I mean you don't have to establish what did happen. At this point in time, you only have to establish what didn't happen, and let science sort the rest out. We know, for instance, that NIST admits that they didn't establish an explanation for how the towers fell. The government does not officially have an explanation for what made it possible for, or what caused the towers to fall. That's all we really need in order to have a very credible case for insisting on a new investigation.

We know two things. We know that the government has not established the cause of the collapse. We also know that much of the evidence points to other possible causes. As of now, we don't need to know anything else. All we have to do is insist on a thorough, scientific investigation, the results of which are subjected to vigorous peer review. Science will give us the answers. And by science, I mean forensic science. This was a crime, and it should be investigated exactly the way crimes are investigated. This was never done.

But when people try to persuade others of their ideas about did happen, those people make it really easy for anyone who wants to shut down discussion to do this by diverting attention away from what is important, which is that the government does not have an explanation for what happened and the fact that there is enough evidence of possibilities that have not been pursued or investigated by the government to justify a new investigation, and divert the attention to you and all of the labels that they want to apply to you. Labeling you is easy for them, because they see you as a caricature, not as a person.   And that is a big part of the problem. If people can label you, they will find it really easy to shut you out and shut down discussion, because the discussion then becomes all about what they think of you instead of what happened on 9/11.

So trying to get peoples' attention by behaving in ways that they may find extreme and disturbing will not work. They'll just shut down discussion with their personal attacks. And as a consequence, they also make things difficult for anyone who advocates for a new investigation, because they will lump them all in with the people like you whom they have already labeled and dismissed in their minds. So you not only make it more difficult for yourself, you also make it more difficult for everyone who is trying to get a new investigation.

Obviously there are some who are so threatened by any discussion of other possibilities that anyone at all who advocates for a new investigation will seem extreme to them. But there are a lot of people who aren't so entrenched in their beliefs, and you don't want to be shutting those people down. That is a mistake.