A significant number of potential jurors in the Jose Padilla terrorism support case say they aren’t sure who is responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, many because they don’t trust the news media or U.S. government pronouncements.
“There are too many ifs, too many things going on,” one male juror said. “I don’t know the whole story.”
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To be sure, most jurors without a Sept. 11 opinion are aware that the attacks have been blamed on terrorists of some sort. But many seem unwilling to believe the conclusion reached by the national Sept. 11 Commission and the Bush administration, widely reported by news media, that blames al-Qaida and its leader, Osama bin Laden.
One female juror agreed that was a “general public consensus” but still held out skepticism.
There can’t really be this many stupid people in the country, can there? So many that a randomly-selected jury pool has this many truthers in it...can there?
I mean, c’mon.
To be honest with you, I think a lot of this is tied to Bush hatred. These people have been so indoctrinated by the media and the left into believing that everything that comes out of Bush’s mouth is a lie that they’re even willing to believe that he’s lying when he talks about the terrorists who knocked down the twin towers and crashed into the Pentagon.
It’s gotten pathetic, it really has.