Last night, I was listening to Professor Stephen Jones of Brigham Young talk about his paper on the Fall of the WTC Towers and how he arrived at his conclusion that the official version is as phony as a three dollar bill.His paper has been subjected to rigorous peer review and has been accepted by a reputable engineering journal for publication.
Although the good Professor makes excellent points based on evidence and his analysis, I would like to bring up two issues based on my own observations that I believe have not been commented on in the literature.
First, the twin towers were hit by the hijacked planes well before 9:00 AM. It is well known to New Yorkers that the Towers become fully occupied at close to 9:00 AM or later.Any terrorist worth his salt would have ensured that he would extract maximum impact from his efforts by impacting the Towers after 9:00 AM.This is very easy to do on the Eastern seaboard simply because the number and frquency of flights is so great.
The fact that terrorists chose a time when the planes would do the least damage to American and foreign lives makes the whole scenario of terrorists being responsible for the vile act that much more implausible IMO.My explanation for this is that whoever did this was making a cold hearted calculation of how to weather the political storm after the event and at what point such a storm would become unmanageable. They wanted the visual impact of the terrrorist act without the political consequences.That the Towers at that time is usually occupied by a large number of foreign nationals, such as Indians, Germans, British etc., makes my case even stronger.
The second point I want to make is the inexplicable lack of any air quality monitoring at the site and the haste with which Christie Whitman certified that the air was safe to breathe, apparently without such an air
quality test.While the media have assumed that she was trying to minimize health hazards at the site, I believe that there was a hidden motivation.Extensive and sensitive air quality monitoring would have revealed the presence of explosives at the site, a fact the perps would have gone to great lengths to suppress and apprently did.
Now to those who say to Professor Jones and people like me that no American administration would ever commit an act that would result in the premeditated killing of Americans in order to advance a political agenda, I would like to point out the revelation from yesterday that Mr.Bush was made aware of the very serious nature of Katrina’s force and the possible destruction of the levees in New Orleans.Yet he chose not to save lives and, more importantly, denied any knowledge of the severity of Katrina’s force.
Katrina showed us the poisoned well from which Bush and his cohorts have sprung and validates any assumptions one makes about the evil nature of our rulers before, during and after 9/11.
I want to say that those who call this a Conspiracy Theory owe it to themselves to listen to Professor Jones and connect the dots between Katrina and 9/11.
Interesting. I haven’t paid much attention to the arguments being advanced for the “b*shco did it” theory, not b/c I have ANY doubt whatsoever that these thugs would have been “capable” (from an ethical standpoint)…but just yesterday, I was talking to someone who brought this up–w specific regard to Jones’ work–and I went to the website, Scholars for 9/11 Truth.
Dunno. I’m convinced that the same thugs who are responsible for JFK’s death were also responsible for the death of MLK and X, but I don’t think you’ll ever be able to convince enough people to believe that (despite any and all available evidence) any more than you’ll get them to believe that B*shCo was behind 9/11–even though it may in fact be the case.
Shit. Look at the MOUNTAINS of evidence of election fraud: and people just refused to believe it.
Denial is a powerful mechanism for self-preservation.
Alex Cockburn has said that our media are in the business of providing reassurance that our rulers are virtuous men incapable of doing anything that we would consider objectionable;to accomplish this they are trained to ignore the obvious and to mount an attack on anyone such as the good Professor Jones or to simply ignore him when what he says becomes unassailable.
Even the two observations I have made are so obvious, I am surprised no anchor person has even raised that question.
So, yes, our Press is totalitarian by instinct and self preservation, as you say, is a powerful instinct.
Exactly, and most people are willing to buy the bs hook line and sinker, because it exempts us “we the people” from culpability somehow.
“We, the people” don’t want to believe it, bc it would mean we’d have to DO something about it. This way, “we” are off the hook.
Too bad the rest of the world doesn’t see it that way. If my conversations with people in other parts of the world are any index, it’s no longer just the B*sh regime that pisses them off: they are pissed at the American people for failing to make “democracy” work HERE, not in the “Arab world.”
It is so obvious to EVERYONE with half a brain, but, as you say–this deep-seated denial, anchored (literally!) in the press just serves to give the people the “lifeline” they need in order to escape responsibility for what our government is doing “on our behalf”.
my big brown sig.
