New Hampshire Newspaper runs an ad for a 9/11 Truther Essay Contest… on September 11th
Below is an add that ran in the New Hampshire Union Leader on September 11th:
An essay contest on September 11th, I can live with that. But then I decided to read the contest advertisement and now I am once again perturbed, to put it lightly.
I know it is probably kind of hard to read, so I will give you the gist of the ad. September was an inside job, now write about it.
Here is the opening paragraph of the ad, just in case you can’t read it:
the south tower was 208′ X 208′ and 1362′ high with 110 stories. The building was constructed of 240 outer columns and 47 heavy inner core columns. Similar fires have been estimated to burn at temperatures 600-1300 degrees F; steel melts at 2800 F. All the concrete in the building was pulverized. Debris objects (column fragments?) were thrown far from the building ( the ad references a photo here that I deleted in order to try and make the ad readable) This tower collapsed in 11 seconds (almost freefall speed)- 56 minutes after Flight 175 flew into it. But-do your homework: read books, articles, visit the internet, etc. Entrants are encouraged to consider both theories: 1) gravitational collapse and 2) controlled demotition. Produce a sound common sense essay.
Now doesn’t that sound as if they are steering the direction that they want the essays to go in? It does to me. This is also despicable, I keep using that word to describe these people, but it fits them so well. To run an article promoting essays about a September 11th conspiracy essay contest is just disrespectful to those that list their lives that day.
Needless to say I have already sent an email to the newspaper voicing my displeasure with them for accepting this money to run the ad on this day. If you are paid to run the ad fine, just tell them to wait one day.
I will also be sending at least one essay to these people, an essay they won’t particularly care for, letting them know how disgraceful I find this. I urge anyone who reads this to do the same, let us stand up and voice our opinions on their reprehensible act, below is the address to send your essays to:
Monadnock 9/11 Truth Alliance
PO Box 1848
Keene, NH
03431
Here is the list of everyone involved in this essay contest: Monadnock 9/11 Truth Alliance Steering Comittee: James G Smart, Professor Emeritus (KSC), Keene; George Corette, Alstead, Radio Talk Show Host of Empire Watch (WKNH); John D Wyndham, PH.D. Physics, Peterborough; Alei Verdi, concerned citizen, Keene; Justin A Martell, Founder Student Scholars for 9/11 Truth, Franklin Pierce College; Mark Lathrop, Chairman NH Hemp Council & proprietor of the Monadnock Hemporium, Keene; Gerhard Bedding, Science Writer/Teacher (Ret.), Keene; Mike Casner, Peterborough, Radio host of the 9/11 Truth Hour (WKNH); Gary Davis, concerned citizen, Spofford; Jack Meagher, Engineer, Structure Problem Solving, Petersborough; Lynn Pierce, concerned citizen, Keene; Harry Bubb, Graphic Artest (Ret.), Winchester; Michael Jackman, Student Scholar for 9/11 Truth, KSC, Fair Galey, grandmother and activist, Alstead; Prof. George Michaelides, Economics, Ret. FPC, Keene.
Here is my 9/11 theory: There is a group of radical islamists who hate the western way of life. They are brought up being taught as little children that America is bad, and anything is allowed to bring us down. As a matter of fact, you will be rewarded in heaven if you kill Americans. So, 19 of these Islamists fly planes into the buildings, the buildings collapse. I know it sounds radical, there has to be more to it than that.
It was NOT AMERICA”S FAULT, and it was not President Bush blowing up the towers, get it through your thick heads. We are supposed to believe that the man the far left calls an idiot was able to convince people to fly planes into buildings ( maybe they were remotely controlled, I hadn’t though of that), convince people to place detonators in the buildings, and blow them up. With all the people involved in this conspiracy nobody has leaked anything at all. Seems reasonable to me. RIIIIGHHHTTT.
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That is absolutely atrocious! Not to mention in bad taste.
You can be assured that I will be sending a letter.
Ugh, it just makes me sick to my stomach that people are still jumping on this bandwagon. How can they be so stupid?
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The problem with trying to talk sense with the “truthers” is that we are approaching it from a direction of logic and common sense. And to them it is an emotional decision based on their hatred for George Bush. Nothing you can say will sway them because this is a “faith” issue for them. It is like trying to argue creationism with a fundamentalist. You can talk till you are blue in the face but it still wont make a difference.
