LAT: 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists Gather in N.Y. (LIHOP/MIHOP mentioned)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-conspiracy10sep10,0,5347883.story?coll=la-home-headlines

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As New York readied for another anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, conspiracy theorists and researchers who belong to a group known as the 9/11 Truth Movement gathered in Greenwich Village. Among them were proponents of the "LIHOP" theory, who believe that members of the government "let it happen on purpose," and the "MIHOP" theory, who hold that government officials "made it happen on purpose."

Polls show that many Americans distrust the government on the subject of Sept. 11. A Zogby International poll taken in May found that 42% believed the government concealed evidence that contradicts official accounts. A Scripps Howard-Ohio University poll taken in August found that 36% believed it "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that federal officials allowed the attacks to occur because "they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East."

The theories — especially the notion that the towers fell in a controlled demolition — have become widespread enough to prompt official responses.

Last week, Brigham Young University announced that physics professor Steven E. Jones, co-chairman of the group Scholars for 9/11 Truth, would be put on indefinite leave while authorities investigated his claims that the buildings were intentionally demolished using explosives.

"Culturally, as a society, it becomes unhealthy," said Christopher Farrell of the conservative think tank Judicial Watch, which successfully filed suit against the government seeking the release of a video showing American Airlines Flight 77 hitting the Pentagon. The think tank was hoping to put to rest beliefs that the explosion was caused by a missile.

"If an individual demonstrated this sort of behavior, medical health professionals would recommend they treat it," said Farrell, a former military intelligence officer and the organization's director of investigations and research. "There's healthy skepticism, and then there's unhealthy."

[ixion]

1. Mr. Farrel, LYING is unhealthy

We're not talking about skeptiscism here. We're talking about physics and chemistry and the FACT that the 'official' story doesn't seem to bother to take these to old sciences into account, and requires the reader to accept that the whole thing was a 'series of unfortunate events', as it were.

:eyes:

[Joanne98]

8. Judical watch's video just added fuel to the theory. LOL

We STILL couldn't see an airplane.:)

[fasttense]

2. It is all because the government is so secretive and

the mis-administration never did a full investigation immediately afterwords. Add to that the fact that this WH does really stupid national security things like tell the terrorists when it is safe to fly on US planes by giving them a color coded chart to follow and turning operations of our ports over to the money launderers of the attacks. It appears as if the WH is in with bin Laden.

[TomClash]

4. They are covering up one or more of three things:

complicity by certain elements within the federal government

colossal mistakes made by federal officials

an actual LIHOP/MIHOP plan including top officials.

[TomClash]

3. Were they discussing the REAL "Path to 9/11?"

Just askin'

[CJCRANE]

5. It's funny how people

dismiss the 9/11 "conspiracy theories" until they actually read up on the discrepancies themselves.

I took David Ray Griffin's "New Pearl Harbor" round to my dad's to try and lend it to him. I had a big argument with him because he was convinved that he'd read everything he needed to know about "conspiracy theories" in the newspaper so he didn't need to read the book. I asked him exactly what conspiracy theories he'd read about and he came up with some strange story about lottery numbers I'd never heard of. Anyway we changed the subject but I left the book at his house.

And guess what? Next time I saw him he'd read the book and learnt a lot from it and now my brother wants to borrow it.

[RC]

6. Changing the world one person at a time.

[Joanne98]

7. So many people think they know things when they won't even look

at the evidence. My sister's like that. I think she's scared of the truth.