[lbo-talk] consider the following:

Joseph Wanzala jwanzala at hotmail.com
Sat Jun 19 16:49:46 PDT 2004


Doug wrote: "...after long planning some religious fanatics hijacked four airplanes..."

are you sure you didn't mean some 'fanatically religious hypocrites' or something, since we know (from mainstream media sources) that Atta and company were known to frequent titty bars in Florida?

Actually Doug, my point is, we do not really know what happened on and leading up to 9-11. We do know that the Bush administration has been dissembling at best. and we know that much of the 'official truth' is b.s. To the extent that 9-11 has provided a blank check to the USG to unleash perpetual war at home and abraod surely we can do better than the fairy tale version of history you presented below in terms of our understanding of what happened?

?que no?


>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] consider the following:
>Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 19:06:32 -0400
>
>Joseph Wanzala wrote:
>
>>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
>
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