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I found this to be in extremely bad taste that is what made me so mad. They can’t just leave us alone on that one day. It is like they are trying to antagonize me.
I know that writing a latter to them in the guise of one of their essays will accomplish nothing, but at least I will feel as though I am antagonizing them.
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I’m glad you are going to complain. I have absolutely no tolerance for this kind of crap on a day that we are remembering and grieving the loss of so many Americans. Anyone that even alluded to this stuff on my blog on 9/11 got deleted.
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It just bothered me that they couldn’t wait until September 12 to run the add. I was upset at the paper and the organization that also decided to use that day to push their twisted political agenda. I will be sending them multiple copies of my essay, maybe I will get someone there to respond to me, if I do it will be posted.
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It’s all a matter of shock value. People like this put all decency aside when it comes to pushing their own agendas.
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I suppose you are right. What better day to run the ad than September 11th, while we are thinking about it. What drew my attention to the ad was the picture of an explosion on one of the towers, I had to cut the picture out of the scan to make it fit. So I suppose they accomplished what they wanted, they got a reaction, good or bad and they made everyone think about their point of view.
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I hope one of the requirements to enter the competition is that the Official 9/11 Commission Report has been read, this should also apply to the judges. Otherwise, what are you dismissing as false? Rhetoric from a propaganda website or youtube video, most likely.
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I hope that everyone who is commenting has thought about this issue – I have no ideas about who may have planted explosives or when but I do not believe that we have been told the truth about what happened. Families of those killed have unanswered questions – one of the heros of 9/11 is quite clear that there was an explosion in the 3 or 4th basement prior to any plane hitting any tower. This has been verified by many people. I saw the videos of the Pentagon before they were removed from sight and there was certainly a hole in the building but there was also a pile of wooden spools that hold cable and it has always seemed to me that if a plane hit the Pentagon then the piles of wooden spools wouldn’t have been there piled so close to the hole – and Andrews Air Force Base is full of airmen who cannot believe that they were never asked to fly at all that day. I don’t know what happened and I was horrified to hear that the French paper Le Monde published recently a warning from French Intelligence about planes being used to hit buildings – this was sent to our government early in the year before 9/11 and was ignored. One of the people on 9/11 commission was asked about this and said that this was true and one of many things that the 9/11 commission heard about that our government apparently felt free to ignore – seeing as this has been discussed since 1993 when it was first suggested it is hard to understand exactly why our government was so blindsided by this not very novel approach. It was a tragedy and many lives were lost but I am not convinced that this was all due to planes hitting buildings.
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But planes did hit the buildings, right? The fact that you would rather believe terrorists than your own government tells me allot about you. I bet you believe GWB is the world’s leading terrorist, don’t you? I would also be willing to bet you are voting for Ron Paul.
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Yes planes hit WTC 1 and WTC 2 But no plane hit WTC 7 and that came down in a neat pile of rubble at 5:20 in the afternoon. Planes hitting the building were a red herring. If you were watching what right hand was doing, you wouldn’t see what the left hand did.
BTW not that I’d vote for him but Ron Paul would be infinitely better than those facist neocons.
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We are sorry we have offended you.
That certainly was not our intention.
Our intention was to honor the strongly expressed
wishes of survivors and family members of victims
for a new, independent investigation.
And before you reject this idea as ludicrous, please honor these
people by looking at their actual petitions and personal statements
which are on public record, but somehow totally ignored by the media:
PatriotsQuestion911.
And while you are on that website, also take a look at the statements of 110 senior military, intelligence service, law enforcement & government officials, 210 engineers and architects; 50 pilots and aviation professionals, 150 professors, 90 entertainment and media people. You will recognize many outstanding names and authorities! Not exactly a group of rabid, whacko conspiracy nuts! Direct your anger toward the media that have ignored these important voices!
Peace!
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The only reason that these people are questioning things and asking questions like they are is because of people in the media and the asshole celebrities who think that they are engineering and physics experts (i.e. Rosie). I mean, come on, don’t even bother to cite “90 entertainment and media people” because it’s nothing more than a ridiculous joke and an insult to anybody of any real intelligence and expertise. After all, it took very little research on my own to find the temperature at which jet fuel burns and the temperature at which structural steel loses its structural strength (not melting point). For anybody to refute the simple physics and engineering aspects of this is absolutely asinine. I have not seen nor heard a single conspiracy theory that can trump the facts, and worse yet, I have not seen one conspiracy theory that doesn’t involve some hatred towards Bush and his administration, which as far as I am concerned does nothing but invalidate them by default!
