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I understand it's a common thought-terminating cliche. To put it more clearly:

Making unfounded accusations that certain people are guilty of some of the most heinous crimes conceivable to humanity (killing thousands of people on 9/11; raping children) isn't good. You probably wouldn't want someone to send a 60 page dossier to your employer explaining that you're a child rapist or that you faked the death of your child so you can install a totalitarian government, for example. But if you ever got on the bad side of someone with your mentality, something like that could easily happen to you.

We have a legal system and due process, and other apparatuses for when they fail. If you claim to have evidence of someone or some group committing the most horrific of crimes, truly some of the most shocking and monstrous acts in modern human history, you should be able to report such things to law enforcement, or if not possible (e.g. Abu Ghraib torture whistleblowing), inform any media outlet who can report on the accusations. Otherwise, you're libeling people.




I havent made any claims about who is responsible for 9/11, you are just well, making stuff up based on the (likely bad) information you have been exposed to.

There is a video in my profile, I made it, you can draw your own conclusions if you are interested.

Secrets, known to many, are much more common than you seem to think they are. Differences in information are similar to differences in voltage, there is more potential with a large delta.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwE0P1UYPm0




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