LATimes Mag 8/28-- 9/11 Conspiracy makes MSM via Erhman interview

[Gloria]

Have to register, but there is a BugMeNot.com id/password that works...

http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-crgriffin35aug28,1,3835884.story?coll=la-headlines-magazine&ctrack=1&cset=true


August 28, 2005
latimes.com : Magazine

METROPOLIS / SNAPSHOTS FROM THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE
Getting Agnostic About 9/11
# A society of nonbelievers questions the official version

MARK EHRMAN
Anyone who types the words "9/11" and "conspiracy" into an online search engine soon learns that not everybody buys the official narrative of what took place on Sept. 11, 2001. As a professor emeritus at the Claremont School of Theology, 66-year-old David Ray Griffin would seem to have more affinity for leather elbow patches than tin hats, yet after friends and colleagues prodded him into sifting through the evidence, he experienced a conversion. Now he's spreading the bad news. Griffin compiled a summary of material arguing against the accepted story that 19 hijackers sent by Osama bin Laden took the aviation system and the U.S. military by surprise that awful day in his 2004 book "The New Pearl Harbor" (published by Interlink, a Massachusetts-based independent publisher covering areas including travel, cooking, world fiction, current events, politics, children's literature and other subjects). He recently followed up with the book "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions" (Interlink), a critique of the Kean commission document in which he suggests that a chunk of the blame for the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil lies closer to home than the caves of Afghanistan. We contacted him at his Santa Barbara-area home for a report on his journey from mild-mannered scholar to doubting Thomas.

How did you join the ranks of those questioning the official account of the 9/11 events?


I was rather slow getting on board. For the first year and a half I just accepted the conventional view, really the blowback thesis, that this was blowback for our foreign policy. When a colleague suggested to me about a year after 9/11 that he was convinced our own government or forces within our own government had arranged it, I didn't accept that. Then several months later another colleague sent me a website that had a timeline. Once I started reading that and saw all those stories drawn from mainstream sources that contradicted the official account, I decided I needed to look into it more carefully, and the more I looked, the worse it got. I considered it an obligation to kind of organize, compile the evidence and put it out there for the public.

The Internet is full of 9/11 conspiracy theories. What have you contributed to the discussion?

My main contribution has been the second book, that the 9/11 commission report is not worthy of belief, and the implication of that is that they were covering up the government's own guilt.


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[lateo]

1. OT but how do you get Bugmenot to work?

I have it installed but it doesn't work with LA Times.

[Gloria]

2. It worked for me....I copied the LATIMES URL at the

registration page which came up when I accessed it from a link in an email I received. Copied the URL from the site, the plugged it in at Bugmenot. Then the working url and password came up and I plugged them in back at the LAT site....

[lateo]

3. Can you explain...

what you mean by you "plugged it into bugmenot"? Where did you do that?

[Eloriel]

4. YEAH!!! Paul Thompson's 9-11 TIMELINE!!!!

Then several months later another colleague sent me a website that had a timeline. Once I started reading that and saw all those stories drawn from mainstream sources that contradicted the official account, I decided I needed to look into it more carefully, and the more I looked, the worse it got.

Woohoo.