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Sound Bite By George Washington In this age of sound bites and fast-moving entertainment, many adults may have the attention-span of a child. Moreover, many people have such strong preconceptions about what happened on 9/11 that they will not listen to new information if you try to engage them in a long, rational discussion (they are too good at filtering out new information which comes in through normal channels). So what's the answer? Hit 'em fast and hard with a one-liner which makes a winning point in a humorous or unusual way, and so slips 9/11 truth in "under the radar" before they have a chance to censor it out. Here are some readers' ideas for 9/11 sound bites. JaneDoe says the following worked on her father after all the discussions of controlled demolition didn't: "Why hasn't Bin Laden been indicted?" Damien has a whole list: "Mohammed Atta liked pork chops, did cocaine and had a stripper girlfriend. Muslim fanatics are all like that." "The top floor of the WTC fell down in ten seconds. Wasn't it nice of all the lower floors to just get out of the way?" "We couldn't stop the planes because the 911 Report insisted that the airforce radar towers were all pointing the wrong way." "Planes never go missing over London, Frankfurt and Tokyo, but because we were busy on 9/11 we lost some and only found them an hour later." "You know they found one of the hijacker's passports unmarked in the wreckage of the twin towers. Do you think they should return it to him?" "Bush didn't leave Sarasota school till 9.30 because he only got the first news at 8.30 and the CIA warning from the month before had only mentioned multiple hijackings." "When the government made the fake Osama confession video in Dec 2001 they didn't actually intend that you should look at it - you have looked at it haven't you?" "Do you like it when people lie to you? Then why do you believe it when they tell you that Bin Laden confessed to 9/11?" "VP Cheney watched flight 77 approach Washington from 50 miles out and he didn't lift a finger. But if he wouldn't discuss it with you I don't see why I should." Somebigguy says that if he's having trouble getting a cell phone signal, he'll make the following comment to those around him: "I'd probably get a good signal if I was 30,000 feet up." Anonymous says "Is it too late to get the evidence back from China regarding the biggest crime in history? Maybe the Chinese took better care of it than we did." Ab has this: " 'Hello, Mom, this is Mark Bingham'. What kid calls their mom and says THAT?" Keep the one-line sound bites coming. And let me know which ones are "battle-tested" and really work in waking people up. By the way, bb uses this sound bite: "Why did the currency component of M1 grow so rapidly in August 2001?" That's an awesome question, but probably requires a couple more sentences of explanation before people understand the implication.