Why I Think 9/11 Was an Inside Job

This is still a live topic, because those of us who are referred to derisively  as “truthers,” as if truth were a bad thing, have never been proven wrong.  We have been shouted down, sometimes actively censored, but there are still plenty of us out there.

Nobody Saw it Coming

Here are my reasons for believing it was an inside job:

First, my suspicions were aroused when they found the “culprits” so quickly.  Their cars parked at the airport with maps and plans and all that stuff that said “Hey, we did it!”  The police never find anything that fast unless they are told where to look.  CSI is fiction.  Real police are just bumbling in the dark, like everybody else.

Then, there was the stonewalling on the investigation.  If you will remember, Bush didn’t want to have an investigation at all, then he didn’t want to answer any of Fitzgerald’s questions, and when he eventually did agree to talk to Fitzgerald, it was in private, with Dick Cheney present, no transcript or recording allowed, and a promise that no further administration officials would be interrogated.  That’s bullshit.

3rd, George Bush was in an elementary school (in his brother Jeb’s state) reading to kids when it happened.  Great photo op, eh?  Not golfing, not riding his bike, not clearing brush, not any of those activities which consumed the greater part of his administration.  How many times, before or after that fateful day, did he visit elementary schools?

4th  Marvin Bush being director of security for the World Trade Center.  Seriously.  Doesn’t that make everybody just a tad bit suspicious?

5th  The Silverstein confession (“as to building 7, we’d already decided to pull it”) and his massive (10 billion dollar) insurance settlement, which the insurance companies coughed up without even blinking.  If you’ve ever had to get money out of an insurance company, you know those fuckers question everything.

6th The spiriting of the Bin Laden family out of the United States, on luxury aircraft, while all other flights were grounded, before they could be interviewed by the FBI.  That doesn’t jibe with what I know of the FBI.

7th  The Pentagon.  I admit I’m no expert on aircraft and have never flown a plane, so this is just a layman’s speculation, but here’s how I see it.  The plane disappeared from radar somewhere to the north and east of the Pentagon, near the mouth of the Potomac.  It hit the Pentagon pretty much at ground level, traveling so fast none of the security cameras caught it.  It zipped in between frames, so several hundred miles an hour at least.  So, where was that aircraft at impact minus 10 seconds?  Impact minus 30 seconds?  It must have been flying at really high speeds, really low to the ground, making a hell of a noise and still been a long way from the Pentagon.  Admittedly, the Pentagon has a sizable lawn around it, but northern Virginia is covered with freeways and apartment buildings, and this happened at an hour when plenty of people would have been driving down those freeways and standing out on their balconies having a morning coffee.  There should have been thousands and thousands of eyewitnesses.  There weren’t.

When I talk about 9/11 and my belief that it was an inside job, I very often hear people saying “I just can’t believe our government would do such a thing.”  That is my final argument.  I believe governments do that kind of thing all the time.  There’s plenty of historical precedent.