You got to love the diverse nature of the crackpots who inhabit the 911 Truth movement.
In 2004 Jerome R. Corsi’s wrote “Unfit for Command,” which inspired the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in their attack of presidential hopeful Senator John Kerry. His new book “Obama Nation.” is a similar hit piece on Barack Obama. Corsi is by his nature racist, anti-Semitic and believe 911 Was an Inside Job.
I got a little chuckle out of a comment on this blog that the collapse of the WTC was surely a controlled demolition, The reason? The poster proposed that the reason was “the physics of the event was self-evident”. NOT because he had any real proof of a deliberate implosion, but the weakest reason of all, the persons own personal obsevation. Now when someone calls an event “self evident” you know you are dealing with someone who is too stupid or far too lazy too dig up any real facts to back up their observation. And the self evident nature of the observation had to take into consideration the knowledge of the observer. If you don’t know what you are looking at, it is far too easy to be fooled.
To make a point, in 1492, Columbus sailed the oceans blue. The far to common legend even today is that old Chris did this to prove the Earth was round. But nothing could be further from the truth. Enlightened individuals of that time already knew the Earth was round and even had some idea of its size. The Greek philosopher Aristotle argued in his writings that the Earth was spherical. Fact is Christopher Columbus proposed to reach India by sailing west from Spain. He reasoned a longer westward sea route would work. It may have proven true but Columbus used an erroneous estimate of distance based on calculations by Ptolemy. King Ferdinand hired experts and scientist of the time to examine the proposal made by Columbus, and they in fact got the much longer distance correct. but as it is Queen Isabella overruled the experts and Chris sailed away. Hey, Lets face it, He got lucky!!!, if North American was not sitting where it is now he may well have died in the middle of a colossal sea journey.
But what has this got to do with the “self evident” nature of 9/11? You see the uneducated “common man” of 1492 may well have thought Columbus would sail off the edge of the world because to them it was so “self-evident”, the Earth was flat, Hey! it looks flat, right? “Dude!!! Just look the Earth is flat as a pancake” As with everything else the more enlightened members of society knew better and I can imaging them having a hell of a time trying to explain a round Earth to a bunch of dirt farmers who’s “self evident” world didn’t reach beyond their flat farm fields. This would rear it’s head again when good old science, with the help of Copernacus proved the Earth revolved around the Sun. But to the Church and other members of the unenlightened masses it was “self evident”, the Earth was not moving and the Sun and stars were spinning around over our heads.
And now we hear the same “common man wisdom” coming from a group of people who as a group know the nothing about structural dynamics of tall buildings, little of controlled demolitions and even less of the events surrounding 9/11. To them the towers were a controlled demolition not because they know how the a controlled demolition is done or the tremendous structural loads in a 1300 foot building, but because “Dude! It’s Self Evident”. “DUH… it LOOKS like one of them implosions I done sawd’ on my TV” It’s sold as an attractive proposition, you don’t need to know all that fancy physics stuff, that’s just those egg head science types trying to hold you down, you don’t need to research how events actually transpired, Why bother with all those pesky “facts”, you got YouTube and it’s self evident, the Earth is flat, the Sun revolves around the Earth and 9/11 was an inside job.
