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Neural Gourmet Archives | Feed Your BrainApparently 2,149 people as of the time I type this are petititioning the BBC to come clean on its' role in the coverup of 9/11 (although I'm willing to bet the last signature by Ima Loon was created by one of our Disinformation Specialists). The utter futility of this act and the resultant inaction by the BBC will of course be interpreted to be more evidence of the conspiracy and the Beeb's role in 9/11. After all, if the Beeb were really on our side they'd be reporting how they knew about WTC7 collapsing before it actually collapsed, how the Queen had Diana killed and the large number of unsolved murders at the time Bill Clinton was attending Oxford.
For all I know, Richard Porter could be the total heartless evil bastard the conspiracists make him out to be yet I've got to feel for him as the conspiroids swarm:
So Mr. Richard Porter of the BBC wants the whole 'BBC Reported Building 7 Collapse 20 Minutes Before It Fell' scandal (and believe me, it IS a scandal even if you don't see it on the evening news) to just go away. The BBC is under the impression that knocking down a couple of straw-men and proclaiming 'nothing to see here folks' is going make us all just forget the monumental 'cock up' which is the BBCs attempt at damage control. The BBC is also under the impression that it is only a few 'lone nuts' out there hammering the YouTube and Google Video counts and that this story is going to lose all it's steam by next week. ...
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I have to wonder how many of the signatures are sockpuppets though? Conspiracists seem to have no qualms with the neocon concept of the noble lie, as long as it's their noble lie and not someone else's. So I wouldn't put it past many conspiracists to sign twice, thrice or more.
Either way, the utter futility of this gesture is almost painful to watch.
Funny because it represents such a sprawling, monstrous waste of time and effort on the part of the Truthers. It has been a distraction, even, from their usual sterile fields. It's like a microcosm of the whole insane Truth movement - a castle of air built on the tiniest inconsistency.
It becomes especially funny if you consider that the BBC/WTC7 meme actually makes the whole Truther story less credible as a whole - it means they have been very wrong to caim that the collapse of WTC7 was unexpected, and it adds scores more people - foreign journalists at that, always good to rely on in a conspiracy - to their cast of thousands.
So I urge them to expend as much effort as possible "investigating" and "exposing" this nonsensical non-story.
They're a self-marginalizing faction. I do worry about the fallout of anti-semitic and other hate speech originating with and propagated by the truthers but there's always going to be a (thankfully) small nutcase contingent to deal with. While a large percentage of the American public might believe in some form of undistinguished complicity of the Bush administration in the events of 9/11 (including those who believe arrogance, incompetence and croneyism led to criminal negligence; i.e. my position) when their leaders sport Nazi swastika screensavers or that there's no way a commercial passenger jet couldn't have possibly navigated to hit the towers on the first attempt (see the comments about John Lear at my link) then it becomes painfully obvious that 9/11 denialists are essentially bigoted, hate filled, loons.
On edit: Holy run-on sentences Batman! Sorry for the badly constructed grammar above. Obviously I need more caffeine.
