The most despicable conspiracy theories: The victims were in on it

[Allen773]

I find that, for the most part, 9/11 conspiracy theories are simply stupid or even bizzarely hilarious (Judy Wood, David Icke, etc.).

But one type of 9/11 conspiracy I don't laugh at is the accusation that the victims, their families, their companies, and their friends were involved in the attacks.

One example is Barbara Olson. Let me make myself perfectly clear-I have no love for the Olsons politically, and I think that on TV and in her books, Mrs. Olson was a typical Clinton-hating, partisan right-wing pundit.

But none of that justifies the trampling on of her grave, the suggestions that Ted Olson lied about his wife's death, the belief that he and/or she were "in on it." Yet at websites like democraticunderground.com, there are a number of people who actually belive that many of the victims are still alive, and that they and/or their employers were involved in the attacks.

I find this this aspect of 9/11 conspiracy theories to be among the most disgusting and offensive.

[yodaluver28]

Alot of CTs seem to operate on the philosophy that "if I don't believe it, it didn't happen" and as such, there's no solid reality. Also, if they don't know someone affected by what happened, that pain doesn't really exist either. Some honestly seem to think that if they believe that cartoon airplanes were painted onto the towers at a TV station and everything was faked, it was. They don't have to prove it. They "just know".

Horrible things that are complicated and painful to address like terrorist attacks and the carnage they create somehow becomes easier for them to deal with emotionally if they believe that there was some sort of order about it all, even if it was evil order. They believe that everything happens for a reason. Everything is connected. There are no accidents. There are no coincidences. There is no incompetence. To admit that terrorists were capable of such horror that day is to admit that the world is not only dangerous but chaotic and, at times, totally random. Some of them however can't even deal with that scenario so they have to go even deeper into the fantasy by eliminating as much of the bloodshed in their minds as they can by believing that that many people didn't really die, or the ones that did die must have done something to deserve it, or they were in on it and either volunteered to die or are still alive.

It all seems to be an almost obsessive-compulsive need to hide from reality to me. I think alot of them are sick in a very sad way.