Ten years after 9/11
Today is September 11th, 2011 - exactly ten years after a terrorist attack changed this country forever. I am going to republish a piece I wrote two years ago because the exact same subject continues to haunt this country, a group of people convinced that the tragedy perpetrated by this country by enemies of the United States was nothing more than a complex conspiracy of epic proportions. Using junk science, lies and distorted pieces of information the Truthers have sharply divided this country and continue to soil the memory of 9/11 with their senseless calls for "truth", accusations of wrongdoing and offensive insinuations. My original article also included the mention of Birthers who have largely vanished in the wake of tangible evidence released by the Obama administration, but it is a perfect example of how conspiracies become entrenched belief systems. For a long time I would get emails from people convinced that the Birther issue was real and that I was simply i