9/11 Truth Movement

Of course, CNN referrs to "conspiracy theorists" which reveals their bias right away. But the fact that the following story has been picked up by CNN at all is acknowledging a certain degree of credibility. The article is entitled "9/11 conspiracy theorists energized" and here's how it gets started:

(AP) -- Kevin Barrett believes the U.S. government might have destroyed the World Trade Center. Steven Jones is researching what he calls evidence that the twin towers were brought down by explosives detonated inside them, not by hijacked airliners.

These men aren't uneducated junk scientists: Barrett will teach a class on Islam at the University of Wisconsin this fall, over the protests of more than 60 state legislators. Jones is a tenured physicist at Brigham Young University whose mainstream academic job has made him a hero to conspiracy theorists.

Five years after the terrorist attacks, a community that believes widely discredited ideas about what happened on September 11, 2001, persists and even thrives. Members trade their ideas on the Internet and in self-published papers and in books. About 500 of them attended a recent conference in Chicago, Illinois.

The movement claims to be drawing fresh energy and credibility from a recently formed group called Scholars for 9/11 Truth.
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[S]ome [have] degrees from elite universities such as Princeton and Stanford and jobs at schools including Rice, Indiana and the University of Texas.

"Things are happening," said co-founder James Fetzer, a retired philosophy professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, who maintains, among other claims, that some of the hijackers are still alive. "We're going to continue to do this. Our role is to establish what really happened on 9/11."

I know there are a lot of crackpot theories out there and I certainly don't subscribe to some of that silliness. But I've never had confidence in the official story. The fact that our skies were not defended has disturbed me since day one. Yes, I know a simulation exercise was going on that day for exactly the kind of scenario that in fact was really happening. But that is a "coincidence" that really strains credulity. Especially since then National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice declared that nobody could have imagined people flying planes into buildings. That, in fact, was exactly what was being imagined in the war games taking place that day.

There are many sites I could send you to about this issue but for now let me just recommend a Toronto Star article entitled "Barbs Aside, 9/11 Questions Aren't Going Away" by Michele Landsberg. Landsberg asks the same overriding question I have: Where was the Air Force?

Read the article. It will make you think.