Reply #235: Actually, I had a similar experience...

[JackRiddler]

So I'll quote you:

I worked on all this long and hard, and spent several years getting publicly kicked in the balls for my trouble, because for too much of the movement, questioning one part amounts to questioning the whole. I mean YEARS, and every single time I wrote or said anything that didn't cater to some Truther's orthodoxy, I got the firebombing-of-Dresden treatment but good. I've been getting hate mail from the Right for a decade, but nothing they ever said comes close to the bile I got from Truthers because I didn't think a missile was fired from beneath the planes that hit the Towers, didn't believe a missile hit the Pentagon (because I have a friend who saw it happen and another who was comrades with the pilot who died), didn't believe something or other that was patently nonsense but, apparently, off-limits to criticism. I got fed the fuck up, and if you were in my shoes, so would you.

Blaming me for my inability to kick through the nonsense isn't fair. I tried my ass off, but I eventually lost out to three groups within the movement who exist now in this awful symbiosis: those who believe unsupportable theories and peddle them relentlessly, thoise who peddle unsupportable theories to discredit the line of inquiry or to make money, and those who want to hear their worst fears "confirmed" by any source they can find, and thus buy into all the garbage that has paralyzed the movement.

Really. In this field I worked at least as hard, and daily, and got kicked in the balls, many many times, and fed the fuck up.

Now. How is this a reason...

a) to blame Cynthia for anything here, or to bring up these issues in this thread?

b) to lose sight of which remains more important - 9/11 deception and exploitation by the Bush regime, and the imperative to get disclosure and justice, or the relentless and/or opportunistic stupidity of many "truthers"? (Use of the term to describe oneself is already a tip-off.)