Conspiracist Nonsense

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ALL the same mental contortions and mindset
I wanted to recommend strongly that, if you get the chance, you should watch the program on the History Channel about 911 conspiracy "theories."  It is extraordinarily well done. Go to fullsize image (not the only infantile conspiracy nut around!)

Most of us have a tendency to dismiss the conspiracy nuts as idiots with whom it is a waste of time to argue over facts or to gather the counter-evidence needed to prove they are wrong.  But that is exactly what the program does and it does so really well.  It is based in part on the special issue of Popular Mechanics that examined and debunked the "scientific" claims of the conspiracists: things like "doubts" about the collapse of WTC Building Seven, "doubts" about whether the heat was enough to bring down the twin towers, "doubts" about the crash of Flight 93, "doubts" about the plane hitting the Pentagon, the "evidence" of other explosions in the WTC as it collapsed, etc etc etc.  Few people have the patience to wade through all that and collect the engineering counter-evidence that disproves the claims of the conspiracists.  But the History Channel did so and did so in spades.  Its program demolishes every bit of "evidence" of any "theory" that challenges the official explanation of al-Qaeda hijacking the planes and knocking down the towers as a terror attack.

Even more important, it exposes at length the conspiracist mindset, the need to invent convoluted "explanations" for dramatic events that go beyond the obvious and the simple, the outright lies, the attempts to take anything that looks curious at first glance and attribute it to fictional grand conspiracies, and so on.  The conspiracists also refuse to look at the obvious gaping holes in their own theory, holes a million times larger than any "holes" in the official theory.  How did the Republican conspirators inside the WTC know on which floor the planes would hit so that they could plant the bombs to go off together with the planes hitting the building at exactly those floors?

Now I mention all this because if you watch this show you will immediately see ALL the same mental contortions and mindset to be found among the conspiracy nuts and conspiracy believers in Israel and the Jewish world when it comes to the Rabin "conspiracy theory."  The Rabin conspiracists use all the same methods of "detection" as the "911 Truth" cult, although not as thoroughly and imaginatively.  They operate with the same modus operandi, with the same willingness to lie, the same disregard for all real evidence, the same gaping holes in their OWN "theory."  (How come Yigal Amir insists he is guilty and insists that he fired real bullets if he did not?) 

And like the Rabin conspiracist "theory," the "911 Truth" idiocy continues to enjoy a certain popularity among the less intelligent segments of the populations.  It does not matter how many times the "outstanding questions" get put to rest and answered, nor how many times the conspiracy "evidence" is totally disproved.