OK, so you are saying that Governments are capable of killing their own citizens but never actually do it? I do accuse you of intellectual dishonesty.
No, I'm saying you are attempting some sort of half-witted and disingenuous perversion of the Socratic method. For example (emphasis
mine, putting words in the mouths of others, all
yours):
I guess the main difference between us is that I think governments are capable of killing their own citizens and you don't. Thoughts?
So you, and they other people that admit that governments do kill their own people, must not think there is anything inherently preposterous about thinking the US gov't could have done this on 9/11 right? You just don't think the evidence supports it?
This isn't some pedantic nitpick (though I'm fully "capable" of those, too); I am "capable" of performing CPR. Using your tortured logic that means I must have performed CPR at some point in my life. Having said that,
even if we had all agreed that "governments kill their own people", the leap from there to believing that the government was responsible for the 9/11 attacks is absurd. If
you have a reasonable theory that
isn't "inherently preposterous", you have my full attention. So far all you've done is embarrass yourself with your questionable photo analysis skills.
John do you really not get what I was saying?
Would that it were true...
Again John, do you really not understand what I was saying?
Again...
You're talking about Al-Qaeda now right? Sounds like it.
Assuming that everyone else has as two dimensional a view of the world as you do...talk about projection. Al Qaeda is responsible for many crimes, 9/11 being one of them and the one most relevant to the discussion. The US government is responsible for many crimes. The German government is responsible for many crimes. The Japanese government is responsible for many crimes. The Turkish government is responsible for many crimes. The Russian government is responsible for many crimes. The Mafia is responsible for many crimes. The IRA is responsible for many crimes. The Ku Klux Klan is responsible for many crimes...did they
all (and the 7,000 others I didn't list) have a hand in the 9/11 attacks?
I think you missed my point, bless.
Yeah that's right...it's all one organization: Al-Qaeda. Man if only we could get Bin Laden...evil would be vanquisehd and the Good guys would win....that's the Americans.
Nope, didn't say that. I'm probably going out on a limb here, but I'm guessing that you won't find anyone here who has ever expressed that sentiment. There's plenty of evil in the world. Neither the US government nor Al-Qaeda hold have a monopoly on it.
No John, I'm with you! Al-Qaeda did it...throw some burgers on the grill and crack open a cold one...the games starting soon.
Boy, are you barking up the wrong tree if you think I'm the "beer, burgers and ball game" type. That's alright, though. I've grown accustomed to you spouting off about things you know nothing about and just generally getting things wrong.
No controversy here at all. Al-Qaeda did it. One supremely evil organization with a worldwide network of sleeper cells...dead or alive...we're gonna smoke 'em out of their caves. God damn I love being a cowboy...a real American...one of the good guys...know what I mean? Sure is satisfyin' ain't it?
Oh, brother. I'm betting even Bush would roll his eyes at that hyperbole/straw man/reductio ad absurdum.
Your faith that they are good reminds me of the same.
Show me where I said I had faith that "they" are good? You can't. Putting words in people's mouths again? I generally have a low opinion of most politicians and an even lower opinion of big business. Good God, man are you ever right about anything???
Surely you jest when what the Bush administration sold day in and day out was that we are the good guys and that we are going to get, and I quote, "the Evildoers." John your analysis is just so lame and weak I'm a little embarassed for you.
Bush was and remains an ineducable idiot who exploited the 9/11 attacks to further his own agenda. People of good will can also argue that he and his administration could have done a better job of analyzing and acting on data that could have lead to the attacks being foiled. That doesn't mean he was in any way responsible for the attacks. Your embarrassment is based on some bizarro-world version of my post that exists only in your imagination.
Psychobabble nonsense that you didn't even bother to analyze enough to realize that it applies more to you than Truthers. You want to hear some psychobabble? You are PROJECTING. Now go enlist so you can help smoke the evildoers out of their caves John Wayne...or is it Dr. John Wayne?
If I promise in advance to be hurt and humiliated will you explain the "
Dr. John Wayne" thing? I don't doubt for a second that that is a clever putdown, and maybe it's the lateness of the hour but I just don't get it.
I'm going to ask you a few questions that I've asked four or five people (here and elsewhere) who believe that the US Government had some hand in the 9/11 attacks. To date all I've gotten in response are what basically amount to blank stares. If you attempt an honest, intelligent, objective answer to these questions, my respect for you will increase a thousandfold:
1. If the US Government really is as evil as you (and many others) believe, wouldn't you expect there to occasionally be "blowback" in the form of what are generally termed "terrorist" attacks?
2. Are
all attacks (large and small) against the government "false flags"? If not, how can
you tell the difference?
3. If all attacks are "false flags", why is it that no individuals and/or organizations ever attempt these sorts of violent protests/reprisals? Is it because anyone and everyone who has a problem with the government are pacifists? Or do they not attack because the government is too omnipotent/omniscient to allow for a successful attack and these factions therefore realize the futility of such an action?