Tuesday, April 9, 2013

How many people really do believe the government committed the 9/11 attacks?

How many people actually believe that the government committed the 9/11 attacks, or at least allowed the attacks to happen? This is a question that I sometimes wonder about.

What I mean by people who actually believe the government committed or allow the 9/11 attacks to happen, I don't mean simply people who say they believe that the government committed the 9/11, I mean people who actually mean it when they say that they believe that the government committed the 9/11 attacks.

Now there are multiple surveys that have been conducted over the past decade that have asked people whether or not they believe the government was involve in the 9/11 attacks, but there are a couple of problems I have with these surveys:

One, they are often vary in percentages of how many people actually believe the government was involved in the 9/11 attacks. This can be because of where the surveys were taken, when they were taken, and how the questions were actually worded.

And two, there is no realistic way to filter out the people who just say they believe from the true believers.

Now many of you are probably asking "why would someone claim they believe that the government committed the 9/11 attacks but not really mean it?"

Well, one reason might be for political purposes.

It's very well known that conspiracy theories are often time used for political and propaganda purposes, and the conspiracy theories surrounding the 9/11 attacks are no exception.

A person could be claiming this because they have anti-government beliefs, or anti-American beliefs, or anti-Israeli beliefs (for those that are antisemitic), or they could be a person who hated President Bush so much that they say they believe the government committed the 9/11 to (in their minds) further delegitimize his presidency.

Of course they could also be saying that the government committed the 9/11 attacks not because they have a anti-something beliefs, but because they wish to further their own political agendas, and they're just using and exploiting the 9/11 Truth movement to do it.

Of course, political reasons are not the only reasons why some people claim to believe that the government committed the 9/11 attacks and not really mean it. It could be that they are, or fell like they are being pressured into saying that they believe that the government committed the 9/11 attacks.

Perhaps a person joined a group of people who believe that the government committed the 9/11 attacks because they themselves were once curious about the conspiracy theories about the attack, but now no longer believe in the 9/11 conspiracy theories. They might continue to claim that they believe that the government committed the 9/11 attacks simply because they made friends in that group, and they don't want to risk losing them.

Another reason is because they are feeling pressure from their family to believe in these 9/11 conspiracy theories. Perhaps they even feel threatened by a spouse or a parent to "believe" in these conspiracy theories.

This happens all the time with things like religion and politics, and so it really would not surprise me if it happened with things like conspiracy theories (since conspiracy theories are sometimes a mixing of religion and politics).

Then there is one more group that has to be taken into consideration: people who have severe mental illness.

While a person who is severely mentally ill, and believes that the government did commit the 9/11 attacks, probably sincerely does believe that the government committed the 9/11 attacks, there is the question about whether or not their belief should be considered a legitimate belief or not. The reason why I question if their belief that the government committed the 9/11 attacks should be consider legitimate or not is because it is questionable whether or not they would still believe that the government committed the 9/11 attacks if they were either not mentally ill (sometimes severe delusional disorders will make a person believe in anything), or if their mental illness was under controlled to the point where they were considered sane. Because of this it should be taken into consideration whether or not we should even count those beliefs as being sincere because their minds might not be allowing them to see clearly the facts when presented to them, rather then just simply ignoring the facts.

Because of all these factors I truly do wonder how many people actually believe that the government caused the 9/11 attacks, and honestly, I don't think it's as high as what many people think it is.

3 comments:

  1. what a bullshit article, did you ever consider looking into whether or not the government were actually involved in someway. All this article did was say if you believe the conspiracy your either mentally ill, have a political agenda or your being pressured into thinking that way by friends or family.Im in neither one of those categories but yet i share the same belief that the government was involved in some way so straight away your article falls to pieces, as for actually delving into wether they were involved, What about the mountain of evidence that completely tears apart the official story. People like you make me sick, you spout rubbish about mental illness when you your self must have some sort of mental deficiency, its proven that governments throughout history become tyrannical, lie, kill and steal from your fellow man but you would rather listen to the pretty woman(reading from a teleprompter) on the news. You seriously need to wake up to the real world because its one thing being complicit in bending over for an ass fucking by the government, but its much worse preaching that others are crazy for not doing the same thing. i realize your a skeptic but all i ask is look at all the information on this subject and don't let your conclusion become biased by your belief that government is your friend

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    1. I've already looked into the claims about the government committing the 9/11 and I've concluded that it is all BS, with most of the claims being either huge misinterpretations of the facts, and the rest being made up.

      Also, I never said that anyone who believes that the government committed the 9/11 is mentally ill. What I said was that there are people out there who believe that the government committed the who are also mentally ill, sometimes seriously, and whether or not we should question if their beliefs are real, or just the result of their mental issues.

      I was not trying to insult any groups or anyone, I'm just questioning how many people truly believe the 9/11 attacks were committed by the government, and how many people are just claiming the government for some personal reasons.

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    2. Yes, governments have done bad things, but that does not mean that the US government did 9/11. Those are two completely irrelevant points, akin to saying that Christians have persecuted people in the past means that my best friend, a devout Christian, killed my atheist cousin when he actually killed himself.

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