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Last updated: 02/09/10 12:32am

Editor,

I want to comment on two of the letters in the Feb. 4 opinion section — “9/11 an inside job” and “Daily Lobo a waste of paper” — two letters that, if truly representative of UNM’s student population, would make me ashamed to be a student here.
The latter, “Daily Lobo a waste of paper” was just mean-spirited and sweepingly dismissive, because an error or two had slipped into print the entire paper was worthless. I would hate for the school administration to think this opinion was shared by all the students here, as then they might take money from the Lobo and put it into, say, posters urging us all to “read.” (Have you seen those? Read, college students! Hilarious. I mean, sad.)
The letter failed to take into account that, as you no doubt know, the Lobo has just lost one of its best editors-in-chief in recent history, Rachel Hill, and is currently in a period of transition, during which some leeway ought to be given. (Full disclosure: I have both delivered and written for the Lobo in the past, and I have a fondness for it.)
As for the 9/11 truth idiocy: Come on people, stop it already! You’re making the left look conspiracy-minded and unintelligent. Hell, you’re actually making the left conspiracy-minded and unintelligent, and as a part of that left, I don’t appreciate it. These insane ideas are no more well-founded than the right’s “birther” conspiracies. It’s just that they appeal more to a left-leaning/Bush-loathing state of mind. It’s tempting to indulge in them because there’s an ample case for thinking Bush and Cheney are capable of any sort of atrocity, as villainous as they were. But as Matt Taibbi pointed out in The Great Derangement, not everything in the world can be accurately interpreted through the lenses of our beliefs. Just because someone might be Christian, for instance, it doesn’t mean that 9/11 and Katrina had Christian explanations; it doesn’t mean they were divine punishment for our so-called sins; and just because someone might hate Bush, it doesn’t mean that Bush planted bombs in the World Trade Center and caused 9/11. The fact that so many real crimes were committed surrounding 9/11 torture, wiretapping without warrants, war crimes and so on makes the emphasis on a bunch of made-up conspiracies instead of on the legitimate crimes that are much more outrageous. I recommend Popular Mechanics’ excellent special report, “Debunking the 9/11 Myths,” for further information on the subject.
Thank you.

Mike Smith
UNM student

Published February 9, 2010 in Letters, Opinion

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peace

February 9, 2010 at 8:52 AM
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Well there’s good news for you.

The bill S.773 Cybersecurity Act of 2009 will ensure that you may never have to hear about conspiracies ever again on the internet. In fact, you may never have to worry about ever hearing another person speak their mind on the internet.

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So kudos to you.

Kenzie

February 9, 2010 at 10:06 AM
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Really? Have you even read the summary of the bill? Just because there is a movement for some regulation doesn’t mean free speech is going to curl up and die because “cybersecurity” companies might need to be liscensed. Chill. America will suvive and so will the conspiracy nuts.

peace

February 9, 2010 at 2:00 PM
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Do you mean this summary?

This is comprehensive legislation designed to address our nation’s vulnerabilities to cyber crime, global cyber espionage, and cyber attacks. It would establish a new Cybersecurity Advisory Panel within the White House and stream-line the cybersecurity effort through all levels of government. The bill also calls on the Department of Commerce to establish and maintain a clearinghouse on information related to cybsecurity threat and vulnerability information to public and private infrastructure deemed “critical” by the President. The Secretary of Commerce would be given access to this information “without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule, or policy restricting such access.” The bill would also give the President new authority to “declare a cybersecurity emergency and order the limitation or shutdown of Internet traffic to and from any compromised Federal Government or United States critical infrastructure information system or network.”

Post American

February 9, 2010 at 2:37 PM
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Osama Bin Laden was the Nine Eleven “Conspirator” right?

Debunking 9/11 Conspiracies
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1227842.html

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The Hearst-owned Popular Mechanics magazine takes aim at the 9/11 Truth Movement (without ever acknowledging it by that name) with a cover story in its March 2005 edition.
http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/pm/
Sandwiched between ads and features for monster trucks, NASCAR paraphernalia, and off-road racing are twelve dense and brilliantly designed pages purporting to debunk the myths of 9/11.

It’s been 3,067 days since WMD said he’d catch the Nine Eleven Conspirator UBL uh ‘Dead or Alive!’ Nine years, how’s that going? Bin Laden is the dead nemesis of a bankrupt government. President Obama is lucky he rules over a nation of idiots and cowards. Nine Eleven was a Zionist War Game.

“Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It’s classified information.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEOecRtBU7U
— US official quoted in Carl Cameron’s Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11.

JD

February 9, 2010 at 2:54 PM
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Anyone who doesn’t believe in conspiracies has either never studied history or is a complete idiot.

The story of human history is one long conspiracy.

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Western civilization virtually would not exist if not for conspiracy. Conspiracies are everywhere. The founding fathers of this nation conspired in secret against the British. Lawyers and judges conspire behind closed doors. Doctor’s evaluations are secret. Corporations have proprietary information…a good portion of the military budget is secret…the list goes on.

Ever heard of the Bilderbergers? Global economic policy is created by conspirators. The G-7, CFR, Trilateral Commission, World bank, the Federal reserve – do we get to take part in their deliberations? All of these can be considered conspiracies of some sort.

Frankly, it’s the people who DON’T believe in conspiracies who are crazy.

Oh, never mind…just keep following the herd, sheeple. Can you say, Baaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh?

Oh, and BTW, the Popular Mechanics article from 2005 has been soundly debunked by people who have actually researched the topic, which is more than you can say, Mike.

Try Googling David Ray Griffin, Michael Ruppert, Peter Dale Scott or Jim Marrs for the real story. Or just use your common sense.

Ed

February 11, 2010 at 10:17 AM
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“You’re making the left look conspiracy-minded and unintelligent.” HA! As if these loony notions are the only idiocies that make the “left” look silly.

btw, if ya’lls intention is to alter folks opinion and thinking on this conspiracy stuff, name calling and sarcasm is sure to get them to do it, Right?

Conspiracy Theories

February 12, 2010 at 11:10 AM
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Conspiracy theories happen when you let retarded people have access to public resources.

joe

February 12, 2010 at 8:49 PM
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The government would never lie to us people. Remember, we live in a republic, so the government is by and for the people. Thinking that my tv shows and news stories aren’t real is deffinetly false, and if any one doesn’t love Obama then they should all be DEAD. KILL THE DISSENTERS!!!!

Bourne

February 14, 2010 at 11:33 PM
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Mr. Smith, I take it you’re not a regular reader of the Daily Lobo? For if you were, you’d know that both right and left wing extremist viewpoints are presented with a fair degree of regularity. And it makes perfect sense to do so. If the Lobo presented sensible letters written by someone who hadn’t been awake for 96 straight hours, furiously scrawling out delusional rantings in a Red Bull-fueled frenzy, the opinion page might be somewhat more representational of the readers but also entirely underwhelming.

Hyperbolic ranting drives circulation of the physical paper and online traffic. The paper is a business, after all. The difference is always clear when you compare for-profit media outlets with publicly-funded sources. Those seeking a profit will always pursue sensationalism in the content that is presented.

Post American

February 15, 2010 at 7:03 AM
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3,073 days since WMD said he’d catch UBL ‘Dead or Alive!’ LOL

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