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What percent of truthers that you interact with do you consider to be honest and sincere?

gretavo's picture
Submitted by gretavo on Wed, 2010-08-04 03:51.
0-10%
33% (14 votes)
10-25%
12% (5 votes)
25-50%
10% (4 votes)
50-75%
17% (7 votes)
75-100%
29% (12 votes)
Total votes: 42
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casseia's picture

Big difference between online and off...

Submitted by casseia on Wed, 2010-08-04 03:57.

And also, some of us have reduced our contact with real life truthers based on experience, which skews the results.

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Keenan's picture

It really depends

Submitted by Keenan on Wed, 2010-08-04 22:09.

In my experience, the average truther that I interact with who are not in leadership/high profile positions, but just the average folks who show up at truth gatherings and such seem to be genuine honest and sincere individuals. But as you move up the food chain towards those who are considered "leaders" or prominent personalities, the proportion of dishonest ones seem to increase in proportion to their level of influence/hierarchy or what have you. It seems that the majority of high profile web sites purporting to advocate 9/11 truth are run/dominated by dishonest/insincere individuals, for example. This web site is a rare exception to the rule...

It kind of makes sense, if you think about it. To become leaders, or to create a high profile web site often takes a significant amount of human and capital investment. Which kinds of people will have an advantage with this ability to throw time/resources into attaining higher level positions or the ability to publish/get things published? Obviously those of us who are just common folks and have to work regular jobs are not going to be as successful as those who are paid agents or have money/power interests to protect.

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johnscriv's picture

astute observations ...

Submitted by johnscriv on Thu, 2010-08-05 03:03.

indeed, it makes a lot of sense ... controlling the opposition by setting up fake truther sites as well as infiltrating popular "independent" sites is obviously a part of the perps game plan.

For this reason, the only credible 9/11 truth sites will be those run by honest individuals who are wise to the ways of the "opposition" and smart enough to scrutinize their users and identify suspect participants / contributors to their site.

Now this formula or strategy is not going to lend itself to total openness or truly democratic processes, since we are not dealing with a totally open, honest or democratic adversary.

It is not going to guarantee 100% accuracy or freedom from bias and error, but it will provide a measure of protection from the very real threat of infiltration and subversion by a devious and unscrupulous adversary.

That's part of the reason why I feel fairly comfortable here, knowing this site is well guarded.

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Keenan's picture

Egg-zakt-ly

Submitted by Keenan on Thu, 2010-08-05 09:24.

We here at WTCD don't enforce any set of beliefs and then use censorship and banning to enforce those beliefs like certain other 9/11 blogging sites that are steadily making themselves irrelevant to the movement. We do have a fairly large number of highly intelligent people who have become adept at spotting BS and disinformation, and identifying those who would seek to sabotoge our efforts/blog site. Some of the regulars here are what could be termed über-skeptical, "to the point of paranoia at times", according to one member here. No, we are not always right, but the über skepticism has helped us stay ahead of the curve and spot disinfo and troublesome infiltrators earlier compared to most other communities of bloggers. And thankfully, we don't seem to have the sort of lock-step group-think nor the over-abundance of idiots who dominate the discourse and ruin it for everyone, that goes on at certain other places. The best arguments and evidence should prevail based on superior reasoning and logic and information, not by bullying, group-think, or censorship. At least that seems to be the ideal for most people here, but we're not perfect. I haven't found any other blog community, though, that has as good of combination of these kinds of things that create an overall stimulating, intelligent, educational, honest, and civil discussion venue as this place does, imho. At least not since 911Blogger and TrueFaction became totally compromised in the last few years.

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