by proldic » Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:26 pm
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>…I’ll tell you what -- look at any of these guys (conspiracy researchers) -- look at them carefully -- and see if they create uncertainty. <br>The minute you have someone creating uncertainties you know they’re either witting or unwitting. And there’s very few that are not.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>- Martin Schotz<br><br>Should we go forward with everything that we are researching? When do we go from the lab to rolling out the finished product? Are we researchers or activists? Is there a difference? How much can the two roles be combined? Isn’t there a divide at some point?<br><br>Shouldn't we be thinking like prosecutors, presenting a case to the jury. And hasn't the 'best evidence' (meaning the actual body, or in this case the steel from the building) been compromised? Who controls the whole physical case? The defendants! And we learned from the JFK case that the physical evidence was undoubtably compromised there as well. So it's "Grassy Knoll" all over again. <br><br>The physical evidence, while “good for a quick fix” has less potential to break through that almost-insurmountable barrier of reaching critical mass with the American public. And it carries the huge inherent risk of being proved wrong. How else do you think they're going about it, huh? <br><br>When we use generally-popularly-accepted sources, we avoid having to go up against National Geographic, Scientific American, Nova/PBS, etc. This approach does not risk the David Ray Griffin vs Chip Berlet syndrome, i.e.: <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>"Name me one credible scientist who believes in building demolition..." </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> If we can't dominate the scientific- physical evidence debate, we're probably not on the best ground overall. But if we can say: these 10 credible documents, and these 20 leaked memorandums, and these 30 foreign reports, and the 60 mainstream press accounts -- and that these add up to x and y and you assume z – then, what’s the next step? That’s the point that’s being ignored here. You can't expect the real truth to come out by snapping your fingers.<br><br>“Physical Evidence” -- can most of the (credible) among us agree it’s at least 50% truth+50% total bullshit?<br><br>Whereas the cumulative case based on non-physical evidence, based on well-verified ‘mainstream’/international press reports, such as the work by Paul Thompson, starts out the battle as 100% truth. <br><br>‘Stand-down’ is real. Shepherding (mi-li-hop) is real. Shouldn’t we also say "100% truth" means understanding mass psychology, and the history of the "grassy knoll" consciousness?<br><br>We know for sure there was a deliberate neglect of following air defense procedure on 9/11. Despite Chip Berlet's wordsmithing, his explanation doesn't hold up around the air defense question; he has been called on this and “tried to bullshit his way through it totally Chomsky style, with the language sleights of hand”, but actually came off looking pretty disingenuous.<br> <br>We could start to reject the whole kit and caboodle, go like Amy Goodman, then you would have to get in to questioning/defending the activist value of 9/11 ‘truth’ as a whole. The “grassy knoll” consciousness is disabling for mass activism after a certain, limited point. Yes, the 'grassy knoll' is central to the case, undeniable, yet not so much the 'grassy knoll' itself but the later tangential and more speculative theories/evidence, including technical physical evidence interpretations, served to obscure and marginalize the overall truth, defuse the political potential. And I’m not even talking about modern wackery like “the driver turning around and shooting him”.<br><br>The crucial part to see is the mixture of truth with the larger dose of fakery. Poisoned well. I know it’s frustrating, but it’s uavoidable. If we should know anything about conspiracy or deep politics by now, it’s that they have set up the chess board, arranged the deck, in such a a way as to crete inevitabilities, especially at these key cruciial points, fait’a complis, conundrums, damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don’t situations. They thrive on those. Now, how to get around that is what we’re facing. Can we? Certainly some would argue truth is everything, and I would agree, but “truth” to me and you on this board and in the converts to 9/11 truth, is different than the level of truth necessary to “swing” the masses of americans, sitting in these decisive roles in a aacdemia, the arts, science, etc. <br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>We need to deal with the level they’ve created.