To: Proud Deplorable who wrote (16087 ) 9/21/2006 1:07:55 PM From: Don Earl Respond to of 20039 RE: "Popular Mechanics Story Debunked on the Air in Arizona for All to Hear." Thanks for the link. I think one of the hardest parts about the body of evidence surrounding 9/11 has always been which parts to pick for any sort of public discussion or presentation. I was a little surprised that in the course of a 20 minute interview, the only points covered were an alleged hole in WTC 7, and alleged DNA matches from the hijackers. It seemed to me he almost had the PM guy on the run if he'd had a little more background on some of the responses to the PM article. I was even more surprised to hear what was supposed to be an interview digress into little more than a shouting match. We want these government mouth piece types engaging in open debate in public forums, and we want them to keep coming up out of their holes to talk if it's possible to lure them out into the daylight. Expose them and make them look foolish, but I don't think it serves any useful purpose to throw a public tizzy fit in the process. That just makes our side look bad to any disinterested third party, and creates a reasonable excuse for the bad guys to refuse engaging in open debate. One item I would have liked to have heard confirmed is the allegation that PM's editor is a close relative of the head of Homeland Security. I also think it would have been a good follow up question to the DNA issue to inquire if PM made any effort to investigate media reports of the live hijackers. Obviously they didn't, but it would have been a good place to demonstrate PM's lack of credibility in doing investigative reporting. Actually, on that point, it's kind of amazing the live hijacker leads have never been followed up by any source I know of. I'd tend to think it'd make great documentary footage to interview the hijackers, with a mug shot from the 9/11 Omission Report in the corner of the screen, and an English translator standing by to help out with the interview. In a lot of ways I think the identity of the hijackers should be more of a hot button talking point among 9/11 researchers than it is. IMO, one of the weakest points in the official story is the notion that 19 highly trained terrorist types, with the backing of an international organization behind them, used their real names to enter a country where they planned to commit criminal acts. That's even harder to believe considering at least 2 of them were on terrorist watch lists. And even more incredible in light of reports they obtained IDs under questionable circumstances in Saudi Arabia. Not very sneaky of them.