I most recently ran into some 9/11 truthers — three of them actually — at the NDP convention last month in Vancouver. I was among several hundred convention delegates outside the Vancouver Convention Centre on a beautiful summer's evening enjoying a cocktail and some nibbles at the end of a day filled with policy debates when one of them spotted my “Media” badge and we started chatting about the day's events. I can't recall how the conversation turned but turn it did and these three young men patiently explained to me why the attacks of 9/11 were an inside job and why I was complicit in the media conspiracy to avoid uncovering the truth.
I had certainly not done the homework that my conversants had done and found it difficult to hold up my end of the conversation. This morning, though, I ran across some excellent resources as I began reading Jon Kay's so-far fascinating new book Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America’s Growing Conspiracist Underground which should help me the next time I'm called upon to participate in a discussion about who was behind the 9/11 attacks and why.
- Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts
- Debunking911.com
- 911Myths.com
- Screw Loose Change
- Mark Roberts Links for 9/11 Research
- Final Report of the 9-11 Commission
- Lawrence Wright: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
- Reports of the Federal Building and Fire Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster
- Brent Blanchard: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE COLLAPSE OF WTC TOWERS 1, 2 & 7 FROM AN EXPLOSIVES AND CONVENTIONAL DEMOLITION INDUSTRY VIEWPOINT [pdf]