RT's Report From the Field, and a Call to Collaboration

Just had a nice conversation with a person of ******** heritage who stopped to say that they had been interested in some of the 9/11 truth stuff for a while but had given up on it for whatever reason. During our conversation it became clear that while this was a very well educated and well informed person of good consicence (peace activist, etc.) they believed that no matter what else was true about 9/11, the terrorists who flew the planes into the buildings are horrible people who most reasonable people from their country detest for good reason. They had not heard of David Griffin so I'm not sure what kind of crap may have led them to lose interest/cling to the Islamofascist myth, etc.
It seems to me that there are probably lots of people like this, who mistakenly think that 9/11 truth somehow implies a defense or justification of terrorists. I explained the notion of the protection racket and how some radicals are useful idiots, but also that we didn't, as they thought, know for sure that the planes that day were hijacked by such radicals.
Everyone we encounter in the streets will have their own reasons for resisting the truth. We need to understand and categorize these reasons and share with each other the best methods of helping them to overcome those psychological barriers. If I have time I'll do it later, but if someone wants to get the ball rolling that would be much appreciated.
What are the categories of denial into which people fall? What are the best ways to reach each type, enough to at least plant a seed that might grow over time if not snap them out of their denial outright?

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i'm in denial
i'm battling with my denial about TV Fakery, maybe-missiles, photoshopped jumpers, and evacuated buildings pre-pulver!!! oh yeah, oh yeah. so what category of 911 truth denial is that?
just when you think you've been down all the rabbit holes, go figure.
i hate to say it but...
I have good friends who saw the jumpers and I trust them 100%... fwiw!
trust
all the more enforces my denial of fakery, brother G. thanks
i'll hedge a little though...
Suppose there WAS some kind of video fakery involved--wouldn't it make sense for the cover-uppers to create a *bogus* case for video fakery along the lines of Nietzsche's perfidious harm by defending a cause with faulty arguments? Our minds must be open enough to absorb new and better info but not SO open as to make a mess of our thought!
deontology
moral imperative
(new term pour moi - like much)
maybe the way lies herein
this little seemingly superfluous aside (on my part) about denial and jumpers.
We must believe in and appeal to the denialists' inherent sense of compassion for those who suffered and died. "for the sake of the victims and the victims' families, is it not an imperative that you/we-together reexamine the facts and then seek justice?" (JG does not hold patent on this phrase)
and, as we are all well aware here, this is just the first big step - to get them questioning and seeing the official story as myth and motivation for endless war, suffering, sacrifice,and the killing of innocents.
"truth loves nothing better than simplicity of truth" Muriel Barbery
agree with a caveat...
If we lean to hard on "what the victims and families want/deserve" we have to deal with the families, some of whom may well be lying about having a relative who died, claiming that they are "hurt by those awful conspiracy theories"... If we do this I think we have to pick our family members wisely--Lorie Van Auken, for example, endorses Griffin's books--that's good. Bob McIlvaine endorses CD (I think). But the "Family Steering Committee" as a group seems way too LIHOPpy...
But why the need to hide the heritage?
"Just had a nice conversation with a person of ******** heritage"
i dunno...
I got the feeling they felt they were taking a risk being seen talking to me, so took the precaution... nothing sinister intended, I swear!
bump!
added pic...