Lately I’m beginning to apperceive that a lot of the things I believed in, on an array of things, are just simply false. More to the point, they are just plain wrong or ignorant. Now that is not an easy thing for me to say considering I am of the axiom that I’m pretty much brighter than most people. It has always been a point of contention throughout my life with my fellow human beings. People hate when someone is mostly right about things and hardly wrong. You would think that the world’s reaction to my almost infallible omniscience would be something to be celebrated or useful to people like a compass. However, that “know it all” mantra has seemed to prevail among most people who have had the privilege of being graced with my presence.

All kidding aside, I want to breach this subject from the right of these people we call “Truthers” or left-wing lunatics who think George Bush caused and is responsible for 9/11 and its aftermath. I don’t know about you, but for me, I just painted all these people with a broad brush. I’ve always stayed away from these conspiratorial people whether they are Birthers or Truthers and just considered them to be the far-extreme wing of each ideology.

My personal experience with 9/11 was very close to my heart, because my family was from New York. I was born in that city and had a family member of mine work in lower Manhattan, who was only saved from the trauma of all that because he went to a Michael Jackson Concert the night before, got home late and never made it to work that morning. Since this man happens to be one of my favorite people in the world, I had an extra “something” personal when it came to 9/11, even knowing I wasn’t there.

For some unknown reason to me even now, I was so angry at the whole thing and never gave a second’s thought to what really happened here. Against my very own nature, I shut down on this subject and became anything but objective. In my whole life, I’ve never accepted what is told to me and I’ve questioned the very foundation of almost everything from the meaning and origin of life, to the existence of God himself. Well at least the version we’ve all been spoon fed our whole lives. My point is that I’ve been blessed with a quantitative mind. The way I process everything is not like most of you. I immediately question the foundation of what I’m told. This was no small matter for my mother who was called down by our Catholic Priests on numerous occasions to be told how I’m disturbing CCD with all these questions.

Now when it came to the official government position and declaration of the 9/11 report, uncharacteristically I just accepted it. I forgot almost completely how dumbfounded I was when the government so quickly just lined up the pictures on my TV screen of all nineteen hijackers and said, “Here are the guys who did this.” At the time I thought to myself, “Well that was lightening fast.” It just felt off to me. I mean everyday I see on my local news some video of a guy robbing a bank or a convenient store. There he is on camera doing this crime and the authorities are asking the public for information on the guy. Do you know who he is? Can you please call with information if you know who this man is on this video? Yet there was my government in a New York second [forgive the pun] showing me the names and pictures of all these guys who dropped these skyscrapers in the middle of New York City.

It was amazing, it wasn’t long at all before I knew what flight school they went to, what escort service they used before the highjacking and what they ate and drank. I blocked out completely the story of the one guy who was running around asking why his picture was up there as a highjacker when he wasn’t one and obviously still alive. No, I just bought my Chinese made America flag and put it on my front window and on my car.

Years go by with one off story after another and I just block it out. Maybe it was the extreme people of the Truther’s movement that turned me off. All those off the wall stories about how Bush knew and how all the Jews didn’t go to work that day, just made my stomach sick. A cloud shaped like Satan hovering above the towers while they burned flying around the Internet was too much for me. One hoax after another, like Nostradamus predicted this, and on and on. This cacophony of utter spurious and fallacious madness just shut me down intellectually. You see I wasn’t thinking of the Gulf of Tonkin or The Warren Report.

Since when do I believe my government? I knew better. I knew there were still people who believed Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone killer or that we were caught off guard and surprised by Pearl Harbor. I have always known that people are inherently gullible when it comes to the official report about anything. I also knew that the one way these false or so called “evident truths” live on is because people will use a common form of mass shame if you believe in some alter universalism on one subject or another. You know they will say, “Oh those crazy conspiracy people” or “those nuts are this and that.” I of all people fell into this trap.

Something was sparked in me and I started to dig into this Truther thing. I started to do some reading and research about the truth about 9/11 and I wanted to look into their claims. I needed to see for myself whether or not these people where truly off their rocker. Well I found out that a lot of them are. I uncovered for myself that a huge part of this movement happens to be what all of us on the right have always thought about these people.

However, I found out something else. Something a lot more disturbing for me and should be for you. I found out that among the Mad Hatter’s Convention, there are normal and sane people with some legitimate question about 9/11. People that have some inconsistencies they and I would like answered. There is among this movement, a framework of logical questions that have not been answered by our government, asked by good and decent people.

Tomorrow, September 24^th, 2009, I’m going to ask some of these questions. Please tune in and let us from the right take a look at some things here we might not want to face. Join me tomorrow and spread the word and just maybe the right person will read it and some of these legitimate questions just might be answered one day.

C. Rich

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