Welcome to Paulites Against Truthers

Standing together with Dr. Paul in opposition to the cancer of 9/11 Trutherism that has infected his campaign.

Attention 9/11 truthers who have polluted Ron Paul's campaign: We authentic Paulites want you to leave the campaign. Dr. Paul does not agree with you and wants you to shut your mouths. We're tired of you making it look like all Paul supporters are as crazy and/or stupid as you (such as with moronic antics like this). And, we demand that you stop telling people the lie that Dr. Paul agrees with you. Stop tarnishing his name with your nonsense.

9/11 Truthers hold the insane belief that 9/11 was a terroristic act orchestrated by the U.S. government against its own people. This directly contradicts Dr. Paul's well-documented explanation of 9/11, which is that it was a terrorist act committed by Al-Qaida as a result of "blowback." That is, the Arab terrorists saw American forces as being occupiers of their "holy land," and this resulted in driving them to such a high level of animosity that they attacked Americans in America in order to send us a message to stay out of that part of the world. This is "blowback": unintended negative consequences of U.S. foreign intervention. The fact that 9/11 Truthers disregard Paul's explanation on the 9/11 attack, a defining position of his in this campaign, and claim that it was the U.S government attacking Americans distinguishes the Truthers as not being Paulites at all but imposters.

Morever, most Truthers come from the Left and have no conception of libertarian philosophy and laissez-faire capitalism. So, not only are they so far away from Dr. Paul by not subscribing to his blowback theory on 9/11, most of them do not even subsribe to his foundational belief in unregulated laissez-faire capitalism. Hence, it is clear that while they support Ron Paul, they are not supporting what he stands for, which makes their presence in the Paul movement simply bizarre. However, this can be explained. They are merely very confused individuals of low intelligence who mistakenly believe that Paul is a 9/11 Truther too, and have latched on to him for that reason. Hopefully, if anything, this campaign will educate them in the benefits of libertarian capitalism and pitfalls of the welfare state and regulation, but it is doubtful this can be acheived due to a natural slowness of mind on their part. They're just really stupid people. However, it may interest them to know that one famous Leftist, Noam Chomsky, is intelligent enough to dismiss 9/11 Truth and gives a great explanation of why it is so ridiculous (Note to Truthers who have problems with reading: this link is a VIDEO!).

While it's true that 9/11 truthers bring some people into the campaign, many more people are turned away from the campaign due to the presence of 9/11 truthers. That is, the net result of 9/11 Truthers being involved in the Paul campaign/movement is less supporters for Dr. Paul than there could be, and could have been. It would not be a surprise to learn that for every 9/11 Truther that comes into the campaign, ten potential Paul supporters decide not to join the campaign due to the very vocal and conspicious presence of Truthers (a presence which the sensationalist media has been happy to report). Most people just don't like to associate with lunatics and idiots, regardless of the cause. The solution to help being more people into the Paul movement: Get the 9/11 Truthers out of the campaign or get them to shut up with their ridiculous "inside job" conspiracy theories. Paulites Against Truthers hope that his website will help them see the light that Paul does not support their conspiracy theories, finds them abhorrent, and wants them to cease and desist or leave to plague another candidate. Hopefully, it becomes clear to them that he's not even pretending that he's not a 9/11 Truther in order to protect his political career (which is in itself another bizarre theory many of them make themselves believe). As for the conspiracy theory that we know is already developing among you nuts, that Paulites Against Truthers is part of a government conspiracy to "divide and conquer" the Paul campaign, we suggest psychotherapy because you've clearly gone over the edge.

The following is proof that Dr. Paul does not believe that the U.S. government was involved in orchestrating the 9/11 attack, as well as proves that he does not believe that the U.S. government knew that the 9/11 attack was going to happen:

Carl Cameron: "...Many of your supporters are call themselves 9/11 Truthers...Sir, would you ask them to cease their [9/11 inside job] rhetoric on your behalf?

Paul: "Well, it doesn't do me any good, so if they care about me they should [cease it]."

John Gibson: "You have associated yourself in some ways with these people that they call 9/11 Truthers, who think that the U.S. government was in on the 9/11 attacks. Do you also believe that's true?"

Paul: "No. And I wouldn't say I associate with them; they associate with me. But there's no way a candidate can control every thought process of everybody who supports him..."

Gibson: "But you go on Alex Jones' show...Will you say right here and now that you completely disavow the 9/11 truth movement and the whole idea that the U.S. government was on in the 9/11 attack?"

Paul: "Yes I do..."

