Comments on: Smashing Cars for Skepticism http://www.lies.com/wp/2010/08/30/smashing-cars-for-skepticism/ believe nothing... Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:34:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: leftbehind http://www.lies.com/wp/2010/08/30/smashing-cars-for-skepticism/#comment-208764 leftbehind Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:08:28 +0000 http://www.lies.com/?p=4425#comment-208764 People outside the hardcore stopped paying attention to the 911 Truth Movement around the time in Bush's second term that the inevitability of his departure from the White House sank in. As far as most people were concerned, their attitudes regarding 9-11 Truth reflected little outside their attitudes about George Bush, anyway. It's not terribly unfair to suggest that very few people outside an already established conspiracy community would have ever even heard of "911 Truth" had it not been for the resentment arising from the 2000 election, which left a lot of angry Democrats who had already proven themselves willing to give at least lip service to conspiracy theories - Police intimidation! Roadblocks! Hidden Ballot Boxes! - and seemed similarly willing to entertain at least the notion of a Bush plot to destroy the World Trade Center. As long as it was cathartic to do so, anyway. As soon as Obama was elected, the idea of a government conspiracy was clearly doomed to the margins because the people who benefited from, if only emotionally, no longer needed it. The current Birth Certificate controversy is the Republican manifestation of this same phenomenon. People outside the hardcore stopped paying attention to the 911 Truth Movement around the time in Bush’s second term that the inevitability of his departure from the White House sank in. As far as most people were concerned, their attitudes regarding 9-11 Truth reflected little outside their attitudes about George Bush, anyway. It’s not terribly unfair to suggest that very few people outside an already established conspiracy community would have ever even heard of “911 Truth” had it not been for the resentment arising from the 2000 election, which left a lot of angry Democrats who had already proven themselves willing to give at least lip service to conspiracy theories – Police intimidation! Roadblocks! Hidden Ballot Boxes! – and seemed similarly willing to entertain at least the notion of a Bush plot to destroy the World Trade Center. As long as it was cathartic to do so, anyway. As soon as Obama was elected, the idea of a government conspiracy was clearly doomed to the margins because the people who benefited from, if only emotionally, no longer needed it. The current Birth Certificate controversy is the Republican manifestation of this same phenomenon.

]]> By: knarlyknight http://www.lies.com/wp/2010/08/30/smashing-cars-for-skepticism/#comment-208189 knarlyknight Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:11:27 +0000 http://www.lies.com/?p=4425#comment-208189 Shortly after taking office on January 20, 2009 President Obama appointed Harvard law professor (and personal friend) Cass Sunstein to the post of administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. In June 2009 Sunstein published an essay in The Journal of Political Philosophy entitled "Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures," in which he provided an "analysis" of conspiracy theories, viewing them, as his title indicated, as "caused" by psychological conditions and requiring "cures", i.e., elimination. The article led to an outcry by civil libertarians of all political stripes, who especially singled out for protest Sunstein's call for covert "cognitive infiltration" by government agents of organizations the government deems "conspiracist". Scroll down to read the full Review of the book "Cognitive Infiltration: An Obama Appointee's Plan to Undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory" here: http://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Infiltration-Appointees-Undermine-Conspiracy/dp/1566568218 Shortly after taking office on January 20, 2009 President Obama appointed Harvard law professor (and personal friend) Cass Sunstein to the post of administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. In June 2009 Sunstein published an essay in The Journal of Political Philosophy entitled “Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures,” in which he provided an “analysis” of conspiracy theories, viewing them, as his title indicated, as “caused” by psychological conditions and requiring “cures”, i.e., elimination. The article led to an outcry by civil libertarians of all political stripes, who especially singled out for protest Sunstein’s call for covert “cognitive infiltration” by government agents of organizations the government deems “conspiracist”.

Scroll down to read the full Review of the book “Cognitive Infiltration: An Obama Appointee’s Plan to Undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory” here: http://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Infiltration-Appointees-Undermine-Conspiracy/dp/1566568218

]]> By: Smith http://www.lies.com/wp/2010/08/30/smashing-cars-for-skepticism/#comment-208096 Smith Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:20:00 +0000 http://www.lies.com/?p=4425#comment-208096 Damn, I was actually hoping that comment was going to be shcb giving his opinion on Bel Airs. I personally prefer the styling on the 1957 model over the 59. Damn, I was actually hoping that comment was going to be shcb giving his opinion on Bel Airs. I personally prefer the styling on the 1957 model over the 59.

]]> By: knarlyknight http://www.lies.com/wp/2010/08/30/smashing-cars-for-skepticism/#comment-208065 knarlyknight Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:03:59 +0000 http://www.lies.com/?p=4425#comment-208065 Nothing surprising here, now move along folks. <i>Except</i> that jbc seems to be confusing the hoi polloi noises in the comment threads with critical thinkers and qualified conspiracy investigators like shcb's global warming skeptics. ;-) <i>And except </i>that, if one were to apply the same laws of physics that we're told applied to the three WTC towers, then the two vehicles should not have slowed upon impact but should have continued to smash through each other until there was virtually nothing left. One hundred floors scrunched flatter than a stack of pancakes by gravity alone, that's the new physics folks so obviously the car video is a fake. Nothing surprising here, now move along folks.

Except that jbc seems to be confusing the hoi polloi noises in the comment threads with critical thinkers and qualified conspiracy investigators like shcb’s global warming skeptics. ;-)

And except that, if one were to apply the same laws of physics that we’re told applied to the three WTC towers, then the two vehicles should not have slowed upon impact but should have continued to smash through each other until there was virtually nothing left. One hundred floors scrunched flatter than a stack of pancakes by gravity alone, that’s the new physics folks so obviously the car video is a fake.

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