9/11 researches: I find this infuriating, and am looking for input [View All]

[WilliamPitt]

I wrote this article today, and got the following response. The person who wrote it is an avowed LIHOP believer. He writes me several emails a week (none of which I asked for), mostly to chastise me for not focusing on 9/11 conspiracy examinations in every article I write.

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Shame on You, William Rivers Pitt!!!!

I'm absolutely amazed and absolutely appalled at your Truthout
piece "Nine Eleven," which I'll paste below for our readers.

Any honest historiographer must index you as one of the monumental
laughingstocks of our times. Why? Because you've written a book
entitled "The Greatest Sedition Is Silence," yet you remain--month
after month!--seditiously silent about what's by far the greatest
scandal of our new century.

Oh, not totally silent. Yes, you'll give us some sentimental
anecdotal reminiscence about it--as you've done in your piece below.
But you remain seditiously silent about anything--anything!--that
would provide your readers with a well-deserved opportunity to learn
that elements of our very own US Government (USG) played treasonously
conspiratorial roles in the events of Nine Eleven.

In total co-operation with the very most shameful elements of
the unspeakable Bush Cabal you cover up the gallant work of
perspicacious Nine Eleven researchers like Prof. Michel Chossudovksy,
Prof. Kee Dewdney, Physicist Michael Elliott, Scientist Jim Hoffman,
Musician Gerard Holmgren and Former German Defense Minister Andreas
von Buelow---to name only a few!

These gentlemen in varying degrees have risked their lives to bring
the truth of Nine Eleven to you. A composite of their work now is
strong enough as evidence to convince any unbiased jury anywhere in
the world that the USG indeed was thoroughly complicit with the

Nine Eleven murders of nearly three thousand human beings.

Yet you not only don't provide your readers with summaries of
their work--but you don't even provide links to their websites so
your readers can decide for themselves! Hardly anything could be
more undemocratic than this! Yet within the enormous ranges of your
ego you're comfortable with this, you regard yourself as behaving
democratically as you prattle about silence-as-sedition, etc. I can
hardly believe it!

William Rivers Pitt, ladies and gentlemen: our good little NY
Times Bestseller Boy, our obedient little NY Times Bestseller Boy,
our silent little NY Times Bestseller Boy, our seditious little NY
Times Bestseller Boy.

As you know, Bill, I've taken quite a few hours of my time in
recent weeks to post you material of importance to your hapless
northern-white-liberal readership--and not only in the crucially
important matter of Nine Eleven. Now, though, you give me no choice
but to say you've wasted my precious time.

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This was my response:

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"It happened, and it will never be forgotten, but we have reached a place where fear and obeisance can no longer be tolerated."

What does that mean to you? Can you not in any way connect those words to the work you espouse?

Consider, also, that this wasn't written for you, or for anyone on your list. There are millions of people who would sooner slit their own throats than accept anything having to do with LIHOP. The point of this article was a goad to them to begin reconsidering what they believe to be truth. That's not easy; Christ, if you think 9/11 is the only thing Americans are deluding themselves about, you don't know much about Americans. This country has a black belt in ignoring unpleasant fact.

As much work as the real 9/11 investigators have done, as much data as they've found, all that has not even made dent one in the mindset of a vast, vast majority of Americans. You're asking them to swallow it all in one gigantic gulp. They'll never do it. Not until they overcome the programming they've been bombarded with for three years and do a little thinking for themselves.

So this was for them, not you. Remember one last thing: Moore's movie comes out in nine days. Most of the people who will see it never knew that Bush sat in that goddam classroom while the world collapsed around his ears. That, and everything else in this film, is going to kick them right in the temple. Then, perhaps, LIHOP becomes something they'll hear.

Maybe they'll read this before they go in. Maybe it'll cook in their thoughts for the next few days, and then they go see the film, and then...

I got this email below a few minutes before I got yours. This is who I was writing to. If you don't think reaching people in this way is important, you are worse than a waste to the cause. You are a detriment, an anchor.

---forwarded message---

Dear Mr. Pitt:

I want to thank you.

You've been enlightening me with truth for some time now; me, and my family and friends and anyone else who will listen.

Today your "Nine Eleven" piece did me a great service.

I'm a stay at home mother of three right now. I decided a while back that the US needs a mommy, very badly. I've become more and more
politically active over the last couple of years. At some time during
working on the Kucinich campaign, I decided that I am going to run for
president. I'm 35, so I figured 20 years was a good goal....now I'm
thinking 2020 instead, for the gimmick :) So far I've managed to join the local democrats club, become Chief Judge in my voting precinct, and am designing a website for democrats in my county. Also, I've become involved in Kids Voting.

I found myself in doubt today. I am having an unbelievable amount of
difficulty getting assistants to even help me run the polls in
November! I'm tired and have so little time to myself. I wondered (was
trying to rationalize) if I should give this goal up, just spend the time on keeping the house more tidy and supplementing the kids'
education. I was discouraged. I was trying to convince myself of my
"place" in this world.

Thanks for reminding me that I'm the patriot, not the unfortunate
ignorant who rip the bumperstickers off of my car. Thanks for helping me to recall that I absolutely cannot give in. This is the most important thing I can do for my children, no matter how far from my goal I fall, to stay on top of things and involved and institute and influence change. My husband is canadian, and I am outright horrified that we've decided to retain his canadian citizenship in case it just "gets that bad" here.

---end forwarded message---

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For the record, my knickers are not in a twist because this fellow hurled insults. I have two questions:

1. Is it so terribly wrong to take the tack I have taken with this essay? Are not the 90% of Americans who don't know what this man above knows worth reaching out to in a manner they can deal with? Isn't that the required next step?

2. Is this kind of vituperation good for the overall effort? I wonder how many mainstream journalists this guy has rendered completely incapable of hearing 9/11 truths because of his venom. That can't be helpful.

I appreciate the guy's frustration, to be sure, but damn. Hearts and minds, fellow. Hearts and minds.

What do you think?