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10:57 - Occam's long flowing beard
http://mondediplo.com/2006/12/02conspiracy
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Refreshing to see, this: Alexander Cockburn (of CounterPunch fame) weighs in to ridicule the 9/11 conspiracies. His position is a leftist one, but most of his ire is directed at his own side's kooks. He also points out:
Some discover a silver lining in 9/11 conspiracism. A politically sophisticated leftist in Washington DC wrote to me agreeing with my ridicule of the inside job scenarios but adding: “To me the most interesting thing (in the US) is how many people are willing to believe that Bush either masterminded it [the 9/11 attacks] or knew in advance and let it happen. If that number or anything close to that is true, that’s a huge base of people that are more than deeply cynical about their elected officials. That would be the real news story that the media is missing, and it’s a big one.”
In light of his earlier point that "what the 9/11 conspiracists want us to believe is that the Bush/Cheney gang represent a new breed of evil", this is particularly troubling: in response to what they perceive as unprecedented menace from the sitting administration, people are apparently turning to unprecedented cynicism and waning of faith in democracy. And really, all that's unprecedented in all this—the one thing that's inadmissible anymore in the argument without being transformed into something unrecognizable or brushed away as somehow beside the point—is the stark, obvious reality of 9/11 itself.
Via Chris.
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Brian Tiemann
