"In a culture of fear, we should expect the rise of new mechanisms of social control to deflect distrust, anxiety, and threat… Our findings suggest that authors use the conspiracy theorist label as (1) a routinized strategy of exclusion; (2) a reframing mechanism that deflects questions or concerns about power, corruption, and motive; and (3) an attack upon the personhood and competence of the questioner. This label becomes dangerous machinery at the transpersonal levels of media and academic discourse, symbolically stripping the claimant of the status of reasonable interlocutor – often to avoid the need to account for one’s own action or speech. We argue that this and similar mechanisms simultaneously control the flow of information and symbolically demobilize certain voices and issues in public discourse…Variants of the label conspiracy theorist become dangerous. The mechanism allows those who use it to sidestep sound scholarly and journalistic practice, avoiding the examination of evidence, often in favor of one of the most important errors in logic and rhetoric – the ad hominem attack.”
‘I have come to realize that there are people who act as if the 9/11 truth movement is a game, worth nothing more than an amusing and distracting pastime at best and, as I shudder to think, a war of scruples to outwit the truth at worst. Of course, there are those that are just not ready to comprehend the immense significance and consequences of the events of 9/11. But make no mistake, there are people who, whilst masquerading under the guise of innocence, ignorance, fear, or patriotism, are actually part of the propaganda machine promoting the myth of 9/11…. Remarkably, this is even blatantly admitted by some debunkers, 87 who, after claiming to “fear” alternative accounts of 9/11, continue to self-promote their personal agendas...”
87 Quoted from James Bennett: http://screwloosechange.blogspot.com/2006_05_01_archive.html
See also Correspondence Between James Bennett and Laurie Manwell in the Letters section on the Journal of 9/11 Studies.
Through communications with Bennett, it is evident that there are many people to which this is a game. In fact, Bennett’s website, www.screwloosechange.com, contributes little to the debate except disinformation dressed up as satiric vitriol….
from
Faulty Towers of Belief: Part II.
Rebuilding the Road to Freedom of Reason
By
Laurie A. Manwell
http://journalof911studies.com/volume/2007...eliefPartII.pdf
See also:
Faulty Towers of Belief:Part I.
Demolishing the Iconic Psychological Barriers to 9/11Truth
By
Laurie A. Manwell
http://journalof911studies.com/volume/2007...eliefPart_I.pdf