Reply #38: Everything's sloppy [View All]

[JackRiddler]

That's the nature of life. We are creatures of mud, even a space shuttle launch or a microchip is based on approximations.

Of course they're sloppy, and stupid too. I don't think of 9/11 as the product of "masterminds" but of criminals with sufficient ruthlessness and a good insider's knowledge of how the system works.

Hundreds of loose ends were left. So what? "It only counts if it gets on TV." They know a) the governing apparatus will fall faithfully in line behind the flag whenever it is waved; b) the corporate media will not report anomalies in official stories, insofar as these suggest wrongdoing by secret government tentacles, or even the existence thereof; c) denial will be widespread; d) many academics will reliably step up to defend and excuse whatever power does, and blow the same old "conspiracy theory stupid, me smart" notes. Most important is that all this has worked before, many times. They more they got away with in the past (for example the Iran-Contra/CIA-Drugs/S&L-plunder complex of the 1980s), the more they will dare in the next round, especially as they get increasingly senile and detached from all sense of humanity.

True, "those who win at a rigged game, get stupid." (CA Fitts) The brief life of the "Kissinger Commission on 9/11" should have made that obvious, but who cares when it goes unreported?

As for your examples, consider:

Silverstein's gaffe - time and his company's press release show that it's variably interpretable and eminently deniable. No big deal.

Fat Osama - not necessarily a Bush mob or US govt. production. Anyone could have produced this, the key is that the State Dept. gave it the imprimatur.

Etc.