My point here is that RON PAUL is either catering to the public with a statement that is acceptable to a larger audence rather than tell the whole truth and freak_out a lot of people and thus distroy his chances of getting elected.
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Such anxiety-induced cultishness can lead to collective insanity, as the Jonestown episode shows. People can be led to ignore clear, obvious facts—even the evidence of their own senses—and live out a mass delusion or hallucination that they accept as consensus reality, and cling to in the face of all evidence to the contrary. They can watch videos of the Twin Towers being blown to kingdom come, WTC-7 being demolished conventionally, Larry Silverstein confessing to its demolition, Bush reading to schoolchildren with a guilty smirk while the nation is supposedly under surprise attack...and still cling to their preconceived notion that any “attack on America” must have been the work of outsiders.
As Galanter puts it:
“Cognitive dissonance theory...has shown how individuals cannot easily dismiss a belief or attitude they hold, even when the attitude is directly contradicted by evidence or events. People will sooner adopt farfetched ideas to explain events than relinquish their preconceptions. In so doing, they avoid having to face the dissonance between what they see and what they have long believed. The dismissal of plain reality can happen when people are confronted by challenges to their ingrained patriotism, their prejudices, or their religious values. Under these circumstances, they may ignore cruelty, hypocrisy, or incompetence, or create elaborate rationalizations rather than challenge the principles espoused by their leaders.” (Cults, p.152)
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Now I know that all of the Conservatives on this forum will want to label me as the crazie one....
But just think for a moment, LOOK AT THE VIDEO record of WTC7 falling down.
Check out the Pentagon pix of the building right after the hit and before the collapse. Do you REALLY AND TRULY BELIVE that a BOEING 757 hit the PENTAGON?
Like I've said before, they lied to us in the 60's (JFK assasination, Golf of Tonkin ... etc...) and they are lying to us NOW!
WAKE UP AMERICA!
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