For whatever reason, some people who hear some of the latest conspiracy theories, but don't believe in them (people like Scott Adams), seem to have a tendency to completely misunderstand the situation and assume conspiracy theorists all believe there are no terrorists. This seems to be the most common style of rebuttal comment to youtube clips about 9/11 - "If you don't believe the terrorists exist, they've already won!"
I don't think Al Qaeda is a myth. In fact, what scares me is the notion that our government could be aiding, supplying, using, and covering for such terrorists. I've heard interviews with FBI agents who admitted to being bagmen in the financing of the first World Trade Center bombing, back in the 90's. I now suspect the CIA or the White House planned and financed 9/11. There certainly are terrorists - many of whom are in our midst.
Bush isn't lying when he says there's people in Iraq/Iran/Afganistan who hate Americans. He should know - his buddy Bin Laden makes sure that's the way it is, by lying to and manipulating those very extremists. And that's exactly what's so scary. They're being lied to about a variety of things, in order to make them hate us. We're being lied to about a variety of things, in order to make us hate them. The lies originate in the same two interconnected families, who allegedly see nothing wrong with murdering thousands to make some extra money. The end result is people really do end up expending a lot of time and energy on hating strangers that they'll likely never meet.
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It is similar to the UFO detractor conundrum. They say to you, "Where's the proof? Can you show me an alien craft?" This is a misunderstanding of the situation. An Unidentified Flying Object may be of alien, terrestrial or even extra-dimensional origin. By calling it a UFO we acknowledge that what we saw did not fit the standards for a flying object currently known to us.
By calling it a conspiracy theory we acknowledge that alternative explanations of certain events are as worthy of exploring as official explanations.
When we cease to question, we cease to think.
Wait, did you say YouTube comments? Fuck that! No good comes of reading those. The only online comments worth reading are the ones left by those weird fuckers at Repeated Expletives:
Or so I've been told.
Amen, brother.
The fundamental inaccuracies embedded in the canned UFO response the naysayers love to spew pisses me off too, as we've seen here before.
Repeated Expletives, you say? I've heard those weird fuckers are some pretty weird fuckers. But I don't visit websites like that - my religion tells it's bad, and you might get a disease from a place like that.
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