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br> I mean if we're suddenly going to wake up after sleeping for 50 years as political people and try to play the game, don't we owe it to ourselves to understand it, and play it well? I’m not saying, sacrifice your principles, but what are your principles, anway, you know what I mean? Got to bring it full circle back to the realities that we’ve already agreed upon, don’t get lost. Stay on point. <br><br>We’ve agreed that we’re trying to convince the American people, use 9/11 ‘truth’ as a rallying point, a 'snap’ point where the 'average joe' suddenly presses ‘add’ on his subconscious mental calculautor of internalized denied suspicion about the 'government', or the 'elites'. <br><br>But how many people can actually be swayed with that approach to that crowd? Probably 25% -- 50% max. Because remember this isn’t <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>all</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> working class people, this is certain people from both classes that have deeply-held suspicions about the government already. <br><br>I mean, I guess the answer to a 9/11 'truth' poll will vary depending on the state of the economy. Or try asking about Clinton’s role, and how real 9/11 truth would taint him too, and watch how it becomes less important. So this percentage, I say no more than 50%, closer to 25%, is willling to believe certain parts of the physical evidence, base their case on “are you fucking blind!?” photo presentations, physical evidence anomolies. An appeal to that distrust, and that gets many people, but not enough in my opinion, but that's what explains their “zealousness” with which the physical evidence proponents present their views. <br><br>I mean, what’s easier to deal with as an activist? Sitting in front of a supermarket with the sexy stuff -- big photos of the physical anamolies, or try to hand them a list of cumulative facts, not as sexy, but just as (more so) damning, that they need to make up their own minds about? When they get home, I think people are more liable to believe the non-physical case (well-laid) out then the physical case 'giant red pill'. <br><br>With the physical evidence, we’ve agreed unless you embrace it all (although much of it is contradictory), you have to admit you’re starting with half a deck, that the “other” physical evidence is tainted, but your interpretation (and it may well be) is correct. But people tend to see the physical evidence case as one, so you lose there.<br><br>I watched the Nova doc, Sci Amer., NIST, etc., saw that they were so well-put together so as to convince the xx% of people necessary. That physics debate someone posted shows it well. Sure I saw areas that they ignored, glossed over, sure I saw someone could see it as a cover up, but I also saw it as well-enough put together that it would hold water with the intellectual academics scientists.<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Martin Schotz: …by understanding the overall political context and being able to reason and read between the lines of what is being said, you can understand events. <br><br>And all of this business of “we need to know secrets” and “they’re keeping secrets from us” -- I don’t think that’s the problem.<br><br>?: I notice that you spend some time talking about the review board (A.R.R.B. - Assassination Records Review Board). And certainly you make a compelling case that that effort is somewhat futile...and doomed to failure.<br><br>MS: When we saw the C.O.P.A. mission statement, what I said to Vince was “If they succeed, they’ll get everyone organized against us” (laughter) “because we’re going to be the only people that they’re not going to” -- I mean, you know, it was just so -- the idea that you’re going to organize the American people somehow around the assassination didn’t make sense to me…<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><br>40 “Ridiculous” Things to Think About 9/11<br><br>Or how to get to MIHOP in 28 steps using 100% mainstream sources<br><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>It’s ridiculous to think that….</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>1… “Al Qaeda” -- the Muslim Brotherhood -- radical fundamentalist Islamic militants -- aren’t a real, extremely well-funded Islamo-fascist <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>international paramilitary force</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, its life birthed into its skeleton from the dust-bones of feudal history by the CIA, its flesh fattened by the capitalist trans-national elites, and its arms wielded by the CIA -- a CIA determined to engage in high-profile terrorism against the US population.<br> <br>2...the CIA wasn’t the core reason for the re-birth and existence of "Al Qaeda".<br><br>3…the CIA doesn’t have a long record of using "Al Qaeda" to serve it’s needs (Afghanistan, Balkans, Africa, Chechnya, Southeast Asia, )<br><br>4…huge numbers of people throughout "the beltway", much of the Middle Eastern (Israeli, Pakistani, Egyptian, etc.) communities in the US, and the leadership of the armed forces didn’t know 9/11 was coming.<br><br>5…huge numbers of people didn’t pre-plan to take advantage of 9/11, both financially and politically.