Over the years, I have spent many hours reading or watching programs about 9/11: from the sad, official news accounts to alternative explainations of what happened, soties that ask hard questions as to how such a disaster could have unfolded. Articles, websites, and films that ponder the oddities, peculiarities, and downright suspicious events that just don’t jibe with official explanations.
A growing “9/11 truth movement” is gathering converts at a furious clip, even filling convention centers with people from all walks of American life who can no longer accept the dubious “official narrative” told by the U.S. corporate media in the immediate aftermath of the made-for-TV slaughter of innocents.
If you don’t buy the ‘company line’ on 9/11, prepare to be instantly branded a ‘conspiracy theorist’ or any of a slew of other equally degrading and/or marginalizing labels. Few who spew those labels are willing, however, to argue their position on facts or evidence. Like so many things in the world of politics and ideology, questioning ‘reality’ is not allowed.
Despite my misgivings, I held my doubt close to my vest, privately wondering what ‘really’ happened that awful day, yet not wanting to be seen as a left wing conspiricist.
It turns out, I’m not alone. According to a new poll, nearly half of all Americans do not buy the official line, and even think that is possible that some in government may have hid or misled the public as to their knowledge of the attacks.
Will we, one day, learn the real truth behind the tragedies of 9/11? I suppose it is possible, although I doubt it. What is possibly more important is that those of us who do not, in one way or another, buy the official 9/11 story hook-line-and-sinker, are no longer marginalized as tinfoil-hat-wearing looney tunes. This country needs to allow for reasoned dissent, even in the face of islamofascist terrorism. Otherwise, the attacks of 9/11/2001 really did destroy much more than the World Trade Center.
