American Thinker says 9/11 skepticism "extremely dangerous"

[reprehensor]

via the Smirking Chimp;

American Thinker says 9/11 skepticism "extremely dangerous"
by PositronicDave | Dec 3 2006

This just in...

AmericanThinker.com's Michael Lopez-Calderon thinks that people who don't buy the government's line about 9/11 are "extremely dangerous" because they might "undermine our democratic nation's war against the theocratic forces of radical, Jihadi-driven Islam".

Ouch.

And here I was thinking I was being patriotic trying to expose the bald-faced lies and brazen evasions that have constituted the "official story" of 9/11 up to this point. After all, if the Bush administration and/or its cronies DID perpetrate or facilitate the crimes of that day, the central justification for the ongoing war(s) against our officially designated enemies would be undermined indeed.

But, that must surely be because I find comfort in conspiracy theories. As Mr. Lopez-Calderon put it, "Conspiracy theories offer explanatory models of complex events to large audiences of the unsophisticated and under-educated."

Ouch again...

The weak "attack the messenger as delusional but avoid directly criticizing any of their specific claims" methodology used by his article is all too familiar, but Lopez-Calderon expands upon this with a sinister twist. The main thrust of this twist is that 9/11 skeptics are a dangerous pathogen in the American body politic, infecting otherwise warlike and patriotic citizens, particularly the young, with a paralytic cynicism that weakens their resolve to lash out with sufficient ruthlessness at those irredeemable A-rabs who just can't wait to kill us. Seems we just don't realize how much being force-fed Lee Greenberg can fill those boys with blood-lust. (Blowback from cultural imperialism indeed...)

This, it seems, is the real question at hand...

Continued...
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/3624

[John Q. Citizen]

1. First Cockburn claims we are responsible for the fall of the American left, now this

guy claims we are responsible for losing the clash of civilizations.

Gosh, I'm feeling more omnipotent by the day.....tomorrow maybe we will be responsible for the coming world wide economic depression, or maybe extreme global warming, or even the Rupture!

[seatnineb]

2. Wow...the OTC's really are desperate......

those irredeemable A-rabs who just can't wait to kill us

If the Arabs could not wait to kill Americans.....then why did they spend the best part of 20 years fighting the American's number one arch enemy....the Soviets?....with huge CIA and American covert backing!

[savemefromdumbya]

3. baloney

[Generarth]

4. Yeah well if they want to nail their colors to the wall

I hope they're not too surprised to get a visit when this thing goes down.

[mhatrw]

5. Just like those damn beatniks and folkies lost us the Cold War!

9/11 skeptics are nothing less than a deadly cancer destroying the body of our otherwise strong and healthy hateful jingoistic xenophobia!