Gibson: "I really think you're making a big mistake going on [the Alex Jones Show] and associated yourself with those views and making all these people that listen to Alex Jones believe that you agree with them."

Paul:"...I think you make a giant mistake to try to accuse me that I'm defending everything Alex Jones says. I think that's very unfair...Just like Alex Jones will do; he'll try to put words in my mouth. You try to put words in my mouth too, just like Alex Jones does."

Julie Banderas: "Do you believe that the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center was an inside job?"

Paul: "Well, the answer is no if they mean by 'inside job' that our government made it happen. No, I don't believe that."

Banderas: "Ok, but you did say on Alex Jones' radio that you believed that U.S. was in great danger of a staged terror attack or a Gulf of Tonkin-style provocation. So, do you think the Bush administration would do something like this to get us into a war, say, with Iran?"

Paul: "No, I don't. But, I talk about that because you know the Gulf of Tonkin was an episode that was used to get us into war. If an accident happens over there, and it's blamed - let's say Osama Bin Laden stages something and he blames it on Iran. This will be an excuse to for us to expand the war in Iran. So, I think this is very very dangerous because a lot of people, even, you know, in the Republican Party are quite willing to use a nuclear first strike on Iran. So, I think this is a very very dangerous situation that we're in. So, no I don't think President Bush is planning this. But, I think 9/11 was certainly used as a reason to go into Iraq. And, Iraq did not have weapons. They had nothing to do with 9/11. So they use events. They don't stage events, but they use it to do the things they had already planned. And, the Iraqi war has been planned for a long time."

Banderas: "...So back to the Alex Jones thing...Regarding the conspiracy theory behind 9/11, I know that you do not believe that there was a conspiracy theory however you know this guy [Alex Jones] sort of supports that idea. Then, why would you associate yourself with this kind of guy considering your reputation as a presidential hopeful?"

Paul:"Well, just think about what it would be like if I could only go on the t.v. stations, the major t.v. networks, when I knew they agreed with me on all [issues]. All the major networks agreed with the war. [If I had to agree with everyone who interviewed me] that mean't I could never be on any major t.v. network. Of course I don't support everything [Alex Jones] says, but people I associate with, I don't endorse their views - they come and associate with me to endorse me views or I'm just expressing my views. But there'd be no way I could be on television, if I had, if that was the litmus test that I had to agree with everything they stood for and what they promoted. It just wouldn't work."

Mike Gallagher: "Is it fair to say that you believe that there was some kind of either government conpiracy or coverup involving September 11th, 2001?"

Ron Paul: "No, not really. I never bring that up. Some people try to twist what I say and turn it into that. And I think some of my supporters lean in that direction, but that's not my position. I do think government's basically inept. I mean we were spending $40 billion a year collecting intelligence, and a lot of information was out there. We had one FBI agent, I think sent dozens and dozens of memos to his superiors saying that there are people trying to fly airplanes but not land them. And, nobody would pay any attention, so I don't think that's a conspiracy; I think that's a lot of bureaucracy that doesn't work very well. And then when we have government investigations, whether it's 9/11 or assassinations, I think the main goal is to protect the government and to protect their ineptness. And that is a lot different than saying 'Oh they conspired to do this because they can use this as an excuse to spread the war in the Middle East whether they had anything to do with 9/11 or not.' I don't see it that way, but I believe some who did want to spread the war would use it as an opportunity. But, it wasn't something that was deliberately done."

Shawn Wasson: "Why do you entertain all the nonsense and all the questions from this 9/11 conspiracy crowd?"

Paul: "Well, I think your question is very biased, because I don't."

Wasson: "Do you believe that there was some kind of coverup in the September 11th investigation?"

Paul: "I think that's a perfectly logical answer ..[the coverup being that] they sort of protect themselves to show where they might have goofed up. So, I think this is very natural; that's the natural instinct of all goverments. So, that is a far cry from what you've insinuated by saying that I endorse the idea that the government had something to do with 9/11."

Wasson: "I'm saying that there is an overall perception among these people. They at least think you have some kind of inkling that 9/11 was covered up somehow -- that there was some kind of inside job as they say. Let me ask you flat out. Do you think, or do you have any evidence at all, to suggest that 9/11was anything other than the official storyline?"

Paul: "No, I have no reason to think that. But, that doesn't mean you shouldn't find out where we fell short. So, once again, I think it's your same innuendos that you're using."

Wasson: "Your position then would be that as far as you're concerned, the official story from 9/11 - and this is not about the government covering up their mistakes. This is about the suggestions from these people...that 9/11 was orchestrated by the government, you do not support that theory?"

