Although I originally was skeptical of the idea that our government (or at least some people in our government) could have been compliant to what happened on September 11th, I did dozens of hours of personal research, on both “conspiracy” and “debunk” sites, that led me to the beliefs I have today. Now, I suppose you're all semi-rational fellas, and so am I. But, a rational person would not dismiss all evidence contrary to their viewpoint as completely unreliable simply because it places some sort of blame on the government. I intend to offend nobody with this article. The way I see it, I am trying to remember the victims by ensuring them that I will try to stop those creating more. Currently, there are at least one million dead Iraqi civilians from our invasion. All of their friends and family now have a permanent and legitimate grudge against the US.
http://www.inteldaily.com/?c=144&a=3566
"We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other's children."
-Jimmy Carter
Let's deal with some facts and see what pieces together.
The most ridiculous of all ridiculousness is the Bin Laden tape situation. In a high quality video he released a week after the attack claimed by the FBI "too dangerous" to air on American TV as it might contain "terrorist codes", this is what Bin Laden said:
"I was not involved in the September 11 attacks in the United States nor did I have knowledge of the attacks. There exists a government within a government within the United States. The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself; to the people who want to make the present century a century of conflict between Islam and Christianity. That secret government must be asked as to who carried out the attacks. The American system is totally in control of the Jews, whose first priority is Israel, not the United States. "
His Israel comment is beside the point for now. The fact is that two times he denied his involvement in the attacks. In Ummat, a Pakistani newspaper, two weeks after the attacks;
"I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other humans as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children and other people. Such a practice is forbidden even in the course of a battle."
Yet, a dismal quality video of him claiming responsibility multiple times and throwing in hundreds of Praise Allahs was magically found in a house in Jalalabad after anti-Taliban forces moved in. Just a random VHS tape they somehow found, of a guy that acts nothing like Bin Laden. He is fatter, has a huge nose, uses his right hand to drink and gesture for 10 minutes (Osama is left handed), and wears gold on his wrist against his religion. Yeah. Its widespread public display and the obvious disregard for the real Osama is unthinkably ignorant and obviously malicious. http://www.viewzone.com/osama.html
“Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you.”
- Benjamin Franklin
Government has a long history (oh... 3000 years or so) of smudging the truth to support political and economic aims not understood by your average Joe/Jane. (the Founding Fathers knew this as you’ll see in multiple quotes throughout this)
9/11 supported numerous political and economic aims not understood (or at least sufficiently cared about) by your average Joe/Jane. (erosion of civil liberties, expansion of federal government, $$ to private contractors, oil)
Therefore, it’s possible that the 9/11 government theories smudge the truth.
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
~Thomas Jefferson
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=13&articleID=000CE155-1061-1493-906183414B7F0162
The emotional brain responds when presented with information contrary to its belief system, so rather than quickly dismissing everyone as idiots and morons (when all the facts DO NOT unequivocally support the government theory), take a rational look at this evidence.
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
- Thomas Jefferson
Bush had Iraq regime change on the table (including oil plans!) by the 2nd day of his inauguration for his first National Security Council meeting. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/60minutes/main592330.shtml
Operation Northwoods in 1962 suggests using hijacked planes for terrorist acts to blame on Cuba http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
Hundreds of reports of secondary explosions, explosions caught on tape, explosions in lower levels blasting the skin off of WTC janitors, police and firefighters on tape saying there are secondary devices and to evacuate - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIgoXQWiSlM
All men having power ought to be mistrusted.
~James Madison
Hyman Brown, the construction manager of the Twin Towers, said: “They were over-designed to withstand almost anything, including hurricanes, . . . bombings and an airplane hitting [them]” (Bollyn, 2001). And even Thomas Eagar, an MIT professor of materials engineering who supports the official theory, says that the impact of the airplanes would not have been significant, because “the number of columns lost on the initial impact was not large and the loads were shifted to remaining columns in this highly redundant structure” (Eagar and Musso, 2001, pp. 8-11). In July of 1971, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) presented a national award judging the buildings to be "the engineering project that demonstrates the greatest engineering skills and represents the greatest contribution to engineering progress and mankind." Others noted that "the World Trade Center towers would have an inherent capacity to resist unforeseen calamities." This capacity stemmed from the use of special high-strength steels. In particular, the perimeter columns were designed with tremendous reserve strength whereby "live loads on these columns can be increased more than 2,000% before failure occurs."
http://www.ae911truth.org - Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.
