{"id":428091,"date":"2010-03-13T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/?p=36709"},"modified":"2010-03-13T07:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T11:20:00","slug":"ventura-%e2%80%98you%e2%80%99re-not-allowed-to-ask%e2%80%99-about-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/428091","title":{"rendered":"Ventura: \u2018You\u2019re Not Allowed to Ask\u2019 About 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"

Muriel Kane
\nRaw Story<\/a><\/a>
\nSaturday, March<\/a> 13, 2010<\/p>\n

Former Minnesota governor and one-time<\/a> professional wrestler Jesse Ventura has run afoul of the Huffington Post<\/a>\u2019s no-conspiracy<\/a>-theory policy, and he\u2019s not happy about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t believe the Huffington Post<\/a> today will practice censorship,\u201d Ventura says in astonishment. \u201cI\u2019ve got news<\/a> for them. \u2026 I won\u2019t ever write for \u2018em again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ventura had posted an item on Tuesday which took note<\/a> of a recent conference at which \u201cmore than one thousand architects and engineers signed a petition demanding that Congress<\/a> begin a new investigation into the destruction of the World Trade Center skyscrapers on 9\/11<\/a>.\u201d He also quoted a few paragraphs from his new book, American Conspiracies,<\/em> to explain why some of those experts see signs of controlled demolition.<\/p>\n

The item was featured on the front page of Huffington Post<\/a> when it first went up, but after a few hours it vanished. All that appears now at its original location is an editor\u2019s note<\/a> saying, \u201cThe Huffington Post<\/a>\u2019s editorial policy, laid out in our blogger guidelines, prohibits the promotion and promulgation of conspiracy<\/a> theories \u2014 including those about 9\/11<\/a>. As such, we have removed this post.\u201d<\/p>\n

The note is followed by three pages of comments, enthusiastically arguing the pros and cons of controlled demolition and other 9\/11<\/a> theories, that were posted during the couple of hours before the entry was deleted and comments were closed.<\/p>\n

Huffington Post<\/a>\u2019s own guidelines for its bloggers state, \u201cWe must \u2014 and do \u2014 reserve the right to remove objectionable, inaccurate, or inflammatory material and, if necessary, suspend or revoke blogging privileges. This also includes propagating conspiracy<\/a> theories and blogging about behind-the-scenes housekeeping issues that are not of interest to the general public.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anastasia Churkina, a correspondent for RT, interviewed Ventura about the controversy. \u201cHe\u2019s a man who doesn\u2019t mince his words too much,\u201d she reported on Thursday. \u201cHe was pretty blunt.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t believe the Huffington Post<\/a> today will practice censorship,\u201d Ventura told her angrily. \u201cThey asked me to be a contributing editor and they said, \u2018Write about anything you want.\u2019 So it was the second time<\/a> I did something \u2014 and they removed it?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I\u2019ve got news<\/a> for them,\u201d he continued. \u201cI won\u2019t ever write for \u2018em again. \u2026 I won\u2019t do a thing for the Huffington Post<\/a> because I don\u2019t like it when people censor what I have to say.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I do is ask questions!\u201d he exploded. \u201cThat\u2019s what bugs me about 9\/11<\/a>. 9\/11<\/a> is an event you\u2019re not allowed to ask a question about. \u2026 Clearly they don\u2019t want any questions on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ironically, Ventura had to go to RT<\/a>, the English-language version of a Russian news<\/a> channel, to tell his story. Although polls show that large numbers of Americans believe in a broad range of conspiracy<\/a> theories, and a majority entertain doubts about the official story of 9\/11<\/a>, few of those questions ever appear in the mainstream media<\/a><\/a>.<\/p>\n

As Raw Story<\/a> recently reported<\/a> , \u201cIn November of 2007, an online article noted, \u2018Nearly two-thirds of Americans think it is possible that some federal officials had specific warnings of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, but chose to ignore those warnings, according to a Scripps Howard News<\/a> Service\/Ohio University poll.\u2019 A national survey of 811 adult residents of the United States<\/a> conducted by Scripps and Ohio University found that more than a third believe in a broad smorgasbord of conspiracy<\/a> theories including the attacks, international plots to rig oil prices, the plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and the government<\/a>\u2019s knowledge of intelligent life from other worlds. The high percentage is a manifestation, some say, of an American public that increasingly distrusts the federal government<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even liberal websites, however, discourage questions about 9\/11<\/a>, to the point where BooMan of the Booman Tribune<\/a> had to preface a post at Daily Kos in 2005 by writing<\/a> \u201cI know this touches on verboten conspiracy<\/a> theories, but this is a front-page NYT article.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of hard to tell whether or not a new investigation will be launched,\u201d Churkina concluded. \u201cMany people don\u2019t think this is going to be happening any time<\/a> soon, even with such public figures, like Jesse Venture and other, calling for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

This video<\/a> from RT was posted at YouTube<\/a> on March<\/a> 12, 2010.<\/p>\n

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