My Stance On 9/11 Truthers And Birthers

Google World Trade Center conspiracy and you will get a return of about 5,990,000 page links. Go to Amazon or Barnes and Noble and search for the same thing and you will likely be greeted with over 3,000 books claiming that 9/11 was an inside job to some degree or another.

Healthy skepticism is needed, paranoia is not.

Everything from websites, talk radio to blurry photos bring out the kooks and all of a sudden, they are experts at photo analysis or explosives. Then it's, "The Pentagon was struck by a missile...", "The Pentagon was struck by a Global Hawk...", "Flight 93 was blown out of the sky by some mysterious white jet..." There are so many of them, I can't list them, but, you get the idea.

I am not going to rebut each conspiracy whackjob's points. They can believe that our government committed the murders of 3,000 Americans all they want, however, I can point out that they are freaks for doing so. The planning, logistics and the execution of it would have been colossal and they would have to believe that NOTHING would or could go wrong.

Yeah, right. That would require a belief that American government is flawlessly proficient.

I have no problems with people asking questions about it, that's natural. But, when those questions begin to denigrate into downright paranoia and takes the conspiracy fork in the road, we have to part ways. If I were to believe that our government had the audacity to murder 3,000 Americans, then that would require that I also believe that our country is no longer a republic of liberty and all of us are subject to tyrannical leaders and despots and our way of life, and our Founders' sacrifice was all for naught.

So far, all I have read or seen is lunatics making money off of ignorant people.

Lastly I would like to point out, that if you believe that our government did it, you are obligated to rebel against it. Stop paying your taxes, because, according to you, they helped fund it. Disavow yourself from the Constitution, because it no longer applies. The Founding Fathers stated, unequivocally, that if our government became despotic, then it is the right of its citizens to remove it.

As for you people that believe Barack Obama is not a US citizen, I have no problems with that. I'm a bit puzzled about all of the secrecy surrounding it myself, however, it's all a moot point. He's been in office for over a year now and it's getting old. I, for one, have bigger things to worry about and if it be true, then it will eventually come out in the wash.

In other words, give it a rest and move on. Focus on replacing him in 2012, then worry about it.