February 10, 2007
PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF WASHINGTON:
An explosion of disbelief - fresh doubts over 9/11 (SUE REID, 9th February 2007, Daily Mail)
oday, more than five years on, this accepted version of what happened on 9/11 is being challenged by a 90-minute internet movie made for £1,500 on a cheap laptop by three young American men. The film is so popular that up to 100 million viewers have watched what is being dubbed the first internet blockbuster.The movie was shown on television to 50 million people in 12 countries on the fifth anniversary of 9/11 last autumn. More than 100,000 DVDs have been sold and another 50,000 have been given away. In Britain, 491,000 people have clicked on to Google Video to watch it on their computers.
Called Loose Change, the film is a blitz of statistics, photographs pinched from the web, eyewitness accounts and expert testimony, all set to hip-hop music. And it is dramatically changing the way people think about 9/11.
A recent poll by the respected New York Times revealed that three out of four Americans now suspect the U.S. government of not telling the truth about 9/11. This proportion has shot up from a year ago, when half the population said they did not believe the official story of an Al Qaeda attack.
The video claims the Bush administration was, at the very least, criminally negligent in allowing the terrorist attacks to take place. It also makes the startling claim that the U.S. government might have been directly responsible for 9/11 and is now orchestrating a cover-up.
Unsurprisingly, the film's allegations have been denied, even roundly condemned, by White House sources and U.S. intelligence services.
Only this week, the letters page of the Guardian newspaper was full of discourse about Loose Change, which was made by a trio of twentysomethings, including a failed film school student and a disillusioned ex-soldier.
Indeed, the movie's assertions are being explored by a number of commentators in America and Britain - including the former Labour Cabinet Minister Michael Meacher - who are questioning the official account of 9/11.
Mr Meacher, who last year proposed holding a screening of Loose Change at the House of Commons (he later changed his mind), has said of 9/11: "Never in modern history has an event of such cataclysmic significance been shrouded in such mystery. Some of the key facts remain unexplained on any plausible basis."
Popular Mechanics, hardly a propaganda rag, has done a good job of knocking down all the conspiracy theories. What's interesting about their persistence is not just the way their hatred of America replicates classic anti-Semitism but that, as in the case of the JFK assassination, folks just can't accept the ability of a few deranged losers to impact history. Maybe it's just too scary for them. Posted by Orrin Judd at February 10, 2007 8:34 AM
"A recent poll by the respected New York Times..."
Miss Ried evidently doesn't live in the USA.
Posted by: John J. Coupal at February 10, 2007 9:18 AMJohn J: you took the words right out of my copy/paste...
Posted by: Bartman at February 10, 2007 9:45 AM"The poor you will always have with you" Matthew 26:11 ...
Old Matt may have been wrong, we can most likely eliminate poverty, but self-loathing moonbats will stick with us through heaven, hell and purgatory. Perhaps not even the good Lord can get through to them.
just can't accept the ability of a few deranged losers to impact history.
Usually the same people who can't accept this are the same people who accept the Darwinist/socialist dogma that individuals don't matter and that what happens is blind, random chance. Not only that, but in their theology, individual actions motivated only by evil, and evil must be personified while never actually seen. Conspiracy theories are just ways for the primitive and superstitious to reaffirm those beliefs in the face of contrary evidence.
First I've heard of it. Anyone here actually viewed the video? Glad the Times didn't poll me.
Posted by: Genecis at February 10, 2007 11:28 AMThe people who really believe this stuff probably think life is best (most exciting) when it is like a comic book. Except in this case, Iron Man or Thor didn't deflect the planes. So, they fall back on insanity.
Of course they are afraid - they could have been killed that day (or so they reason). And by some jokers from Saudi Arabia and Egypt who were out drinking the night before. It doesn't compute, so the comic book alternative history line takes over.
But, back here on earth, it takes effort to understand why 9/11 occurred, and it takes some type of moral courage to steer between outright surrender and mindless revenge. Comic books are easier.
Posted by: jim hamlen at February 10, 2007 12:46 PMGen, you don't a chance to respond.
We get a lot of poll taker calls for some reason and as soon as you start to say something not on their play cards, they politely say, thank you, and hang up.
For instance, if you answer anything but a, b, c, or d, to the question below, the next sound you hear is the dial tune.
Q. Which of the following best describes George Bush? a. the Great Imperialist Satan; b. the embodiment of evil; c. the genocidal killer of oppressed people all over the globe; c. the instrument of greedy, life-sucking corporations.
What disturbs me the most is that so many people are so easily misled by such an obvious propoganda film - what hope is there for democracy when a large part of the population is objectively insane?
Posted by: jd watson at February 10, 2007 2:38 PMjd: And they breed.
Posted by: Bartman at February 10, 2007 5:18 PM...some of them anyway.
Posted by: Bartman at February 10, 2007 5:19 PM