>The Left establishment's attack on 9/11 skeptics
>
>Soon after revelations concerning Bush administration prior
>knowledge of the 9/11 attacks ("Memogate"), a number of well-known
>media "liberals" and "progressives" launched a heavy-handed series
>of broadsides against independent 9/11 researchers who had been
>developing alternative theories in response to the deeply flawed and
>fraudulent official story. Why would they do this, at precisely the
>point that the Bush administration was clearly sweating bullets and
>in deep trouble? This question is particularly important in light of
>the fact that the anti-conspiracy critics have not been able (nor
>apparently willing) to articulate their own theory of what happened
>on 9/11 (and why) which can explain the devastating evidence and
>contradictions that have been exposed by independent researchers.
>Instead of offering a credible explanation, the gatekeepers merely
>saw fit to pathologize 9/11 skeptics as "paranoid conspiracy nuts"
>and "a danger to our movement."
>Not surprisingly, the rank and file didn't buy into the hype—nor
>were many convinced by the gatekeepers' offhand, passionless calls
>for an official investigation. Interest in alternative 9/11
>reporting continued to grow, and by the time that members of 9/11
>victim's families began publicly demanding an end to the government
>coverup and even mainstream media outlets such as the NY Times were
>admitting that the lack of an independent investigatory commission
>was "extraordinary," the Left media gatekeepers backed down and
>adopted a new tactic of silent stonewalling and tacit support for
>the official story.
I'm really getting tired of this, which I guess makes me one of those accursed gatekeepers. But I think most of us conspiracy skeptics think that what happened on 9/11 was that after long planning some religious fanatics hijacked four airplanes and flew them into three important buildings and failed to hit a fourth. The USG was caught with its pants down and had no idea of how to react.
If you want to mull over more dramatic versions of the story, go talk with the rest of the frothers and leave the rational people alone.
Doug