"Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th - malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists themselves, away from the guilty" - George W. Bush
While addressing the UN General Assembly in New York last week, the President of Iran touched upon the subject of the September 11 attacks, noting there exists some doubt about the official 9/11 conspiracy theory.
As soon as he mentioned 9/11, the American diplomats hurried from the chamber, dutifully followed by their western vassals. This walkout by the West says we will not tolerate talk of 9/11.
Ahmadinejad went on to wonder why the Americans never properly investigated the attacks and whether it was rational to invade two countries and kill millions of people in response... quite reasonable questions, it seems to me, yet well beyond the bounds of permissible discourse.
This ban on talk about 9/11 extends to the media, where any who dare raise doubts about the official narrative are goaded and galled by attack poodles like Jon Feine of the ABC, who recently berated Kevin Bracken on air for stating a few unpopular facts about 9/11.
But it seems the strategy of scorn is not sufficient to stem the tide of questions. Obama's information czar, Cass Sunstein, now openly advocates "cognitive infiltration", in lieu of honest answers, to combat doubts about the official 9/11 conspiracy theory.
And we have our own outraged "right-thinking" MP, Josh Frydenberg, who recently demanded, in Parliament, that Prime Minister Gillard discipline Kevin Bracken, for stating facts that can't be stated, asking questions that aren't to be asked and thinking things that ought not be thought.