~Lewis Mumford
Thermal satellite imagery showing pools of 1300 degree heat multiple days after the attacks, jet fuel would have been the only thing that could reach that temperature, and it burned up within minutes
Also, a primary fact is that no steel-frame high rise has ever collapsed due to fire before or since 9/11. They have burned for multiple days straight, collapsed on themselves piece by piece, but never all at once. One might say, of course, that there is a first time for everything, and that a truly extraordinary fire might induce a collapse. What would count as an extraordinary fire? Given the properties of steel, a fire would need to be very hot, very big, and very long-lasting. But the fires in the towers did not have even one of these characteristics, let alone all three. The jet fuel coated the interior, burned off in a matter of minutes, and the remaining fires left by pens, paper and potted plants was enough to be the first fires in history to completely bring down a steel frame skyscraper. Hell not even bring down, completely PULVERIZE a steel frame skyscraper. Even if the fire had reached 1,300˚F, that does not mean that any of the steel would have reached that temperature. Steel is an excellent conductor of heat. Put a fire to one part of a long bar of steel and the heat will quickly diffuse to the other parts and to any other pieces of steel to which that bar is connected.
http://www.public-action.com/911/jmcm/physics_1.html
“The standard ratio for static loads is five, not three. That is, if a bridge is rated to carry 1 ton, it should be capable of bearing 5 tons without collapsing at the time the bridge is built. Going back to the fire at the WTC, we can see that reducing the steel structure to 60% its rated strength should NOT have weakened it to catastrophic collapse, because at 60% it would still support three times the rated load. The steel structure would have to be reduced to 20% of its rated strength to collapse.”
Project for New American Century calling for "a new Pearl Harbor" uniting America and "maintaining global US pre-eminence, precluding the rise of a great power rival, and shaping the international security order in line with American principles and interests"
http://foi.missouri.edu/terrorbkgd/bushplanned.html
This 'American grand strategy' must be advanced for 'as far into the future as possible', the report says. It also calls for the US to 'fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theatre wars' as a 'core mission'. Sounds like peace is on the back burner.
“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, it was planned that way.”
- FDR
Pancake time: Sure, 10-15 floors might have some inertia, but do you know how much resistance 85 floors of redundant rectangular steel support columns has? This central weight bringing down 85 floors of columns requires a stretch of the imagination, not to mention the fact that the bottom 20-30 floors of columns should have stayed standing no matter what the pressure due to the exponential amount of stability closer to the base.
The South tower plane didn't even damage the central core of the building. Most of the fuel flew burning out the side of the building. If anything, !!! ONE !!! corner beam (out of 8) was caught in the "blazing inferno" of hot fiery destruction. For a whopping 47 minutes. A whole corner of about 5 floors of a giant skyscraper with 80 floors of support beneath it was on fire for 47 minutes!?
http://www.patriotsquestion911.com/ - 700+ (and counting) military, engineers, pilots, 9/11 victims, and professors question the official story
http://thewebfairy.com/911/demolition/controlled.htm
Squibs: The debunker will say that there is a large amount of air collapsing, causing these lateral ejections. However, in places of high pressure (like a building collapsing) it escapes to areas of low pressure (outside the building). So why does the air take direct routes to 1-2 windows seconds before anywhere else, rather than forcefully ejecting itself throughout all available low pressure routes? (all the windows?)
“I am concerned for the security of our great nation, not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.”
- General Douglas MacArthur
The media convinced us that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, justifying another preventive war after Afghanistan.
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
And the counter-to-intelligence agencies that gathered all of this false information?
What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.
~Henry Kissinger
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in the newspaper. Truth itself become suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.
