By Shawn Hamilton
The Examiner
June 8, 2010
I recorded this interview in San Francisco at the Marine's Memorial Club and Hotel on February 19, 2010. The occasion was the Architects and Engineers for 9-11 Truth press conference announcing the group had surpassed 1000 signatures from licensed building professionals calling for a new investigation into the destruction of the three World Trade Center buildings. Griffin was a keynote speaker.
Shawn Hamilton (SH): “How do you account for the apparent psychological resistance even among members of the alternative media—who should know better—to even looking at the evidence?”
David Ray Griffin (DRG): “In one sense it's obviously a big mystery because these are people who've been on the forefront of exposing American complicity—you know, if we talk about Howard Zinn, Chomsky; we're talking a long, long time here, so I never criticize these gentlemen because they're heroes; they've done what they've done; we wouldn’t be here without them and so on. Some of the younger guys? I don't know. Some of it is, I think, fear. I'm not talking about fear for their lives although I've heard of people who've said, 'yeah, I'm afraid for my life,’ but I don't think that's the main thing. It's more a fear of, well, job loss. That's a big one for reporters. I talked to a reporter who had done one nine eleven story and so I said, 'Well, are we going to get another one out of this lecture," and he said, 'I don't think so. I don't think my job would survive one more story.'
