[Mb-civic] Conspiracy Theory Number 9 Gazillion

[Ian]

George:

The phrase "conspiracy theory" consists of two words.  A "conspiracy" occurs when two or more people plan and/or execute an action or actions.  A "theory" is a belief based on supporting evidence.

In this regard, the government's "official story" of 9/11 is a "conspiracy theory": it is a belief that 19 Arab hijackers planned to and did in fact take over four passenger planes, crashed two into the WTC towers, one into the Pentagon, and the other into a field in PA, and that, further, the collapse of the twin towers was the result of the aftermath of the plane crashes vis-a-vis structural damage, fire, etc.  This "theory" is supported by alleged evidence compiled by the government, as reflected primarily in and by the 9/11 Commission Report.

This is the government's "conspiracy theory."

There is an alternative theory: that members of the U.S. government - in collusion with others, both in and out of the U.S. - caused an event so catastrophic that the U.S. government conspirators would be able to easily advance what has been termed the "neocon" agenda - including an illegal regime change in Iraq and a perpetual "state of war" and "war economy" (which benefits both the conspirators and their families and friends) - with the active consent of the U.S. Congress and a majority of the American people.  This "conspiracy" included training foreign nationals at CIA-operated flight schools, and aiding and abetting in the hijacking of one or more passenger planes to be flown into the two towers of the WTC and the Pentagon (and, possibly, the U.S. Capitol).  Further, since the complete destruction of the WTC towers could not be absolutely ensured via the crashing of the planes, the conspirators, "under cover of darkness" (i.e., in the same way the U.S. engages in "covert ops"), planted explosive charges throughout the two towers so that their collapse would be absolutely ensured.  This theory is supported by a wealth of video, audio, photo and scientific evidence, as well as the lack of certain evidence to support the government's "conspiracy theory," as well as glaring omissions in the 9/11 Commission Report.

This is the alternative "conspiracy theory."

You have offered a single website discussing an allegedly "scientific" look at the collapse of the towers - one that (i) includes a graphic of the 47 steel columns of the central core, yet then completely ignores them in its explanation of the collapse, (ii) does not explain how the collapse could have been at "free fall speed" - as if no supports of any kind existed in the building, even on the dozens of floors that sustained no damage at all, and (iii) does not explain how 99% of the concrete of the building was pulverized to dust - which would not have occured from a "simple" collpase, which would have left quite a number of large pieces of concrete.  As one fireman who was on the scene immediately after the collapse said, "I saw no pieces of concrete larger than a cellphone."  Only explosives pulverize concrete into dust.

As an aside, Jimmy Walter, a leader of the 9/11 truth movement, has for the past two years had a standing reward of $1,000,000 to anyone who can prove, using scientific data, that the collapse of the towers was not the result of explosives.  Not one single engineer, "scientific" publication, or anyone else has taken him up on that offer.  (The link is here: http://reopen911.org/Contest.htm)

As the video, audio, photo and other evidence - or lack thereof - mounts, it continues to add up to a controlled demolition, and not the result of crashes followed by fires.  And it seems like every time someone offers a site like the one you offer, the site itself is so weak - ignoring evidence, etc. - that it simply serves to help make the case for the alternative theory.

You're gonna have to do a lot better than one weak site to undermine the dozens - maybe hundreds - of sites that don't simply "cherry-pick," but look at every single piece of video, audio, photo and, yes, scientific evidence in arriving at the alternative theory of what occurred on 9/11, from the controlled demolition of the twin towers and WTC 7, to the "plane" that didn't hit the Pentagon, to the phony (if admittedly endearing and uplifting) story of passenger heroics on a plane that was shot down by the military.

I suppose you also believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone...LOL.

Peace.



----- Original Message ----- 
  From: George R. Milman 
  To: mb-civic at islandlists.com 
  Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 8:00 PM
  Subject: [Mb-civic] Conspiracy Theory Number 9 Gazillion


  Is the current conspiracy theory yet another tiresome example of scientific terminology being used to win over unsuspecting and only minimally scientifically literate readers?  Anyone who is thinking of buying into what is being circulated to the readers of this list should read the following article for an explanation of the heat, free-fall and tipping issues raised in the conspiracy version, as well as for a discussion of the role that the angle clips played in the collapse (missing in the conspiracy version).   



  http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/0112/Eagar/Eagar-0112.html



  Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, sorely lacking in the paranoid version.  A faulty argument laced with scientific jargon that targets our own healthy mistrust of government, no matter how well placed, must never by allowed to divert us from rigorous, focused and objective inquiry.  Otherwise, we are truly no better than the Intelligent Design group.



  Come ON, everyone, we have real fish to fry.







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