School apologizes after social studies teacher tells children 9/11 was an inside job
Looks like a junior high school teacher may have read some of Benjamin Fulford’s idiotic conspiracy theory books:
In late May, the teacher told classes at Fujisawa Municipal Zengyo Junior High School that the synchronized terrorist attacks were “written and acted out” by the United States.
On Sunday, the school arranged a meeting attended by PTA officials and offered an apology.
Education board officials who received a report from the junior high school said the teacher was in charge of social studies. He reportedly made the comments to students in four second-year classes between May 26 and 29.
One student asked their parents if the terrorist attacks were really a put-up job, and the surprised parents filed protests with the school and the Fujisawa Municipal Board of Education, asking whether such comments in class were appropriate.
An education board official said that the teacher had been trying to make a point but used a bad example.
“The teacher apparently wanted to say, ‘There is a theory that it was a put-up job’ as an example to explain that there isn’t only one way of looking at things, but it was far too bad an example. We will issue a strict warning,” the official said.
Sadly, this story is going to be picked up by “truther” blogs all over the net and made into a story of an enlightened teacher being oppressed by evil powers….
Not to be labeled as a “truther” or conspiracy theorist, but if you look at the evidence, (especially the speed of collapse being almost freefall and WTC 7’s odd collapse) there’s plenty of reasons to think it was an inside job, or at bare minimum not as it’s been reported in the media and through their own error-filled report.
That being said, alternative theories should not be presented as facts. Mentioning it as a non mainstream is fine way of thinking is fine, but he deserves a good tongue lashing for presenting it as fact.
OK Truther,
Read the Popular Mechanics debunking of all the conspiracy BS.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1227842.html
Then ask yourself why you choose to give any credence to conspiracy nuts rather than to engineers. “Look at the evidence” you say. Just be sure you are looking at actual COMPLETE evidence, that’s the key. Conspiracy nuts can make some pretty good arguments just by leaving out any facts, photos, videos, etc that are inconvenient. Quick example is the “No plane wreckage at the Pentagon” BS… easy to write a book about, you just have to ignore every single photo that shows plane parts around the Pentagon.
While you’re thinking, whose word did you trust when you accepted the “fell at near freefall speed, thus it was planned” meme? Who did you hear it from? At what speed “should” it fall to not be a conspiracy? [hint: it doesn't matter what speed, if it were slower, they'd be claiming it fell "too slow" indicating a "series of controlled explosions" I bet]
Woah, jumping to conclusions a bit? First off, using tactics of name calling don’t help anyone and assuming I have only looked at one side of the story is being quite presumptuous. I have read that Popular Mechanics article before and it answers some questions, just not all of them. Also, assuming that all engineers agree with the offical reports is a bit of a jump to.
I won’t respond to the “No plane wreckage” comment, as I have no opinion on that, but as far as the ‘near freefall speed’, if floors collapsed as the weight above them, which is logical, wouldn’t it offer more resistance than if nothing was below it?
Also, why is the government withholding so much information permanently about these events and why do videos, audio recordings, and first-hand accounts differ from offical reports?
Personally, I don’t care if anybody fully believes it was an inside job or not. At the end of the day, it doesn’t affect me at all, but I think people should be skeptical of the truth and not accept everything at face value. Sometimes questioning can be a good thing, even if you find out that you are wrong. If they capture Bin Laden and he admits to planning the whole thing, that would honestly make me feel better about this world, but that hasn’t happened yet, and there are still reasons to doubt what the government has said.
But, back to the original story, I see no wrong as presenting this theory in a classroom, however presenting it as fact is wrong and I’m glad he was forced to apologize.
It’s a pity that this sort of nonsense gets propagated…especially in an educational setting. There are lots of ‘theories’ that could be presented in a classroom setting that are hogwash. Screw loose change.
Believe whatever bloodthirsty theories you want to, but don’t poison school kids with this garbage.
Hey, this guy could probably teach in the US! I’m in California and I wouldn’t be surprised if 25% of the teachers here would agree with him. If nothing else, he’d fit in right at a US university!
I know a lot of people who think 9/11 was an “inside job” try to make their reactionary beliefs seem less reactionary by starting with “I don’t want to sound like a kook, but it just seems like an inside job”. Have any of these people considered the real possibility that it WASN’T an inside job? That the people who actually saw airplanes fly into the three buildings (including the Pentagon) weren’t hallucinating? Of course not. Every eye witness must have been working for the Bush Administration.
Have you ever considered that maybe there’s more to the story than what you’ve been told by Fox and Friends? That’s right, I didn’t think so.
So not believing this theory makes you a member of the Fox and Friends club? That’s pretty ridiculous. Since all of the mainstream media was reporting basically the same thing, does that make CNN part of the Fox and Friends club? That’s news to me.
No, completely blowing it off and using poor ad-hominem attacks against anyone who DOES believe the theory is what makes you a member of Fox and Friends; You’re essentially using the same tactics.
