Reply #50: why do 911 truthiness dolts feel the need to convert others?

[petgoat]

We need a new investigation of 9/11 so we can get at the truth, because the
investigations we've had are so woefully inadequate. The way to do that is
to build a political movement of people demanding of their Congressional
Representatives that a new investigation be undertaken. That takes numbers.

The process of argument tests my ideas. I started in June of 2004 after I very
reluctantly went to see Fahrenheit 9/11. I was apolitical, and I'd read that the
movie was mean-spirited and full of lies. But I thought I ought to see what
everybody was talking about. And I was shaken. I saw that the fact-checking had
been done by a respected law firm. I didn't know what to think. So I went out to
the internets, and whenever I saw a discussion of F911 I joined in. And when
somebody said it was lies, I said "name the lies". They rarely could, and when
they did name a putative lie, I checked it out, and always found it was not a lie
at all. (Except one. Moore said Bush's inaugural motorcade was "pelted with eggs."
Only one egg has been verified.)

I went to see one of the 9/11 Commissioners speak, and people were handing out
pamphlets at the meeting. I took one home and read it and I said "If even half of
this stuff is true, we're in big trouble." Well it was all true. I took those
ideas out to the internets too, and nobody could mount a decent counter-argument.
All I got was ad hominem and straw man and illegitimate appeals to authority.

That's surely more than you wanted to know, but it was helpful for me.