"Truthers", 9/11 and Operation Northwoods

[JU_88]

Originally Posted by mapuc

The thought has crossed my mind. Ire there some members here that are doing just that?

I know that it is not sweet to think such a thing. But wherever I go in cyberspace and where there is a discussion about 9/11 those who believe in various conspiracy theories are being, completely belittled or mocked So when I read your answer it came to me that I had read something similar somewhere else. Personally I support the NIST report. However, I respect that others do not support this report and may have an alternative theory. These others do not have to be some some crazy people, it may be a construction engineer, with years of experience

Markus

Sure it might happen, but I'd like to think Government agencies have better things to do
Seems more likley to me that author is driving a the concept of a conspiricy theory on people who are anti-conspiricy theory , some conspiricy theroists tend to over-estimate their importance, 'oh the establishment will want me dead' when the far more likey scenario is 'the establishment' doesnt care - or else they would already be dead.

My 2 cents?
Conspiricy Skeptics should be careful not to be naive enough to believe that people who lead civilised nations would NEVER deceive their own people or abuse their power to commit unspeakable acts to fulfill an agenda. History says that from time to time - they do.
The fact that most people are so quick and willing to reject these notions of conspiricy as 'wing nut paranoia', is somewhat dangerouse too, it would in fact work very well in favor of someone in power who really did want to carry out an act of mass deception.
If we refuse to entertain the possibility of conspiricy outright, then by default we are pretty much giving some one ample opportunity to actually pull one off.

Conspiricy belivers need to be careful they themselves dont fall into the trap of 'selective skeptisim' whereby anything in the mainstream media must be lies, and anything from some random guys, cousins, friends, brother - who worked for the CIA must be 100% credible.
The general ettiquette of the conspiricy theorist is supposed to be one of 'question everything' that is fine, in fact thats pretty healthy on some level.
But then that surely means you should question conspiricy therories as well as official scources, right?
If not, isnt that double standards?
Alot of these people do tend to get sucked into downward spiral of delusion and paranoia, until as they become a mirror image of the 'ignorant and brainwashed sheeple' that they despise so much. (the elitist types are the worst!)
They would also do well to remember that governments are notoriously bad at keeping secrets, governments are run by people, people talk ...and leave laptops on trains.