Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> But "the government flew the airplanes themselves into the twin towers 
> which were blown up by explosives" is at a whole different level, like 
> "NASA faked the moon landings" or "Roosevelt deliberately allowed the 
> Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor" or even "the US government keeps 
> evidence of UFO's and aliens covered up in Area 51."  Honestly, when I 
> thought you were pushing these 9/11 conspiracy theories, my first 
> thought is that you were joking, and I was going to scold Vern for 
> taking you seriously.

Is that what that book was about?  I didn't know.  Seriously.  I picked it 
up and it said something about wacky conspiracy theories and how they 
didn't liek them and it had a note from Howard Zinn and a note from a 
couple of other seemingly credible people.  Ah -- that stuff is here:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/156656686X/ref=dp_proddesc_0/002-9124346-5535209?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books

Howard Zinn (historian)
Bill Christison, former senior official of the CIA (CIA analyst, actually)
Paul Craig Roberts, assistant secretary of the US Treasury during the Reagan administration

So if this is just more of the Small Change kind of lunacy, I apologize 
for bringing it up.  I thought it was something different, but now I think 
it probably is what you are suggesting.

I think one of the things that threw me off was that the book and other 
information about the book say that the author "rejects the official 
conspiracy theory," which probably means that he rejects the idea that 
Islamic terrorists conspired to attack us.  I didn't understand the 
meaning of that at first.

I agree with Vern too -- a lot of people who would not like this book will 
not read it or post negative reviews on Amazon.com, so we're left with 
true believers.

Mike

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