09 September 2006

Full house as leading 9/11 conspiracy theorist has his say

I am skeptical about this, though I know that there is enough in my reaction to warrant a challenge from 1Cor.13:4-7 'love ... does not delight in evil ..." However, what intrigues me is what this tells me about Western culture at the moment.
36% of Americans believed it "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that their government was involved in allowing the attacks or had carried them out itself. There are many people in the UK who agree with them. The theories as to what happened on that day, when almost 3,000 people were killed, differ but their unifying theme is that a neo-conservative cabal within the US government staged the events as a pretext to wage wars, become a dominant force in the world and establish "the new American century". The attacks, it is said, were not carried out by al-Qaida terrorists but were a "false flag" event used to justify invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

The fact that this is so easy to believe for so many people is also alarming for what it tells us about the apparent trustworthiness of governments.
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1 comment:

Jem said...

I've been wrestling with this story for the last day or two. One ambiguous thing about the title of the article is that full house at the Conway Hall doesn't count for much since it only has a capacity of 500.

"Spend and tax" not "tax and spend"

 I got a response from my MP which got me kind of mad. You'll see why as I reproduce it here. Apologies for the strange changes in types...