By I been saying this for months how interesting it is the similarities between the prior Roh Moo-hyun government in South Korea and the current Yukio Hatoyama government in Japan. Well like Robert Koehler mentions over at the Marmot’s Hole, not even the Roh government was as wacky as this:
YUKIHISA FUJITA is an influential member of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan. As chief of the DPJ’s international department and head of the Research Committee on Foreign Affairs in the upper house of Japan’s parliament, to which he was elected in 2007, he is a Brahmin in the foreign policy establishment of Washington’s most important East Asian ally. He also seems to think that America’s rendering of the events of Sept. 11, 2001, is a gigantic hoax.
Mr. Fujita’s ideas about the attack on the World Trade Center, which he shared with us in a recent interview, are too bizarre, half-baked and intellectually bogus to merit serious discussion. He questions whether it was really the work of terrorists; suggests that shadowy forces with advance knowledge of the plot played the stock market to profit from it; peddles the fantastic idea that eight of the 19 hijackers are alive and well; and hints that controlled demolition rather than fire or debris may be a more likely explanation for at least the collapse of the building at 7 World Trade Center, which was adjacent to the twin towers. [Washington Post]
To be fair Fujita’s views as nutty as they are actual makes him qualified to become a member of the US Congress.
It is the sad reality. No mistake...
8:13 pm on March 10th, 2010 1
Truther…Maybe they should have picked a name for themselves that didn't make them sound illiterate.
4:20 am on March 11th, 2010 2
Let's not bring up the Roh government please, in any context…
4:28 am on March 11th, 2010 3
I'll say this. The K-blogopshere tended to see the Roh government's most egregious viewpoints as an indictment of the entire country, but we don't see that vis-à-vis Hatoyama's government and the Japanese people.
2:14 pm on March 11th, 2010 4
Um… or he's seen the web films Loose Change and Zeitgeist.
Labeling "his ideas… too bizarre, half-baked and intellectually bogus to merit serious discussion" only belies the Washington Post's desire not to look at any evidence that runs contrary to the official story. A nation that believes in God, angels, and miracles, the 9/11 story fits quite nicely.
For my part, in New York, I see two planes, I see two towers fall. I have only one question. Why did a third tower (WTC7) fall late in the day on 9/11? Truth-seekers, hence "truthers," want an answer.
10:15 pm on March 11th, 2010 5
Here is why it fell and I trust Popular Mechanics more than some conspiracy theorist on the Internet:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/milita…
3:17 am on March 12th, 2010 6
GI,
I would like to believe the party line is correct and that all the coincidences are due to incompetence rather than intention.
The biggest problem I have here is that the entire chain of events, from planes hitting buildings to the collapse of WTC7, is an unprecedented event worthy of exceptional consideration.
For this reason, an unusually high level of care and study should have gone into every detail… not just the criminal/terrorist aspect of the investigation… but the engineering aspect as well. Then it should have been made exceptionally transparent and public.
This was a golden opportunity to teach architectural engineers how to make better buildings, allow scientists to better understand this scale of physics, give material engineers a unique set of data, etc, etc, etc.
Instead, all the "evidence" was scooped up and shipped out as quickly as possible with very little study, no access by outside experts and a very overt campaign to paint anybody who questioned the official story as a conspiracy nut.
I don't know exactly what it means… but, in general experience, when people or organizations act in this manner, they are hiding something.