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Old 12th September 2006, 11:40 AM   #1
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Review/Rant on Loose Change on my fav Movie Site: CHUD.com

Here is the link: http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=news&id=7586

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In a lot of ways Loose Change shows the power that images have over us. People who don’t know a lot about 9/11 see the film and, fueled by the prevalent post-Watergate, post-Clinton scandals distrust of government and those who run it, believe everything they see. People like to believe what they see over what they’re told, which is partially understandable but mostly strange in this day and age. Loose Change is obviously an edited work, and some of the video footage they use has been edited when the full length video hurt their claims; other still images are cropped or specific and flattering angles are chosen to bolster Avery’s retarded claims (it’s like the conspiracy theory version of secret fatties, the girls on MySpace who take pictures at neck breaking angles to hide their layers of blubber). Quotes and facts are presented stripped of all context. We are supposed to be a cynical bunch, but I guess the cynicism only extends to official channels; when someone who is outside the “system” shows up with something like Loose Change, some people just take it at face value.
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There’s one thing I can’t help but wonder about the theorists, the Dylan Averys out there. You believe you live in a country where your government proactively murdered, in a few hours, 3000 of your fellow citizens. You wake up every morning and believe you live in a country where the people in charge blew up two of the world’s tallest buildings for their own nefarious purposes. And then what do you do? Get a cup of coffee, go to work, maybe see a movie at night. You believe you live in a state that is as evil as Stalinist Russia or Nazi Germany and you’re arguing about it on the internet. Maybe you’re buying free range chickens. But you’re not doing anything real. Do you think that if the Germans had been better educated about the Nazis the Holocaust would never have happened? If the things you believe are true, you will go down in history as among the most gutless, pathetic human beings who have lived.
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Old 12th September 2006, 11:48 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by c0rbin View Post
Here is the link: http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=news&id=7586

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Great review. The guy even gave props to Gravy, aka Mark, aka Mark, aka Mark, aka Mark....
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Old 12th September 2006, 12:33 PM   #3
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In the Funny Coinkidink Department, the daughter of the director of the movie C.H.U.D. is a friend of mine. Expect the Loosers to make a Chertoffy connection.
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Old 12th September 2006, 12:48 PM   #4
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In the Funny Coinkidink Department, the daughter of the director of the movie C.H.U.D. is a friend of mine. Expect the Loosers to make a Chertoffy connection.
holy crap! C.H.U.D. is like the best movie in the world.

And we all know what city C.H.U.D. takes place in? NYC. That's right.

And where do the C.H.U.D.s live? Underground in the NYC sewers.

And what else was underground in NYC? The DEMOLITION CHARGES that brought down the WTC (in the basement of WTC. the thermite was hidden in the floors above where the planes hit by non-C.H.U.D.s).

THUS....

C.H.U.D.s WERE BEHIND 9/11.

I can take it a step further, even.

If you've seen the movie, you know that the C.H.U.D.S were created by...

(SPOILER ALERT!!!)

radioactive waste put there by the U.S. Government!!!

DOUBLE THUSSLY...

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WAS BEHIND 9/11 BECAUSE THEY CREATED THE C.H.U.D.s!!!!!

WAKE UP!! FACE THE TRUTH!!!

I'm not saying everybody is lying. I'm saying you're lying.
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