[lbo-talk] Monbiot on 9/11 "Truth" Theories

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Wed Feb 21 20:15:29 PST 2007


Monbiot: "...you must believe that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their pals are all-knowing...You must believe that the impression of cackhandedness and incompetence they have managed to project since taking office is a front.."

Nonsense, like all the "BinLaden did it" lone-nut conspiracytheorists propound. All you have to believe is that the imperialist ruling class might have highly skilled, totally professional, experienced and expert villains who have, over generations, managed *from behind the scenes* the apparatuses of murder and mass-deception, known as CIA, Mossad, MI-5, et. al. Granting this, the strange "coincidence" of an organization organized under the auspices (and thereby totally open to penetration by CIA-Mossad agents of influence) of US Intelligence; carrying out a classical (see Conrad's "Secret Agent") terrorist provocation, that could succeed only through the immobilization of the entire US domestic air-defense system; and the subsequent cover-up of the catastrophic failure of US defenses (without even a scapegoat!), it doesn't take a Joe Leaphorn to realize that "there are no coincidences" here.

Shane Mage

"When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even downright silly.

When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner)



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