I, too, would urge you to correct the mistake, as I was first puzzled, and then shocked, by it.
As to the conspiracists, what I find most troubling is that they have raised questions that have not been answered. For example, why were both the members of Osama bin Laden's family and the close to 70 Israeli spies arrested in the wake of the attacks quietly gotten out of the country? How was it possible that a passport was found in the rubble when the black boxes from the planes - *all* the planes, mind you! - were never found? Why was a group of Israelis celebrating and filming the twin towers as they fell? Why was the scrap metal from the fallen buildings melted down so quickly, rather than being analyzed to determine what actually stressed it so much? And, most of all, who benefited from these attacks? Not most of us Americans, definitely; not most Israelis; and, most definitely, not most Arabs and Muslims. The overwhelming majority of the people everywhere were shocked by these attacks, but there *were* a few small groups who benefited. Why is it crazy to want to look at such people more closely?
It's also true, unfortunately, that our present government is the most corrupt and power-hungry we have had in years. I do not choose to blindly trust what that government tells me, nor to think what it tells me to think. I do not believe that makes me crazy or foolish, either. Of course, you may disagree.
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Date: 2006-12-15 03:22 am (UTC)As to the conspiracists, what I find most troubling is that they have raised questions that have not been answered. For example, why were both the members of Osama bin Laden's family and the close to 70 Israeli spies arrested in the wake of the attacks quietly gotten out of the country? How was it possible that a passport was found in the rubble when the black boxes from the planes - *all* the planes, mind you! - were never found? Why was a group of Israelis celebrating and filming the twin towers as they fell? Why was the scrap metal from the fallen buildings melted down so quickly, rather than being analyzed to determine what actually stressed it so much? And, most of all, who benefited from these attacks? Not most of us Americans, definitely; not most Israelis; and, most definitely, not most Arabs and Muslims. The overwhelming majority of the people everywhere were shocked by these attacks, but there *were* a few small groups who benefited. Why is it crazy to want to look at such people more closely?
It's also true, unfortunately, that our present government is the most corrupt and power-hungry we have had in years. I do not choose to blindly trust what that government tells me, nor to think what it tells me to think. I do not believe that makes me crazy or foolish, either. Of course, you may disagree.