Posted on 08/06/2006 5:18:55 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
(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.
The organization says publicity over Barrett's case has helped boost membership to about 75 academics. They are a tiny minority of the 1 million part- and full-time faculty nationwide, and some have no university affiliation. Most aren't experts in relevant fields.
But some are well educated, with degrees from elite universities such as Princeton and Stanford and jobs at schools including Rice, Indiana and the University of Texas.
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No agenda here...move along....
What's teaching a class on Islam got to do with science, genuine or even junk?
Isn't it obvious? The government turned the plane into a missile with all the people still inside! </crazy_moonbat_mode>
"These men aren't uneducated junk scientists: Barrett will teach a class on Islam at the University of Wisconsin this fall"
This is on CNN? Ha, what a bunch of f*n idiots. This sentince alone explains the whole thing. Do these ass*holes think we are stupid?
It is useless to try to argue against a moonbat. They know for sure that "Bush" stole Florida 2000, that the WTC was a controlled demolition, the WMD was never in Iraq and that Ohio was stolen in 2004. They know all these things for sure. Any evidence to the contrary is dismissed, because it does not agree with these obvious "facts".
Al Gore could never forgive the lack of support in the 2000 election. Within a week of leaving the Naval Observatory, (Veep's Mansion), he had begun to consort with Osama nad the usual suspects named in the 911 Report.
With Bill and Hillary's support he brought the towers down and Hillary seized the opportunity to forward her presidential plans.
The impeach Bush plan has stunning overtones and undertows. With Pelosi sitting in the third chair after 2006 the plan is to impeach Bush and Cheney. Pelosi will pick Hillary as her Veep not realizing the Arkanacide that awaits her. Once the Hildebeast ascends the throne she will appoint Slick her Veep, (which would not violate the presidential succession amendment).
Rush, Hannity, O'Reilly and the rest of fair and balanced media will be silenced and the Communistic Cabal will be in power.
Gore will implement Kyoto in draconian fashion and we'll all be driving oxen wagons well into the 21st Century.
How do I know? The Bible Told Me So!
Wonder if the University of Wisconsin has any Islamic professors on staff who deny the Holocaust happened (as do the Iranians)?
I would say the President is one hell of a Man if he can do all this, more power to him......................
Sounds to me like the UFO "abductees" have found themselves a new "conspiracy."
The moonbat at University of Texas is an antiAmerican troll.
More proof that you can have as many degrees as you want and still qualify for the jacket that's all sleeves.
They also know that there were no Communists in America in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s and that the communists who WERE here meant no harm to the status quo or our form of government.
They also knew that Hitler meant no harm and was not a threat to the US and that we should not oppose him (at least until he betrayed Uncle Joe Stalin).
The SAME Communist led antiwar movement that gave Hitler a pass has led the protests against Vietnam and still Iraq today. THE SAME PARTICIPANTS (including that commie musician Pete Segar).
IF (A big "IF") that is true, I suppose that for one reason or another, the charges on each floor may have triggered accidentally as the upper floors crashed into each descending floor. That would account for what some conspiracy folks say about the charges being in evidence as the buildings collapsed.
The only reason I say that is because Building 7 could not have been wired in just a couple of hours before it was demolished. Building 7 must have been wired long before 9/11. If it was, then that is reason to consider that the Twin Towers were also pre-wired.
Building 7, BTW, came down from the bottom, all in one piece. A pre-announced demolition, according to several reports. All three networks video-taped the demolition, but it wasn't generally reported as a demolition for some reason.
I'm just trying to piece together a scenario from bits of info I have read during the last few years, not that I necessarily believe it.
I find most Moonbats indeed have a large amount of self-respect. It's individuals other than themselves they have a tough time respecting, since mankind has destroyed the planet and they're all God-drunk murderers and rapists and blah blah blah.
Sorry, libs. Professors can surely lead students to find truth, but they don't own truth by means of credentials.
Daniel Orr, a Princeton Ph.D. and widely published retired economics chair at the University of Illinois, said he knew instantly from watching the towers fall that they had been blown apart by explosives.....
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[Wood says] "If the U.S. government is lying about how the buildings came down, anything else they say cannot be believed," she said. "So why would they want to tell us an incorrect story if they weren't part of it?"
PUKEARINO! Then let's be fair and also discuss jamie gorelick's appointment to the committee and her backroom influence on the report - and the timely coincidence of kean and hamilton just releasing a new book as they suddenly realize that they need to pay for the printing this time.
What does that mean? Charlie Sheen get a new batch of Viagra or something?
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