Quote from: Charliemyboy on December 22, 2012, 03:14:17 PM
I have a relative who thinks that 9/11 (The New York one) was all a hoax by the US government.  He thinks that all of those people are alive and living happily in Canada.  He can't answer when I ask him how the government convinced those people to move to Canada and not let their families know they are OK.  Nor can he answer the point of the government doing it or why Canada allowed them all permission to live there.   He's just convinced that it is true and that the CIA is watching him because he knows the true story.  No, we haven't committed him yet. Yes, we probably should.

I'm hoping this last part is just a bit of hyperbole on your part. However, if it isn't, why do you think he should be committed? There are people out there that believe a lot crazier stuff than that, but they are, for the most part, harmless.

There are a lot of people - engineers, architects, commercial airline pilots, ex-military pilots, who have many valid questions about the attacks of 9/11/01 which, to this day remain unanswered. They can't all be crazy.

Of course, one  of the ways to cause a valid movement to lose credibility is to infiltrate it with people who take their position the the extreme so that the whole movement will be ridiculed.

Your relative may actually be working for the CIA as just such an "agent provocateur"!

Quote from: Darth Fife on December 23, 2012, 05:11:34 PM
I'm hoping this last part is just a bit of hyperbole on your part. However, if it isn't, why do you think he should be committed? There are people out there that believe a lot crazier stuff than that, but they are, for the most part, harmless.

There are a lot of people - engineers, architects, commercial airline pilots, ex-military pilots, who have many valid questions about the attacks of 9/11/01 which, to this day remain unanswered. They can't all be crazy.

Of course, one  of the ways to cause a valid movement to lose credibility is to infiltrate it with people who take their position the the extreme so that the whole movement will be ridiculed.

Your relative may actually be working for the CIA as just such an "agent provocateur"!

My neighbor, whom I thought highly of because of his intellect, thought the FBI and CIA were watching him.
He went to prison for attempted murder.

There must be a fine line there somewhere, though he never exhibited any hostile manner or tendency to get mad, he still went off the deep end and ran a guy over with his truck after an argument.