Thompson's Dog Won't Hunt

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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0604/S00090.htm

Sunday, 9 April 2006

Thompson's Dog Won't Hunt

By Sheila Samples

When I first read the March 31 Capitol Hill Blue headline, "9/11 conspiracy theories don't pass the smell test," I thought editor Doug Thompson was pulling an April Fool's joke on us a day early. Buoyed by Thompson's well-deserved reputation for being out there first with "damn the torpedoes -- full speed ahead" -- truth no matter where it takes him, I read avidly to the end of the rant, poised to burst into laughter at his "Gotcha!" punch line. It wasn't there.

"I know my government," Thompson ended lamely, "They're just not good enough to pull off something like this."

That's it, then? Thompson's reason for ridiculing those who question 9/11 is, "it's improbable such a ragtag group" is capable of attacking a vulnerable nation and killing thousands of its people? Man -- in the wake of all that has happened since 9/11, that dog won't hunt.

If Thompson is serious when he says "the many theories surrounding 9/11 come mostly from conspiracy buffs" -- or when he says those whose judgment he trusts "support the facts that Al Qaeda planned and executed the attacks," then his credibility is destroyed on this subject and on all other subjects as well. If he's serious, there's no reason to revisit Capitol Hill Blue or Thompson ever again.

But I'm not convinced Thompson is serious. He's too good at what he does. Like he says -- often -- he's been in journalism "for more than 40 years." He's a hard-hitting reporter whose cognitive and investigative skills are legend; whose "unnamed sources" walk shoulder-to-shoulder throughout the administration; frolic through the halls of Congress. Thompson doesn't just report the news, he breaks it, busts it wide open and takes no prisoners. It is inconceivable that Thompson would back off a story of this magnitude, given his penchant for holding the administration's cloven hooves to the fire, especially those of George Bush and Dick Cheney.

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[Jose Diablo]

1. If the truth of 9/11 is that Bu$h/Cheney/Rumsfield set this deal up

all of the power centers in DC would fall. It would be the end of the federalists as well as the Republicans, the Democratic Party would not be far behind as the war hawks are in both parties.

It's hard to predict who would come-out on top.

But it would be the end, for DC, as the power center of this country.

It's the same as the JFK assassination, the truth will never come out. Our country could not withstand the truth and remain a single country.

Think of the Iraq War as displaced aggression. There exists a lot of hate in this country and as a result of 9/11 very real white-hot anger. If that anger were focused within rather than outside, it would be the end. All that anger would boil over, at the homosexuals, the blacks, the hispanics, the jews, just add anyone thats on the recieving end of hate. There are some uniting forces but by and large, our country is filled with hate for everyone against everyone. I'm surprised our country hasn't balkanised long ago.

I think the blacks are the reason we remained a single country all this time as they alone all through this, have been the universal object of this hate. If they had not been here, as someone to hate, all that hate would have split this country up. It's like that Mel Brooks movie, the western about this black sherriff. It's presented as humor, but humor can be like acid.

I hear our country as called the melting pot. I'd call it more of a pressure cooker. Surprising the cooker hasn't exploded long ago, from all the hate.