Satirical news agency The Onion has posted an article on their website entitled "Construction Complete On 9/11 Truther Memorial". Typically mocking the mundane and sometimes vulgar, the junior-high-humored "news" agency has overstepped it's usual bounds and acted in a manner that is completely inappropriate and laughs in the faces of the victims and their families as well as all those who refuse to give up the search for truth and justice.
While attempting to mock "truthers", the article gives a surprising amount of information about the events surrounding the attacks according to the so-called 9/11 truth movement. Specifically mentioned are the CIA/terrorist connection, remote control of airliners, explosive charges/WTC 7/controlled demolition, inability of jet fuel to melt the steel supporting the WTC structures, and the fact that the President continued to read to schoolchildren instead of being rushed to safety by the Secret Service detail.
Aside from the particulars, The Onion also includes the "laughable" background to the events, citing the Bilderberg Group, the Carlyle Group, the Trilateral Commission, and the New World Order. The article basically sums up the background to this supposedly ridiculous conspiracy by stating,
"...a labyrinthine network of federal agencies, defense contractors, and oil companies went to enormous lengths to make it look as though an Egyptian man leading a group of 15 Saudi Arabians had attacked the United States, then used this as a pretext for invading Iraq and Afghanistan to gain access to priceless Central Asian pipelines and begin devaluing the American dollar in preparation for an economic war with China that will plummet the global econ≠omy into a massive depression from which a single fascist corporate state will eventually emerge."
The writers at The Onion also seem to be a jab at "truthers" by invoking Ol' Reliable, Anti-Semitism: "several thousand Jews...received advanced warning not to go into work on 9/11". Surprisingly, this and little else is the extent to which the article attempts to manufacture false claims and attribute them to legitimately concerned people regarding the facts and evidence surrounding the events of September 11, 2001. However, the intent of the article is clear; to mock and undermine. But the attempt is hollow and juvenile at best, which only gives credit to those who are seeking justice and accountability.
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Sadly, there are countless cases of individuals or groups who seek to “mock and undermine” those who seek truths and in doing so attempt to make a mockery of the truth itself. If the subject of the mockery is an actual truth though, I think all is eventually brought to light- the mockers learn The Truth they once ridiculed.
“How long will you simple ones love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?... But since you rejected me when I called…since you ignored all my advice…, I in turn will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you. … Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me. …”
Paralleled in a well known pop culture work.
“The accumulated filth of all their their sex and murder will foam up around their waist, and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout,
"Save us!"
And I'll whisper,
"No".”
Very well said.
The first quote is from Proverbs. The second I know you know. I liked the movie. Nite Owl ruins aspects of it with his general pansyness and having to "find himself," Manhattan could have worn some kind of clothes and been taken more seriously, but other than that, pretty good comic book movie.
On a more serious note (maybe a couple of notes), this Onion article sounds a lot like (almost dead on the tone of) George Carlin mocking Christianity in his many routines. His goal was to “mock and undermine.” I was watching the joke of a show Larry King Live last night when I heard an entire interview full of ignorance from Bill Maher- some of which concerned the attacks on 9/11. Se the clip below for a small taste (~10 minutes worth) of the circus train wreck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT1-cRSYheg
“We got the guy who was responsible for 9/11 [KSM]. Now, hey New Yorkers, ‘forget ah’ bout it.’”- Bill Maher. (~8 min mark of the clip)
Nothing like watching Bill Maher be given air time to tell New York and the rest of the country to forget about 9/11 because it has all been taken care of. I also realized the insanity of the interview when Larry King and Bill Maher laughed it up while talking about how a woman was stoned to death by her village in the middle east for the crime of eloping (~4 min mark of the clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgHM9LWEjNU ). “It has to hurt when the rock comes and its from your mom- ah ha ha ha ha ha” What a couple of geniuses these guys are!
There are about 30 other comments that Bill Maher stated as fact that are totally false. Absolutely ridiculous.
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