Believing the official conspiracy theory penned up in the 9/11 Commission Report is what is “irrational”. A simple google of WTC7 reveals the truth about the third building that collapsed that day, across the street from the Twin Towers, not hit by a plane, with an entire building between it and the Towers, that collapsed into its own frontprint. Cause of the perfectly symetrical collapse? According to 9/11 Commission Report: Um. They don’t mention it. Some sources cite “fires”. But no reason has been official stated because other than controlled demolition, there is no explanation. Too bad the building with the CIA, FBI, Guiliani’s Emergency Operations Center, and Department of Defense caved in on itself. If it hadn’t, there wouldn’t be such a blatant smoking gun. And this is just the tip of the iceberg of the smoking guns of that day. Mark my words: this is no lost-cause “grassy knoll” conspiracy that is going to go away. I don’t expect mainstream and public-funded papers like the Badger Herald to acknowledge this yet, but I can tell you that once the American public starts waking up (they can begin by researching the mysterious WTC7 collapse), then your paper will seem silly for calling such investigation “irrational”. One in Three Americans already is suspicious about 9/11. Do you know how many millions of people that is? I almost feel sorry for the real perpetrators of this crime. They must be scared silly.

A better comparison would be the Chemistry or Food Science department having an open forum on the dangers of flouride in drinking water (in that both are recent trends backed by dubious scientific research).

UW Editorial Board, what if Barrett’s “fairy tales” are down the road proven correct? What if you don’t want to believe your government could do such a thing, so you try your hardest to silence his speach?

What if there weren’t any students to fill the seats in Professor Barrett’s class (wouldn’t the course be canceled)?

I don’t want my tax money going to a lot of state funded projects, but so what. Suck it up, Editorial Board, welcome to America.

It’s been 5 years, it’s time we seriously talked about 9/11 rather than treating it like a sacred, untouchable deity.

“One is left to wonder what standards UW applies when determining which lecturers are to be allowed the use of taxpayer-funded facilities…”

Currently, the Iraq war has cost taxpayers over THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY BILLION DOLLARS; that means every man, woman, and child has contributed over $1000 to a billshit war.

There’s a bad case of myopia going around Madison today.

Badger Herald is not publicly funded.

Didn’t it strike you, while complaining that the UW was sponsoring the lecture that is was the FOLKLORE department of the UW that sponsored the event. Folklore, how much fact is in something considered folklore? Not much I bet.

Will the UW Folklore Department agree to sponsor semenars on Creationism and Pastafarianism?

Paul Bunyan is… is… not real?

Everyone panic!

The Badger editorial on Mr. Barrett is yet another unfounded opinion attack piece. Revealing nothing about the points raised by Mr. Barrett and Prof. Fetzer, the Badger chews the cuff like a rabid dog. When you put people like this down you had better do the research on what these folks are saying. The fascist takeover of this country is near completion and on the verge of martial law. If people would get their heads out of you no where and stop pandering with denial maybe we save whats left of a nation that is being run by psychopathic idealogues, that lie in your face and then laugh as they create the next lie. Where are our institutions of higher learning in our fight against this incredible evil?

The loss of freedom is worse than any act of terror or any threat of terror.

