[lbo-talk] The Problem of Conspiracy Theorists at the Anti-War Meeting Yesterday

[Robert Wrubel]

Yoshie:  why not 9-11 conspiracy theorists?  The
anti-war position or movement is multi-layered.  The
deeper you go with it the more solid your opposition
should be.  On the most superficial level the
Democrats say the war was "mismanaged".  The next
level down would be popular demands to bring US troops
home.  Neither of these levels touch the morality,
legality or causes of the war, nor the issue of
permanent bases in Iraq, nor the possibility of a new
war with Iran.  The deepest level is opposition to the
entire political/economic complex that produces wars,
and many 9-11 conspiracists are on that level, though
not all.

BobW 

--- Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com>
wrote:


> I was shocked to find that about _five_ 9/11
> conspiracy theorists
> (only one of whom I had seen before) showed up at a
> local anti-war
> meeting yesterday, which made them about a quarter
> of the meeting
> participants.  This was the first local anti-war
> meeting after the
> annual March mobilization against the Iraq War
> called by the Central
> Ohio Peace Network.  It seems to me that, as the
> anti-war movement
> generally went down, the movement of conspiracy
> theorists grew.  What
> is to be done about this problem?  I doubt that any
> thinking people
> want to come to a meeting if they have to listen to
> a prominent
> contingent of conspiracy theorists wishing to
> educate everyone about
> The Truth of 9/11.
> 
> At the meeting was also a young Black woman
> organizer from Americans
> Against Escalation in Iraq (backed by MoveOn, SEIU,
> etc. -- Website:
> <http://www.noiraqescalation.org/>), promoting the
> group's agenda:
> focusing on Deborah Pryce, pushing the City Council
> for an anti-war
> resolution, holding a rally at the end of August,
> and so on.  The
> woman is from out of state, as with two other
> organizers sent into
> Columbus by AAEI.  While AAEI's agenda is not my
> agenda, at least she
> seemed sane.  On the other hand, after summer, the
> three AAEI
> organizers will leave, and working with them may not
> leave anything
> behind in Columbus to build on.
> --
> Yoshie
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