[Marxism] Stuff like this throws me about 9-11

["Austin, Andrew" <austina@xxxxxxxx>]

Paul Craig Roberts: "The reason so many people doubt the 9/11 story is not 
because they have psychological needs for conspiracies, but because the 9/11 
story is not believable."

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article14874.htm 
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At the risk of looking like I am committing a form of the good intentions 
fallacy, this is what throws me about those who hold radically different 
theories about what happened on 9-11.  Paul Craig Roberts is a bright fellow, 
even if I disagree with his political ideology.  He is a nationally syndicated 
columnist for Creator's Syndicate and a paleoconservative economist.  He is a 
former Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institute and a former Assistant 
Secretary of the Treasury under Reagan.  He was Distinguished Fellow at the 
Cato Institute from 1993 to 1996. From 1982 through 1993, he held the William 
E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and 
International Studies.  He is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street 
Journal, Business Week, and Scripps Howard News Service.  He holds a Ph.D. from 
the University of Virginia. He was a post-graduate at the University of 
California, Berkeley, and Oxford University where he was a member of Merton 
College.  In 1992 he received the Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in 
Journalism. In 1993, the Forbes Media Guide ranked him as one of the top seven 
journalists in the United States.  Etc.

And there's all these other bright people who believe these things: David Ray 
Griffin, founder of the Center for a Postmodern World at Claremont University; 
James Fetzer, a tenured philosopher at the University of Minnesota; Daniel Orr, 
the retired chairman of the economics department at the University of Illinois; 
Steven Jones, cold fusion physics professor at Brigham Young University; former 
Reagan aide Barbara Honegger, who is a senior military affairs journalist at 
the Naval Postgraduate School in California; Catherine Austin Fitts, who served 
as assistant secretary of housing in the first President Bush's administration; 
David Bowman, chief of advanced space programs under presidents Ford and 
Carter; Morgan O. Reynolds, appointed by Bush Junior as chief economist at the 
Labor Department.  Etc.

It seems when intelligent people dedicate themselves to in-depth analysis of 
9-11 they come away believing things that many of you characterize as crazy and 
idiotic.  And the irony is that there isn't a comparable army of academics 
advancing the version of events that most people believe.  In fact, whenever 
other intelligent folks talk about 9-11 it's to attack those who advance 
"conspiracy theories." 

Say what you will, but you have to admit that the phenomenon is a curious thing.

Andrew


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