One thing that is great about the internet is that it gives the average man a voice, and therefore a chance to break the corporate stranglehold on the media, but it is also a double-edged sword. Uninformed and not so well thought out opinions are just as bad, or worse, when they come from citizen journalists.
From the Video..
"Alex Jones, the guy is a nut."
Reply...
This opinion is not really expanded upon, so the best defense for Jones I can offer is to point out that this is simply an ad hominem attack, and to note his achievements, and praise...
"This guy is a national treasure, a light breaking through the electronic Berlin Wall of the US media establishment."
- BBC Reporter Greg Palast
"Alex Jones is a true patriot, a genuine hero." - Actor/Director Charlie Sheen
Also noteworthy is that he admits he has only watched a small section of one of Alex's videos.
From the Video...
"Let's just say the government did it OK? Here is the problem, truthers are never going to prove it, because it's been how long, that's right, 8 years! I doubt all of the sudden they are going to find the evidence that they supposedly haven't found yet."
Reply...
And contrary to what the person who put this "video" together thinks, there is still ongoing research by truthers that involves new evidence...
Finally, there is also something to be said for people having knowledge, despite anything that happens in an official sense, I'm a sucker for the truth of an adage. Knowledge = Power. How do we know another 9/11 hasn't already been averted? As is pointed out in the book 9/11 Synthetic Terror - Made in the USA by Webster Griffin Tarpley (Note: I don't agree with all of his conclusions, or past allegations against other activists)...
"The open secret about drills is that they often hide the real thing."...
"Activists soon discovered Sudden Response 05, based on a 10-kiloton nuclear explosion in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. The websites mentioned (http://team8plus.org/ http://total411.info/) raised such a hue and cry about this drill, forcing an article in the main local newspaper trying to calm worried people down. The exposure worked well enough to cause the drill to be shut down before its completion. This was followed by a terror drill involving explosions in San Francisco Bay: a strange blast in the financial district at the end of this drill sent a woman to the hospital in critical condition. Then cam Granite Shadow/Power Geyser in Washington DC, with weapons of mass destruction and overtones of a military coup. All of these exercises were made more sinister by the shift of the official US strategic nuclear posture from deterrence and retaliation to global strike, meaning nuclear sneak attack, under CONPLAN 8022-22."
From the Video...
"Let's just drop this debate and move on to something more important because there's a lot more shit going on around the world that needs to have our attention now. We gotta move on."
Reply...
Well I for one can chew gum, rub my stomach, and pat my head at the same time. Furthermore, I think that anyone who makes such a statement hasn't thought the issue through. The implications of 9/11 being an inside job are massively important when we live in a post-9/11 world. Suggested reading...
Why We Need a New Investigation of 9/11 NOW!
We Can't "Move Forward" Without Truth and Justice
Zinn: 9/11 Truth Is For “Fanatics”, Has “No Practical Political Significance”
