21-01-2014, 09:45 PM
A few days after 9/11 I was at a dinner party at a friend's house. I told them that even though flying was still not allowed over the US the Saudi's had been flown out by our government while so many Americans were stranded. One of the guys said to me that he simply could not believe that was the case or he wouldn't be able to live in the US anymore. A few years later I ran into him and he brought up that conversation and said "I was so naive".
Another conversation In another conversation I had with a relative about 9/11 he said that he couldn't believe that the government was involved in the WTC controlled demolition but could believe that they were involved in whatever happened to the Pentagon that day! I said, "How could the gov't be involved in one thing that day and not the others?" He just looked at me and realized how ridiculous his comment was.
I agree with you Tracy, 9/11 was much more frightening to Americans because they think that it happened to them and that JFK's assassination happened to him.
Another conversation In another conversation I had with a relative about 9/11 he said that he couldn't believe that the government was involved in the WTC controlled demolition but could believe that they were involved in whatever happened to the Pentagon that day! I said, "How could the gov't be involved in one thing that day and not the others?" He just looked at me and realized how ridiculous his comment was.
I agree with you Tracy, 9/11 was much more frightening to Americans because they think that it happened to them and that JFK's assassination happened to him.
Tracy Riddle Wrote:9/11 was more traumatic to the American people than the JFK assassination, IMO, and it struck deeper psychological nerves. It terrified people on a more personal level. Which is why so many Americans refuse to closely examine the case and are satisfied with the official story.
People can accept that a conspiracy killed JFK, but to accept that people within our government were involved in attacking innocent Americans is too terrifying. Deep down inside, most of us still want to believe in the comfortable myths we were taught in school about our institutions.
And most of the political partisans on both sides have figured out how to make the official story politically useful to them, so like the JFK assassination there is no incentive to question it.
Denial is the real problem. Disinformation is a much smaller problem.