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Monday, 28 November 2011

An Open Letter to Dr. Paul Viminitz: 9/11 Evidence vs. Straw Man Arguments

“Viminitz presupposes the veracity of the wholly debunked Official Conspiracy Theory (OCT) of 9/11. I suspect not until I challenged him, during the period when I was his student, had he even considered the possibility that the OCT could be false.” - Joshua Blakeney

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Whilst studying for my undergraduate degree in Sociology at the University of Lethbridge I took a class in Critical Thinking (i.e. Logic) taught by Professor Paul Viminitz, a member of the Philosophy department who purports to be “Canada’s foremost philosopher-of-war” as “Canada’s only philosopher-of-war.” As a result of my interest in Professor Viminitz’s scholarship on the subject of War I decided to read his 2005 paper published in the Journal of Philosophical Research entitled “A Defence of Terrorism” in which he advances the thesis “that terrorism is not only permissible but permissible categorically. Moreover, where neither championing nor passive resistance are available, terrorism may even be morally mandatory.”  The case study he takes as the focus of his discussion is that of 9/11, a terrorist attack he inaccurately attributes to Osama bin Laden. 

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