Biker blogger Bruce Arnold, purveyor of the peculiar logic that motorcycle helmets are more of a danger than riding bare headed (crazy but not so crazy that it kept the Florida legislature from tossing the state’s mandatory helmet law), has inadvertently proven quite that brains need protecting.
Arnold, of the Bikers Forum, has veered out of the mainstream to ride with the 9-11 “truthers,” who cling to the world’s biggest conspiracy theory. Maybe, it was one too many spills without a helmet.
Arnold writes:
I now have reason to believe that "9/11" may have been an inside job. I have a good idea as to what might have happened, and recognize that our government's official story defies both physics and logic. I also have a good idea as to who might have been behind the attacks, and what their motives might have been for staging them. What I do NOT have with any certainty, however, is the ACTUAL TRUTH about what happened to our nation on 11 September 2001.
Looking for a responsible adult to support the truther movement, Arnold brings in the former attorney general of New Jersey and a member of the 9-11 commission.
The 9/11
Commission Report has been exposed as almost entirely untrue by John Farmer,
the Dean of Rutgers School of Law--Newark who served as Senior Counsel to the
Commission. In short, THEY LIED. As that is now public knowledge, it is time
for Americans to ask some tough questions, and for once in our history, insist
on the real answers. Specifically, I hereby call on all who read this to
contact their United States Senators and Representatives and DEMAND a new,
impartial and independent investigation to uncover for once and for all the
Truth about 9/11.
Unhappily for Arnold, what Farmer actually maintains is that the upper reaches of the government and military were caught utterly unprepared by the attacks. That our federal government reaction was one of incompetence. And tried to hide the incompetence.
In an Oct. 16 interview with Newsweek, Farmer, now dean of Rutgers Law School, definitely did not endorse the truther’s explanation for 9-11. Asked about the conspiracy theories, Farmer said:
Well, it's just simply not true. I understand some of the impetus for these conspiracy theories because when the government hasn't told the truth about something, and that comes to light, then people's imaginations are sort of free to run wild.
Farmer explained the 9-11 reaction:
What happened on 9/11 was simply a trailing consequence of all the malfunctions of government that had occurred in the prior 10 years. In virtually every department, there was a growing awareness of the threat of al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden through the '90s. What people who were engaged with the outside threat encountered was incredible inertia at the bureaucratic level that really prevented the government from effectively reconfiguring itself against the threat.
Farmer added:
The fundamental ineffectiveness of the government. And when I saw the same kind of pattern emerge in response to Katrina, it really brought it home for me. Katrina was not a surprise. Yet you still had a very similar dynamic play out with Katrina, where you had the top levels of government talking to themselves and estranged from people on the ground reacting to it.
The lesson here. Wear your helmet. Keep your brain from being scrambled.
