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Thread #99124   Message #1972699
Posted By: GUEST,Fergettaboutit
19-Feb-07 - 01:57 PM
Thread Name: BS: Noam Chomsky on Iran, etc.
Subject: RE: BS: Noam Chomsky on Iran, etc.
There's a difference between looking for evidence to support beliefs and being unable to dodge the obvious. I DO look for ways to believe that my govt told me the truth about 9/11, but I keep running into pesky facts that prove they told me a lie. Hundreds of facts. Maybe thousands by now. The list keeps growing.

Picture this: A group of Muslims is about to hijack planes and take them on suicide missions. Must be devout Muslims, or they wouldn't be willing to sacrifice their lives to fight the "infidels." So the men prepare to die. But do they pray on the night before they go to meet their Maker? No, they go out to titty bars and slam down a few drinks. And that's what the govt tells you happened with the "hijackers."

But I digress. Gatekeepers. McGrath says, "There's no real point in wasting time speculating about how many people were in the conspiracy and who they were." That's Chomsky's position exactly. It's also Rush Limbaugh's position. Gatekeepers tell you that the govt has looked at 9/11 from every angle, and 19 men with boxcutters pulled off the job. Period. Cut to a story about Britney.

Two wars have been launched because of 9/11. They're even re-writing architectural codes because "jet fuel" brought down the towers. Jet fuel didn't bring down the towers, so can new science based on that supposition be accurate? 9/11 now permeates every fiber of our society. There is no more important issue in America than 9/11. The PATRIOT Act had NO chance of passing before 9/11, yet the enormous bill was being printed as the attacks took place. 5 weeks later it was law, and we lost half of our Bill of Rights. All state, county and city regulations, insurance rules, banking rules, business rules and so on now need to be "PATRIOT-Act compliant." The attacks were a set-up, and the follow-through was already in the works...war abroad, clamp-down on freedoms at home.