Check out http://www.debunking911.com/index.html
and while you’re at it, read the book “Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can’t Stand Up to the Facts” which was written by the editors of Popular Mechanics Magazine…
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Please explain the collapse of skyscraper # 7 , not hit by a plane, no jet fuel –which collapsed neatly into its footprints at almost free fall speed at 5:20 pm that afternoon. Note that the official report, as well as NIST, conveniently ignore the collapse of this building
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Apparently you chose not to go visit the web site I provided for you, so let me give you the link to their explanation of WTC 7
http://www.debunking911.com/pull.htm
It all makes perfect sense. besides, once again, why would anybody have chosen to perform a controlled demolition on WTC 7? It’s conspiracy nonsense at its worst. What has driven people like you to assume such horrible things? It makes me ill.
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Thanks for coming to my defense, arclightzero, it is astonishing that people can hate GWB so much that the are willing to actually believe the nonsense they continually spew. BTW, is it just me or is Christina, Mark, and Jerry all the same person? Now that is a conspiracy worth looking in to!
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Hey, no problem. We have to stick together against these people since they seem to have their loyal little band of loonies. So much hate, so much anger… These people are so concerned with their own hate that they are willing to put aside any sort of logic or reasoning and assume such asinine things that they somehow truly believe that Bush and his administration would kill Americans for their own gain. It’s absolutely sickening.
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Yes, forget about the “loyal little band of loonies”. Instead look at today’s article on seven CIA vets amd their comments on the 9/11Report. It will be a stretch to call them a band of loonies. Here are quotes from 5 of the 7:
Raymond McGovern, former Chairman of the National Intelligence Council and 27-year CIA veteran, “I think at simplest terms, there’s a cover-up. The 9/11 Report is a joke.”
William Christison, former National Intelligence Officer (NIO) and former Director of the CIA’s Office of Regional and Political, and 29-year CIA veteran, “We very seriously need an entirely new very high level and truly independent investigation of the events of 9/11. I think you almost have to look at the 9/11 Commission Report as a joke and not a serious piece of analysis at all.”
Melvin Goodman, PhD, former Division Chief of the CIA’s Office of Soviet Affairs and Senior Analyst from 1966 – 1990, “The final report is ultimately a coverup. I don’t know how else to describe it.”
Robert Baer, 21-year CIA veteran and specialist in the Middle East, who was awarded the Career Intelligence Medal upon his retirement in 1997, “Until we get a complete, honest, transparent investigation …, we will never know what happened on 9/11.”
Robert David Steele has 25 years of combined service in the CIA and the U.S. Marine Corps. Second ranking civilian in U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence from 1988 – 1992. Member of the Adjunct Faculty of Marine Corps University. “I am forced to conclude that 9/11 was at a minimum allowed to happen as a pretext for war. … I have to tell anyone who cares to read this: I believe it. I believe it enough to want a full investigation that passes the smell test of the 9/11 families as well as objective outside observers.”
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so in other words, you still hold fast to your belief that the Bush administration would kill American citizens in a horrific act simply to further their own agendas? That’s some sick shit, man. I’m sorry to say, but I don’t care how corrupt an administration is, nobody would be able to do something like that and get away with it. It’s too big, there are too many people involved, and nobody is perfect enough to not get caught.
The Bush administration is not that stupid, nor is it that inhuman. I’m not entirely sure why anybody would think otherwise. I’ve read all of the reports about how it’s a big cover up and how the Bush administration set it all up so they could go to war and make billions for Halliburton and Dick Cheney. It’s all very interesting to read if you consider it for the fiction it is. I’m much more interested in the scientific facts than I am in the half-baked conspiracy theories cooked up by ex-CIA workers… And besides, after the Valerie Plame fiasco, who actually has any faith in the employees of the CIA?
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Watch 9/11: Press For Truth and then see how you feel about the events of 9/11 and all the unanswered questions. Would you label 4 widows fighting for the “truth” nut cases? They asked questions of the 9/11 Commission and 70% were left unanswered. Indiviuals who have doubts about what happened surrounding those events are simply asking for an unbiased reinvestigation. Wouldn’t all of us (no matter what side you take) be better off if that happened?
