Gwynne Dyer, a UK journalist, basically tries to discredit the entire 9/11 Truth Movement based on the theories proposed in Loose Change. One source. Don’t you learn about the importance of using primary, secondary, and multiple sources in journalism school?
“…the argument is pure paranoid fantasy, and it is rotting people’s brains.”
Oh, here I thought I just had a caffeine headache.
It’s pretty hilarious actually. I think it’s safe to say that not many of us in the movement believe every idea proposed by Dylan Avery. We all agree it’s one of the more extreme films in the 9/11 Truth world, but it’s also that extremism that has gotten us this far. It was Loose Change that I watched 3 years ago that got the gears going in my head. The gears that cranked open my eyes.
Aside from only using one source to come to his conclusion, Dyer also does not address the scientific arguments against the official 9/11 story, the ones that are far easier to understand than the political underpinnings. The fact that the buildings fell at near-freefall speed in the exact manner of a controlled demolition. The fact that 40 STEEL support columns magically disappeared. The fact that no steel-framed skyscraper has ever collapsed from fire, not before or after 9/11. The fact that there is NO PLANE to be found at the Pentagon “crash” site. The fact that even if there was a plane, the hole in the Pentagon was TINY and a 757 would never have fit. The list goes on. He did not research anything. He just says “I don’t believe that happened.” WOW what a smashing argument! Forget all that stuff I said about physics and science, what was I thinking?!
“I don’t believe that happened because I don’t think that Tenet, Rice, Powell et al. would have plotted the deaths of thousands of Americans. I don’t believe even Cheney would have done that.”
Oh and we mustn’t forget:
“…by linking their fantasies about 9/11 to the Bush administration’s deliberate deception of the American people in order to gain support for the invasion of Iraq, they bring discredit on the truth and the nonsense alike.”
Discredit on the truth? Seriously? Sort of a hypocritical statement considering he made no effort to research the truth himself. He goes by what has been spoon fed into his mouth and that was enough to satisfy him. To his credit, he did mention the Project for a New American Century, something many Americans have probably never heard of, even though it is the foundation of the Bush Administration’s war-profiteering and fear-mongering agenda.
But again, this is a classic case of dismissal for illogical reasons. Laziness really. Some people see two plates in front of them: one has the official story from the U.S. government with some avocado and what looks to be pesto on the side, though the avocado is a little too brown and they really don’t like pesto and can’t understand what people see in it. The other plate has some experimental dishes by the losers from Top Chef, the display is horrible, they forgot the parsley, and there’s dried food bits stuck on the spoon. Instead of demanding something else because neither looks very pleasing, they shrug and take the brown avocado plate. Since when have Americans been bad at demanding things? Why do we have Wal-Marts filled with millions of choices for consumption but here it’s one choice or the other? Why does it have to be the official story or the Loose Change story and that’s it? What ever happened to the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
“The greater conspiracy theory, on the other hand, is just plain loony, and yet more and more people are falling for it in the West, where it was once the exclusive domain of people with counter-rotating eyeballs and poor hygiene.”
If this article bothers you, I suggest responding to the Dispatch by way of a Letter to the Editor, and copy Dyer on that too. We need to FLOOD them with letters in opposition to Dyer’s ridiculous dismissal of truth. The same way the Towers were flooded with jet fuel hot enough to melt steel. What– – you didn’t know you could melt steel with jet fuel / a.k.a. refined kerosene?
To end on a good note, yes— the article isn’t in favor of the Truth movement. At least not overtly. However, it is still mainstream media coverage and as a friend said to me this morning, hopefully people will see through the illogical points that Dyer tries to make and it will actually end up benefiting the movement. Perhaps they’ll put the paper down, go to the computer, and Google “Loose Change”. They’ll watch it, disagree with parts, but move on to other films like “Press for Truth” or “In Plane Site” or “9/11 Mysteries.” Maybe they’ll get so ambitious as to READ A BOOK, like “New Pearl Harbor” or “9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions” or “9/11 and American Empire.” My point is, there are SO many resources out there, it is sheer laziness to make up your mind after considering only one viewpoint.
THINK FOR YOURSELF and look at ALL sides of this hegemonic hexagonal helium-filled balloon they’re trying to shove up— okay you get my point.
I guess the optimist in me would have hoped that the beginning of “a series of closed hearings yesterday to determine whether 14 alleged terrorist leaders … should be declared ‘enemy combatants’ who can be held indefinitely and prosecuted by military tribunals” would have garnered more attention and been placed on the front page. I mean these trials are 
