Posted on 04/29/2006 3:40:05 PM PDT by Blogger
I received an email from a friend regarding the Trade Towers collapse. I haven't watched the entire video in the attachment as it is over an hour and I have other things for my Saturday planned. However, before I watch it, for those who have seen such 'evidence' that the towers collapsed due to controlled implosion or something like that, what is your view of the conspiracy theory. I've never seen Michael Moore's stuff (don't plan on seeing it either). I haven't delved too deeply into any of the conspiracys other than to know they exist. Am interested in hearing the Freepers take on things though.
Please don't reply unless you have studied the evidence from both sides.
Indeed, the fighter jet story is retarded. It would take a much larger missile than a fighter would normally carry to damage the armored side of the Pentagon like that. I'm certainly no authority, but anything short of a harpoon missile or a tomohawk wouldn't do it. For Perspective, recall, we hit a building in Iraq with 4 tomahawks trying to get Saddam in the beginning of the war.
Good luck with that.
This does not include posting every stupid e-mail I get.
Look I am sorry that you took offense. But I am not sorry that I called you on not even searching before you posted this junk.
I am going to say this one last time. You posted an e-mail that has been discussed to death. It is a dead horse. It is jello. Quit beating it.
Don't be sorry. Anyone who thinks there are two sides to this story is a moron or a troll.
Like I said this has been talked to death over the past five years. There are TV specials and magazines. And they have been hashed over and rehashed on this very website. What is there to say that has not been said?
To all reading this post, particularly those on FR who take EVERYTHING too seriously, the preceeding post was humor, sarcasm, a joke. These are two well-known urban myths. My post was not meant to disparage Proctor and Gamble or their fine products. Nor was it meant to offend any organization associated with American athiests, or their founder, who was killed by one of her employees and hidden in a 55 gallon drum.
Say have you heard that Bill Gates is offering a $1,000 reward to everyone who forwards his e-mail message?
The building techniques were not designed to withstand a current commercial air liner AND the the fuel that it carries burning at an ungodly hight temperature.
My background is search and rescue techniques and I had first hand information taught to me immediately following the Murrah Building incident by team members who were on scene. That does not make me an expert and I am not implying that. But, it does help put it into perspective.
I really can't say that the building was an orchestrated event either MIHOP or LIHOP and that is what drives these rumors. The ability to wonder is waht fuels the fire. There is plenty of info to found in the internet, just google it and you'll see.
I do not believe that any government would let it happen on purpose (LIHOP) or make it happen on purpose (MIHOP). That is my opinion and I'll state that clearly. I may be naive, but I can't think of any long term benefit from it. The truth would eventually come out and it would take hundreds or thousands of persons to keep the lid on.
Just my two cents, like I said. I think if the other side of it, the side of the persons behind the conspiracy rumors, if they don't continue to hype it as a conspiracy they don' sell tapes or make money. Sounds to me like the old adage "don't bother me with facts, I'm too busy believing what I want.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=125
Knock yourself out.
That's along the lines of how I am thinking. If the government MIHOP or LIHOP, of what benefit was it? To get us into a war? We've gone into war on lesser pretexts than that. Shoot, the USS Cole should have been enough to send us into take care of the bad guys. But, of course, we know that was never the priority of that presidency.
I think that some of the people pushing Conspiracy theories aren't necessarily greedy for money. Some are confused. Some have some legitimate points (i.e., 'Arkanicides'). Some take something a little too far from what may have been a legitimate point at first. And some are just naturally suspicious. Oh, and some just want to say the Bush is the anti-Christ so of course if something bad happens he had something to do with it.
Still, as long as these things are being discussed, I believe that it is important to continually spell out why things have merit and why they don't. Sticking our heads in the sand because we're tired of hearing the garbage doesn't make it go away. I got the stuff in my email TODAY. I may be able to take what I have learned from our discussions and at least get my conspiratorial friend to look at it a different way. He's a well meaning guy- and on some things, I think he's probably more right than wrong (just not on the Twin Towers).
If you are here to discuss current news items, then why are you in the General Chat forum whining because I posted something on a conspiracy theory? Your position in General/Chat betrays your motivation.
And my searching or not searching isn't your concern. You don't like it, leave the thread alone. You've contributed to keeping it alive more than just about anyone just by coming on here bickering about its existence.
Sorry, I try to avoid giving that website any hits.
:) I was wondering when he would make an appearance.
Something tells me the only reason you posted this thread was to see it. I can see no other rational reason to post a so-called "story" that has been debunked extensively in the last 4+ years.
There has been some good scientific shows explaining the colapse.
I can't help what you can or can not see.
Only a troll would imply that the World Trade Center was brought down by a controlled implosion.
Ignore this idiot as such.
I am a civil engineer by education. I watched the entire 9/11 sequence develop, from shortly after the first tower was hit...I was watching on TV as the second tower got hit.
20 minutes prior to the first collapse, I told a friend "both towers will come down today." My friend asked how could that be, and I explained to her in full detail how it would happen. I even told her which tower would collapse first, and why.
Don't come selling your "friend"'s little conspiracy theory to me...I am not buying.
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