I'm regularly accused — mostly by the local trolls hereabouts — of having crazy beliefs about the events of September 11, 2001.But even if those accusations are correct, I think I have a perfectly sound exuse for this insanity. The events of September 11, 2001 were traumatic. They have left a deep psychological impact on all who experienced them, myself included, even though as with most people, for me the initial experience was conveyed by mass media.
One way of dealing with traumatic experiences is to keep talking about them, as the Canadian journalist Barrie Zwicker mentions in his 2006 documentary Towers of Deception, based on his book of the same name. Our beloved Hitchens invokes the spectre of 9/11 frequently in defense of his support for "The War on Terror," and even when he doesn't mention it specifically, it is never far from the surface. Hitch is ostensibly an 9/11 official story believer and a 9/11 inside job denier, so we are very much in different churches on this issue. And indeed, Hitch's 9/11 stance deserves a post or two of its own because it essentially comprises a faith-based, evidence-free philosophy of taking on trust the explanations handed down in the gospels according to the Bushies, the official agencies, and the mainstream media—or in short, embracing the Establishment orthodoxy. Today, however, as there are only about 70 shilling days left until 9/11/08 and the BBC is already getting their stall out, I'm going to do something a bit more fun by posting a series of four short videos by Zwicker, himself a 9/11 heretic, for your consideration.
In Part 1, Zwicker talks about how the left is generally marginalized, ignored and ridiculed in the "mishapened" US mainstream media. "Nevertheless, a lot of decent people who aren't particularly political intuit that people on the left are more authentic than the establishment is" and the left functions as a conscience of society. Yet it is hard for the left to be effective in society because the twin pillars of effectiveness in society are persuasiveness and repetitiveness. You need them together, says Zwicker, and this is something the left never gets in the US. Hence, it is important that what modest exposure the left gets should at least be authentic.
In Part 2, Zwicker examines why this authenticity is often questionable. "The left is far more infiltrated by actual paid agents of the FBI, the CIA and the like than most of us on the left are willing to think about seriously," he states. And he thinks that much more attention should be paid to these shenanigans. He also talks about the tremendous number of lies propagated by the MSM and how they are interconnected lies, and he touches on the need to make efforts to expose those nasty false flag operations, which are a common tactic of the in the media manipulators' playbook. "We have a right - now - an intellectual right, to disbelieve the official story about any terrorist ourtrage, to begin with," he says, with somewhat awkward syntax.
Part 3 covers Zwicker's attempt to expose Noam Chomsky as a left gatekeeper, and how as a former fan, the scales finally fell from his eyes. This is the bit that I expect many Hitchwatchers will be most interested in. Discussing Chomsky's reply to a logical and brief question about 9/11, he says: "I was aleady well aware of the intellectual bankruptcy of this put-down phrase 'conspiracy theory,' and I could hardly believe that he was using it."
Part 4 is a memo to the 9/11 truth movement. He warns that "we shouldn't approach 9/11 just forensically" because, "even as much of a smoking gun as Building 7 is, for people who have a whole mindset and a field of prejudgement that won't accept that—they won't accept it. And they'll just say, 'well that may be true, but I won't accept it.' And that's the last word." Apart from that, he gets into a fascinating discussion of the psychology of denial and coercion. Of course, some of you may not want to go there, but as Zwicker explains, there's a good psychlogical reason for that too.
“The enemies of intolerance cannot be tolerant." • "If it is an offense to justice to hold people who may have been victims of mistaken identity or of vendettas by other factions, then it is also an offense to justice to release psychopathic killers who believe that they have divine permission to throw acid in the faces of girls who want to attend school." • "Don't be such a lesbian!
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