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Submit Response is a weblog by Jack Mottram, a journalist who lives in Glasgow, Scotland. There are 1308 posts in the archives. You can subscribe to a feed. This post was made on September 7, 2003 and belongs in the politics category. The previous post was Stencil Graffito, and the next post is I Will Eat Your Children Too.

Conspiracy Theories

Okay, so all manner of insane cra­zies have been at work, in dank and dark rooms, trying to for­mu­late wild-​eyed the­o­ries about who was behind the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Wash­ing­ton, blam­ing Israel, Amer­ica itself, or some con­fed­er­a­tion of 12 foot lizards. How­ever, Michael Meacher (until a few months ago Sec­re­tary of State for the Envi­ron­ment) isn’t some crack­pot with an axe to grind, though in some quar­ters, he’s being treated as such.

The reason for this? Meacher’s arti­cle in yesterday’s Guardian, posit­ing that basi­cally, the Amer­i­can gov­ern­ment allowed Al-​Qaeda to oper­ate in order to pro­vide a casus belli for their expan­sion­ist aims of world domination.

First, it is clear the US author­i­ties did little or noth­ing to pre-​empt the events of 9/11. It is known that at least 11 coun­tries pro­vided advance warn­ing to the US of the 9/11 attacks. Two senior Mossad experts were sent to Wash­ing­ton in August 2001 to alert the CIA and FBI to a cell of 200 ter­ror­ists said to be prepar­ing a big oper­a­tion (Daily Tele­graph, Sep­tem­ber 16 2001). The list they pro­vided included the names of four of the 9/11 hijack­ers, none of whom was arrested.

Inter­est­ingly, do a Google news search on Michael Meacher, and you’ll find that the only news out­lets in the states that have picked up on this have done so by run­ning a single Reuters report that buries Meacher’s claims in the clos­ing para­graphs of an arti­cle about how opin­ion polls think that Tony Blair should stand down.

Posted at 7pm on 07/09/03 by Leon McDermott to the politics category.
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  1. Heh, I was think­ing of post­ing this last night. Here’s what I found typ­i­cally irri­tat­ing, the US embassy’s spokesman:

    His fan­tas­tic alle­ga­tions - espe­cially his asser­tion that the US gov­ern­ment know­ingly stood by while ter­ror­ists killed some 3,000 inno­cents in New York, Penn­syl­va­nia and Vir­ginia - would be mon­strous, and mon­strously offen­sive, if they came from some­one seri­ous or cred­i­ble.

    Uh, the alle­ga­tions aren’t fan­tas­tic, he’s just gath­ered together some unde­ni­able facts, all of which have been reported pre­vi­ously in count­less rep­utable sources. And, while being a member of cab­i­net obvi­ously doesn’t auto­mat­i­cally make you seri­ous and cred­i­ble, it’s not like he’s some raving loon who just popped up from the fringes. Still, easier to blus­ter than actu­ally refute the alle­ga­tions Meacher makes.

    Oh, and I wonder when Meacher drew these con­clu­sions. Pre­sum­ably after he voted for the inva­sion and occu­pa­tion of Iraq at every oppor­tu­nity. Odd that he doesn’t men­tion that.

    Posted by Jack at 12pm on 08.09.03

  2. Oh, and see also this time­line of events sur­round­ing the Sep­tem­ber 11th attacks. Some ques­tion­able tinfoil-​hatisms, but mostly kosher and taken from rep­utable sources. (and I added the all impor­tant link to the Meacher arti­cle to your post Len!)

    Posted by Jack at 12pm on 08.09.03

  3. Oops, did I cock up the link to the Meacher arti­cle? Apolo­gies. I think I’ve seen that time­line before; there’s another good one here which has some scary/interesting anom­alies regard­ing what Bush was actu­ally doing when it happened

    Posted by Leon at 1pm on 08.09.03

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  5. Brain Wash Tech­niques at work against some­one are not less decep­tive than the terrorists’ acts: Al-​Qaeda and links, mas­ter­mind, mafia, selec­tive club mem­ber­ship words we hear all the time. What hap­pens even with edu­cated people who have some type of device and/or link to learn a (x) person’s hap­pen­ings and com­mu­ni­ca­tion (all legal but per­sonal which requires pri­vacy) through wire­less meth­ods whom they want to harm per­son­ally regard­less of where the person is. Those who know this x person very well and are friendly with x person; these type of people brain wash this x person’s friends and include them in their own group to make the x person weak, iso­lated and harm this x person by cre­at­ing obstruc­tion in pro­mo­tion, salary, friend­ship by false and unfair means. They even con­tact the x person’s out­side work friends, and customers/clients to speak against the x person (by making some deal with them). They try to bring as many com­plaints as pos­si­ble. Ini­tially, it does not harm the x person because other people knew that this x person is very good and effi­cient and is not like that way as described by this person or these people. But they create too many neg­a­tives against the x person through brain­wash­ing tech­niques that this x person is finally harmed in dif­fer­ent ways – work effi­ciency is attacked and chances of not losing pro­mo­tion but also loos­ing job; frus­tra­tion from neg­a­tives through false and unfair means; iso­la­tion; attack on fair and good friend­ship; losses and more. They have access to x person’s com­puter not because this x person is doing any­thing ille­gal at all but because they learn this x person’s work this way by seeing the processed infor­ma­tion on com­puter, and also become aware of what is being done so that they can harm the x person. If the person applies for a job, they know from this x person’s com­puter or other means of com­mu­ni­ca­tion; and take this person’s name off the list or put it in the bottom not to be pro­moted. Also, if this x person wants to com­plain against these people, these people know exactly what this x person is going to do, to whom and when. These are called defen­sive and brain­wash­ing tech­niques. If they can defend them­selves and know about others, don’t you think Al-​Quaeda and links can be aware of what is being done against them and how they can brain wash/mastermind some­one to be in their group. How will you sep­a­rate these two types. That is why the ter­ror­ists net­work cannot be mea­sured in size (too large) as the devices are easily avail­able to any and there are too many types of club (mafia, bad unions, links, net­work) mem­ber­ships avail­able to many.

    Posted by xx at 12am on 28.08.04

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