Meacher brings together the Project for a New American Century, the intelligence failures surrounding the events of 9/11 and the recognition that oil is a strategic resource in order to weave a conspiracy theory of the first order.
As the Guardian’s diplomatic editor, Ewen MacAskill, puts it, in an article published on the same day as Meacher’s demented notions:
Mr Meacher, a leftwinger who is close to the green lobby, also claims in an article in today's Guardian that the war on terrorism is a smokescreen and that the US knew in advance about the September 11 attack on New York but, for strategic reasons, chose not to act on the warnings.In other words, Meacher is suggesting that the United States intelligence services conspired with the administration’s neo-conservatives in order to facilitate a terrorist attack on American soil that resulted in the deaths of thousands.
And the evidence for this is? Well, there isn’t any, aside from Meacher’s “reading” of the situation.
Harry over at Harry’s Place has a pretty good take on it, criticising Meacher as much for his lack of originality as for his abandonment of a common sense view of the world.
After all, the conspiracy theory he gives credence to in a Guardian column today has been doing the rounds on the web for months.And it sounds to me like he's been spending way too much time at Indymedia.
So now we know what Michael Meacher has been up to since he left the government - he's discovered the internet.
