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[I would have included this as a comment in the LIHOP Endgame blog, but it's getting so awfully long. -- c455]

not to get all stanley fish at this forum, but can we at least agree "facts" never "speak for themselves...."

facts are always heard, read, repeated, remembered in historical, cultural, political, and social contexts......

"facts" are embedded in "narratives" which are embedded in deep assumptions/presuppositions about how the world is ordered and functions and certain events have come to pass.

hence, some "facts" are not credible for almost everyone beyond the persuasive powers of the 9-11 truth movement, which itself is at times bitterly divided over real and not so real or even "fake" "facts" based on "erroneous theories" about what "really happened on 9-11."

the fact is, we do not know exactly how the operation of 9-11 was executed. we have ideas, which leads us to examine some facts or search for some facts over others....and, arguably, many of those "believing the official story" also would admit they do not know exactly what happened nor why...indeed, much of the post 9-11 period of examination involved the efforts of leading intellectuals, religious leaders and scholars to attempt to imagine how and why such an attack could have been carried out by "human beings" living in the same moral universe as "exceptional" americans.

why are the phone calls even important? only because some people's ideas of what happened on 9-11 contradict what they believe they understand the government to be saying about what happened on 9-11...

the fact is, the narrative of the official story for what happened on 9-11 is largely attributed to an alleged member of al qaeda captured by us forces-allies and interrogated by the cia, esp KSM, and his admittedly tortured testimony via waterboarding makes up the central "facts" of the "narrative": of the 9-11 commission report, which has been considered the official explanation of the us government, one which no serious mainstream elite media person, intellectual, or politico is allowed to question in any significant way if they want to continue to enjoy the benefits of being a serious mainstream elite in the usa.

facts never speak for themselves, facts speak for theories about some other set of facts people disagree about when it comes to the hows and whys of their occurrence...

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Submitted by newsfrombelow on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 7:46pm.
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