Fidel, I highly doubt that anyone on this board - myself, unionist and Tommy Paine included - is not open to the possibility that the public is being kept in the dark by the government.
I used to think that the worst aspect of 9/11 conspiracy-mania was the underlying racist and defeatist thesis that the U.S. is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent - that no simply non-white amateurs could strike a blow against Fortress Amerika - that the U.S. could never be defeated, except by itself.
It's a thesis we've seen pervading some posters' "analysis" of the Afghan insurgency, indeed of all past successful insurgencies against U.S. rule (yes, the current one will succeed as well, sorry if that observation gives any U.S. power-worshippers a heart attack).
But now, I see there's another angle - the underestimation and failure to appreciate the criminality of U.S. imperialism.
For these "theorists", the daily murder, exploitation, and aggression committed by the U.S. isn't bad enough. It pales by comparison with the notion that the U.S. could actually [b]attack its own people[/b] - "real" people, like you and me! Gosh!
This obsession is worthy of nothing but contempt. And no, trevor, I am not open to any of these bullshit insulting theories. When some fact, some evidence, comes along, I will pay attention - but not at the expense of dealing with the major problems facing the people of Canada and the world.
