Posted on 07/29/2026 5:49:12 AM PDT by Lazamataz
My moment of awakening, to the fact that the government lies to us and covers stuff up happened in the Flight 800 crash over Long Island Sound.
It was July 17, 1996, and I took a Mental Health day from work. I was tuned to MSNBC. Back in those days, MSNBC had not yet become an asylum for the politically insane, and actually had decent coverage about Clinton's many foibles, to eventually cover his scandals and subsequent impeachment.
Suddenly, Norah O'Donnell, who was working there at the time (and actually was a pretty decent journalist back then) cut into the programming with an announcement that Flight 800 had crashed, with no survivors. I moved right in front of the TV to watch.
Within 2 minutes, a video was posted that showed that the crash COULD NOT have been caused by a missile.
Wait, what???!?
No one had even mentioned the word 'missile'.... and the video was watermarked "CIA Video".
CRAZY.
Why would the CIA be producing this video within minutes of the crash? Why would it be distributing it so quickly? Why would it mention a missile, when NOBODY ELSE WAS?
These things set off my Whoa-This-Is-Weird-Radar.
Later, it was demonstrated that 670+ people saw a flame streaking up to meet the plane. You know, like a missile. One of those people was a National Guardsman, aloft in a plane, who just so happened to be a Missile-Plume expert.All of these witnesses were roundly scoffed by the government, and the official lie stood: It was a spontaneous center-fuel-tank explosion, and what everyone saw was the cabin section flying upwards.M
Despite the fact people were describing the plume flying up from the horizon-line, you know, the ground.
Yah right. Gotchya.
The motivation was obvious: If people thought a commercial airliner was struck by either a terrorist missile, or a friendly missile that went astray, airline traffic would collapse...and in 1997, Clinton did not need that distraction, not with his legal problems.
It was the first moment in my life that I realized that the government would lie to us, boldly and without shame, even when a half-a-thousand eyewitnesses contradicted them.
It was the first moment my vision became clear to just how venal and conniving the government could be.
Piles of eyeball witnesses saw the plane shot down.
The Clintons will lie when it’s easier to tell the truth just so they can stay in practice.
The infamous “CIA video” was presented months later (the following year) after the crash investigation was done, not on the evening of the crash in July 1996.
‘60 Minutes’ just hired Norah O’Donnell. FWIW.
Remind me: Who has been accused of shooting it down, and why?
the chaffed wiring in the empty center fuel tank was a known problem Boeing didnt fix urgently enough.
And it was difficult to diagnose, inspect, and repair.
i suggest a YouTube search.
Why do that when a conspiracy theory is more fun!
Nope. I saw what I saw.
On the day that I saw it.
Actually the CIA video was not aired until Nov 97.
BTW What is a mental health day?
Sure. So the tail section of the plane lifted from the ground and went up to meet the aircraft, leaving a trail of smoke the entire way up.
You know, like all those eyewitnesses reported.
Read First Strike: TWA Flight 800 and the Attack on America by Jack Cashill, then the addition articles by him.
I believe the plane was shot down by a missile but this story starts off with the author “taking a mental health day off”. No one spoke like that in 1996. You would get laughed at or punched out talking that nonsense.
A copy may have been aired then, but I saw what I saw on the day of the crash.
Nobody will come along here and tell me I didn't see what I saw. Doesn't work like that; not for me.
THAT'S what yer gonna hang your doubt on???!?
I remember people talking like that all the time back then, but let's pretend that never occurred: I wrote this missive years and years later.
So it is pretty rizz that I was skibidi and not at all Ohio. I mean, 67, right?
You never know, they just might.
What is your plan for retribution if they do?
Aviation Anniversary Ping..............😥
Aerial delivery of kittens.
Via catapult.
Conspiracy people need their reasons to exist.
Center fuel tank? Didn’t buy that then, don’t buy it now.
Flight 800...
Many Questions indeed.
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I watched ‘U.S.S. Indianapolis’ on DVD lately and I Was amazed The Navy Convicted The Captain of Not ‘Zig Zagging’
The Ship. That WWII Disaster really Ticked Me Off Bigtime!
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Point being The Government always Pins a Scape GOAT for Many reasons and some are
Treason.
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Flight 800 Had To be a Missle
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