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Skriven 2006-06-07 23:27:00 av Robert E Starr JR (2529.babylon5)
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Amy Guskin wrote:
>>>On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 19:17:33 -0400, Mark Alexander Bertenshaw wrote
> 
> (in article <44860cf6$0$98942$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net>):
> 
> 
>>I think that it is essential that as many people as possible actually
>>understand what happened as possible.  The other day, I accidentally found a
>>website which purported to be a forum for the discovery of the "truth" about
>>what really happened to the World Trade Centre.  This stuff was utterly
>>unbelievable.  People were seriously saying that a conspiracy of
>>Neo-Conservatives and Zionists in the government had caused the planes to
>>hit the towers so that they could get involved in Afghanistan and Iraq.
>>After further searching, it turned out that there were a great deal more
>>websites like this, and apparently there is a film called "Loose Change"
>>which was supporting the fantasy claims of the self-proclaimed "Truthers".
>>There are some truly sad people out there who have watched far too much
>>X-Files and have absorbed far too many pseudo-left wing received opinions.
>>Now, I don't know how many people believe in this crap, but it terrifies me
>>that there are people of such credulity around. <<
> 
> 
> Mark, are you making judgements about "Loose Change" without having seen it? 

> You can download it for free, here:
> 
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5137581991288263801
> 
> I'm not saying I buy _all_ of it; but I definitely buy _some_ of it.  And I 
> was not even a fan of X-Files...  A handful of unexplainable things in a 
> tragedy of this scale, I could accept - life is often stranger than fiction, 
> after all.  But the unexplainable - and physically impossible! - things just 
> keep piling up and piling up and piling up.  I should mention that I hadn't 
> heard of this film before a few weeks ago, and was vocally critical of 9/11 
> conspiracy nuts myself - but then I kept hearing the film's name dropped here

> and there by some mainstream radio personalities, bloggers, etc., so I took a

> look for myself.
> 
> The more I see of our government in action, the less I'm willing to say that 
> I believe, incontrovertibly, that they could not have had any knowledge of, 
> or complicity with, the killing of their own citizens.
> 
> Amy


Yeah, that can be scarey, that some people think X-Files was a 
documentary series.  Some years ago, I read a study that said that only 
about 1/3 of Americans ever read anything more than TV schedules.  That 
means (if it's true) that the ones who read and believe the Weekly World 
News are in the upper third of the population.  Now that is scarey!
                                                                           
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