dbcooper41 wrote:it's a very unpleasant experience to accept that all you believed was a lie.
What if you never believed the patriotic crap in the first place? Plenty of us never did, at least not in our lives as adults. On Sept. 11, my first expectation was that the attacks were the arranged casus belli event I had expected after the return of the Bush mob to power, with their obvious designs on wars in the Middle East. I spent a few months attacking my own assumptions and examining the evidence until I was satisfied that a) some form of that hypothesis was likely and b) more importantly, a cover-up was underway and this was unconscionable given how "9/11" was being used to redefine every aspect of reality from global geopolitics to everyday life.
The official story blaming "al-Qaeda" already put authorship at a half-remove from the CIA operations that in the first place created al-Qaeda (originally a term for the "database" of Arab mujahedeen veterans of the anti-Soviet Afghanistan jihad started and financed by the CIA in the 1980s).
but once you accept that you can never go back to your comfortable ignorance.
A lot of people find it easy to go back to their anxious inaction, when the alternative is to act like a Moonie selling a mix of disinformation on the street corner, to no worthy end.
i think one key to the future is reframing the debate to put the onus on the supporters of the official theory.
make them prove their myth.
If you did, you wouldn't be bothering with the demolitions hypothesis, which puts the onus on you. This was the original approach of what became known as the 9/11 truth movement: Demonstrate that the official theory cannot be true or complete. Put the pressure on the bogus investigations for their omissions, contradictions, conflicts of interest, lies and cover-ups. Call out the people who were visibly involved in crimes of negligence or facilitation: the AWOL air defense chain of command on the day from Bush on down, Alec Station, the operations that were actually tracking the alleged hijackers years in advance, the officials at FBI and in the military who suppressed investigations into the alleged hijackers. Demand explanations for all cases of foreknowledge.
Instead of keeping up the pressure on the cover-up and self-collapsing official story and demanding disclosure at a time when most people had doubts and the event was still fresh to them, "the movement" turned into an impossible and usually pathetic effort to prove and persuade people of its own hypotheses (in the main about demolitions, but also more obvious exotica like the Pentagon hole and no-planes theories). Actually, a self-help therapy group with no more historical or political consciousness than the mainstream culture and a happy promiscuity under the "big tent" with religious charlatans, snake-oil salesmen, "chemtrails" and UFOs, climate change denialists, NWO and "Illuminati," Jew-haters and Nazis.
