September 11 conspiracy theorists add sparks to pre-election events
Matt Lepacek of the 9/11 conspiracy outlet ‘Infowars’ confronts Rudy Giuliani pollster Ed Goeas in the spin room after the 6/5/07 Republican debate in Manchester. He is arrested; later, his colleague Luke Rudowski is led outside by police. Rudowski is let go and explains what just happened.
First a conspiracy theorist gets kicked out of the Democratic debate spin room. The same thing happens on Giuliani’s turf after the June 5 Republican debate.
Meanwhile, Internet message boards and blogs buzz with theories put forth by Tinseltown strategists like Charlie Sheen and Rosie O’Donald.
Welcome to the United States of America, where free speech, despite fears to the contrary, is thriving.
Since the tragedy of September 11, sites like Loose Change and 911Truth have put forth numerous questions about the way the buildings collapsed and why steel would melt. Mainstream publications like Time Magazine have explored the various theories. The National Institute of Standards and Technology even came up with a fact sheet in an effort to explain the inexplicable.
Have we been told the whole truth about September 11? That’s a question I can’t answer.
The single conclusion I’ve come to about what happened that day is that the culmination of years of denial came down on my country. Osama bin Laden had been featured on TV in the 1990s, declaring war on America. Violence by radical Islamists had been occurring not just in Israel, but all around the Middle East. Before President Bill Clinton left office, we were bombing Iraq. We all remember President Jimmy Carter’s failing efforts, not the least of which was his response to the overthrow of the government in Iran.
The United States was in denial for many years before we were attacked in 2001. Whatever the real truth is, I am certain my government let us all down in the years preceding the attack, and we completely ignored the first bombing of the World Trade Center as well.
I don’t buy into all the conspiracy theories, but we can all take comfort in the fact that uncomfortable questions can be asked. In the United States, you can ask the government anything you want to. You can do it on a blog or on CNN.
In many other countries, conspiratorial heads would roll for doing that.
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