The trouble with Conspiracy Theorists... and they are a lot of trouble

[Ruth]

I'm wondering if 'conspiracy theorists' aren't the US administration's next biggest problem.

http://propagandamatrix.com/articles/september2006/070906terroristrecruiters.htm

White House Targets Conspiracy Theorists As Terrorist Recruiters
'Strategy for winning the war on terror' says world contaminated, corrupted by misinformation

Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | September 7 2006

A document cited by President Bush in his recent speech at the Capital Hilton Hotel on how to 'win the war on terror' cites conspiracies as one of the wellsprings of terrorism and threatens to "address" and "diminish" the problems they are causing the government in fulfilling their agenda.

On Tuesday Bush referred to the strategy paper as "an unclassified version of the strategy we've been pursuing since September the 11th, 2001," that takes into account, "the changing nature of this enemy."

The document says that terrorism springs from "subcultures of conspiracy and misinformation," and that "terrorists recruit more effectively from populations whose information about the world is contaminated by falsehoods and corrupted by conspiracy theories. The distortions keep alive grievances and filter out facts that would challenge popular prejudices and self-serving propaganda."

The terminology echoes President Bush's speech (video below) to the UN General Assembly on November 10th 2001 in which he stated, "Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th, malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists themselves, away from the guilty."

This is an outright threat to the 9/11 truth movement and is meant to have a chilling effect on freedom of speech.

It is also a callous reminder that the administration that has been the progenitor of the most heinous and deliberate campaign to mislead and lie to its own people is so transfixed by its own hubris that it has the temerity to accuse others of propagating deceptive information.

This is the same administration that deliberately included the Niger yellow cake fraud in a state of the union speech to sell a war - knowing that the information was completely bogus.

How dare they threaten us with the very defining characteristic of their black legacy and equate us with terrorists?

This is a direct assault on the alternative media and a continuation of the twilight zone rhetoric that saw the administration attempt to link its critics with Fascists and Hitler appeasers. The only fascists that should really concern us are not imaginary 'Blogofascists' or 'Islamofascists' but the Neo-Fascist slugs that occupy the White House and their cheerleading sycophants in the mainstream media and congress.

This is by no means the first time political enemies of the state have been smeared as terrorist sympathizers.

Oh, and this is what happens to well qualified people (scientists) who question the 'official' version of events. They don't get too popular. It also helps to know who you're involved with, or so it seems.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_BYU_Professor_Sept_11.html

Professor put on leave over 9-11 claim

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PROVO, Utah -- A professor who has suggested the World Trade Center was brought down by explosives has been placed on paid leave by Brigham Young University while the Mormon church-owned school investigates his claims.

Steven Jones, a physicist who has taught at BYU since 1985, is co-chairman of a group called Scholars for 9/11 Truth.

BYU is "concerned about the increasingly speculative and accusatory nature of these statements by Dr. Jones," the university said in Friday's Deseret Morning News in Salt Lake City. "BYU remains concerned that Dr. Jones' work on this topic has not been published in appropriate scientific venues."

In an e-mail to The Associated Press, Jones declined to comment Friday.

The physicist published his views two weeks ago in the book "9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out."

His work focuses on the relatively narrow question of whether molten metal present at the World Trade Center site after the attacks is evidence that a high-temperature incendiary called thermite, which can be used to weld or cut metal, was involved in the twin towers' destruction.

He concludes thermite was present, suggesting someone might have used explosives to bring down the skyscrapers.

At the University of Utah, Physics Department Chairman Pierre Sokolsky said destruction of the towers typically would be a field within the expertise of engineers.

"This is not physics," Sokolsky said. "I don't want to comment on BYU's actions. But if someone in my department was doing this, I would find it disconnected from the academic activities of the department."

 

[Art]

Why Paul Joseph Watson is not a member of pathocracy, would you say?

Theres a lot posted about Jones and PrisionPlanet you know?

Yeah shure thing, "This is by no means the first time political enemies of the state have been smeared as terrorist sympathizers." but, does that acctually applyes to him?