Said by Robert Forte in the lecture “Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics”:
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/100381/what_happens_when_you_put_300_experts_on_psychedelics_in_the_same_room_/
In the conference’s closing session, Pinchbeck suggested that the current renaissance in psychedelic culture came about because Saturn was at right angles to Pluto. And when one audience member asked who doubted the “official 9/11 story,” more than half the crowd raised their hands. Forte then began spouting a mix of 9/11 conspiracy theory and erroneous Holocaust history—and confessed that Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the effects of LSD in 1943, had told him shortly before his death that he thought the Jews had been behind the attacks.
His response in the same blog:
I did not “confess” that Albert Hofmann said “THE Jews were behind the attacks.” I reported that when I told Albert that I have come to realize that 9/11 was an inside job by the Bush Administration, he said there was “A Jewish conspiracy.”
I (too) recoiled when my friend Albert Hofmann made that comment to me, being well aware as I am of the long terrible history of anti-Semitism in his native Basel Switzerland. I was disappointed that perhaps vestiges of his culture’s despicable racism might have remained in his otherwise awakened consciousness.
But now that I have studied 9/11 quite carefully, along with my fellow patriots,(http://patriotsquestion911.com/), scholars, (http://stj911.org/), pilots (http://www.pilotsfor911truth.org/, and architects and engineers, http://www.ae911truth.org/, it now appears that Albert’s remark was no more anti-Semitic than calling the mafia AN Italian conspiracy, is anti-Italian.
There is a world of difference between these two statements. Had he said, “THE Jews,” it would have been a bigoted,vile, anti-Semitic comment. As he said it-and as I reported it- it now appears to me as a descriptive comment about some of the most likely suspects of the perhaps the most heinous, unsolved crime in US history.
It was said by me at this excellent conference, horizonsnyc.org/, in the context of a discussion about the effects of religious experience on world view, personality theory, the psychology of the authoritarian personality, the importance of confronting the shadow, in Jungian parlance, and the necessity of asking difficult questions.
As for “spouting a mix of 9/11 conspiracy theory and erroneous “Holocaust history”, what I said was that there are well known stories that many Jews in Europe in the 1930s who were warned in advance about the atrocities being committed by the Nazis, but didn’t believe those reports. The same psychological reasons for refusing to accept that something so terrible could really be true, in spite of obvious evidence, helps us to understand the resistance by many to the rapidly growing International 9/11 Truth Movement.
As for “conspiracy theory,” Mr Wishnia apparently needs to be reminded that this is how we used to solve crimes in the USA. Law enforcement, criminologists, etc, come up with a theory and then try to prove it within certain rules of evidence, logic, and in a court of law. By his tone, Mr Wishnia indicates a disdain for “conspiracy theory,” which makes me wonder what he prefers. Declaring someone guilty with NO evidence and attacking other countries at your whim? Testimony with no oath, with Dick Cheney holding your hand?
One more thing: At dinner after this controversial moment, a Jewish friend of mine received a call from an Israeli friend who said, ”Tell Robert I am glad he made that comment for there are many of us who are strong enough in our Judaism to know that the Jewish conspirators behind 9/11 do not represent all of Judaism. I only wish Albert had said it was “a Zionist conspiracy.”
This is a big problem that won’t be solved by Ostriches hiding from it. No wonder to me Wishnia’s bio states he is looking for a job.
Professor Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton, was recently appointed to chair a Human Rights Commission investigating Israeli abuses of the Palestinians. Dr. Falk was unanimously approved, and then he asked for an investigation of the role of the neoconservatives, among which there are many prominent Jewish-Zionist members, in 9/11. Dr. Falk, a Jew, was himself accused of anti-Semitism.
The Holocaust was a most horrid and tragic episode in world history, but it does not exempt members of the Jewish religion from criminality and justice. Let there be light. Lets Save Democracy
