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 ...
Maybe some of them know the truth about the first bombing of the WTC in '93? Check out an old FR thread called "Batting a Thousand" that describes what really happened.
In buildings as big as the WTC I suspect it would take months to prepare it properly for demolition.
I particularly like the bit in Penn & Teller's "Bulls#!t" where, after playing a tape of some crackpot solemnly stating this nonsense, Penn gives him a hearty "F@(& YOU!!" (did I mention that this video is NSFW?) and basically calls him out and DARES him to spew this garbage to the face of someone who lost a loved on on Flight 93.
(Thanks to the DUmmie FUnnies for referring me to this clip.)
And, because it was decent, patriotic, white American men that accomplished it, of course we never really landed on the moon. And 400,000 NASA employees have been keeping the secret all these years. Not to mention our rivals in the space race, the Russians.
The web site 'whatreallyhappened'...that guy use to be a poster here at FR...he finally got banned due to all his nutty crapola.
"Must be some of the same loons who say Bush lied to get us into a war that would be for his political GAIN."
I thought it was that Bush lied to get us into a war that would be ultimately profitable for Big Oil!
LOL! Yeah, right!
"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."
I know. It's like the "Vince Foster / Ron Brown was murdered!!" and "We didn't land on the moon!" moonbats.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/archives/cat_911.html
911 Archives
April 19, 2006In her article dissing blogs that question the official story of 9-11 (see below), Ms. Stillwell obviously picked examples from the blogs that she found most easy to dismiss and ridicule. Equally obviously she stayed away from any facts that really do call into question the official story of 9-11.
So here is an open and public challenge to Ms. Stillwell. We have all seen the video tape of the President just sitting in that classroom reading about goats after being told of the second plane impact. So, let's keep the following facts in mind. 1. There are supposedly an unknown number of hijacked planes flying over the country crashing into buildings. 2. Bush's presence at the school was announced in the media three days in advance. So the Hijackers knew where he was going to be. 3. There is an airport just 4 miles away from the school where Bush was sitting. So, Ms. Stillwell, since you seem to imagine you have a grasp on reality, please answer the following. How did the United States Secret Service Protective Detail, know they did not need to immediatly move the President? How did they know they did not need to toss him into his bomb-proof limo and start driving in any direction to foil a possible inbound? How did the United States Secret Service Protective Detail know that by leaving the President where he was, they were not making targets of all those students and teachers? How did the United States Secret Service Protective Detail KNOF FOR A FACT THAT PRESIDENT BUSH WAS NOT A TARGET THAT DAY? Feel free to write Ms. Stillwell and ask her those questions. - M. R. Then again, I could be part of the conspiracy, too.
Feel free to let Ms. Stillwell know what you think of her article
In particular, please send her THIS LINK and THIS LINK and finally ask her if she is so interested in reporting on people who lie, then she should dig into THIS STORY - M. R. |
LOL Now that you mention it I remember that guy. I seem to remember he was tragically struck by lightning. :p
For sure and no matter how how crazy they get, they will call you crazy for not being a 'believer' since they made it so simple for you to understand.
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