Stanford Should Be Cardinal With Embarrassment

The nutbars get a write-up in the Stanford Daily:

At a Friday screening of the documentary “9/11: Press for Truth” at Gunn High School, Stanford grad Paul Thompson and Berkeley English Prof. Peter Dale Scott charged the Bush administration of failing to make Americans safer and pointed to a governmental cover-up at the film’s Palo Alto debut.

Much of the content, which traces the events and government actions leading up to the terrorist attacks, is based on Thompson’s book, “The Complete 9/11 Timeline.” In addition to news clips and government evidence, the film uses survivor statements to raise provocative questions regarding the attacks and the role of the current administration.

As we've discussed before, this film is getting tremendous buzz among the 9-11 Deniers despite the fact that it doesn't specifically endorse any of the nuttier claims. Indeed, that's about the only criticism offered by any of the attendees:

While most audience members reacted enthusiastically towards the discussion and film’s content, a few felt that both stopped short of unearthing some of the more controversial questions. Dennis Galen Mitrzyk, a social activist from Los Altos, said he was disappointed that Stark and Thompson hadn’t addressed what he believed to be the administration’s active role in the attacks.

“I feel that Paul and Peter are both guilty of taking a position known as the limited hang-out,” Mitrzyk said. “Paul is assuming that it is Al-Qaeda who did it. My specialty is the collapse of the towers, and the collapse was clearly controlled demolition, and if it was this, than it was clearly not Al-Qaeda. It’s a very different situation if Bush and the neo-cons planned it.”

A number of people walked out in frustration during the discussion session, with one audience member loudly charging that the “destruction of Israel” was all the U.S. needed to maintain political stability.

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Update: Commenter Rob did what I should have done and found out a little bit about Dennis Galen Mitrzyk. Turns out that he's quite the polymath; in addition to his specialty in the collapse of the towers, he's also an activist, writer, and musician. He's also, um, a "neo-Pagan Pantheist".