Barack Obama, Charlie Sheen, Van Jones, and the 9/11 Truther Movement
This bit of news might be just another example of an overly egotistical actor thinking that his role as an aging lothario on Two and a Half Men buys him face time with the President of the United States. However, with the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks coming up and the revelation that the now former White House Green Jobs Czar Van Jones was himself a 9/11 truther focuses attention on the new paranoid style of American politics. But this time the paranoids are not right wingers seeing commies under the bed. The paranoids are left wingers seeing Bush administration operatives under the rubble of 9/11.
Like many conspiracy theories, the 9/11 Truther movement stems from a combination of ignorance of science and history and a political agenda that has sent a group of people around the bend. People believe that the Bush administration engineered 9/11 because, as the slogan made famous by the TV show The X Files stated, they want to believe. They want to believe that George W. Bush was both nefarious enough and clever enough to slay three thousand human beings, make it look like a group of enraged Muslims did it, then use the event as an excuse to create an empire in the Middle East in order to grab all of the oil. Or it is something like that.
A now famous article in Popular Mechanics thoroughly debunked the 9/11 Truther conspiracy theory. However a casual attention to Occam's Razor should be sufficient to laugh off the idea that the US Government, which has done most things incompetently, pulled off the mother of all false flag operations.
But reason and logic are really not things that need enter into a conspiracy theory like 9/11 Trutherism. People who embrace 9/11 Trutherism do so because they find the current world situation intolerable. The United States is engaged in a long war with Islamofascist terrorism and will be for the foreseeable future. Even Barack Obama, not the most bellicose President when it comes to actual enemies of the United States, has resigned himself to continuing most of the policies of George W. Bush.
Having found the current situation intolerable, 9/11 Truthers reject the idea that it was inevitable, brought on by the tides of history and the mistakes of previous administrations, but rather some cabal did it to us. The sad part, though, as Jonah Goldberg points out, 9/11 Trutherism is becoming mainstream among the Left. Considering what else the Left believes, that should not be too surprising.
Sources: Charlie Sheen Requests Meeting With Obama Over 9/11 Cover-Up, Alex Jones, Prison Planet, September 8th, 2009
Van Jones a 9/11 'Truther', Mark R. Whittington, Associated Content, September 4th, 2009
Debunking the 9/11 Myths: Special Report, Popular Mechanics, March, 2005
How Sad, Jonah Goldberg, National Review Online, September 8th, 2009
Published by Mark Whittington
Mark R. Whittington is a writer residing in Houston, Texas. He is the author of The Last Moonwalker, Children of Apollo, Dark Sanction, and Nocturne. He has written numerous articles, some for the Washington... View profile
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Post a CommentRidicule - is that all you have? The Popular Mechanics story did not "thoroughly debunk" anything. Quit parroting the mainstream mainline. Encourage people to research matters and to think for themselves. For shame . . .
Great read. I totally believe this article. The people that question their government are dangerous psychos that should be put in concentration camps. These people are promoting islam. A terrorist religion. All muslims should be put in concentration camps too. They don't deserve their oil rich lands. They should be showered in pig juice then shot in the forehead.
I love my government. I Worship them. I read news articles like this, watch tv. I take all the drugs that make me feel euphoric legally. I shut up, dissent is unpatriotic, it ruins this country. Politicians are good. Constitution and Bill of Rights are old articles that are obsolete. The people that talk about the constitution and founding fathers are terrorists. I Spy on them, I report them to fbi and cia. Bill O Riley is my hero. His genius intellect and ulterior journalism is all this country needs.
Eh. He probably does realize it.
You all just want to believe that fire can't melt steel, that NORAD didn't just accidentally stand down for some reason and that it is not just a coincidence that Osama bin Laden was an ex-CIA operative named Tim Osman. You are all ignorant of history because you think leaders such as Hitler used false flag tactics to start wars. It is like the X-files.
You all just want to believe that fire can't melt steel, that NORAD didn't just accidentally stand down for some reason and that it is not just a coincidence that Osama bin Laden was an ex-CIA operative named Tim Osman. You are all ignorant of history because you think leaders such as Hitler used false flag tactics to start wars. It is like the X-files.
Here's a radical thought: if you believe the "official story", try to prove it RIGHT.
Even the most casual of observers will see that something is gravely wrong with the "official story" of that day events, on so many levels.
You can't cover up the truth forever......
"a combination of ignorance of science and history and a political agenda that has sent a group of people around the bend"
What you don't realize is that you are in that group.
[apparently my comments were cut off at some unannounced limit]
I just want to add that the Popular Mechanics "hit piece" has been thoroughly discredited. It is convenient cover for those who don't want to look any deeper, but Popular Mechanics, and now National Geographic have disgraced themselves with their shoddy performances on this topic. For a thorough rebuttal, read "Debunking 9/11 Debunking" by David Ray Griffin. Anyone interested in learning about the actual evidence (something completely lacking in this article) is encouraged to see our web site: http://www.ae911truth.org.
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth (ae911truth.org) is a rapidly growing organization (currently over 800 architects and engineers) of people with technical expertise who are able to call the shots in this arena far better than a journalist with an attitude. The simple fact is the destruction of the buildings could not possibly have happened as FEMA and NIST (both government agencies following the government script) said they did. There are numerous smoking guns (freefall collapse of WTC7, constant acceleration collapse of WTC1, temperatures in the towers far higher than possible with jet fuel and burning office contents, molten iron, iron microspheres in the dust, positive identification of nano-thermite in the dust, etc.). Notice that this list isn't about who we want to blame. It's all about the physical evidence. (Oh yes...most of the physical evidence, the actual steel, was hauled off to Asia and melted down before any investigation of it was possible.) There's plenty o
Jenny, what you say is not true. The fact is the disclaimer (stating the interview was not real) was mistakenly left off and when they realized this mistake they immediately updated the site with the disclaimer. However, looking for fodder to bash "Truthers" you miss the point of article. Which in my opinion, was written to raise awareness of the 9-11 issue in a creative way.
Since you seem to think "truthers" are so gullible, can please explain or answer any of the questions that Mr. Sheen has so eloquently presented?
I think not!