{"id":579,"date":"2007-04-12T08:53:57","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T16:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=579"},"modified":"2007-04-12T08:53:57","modified_gmt":"2007-04-12T16:53:57","slug":"accepting-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=579","title":{"rendered":"Accepting Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill whipple writes another excellent essay<\/a> on conspiracy theorists and “truthers”:<\/p>\n

My father was interred at Arlington National Cemetery in 2002. I will never forget that day. It changed my life, and was the event that started me writing here at Eject! Eject! Eject!<\/p>\n

The man who coordinated that service was on a hill about a half-mile from that side of the Pentagon on the morning of September 11th, 2001. He told me that they had been informed that something was going on in New York that morning. Then he heard something that he said he thought was a missile attack \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a roar so loud and so far beyond a normal jet sound that he looked up at that exact moment expecting to die.<\/p>\n

What he saw emerge from the trees overhead, perhaps a hundred feet above him, was American Airlines Flight 77 as it went by in a silver blur, engines screaming in a power dive as it hit the near side of the Pentagon. He told me \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to my face \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that body parts had rained down all over that sacred field. Just like red hail on a summer day. Those body parts are buried in a special place at the base of that hill.<\/p>\n

Now. If Rosie O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Donnell and the rest of that Lunatic Brigade is right and I am wrong, then that man \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that insignificant Army chaplain and his Honor Guard of forty men \u00e2\u20ac\u201c are all liars. He is lying to me for Halliburton and Big Oil. That Chaplain\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand all of those decent, patriotic young men in the Honor Guard, and all the commuters on the roads who saw an American Airlines jet instead of a missile \u00e2\u20ac\u201c ALL of those people are liars and accessories to murder. And all of the firefighters who went into buildings rigged to explode were pre-recruited suicide martyrs dying for George W. Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plans for world conquest.<\/p>\n

Remember: NOTHING that happened on September 11th needed any more explanation than what was obvious from the second impact…namely, that Islamic terrorists hijaked four American aircraft and flew three of them into their targets. To try to convince people of missile attacks and rigged explosives and mystery jets is nothing more than an intentional assault on reason and common sense, one that damns the innocent and protects those mass murderers with our blood on their hands.<\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an obscenity. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a filthy, God-damned, criminal obscenity.<\/p>\n

Nothing less.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill whipple writes another excellent essay on conspiracy theorists and “truthers”: My father was interred at Arlington National Cemetery in 2002. I will never forget that day. It changed my life, and was the event that started me writing here at Eject! Eject! Eject! The man who coordinated that service was on a hill about … Continue reading “Accepting Reality”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}