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STILLWELL: The Truth About 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 4/19/6 | Cinnamon Stillwell

Posted on 04/19/2006 9:10:40 AM PDT by SmithL

With the upcoming release of the film "United 93," the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, have returned to the fore of public consciousness. While for many Americans such painful memories remain forever seared in their minds, for a small but vocal minority the Sept. 11 attacks have taken on a mythical character. These are the Sept. 11 conspiracy theorists.

If Web sites such as whatreallyhappened.com, 911truth.org and scholarsfor911truth.org (among countless others) are any indication, the Sept. 11 conspiracists have become a movement in their own right. Despite a host of differences, they share the belief that the widely accepted version of what happened on Sept. 11 is merely a front for a shadowy plot to fool the American people.

Rather than accept that Islamic terrorists flew planes into buildings and slaughtered innocents in the name of a fanatical ideology, the Sept. 11 conspiracy theorists believe the perpetrators included members of their own government -- that somehow the Bush administration, with the collusion of the Pentagon, was either behind the attacks or simply allowed them to happen in order to institute a quasi-police state.

Whatever one's criticisms of the administration and its approach to the war on terrorism, one would have to be awfully cynical to believe that it would kill or allow thousands (at the least) of Americans to die, simply to accumulate additional powers. But even if one assumes the government acted purely in its own interests, why on earth would it risk weakening the economy and creating instability for the foreseeable future? Not exactly a winning formula for the so-called ruling classes.

Flying in the Face of Common Sense

Undaunted by such appeals to common sense, Sept. 11 conspiracists point to...

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cinnamonstillwell; conspiracy; tinfoilhats
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Dayum! I'm going to go into the tin-foil hat business and get rich.
1 posted on 04/19/2006 9:10:47 AM PDT by SmithL
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Cinnamon Stillwell Seen the Light Ping

FReepMail me if you want on, or off this low-volume Ping list.

2 posted on 04/19/2006 9:13:35 AM PDT by SmithL (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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they share the belief that the widely accepted version of what happened on Sept. 11 is merely a front for a shadowy plot to fool the American people.

The Truth is generally out there and available to the public but it most often involves a bit of reading of stuff that is somewhat complicated and extremely boring. This is why The Truth stays so elusive to so many people. It can take work to understand what has been in front of you all along.
3 posted on 04/19/2006 9:25:46 AM PDT by P-40 (http://www.590klbj.com/forum/index.php?referrerid=1854)
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To: SmithL

Many of the 9/11 conspiracy theorists are quite obviously paid agents of Saddam Hussein's financial interests, or of the crazy people running Iran and AlQaida.


4 posted on 04/19/2006 9:30:02 AM PDT by muawiyah (-)
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To: SmithL

OK, now can we talk about the kooks still clinging to hanging chads and rigged voting machine conspiracies?


5 posted on 04/19/2006 9:31:53 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: rhombus
OK, now can we talk about the kooks still clinging to hanging chads and rigged voting machine conspiracies?

They're the same people.

Real giants of science.

6 posted on 04/19/2006 9:33:28 AM PDT by dead
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To: dead

Must be some of the same loons who say Bush lied to get us into a war that would be for his political GAIN. What a laugh.


7 posted on 04/19/2006 9:34:54 AM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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The Truth is generally out there and available to the public but it most often involves a bit of reading of stuff that is somewhat complicated and extremely boring.

IMO, there is nothing complicated or boring about the demise of building seven.

8 posted on 04/19/2006 9:37:04 AM PDT by houeto (Report Illegals. http://www.ice.gov/partners/employers/worksite/index.htm)
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To: muawiyah

hahahahahahahaahahahahaha!

ahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

It was the boogeyman who knocked down the towers. The boogeyman decided trade center 7 building had to go too! The boogeyman also knocked the Pentagon and made it look like a plane hit it. The boogeyman decided to do this so that Bush would have good reason to invade Iraq!

Hahahahhahahahhaa!


9 posted on 04/19/2006 9:37:27 AM PDT by AmericanRepublican (There are fools on both sides. Only the true Americans will prevail.)
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To: SmithL

Cinnamon Stillwell....ya gotta like her...


10 posted on 04/19/2006 9:37:34 AM PDT by joesnuffy
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To: SmithL

It is always amazing to me how many people really believe that 911 was staged. There are quite a lot of those where I work.


11 posted on 04/19/2006 9:37:49 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: dead

"They're the same people. "

They are the useful idiots of the left. The same people who believe that we went to war in Iraq for Halliburton and the earth is going to burn up because we eat hamburgers.



12 posted on 04/19/2006 9:44:19 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (To Serve Man......It's a cookbook!)
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To: houeto
IMO, there is nothing complicated or boring about the demise of building seven.

I'm interested in architecture...so I found the information quite fascinating. But I can't see too many people being interested in reading about loads, stresses, and that sort of thing.
13 posted on 04/19/2006 10:02:57 AM PDT by P-40 (http://www.590klbj.com/forum/index.php?referrerid=1854)
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To: SmithL

"Then again, I could be part of the conspiracy, too. "

I know I am! :-)


14 posted on 04/19/2006 10:06:40 AM PDT by SelectiveJNJ
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But I can't see too many people being interested in reading about loads, stresses, and that sort of thing.

Agreed.

15 posted on 04/19/2006 10:07:22 AM PDT by houeto (Report Illegals. http://www.ice.gov/partners/employers/worksite/index.htm)
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Agreed.

I know of very few people that even read the 911 Commission Report. It is their loss.
16 posted on 04/19/2006 10:09:27 AM PDT by P-40 (http://www.590klbj.com/forum/index.php?referrerid=1854)
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To: SmithL

These are some of the same nuts that think Vince Foster was murdered and Waco was destroyed by the US military.......oh wait Vince Foster was murdered.....and....


17 posted on 04/19/2006 10:14:47 AM PDT by patriot_wes
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To: SmithL

Everyone know is was the Jooooz, the Freemasons and their trans-dimensional, shapeshifting reptilian overlords!


18 posted on 04/19/2006 10:20:29 AM PDT by uglybiker (Don't blame me. I didn't make you stupid.)
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To: houeto

Yeah, wasn't it an amazing feat to plant all the charges necessary to take it down in such a short time while it usually takes a few days to a few weeks to do it normally?


19 posted on 04/19/2006 10:29:59 AM PDT by american spirit
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To: SmithL

These conspiracy folks are nuts, completely unhinged, driven by their hatred of Bush.


20 posted on 04/19/2006 10:31:55 AM PDT by GW and Twins Pawpaw (Sheepdog for Five [My grandkids are way more important than any lefty's feelings!])
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