The greatest cover-up in history
I cannot believe that I am actually writing about this, but it has gotten to a point which I cannot bear. It seems that every week, there is at least one new story or article regarding the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. It’s becoming a bit ridiculous. The inveterate theme is a continual re-hashing and re-interpretation–in effect, bending–of the “facts”. There are videos, documentaries, and websites created explicitly for this purpose. Today, I’m going to add one more opinionated story to this week’s tally. As if one story weren’t enough.
9/11 conspiracy theorists would have you believe that it was not terrorists who flew planes into three of our buildings, but our own government that initiated the event. Governmental involvement is, at the very least, a fundamental belief of a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. Some say that the United States government hired the Islamic terrorists to do the job, and still others say that the entire plot was executed by the government itself–both equally absurd. Taken directly from the mission statement on 911Truth.org:
TO EXPOSE the official lies and cover-up surrounding the events of September 11th, 2001 in a way that inspires the people to overcome denial and understand the truth; namely, that elements within the US government and covert policy apparatus must have orchestrated or participated in the execution of the attacks for these to have happened in the way that they did.
Let’s look more closely at what they are saying. Our government–the same government responsible for the failed policy in Iraq, lackluster homeland security plan, pathetic no child left behind bill, and cohorts of an inept president who can barely grasp the English language–committed one of the greatest war atrocities our country has ever seen on our own soil, while at the same time, covered it up. When reminded how little compelling evidence there is for what they’re saying, a typical response is something like, “And the reality that there is little compelling evidence for this makes it all the more plausible. Of course there is little evidence for it. That’s how profound the conspiracy really is!” Absolutely ludicrous.
If this administration was so good at covering things up, why didn’t it cover up that feral quail hunt incident? There were only a handful of people present, and it couldn’t have been to difficult to hush-up this public relations disaster. Maybe they saw the potential landmine of jokes associated with Cheney’s mishap. Jon Stewart and the like were pretty quick to jump on that one. My point is, it would have been wise to try to cover this up, although it is less serious than 9/11 by orders of magnitude. The truth is this: the implementation and number of people that would have to keep their mouths shut about this is unfathomable. Countless military officials, air line employees, and members of the administration. This could not have been executed successfully by a handful of people, this would have had to have required widespread cooperation of individuals all over the country.
I am going to propose something that has already been covered on an episode of South Park [video]. The 9/11 conspiracy is a government conspiracy. This should make the conspiracy theorists squirm in their chairs. This means that all those who believe there was a conspiracy are playing right into the government’s hands. How diabolical!
There are other things that immediately debunk the 9/11 conspiracy myth. As satirist Maddox pointed out, the fact that people like David Lynch, Dylan Avery, and the 911truth.org gang are alive is proof enough that the government didn’t have anything to do with this. Maddox writes, “…the government has no problem killing 3,000 innocent people, [and] this raises the question: if his documentary [Loose Change] is true, and we’ve established that the government has no ethical qualms about killing thousands of its own people, then why wouldn’t the government kill Avery and his friends as well? What’s a few more lives to them to ensure the success of this conspiracy?” Eloquent as always.
Seriously people, the truth is obvious. The attacks on September 11, 2001 were planned and orchestrated by nineteen Islamic terrorists following Allah’s law: killing infidels. They believed they would be going to paradise accompanied by “dark-eyed virgins” (Koran 37:40-48) upon death. Plus, we already know many Muslims hate us. Many believe 9/11 was justified.
By now it should be clear what my position is. Anyone who believes that the attacks on 9/11/01 were a government conspiracy is–I’m sorry–a delusional moron. There are probably many things that we do not know about that day more than five years ago, and probably never will. But, it doesn’t help when people just start making things up. I am going to leave you with a series of dialogue from a recent South Park episode: The Mystery of the Urinal Deuce.
Cartman: Kyle, why are you so afraid of the truth?
Kyle: Because everyone who thinks 9/11 was a conspiracy is a retard.
Cartman: Oh, really? Well, did you know that over ¼ of the people in America think that 9/11 was a conspiracy? Are you saying that ¼ of Americans are retards?
Kyle: Yes. I am saying ¼ of Americans are retards.
Stan: Yeah, at least ¼.
Kyle: Let’s take a test sample. There are four of us; you’re a retard, that’s ¼.later….
Kyle: …well then who was responsible for 9/11?
Stan: What do you mean? a bunch of pissed off Muslims.
Hardly Boys: Yeah, what are you? Retarded?
Further reading:
Edit 02/26/07:
As I said above, there’s a new 9/11 conspiracy hysteria story every week. This time, four days later. Here’s another one.
Filed under: Politics by kellanstec
Leave a Reply