Distinguished University of Minnesota Philosophy Professor Joins 9/11 Fight

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Distinguished University of Minnesota Philosophy Professor

Joins 9/11 Fight, Saying the Truth Must Be Uncovered

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.arcticbeacon.com/articles/article/1518131/39247.htm

 

 

 

Distinguished University of Minnesota Philosophy Professor Joins 9/11

Fight, Saying the Truth Must Be Uncovered

Greg Szymanski

 

 

December 1, 2005

 

 

James H.Fetzer, PhD., has publicly thrown his hat in the ring to

support other professors seriously questioning and casting doubt on

the official 9/11 story.

16 Dec 2005

 

By Greg Szymanski

 

 

 

A University of Minnesota philosophy professor, like an unexpected

Christmas snowstorm, has dropped a large bundle of holiday cheer on

the 9/11 truth movement, as this week he has thrown his hat into the

ring with others seeking the truth.

 

 

 

" I stand with Steve Jones, professor of physics at BYU and David Ray

Griffin, professor emeritus of Theology at Claremont and other

students and scholars of 9/11, who believe that extraordinary times

require extraordinary measures, " said James H. Fetzer, PhD., a

distinguished McNight University professor at the University of

Minnesota at Duluth.

 

 

 

Professor Fetzer now becomes another in a long list of academicians,

including Jones and Griffin, who have cast severe doubt on the

credibility of the government's official 9/11 story, calling for a

renewed debate and independent investigation to get at the truth.

 

 

 

Fetzer has published more than 100 articles and reviews as well as 20

books in the philosophy of science and on the theoretical foundations

of computer science, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science.

 

 

 

According to his biography on this web page, his publications have

been divided by area, including special vitae for computer science,

artificial intelligence, cognitive science, evolution and cognition,

and his applied philosophical research on the death of JFK.

 

 

 

Fetzer, who just entered the public 9/11 arena this week, agreed to

appear next Monday on Greg Szymanski's nationwide radio show, the

Investigative Journal, on the Republic Broadcasting Network at

www.rbnlive.com to explain why he has joined in the 9/11 truth fight.

 

 

 

As expected, a philosophy professor digs deep into the heart of the

matter, dissecting words and meanings Before talking about specific

evidence, Fetzer provides this illuminating discussion on " conspiracy

theories, " relating to 9/11 in a recent paper he wrote called

" Thinking About Conspiracy Theories: 9/11 and JFK. "

 

 

 

" One fascinating aspect of 9/11 is that the official story involves

collaboration between some nineteen persons in order to bring about

illegal ends and thus obviously qualifies as a conspiracy theory, "

wrote Fetzer.

 

 

 

" When critics of the government offer an alternative account that

implicates key figures of the government in 9/11, that obviously

qualifies as a 'conspiracy theory', too. But what matters now is that

we are confronted by alternative accounts of what happened on 9/11,

both of which qualify as " conspiracy theories " . It is therefore no

longer rational to dismiss one of them as a " conspiracy theory " in

favor of the other. The question becomes, which of two 'conspiracy

theories' is more defensible? "

 

 

 

After setting the record straight on conspiracy theories, Fetzer in

his paper delves into an analysis of the 9/11 evidence, saying that

the controlled demolition of the WTC must be taken seriously.

 

 

 

" Most Americans may not realize that no steel-structure high-rise

building has ever collapsed from fire in the history of civil

engineering, either before or after 9/11, " wrote Fetzer. " If we assume

that those fires have occurred in a wide variety of buildings under a

broad range of conditions, that evidence suggests that these buildings

do not have a propensity to collapsed as an effect of fire. That

makes an alternative explanation, especially the use of powerful

explosives in a controlled demolition, a hypothesis that must be taken

seriously. "

 

 

 

Besides the WTC, Fetzer also provides a detailed analysis of the

Pentagon crash, questioning as many before him, " What Really Happened? "

 

 

 

In his paper, he states:

 

 

 

" If a small fighter jet rather than a Boeing 757 had hit the Pentagon,

that would tend to explain the small impact point, the lack of massive

external debris, and a hole in the inner ring of the building, which

the fragile nose of a Boeing 757 could not have created.

 

 

 

" It would also suggest why parts of a plane were carried off by

servicemen, since they might have made the identification of the

aircraft by type apparent and falsified the official account. A

small fighter also accommodates the report from Danielle O'Brien, an

air traffic controller, who said of the aircraft that hit, " Its speed,

maneuverability, the way that it turned, we all thought in the radar

room—all of us experienced air traffic controllers—that it was a

military plane. "

 

 

 

In concluding his academic look at 9/11, Fetzer boldly asks Americans

to Endeavour to seek the truth in every possible way, suggesting the

" government-dominated " mass media has presented one of the biggest

obstacles.

 

 

 

" Which raises the question, who had the power to make these things

happen and to cover it up, " asks Fetzer. " Once the evidence has been

sorted out and appropriately appraised, the answer is no longer very

difficult to find. Like the assassination of JFK, the events of 9/11

required involvement at the highest levels of the American government.

 

 

 

" This conclusion, moreover, receives confirmation from the conduct of

our highest elected officials, who took extraordinary steps to prevent

any formal investigation of 9/11 and, when it was forced upon them by

tremendous political pressure, especially from the survivors of

victims of these crimes, they did whatever they could to subvert them.

There are good reasons for viewing The 9/11 Commission Report (2004)

as the historical successor to and functional equivalent of The Warren

Report (1964).

 

 

 

" I therefore believe that those of us who care about the truth and the

restoration of responsible government in the United States have an

obligation to make use of every possible media venue from talk radio

and the internet to newspapers and television whenever possible. The

American people can act wisely only when they know the truth.

 

 

 

" So, while the truth is said to " make us free " , the truth only matters

when the American people are able to discover what is true. Obstacles

here that are posed by the government-dominated mass media, including

the use of stooge " reporters " and of prepackaged " news releases " , only

make matters that much more difficult. As John Dean asks in Worse

than Watergate (2004), if there has ever been an administration more

prone to deceiving the American people in our history, which one could

it be? "

 

 

 

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