@unknownuser said:
it seems the only thing these people that are dedicating their lives to finding 911truth will actually accomplish, should they prove to be correct, is the right to walk around saying "see, i told you so!" …meanwhile, it's business as usual for the powers that be..
agreed. business as usual.
from fight club:
"We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra."
remember - after 9/11 bush told everyone to 'go shopping'.
not to suck it up and sacrifice to bring the criminals to justice (who ever they were).
not a call to arms for a draft or for good men and women to join the armed forces, coast guard, police.
no, we were told to 'go shopping'.
otherwise our precious economy could slump, and people would be out of work. and retirement accounts would dry up. and the market wouldn't perform for investors.
then people would be out of money. tight on budget. maybe lose their homes.
and people wouldn't be so blinded by the consumerism.
the next shiny thing on sale.
folks lie to their kids about santa claus, the easter bunny, jesus, god, and all the rest.
i don't find it a leap that it would be easy for someone to let some intelligence slide through.
to then let some folks take advantage of that to go to war. or push through new legislation. or just be able to play with some new toys.
people do it all the time. husbands lie to their wives about what they do on business trips. ministers lie about being gay. a fib here. an outright lie there.
its all human nature played out on a grand scale.
its not crazy to think that there are those spooky NSA types out there. operation northwoods, questions regarding pearl harbor (who knew what, and when - and oddly - that there was an exercise going on at the time so radar was picking up the flight of b17s and not the japanese), the ghost ships in the gulf on tonkin, the sinking of the uss maine firming up involvement the spanish american war, wmds in iraq, misleading information propagated by celebrities about immunizations, hitler burning the reichstag to seize power. caesar being assassinated. climate change.
it goes on and on. the scales change. the characters change.
but we keep fucking with each other.
lying, killing, profiting, cheating.
for what - i don't know.
regardless of whodunit, and why, the world has changed.
we now have the TSA, wiretapping of US citizens (with corporate buy in to let the NSA do it).
2 wars. thousands? hundred of thousands dead.
billions of dollars spent.
thousands of soldiers returning home without proper medical care and mental health care.
tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands) of lives ruined in iraq and afghanistan.
and an environment where the US government can kill a US citizen with a secret letter - sending a drone to wherever you might be, without a trial, with no cause, with no way for you to face your accusers.
but, there are fun shiny things.
i'm off to boing boing to see some awesomeness.
mission accomplished.
and, FWIW, i think both sides of this debate have value. the truthers are as nuts as the believers. the reality lay somewhere in the cloudy middle.