A very nice detail falling into place.
Thank you.
And of course, they knew what they were not looking for . . .
The number of people needed to pull off 9/11 was not large at all, and the higher placed in the US government, the fewer needed.
With so much of the govt outsourced, the manipulators wouldn’t even have to be govt officials/employees.
to destroy the country–indeed, the world? 😉
This is another very important point, and it was the same excuse that was used by many Dems to deny the election fraud (Aw, c’mon, so many people had to be involved, one of them would talk eventually).
Unfortunately, the fact that Brownie is now singing like a cockatiel in the toilet serves to substantiate that point, along the lines “see, one of them always turns….”
the thing about election fraud is now it CAN be done by only ONE person thanks to Diebold, etal.
and people who think it incredulous that there could be a small conspiracy in the highest reaches of the US government are simply buying into the equally incredulous conspiracy theory that a bunch of men in caves did 9/11 (yet to be backed up with actual, you know, evidence I might add).
yep. And wasn’t that point made in Christopher Hitchens’ article on the subject in Vanity Fair (sorry no time to re-track down the link).
I’ve actually thought the exact same thing since 9/11… ie, that it’s AMAZING that two planes crashed into lower Manhattan and only 3000 people died. It certainly brings up questions that not too many people are willing to ask.
Another fact that points to this is how the debris from the WTC was hastily removed and destroyed. There was never any forensic study of the debris done because the government had it destroyed. Why?
And then there’s the fact that no planes were scrambled in DC, something that’s been standard operating procedure before and since but somehow not on that specific day (when an emergency simulation was underway)… I could go on.
Professor Jones has made the point that the presence of molten steel at the subbasement level in both Towers makes the presence of explosives mandatory.The fuel at the top level did not have the heat capacity to cause the melting of low carbon steel.This is why neither air quality measurements nor debris analysis were performed.
but that doesn’t in any way explain why ALL debris was removed before being analyzed, does it?
Do you remember how they had those trucks GPS’d so well that one driver got fired for stopping for lunch? The scrap went to overseas market. It’s probably spread throughout many economic but depedable Hyundais. They watched that steel and scrap from space to make sure nobody got near it.
Yes, it does. The explosives one talks about are Thermites which are essentially iron oxides mixed intimately with aluminum powder.The presence of aluminum oxide on any solid steel fragments would be a dead giveaway.That is why the debris was removed.
This is, imo, the most convincing element in the argument.
But, how you gonna make that clear to a public whose educational level has been reduced pretty consistently to about the 3rd grade level through years and years of conscious, deliberate DUMBING DOWN of discourse.
(cf. recent literacy tests. Again, sorry no link. No time to look it up).
Weaponized ignorance.
I don’t think the American public is as stupid as it is trusting and near impossible to admit being wrong. This outrage toward the port deal is, in my opinion, a reason or excuse that allows GWB supporters to snap without having to admit they were wrong. I’m glad to see them vent on everything they supported but didn’t believe but couldn’t back away from.
It won’t be my doing but the web (9/11 and related) is unraveling to an extreme that might make it impossible to hide all the truth forever.
The American public swallows the idea of its own exceptionalism and identifies with any “Leader” who fingers foreign suspects as the culprits just like many white culprits finger blacks as the criminals to point the suspicion away from them.Those suspects and our “Leaders” know that all it takes is to find a brown skinned or black skinned target and they can sell any story to the public, truth be damned. When an objective scientific truth teller like Professor Jones emerges, he is looked at as an aberration.
I agree, with the exception of the American public’s exceptionalism not applying to everyone.
obviously, but American exceptionalism can not be understated. this is a country that can’t even find anything to cover in the Olympics if we’re not involvled. and that regularly wrings its hands when small numbers of its citizens are killed, but couldn’t give a damn if its tens or even hundreds of thousands of them furr’ners.
The idea that we are number one regardless of what the facts tell us is a trait that directly springs from this exceptionalism.Even when Americans gather in a country as civilized and modern as Sweden,it is almost mandated that you have to bad mouth them.An ass like Bode Miller fit right into this.