– Thomas Jefferson, hundreds of years ago (now we have 5 corporations owning 80% of media)
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group." -- FDR
Quick rundown:
- The plane struck the building and destroyed some columns, but the building readjusted and maintained structural integrity
- The jet fuel burned up in a matter of minutes, igniting office contents, creating an uncontrolled, low-temperature office fire
- People are able to stand outside the gaping plane hole for air
- The fire lasts for just under an hour
- Suddenly, the North Tower collapses, beginning with the radio antennae
- Formation of huge dust clouds happens immediately, made up of fine dust particles, with metals and asbestos (that multiple recovery workers and New Yorkers now suffer from, with little to no medical help from the government who declared it safe)
- Massive metal assemblies ejecting laterally up to 400yards away
- Very fast collapse, very nearly in free-fall
- Total destruction of the building- nothing is left but metal bits and dust.
- The top floors quickly became dust, offering less and less force against the bottom’s resistance
- The rubble pile smolders for weeks, and molten metal is found by workers
All warfare is based on deception.
~Sun Tzu
A theory of fire has to explain how a diffuse one-hour fire is able to cut all the support beams throughout the entire building in a precise order, throw 100-ton metal assemblies, cut the concrete into huge clouds of hot, tiny dust particles, melt steel, and smolder for months without any oxygen.
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
~Albert Einstein
On the other hand, if explosives in combination with thermite was used, all the data would be easily explained. The dust is expected, the molten steel is expected, the near-free-fall collapse is expected, the 100-ton assemblies flying, the smoldering for months, is all easily explained by thermite+explosives.
Another thing that is just plain silly about these massively reinforced structures falling from some planes bumping into the side of them; wouldn't these deadly terrorists have found a specific spot that would cause both towers to crumble? Yet, one plane hits only a corner of the tower (as opposed to the one that was dead on center) and they both crumble in the exact same fashion.
How did police find a passport of a hijacker in the streets surrounding the towers, when the entire building was reduced to fine dust?
Let's not forget about all the government branches located in WTC7 (which also fell at free fall speed, AND without jet fuel "melting" its steel structure); Department of Defense, CIA, FBI and Secret Service.
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities
~Mark Twain
1999 July 14th - US informant Randy Glass records conversation between him, a gun runner and ISI agent Rajaa Gulum Abbas, at a restaurant within view of the WTC. Abbas claims multiple times during the conversation that the Trade Center was coming down. ISI is the Pakistani intelligence agency that has intimate ties with the CIA, Mossad (Israeli intelligence) and numerous Al-qaeda organizations.
If you think torture, domestic surveillance, executive privilege, war without evidence, an economy demolishing national debt, organized crime, Drug War racism, destroying civil liberties, forgetting the Constitution, corporation-government ties, and the incoming engineered oil crash are all a-okay, then I guess you're off the hook.
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Record profits by Halliburton, KBR, Lockheed Martin, News Corporation, Exxon, Chevron, DynCorp, Blackwater, record estate tax cuts which cost us $400 billion in the next 10 years but will save the Wal-Mart family alone around $40 billion, record military aid to Israel and Syria, world record holder for most citizens in jail, record disapproval ratings, record gas prices, world record holder for military budget (since the early 1900s, currently spend 8x more than 2nd place), record use of executive privilege, record # of troops in Iraq, record # of private US contractors involved in a warzone, record number of Iraqi civilians dead (3x more than Saddam!). They're on a roll. But there's no relation.
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
~Alexis de Tocqueville
September 11th, 1990 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait, which Iraq had recently invaded. He mentions the term "New World Order" in this speech for the first time, which is also named "Towards a New World Order".
"If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched."
- George HW Bush, cited in June, 1992 to reporter Sarah McClendon
September 11th, 1991 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush delivers a speech to Congress and to the press in which he again uses the term “New World Order”. Specifically, he states that it will “achieve the universal aspirations of mankind, peace and security, freedom and the rule of law.” He acts as if peace is only possible with security and freedom only possible with the rule of law. Hypocritical and not true.
These are the only two dates in which a President publicly used the term “New World Order”.
September 11th, 2001 - The World Trade Center towers and building seven in New York are the first steel-frame skyscrapers to completely collapse from fire, and is used to justify the literally endless(ly profitable) War on Terror.