The Badger Herald Ed. Board should pull its’ head out of the sand.There is excellent evidence that the twin towers and Bld. 7 came down due to explosives.Their fall looked like controlled demolition because it was at free fall rate.. no resistance from floors underneath.Explosions that took out the subasement foundations were reported by many which is sop for controled demolition. Chunks of concrete were not found only dust.. consistent with use of explosives. Materials were hurled sideways from the building. Things fall down and need to be propeled sideways… maybe by explosives. Molten and congealed steel was found in basement and the girders were raggedly cut into 30 ft. lengths. That is the length of semi trailers that could haul them away so quickly inspectors could not examine them. A company called Controlled Demolition Inc. boasts in some brochure that they will cut the rubble to fit your trucks in the demolition process. Oh did I mention, they are the ones who hauled the rubble away so quickly. The also did the Oklahoma Citys’hauling.Larry Silverstein the 5-6week new owner and holder of insurance policies on all three buildingsis on tape sayiny to fire marshal , There has been so much suffering and death,lets just pull building seven.”Pull” is jargon for “take down with explosives”.Building seven came down in its’ own foot print in late afternoon 9/11 in the same fashion as the twin towers. Fire has never before brought down a skyscraper. How could the explosives been set? The fact that Marvin Bush and a cousin were principals in Securacom ,a company responsible for security at the trade towers and Dulles airport might be a hint. The really mistifying question is how people can ignore this evidence ,especially after seeing the towers and building seven fall. My only hypothesis is that those who feel it is greater virtue to believe when there is no evidence also accept the corollary to disbelieve that which has a great deal of evidence supporting it. This same exccess of faith drives young boys to carefully wrap their genitals in rugs before they detonate explosive wrapped around their bodies. They believe the button is really a door bell to a room full of virgins. This same excess of faith leads people to believe that armegedon like war brings them closer to being raptured to heaven. Our president seems to have faith that he is chosen by God and therefore can use any means such as searching out excuses to lead us in to a premptive war based on evidence eschewed by knowledgable parties. He is now asking for a change in the definition of torture to death or desruction of major organs.He has destroyed very valuable social fabric by not participating in treaties,respecting the opinions of other heads of state, sending a person to the UN that had been highly critical of it, and by squandering the good will toward the US that had accumulated over many years. The president has not accomplished this alone. In fact it seems to me that he is only one of a confluence of specialists that are destroying what is best about our country. This philosophy that the end justifies the means coupled with a fondness for violent means seems to have trickled down to some soldiers. We are being reminded that means and ends are so entangled that the means changes the end.Until we rid ourselves of this excess of faith in our “chosen”? leaders and look at evidence things will not get better.

Why don’t all the people who have posted “truths” behind the 9/11 attacks stop googling 9/11 or WTC7 for their information. Using a search metasite requires you to type in what you are looking for, so if you search 9/11 conspiracy, your going to get just that conspiracies on 9/11. If you really believe that the attacks were conspirated by the Bush Administration, do some research on your own and prove that the building had explosives… Also, it is wrong of you to quote 1/3 of americans is suspicious of the attacks. 1/3 americans is suspicious that the White House did not do enough to protect itself given important information, not 1/3 people believe the Bush administration was responsible for the attacks all-together…

That last comment was what the real Badger Herald editorial should have said, were the editors to have any independent research skills, chutzpah, and, of course, any courage to stick their necks out in the name of justice. But alas, they won’t, which is why following the massive exposure of truth that has begun and can’t be stopped, the Badger Herald will have missed the bandwagon. That’s OK. There will be some pedophile Republicans to keep you company. For the time being, I recommend employing the services of something called Google.

I don’t think that your attempt at “the world is flat” analogy is very successfull. I think its the other way around. The common people believe that the earth is flat while Barret is saying that its somewhat of a sphere. Ofcourse for now everyone just laughs at him and calls him crazy. But you know how that storry goes. We’ll see i guess.

absurd editorial. another group of blind, brainwashed people. you obviously have not done the research on 9/11, for if you had, you could not have possibly written such uninformed drivel. add yourself to the growing list of so called “independent” newspapers that cannot be trusted and are therefore, not worth the paper they are written on.

Again, editorial writers assume, from the get-go, that the alternative theories of 9/11 are fantasies, fairy tales, “conspiracy theories”…What the Bushies have presented, that 19 Arab hijackers with boxcutters undid the entire American military/intelligence system in a couple of hours, is also a conspiracy theory, and a fantasy and fairy tale as well. For those that are confused about the 1/3 number, here’s the actual info: More than a third of the American public suspects that federal officials assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could go to war in the Middle East, according to a new Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll. Scripps Howard News service—- http://www.scrippsnews.com/911poll

Whether they let it happen on purpose, or made it happen (the only conclusion that fits the facts), this number is a huge percentage of the American public, considering that this topic has been absolutely censored, with a few excpetions, in the mainstream media for the past five years. The reason the movement is growing, and more people are attending these events, opening their eyes, and yes, even doing research on the Internet, is because the official story is an obvious lie. I wonder how hard it was for people like Oliver Stone and the jokers who made “Flight 93” to step around the gaping holes in the official narrative, in order to produce their propaganda, for example “Mom, this is Mark Bingham.”