[quote]JustTheFacts wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
Excellent post!
You guys rip on JTF but he always brings the info and links.
I try anyway - for what its worth.
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We’re not faulty you for providing links. We’re faulting you for the evaluation process that goes into selecting those links.
Ideally, someone takes a look - as objectively as possible - at all the available facts and evidence. Some of those “facts” might seem suspect or the evidence might be unsubstantiated. All information is not equal. Unretouched video and photos are generally more reliable than eye-witness testimony for example.
From the remaining valid evidence, one can then deduce reasonable scenarios. While not always true, in general simpler explanation tend to be more correct than complex ones, simply because their is less to get wrong.
The way you and most other conspiracy theorist operate is to first reach a conclusion. It generally involves various government agencies and lays out a nefarious plot to attack the public in some way.
You then go through the evidence and keep anything that corroborates your pet conclusion, while dismissing anything that contradicts it as propaganda or planted disinformation.
For example, in the Loose Change video about 9/11, 2 interviews are presented from people who think they say a missile strapped underneath the plane. But they conveniently forget to mention about 198 other interviews about people who saw an ordinary commercial airliner.
When discussing the Pentagon attack, the Loose Change video talks about a Cruise missile, then, later, a military fighter plane that might have fired a missile, or kamikazed into the Pentagon. Which is it? Apparently the conspiracists don’t care as long as it’s not the official version.
Then there’s all the various problems with the conspiracies themselves. Some require a rather extensive involvement from various TLA agencies, the military, special forces, etc. Not a single individual from all those people ever feel the slightest remorse at being traitors to their nation and fellow citizens?
No leaks, no denunciations? We are to believe that the government, who’s generally an enormously inefficient and collectively “stupid” bureaucracy who plods maladroitly through most problems suddenly becomes an exact and precise machine when it comes to executing those conspiracies?
There’s also the problem of what goal is being pursued. With 9/11, the stated goal is to justify the Iraq war. With the Oklahoma bombing, what is it? What did the govt accomplish by blowing up that building? There’s always various recurring themes such as “starting this war” or “reducing our civil liberties” and so on.
Yet, the government has managed to do both many times in the past without resorting to “fake attacks” on it’s people each time.
That governments capitalize on those events to manipulate popular opinion toward their stated or secret goals is one thing. To claim that the entire event was orchestrated from the start, meticulously planned and executed is something else entirely.
That’s why much of your posted information is dismissed or not treated very seriously.