The 4th Straw Man

And whilst on the subject of 9/11 and 7/7 hit pieces and how hard it is to know who is or isn’t playing straight or fair…

A few months ago someone called Daniel slapped up a few pages up on the Interweb and posted comments on a few blogs, this one included, directing people to his site…

The 4th Bomb

Daniel says he is a survivor of the fourth 7/7 bomb on the bus in Tavistock Square and that he witnessed strange goings-on that day and has been subject to intimidation from the security forces since then.

The problem for Daniel is that he hasn’t done a very good job of communicating just what the strange goings-on and intimidation exactly were.

Consequently, the reception given to Daniel’s revelations was, how can I put it diplomatically … er, underwhelming.

Then things went quiet for a bit, until last week when Daniel gave an interview on, surprise surprise, the Alex Jones show.

Which was also pretty difficult to take on board.

I won’t bother doing a step by step critique of what Daniel had to say as someone has already gone to the effort here.

Amongst many other points, critics of Daniel's claims have pointed out that there isn't much in the way of evidence that Daniel was even on the bus when the bomb went off. In response, a commentator on the GooTube version of Daniel's Alex Jones interview has written "The man in the red circle is Daniel Obachike, just after the bombing, proofing he was a passenger on the doomed bus."

That would be this red circle...



Oh dear...

I’m only mentioning this here because Google searches for doubts about 7/7 sometimes lead to this blog. There’s a good chance that if speculation and doubts about the official narrative of 7/7 persist the BBC or another media outlet will eventually be called upon to do one of its 'fair and impartial' documentaries on 7/7 Conspiracy Theories. And, let me put it this way, I wouldn’t exactly be surprised if Daniel and his claims were held up as being central to 7/7 Truthseeking, before being crushed two seconds later.

Whether he means to or not, Daniel is doing an awfully good impression of a straw man.

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And if you ever pass this way again Daniel and you are on the level please have a think about what you are trying to say and how well it stands up to objective criticism. Because at the moment IMHO it doesn’t

and titling your 4th Bomb blog "Daniel's 7:7 - Revelations" isn't winning many fans over either. References to Biblical Prophecy might go down a storm over in the US but they don't play so well in the UK...

Daniel 7:7

After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.

Aside from injecting an unnecessary element of superstition into a subject many people take deadly seriously, the coincidence of your first name and the date of the bombings with a vaguely appropriate quote from Revelations seems so convenient as to be scripted...

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