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
~John Quincy Adams
I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology… Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen. - Bertrand Russell, “The Impact of Science on Society”, 1953
Again, it is completely irrational to dismiss something because it supports a "conspiracy theory" and contradicts the mainstream "coincidence theory". JFK conspiracy? 70% of people polled in the 60s believed there was, and they were right. Government admits yes, but can't find anybody to blame. MLK conspiracy? Even the King family wants a re-trial for James Earl Ray. Common scientific knowledge confirms that is impossible to fully understand a system from within it. If you are a victim of propaganda (which is much more heavily funded on the "omg terrarists, damn Muslums, let's kill Iraqis" side), you wouldn't even know.
The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.
~Frank Kent
The most commonly cited debunking sources; NIST - funded with billions of dollars in government funds every year. Popular Mechanics - owned by Hearst Corporation, one of the biggest communications companies. (they own plenty more newspapers, magazines, TV stations, and XM radio). Hearst was also responsible for the completely bullshit marijuana slime campaign in the 30s. LooseChangeGuide - Loose Change is bologne.
Thanks to police monitoring all nearby bridges, a van with four Israelis, explosives, thousands of dollars in cash, and BOXCUTTERS (the deadly hijacking device) was stopped on the George Washington Bridge. Two of the four men were Mossad agents (Israeli intelligence). In the days following 9/11, nearly a thousand Arabs were brought into NY jails, subsequently clogging the system and allowing all four of these men to return to Israel unscathed and unquestioned. The other two men were probably mercenaries. These people were professionals. It takes a few people to plant the explosives, and one guy figuring out where to plant them. Not exactly a huge dramatic conspiracy. Just a few people with a bunch of money paying money to other people who love money to make more money for the money grubbing people who already have a bunch of money. "No US President stands up to Israel" - famous quote by the general who uncovered the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in '67. The USS Liberty had picked up Israeli communications that revealed Israel's responsibility for the Six Day War. Even today, history books and the majority of Americans blame the conflict on the Arabs. Jimmy Carter attempted to portray the situation with his book Israel Peace not Apartheid, and he was ripped to shreds in mainstream media, even though multiple Israeli human rights organizations found the book to represent their views exactly.
Every major AP outlet in the US published the story that said Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he wanted Israel wiped off the map, which isn't true. 25,000 Jews are living peacefully in Iran right now, and the most popular and expensive show on Iranian television is one about an Iranian diplomat trying to save a Jewish girl from being dragged to concentration camps during the Holocaust. Yet, Iran is obviously our next victim, our government has already drafted up plans for striking their nuclear ENERGY facilities.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/norouzi.php?articleid=11025
And before you suggest it, I'm not anti-Semitic, but I have serious qualms with the way the Israeli government has handled the Palestine situation (and their obvious control of our policy, and our all-too obvious veto support of UN sanctions against Israel). Millions of Israelis echo the same view, and calling them such would be foolish. There are some seriously deceptive and destructive people in both of our governments, but the real problem is a collection of globalists in control of the world's wealth.
"A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one nation the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens who devote themselves to the favorite nation, facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation."
- George Washington
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
-Thomas Jefferson
We are all one species, and since the beginning of time, species who worked well together were the ones who survived and brought us where we are right now. The obvious solution to reaching our full potential relies on cooperation. (a system ALWAYS works better when harmony is achieved) Those corrupted by greed who are willfully against cooperating to pursue private aims (and force this idea on other people as the only possibility) are delaying an unparalleled cultivation of humanity. The longer it takes for people to accept this delays the exponential evolution of everyone, everywhere for eternity. Our continued tolerance of the war in Iraq is only going to bring something to America worse than 9/11, we must do something before that happens!
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
~Leo Tolstoy
Our enemies...never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
~George W. Bush
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
~General Douglas MacArthur
"One does not create society on mounds of corpses."
-Louis Lecoin
"The sinews of war are infinite money."
-Cicero
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness, in a descending spiral of destruction. The chain reaction of evil must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Some other articles and information...
General Smedley Butler, reitred USMC 2-time Congressional Medal of Honor recipient
http://www.warisaracket.com
2 hour lecture by Richard Gage, architect
http://www.911blogger.com/node/10025
Long article documenting Zionism and political domination
http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/signs/Stranger_Than_Fiction.php
Flight 77 black box data analysis
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=558348710883993755&hl=en-GB
Relevant list of anti-war quotes
http://antiwar.com/quotes.php
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