Just how much of an issue 9/11 still really is, was shown by the recent incident on the website of the Huffington Post, where the editor had asked former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura to contribute an article, but a few hours after having posted it, they took it off-line again. The title of the article: "What Really Happened on September 11?"Reason: It is against Huffington Post policy to publish "conspiracy theories."
The question I have is, if everybody is only supposed to parrot the official fairy-tale, then why bother to pretend to be any sort of alternative news source at all?
Ventura wasn't just warming up old theories, but reporting of the latest developments in the 9/11 truth movement, and the Huffington Post reaction is a classical example and proof that this whole issue is anything but over yet.
Come on: everybody is going hyper as soon as the slightest "evidence" comes out that might indicate that Jesus of Nazareth, also known as the Christ may not have been crucified, but buried with his wife and uncles in Jerusalem, or that He fathered dozens of kiddies instead...
If everybody is so gung ho to find out what exactly happened nearly 2000 years ago (since they obviously don't want to believe the "official" report on those incidents), then how come nobody could care less about the real backgrounds of the greatest crime in modern history that took place not even 10 years ago?
It just shows that the one thing people like Arianna Huffington couldn't care less about is the truth, unfortunately reflecting the vast majority of her cowardly colleagues of the international press.
The sad and deceptive thing about it is that these people pretend to be sources of new information and "uncovering" what's going on in the world, when nothing could be further from the truth.
They don't mind publishing "conspiracy theories" (formerly known as "inside information") about the "War on Drugs" (the forerunner of the current episode of the War-On Morons, the "War on Terror"), or about who shot Kennedy, but to deny the official fairy-tale that would take away any and all justification for the genocide in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and to some extent, Palestine, that puts you into the same league as "Holocaust Deniers."
It's okay for over a thousand architects and engineers to risk their reputation by demanding a new investigation of 9/11, but obviously newspaper editors fall into a much higher and nobler category of folks (at least in their own opinion).
Personally, it only confirms my own experiences of 3 1/2 decades with the press, and the reason why I don't have any respect for those people anymore at all.
It's just good to know that the Huffington Post can be taken off my list of potentially alternative news sources.
Who needs another episode of "Howling with the wolves?" - Not me!
If you want to sell me something you dare call news, then you'd better give me something better than that average run-off-the-mill hogwash that thousands of journalists around the globe sold their soul for, in exchange for the cheap mess of pottage of seeing their name under some article that says everything they're ever allowed to say in our Orwellian 21st century: absolutely nothing.
It's better not having learned to read at all than to have to wade through such lukewarm hogwash.
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