I hate to sound like a one trick pony, a one note trumpet, a single issue politician, but I also don’t like being called crazy.
Over on the Huffington Puffball there is a particularly condescending article about
Building owner Larry Silverstein got $10 billion in the insurance settlement
9/11 conspiracy theories. First, the title of the article is: From JFK to 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Thrive.
Admittedly, I think that both of these events were inside jobs, involving highly placed people in the U.S. government (LBJ, for example), but they are very different events and deserve to be treated separately.
Then, they have this little gem: Conspiracies can be a “security blanket” for explaining away the horrific, asserts Patrick Leman, a University of London professor who researches 9/11 theories. “It stops us from having to confront the unpredictability of life.” First, if you just replace the word “conspiracies” with “official explanations” you have a true statement. Secondly, he’s saying we are delusional. We are not delusional.
Their arguments are evolving, albeit slowly and not in a constructive direction. At first, when we talked about the impossibility of steel framed buildings collapsing straight down at near freefall speed, they just shouted “You’re nuts!” and called us heartless and un-American. When we talked about building 7 they said “I bet you believe in Bigfoot, too, har, har. When we pointed out that the head of security for the World Trade Center was Marvin Bush, they said “You’re paranoid” and “I just can’t believe our government would do something like that,” totally ignoring the fact that our government has done similar things in the past (Gulf of Tonkin, attack on the USS Liberty, using the accidental sinking of the battleship Maine to start the Spanish-American war). When we pointed out that in the founding statement of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), signed by Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and many other prominent neo-cons, it was written “a Pearl Harbor style event would be required to fully implement our agenda” they said it would be impossible to have a conspiracy that size. (No, it wouldn’t)
So now, they still say that we’re nuts, but they say it in a politer way. There is one other argument they are using more and more, I found a few of them in the comments section below the article, and it is a very disturbing argument indeed. “It doesn’t matter any more. We can never prove anything so just let it go. Move on.”
In other words, forget 9/11.
It’s not going to happen. I think that a conspiracy of highly placed people which included Vice President Cheney, presidential brother Marvin Bush (and maybe Jeb but definitely not George because why tell the dumb guy), and building owner Larry Silverstein, as well as possibly Rumsfeld and Rove, arranged for explosives to be planted in WTC 1, WTC 2 and WTC 7. The airplanes were just for show.
I’m not crazy and I’m not going to shut up.
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I don’t want to make things worse but supposedly GWB was present in Dallas during the JFK shooting and may be in one of the photos that followed the shooting… this is according to Jesse Ventura who is completely obsessed with the JFK shooting. Anyway, I’m completely with you on all of this. I believe some of the theories are planted to make anyone who questions any of it look crazy. The clincher for me is that I know what a demolition looks like. Those buildings had explosives in them there is no doubt in my mind. I think that most people who have doubts about the official story just won’t say anything because even their friends will abuse them or ridicule them.
Also… LBJ has been described by many as being maniacally driven to become potus. It’s a shame that government people are not more easily investigated… CIA, VP’s, FBI, etc.
The original quote is much less ominous sounding: “Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event––like a new Pearl Harbor”.
I agree there are lots of strange unanswered questions with the WTC collapse, but it’s hard for me to believe in a conspiracy. It’s really tough to scale a conspiracy beyond two people. The chance of something ruining it — either on the government side or on the ‘cover story’ hijackers’ — was basically 100%. Could Al Qaeda have sabotaged the building with explosives, to make sure they fell?
I wouldn’t exclude George just because he’s stupid. People who say it’s just not possible that our government would do such a thing are just wrong, and are probably fairly stupid themselves.
Hi, Ru! How many people knew about Operation Overlord before it happened? I don’t know, but I’m guessing it had to be in the hundreds. When everybody thinks alike, conspiracies are possible and it would not be at all difficult to find, within the CIA and America’s extreme right, 30 or 40 people who subscribe to the theory that the end justifies the means, that you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs, that bringing about a “Pearl Harbor style event” to implement the PNAC agenda was justified. Cheney, M. Bush and Silverstein at the top, a couple of mechanics at AA and UA, a friendly voice in Rupert Murdoch, maybe a paid informant or two inside Al Qaeda and about 30 or so very fit black ops guys to plant the explosives.
It’s easier for me to believe that than to believe that Al Qaeda (which never, before or since, did anything with even remotely the same level of sophistication) pulled it off.