Paul: "Absolutely not!"

Adam Curry: "9/11 Conspiracy theories. Do you buy any of it Dr. Ron?"

Paul: "Not, not really. Not the kind that say well it was all conspired by our government and they did it for this purpose of us ushering in this War on Terrorism. No I don't believe any of that. But, I believe, because it's very very clear evidence, that the neoconservatives in a way sort of welcomed the event because they even wrote about a Pearl Harbor type event that they might be able to use to promote their cause and they certainly have. But, I think where some of this stuff gets overlapped and confused [by 9/11 Truthers who annoyingly latch on to me] is that I don't think the 9/11 commision investigation was worth a whole lot because I think it was mainly designed to cover up mistakes and ineptness of government, not so much to cover up or hide a conspiracy or a plan to do this whole thing by the government. But I think the evidence was there that if we'd have had, you know, some really sharp people watching - what they- the information they accumulated they would have known that there was something very big coming on, and yet they - we haven't really arrested or fired or blamed anybody for the total ineptness of allowing 9/11 to attack us, so I think those are two different issues."

Curry: "So you're saying [it's] possible but definitely not enough information on the table?"

Paul: "Well no, I don't think there's any information to say that the government planned the event. What I'm saying is that they had information buried in the accumulation of all these files but they didn't pay enough attention to. For instance, there was one FBI agent that on dozens and dozens of times reported to his superiors that someone was training to fly airplanes but not land them and he was totally ignored...I think that was ineptness rather than a conspiracy to allow it to happen."

Glenn Beck: "I have watched the interviews with you. You don't leave any room for any doubt on a 9/11 conspiracy, but I'd just like to make it clear and ask you - and I don't believe these need explanation unless I've read your answers wrong elsewhere - but, may I just run through these 9/11 conspiracies?: No plane hit the Pentagon on September 11th; instead, it was a missile fired by elements from inside the American state apparatus. Yes or no?"

Paul: "No. It's preposterous."

Beck: "The planes that hit the World Trade Center towers were remotely controlled."

Paul: "[Shaking his head no and shugging his shoulders] I mean this is just bizarre. I've not even heard these challenges before."

Beck: "O.K. I understand that. I don't mean to - sir, these are the people that - some of these people speak in your name and they actually say that you will be on this program tonight and you will answer the way you are answering now because you can't let on. They believe that you are part..of another kind of conspiracy to expose the conspiracy of 9/11 and the World Trade Center. Can you - I mean you you'd - I don't know how you address people who are so deeply into conspiracy but can you?

Paul: "I, I don't know what I would be - supposed to be doing. Uh, no. I mean I don't think there's any evidence.."

Beck: "Is there any evidence or is there any doubt in your mind that the United States government was not involved in the September 11th attacks - that we did not bring down World Trade Center number seven?"

Paul: "...I absolutely believe that is true - they did not. But, the connection may be -and where some people get carried away - is if you dig through those $40 billion dollars worth of intelligence gathering apparatus that we had before 9/11, you know we dig up information and there was some ineptness, and sometimes when you find ineptness in government it's easy to make this giant leap over into conspiracy and [that] they do it on purpose, But, you know, we had an FBI agent like on seventy different occasions reported that these individuals were flying airplanes and not learning how to land them and then he was totally ignored. I consider this ineptness on government, not a conspiracy that 'Oh yeah! We know about it. We can't wait until the towers come down!' No, I don't believe that at all. I think it - I don't think I should even have to answer questions like that [laugh]."

Beck: "Yes sir. I do not believe that this is your point of view, and I don't believe that this is the point of view of most of your supporters - the vast, vast majority [of your supporters]."

Michael Medved: "Do you have any doubt, Congressman Ron Paul, that the horrors of 9/11 were perpetrated by 19 Arab young men working as agents of international terror in the form of Al-Qaida?"

Paul: "No. I don't of anybody that really questions that in a serious manner...To say that it was something somebody other than the Al-Qaida - and I don't hear too many people saying that - but I'm sure there are people saying things like that and that there's some type of conspiracy - but I think it's pretty hard to refute airplanes plowing into a building. [chuckle]"

Coming soon: A petition you can sign to indicate that you want to expunge 9/11 Truthers (fake Paulites) from the campaign

Coming later: A video game called "Paulites Versus Truthers," to be available for $34.95. Can YOU eliminate enough Truthers from the campaign in time to attract enough supporters and delegates to get Paul to the Convention? This game is loads of fun for the entire family!

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