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May 02, 2007
The "Truthers" Take a Hit
When your worldview can be shaken by the collapse of a highway overpass, it might be time to re-examine your assumptions.
One of the major claims made by 9/11 "Truthers" is that a fire caused by burning jet fuel would not be sufficient to melt steel, therefore it was not hijacked planes that brought down the towers of the World Trade Center, but explosives.
This claim has been debunked by people who actually know something about structural engineering, fire and steel, but that doesn't stop film school reject Dylan Avery from spouting nonsense about the conspiracy cooked up by the government.
I linked to this essay by Bill Whittle a couple of weeks ago, but encourage you to read it if you haven't.
"This is the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel," she said. This is a statement of such pristine and perfect idiocy that it surely must be emblazoned in stone across the entrance to the Physics Imbecile wing of the Moron Museum of Natural History. But mastery of physics and engineering requires some intelligence, some perseverance and some discipline: none of which are in evidence in this buffoon. Everything is a conspiracy to a mind this far gone. The 15 British sailors kidnapped at sea? All a plan by our evil (but incompetent!) government to get the next war it so desperately needs. "Gulf of Tonkin! Google It, people!" she said on national TV. And I will, Rosie. I promise. As soon as I finish googling MAD COW DISEASE.Whittle nails it here. The 9/11 Truth movement is based in hate, with a healthy dose of pure ignorance. Imagine the blind hatred it would take to believe the moronic narrative Dylan Avery and his simpering band of fanboys are trying to pass off as truth. Imagine holding tightly to a worldview that can be undone by the crash of a tanker trailer.I will make the point yet again because I believe it is the crux of the issue: what kind of moral universe do you have to inhabit to be able to believe that your own people -- airline personnel, demolition experts, police and security forces, faked witnesses and all the rest -- are capable of such a thing? How much hate for your own society do you have to carry in order to live in such a desolate and ridiculous mental hell? What psychoses must a mind be riddled with in order to negate what was perfectly obvious and instead believe a theory of such monumental fantasy? How much pure constant hatred does that take? What, in short, is the miserable black hole of self-loathing that drives a person like Rosie O'Donnell and millions like her?
The freeway overpass in California collapsed because fire weakened steel. Watching the Truthers try to explain this away is humorous, but also pathetic. Dylan Avery is on the third edit of his "documentary" as he tries to combat scientific truth with arrows and spooky music. I wonder if the accident in California will lead to a fourth.
Posted by slublog at May 2, 2007 11:10 PM
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