Government Screw-Ups versus Government Conspiracies
One common argument that people make against the idea that the US government engineered 9/11 is that the US government could never be organized enough to plan such a conspiracy, and if they DID plan and run the attacks, how could they have kept all the people involved quiet?
This is the great utility of this argument.
The idea basically is that the events of 9/11 were part of a highjacking drill/military exercise that went horribly wrong.
How exactly they went wrong is not clear, but what is clear is that this exercise occurred on 9/11.
The concept that a military exercise went wrong is probably much more likely for people to get their minds around than larger more pro-active conspiracies. To wit: the government didn't plan 9/11, they merely screwed up and allowed "bad people" to take tragic advantage of the military operation. (I will leave "bad people" undefined for now.)
The fact that the government apparently made a bad mistake in the highjacking exercise will be digestible to people who can't see the government planning and carrying out such an enterprise. And the military sure as hell aren't going to admit they screwed up so badly, so this solves the problem of cover-up.
This is why the concept of 9/11 being a "military highjacking exercise gone wrong" may be a very useful foothold for introducing the idea of government complicity in 9/11 to the general public.
Moreover, this "meme" has the virtue of being based on the truth AND being able to explain many if not all of the anomalies of 9/11.
This is the great utility of this argument.
The idea basically is that the events of 9/11 were part of a highjacking drill/military exercise that went horribly wrong.
How exactly they went wrong is not clear, but what is clear is that this exercise occurred on 9/11.
The concept that a military exercise went wrong is probably much more likely for people to get their minds around than larger more pro-active conspiracies. To wit: the government didn't plan 9/11, they merely screwed up and allowed "bad people" to take tragic advantage of the military operation. (I will leave "bad people" undefined for now.)
The fact that the government apparently made a bad mistake in the highjacking exercise will be digestible to people who can't see the government planning and carrying out such an enterprise. And the military sure as hell aren't going to admit they screwed up so badly, so this solves the problem of cover-up.
This is why the concept of 9/11 being a "military highjacking exercise gone wrong" may be a very useful foothold for introducing the idea of government complicity in 9/11 to the general public.
Moreover, this "meme" has the virtue of being based on the truth AND being able to explain many if not all of the anomalies of 9/11.
posted by spooked at 9:32 AM
1 Comments:
wow-- great quote, ductape.
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