Laughing in the face of 9/11 conspiracy theorists By John DeSio

At some point in the past few years, everybody has run into one of “those guys.” When somebody brings up the topic of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, they immediately jump into a high-octane diatribe about “just what really happened” on 9/11. Government cover-ups. Bush family business dealings. Military espionage. All very sexy stuff.

They are the 9/11 Truth movement—or “truthers” as some might prefer to call them—and they’re convinced that there’s more to the official story of 9/11. Rather than believe the obvious—that 19 Muslim Middle Eastern men hijacked four airliners and crashed them into the WTC and the Pentagon—they believe instead that the government spent years rigging those buildings with explosives. Rather than see the attacks as an act of terrorism on American soil, they prefer instead to believe that the United States government faked the attacks to accomplish something, be it a pretense for the invasion of Iraq, to steal the gold in the towers or for a number of other reasons, depending on who you ask on that specific day.

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