Purging Dissenters

Justin Raimondo, editor of Antiwar.com, is willing to tell it the way it is:

This is the way our society deals with uncomfortable questions about
"official" explanations for the inexplicable – by purging all dissenters, and
even anybody who asks a question without necessarily having a ready-made answer.
To the stake with them! Burn the heretics! Move along, nothing to see here
– and don’t ask questions unless you want to completely marginalize yourself,
lose your job, and be subjected to an intensive hate campaign.

We are asked to believe that 19 men, armed with the most
basic weapons, somehow managed to elude the biggest, most expensively-accoutered
intelligence apparatus in the world — and the intelligence agencies of our
allies, to boot. Utilizing nothing but box-cutters and the knowledge gleaned
from a few weeks at flight school, these supermen somehow managed to steer those
planes into two of the most visible potential terrorist targets in the US, one
of which had been successfully targeted by terrorists before. They did this with
no help from any foreign intelligence agency, no nation-state in on the plot,
and they did it for less than $100,000.

Really?

The more distance in time from the actual event, the odder such an
assertion seems. Eight years to the day, the official account of 9/11 seems more
anemic –and inadequate – than ever. Yet anyone who questions the official story
– the narrative of 19 Arab dudes going on what would seem to be a rather
quixotic jihad, haphazardly making their way through a strange foreign country
on their own, all the while readying themselves for The Day That Changed History
– is denounced as a "conspiracy theorist," a crackpot, and worse.