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I agree, there was a coverup in the 9/11 report. Jamie Gorelick, who was the deputy attorney general for Clinton should never have been allowed on the commision. She was the one responsible for building the so-called wall between intelligence agencies that stopped them from sharing information. She was only there to cover up Clinton’s missteps in the events leading up tp 9/11.
And then there was Sandy Burger who stole and destroyed documents from the Clinton administration as he prepared to lie-I mean testify-before the commision. Who knows what forgeries he replaced the original documents with.
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That’s a good point. Why is at always assumed that the cover up were on the behalf of the Bush administration?
It’s just more of the same old thing. People hate Bush and the Bush administration and in turn that is all they see. I wonder if these same sorts of things would be coming up and plaguing us if this had happened during the Clinton years? Would the Clinton haters on the right form little bands to run around claiming that the Clinton administration is covering something up and killing American citizens for his own silly reasons? I bet not.
I think I would take the “alternate” theories a bit more seriously if they weren’t so riddled with hate and anger. It really negates most of it.
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The only anger and hate I hear in this dialog comes from those that remian blind to the valid questions being asked and directed toward those asking the questions.
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What valid questions?? That’s just it! I have yet to hear a single valid question come from any of this. I have heard a lot of conspiracy jabber, but as far as legitimate, valid questions?? You mean like asking how it is that WTC 7 fell? The answers are out there, it’s just a matter of putting aside the thoughts and ideas that Bush and his buddies killed Americans for their own gain and accepting the facts.
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Mark, or Jerry, or Jack, or whoever you are going to call yourself the next time you post, here is a valid question from me. Do you really think Bush talked people into killing themselves, thus murdering millions of Americans so that Cheney could profit from Haliburtin? Do you really believe that, or do you just want to believe it because you hate the president so much because you feel he stole the 2000 election?
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Wow!!! Millions of Americans have been killed now? Nice to see that mpinkeyes is so keen on dealing only with ‘factual’ information.
You believe that Osama talked people into killing themselves. Do you think that he is a more persuasive man than our own President? Why is it so easy for you to believe the worst about Middle Eastern people? Is that some sort of prejudice you were raised with?
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LLG, pull your head out of your ass. Americans are not self-sacrificing like Muslims. There is no glory for Americans to die in the name of a religion. There aren’t a bunch of virgins waiting for Americans when we die gloriously in battle. Islamic suicide attackers are regularly talked into killing themselves and others for their cause by people like Bin Laden. If Bush asked the American people to declare war on the “infidels of the east” and go out with dynamite and nails strapped to their chest and blow themselves up in Mosques, the American people would tell him where to stick it. Americans and Muslims are not on the same page when it comes to suicide and murder.
In fact, in the Islamic world, it’s considered a great honor to go out in a blaze of glory, especially if you can take as many innocent “infidels” out with you as you can! This isn’t prejudice, this is fact. Perhaps you had better think about what you’re saying before going off and accusing somebody else of being prejudiced towards people.
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PREJUDICE: a (1) : preconceived judgment or opinion (2) : an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge b : an instance of such judgment or opinion c : an irrational attitude of hostility directed against an individual, a group, a race, or their supposed characteristics
“Americans are not self-sacrificing like Muslims.” “In fact, in the Islamic world, it’s considered a great honor to go out in a blaze of glory, especially if you can take as many innocent “infidels” out with you as you can! This isn’t prejudice, this is fact.”
Sure sounds prejudice to me….but what do I know?
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Of course I meant thousands of Americans not millions, and you knew that I made a mistake. Everyone knows millions weren’t killed on September 11th.
I did not ever say Osama talked people into killing themselves, although he is part of it. Hamas, Hezbollah and other radical groups indoctrinate children into radical ideology from virtually the time they are born. They are taught to hate over years and years, and they teach them it is a noble cause. Your theory has Bush basically walking up to someone and on a whim the person decided to become a terrorist. So yes, I do believe that these GROUPS are more persuasive than George W Bush.
Just search Hamas Mickey Mouse on youtube and you will see the type of television show that these groups are showing their children. Their children are being indoctrinated into terrorism sort of like American children are being indoctrianted into liberalism in our schools.
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“Your theory has Bush basically walking up to someone and on a whim the person decided to become a terrorist.”
Actually, this is not my theory. I don’t even recall expressing my theory.
I’m off to stick my head back up my ass now.
Enjoy your day.
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