GOP candidate says 9/11 attacks were a hoax

[reprehensor]

GOP candidate says 9/11 attacks were a hoax

From New Hampshire's Nashua Telegraph
By ALBERT McKEON, Telegraph Staff
Published: Thursday, Aug. 24, 2006

A Republican candidate for this area’s congressional seat said Wednesday that the U.S. government was complicit in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

In an editorial board interview with The Telegraph on Wednesday, the candidate, Mary Maxwell, said the U.S. government had a role in killing nearly 3,000 people at the World Trade Center and Pentagon, so it could make Americans hate Arabs and allow the military to bomb Muslim nations such as Iraq...

...Maxwell would not specify if she holds the opinion that the government stood by while terrorists hijacked four domestic airliners and used them as weapons, or if it had a larger role by sanctioning and carrying out the attacks.

But she implicated the government by saying the Sept. 11 attacks were meant “to soften us up . . . to make us more willing to have more stringent laws here, which are totally against the Bill of Rights . . . to make us particularly focus on Arabs and Muslims . . . and those strange persons who spend all their time creating little bombs,” giving Americans a reason “to hate them and fear them and, therefore, bomb them in Iraq for other reasons.” ...

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[greyl]

1. Yay!

We are officially through the looking glass.

www.maxwellforcongress.com/contact

edit: btw, can you link to a source other than yourself for this story, reprehensor?

[Sinti]

2. While I think she's right, WTF is she doing in the Grab Oil Party? n/t

[greyl]

3. I'm pretty sure Mary Maxwell isn't a "he".

Thanks for reading so carefully.

[mirandapriestly]

8. I think dems are afraid to speak out cuz they will be called

"soft on terrorism" or it will be seen as political. No one has figured out what to do when fellow GOP expose the lie.

[Sinti]

10. That's a really good point. I never thought about it that way :) n/t

[leftofthedial]

4. why is she a repuke?

[greyl]

5. The originators of many 9/11 CTs are repukes or 3rd party loons.

Why are you surprised?
I could give links to show what I'm talking about, but they're not allowed at DU because they're right wing conspiracy mongering sites. Hello.

I provided a contact link for Mary above. Why not ask her a few questions?

[mirandapriestly]

7. There are more RW "loon" sites promoting the OFFICIAL lie

and they call muslims all sorts of horrible names, even though no charges were brought or case proved against anyone on this , but that doesn't seem to bother you. When RW "loons" agree with you then they aren't loons and racism is OK, I get it

[greyl]

9. search this forum for the term "ragtag".

Before you do, guess which "side" is using the term, and guess who they're talking about.

[mhatrw]

11. A definition.

http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/ragtag?view=uk

Can we assume that you also find the word "niggardly" offensive?

[greyl]

14. It's a disparaging term, and I doubt

that it's a coincidence that it's only used in this forum by CTists in regards to Arabs while arguing that they are incompetent. Why not in regards to the bushadmin?

Fact remains, most CTs began on right-wing sites.

And no, niggardly isn't offensive.

[mhatrw]

15. "Ragtag" is disparaging when applied to the alleged 9/11 terrorists?

You have no problem accusing these 19 individuals of mass murder, but you are sensitive when someone accurately describes them as an incongruously varied group?

[greyl]

16. If niggardly and spic&span were used repeatedly to describe

an African American embezzlement suspect and the lack of arrest record of a Spanish maid accused of murder, I think it would be reasonable to assume the people using the term know exactly what they're doing.

Accusing someone of murder isn't racist, so your point is falling quite flat with me.

Furthermore, my larger point that 9/11 CT theories, as well as many others, began on right-wing loon sites stands strong with no rebuttal. Isn't it peculiar that so many of those sites have to be deleted from CTist posts here?

Conspiracy Theories and Far-Right Disinformation

The rabbit hole goes much deeper than you would ever believe. Or so the conspiracy theorists of the world would have you believe. But dig behind the scenes of the conspiracy crowd, and you'll find another conspiracy...
http://drlaniac.com/articles/view.asp?file=ConspiracyDisinfo.htm

excerpt from Right Woos Left, by Chip Berlet

Paranoid Conspiracism and the Right
...
There are many individuals around the country promoting unsubstantiated and often paranoid conspiracy theories in publications, lectures and radio talk show interviews. While some of these conspiracy theories are very attractive on the surface, and are undeniably entertaining, they ultimately serve to distract people from serious analysis and crowd out serious discussion of government misconduct, covert action, foreign policy, and civil liberties. It doesn't matter if the source is sincere, psychotic, sensationalist, or sent with disinformation by sinister souls to sink the story, the result is that careful and arduous investigations into a story are undermined as each element of an elaborate conspiracy theory is disproven.

There certainly are real conspiracies in history, and the U.S. political scene has been littered during the past thirty years with examples of illegal political and government operations ranging from Watergate to Iran Contragate, and from the FBI's Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO) to the systematic looting of the savings and loan industry. Separating real conspiracies from the fictional, non-rational, lunatic, or deliberately fabricated variety is the problem faced by serious researchers, activists, and journalists. In this paper the term conspiracy theorist refers to someone whose analysis of documents, statements, and other evidence has become uncoupled from a logical train of thought.
http://www.publiceye.org/rightwoo/rwooz9-02.html#P78_28432

Btw, it should be noted again that this thread is about a repuke who is supporting CT theories! Hello.

Thanks to salvordin for previously posting the above links.

[greyl]

19. late correction of spelling: salvorhardin. dang. nt

[mirandapriestly]

17. Makes no sense, does it?eom

[greyl]

18. Like I said, "Accusing someone of murder isn't racist."

However, it is racist to accuse a race of being incompetent in comparison with ones own.

[Make7]

12. You sure know a lot about rw sites.eom

[BootinUp]

13. I think I'm seeing double.

heh.

[mirandapriestly]

20. You sure know a lot of copying and pasting.eom

[greyl]

21. There isn't anything copied & pasted in that post. nt

[BootinUp]

6. she's confused

in more ways than one.

[wildbilln864]

22. Interesting!

I like em already!