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Originally posted by Zerbst
First of all, you have absolutely no idea what technology they may have to bring those towers down. If your guess was actually educated, and honest, the probability they possess technology far advanced what is public knowledge is hard to argue. Besides, there is evidence of workers having access to inner structure prior to 911.
None of that matters anyway. You're trying to claim this single event impossible by a government that has done equal deeds in the past?
So to support your hypothetical conspiracy scenario you're now hypothesizing that previously unknown super explosives were used...? You do know that's circular logic, right?
Originally posted by jprophet420
So to support your hypothetical conspiracy scenario you're now hypothesizing that previously unknown super explosives were used...? You do know that's circular logic, right?
Do you mean like when you create a computer simulation to explain the initiation of the collapse and it doesn't work, so you hypothesize new numbers instead? Like that?
Originally posted by visitor-mc
This report - The Report from Iron Mountain -I believe is called a hoax by those who want it exposed but wish to keep their involvement hidden - You obviously accept the hoax version.
www.silverbearcafe.com...
How the Hoax Began:
In 1967 the Cold War was still a major factor in U.S. foreign policy, the body bags from Vietnam were beginning to pile up, several major American cities were sites of bloody race riots, and theories about the Kennedy assassination continued to abound. And in that year too, a respected mainstream publisher, The Dial Press (whose list included such prestigious writers as James Baldwin, Norman Mailer, and Richard Condon) released Report From Iron Mountain. Purportedly, the book was a suppressed, secret government report written by a commission of eminent scholars investigating and determining the nature of the problems that would confront the United States if and when a condition of "permanent peace" should arrive, and proposing recommendations to deal with that contingency.
Lewin imagined some shocking conclusions: lasting peace, while not theoretically impossible, was probably unattainable; even if peace could be achieved it almost certainly would not be in the best interests of a stable society to achieve it, for war fills certain essential and basic social, cultural, and economic functions; until other ways of filling these functions were developed, the war system must be maintained-and improved in effectiveness.
With a dispassionate logic that led to a "value free" rationalism, Lewin then went on to propose a number of possible substitutes for the essential controls provided by war. In cold, think-tank jargon he explored such "unthinkables" as: the creation of a giant space-research program aimed at unreachable targets (economic control); creation of "alternate enemies," such as deliberately engineered massive environmental pollution of a contrived extraterrestrial threat (political control); the institution of modern sophisticated forms of slavery (whose first step might be a National Service Program), socially acceptable "blood games" modeled after witch hunts, and organized repression of minority groups (social control); birth control drugs added to food and water supply and universal test-tube procreation (ecological control).
The Inspiration:
The inspiration for this incredible piece of satire was a short New York Times item about how the stock market had tumbled because of what the headline called a "Peace Scare. " The hoaxers' target, according to Lewin, was "the military-supported think tanks whose pseudoscientific assertions were taken quite seriously by people in the defense department and military industries.... Another objective of the book was to serve as a warning that a transition from a war economy to a peace economy would not be easy, a point that appears all the more pertinent today."
The Reception:
The 1967 edition of Report From Iron Mountain was the most talked about book of the year. A number of people, including some prominent intellectuals, believed the Report was authentic. Many others, including most book reviewers, labeled it satire. John Kenneth Galbraith's review of the book written under the pseudonym "Herschel McLandress" appeared in the Washington Post and Chicago Tribune. The book was variously described by reviewers as "a harmless subterfuge," "a hair-raising analysis," "the sinister work of a sick mind," and "a serious fraud." As a work of social and political commentary, it has been compared to Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and "Dr. Strangelove."
In 1972 after the book had been translated into 15 languages, Lewin publicly admitted the hoax, and by 1980 the book was out of print, the controversy all but forgotten by the mainstream press and public. Until...
Today:
In what may be one of the most bizarre twists of political satire, Lewin discovered that bootleg editions of his book were being distributed to members of the ultraright-wing militia movement who claimed it was an authentic government document and, therefore, in public domain. The back cover copy of the bootleg edition maintains Lewin's claim of authorship "was just another move in a deception game played with exceptional cunning and skill." Lewin sued for copyright infringement and the bootleg copies were turned over to Lewin. However, as a May, 1995, front-page article in the Wall Street Journal stated, extreme-right fringe groups continue to quote Report From Iron Mountain as "proof of a secret government plot to suppress personal liberties and usher in a New World Order dominated by the U.N."
