The Bush administration has continued and vastly improved upon a long tradition of manipulating information. Certainly, they told many lies about 9/11, not the least of which concerned the health risks to people in New York. Once information becomes so degraded, critical of evaluations become terribly difficult -- opening the way for all sorts of conspiracy theories.
At that point, virtually any criticism of the system gets lumped together with a bunch of loony conspiracy theories. I have no idea how difficult it would be for someone to learn how to fly a jet plane. Even George Bush had some training. I would not be totally surprised if the plane over Pennsylvania were shot down by the military. Doug interviewed William (?) Pepper on his show regarding the assassination of Martin Luther King. I thought that he presented a fairly strong case in his book, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to say his proof is absolute. Certainly, the Kennedy assassination has all sorts of weirdness, including the magic bullet theory [devised by Arlen Spector] that a single bullet bounced around wounding both Kennedy and John Connerly. The question remains: how much good would it do if we could uncover one of these conspiracies. What these people do in the open is far worse. Suppose we were to learn that the government intentionally blew up the Pentagon and World Trade Center from within. Would that crime be worse than the invasion of Iraq? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