<br><br>6…the highest levels of the the government didn’t block investigations into the 9/11 hijackers<br><br>7…this blocking was due solely to financial corruption, or to serve special foreign interests <br><br>8...the highest levels of the US government didn’t know the precise date, time, and place of the attacks<br><br>9…the majority of the people working in FAA, Norad, Air Force, had to be “in on it”<br><br>10...the hijackers that boarded the 9/11 planes weren’t real Al-Qaeda suicide hijackers fully trained and willing to hijack and take command of a passenger aircraft. <br> <br>11...the weapons that were used in the hijackings weren’t planted in advance.<br><br>12...the planting of weapons aboard the aircraft could have happened without the collusion of either the flight crew, the ground crew, or airport security.<br><br>13…the state of airport security on 9/11 was such that the pre-planting of weapons could not have occurred.<br><br>14…certain forces within the government weren’t pre-positioned at the scene of the crime previous to the event<br><br>15…the US air defense system was unprepared to deal with the events of 9/11 <br><br>16…the people working in air traffic control and the FAA did not know within minutes that there were multiple hijackings.<br><br>17…the civilians working in air traffic control and the FAA did not notify the US military and air defense structure immediately.<br><br>18... that the information relayed to the US military and air defense structure by the civilian air traffic control and the FAA was not immediately disseminated to the highest levels of the US intelligence community and the military and Air Force command-and-control structure, including the White House.<br><br>19…the US intelligence community, and the military and air defence command structure, and the Secret Service weren't all monitoring FAA commmunications in real time. <br><br>20...the highest levels of the US military and air defence command structure didn’t realize the significance of the events unfolding long before the first plane hit the tower.<br><br>21...the actions ordered to be taken by the Air Force base commanders and pilots were due to uncertainty about the situation<br><br>22…by any conceivable standard was“Standard Operating Procedure” followed on 9/11.<br><br>24…the violations of Standard Operating Procedure by the US air defense system on 9/11 was due to 'confusion'<br><br>25…this doesn’t indict the highest levels of the US military and Air Force command-and-control structure including the White House <br><br>26…the highest levels of the US intelligence community and the military and Air Force command-and-control structure, including the White House, did not let the 9/11 attacks happen on purpose.<br><br>27…the 9/11 attacks could have happened as they did without the direction of the highest levels of the US intelligence community and the military and Air Force command-and-control structure, including the White House. <br><br>28…the the highest levels of the US intelligence community and the military and Air Force command-and-control structure, including the White House, did not <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>make the 9/11 attacks happen on purpose</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->.<br><br>29...there hasn’t been a sophisticated cover-up including alteration of records, spreading of disinformation, and assassinations.<br><br>30…the sophisticated cover-up hasn’t included the massive spreading of sophisticated red herrings within the “9/11 Truth” movement.<br><br>31…these red herrings aren’t found mainly within the “physical evidence” community of 'researcher-activists'.<br><br>32…the elements of the government that were pre-positioned on 9/11 didn’t take control of the crime scene and the disaster operations and ship the “best evidence” (for controlled demolition) to China.<br><br>33…. the fact that the elements of the government that were pre-positioned on 9/11 took control of the crime scene and the disaster operations, and shipped the “best evidence” to China, necessarily means that the steel would have revealed controlled demolition. <br><br>34…some of the anomolies reported to have occurred regarding the physical evidence of controlled demolition aren’t real.<br><br>35…all the anomolies reported to have occurred regarding the physical evidence of controlled demolition are real.<br><br>36…it’s inconceivable to the average person that the injection and ignition of at least xxx,000 lbs of jet fuel into the xx and xx floors of a xxx-floor high rise could not have caused the building to collapse.<br><br>37…Al Qaeda had not been publicly stating their determination to knock the towers down for years.<br><br>38…Al Qaeda had not been openly planning to fly planes into major buildings in the US for years<br><br>39…the 'physical evidence' crowd can argue in public at this stage with NIST, American Scientific, etc. and 'win' <br><br>40...the 'political consciousness-raising' value of 9/11 'Truth' is better served by repeating physical evidence anomolies and pleas-for-rejection of 'mainstream science' than repeating the established, non-disputable historical record. <br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=proldic@rigorousintuition>proldic</A> at: 11/11/05 4:11 pm<br></i>