HUNGER ARTIST
These freaks need to believe 9/11 was an inside job by George W. Bush & Co., that the collapse of Buildings One, Two, and Seven were controlled demos. Building Seven was supposedly the linchpin of the conspiracy because there were so many super-secret docs in there that needed to be obliterated.
Mike Gorman
If it doesn't haunt Joe, it should: A photo of MCSO victim Scott Norberg. His violent death while in custody cost Maricopa County $8.25 million.
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Seems like it would've been a whole lot easier just to send in 24's Jack Bauer to get the job done, rather than offing a whole skyscraper like WTC 7. Maybe Jack was busy that week, kickin' terrorist ass. And the Fantastic Four and Batman were on vacay. So that left it to New York firefighters to destroy the structure, right? Hey, don't look at this beak-bearer. This is what the conspiracy dillweeds are spouting.
For Mesa Community College religious studies teacher Blair Gadsby, Building Seven is what it's all about, the undeniable proof — in his mind — that the official story about what occurred on 9/11 is pure bunkum.
"Building Seven is the clincher," the pedagogue related to The Bird recently. "Anybody with the least bit of awareness, who's watched a building fall in Vegas, or wherever they can go watch [them] demolish one, it's clear and obvious."
Clear and obvious that the building's collapse was caused by a controlled demo, he meant to say. Pardon Gadsby if he sounds even spacier than the average community college don. Since Memorial Day, he's laid off the victuals in a hunger strike aimed at convincing U.S. Senator John McCain that he should grant Gadsby and his fellow fruitcakes a two-hour audience aimed at showing the presumptive GOP presidential nominee the error of his ways regarding 9/11.
See, McCain authored the foreword to Popular Mechanics' book-length rebuttal to the troofer crowd, Debunking 9/11 Myths. And that's tantamount to heresy in Gadsby's religion, the Most Holy Church of 9/11 Conspiracy Kookiness. So Gadsby's parked himself outside McCain's offices on north 16th Street in Phoenix, where he's been starving himself, losing a total of 11 pounds by the day this portly penguin paid a visit.
"When the average person sees the buildings come down, they know in their gut this is a controlled demolition," the hollow-cheeked hunger artist asserted. "That's why the images were deleted from the media immediately."
Um, what images, wondered this warbler?
"On September 12, 2001, I taped a Discovery Channel documentary," Gadsby told this tweeter at one point. "It was doing a retrospective of what had happened the previous day. And they got to 5:20 p.m. [and] all they showed was the dust cloud [from the collapse]. They didn't show the image of the building coming down. For obvious reasons."
Not obvious to everyone. The Bird doesn't know about this particular doc, but there's footage out the proverbial wazoo of Building Seven going down, including on the History Channel's 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction documentary, which you can watch piecemeal on YouTube if you've never seen it before.
To be fair, the Canadian-born Gadsby was hardly the Fruit Loop-iest dood out there when The Bird flew by. Nearly 20 of Gadsby's fellow 9/11 dingbats were in attendance on a recent Sunday, though there's not much more than Gadsby himself during the week. Karen Johnson's been by, but wasn't on hand when The Bird appeared. However, Kent "Cow-Killer" Knudson was present. Knudson's well known for organizing last year's disastrous 9/11 conference in Chandler, which featured assistance from Holocaust denier Eric D. Williams, the presence of whom split the conference and kept some big names in the 9/11-denial movement far away from Chandler.
Knudson's pretty easy to mess with. Just mention his felony conviction for killing a poor, defenseless cow in Snowflake, and he starts to jabber incoherently. A young, excitable guy named Charlie Fox compared himself to Sophie Scholl of the White Rose movement that resisted the Nazis from within Germany. Sorry, Charlie. You ain't no Sophie Scholl. She was a heroine who gave her life to fight tyranny. You're just a schmuck stroking himself, believing his own bull.
Others there wondered if Screw Loose Change's Pat Curley was a Freemason or if The Bird was a Freemason. Of course not. Everyone knows Curley and The Bird are instead card-carrying members of the Illuminati! Some 60-year-old pathetic pony-tailed pinhead who declined to give his name blathered on about how D.C. Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey didn't commit suicide and how John F. Kennedy Jr. was likely murdered, instead of dying in that plane piloted by himself. Someone else held up leather-lunged crybaby and radio wildman Alex Jones as the media's voice of reason.
The air was so thick with insanity that you couldn't cut it with a chainsaw. And local troofers like Gadsby wonder why McCain wants to keep them as far away as possible? Sheesh.
NORBERG'S GHOST
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the self-described "toughest sheriff in America" looked as though he'd just seen the ghost of Christmas past, or come face-to-face with his long-lost conscience.
The wily, wiry activist before him had asked Arpaio to make out the inscription on his copy of Joe's latest tome, Joe's Law, to "Scott." Then the activist, with his small video camera pointed at Nickel Bag Joe, uttered the surname, "Norberg."