Originally Posted by Scott Sommers
First, what do we mean by Left/Right? And what would make a 'left-wing' Truther? Do they have long hair and do drugs? Do they seem "pretty cool" (as one member of JREF described to me in PM discussion of why Truthers are left)? All of this has nothing to do with what I mean by Left/Right, nor does who they vote for. I'm not going to get into what I mean by the Right when say that 911 Truth is dominated by Right-Wing ideology. We can start a new thread somewhere else, but by then, I'm sure I'll have lost interest in this again.
Second, what do we mean by the Truth Movement or 911 Truth or 911 conspiracy? Are these the same terms? Do they refer to the same people? Everyone here knows that this 911 conspiracy-thing morphed dramatically after the President became an African-American Democrat. One aspect of this that never gets talked about here is that a whole lot of those Democrats have just disappeared from 911 Truth. James Brolin, Sean Penn, Michael Moore and a host of other Hollywood Democrats seem to have forgotten they once had very strong opinions on this matter.
The 911 conspiracy-thing used to be made up of websites and on-line petitions. It used to involve people concerned almost exclusively with a 911 conspiracy. Take a look at old post on the major 911 websites. There's none of his talk about a NWO government and no inks with an aspartame conspiracy. It was just how Bush blew up the WTC, and it's a very different thing now.
I keep reading on the JREF that 911 conspiracy is dead - or something like that. this is ridiculous. There are thousands and thousands of Americans and others who really truly accept that the US government exploded the WTC with thermite or the Death Star or with some exotic technology that only the Reptoids really control. They just don't have anything to do with the kind of 911 conspiracy-thing that JREF deals with. Those nut bars who attacked the Holocaust Museum, crashed a plane into the IRS building, and attacked the school board meeting in Florida were babbling about a 911 conspiracy. Has anyone ever seem them on 911 Lies? Of course not. They found about it on some Right Wing forum or through Facebook or just hanging out at the local Ron Paul office. The idea of this 911 conspiracy-thing does not travel through Left Wing counterculture networks anymore. It travels exclusively through Right Wing networks linking it with fluoride and the attack on home gardening.
Third, some of these so-called Left-Wing Truthers are still around. You still have the likes of Sander Hicks, Cynthia McKinney and Cindy Sheehan hanging around talking about how Bush exploded the WTC with thermite - or some other brain damaged idea. They are now all linked up with We Are Change.
Let me repeat this. There is no way for Left Wing networks to promote this 911 conspiracy-thing. Why would there be? Obama's in the White House talking about health insurance. I keep getting told there are still "old hippies" left puking up 911 crap. This may be true. But they are increasingly being forced to deal with the Right in it's various forms.
Last point. The Right and 911 conspiracy-stuff may sometimes talk like they are leftists. This is an adaptive ideology. Their are members who recognize some segment of disaffected youth is susceptible to their message. Much of their message is morphed to appear more appealing to left-oriented youth who would never accept their ideology unless they were brought in one step at a time. Some critics have called this a rebranding of the Right or of Fascism. So you get these young kids in some 911 Truth-kind-of-thing who call themselves "radicals" and say they're all for "social change", but then they're hooked up with Gary Franchie and vote Ron Paul because he "supports liberty". But just because some 911 conspiracy kid calls himself an anarchist and advocates recreational use of LSD doesn't mean there are Left-Wing Truthers out there. A lot of this is some superficial costume put on by racist, fascist isolationists so they can look appealing to lost young kids.
Originally Posted by Scott Sommers
It doesn't matter what reason drew someone into the 911TM, the groups and ideologies they end up discussing are part of are now driven by a Right-Wing agenda. If you talk with Sander Hicks, he's an old hippie-sort-of-guy. But when Hicks wants to start a political party based on something about 911 Truth (he calls it the Truth Party), he has to call on Luke Rudkowski and We Are Change to even hold an inaugural event. Cynthia McKinney may have been a member of the Democrats, but she now has to stand on a stage and tell people what a great guy Luke is and how wonderful the work WAC is doing, even though prominent members of WAC openly advocate separating the USA into zones of habitation based on 'ethnic differences' and WAC is aligned with white patriot groups.
Sure there are hippies and dope heads and all sorts of people attached to this 911-conspiracy-thing. We just had Tracy Blevins here arguing for no planes on 911, as well as free love and doobies for everyone. But she has no ability to organize or recruit members or anything except post on JREF. Her whole idea of 'evidence' and 'research' is showing off a rock she found in an abandoned building at a coffee shop somewhere. She's not part of any movement at all and has no ability to speak for anyone. Luke Rudkowski and his gang, on the other hand, have networks that reach in the world of right-wing militias and other anti-government reactionary groups.
Originally Posted by Scott Sommers
My point is that 911 conspiracy-type-stuff appears as a belief along with other Right-Wing beliefs and not with Left Wing beliefs. There would be thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of Americans involved right now in this belief system. These would be people who support gun ownership, oppose the use any language other than English in the political USA, oppose the immigration of citizens of poor nations to the USA, etc., etc., etc.
We Are Change is the only group influential enough to mount a 911 Truth demonstration. Their belief system is tied very closely with an anti-immigration, anti-welfare, isolationist position. There is no major figure promoting a 911 conspiracy who comes from the Left who is not now aligned with WAC. WAC is in turn, aligned with white patriot and neo-fascists groups in a very public and open manner. There are many people who have or still do vote Obama or Ralph Nader or whatever who believe in a 911 conspiracy. They have no organization and as much as they are part of one, that group has a Right-Wing agenda.
Let me give you an example of what I mean. A while back, there was a video of a reasonably attractive white woman standing on the side of road yelling 911 conspiracy-type-stuff at cars. Her name is Brooke Kelley, AKA the Truth Fairy. On her Facebook, she states,
have been an activist since the age of five. starting with world hunger and homelessness being my number one goal to fix. then to animal testing in middle school where i saw the pain in the eyes of the dying rabbit, and educated my peers about solutions. ...blah, blah, blah
Back in the 60s, she might have joined SDS. But now, she's hooked up with We Are Change LA whose member Bruno Bruhwiler, also a member of white patriot groups, is now awaiting trial on charges of terrorism. She boasts on Facebook that she worked with Gary Franchie, who warns people that FEMA runs death camps and how flouride is toxic. She is all tied up with the so-called liberty movement and is an avid supporter of Ron Paul. She supports the Teaparty Movement and has tried to join the American Daughters of Liberty, but they kicked her out because she's a Truther. But obviously, she thinks she shares a political agenda with these groups.
Is Brooke on the Left or on the Right? I'd say that whatever label she gives herself is no longer relevant. She works for people who support a Right-Wing agenda for the USA. These people are so far out on the Right, they think the US government openly murders people.