The Day No Moles Would Die

It is time for those in the 9/11 Truth effort to stop squandering the precious time and energy employed in responding to and attempting to refute (however successfully) any and all theories not sanctioned by the government that purport to bolster the "official" version of events. This would include the Rube Goldberg fantasies proffered by Popular Mechanics (in either periodical or book form), speculations by radio pundits and televised talking heads, editorial pronouncements from self-appointed "conspiracy debunkers" of Pitts-Cockburn-Taibbi stripe, and the sly brickbats cast by anonymous "experts" lurking in internet chat rooms.

Whether these moles are bona fide government shills floating trial balloons that the Washington establishment itself is too craven to endorse, or are merely proud Americans so far gone in terminal cognitive constipation that, however much they hate the current Administration, they assert the government "would never do anything like that," we must refrain from whacking them. (The latter are actually the more troublesome subset of hecklers, since they acknowledge the villainy of the elite while exonerating it of its most obvious crime.) Though pesky they may seem, they do not actually endanger our lawn. They exist instead to cloud and distort the issue, and to keep 9/11 Truth-seekers occupied in replying to their diversions and hallucinations. They feed on our attention, and any retort helps them to flourish.

There is but one Official Theory on the collapse of the buildings at the World Trade Center, and that is the account embodied in the ten-thousand-page report (produced at the cost of twenty million dollars) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Any other theory is simply not worth responding to. The NIST document, being the story offered by the government itself to cover and cloud its own wrongdoing, is the account that every 9/11 Truth researcher and activist must refute through concerted effort.

Fortunately, for all its bulk, the NIST report is easily demolished. It may be handily discredited through its assertion that the Towers fell as a result of the jet-fuel fires (after the planes dislodged the fireproofing material), its computer models manipulated to provide an outcome favorable to its own case, its refusal to show the visualizations of events leading to the moment the buildings were poised for collapse, its lack of data concerning the structural behavior of the buildings after the initiation of collapse, and its absence of any mention of the free-fall implosion of WTC Building Seven.

Directing the main force of the 9/11 Truth effort toward debunking this mendacious and unscientific document should be our primary concern. Once this Official Theory is proven conclusively to be a sham and that proof is made evident to all, let the moles, shills, Kool-Aid dipsomaniacs, and keepers of the flame of cognitive dissonance shout their cacophony of denial from the housetops. If we then need to respond, it should be with howls of laughter and the occasional well-aimed bit of ripe produce.