Originally posted by hgfbob
S&F
and the stuff just keeps on coming
I do feel sorry for the ones in this country who are totally clueless about ANYTHING related to 9-11, (there are millions)...they are going to feel 'SO' betrayed, (and pissed off), AFTER they get over the SHOCK of realization.
Originally posted by evergreenvt
reply to post by GoodOlDave
Let's take the facts as you allege and, for once, look at the practical aspects. How many people, working full time, for at least six months, were involved in the conspiracy to weaken and demolish the World Trade Center complex? 500? 1,000? 2,000?
Of those, say, 500 people, NO ONE changed his mind. NO ONE kept a diary of any kind. NO ONE breathed a word about the conspiracy to a loved one or family member, and NO ONE was tempted to warn anyone working in the complex.
NO ONE had a drinking problem and let something slip in a Jersey City tavern. NO ONE was being investigated or followed on any unrelated family court or blah blah blah
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
Originally posted by Zerbst
First of all, you have absolutely no idea what technology they may have to bring those towers down. If your guess was actually educated, and honest, the probability they possess technology far advanced what is public knowledge is hard to argue. Besides, there is evidence of workers having access to inner structure prior to 911.
So to support your hypothetical conspiracy scenario you're now hypothesizing that previously unknown super explosives were used...? You do know that's circular logic, right?
FYI the gov't doesn't really invent anything. They go to companies that make the stuff they're looking for and THEY invent it. Space probes are made by CalTech, M4 rifles are made by Colt, and helicopters are made by Sikorsky. So, who makes super explosives?
None of that matters anyway. You're trying to claim this single event impossible by a government that has done equal deeds in the past?
Not at all, actually. I'm arguing that a gov't who can't even hand out bottles of water to hurricane victims in New Orleans without slipping on banana peels is simply incapable of successfully pulling off such an insanely convoluted and intricate conspiracy involving hijacked planes, controlled demolitions, and hordes of disinformation agents, with the sheer perfection of an act of god, like the way you're describing. More so, since they only wound up slipping on banana peels during every OTHER "equal deed in the past" (Cambodian Bombing, Watergate, Iran-Contra, outing that CIA agent, etc)
Originally posted by Nivcharah
I'm more inclined to believe my student's brother-in-law who actually worked IN security. Someone who worked at the WTC wouldn't have as much access or observation as someone who works in security.
Originally posted by Ex_MislTech
Another thing ppl forget about Mr. Ventura, he was a Navy Seal.
Not just any Seal either, but Underwater Demolition Team.
So Jesse went to school on how to blow stuff up, so to speak.
Having worked around some Seals while I was in, I respected
all the ones I came across, though some were a bit wild.
Originally posted by WinstonSmith911
and its not a previously unknown super explosive.. Active thermitic material (yes thermite) was found in the WTC dust.. LOADS of it!!
its proven: www.youtube.com...
Originally posted by Seventh
Or to explain the seemingly lack of debris from a plane that just crashed, say it buried itself.
Originally posted by Victoria 1
If 9/11 was a consperacy don't you know how many people would have had to cover everything up. There would be 100's and possibly 1,000's of people all keeping a secret. Don't you think that would have came out? Don't you think the media would jump on this, they hate Bush and would do anything to make him look bad.
Originally posted by Mark_Amy
reply to post by Zerbst
Star for you my friend, excellent post!
Posts like yours deserve a thread of their own otherwise they get missed or skimmed over and forgotten. People need to think about about the big, big picture because it puts everything into perspective.
Originally posted by Zerbst
Nobody can realistically believe anything is impossible for the US government to carry out? To do so would be to deny similar events, carried out by them successfully, throughout all of history. This, getting away with crime, pattern of behavior is literally their only success. It's seriously their only area of provable accomplishment that is consistent? Not to mention how weak it is of an argument? Saying "they could never pull it off" is about as legitimate a defense as "I know you are, but what am I?" commonly used prior to 2nd grade? There is so much support to this argument it would undoubtedly be comical to even challenge it? On the other hand, what possible support can be found to shine an opposite light on these criminals? Where can anything positively good can be shown as their doing? I challenge anybody to show proof, even one single act, of them acting for unselfish good? Takers? Any one want to humiliate themselves?
Originally posted by DaWhiz
It is possible that you were watching MTV in 1994 when this happened - It is called The Conspiracy of Silence - when the FCC and Congress pressured The Discovery Channel to remove a documentary which points to a very large child sex scandal involving the White House, some Congressmen/Senators and possibly DIPLOMATS. It is called 'Conspiracy of Silence - Illuminati Pedophiles in Washington, DC.'