The San Francisco Bay Guardian, the bay area’s best free paper, this week ran a great cover story: We’re all paranoid, taglined: “Sure, the people with the 9/11 conspiracy theories are a little odd. But not everything they’re saying is entirely crazy.” The author traces the 9/11 truth movement back to notorious shit-stirrer Michael Ruppert:

His basic argument is that there were just too many breakdowns in the intelligence and defense systems, too many facts that can’t be explained by the official theory, and too clear a motive and opportunity for Cheney (whom Ruppert, like many of his allies, believes is actually running the White House) to execute his imperial designs for this to have been anything other than an inside job.

The Guardian takes a middle ground, dismissing the outright wacky theories, while casting doubt on the equally implausible official story:

It’s absolutely true, for example, that the government’s theory has never been subjected to the usual rigors applied to a case of mass murder. The government has never sought to have any of its evidence heard in a court of law. In fact, its refusal to make relevant witnesses and evidence available has caused the only successful 9/11-related prosecution – a German court’s conviction of Mounir el-Motassadeq on charges of helping alleged 9/11 ringleader Mohamed Atta’s terrorist cell in Hamburg – to be overturned on appeal last year.

Well worth a read, even if you’re familiar with the spread of opinions out there.

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