Cavers,
As cavers we have a special interest in civil rights and particularly
the right of association with foreigners, of travel, and not to have
a policy that isolates the US from the rest of the world. The
Zeitgeist video implies that the 9/11 disaster was orchestrated by
the administration as an excuse to curtail our civil rights. To tie
the defense of civil rights to 9/11 conspiracy theories is a
disservice to the defense of civil rights. To get into the type of
arguments they present about who is responsible for 9/11 appears to
me to be an exercise in futility. The producers of Zeitgeist are the
true beliers and conspiracy is their religion. But the
administration that says, "trust me" you are in danger and we are
doing only what is necessary is even worse (and they were elected.)
And, their critique of Christianity because of its similarity to
previous religions is not compelling. The problem with Noah's ark is
not that other religions had floods with an ark, but that someone
gathering all the animals of the world and building a boat to put
them in strikes many people as a project unlikely to be successful.
Bill Russell
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