"United 93" director should be arrested for directing while blind.

[reprehensor]

(A lot of people have been speculating that this movie is going to be boilerplate 9/11 propaganda. Looks like these people will not be disappointed.)

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1749799,00.html

Chaos and cock-up always trump conspiracy

Alongside Hurricane Katrina, the tragedy of 9/11 is providing fertile ground for conspiracy theorists and the film industry. But this should hardly be surprising, says Mark Kermode. After all, conspiracies are comforting

Sunday April 9, 2006
The Observer

I recently found myself on Radio 5 Live's Simon Mayo show with film-maker Spike Lee. Discussing his forthcoming hurricane Katrina documentary, When the Levees Broke, Lee revealed that it will include testimony from people who don't believe that what happened was entirely accidental. 'Speaking to the black citizens of New Orleans,' he said, 'many of them told me that they will swear on a stack of bibles that they heard explosions and they think that the levees were blown up.'

...

Coincidentally, around the same time, I received an anonymously mailed package containing a DVD which purported to tell 'what really happened on 11 September 2001'. The DVD, entitled Loose Change: 2nd Edition, began with a warning that I could be arrested 'under section 802 of the US Patriot Act' for 'possession of this information' and a plea that I 'distribute this to friends, family and complete strangers before it is too late to do so'.

The film argued that the World Trade Centre was blown up from inside, that the Pentagon was struck by a cruise missile and that United Airlines Flight 93, in which terrorists were officially reported to have been overpowered by passengers, did not crash in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, but landed safely in Ohio.

This all sounded like baloney to me. But just to be sure, I contacted respected British film-maker Paul Greengrass, who's putting the finishing touches on his thoroughly researched, fact-based docudrama, United 93. Greengrass's film made headlines last week when trailers were reportedly pulled from New York cinemas. But controversy surrounding the movie was first sparked by conspiracy theorists who insist that flight 93 was actually shot down by the US air force and who dismiss the 'official version' of events as a lie. '9/11 has replaced the Kennedy assassination as the epicentre of this great upsurge of conspiracy theories,' concedes Greengrass, 'and flight 93 is right at the heart of it. Do I believe those conspiracies? No. The stuff about the plane being shot down is simply not true. But you have to ask why a document as exhaustive and accountable as the 9/11 Commission report has failed to dispel these myths.'

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"...exhaustive and accountable..." you have got be f*cking kidding.

David Ray Griffin
The 9/11 Commission Report: A 571 Page Lie
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=GRI20050908&articleId=907

THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT ONE YEAR LATER... A CITIZENS’ RESPONSE – DID THE COMMISSION GET IT RIGHT?
http://www.gnn.tv/B12001

Thoroughly researched, my ass.

[HamdenRice]

1. The last line is laughable!

Observer:

But you have to ask why a document as exhaustive and accountable as the 9/11 Commission report has failed to dispel these myths.'

Oh brother.

[KJF]

2. Accountable is the worst bit

Half the endnotes reference intelligence reports or other documents that haven't been made public.

[dailykoff]

3. Airplane 4, The Gospel of George