MacCruiskeen wrote:DoYouEverWonder wrote:The complete failure of 3 structural steel buildings on the same day is not important? Of course not.
I never said that, nor anything like it, so please spare me your straw man and then spare me your eye-rolling smiley.
I can understand the desire of communists to keep 9/11 out of the agenda as the result of a few things.
First off, the Troof Faktor. You need only look to the mess of recent commentary about Alex Jones to see that 9/11 Truth is easily manipulated by any demagogue and much easier to
bend to the will of any far-right John Bircher mouth-breating petty-bourgie-morality retardofascist nutjobbery. Peter Dale Scott, e.g., is the only person I'm aware of as having successfully presented a politicized 9/11 left-wing reading--that the abuses of the intelligence community, its flawed approach, and an active program of on the one hand recruiting the populist far right for the purposes of the capitalist class while on the other relentless pursuing regressive policies, all of which lead to an incredibly anti-democratic mode of operation by de facto agents of government that is largely responsible for the spread of both Islamism and the far right--But see what I mean? Do you know how long it would take to unpack that sentence, when all it really says is to offer the command "tax the rich and cut military spending?" There's much less tortuous routes.
9/11 is an effect, not a cause, and the cause is so easy to identify and so pernicious that 9/11 seems like a footnote in the larger context.***
Second, generally speaking, even if every conspiracy theory were actively proven immediately--it's not actionable. It's all historical points, and it's over-specific in nature. Okay, the mob and the far right paid LHO, known triple agent, to hang out in the book depository next to a planted rifle that didn't match the shooting while someone else fired on him (my theory).
So what? "Anti-communist liberal killed by anti-communist conservative cabal" is hardly news to me, especially considering that "that rat"
Nixon's policies are now all to the left of Obama's. That view informs my understanding of the greater phenomenon--the rise of the far anti-democratic, militaristic right as a prominent part of the elite, in opposition to liberal anti-communists who advocated trade rather than military containment, and whom Reagan and Thatcher largely brought back into the fold (see Obama). But you know what my problem is? Their shit is still bourgeious shit, regardless of whether they contributed to B-roc of Johnny-Where's My-NovaMcCain. On one level it matters, on another, it doesn't. 9/11 Truth is simply a non-issue.
On the ground, the present-day manifestation of all this is
CIA recruiting at college campuses during the steepest recession in a First-World lifetime. And all the 9/11 Exposed!!!! in the world won't matter for shit in that regard, save to dissuade the already-dissuaded. I will grant Alex Jones a small, small modicum of credit for inadvertently cultivating a certain pacifism among people who would otherwise be in basic training, but I imagine that if he had his way, Texas Hitler would have rolled out the Loyalty Oaths on those people.
At the same time, I also simply do not understand why the basic issue with 9/11--the lies--is so easily overlooked by so many. It may fit into that retardoconservative "gubbmint liez!" rubric, but it does seem like a certain acute violation of basic social covenants that is
odious in its own right.
And on edit, it's seeing the buildings collapse in their locations, e.g., with images of the Battery Park apartments getting showered in debris, that makes all those images seem so much more worse than any Kontrulled Demolishun porn. See? I have feelings.
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9/11 Changed Everything
Believe it or not, I have comparatively little to say about 9/11. But what I have to say I’m going to take the opportunity to say.
There is no point in getting bogged down in Byzantine theories about what happened on 9/11. Simply put, short of a political and social revolution we will never know. There is literally no way to tease out information from disinformation without having access to the full archives of the American intelligence community. But really, what actually happened isn’t the point. At least not yet.
The point is that we, as a nation, were lied to, either by omission or commission. I would like to remind everyone that most of the official narrative of 9/11 comes from Condi Rice, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and George W. Bush. The “cave dwellers with box cutters” theory was eaten early on by the corporate media, and no meaningful, independent investigation occurred or would be allowed to occur.
And what were the results of this intense propaganda campaign which provided no evidence for its claims? The deaths of thousands of Americans, nearly a million Iraqis, scads of Afghani peoples, and increasing numbers of Pakistanis. Oh, and let’s not forget trillions of dollars in the pockets of war profiteers and mercenary armies.
It seems worth pointing out that the current administration accepts the claims of the Bush Administration on 9/11 without question. Just like like they accept the “right” of the United States to intervene militarily wherever it deems fit without question.
So on this 9/11, I would encourage everyone to reflect about the various and sundry American military adventures since World War II. And while I think that something far more nefarious than the official story of 9/11 went down that day, I urge all people to keep the discussion on the important and substantive issues: mass media manipulation, the military-industrial complex, and the right-wing march of American politics. Stick to what you know. Because it may have been lasers on the moon that brought down the buildings, but until we have all the information… we’ll never really know anything.
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