I agree that not all sources are created equal.
You make many good points.
My
PERSONAL BIAS, PREFERENCE
IS
to have a MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF INFO and make my own sorting, sifting, analyzing decisions.
My scroll and page down buttons work VERY WELL.
AND,
I have my boss's observations that it was the
VERY FLAKEY, VERY FRINGE organizations, publications, leaflets, posters, pamphlets in prewar Germany which
MOST AND VERY ACCURATELY PREDICTED WHAT HITLER WOULD DO AND WHAT HE WAS AND STOOD FOR.
OF COURSE it's hard to sift through tons of fertilizer and find the swallowed diamond. But it may be crucial to do.
AND THIS IS THE BEST GROUP, perhaps only ongoingly available group OF ALERT PEOPLE, IN MY OBSERVATION, TO DO IT. Those not wanting to do that--ARE MORE THAN WELCOME TO SCROLL ON BY.
I can't tell for sure, but it would appear that no one else on here has had any job related experience sorting through and preparing for library patrons tons and tons of fringe materials. I assure you, this is the best group I've ever come across for giving worthy insights in such a sifting process.
Who knows how crucial even part of this groups' analysis of 'tinfoil' docs will turn out to be.
We did not know until afterward, as this morning's testimony is abundantly showing, how inadequately prepared our defenses of DC and the chain of comman communications were in terms of getting planes in the air with authorization to shoot down hijacked aircraft bent on destroying our White House, Pentegon or Capital. ANY discussion before hand about such, as you note, would have been considered tinfoil by most of the tinfoil 'addicts.'
I don't think a static rule or line would work as to what was kosher or not.
I don't really care how flakey some doc is. I can tell quickly enough in the first few lines whether it's worth my time or not. I prefer the option of making that decision myself.
Even when we are posting in great detail very seriously researched and documented bona fide Al Qaeda or some such docs, MOST OF IT on reflection hours to days later has been RELATIVELY--
CHAFF.
No biggy. Of course that will be true.
On occasion, we come up with nuggets. Occasionally there are insights, counsel, advice data points which are worthy extended pondering and/or some action of use to one's life, family, community, nation. But rarely so to any great degree.
So what. It's still WORTH IT.
It's the nature of life and reality. ANY TOPIC will have tons of chaff.
The 911 hearings have had tons of chaff though supposedly every witness and every question were vitally important at such levels of government.
I realize that tinfoil chaff is more annoying and distasteful to some hereon than other kinds of chaff. But logically, chaff is chaff and nuggets are nuggets regardless of where or what process they come from.
I'm exceedingly comfortable with each poster deciding on their own what's worth posting. All readers have to decide what's worth reading all of whether it's obviously Al Qaeda connected or not.
By it's nature, this thread and group MUST CAST A WIDE NET or else the whole effort is a sham. We MUST cast a wide enough net that we avoid missing clues to the next 911 . . . or to avoid missing clues to what the Jihadi's would do THE HOURS AND WEEKS FOLLOWING
THE NEXT 911
OR THE NEXT NATURAL DISASTER.
They clearly are intent on racheting things up to where they are inflicting disaster after disaster on us week after week.
That's a pretty broad set of boundaries, set of contingencies.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) Iraq's interior minister says he suspects Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is linked to the latest car bombing in Baghdad
MSNBC-9/11 panel: One hijacked plane possibly could have been stopped -
Miscommunication and confusion kept the U.S. air-defense command from possibly intercepting at least one of the hijacked planes on Sept. 11, the federal panel reviewing the attacks said Thursday
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Air Defenses Faltered on 9/11, Panel Finds
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48471-2004Jun17.html?referrer=email
9/11 panel: Confusion delayed possible intercept of hijacked plane
06/17/04
Plagued by miscommunication and confusion, the Pentagon's air-defense command missed an opportunity to possibly intercept at least one of the hijacked planes on September. 11, the federal panel reviewing the attacks said Thursday.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/17/911.hearing.ap/index.html