Re: FW: Bush knew..YQUE? What are we going to do about it?

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is still arrant nonsense. We all have advance knowledge that
somewhere in the next week someone is going to run a red light, hit
another car, and someone will be killed. Big deal.

The logic here is exactly the same logic as is used to support
astrology, etc. If you make enough predictions some of them are going to
come true. Then idiots can talk about how we had advanced knowledge
(ignoring all the predictions that didn't come true.

Conspiracy theories are stupid -- but they also represent an almost
deliberate effort to refute marxism, by their suggestion that it is not
capitalist relations of production that we are struggling against but a
few conspirators planning everything. Disgusting.

Carrol

ben wrote:
> 
> Forwarding this article, because it expresses some of the ideas that I
> put forward earlier on marxmail about conspiracy theories, only more
> eloquently and in more detail. Sorry for those who already read it!
> 
> >____________________________________________________________________
> >
> >BUSH KNEW... ¿Y QUE?
> >What Are We Going to Do About It?
> >____________________________________________________________________
> >
> >From the latest issue of "Turning the Tide: Journal of Anti-Racist
> >Action..."
> >
> >PART'S Perspective
> >by Michael Novick,
> >People Against Racist Terror/Anti-Racist Action
> >
> >A flood of information has begun to rise over the dam walls of the
> >mainstream media to the effect that the U.S. government, at the level of
> >both intelligence agencies and policy makers, had plenty of advance warning
> >of the September 11 attacks. From a few lonely voices crying in the
> >wilderness and trying to impede the drive towards war and repression, the
> >claim that "Bush knew" has become a crescendo of competing conspiracy
> >theories and demands for answers.
> >

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