It had to happen.....
9/11.
I’ve not mentioned it so far have I? But I’m a natural cynic. I don’t really believe anything I’m told by any ‘official’ source be it the UK government, the US government or any other crack-pot organisation with sinister motives.
This week in Madrid something happened that has got me a-thinking again. A steel and concrete building caught fire and it burned for nearly two days. But it didn’t collapse. That’s because steel and concrete buildings are shockingly strong. Hugely strong. The Twin Towers were made of steel and concrete. But as we all know they did collapse. The twin towers were a lot bigger of course than the Madrid building so the added weight could be a factor, but what about WTC 7 which also collapsed? It was steel and concrete. It was a very similar size to the Madrid building. It wasn't hit by a 737. There wasn't much of a fire. But it came down anyway. Do you see the problem? Something is wrong somewhere. The Twin Towers and WTC 7 remain the only steel and concrete buildings ever to have collapsed anywhere.
The official line is of course that the inferno caused by the burning jet fuel melted the steel. The planes smashed in, exploded and vaporised everything. But was it an inferno? Look at the picture below (click it and you'll get a larger version). It is clearly of the hole left by the 737 entering one of the towers, but look to the right of the picture and you can see a woman standing at the edge of the hole. There’s a chap on the left so she isn’t just a lucky one-off. They survived the initial impact, and there isn’t much evidence of an inferno is there?
Steel melts at about 2,500 - 3,000 F. A director at Underwriters Laboratories, a very experienced investigator and metallurgist stated that the fires at the WTC were nowhere near that hot. And he got sacked questioning the official line.
Conspiracy theories are like living organisms in that they cannot survive on their own. They need air and food and water. These are provided by deceptions, half-truths and unanswered questions. Even I struggle to accept some of the wilder 9/11 theories, but there are a huge number of things that just do not tally.
Why did Bush carry on reading to a class of school kids despite being told America was under attack? How did he know he was safe?
Why did Condoleeza Rice tell her friend Willie Brown the Mayor of San Francisco not to fly to New York the day before 9/11?
Why did she, a devout Christian, refuse to testify under oath before the 9/11 Commission?
How come the 19 suspects got to be named so quickly despite none of them being on any of the passenger lists?
Wasn’t it a stroke of luck that despite the ‘inferno’ one of the hijacker’s passport was found in the rubble?
Where was the US Air Force?
Why did the media headlines all say ‘Terrorists Attack US’ not ‘Saudi Terrorists Attack US’? You think if the 19 had been North Korean or Iraqi that fact would have been missed by the headline writers?
Why did the SEC drop the investigation into unusual trading on the NYSE in the days leading up to the attack?
Where are the aircraft’s Black Boxes?
There are dozens of other questions. Do some digging yourself. This is a good place to begin.
You can stop reading if you start to feel sick as the realisation slowly creeps over you that a lot of people are telling a lot of lies. But that will pass. Then you’ll just feel angry. What you do with that anger is your own business.
I’ve not mentioned it so far have I? But I’m a natural cynic. I don’t really believe anything I’m told by any ‘official’ source be it the UK government, the US government or any other crack-pot organisation with sinister motives.
This week in Madrid something happened that has got me a-thinking again. A steel and concrete building caught fire and it burned for nearly two days. But it didn’t collapse. That’s because steel and concrete buildings are shockingly strong. Hugely strong. The Twin Towers were made of steel and concrete. But as we all know they did collapse. The twin towers were a lot bigger of course than the Madrid building so the added weight could be a factor, but what about WTC 7 which also collapsed? It was steel and concrete. It was a very similar size to the Madrid building. It wasn't hit by a 737. There wasn't much of a fire. But it came down anyway. Do you see the problem? Something is wrong somewhere. The Twin Towers and WTC 7 remain the only steel and concrete buildings ever to have collapsed anywhere.
The official line is of course that the inferno caused by the burning jet fuel melted the steel. The planes smashed in, exploded and vaporised everything. But was it an inferno? Look at the picture below (click it and you'll get a larger version). It is clearly of the hole left by the 737 entering one of the towers, but look to the right of the picture and you can see a woman standing at the edge of the hole. There’s a chap on the left so she isn’t just a lucky one-off. They survived the initial impact, and there isn’t much evidence of an inferno is there?
Steel melts at about 2,500 - 3,000 F. A director at Underwriters Laboratories, a very experienced investigator and metallurgist stated that the fires at the WTC were nowhere near that hot. And he got sacked questioning the official line.
Conspiracy theories are like living organisms in that they cannot survive on their own. They need air and food and water. These are provided by deceptions, half-truths and unanswered questions. Even I struggle to accept some of the wilder 9/11 theories, but there are a huge number of things that just do not tally.
Why did Bush carry on reading to a class of school kids despite being told America was under attack? How did he know he was safe?
Why did Condoleeza Rice tell her friend Willie Brown the Mayor of San Francisco not to fly to New York the day before 9/11?
Why did she, a devout Christian, refuse to testify under oath before the 9/11 Commission?
How come the 19 suspects got to be named so quickly despite none of them being on any of the passenger lists?
Wasn’t it a stroke of luck that despite the ‘inferno’ one of the hijacker’s passport was found in the rubble?
Where was the US Air Force?
Why did the media headlines all say ‘Terrorists Attack US’ not ‘Saudi Terrorists Attack US’? You think if the 19 had been North Korean or Iraqi that fact would have been missed by the headline writers?
Why did the SEC drop the investigation into unusual trading on the NYSE in the days leading up to the attack?
Where are the aircraft’s Black Boxes?
There are dozens of other questions. Do some digging yourself. This is a good place to begin.
One of the wilder stories circulating about Sept 11, and one that has attracted something of a cult following amongst conspiracy buffs is that it was carried out by 19 fanatical Arab hijackers, masterminded by an evil genius named Osama bin Laden, with no apparent motivation other than that they "hate our freedoms."Isn’t that a great start?
Never a group of people to be bothered by facts, the perpetrators of this cartoon fantasy have constructed an elaborately woven web of delusions and unsubstantiated hearsay in order to promote this garbage across the internet and the media to the extent that a number of otherwise rational people have actually fallen under its spell.
You can stop reading if you start to feel sick as the realisation slowly creeps over you that a lot of people are telling a lot of lies. But that will pass. Then you’ll just feel angry. What you do with that anger is your own business.
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