linking 911 truth movement with you name it
Faked moonlanding, looking at the universe with the eyes of oxen, Obama birthers, creationists of tomorrow!! (laughable), 2012er-doomsday cultists, classic examples of blind belief, ignore the real facts without a shred of factual data, etc., appeal to emotions and impulsiveness vs. rationality, cling to invalid claims, astrology-as-science believers, and hold a NEOLITHIC world view. Ta da..oh did I say ad hominemers?
http://thehumanist.org/humanist/10_jul_aug/Trent.html
....excerpt
".....9/11 Truthers and the Creationists of Tomorrow
On the other side of the political fence, the 9/11 Truth Movement is a classic example of blind belief. Basing itself largely on cleverly edited “documentaries,” that are as Machiavellian in design as anything in living memory, this collection of loosely affiliated groups—who suspect that the 9/11 attacks were part of a covert U.S. government operation—ignore hard data in favor of a raw, undocumented belief system.
I was in a café not long ago when a gentleman stated his belief that the World Trade Center towers had been brought down by controlled demolition. When faced with my open skepticism, his reaction was to ask me several questions: How could I believe the official story? How could I support George W. Bush? And did I really think that there wasn’t a connection between the bin Ladens and the Bush family?
The three questions were irrelevant. Worse, they were intellectually dishonest. My acceptance of the “official story” was not predicated on belief but on data. By contrast, my friendly neighborhood conspiracy theorist was spouting the talking points from the film Loose Change, which has been re-edited and re-released three times and discredited each time. The question of whether or not I supported Bush was also not relevant to the discussion at hand, and neither were any ties—demonstrable or not—between the two political families.
Predictably, countering such a believer leads to vehement ad hominem attacks, as well as charges that the skeptic is either part of the conspiracy itself or is not being open-minded. Yet true skepticism is precisely ......"
you left out...
supporters of Glenn Beck! :)
Worse, they were intellectually dishonest.
"Worse, they were intellectually dishonest."
This preemptive accusation against their opponent(s) sounds so erudite and righteous, don't it? Anyone who makes such a charge, with its "in a position to cast down judgment from high upon their enlightened pedestal" implication, couldn't possibly be the true master-perpetrator of "intellectual dishonesty" in their whole rhetorical game of deception, could they?! I mean, anyone in a position to recognize & condemn the "intellectual dishonesty" they accuse others of, would naturally be a person of the virtuous sort of character which would NEVER engage in such insidious dishonesty themselves, right? RIGHT?! And they would NEVER preemptively posture as "victims" of said "intellectual dishonesty", RIGHT?!
Classic "Chutzpah Maneuver" deception technique; it's the #1 favorite of the Great Deceivers who rule the West. Here dubya's puppeteers use the ploy to try to pull the wool over the world's eyes re 911- notice how masterfully they rhetorically turn reality 180 degrees upside down, while also seeking to preemptively marginalize the inevitable 911 TM, which only consisted of perhaps a dozen people then, only one month after the FF attacks:
November 10, 2001 - President Bush Speaks to United Nations
G.W. Bush:
"We must speak the truth about terror. Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves, away from the guilty. To inflame ethnic hatred is to advance the cause of terror."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/11/20011110-3.html
"outrageous CTs", "malicious lies", "shift the blame away from the real guilty terrorists", GREAT STUFF! The cherry on the cake: condemning "inflaming ethnic hatred" (whilst seeking to deceive the population into hating arab muslims), and "advancing the cause of terror", LOL nuff said.