George Monbiot takes on "Loose Change"

international | sci-tech | other press Tuesday February 06, 2007 15:58 by R. Isible

Guardian UK review of 9/11 Conspiralunacy

The independent documentary Loose Change [1] is doing the rounds in screenings and downloads (over 4 million apparently for just this version on Google Videos) [2]. Despite overwhelming testimony from independent scientific experts as publicised by Counterpunch [3], Popular Mechanics [4] and South Park [5] the documentary is spreading a pall of confusion and misinformation about 9/11. George Monbiot takes it on in his latest column:

People believe Loose Change because it proposes a closed world: comprehensible, controllable, small. Despite the great evil that runs it, it is more companionable than the chaos that really governs our lives, a world without destination or purpose. This neat story draws campaigners away from real issues - global warming, the Iraq war, nuclear weapons, privatisation, inequality - while permanently wrecking their credibility. Bush did capitalise on the attacks, and he did follow a pre-existing agenda, spelt out, as Loose Change says, by the Project for the New American Century. But by drowning this truth in an ocean of nonsense, the conspiracists ensure that it can never again be taken seriously. -- George Monbiot, The Guardian Feb 6th 2007

1. http://www.loosechange911.com/
2. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7866929448192753501
3. http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn09092006.html
4. http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law....html
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_of_the_Urinal_Deuce
and http://www.indymedia.ie/article/78924#comment171756