01.25.12
OWS and 9/11 conspiracy theories
This is an important article, but on one point I think a clarification is needed: the post notes that ‘conspiracy theories’ were banned at an OWS forum.
While I think that dealing with the Tea Party libertarians in the OWS, and their conspiracy theories, can be maddening, the issue of conspiracies, as such, should remain on the table for the left, and the OWS. The left has been completely negligent in dealing with the 9/11 research, and the attempt to close the lid on this has backfired. Why let the libertarian right take over this issue? Suppression here is dangerous, and open to the charge of deception, further damaging the credibility of leftist groups, whose job should be to bring some discipline to the question.
It is important to deprive the right of this issue by making it a leftist issue, and doing it right. It is impossible to read leftist attacks on 9/11 conspiracy literature with a straight face.
There is no going back here: denial is no longer an option, save for Washington politicians steeped in the lies that made their power. The OWS needs to find a middle way between wide theories, and the fact suppression now required to not challenge the official accounts.
Note that theories can be bypassed here, as the stance needed focuses on the minimum: the holes in the official account. The OWS doesn’t have much of a choice here: so make the 9/11 challenges a simple refusal to buy the official account, without necessarily speculating about the governments’ covert actions. It is not possible to take government claims on 9/11 seriously. And the OWS is now a global movement: they cannot seriously hope to adopt the government’s propaganda on 9/11. It is hard for the old left to get clear on this, and the OWS is likely to succumb to the same syndrome. NOT!