Comments on: 9/11 Conspiracies In The News

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 06:23:20 +0000

http://www.911myths.com/html/wtc7_fire.html was the link, and it looks like images don’t work. Sorry for the triple post.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 06:22:51 +0000

PS, do images tags work here? If so, from here, WTC7 damage:

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 06:18:43 +0000

Agree with Alan 100%. Here and here contain good rebuttals and this deals with the WTC7 furphy.

By: Alan Stewart Carl

Alan Stewart Carl — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:38:23 +0000

Many people love to believe the world is simple. And it is so simple to believe grand conspiracies control world events.

Those who believe 9/11 was orchastrated by our government are simply unable to cope with living in a world of hard-to-understand threats and random chaos. They prefer to believe everything is ordered and everything would be better if we just got rid of those evil little conspirators controlling our world.

They get to feel “smart” by claiming to see through illusions. But it is the conspiracy theories themselves that are the real illusions.

By: Jimmy the Dhimmi

Jimmy the Dhimmi — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 04:14:16 +0000

Click here to see an example about why blogs are important in disseminating and examining media reports.

By: Ben Chertoff

Ben Chertoff — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 23:47:54 +0000

David: The 9/11 Commission Report is "detailed"? Anyone who would even make such a claim either hasn't really read the report, or is ignorant of the events of the day... So detailed that it completely avoided exploring the cause of THIS? It's so detailed that it totally avoided any mention of Pakistan, even though the FBI itself noted thatthe former head of the Pakistani intelligence service, General Mahmoud Ahmad, was having breakfast in D.C. on September 11th, only days after authorizing a $100,000 wire transfer to Mohamed Atta. And it wasn't just breakfast at Denny's- it was with the very Chairmen of the Joint Inquiry on 9/11 - Porter Goss and Senator Bob Graham. Yes, that 9/11 Commission Report was exhaustive! (We're anxiously awaiting your reply...) As to the Popular Mechanics piece, it has itself been debunked. And in more than one place. And - just in case readers here are ignorant of the facts- the piece can hardly be expected to be unbiased, since it was written by Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff's cousin. You may be disheartened by 1/3rd of the public believing in government complicity. But just wait a few more months. It's going to be half sooner than you think...

By: dislocator

dislocator — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 22:07:13 +0000

so, Blogs = pure opinion, Big Media = pure truth.

thanks for clearing that up for all of us tinfoil hat nutjobs.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:13:44 +0000

Ben: “The fact is that Secret Service SOP dictated he should have been quickly escorted to the limo immediatly. Why did the Secret Service violate their own SOP, possibly endangering a school full of children, and not do their job?”

I suppose they weren’t sure what to make of it – a terrorist attack on a financial center 1300 miles away. Keep in mind, Bush was out the door before the Pentagon was hit.

I’m not saying there wasn’t a threat – but there was a lot of confusion.

By: bellisaurius

bellisaurius — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 07:06:18 +0000

While I agree with you on the 9-11 issues, Justin, I particularly agree with you on trusting the news accounts over blog accounts. Newspapers are accountable for there actions, especially in the sense that they live in a more cutthroat world of information. Blogs however, only attract attention if they’re large enough to be noticed, like a Kos or somesuch.

Because of this, I think in general, even if MSM is slanted, in the general trustworthiness of it’s information, it’s much better.

Blogs are supplemental sources, not primary ones.

By: Jimmy the Dhimmi

Jimmy the Dhimmi — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 04:34:57 +0000

Who said anything about Jews or Illuminati?

Believe me Ben, you don’t want to know how far down the rabbit hole goes. Just ask Lee Harvey Oswald, or Mama Cass.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 03:12:31 +0000

Who said anything about Jews or Illuminati? You guys did.
To answer your question Tom, I don’t know why Bush continued sitting in the classroom. The fact is that Secret Service SOP dictated he should have been quickly escorted to the limo immediatly. Why did the Secret Service violate their own SOP, possibly endangering a school full of children, and not do their job?

By: Jimmy the Dhimmi

Jimmy the Dhimmi — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 03:05:51 +0000

And who runs the illuminati? You guessed it…the Jews. Right Ben?

By: Dyre42

Dyre42 — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 02:44:04 +0000

That’s easy Tom. The Illuminati must have left him out of the loop.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 02:35:18 +0000

Ben: If Bush was behind 9/11, and it was all orchestrated, how is it that he came off as such an idiot? I mean, if he knew it was coming, why did he look like such a deer in the headlights when it happened? Why did he stick around listening to a bunch of kiddies, in front of the cameras?

By: Dyre42

Dyre42 — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 02:00:50 +0000

Sean, just buy stock in Alcoa.

Popular Mechanics published a great 9 page article scientifically shooting down the most common conspiracy theories

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 01:55:02 +0000

By 9am anyone watching TV on 9/11 knew hijacked jets had slammed into the WTC. Yet over a half hour later a third hijacked jet manages to slam into the headquarters of the most technologically superior army in history….
WTC7 collapses in classic controlled demolition style despite not being hit by a plane, and the footage is NEVER RE-AIRED on TV….
Bush continues sitting in a classroom for ten minutes after getting word the second plane had hit, and Secret Service DOESN’T wisk him to a secure location, completely violating standard protocols…
Folks, pull your head out of your asses. We’re in serious trouble, we need all hands on deck. Please, do a little research…

By: JP

JP — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 01:52:18 +0000

I think internet users are better informed, so I’m not sure this is “disheartenintg” at all. Those who take Fox News at face value are the ones who disappoint me.

By: Sean Aqui

Sean Aqui — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 23:09:52 +0000

I’m buyin’ me a tin-foil factory.

By: Lewis

Lewis — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 21:06:59 +0000

I think there is a valid argument that our government assisted the terrorists in pulling off 9/11. Not the airhead theories. But starting with Jimmy Carter and how he handled Iran, then Regan with the Beriut and US Embassy bombings. Then Bush 1 in Kuwait, and then Clinton’s halfhearted efforts, especially the USS Cole where nothing was done.

Our country gave the message to the radical Islamists that we don’t have a backbone – there are no serious consequenses for hate-filled and brutal acts of war against us or our friends. We’re pussies.

When you live in a tough neighborhood, you have to earn respect the hard way sometimes, like it or not. You’re gonna get your arse kicked if act like a wimp. That’s exactly what happened to us on 9/11.

By: Mike H.

Mike H. — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 19:35:19 +0000

Perhaps If the US Government spent more of its resources focused on Terrorrism and less on the war on some drugs, 9/11 could have been prevented. Unfortuneily even now we are more interested in policing our own citizens and even more of our freedoms are flushed down the toliet.