9/11Blogger poster no_body is working to figure out how to reach authoritarian personality types with 9/11 truth. Below are his initial conclusions. No_body posted some general scholarly research in this area here, but that research did not specifically address how to reach these types of folks. So I asked him if he could write something summarizing how to reach authoritarian types with 9/11 truth, and this is his response.

Debating the Debunkers and The Authoritarian Personality

In my experience of blogging for 911 truth and any other truth you'd
care to mention. I have on many occasions met TAP (The Authoritarian
Personality).

Both from the left, who use someone like Noam Chomsky as their
authority or on the right who use NIST, Popular Mechanics or Bill
O'Leilly.

It should be pointed out that the roots of this personality type can
be very deep, extending back to adolescence - peer group pressure and
conformity, or even to childhood - a dominating father for example.
Further programming takes place say in a military boot camp or in any
form of hierarchical power structure such as the work place.
(Engineers seem particularly prone)

TAP doesn't just mean "bossy types" TAP personalities are in the main
conformists i.e. they know their place and are involved in a life
that revolves around maintaining or improving their position in a
hierarchy. If they can be "top of the pile, king of the heap" then
they will happily occupy that position, but will equally happily
"follow the leader". Whoever that might be.

It would appear that transcendence of the self does not occur and
their motivation is to bolster the self. In other, words debunking
your arguments for 911 truth makes them feel good!

Whether their authority figures are eminent engineers or celebrities
they rely on these authority figures to formulate their own world
view, very often they don't have the necessary acumen or intellectual
skills to form their own judgments, though they often claim to be an
expert themselves, they rely heavily on their authority figures or
"experts".

TAP humans show no introspection if you can get them to do some
introspection then it is possible for them to realise why they do
what they do, but don't hold your breath. One way of doing this is to
point out that they have TAP.
Another way is to spot the lies and distortions they use. If you
catch them lying in a debate about the truth.....;-)

Here's one example of a foray into enemy territory in the info war.
It involved one of the truthers favorite lines.

"Never in history has a steel framed building......"
The debunker countered with two examples of steel framed buildings
that collapsed due to fire. They were basically sheds. The truther
made the mistake of using "buildings" and not skyscrapers. The
debunker made the mistake of describing one of the fires as a "small
electrical fire that lasted 30 mins" when in-fact the fire lasted
over seven hours and there were many other contributing factors to
the collapse. This was a deliberate misrepresentation of the facts to
demonstrate how easy it is for fire to destroy steel framed buildings
i.e. a lie.

It is estimated that 23% of the population have an authoritarian
personality.

Recognising TAP doesn't mean there are easy ways to win the argument
they won't respond to reason and evidence in the same way as you or I
do.

So no magic bullet I'm afraid. But knowing what you are dealing with
will help you in how you formulate your arguments, will win over the
less programmed non psychopathic types and help stop you from
becoming frustrated and end up just resorting to name calling.

Here are some ideas.

First undermine their authority figures (which isn't too difficult)
e.g. the administration - point to the EPA having to lie about the
air quality at ground zero. Use any examples of experts lying to
cover up you can think of.

Use the video of John Gross lying about the molten metal at ground zero.
followed by the first responders story of boots melting.

This combination works at a very powerful level.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7180303712325092501&hl=en
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvt8O2WT-9M&mode=related&search

If the Debunker you are debating shows no empathy for the First
Responder then you are probably dealing with a psychopath who also
has TAP You probably have no chance of winning an argument using
evidence and reason alone if this is the case.

the NIST report is full of "pathological science"

For example NIST claim that there was a slow creep in the towers
before they collapse. They support this claim with a non-time stamped
photo and the testimony of a guy in a helicopter. Creep can be
directly measured by measuring from a known point on the building to
the roof in the last frame of video before the collapse begins. This
is an empirical measurement i.e. Scientific truth - this kind of
science is more authoritative than the pathological science of NIST.
David Ray Griffin said in an recent interview with Jack Blood - "It's
time to get Empirical"

Kevin Ryan has written some very good articles pointing out the
pathological nature of the science carried out by NIST.

http://stj911.org/ryan/NIST_Responses.html
http://stj911.com/ryan/TruthInCredentials.html
http://911review.com/articles/ryan/lies_about_wtc.html

and (if you can afford it) David Ray Griffin's "Debunking 911
Debunking."

We have gathered some data from the Topix news site that JJJames (who
is a 911 Blogger posted an article) "3000 Died Bush Lied" We met a
very authoritarian Debunker Tomk52 who also showed signs of being
psychopathic. We are analysing the data to see how the Debunkers
formulate their arguments and the methods they use such as ad-hominem
attacks etc. Research is continuing and we'll be writing more on this
soon.

If you've read the background on TAP on Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarian_personality

and think you have encountered TAP in your Blogging experience. We'd
appreciate it if you could notify us of the url where you encountered
this personality type. So we can collect further data.

Leave a comment to this post-
"Debating the Debunkers and The Authoritarian Personality"
on this blog
http://911blogger.com/blog/2266
(which has a reading list for further research)
Thanks
no_body