December 1, 2005
James
H.Fetzer, PhD., has publicly thrown his hat in the ring to support
other professors seriously questioning and casting doubt on the
official 9/11 story.
16 Dec 2005
By Greg Szymanski
A University of Minnesota
philosophy professor, like an unexpected Christmas snowstorm, has
dropped a large bundle of holiday cheer on the 9/11 truth movement, as
this week he has thrown his hat into the ring with others seeking the
truth.
"I stand with Steve Jones, professor of physics at BYU and David Ray Griffin, professor emeritus of Theology at Claremont and other students and scholars of 9/11, who believe that extraordinary times require extraordinary measures," said James H. Fetzer, PhD., a distinguished McNight University professor at the University of Minnesota at Duluth.
Professor
Fetzer now becomes another in a long list of academicians, including
Jones and Griffin, who have cast severe doubt on the credibility of the
government’s official 9/11 story, calling for a renewed debate and
independent investigation to get at the truth.
Fetzer
has published more than 100 articles and reviews as well as 20 books in
the philosophy of science and on the theoretical foundations of
computer science, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science.
According
to his biography on this web page, his publications have been divided
by area, including special vitae for computer science, artificial
intelligence, cognitive science, evolution and cognition, and his
applied philosophical research on the death of JFK.
Fetzer,
who just entered the public 9/11 arena this week, agreed to appear next
Monday on Greg Szymanski’s nationwide radio show, the Investigative
Journal, on the Republic Broadcasting Network at www.rbnlive.com to explain why he has joined in the 9/11 truth fight.
As
expected, a philosophy professor digs deep into the heart of the
matter, dissecting words and meanings Before talking about specific
evidence, Fetzer provides this illuminating discussion on "conspiracy
theories," relating to 9/11 in a recent paper he wrote called "Thinking
About Conspiracy Theories: 9/11 and JFK."
"One
fascinating aspect of 9/11 is that the official story involves
collaboration between some nineteen persons in order to bring about
illegal ends and thus obviously qualifies as a conspiracy theory,"
wrote Fetzer.
"When
critics of the government offer an alternative account that implicates
key figures of the government in 9/11, that obviously qualifies as a
'conspiracy theory’, too. But what matters now is that we are confronted by alternative accounts of what happened on 9/11, both of which qualify as "conspiracy theories". It is therefore no longer rational to dismiss one of them as a "conspiracy theory" in favor of the other. The question becomes, which of two 'conspiracy theories’ is more defensible?"
After
setting the record straight on conspiracy theories, Fetzer in his paper
delves into an analysis of the 9/11 evidence, saying that the
controlled demolition of the WTC must be taken seriously.
"Most
Americans may not realize that no steel-structure high-rise building
has ever collapsed from fire in the history of civil engineering,
either before or after 9/11," wrote Fetzer. "If we assume that those
fires have occurred in a wide variety of buildings under a broad range
of conditions, that evidence suggests that these buildings do not have
a propensity to collapsed as an effect of fire. That
makes an alternative explanation, especially the use of powerful
explosives in a controlled demolition, a hypothesis that must be taken
seriously."
Besides
the WTC, Fetzer also provides a detailed analysis of the Pentagon
crash, questioning as many before him, "What Really Happened?"
In his paper, he states:
"If
a small fighter jet rather than a Boeing 757 had hit the Pentagon, that
would tend to explain the small impact point, the lack of massive
external debris, and a hole in the inner ring of the building, which the fragile nose of a Boeing 757 could not have created.
"It
would also suggest why parts of a plane were carried off by servicemen,
since they might have made the identification of the aircraft by type
apparent and falsified the official account. A
small fighter also accommodates the report from Danielle O'Brien, an
air traffic controller, who said of the aircraft that hit, "Its speed,
maneuverability, the way that it turned, we all thought in the radar
room—all of us experienced air traffic controllers—that it was a
military plane."
In
concluding his academic look at 9/11, Fetzer boldly asks Americans to
Endeavour to seek the truth in every possible way, suggesting the
"government-dominated" mass media has presented one of the biggest
obstacles.
"Which raises the question, who had the power to make these things happen and to cover it up," asks Fetzer. "Once the evidence has been sorted out and appropriately appraised, the answer is no longer very difficult to find. Like the assassination of JFK, the events of 9/11 required involvement at the highest levels of the American government.
"This
conclusion, moreover, receives confirmation from the conduct of our
highest elected officials, who took extraordinary steps to prevent any
formal investigation of 9/11 and, when it was forced upon them by
tremendous political pressure, especially from the survivors of victims
of these crimes, they did whatever they could to subvert them. There are good reasons for viewing The 9/11 Commission Report (2004) as the historical successor to and functional equivalent of The Warren Report (1964).
"I therefore believe that those of us who care about the truth and the restoration of responsible government in the United States
have an obligation to make use of every possible media venue from talk
radio and the internet to newspapers and television whenever possible. The American people can act wisely only when they know the truth.
"So,
while the truth is said to "make us free", the truth only matters when
the American people are able to discover what is true. Obstacles
here that are posed by the government-dominated mass media, including
the use of stooge "reporters" and of prepackaged "news releases", only
make matters that much more difficult. As
John Dean asks in Worse than Watergate (2004), if there has ever been
an administration more prone to deceiving the American people in our
history, which one could it be?"
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