9/11 Truthers March on in Germany

Thank goodness the 10-year anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001 is  behind us.  Although I no longer live in New York, I am still a New Yorker at heart.  My sons were born just blocks away from Ground Zero in lower Manhattan.  For years I worked at 222 Broadway across the street from the Twin Towers and was knocked off my chair when the first bomb exploded in the 1993 WTC bombing.  The WTC attacks made me sick at heart; even worse was how the fear was manipulated in the ensuing years.  But New Yorkers could not be manipulated and for the most part have put the terrible events behind them, despite the best efforts of the Murdoch media empire. 

We certainly have 9/11 Truthers in the US, but they rarely make much noise, except at Ron Paul rallies.  But Truthers apparently abound in Germany, fueled by an irrational anti-Americanism.  In Karlsruhe 400 Truthers marched on Sept. 10 :

A "conference" on 9/11 Truther theories was also organized and over 150 people showed up.  The anti-American activist Jürgen Elsässer boasts on his blog: 

Trotz aller Medienpropaganda lassen sich die Kritiker der offiziellen 9/11-Theorie nicht zum Schweigen bringen. Auf zwei größeren Veranstaltungen mit derselben Stoßrichtungen formulierten sie zum 10. Jahrestag der Terroranschläge die offensichtlichen Zweifel an der Theorie von „Ali Osama und den 19 Räubern“.

(In spite of all the propaganda in the the media the critics of the official 9'11 thoery refuse to be silenced. Two separate large events with the same thrust voiced doubt about the theory of "Ali Osama the 19 thieves.")

9/11 Trutherism is a phenomenon of both the extreme Right and the extreme Left in Germany.  What unites them is a blind hatred of America. 

Comments

[Hattie]

Until the whole truth about 9-11 becomes known, conspiracy theories will abound. Why WAS Bush I at the Ritz Carlton with Osama's brother at the same time the towers were hit? What about the long-standing relationship between the Bushes and the bin Ladens?
Why were the bin Ladens allowed to leave the country?
And then, why was Iraq invaded by the Bush administration on the basis of false intelligence?
All these questions must be answered, and honestly.
I mean, isn't this all a little more than coincidental? Criminal even?

[FabMax]

What are you talking about? It's well known that Bush was at an official visit at a school when the first plane hit the towers. The whole thing was filmed!

And what has the Iraq invasion got to do with it?

[David]

George HW Bush met with Osama Bin Laden's brother on Sept. 10m 2001.

George W. Bush continuously invoked 9/11 (along with the WMD hoax) as a pretext for invading Iraq.

But none of this points to a conspiracy.

[Hattie]

I agree, David. I think you mean that the Bushes were not directly involved in the 9-11 bombing.

[Hattie]

And Fab Max: Bush I, Bush's father was with a brother of Osama bin Laden at the Ritz Carlton in Washington. Bush II was reading to schoolchildren in Florida.
Two different people. Get it?

[kevin]

why does questioning the official conspiracy theory mean you hate the USA? many former airforce pilots question the official conspiracy theory, and many other former officials in both republican and democratic administrations, including treasury, commerce, state and even fbi and cia officials and career service professionals have publicly questioned the official conspiracy theory.

people have problems with the story because the story does not add up. really that simple.

[David]

"many former airforce pilots question the official conspiracy theory, and many other former officials in both republican and democratic administrations, including treasury, commerce, state and even fbi and cia officials and career service professionals have publicly questioned the official conspiracy theory."

Who, for example? Nobody with any credibility....