Good News and Paranoia about September 11
by Bob Clasen
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The biggest surprise to me, five years after the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center by militant Moslems is that no further attack has successfully occurred in our country since. Credit has to be given to the many agencies that have responsibility for uncovering criminal conspiracies and thwarting them before they occur.
Because good news is no news in our peculiar culture, this fact is easy to ignore. In fact, it is rarely mentioned in the news. Or perhaps it is superstition. I myself "knock on wood" when I think such thoughts.
Another surprising fact, at least to me, is that a substantial percentage of Americans (36%) distrust their own government so much that they prefer to believe that the 9/11 attack was some kind of government conspiracy by Bush and Cheney than a real attack by foreign born terrorists. http://www.scrippsnews.com/911poll
This leads me to believe that part of the problem with the “war” on terrorism is that a substantial percentage of Americans do not believe we were attacked. I heard one of the spokesman being interviewed yesterday on television and the fact that a video has come out showing Bin Laden working with the hijackers was not enough to dissuade him from his paranoid fears that it was the U.S. government that was behind the World Trade Center attacks, planting explosives in the building to bring it down.
All of the attacks that have occurred outside our country, such as in Bali, London and Spain over the past several years are also conveniently ignored. Or perhaps these were also attacks by Bush and his evil conspirators?
Of what use are facts and logic when dealing with people with this kind of mindset?
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The biggest surprise to me, five years after the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center by militant Moslems is that no further attack has successfully occurred in our country since. Credit has to be given to the many agencies that have responsibility for uncovering criminal conspiracies and thwarting them before they occur.
Because good news is no news in our peculiar culture, this fact is easy to ignore. In fact, it is rarely mentioned in the news. Or perhaps it is superstition. I myself "knock on wood" when I think such thoughts.
Another surprising fact, at least to me, is that a substantial percentage of Americans (36%) distrust their own government so much that they prefer to believe that the 9/11 attack was some kind of government conspiracy by Bush and Cheney than a real attack by foreign born terrorists. http://www.scrippsnews.com/911poll
This leads me to believe that part of the problem with the “war” on terrorism is that a substantial percentage of Americans do not believe we were attacked. I heard one of the spokesman being interviewed yesterday on television and the fact that a video has come out showing Bin Laden working with the hijackers was not enough to dissuade him from his paranoid fears that it was the U.S. government that was behind the World Trade Center attacks, planting explosives in the building to bring it down.
All of the attacks that have occurred outside our country, such as in Bali, London and Spain over the past several years are also conveniently ignored. Or perhaps these were also attacks by Bush and his evil conspirators?
Of what use are facts and logic when dealing with people with this kind of mindset?
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