Truthers: Proof that you can be dumber then a brick and still walk upright.
Most of the time anyway.
I didn’t read the whole article but clearly this is yet another example of an enlightened person being oppressed by the press.
Zeitgeist Movie (2007) talks about it and they give there some serious evidents that made me think about this whole thing …
Escpecially the interview with one univeristy professor who stated that this was the first time in history that a steel-construction basically vaporises to the smallest pieces…
Movie can be watched from here …
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
One might point out to that professor that this was the first time in history someone flew a jumbo jet loaded with fuel into a 100+ story building…
And the towers did not “basically vaporize to the smallest pieces”. Look at some pictures taken from the site immediately afterwards. There was a mountain of very large steel chunks.
Next topic: Did the US actually land on the moon, and if so, what did the reptilian overlords there tell Neil Armstrong when they met?
i think they said “we wish to send an emissary for our species his name in human is ‘tom cruise’” anyway thats what the cia guy that shot kennedy said on his blog when he was writing about the captured space ship at area 51.
if people can belive in higher powers without any repeatable proof what chance do you have when you do have proof!
One WORD for the TEACHER STUPID!!! Too bad the students were given the wrong information. That is not fare for the students. They deserve the get all information as correct as possible the TRUTH!
He probably should have predicted such a reaction. When raising unproven political conspiracy among Westerners gets you labeled as nutty, its obvious reactionary Japan is going to be far less open-minded.
He could have just used the Gulf of Tonkin, Reichstag fire, Northwoods, Mukden, the Lusitania or Ryazan from among the huge number of proven false flag incidents.
Or he could have just stuck with the heavily sourced and rock-solid research of people like William Engdahl, Micahel Parenti or Peter Dale Scott (whose writing in “The Road to 9/11″ has absolutely nothing to do with Popular Mechanics straw man diatribe) and let the students make up their own minds about modern politics.
Unfortunately, for some people offering that option is like asking a cow about its intended career path.
A long time ago, someone told me how he felt about the world. He said; “Think about how stupid the average person is, then realize that 1/2 the world is stupider than that.”
If this many people really think the US perpetrated the 9/11 attacks internally, than I must say, it’s a sad world.
And for all the “truthers” out there, I ask you check out NTSB reports on other airline accidents without survivors and see how much is left of the aircraft. Airliners designed with the thinnest metals and fewest parts possible, what are you expecting to see?
In addition, this article is addressing the issue of a teacher introduced hearsay as fact to impressionable minds, I believe that’s the biggest problem. It’s things like this that creates bigotry and social idealism that students carry for years. Even 9/11 would be nothing compared to a teacher who claimed; “World War II was China’s fault”. The end result of this type of “terror teaching” often impacts young minds with a sole individuals own personal opinions and prejudice.
>>>> A long time ago, someone told me how he felt about the world. He said; “Think about how stupid the average person is, then realize that 1/2 the world is stupider than that.”
Wait a minute - You met George Carlin?!
Why do they have to apologize? Isn’t it a truth? *grin*
Sigh.. it’s a scary world, to think that people cannot tell the truth. It’s definitely happening in China where censorship is carried out all the time (my comment deleted the other day on a Chinese website for a supposedly political reason, where my comment had nothing to do with politics, lol), but also in Japan and the U.S. as well, and probably in other countries too..
Simply put: The first victim of war is the truth.
Then: Bush was put in power for a reason. He did have a plan for energy. We needed him. Remember the oil crisis of October 1973?
Religion is no longer a motivation for men to go to war. (but still if you are muslim) Now we have patriotism that replaces that. What does it take to get a nation to declare war on a country that has little or nothing to do with 9/11? The measure is rather extreme.
Elections in the US: Let people (i.e. delegates) with some knowledge of politics and macro economy do the planning.
Please keed kids out of this. The same as you don’t make a field trip of visiting the hot dog factory.
I agree with the first poster. There is an increasing lack of transparency in the U.S. government, especially concerning anything to do with 9/11 or U.S. foreign policy… therefore questioning the official story is the only logical thing to do.
Mentioning that theories exist isn’t bad. Teaching those theories would be.
As for polluting children’s minds… each person’s idea of what’s bad for children differs. As an example, I would prefer if teachers never mentioned Christianity in the classroom, although I don’t think mentioning it is a problem. There would be a problem though if Christianity was taught in public schools.
Instead of idiotic conspiracy myths, this teacher should be teaching more interesting things, like what did the government do with the airplane wings that hit the Pentagon.
This whole so-called debate reminds me of the so-called theory of intelligent design.
I study at a University in Nagoya, Japan, and we had a teacher who gave us an hour’s lecture on exactly this last year, posing all of those theories as the truth. I had never heard of this theory before that time but I was so upset that anyone, especially a Christian teacher (that he was) could think that a Christian nation could do something like that and ruin so many other lives.
I wish I had had him apologise too.