Conversation with my blind Republican friend on 9/11
The other day I spoke to my friend Nick and I told him I launched this blog. When I told him about it, all I said was that it was about 9/11 and the JFK assassination. He said, “Effie, that is a very controversial point of view.” I was coy and asked, “What do you mean?” Nick said, “You think 9/11 was an inside job.” I immediately rationalized things this way “I never said that” –which is technically true.
I was a little surprised by the fact that Nick knew anything at all about the 9/11 Truth movement because he is blind and barely goes on the internet. I said, “Look, I don’t know what brought the twin towers down but there was evidence of explosions which were not in the areas of impact.”
I then said that I didn’t know who the conspirators were and then I brought up Building 7. “But that was brought down by fires,” he said. I didn’t have the heart to tell him that if you “look” on the Internet you can clearly see Building 7 brought down by controlled demolition.
He then started whining about the Pentagon. “Do you think a missile hit the Pentagon?” he asked. “I don’t know what hit the Pentagon,” I said “I’ve never seen footage of anything hitting the Pentagon.” Nick, exasperated said, “Well, what do you think happened to Barbara Olson?”
This was a low moment for me but I wanted to break the tension so I said, “She is in fairy land.” I actually made him laugh. Later, my husband said I should have told him she crawled back under the rock she came from. Apparently, my husband did not like her anyway.
The last thing Nick asked me about was United Flight 93. I said I thought the U.S. government shot down Flight 93. He asked “Well, do you see anything wrong with that?” I actually said no. I said, “considering the thousands of lives saved-no it was probably the right decision.”
Nick had to go get his kids from school but we left the conversation basically having laughed at least once and agreeing at the end. He said he’d call me the next day to finish the conversation. I never heard back from him.