Re: 9/11 conspiracy nuts
- From: "GentleOwlSpirit" <lemaj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:29:19 -0400
"doubter" wrote in message > (Swans - August 28, 2006)
I have some friends who are conspiracy nuts.
They believe, for example, that on 9/11 some clown named Osama bin
Laden picked up his cell phone in a cave in Afghanistan and directed 19
Muslims, none of them professional pilots, to hijack four airliners and
fly them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, thereby bringing
down three steel-skeleton skyscrapers, the only time in world history
that has ever happened.
Hi doubter,
Well, of course it's the first time in hisory, as no one had ever tried it
before.
Have you done any research of your own?
Because the fire was limited to such a small space, (boxed in), the heat
intensified and it was therefore, possible for the towers to collapse.
The government was warned prior to the attacks. Iin fact, Richard A. Clarke,
Security Advisor for 4 presidents told this Bush administration (sent a memo
to Rice on January 25, 2001) there would be an attack in this country. He
followed up with several memos to Rice and the FBI. Bush chose to ignore it.
He's to arrogant to think anyone knows more than him.
Too late now...lives have already been lost.
Clarke wrote a book pertaining to:
Against All Enemies.
Peace, Sioux
A humdinger of a conspiracy, that one. My conspiracy nut friends know
it's true because they have it on good authority -- George Bush told
them so.
These conspiracy nuts also believe Osama is part of some mysterious
worldwide "terrorist" organization of "Islamic fascists" that hates us
because of our freedoms and democracy, and have enough power to destroy
us -- despite our thousands of nuclear warheads, ships, warplanes,
tanks, and countless men under arms. A fearsome enemy, to be sure, as
President Bush frequently tells us.
For once, I agree with George Bush; 9/11 was a conspiracy. We just
disagree on who was involved in that conspiracy. That is, we MAY
disagree -- if he really believes what he told us. In other words,
whether or not he was in or out of the loop.
9/11 was an inside job. The facts are indisputable. There was no way
that Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda could have pulled it off, or at least
pulled it off without help.
Official story -- AKA Alternative Reality
Let's examine some of the absurdities that official government story on
9/11 would have us believe:
Nineteen hijackers were sent to the U.S., some of them taking flying
lessons, apparently because Al Qaeda couldn't find any trained pilots.
They didn't bother with aliases. One of them leaves his copy of the
Koran at a bar, some of the others leave flight manuals in Arabic in
parked cars.
They use undetected box cutters to overwhelm the crew and passengers of
four different airliners and then engage in some miraculous precision
flying to crash two of them into the WTC and one into the Pentagon. The
fourth crashes into a field.
President Bush, meanwhile, is reading to some school kids when he is
told about the hijackings. With the United States apparently under
attack, he seems unconcerned and stays with the kids for quite some
time.
Though the whole sequence of events takes more than an hour, none of
the hijacked planes are intercepted, or even seen, by the Air Force.
The WTC South Tower collapses less than an hour after it was struck by
one lone airplane; the North Tower falls in less than two hours. A
third building, unhit by planes, falls later.
If you believe all of this, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
Back in the Real World
The official story is so absurd on the surface that we have to consider
some more realistic possibilities.
There are really only three others, although they have hundreds of
variations.
1) Incompetence: Everybody just goofed -- from intelligence agencies to
the Air Force.
2) They knew but ... Various people in power knew about the plot, the
conspiracy, but they let it happen.
3) It was an inside job.
Number one is a nonstarter. It is impossible to believe in such massive
incompetence. If our intelligence agencies and military and political
establishments were that incompetent, the country would have fallen
years ago.
Number two is a bit more plausible. If the neocons currently in power
knew about the Al Qaeda plot, they might have decided to let it go
ahead in order to serve their own purposes; a war on Iraq, for example.
A bit more plausible, but not very persuasive. It still assumes some of
the most absurd aspects of the official story.
Number three is the scenario of choice.
Let's briefly examine just a couple of the problems with the official
fantasy.
Our Missing Air Force
The Air Force is protecting the United States with the most advanced
fighter planes in the world. But on 9/11, planes that routinely fly at
close to 2000 miles an hour, somehow couldn't catch up with airliners
that fly at one quarter the speed.
The official fairy tale talks of war games, communications mix-up
between the FAA and NORAD, fighters out of position in training
exercises, etc. No matter how you slice it, it's still baloney.
While planes were flying into the WTC towers, F-15s from Otis Air Force
Base were sent off Long Island and ordered to remain in a holding
pattern. Why weren't they ordered to protect New York?
For the hour that the plane that supposedly hit the Pentagon was under
the control of hijackers, military officials in a command center on the
east side of the building were urgently talking to law enforcement and
air traffic control officials about what to do. In the end, they did
nothing. Why? If we can't protect the Pentagon from attack, no place in
the country is safe.
You Canna' Change the Laws of Physics!
We are told that both the North and South World Trade Center towers
collapsed because of the plane impacts and fires. The "pancake" theory
explains this -- i.e., each floor fell on the one below until the
building is totally destroyed.
The trouble with this, it's physically impossible. The burning kerosene
from the plane's fuel tanks does not create a hot enough fire to melt
the steel skeletons of a modern skyscraper. No skyscraper in the world
has ever collapsed from a fire, not even buildings that burned for
days.
You can get tangled up in conflicting expert opinion. But the opinions
that allow for this kind of collapse are so tortured that they defy
reason, logic, and common sense.
And even then, they are defeated by the simple fact that all three
buildings -- the two hit by planes and the one that wasn't -- fell at
near freefall speed, impossible for a pancaking building. Each floor
would be slowed as it hit the one below, appreciably lengthening the
building collapse.
Then you have the minor but vexing problem, of course, that each
building fell so perfectly within its own footprint.
The only way the buildings could have fallen the way they did was
through controlled demolition. In short, they were blown up.
Who Did It?
The fact that it was an inside job is evident. There was enormous
expertise involved.
Beyond that, is impossible to know. We don't have the facts to point to
anybody. And we'll never have those facts, if there is not a real
serious investigation. That yet isn't in the cards. While there is a
great deal of skepticism about the official story, the corporate media
flatly refuses to examine it. And that isn't likely to change soon.
But, as Fox Mulder said, the truth is out there. We have to look for
it.
Read some books about 9/11. The corporate media refuses to review books
that challenge the official line, but you can find them in bookstores.
Try Towers of Deception; The Media Cover up of 9/11 by Barrie Zwicker.
There are a dozen major websites that are seeking the truth about 9/11.
Look at them, study the evidence, and demand that your congressman and
senators do something. They won't, of course, but we have to start
somewhere.
Unless, of course, you prefer living in the Land of Oz.
.
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