Diane in Panic Mode?

There's an interesting blog entry over at blogger proposing a civil suit against the security companies at the WTC, which reads, in part:
If the family members of the victims who died in the collapse of the towers and building seven sued the security companies for negligence in civil court, this would be our foot in the door of the legal system and set the stage for criminal proceedings in the future, as well as treason charges. Civil court has the advantage of having to only prove the probability of the defendant being guilty, as opposed to beyond a reasonable doubt in criminal court. So, if we were able to present a case which showed the collapse of the 3 buildings on 9/11/01 was PROBABLY due to controlled demolition, then the security companies would be liable due to the fact they did not prevent the explosives from being planted.
Definitely check out the whole thing including this comment from "avid":
This proposal is one of the best strategies to come to my attention in four years of personal 9/11 truth study. In complex legal cases, such as Enron, it is usually customary to build a case from the bottom up by taking sworn testimony from the lowest relevant echelons first. In my opinion, too much energy has been dissipated by focusing on the top brass. We needn't try to keep the pyramid upside down and balanced on its apex. The above proposal has matters in absolutely correct perspective and deserves solid support from the movement. Thank you, Michael Lukas, Shumonik, and your coworkers. This idea is splendid, sensible, workable, practical and effective.
Now, it can certainly be argued that the security companies are not the ideal target, compared to, say, the insurance holder(s). But notice the freakadelic response from Diane over at Truthaction, which goes something like:
In my opinion, this is WAY premature. We are NOT yet anywhere near ready to prove any such thing in a court of law, not even in a civil case.
Too many people in the 9/11 Truth movement think we can prove CD of the WTC buildings via "looks like a CD" arguments plus folklore "physics." Nothing could be worse for us than to go into a courtroom with those arguments, against a defense attorney who could produce much better expert testimony plus a bunch of photos and videos showing pre-collapse bowing of perimeter columns and (in videos with audio) an absence of explosions loud enough to be demolition charges.
Again, worth checking out the whole thing, titled, just a bit condescendingly, Time to Get Serious About Scientific Evidence.
Scientific evidence, as opposed to "folklore physics." I'm sorry (no, I'm not) but WTF is "folklore physics"? Diane's argument for fire and gravity induced collapse AS OBSERVED that was "assisted" (maybe) is fairytale physics, in which the tiny column fairies come to spirit away any resistance that would be offered by the undamaged lower parts of the buildings.
As always, I'm torn between the Professional Cynic response to a character like Diane, and the more sympathetic, pitying suspicion that she is just a few tacos short of a fiesta.
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Diane is a pro IMO
not necessarily a genius, but probably the best they could afford at this point. there just aren't that many people willing to risk being implicated in a plot to cover up mass murder these days. In any case, victims families who didn't take the hush money all got their cases given to Judge Alvin Hellerstein whose job it is to get them to settle for some univer$al lubricant instead of justice. And anyone who thinks that if Lucky Larry were sued and found liable he wouldn't suddenly die of Ken Lay Disease is probably beyond the reach of modern naïveté medications.
no, justice will come in the form of people like Bill Maher going down in history as worse than the Nazis. and in other ways.
It's very tempting...
...to evaluate Diane's performance and come up with conclusions
about who she is really serving by the way she publishes things. Also,
whether she is really intentionally aiming for that.
But if I could resist that temptation, skip the person and just focus on her
writing, judging from what she publishes at the
http://truthaction.org/forum/
and on her own columns at:
http://activistnyc.wordpress.com/
then I'd say the following:
Diane's responses to remarks and feedback are consistently very carefully ignorant of the most basic elements of scientific thought, scientific procedure, and scientific knowledge. She omits addressing some things so very elemental that the omission itself cries out. Is the omission asign of ...what exactly is it indicating?
Anyway, the result of her responses to remarks is Mindfuck. Which is easy to
effect on many of our colleagues within the 9/11 Truth movement.
But even more interesting is the orientation of her original writings. They
all seem to start of from the same stagnated
mental/emotional/ideological position, dressed up with the pretense of
being a "fresh view" at things. But there is no author who could have
honestly studied and thought through all of the remarks and feedback
she has received, written responses to them (however unprincipled those
responses may have been), and still remain unchanged.
She publishes an article whose theme is "we need a scientific proof of A".
You say "Science has already proven A, you can read those studies here".
So, seeming to move forward a bit, she says "Oh, you're right, but we need more scientists to say that it's been proven".
A week later, she starts a new article with the "new" theme: "we need a scientific proof of A".
There's a difference between mistakes, ignorance and intentionally cultivated ignorance.
I'd say the effect of Diane's writings, both the original items and her responses in dialogue, is a service to the Opposition.
Now,
if the managers at Truthaction Forum would let me sign in to my account
there, I'd post this there. But it's been three days that the machine
there won't let me log in to post.
Petros
you're right of course
I just don't have as much patience as you, Petros... :)
Guilt by association, collective punishment
Ah, Petros, it seems that you are the latest dissenting voice to be banned from Truthaction, aka True Faction, without explanation. That site grows more transparent by the day.
Thanks Petros for your comments,
Excellent and well presented as always. If you are being speech/text-monitored by truthaction, 911blogger, et al., it could be that you are on the right track, research/understanding-wise. And that’s the good news. There is a very good reason for “Diane†to be there. Perhaps “Diane the NYC Activist†is just an experimental artificial intelligence txt.rbt named “Shlomo.†Who knows? She is most assuredly some kind of ‘intelligence asset’, no doubt. All the usual characteristics are there. And thanks, of course, go to Casseia for her vigilance on monitoring the BS spin of this potential ‘intelligence element’. I have found that those who protest the loudest against the controlled demolition theory (not hypothesis [please, everyone learn the difference!]) are either media-brainwashed innocents or on the payroll of the perpetrators. Two Boeing 757s, supposedly flown by Mossad-controlled patsy, Cessna pilot school failures, bringing down three buildings at nearly the speed of Galilean vacuum ‘free-fall’ with absolutely no controlled demolitions involved? Would you care to buy a bridge from me? It’s in Brooklyn.
“Diane†Silverstein, go away now and start running while you can. Your dad is being arrested tomorrow for intimate complicity in the Zionist-American Neo-Con attack on America known as “9/11.†Run!
I just wanted to comment
I just wanted to comment that Diane's use of the word "folklore" tied with physics reeks of classically conditioning attitudes. Folklore being the Unconditioned stimulus (evokes thoughts of fairy tales, legends, etc.). I haven't actually sat and read any full length post of hers but I think over my spring break in two weeks it might be fun to get some of her writing and break it down into it's constituent Conditioned Stimulus, Unconditioned Stimulus, and Unconditioned Response forms.
This might help those who haven't had years of psychology training understand the dynamics and nature of classically conditioning attitudes in those who do not possess the skills or motivation to carefully parse the words of others.
-Whitey