured forever in a pincer action between people who consistently advance the least likely, most ridiculous theories and the OCT defenders who sally forth to pretend to "refute" these theories and thus "confirm" the OCT. Instead of Nafeez Ahmed, PD Scott, Griffin and Chossudovsky vs. the 9/11 Commission, or instead of Kevin Ryan, Steven Jones and "Improbable Collapse" vs. the NIST Report, we have Loose Change vs. Popular Mechanics, or Reynolds/Fetzer/Barrett v. O'Reilly, or "no planes" vs. people who pretend that demonstrating there were planes somehow puts to rest any doubt that 19 dedicated al Qaeda terrorists acting alone, etc. etc. I despair because this is a function of the culture even more so than it is a strategy on the part of those who wish to obscure 9/11. People really have little idea of what constitutes evidence, what falsifies or confirms a hypothesis, or how logic works. In fact they know little of history, sociology or politics, and don't bother to pick up any before mouthing off, and sadly that's reflected in the "9/11 truth movement" (which I worked hard for as one of its founders) as much as in the broader culture of automatic OCT believers. Most of what passes for "9/11 research" of whatever perspective is just another form of rooting for a sports team, and as likely to change the world. The 9/11 truth movement succeeded in only one thing: forcing acknowledgement by the media that, in fact, a large proportion of the world doesn't believe the OCT. And that's it. Otherwise we've been incorporated safely into the broader culture as yet another niche culture, or cult. The "South Park" episode was a perfect rendering: 9/11 truth has been rendered harmless.
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