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Originally posted by Zerbst
To argue this event by dissecting every individual detail is only causing confusion? It is also ignoring that obvious gut feeling of suspicion? There's no need to complicate it, just keep it simple. They possess the resources and ability to explain every detail of this event. Refusal to expose this truth can only imply guilt? Sabotaging evidence relating to this truth can only imply guilt? Creating false investigations, phony reports and directly lying about this truth can only imply guilt? Makes no difference what side you're on, these are easily provable facts that cannot be debated. This alone is enough to sway, even the hardcore deniers, towards government involvement. Covering up facts, destroying evidence and perjury are themselves serious crimes, and many places a direct admission of guilt to the crime one is attempting to cover? Nevertheless, mounting physical evidence continues to accumulate and will easily expose the guilty when given the chance!
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?
Peace.
Originally posted by Jezus
You don't need evidence or science to disprove a conspiracy theory...
All I have to say is.
Do you know how many people it would take!
They could never pull it off without people knowing about it!
Not everything is a conspiracy!
Tinfoil hat!
www.911hardfacts.com...
But there are ultimately two main problems with the argument. Firstly, it does not in any way answer any of the hard, relevant evidence relating to the case and narrative of 9/11 covered in this paper that does point to some kind of conspiracy. Instead, it is simply a stated notion of disbelief. And secondly, there did not, in actual fact, need to be that many people involved with the overall vision, of every detail and every implication of the plan. There only needed to be a select few people at the top of the chain of command who knew exactly what was being carried out, where and how to create confusion, and why. The military and intelligence community is made up of people accustomed to following orders, without question. And many researchers who have spent time in the CIA and military intelligence have stepped forward into the 9/11 truth movement to explain the notion of 'compartmentalization'. A phenomenon and strategy that explains why not very many people need be in on the overall plan and execution of a covert operation for it to be successful.
"Compartmentalization is an organizational strategy analogous to the old parable of the blind men and an elephant -- each of the men is asked to describe what the elephant is, and all accurately describe their perception (trunk, tusk, legs, ears, tail, body), but none of them understand what the entire elephant is. Covert operations succeed by keeping most of the participants focused on their particular task, unaware of the full situation. Compartmentalization means that only key people in key places need to know what their role in a covert operation is -- others nearby might not be aware of those ensuring the success of the operation. This practice refutes the claim that too many people would have had to know about 9/11 for a conspiracy to allow it to have been possible."
"This argument is, for one thing, based partly on the belief that it is impossible for big government operations to be kept secret very long. However, the Manhattan Project to create an atomic bomb, which involved some 100,000 people, was kept secret for several years. Also, the United States provoked and participated in a civil war in Indonesia in 1957 that resulted in some 40,000 deaths, but this illegal war was kept secret from the American people until a book about it appeared in 1995. It also must be remembered that if the government has kept several other big operations hidden, we by definition do not know about them. We cannot claim to know, in any case, that the government could not keep a big and ugly operation secret for a long time.
Those phrases automatically refute all the logical, scientific, and physical evidence for the conspiracy theory...
Originally posted by pteridine
reply to post by Zerbst
The Manhatten project used many people scattered over the entire country. Often their tsaks were such that they did not see any connection with other activities. Setting demolition charges in occupied office buildings is setting demolition charges. There is nothing else it can be. Precutting girders and columns and cabling the structure for collapse is precutting girders and columns and cabling the structure for collapse and nothing else. There is no evidence of demolition.
Originally posted by Zerbst
You're assuming that only these demolition methods would have been used, as well as them being the only choice? Ironically, your skepticism further supports the need for an actual investigation, which is all the "crazy conspiracy nuts" are asking for. So basically your supporting the very thing debunkers oppose?
Some demolition methods had to have been used. There is no evidence for conventional demolitions.
A new investigation without any reason to initate it or evidence to investigate would seem to be fruitless. What methods do you propose were used and how would you search for them? How would you know when you found them?
But should it come to pass, as has been asked on another thread, what if a new investigation provided the same conclusions? What would you say then?
It seems that the gut feelings of the many that drive this will not allow any conclusions except those that they have already arrived at. We will continue to investigate until our predetermined conclusions are reached as we search for the dogmatic "truth".
As to your gratuitious comments regarding righteousness, patriotism, and being American, disagreement with your position has nothing to do with them, correct? The truthers never insult, provoke, or verbally attack those who disagree with them, do they?
Originally posted by Zerbst
The official story is being accepted on predetermined conclusions that the government doesn't lie, or commit crime? These are easily provable falsehoods that are holding up a literal fantasy? There is no comparison between these theories. The official one is riddled with suspicion, incompleteness and improbabilities? The alternative is, not only more possible and likely, it's backed by much more motive and evidence.
Another, huge, difference is that only the alternative theory accounts for every detail. It explains the miracle collapses and vanishing jumbo jets!
Originally posted by mmiichael
Originally posted by Zerbst
The official story is being accepted on predetermined conclusions that the government doesn't lie, or commit crime? These are easily provable falsehoods that are holding up a literal fantasy? There is no comparison between these theories. The official one is riddled with suspicion, incompleteness and improbabilities? The alternative is, not only more possible and likely, it's backed by much more motive and evidence.
Another, huge, difference is that only the alternative theory accounts for every detail. It explains the miracle collapses and vanishing jumbo jets!
Governments often lie and withhold information. But there are also knowledgeable people tracking their words and actions.
Truther websites lie and withhold information as well. Few care to correct their corruptions of truth.
From what I've seen you base your understandings on these sources.
Thousands of people worldwide have tracked the long evolution of the Middle Eastern based funding and planning of 9/11. Independent professionals worldwide have looked at the evidence with an open-mind.
They base their analysis on tangible evidence and documentation, not just speculation.
Video hawker find fault with these detailed systematic analysis of evidence. And because you want to believe them, you accept their claims without applying critical faculties.
It's easy to be confident you know the real truth when you choose to believe what supports your conclusions and dismiss anything conflicting as disinformation.
There are a lot of lies circulating, not just from one source.
Mike
[edit on 30-7-2009 by mmiichael]
Originally posted by Zerbst
Here are real examples of them "pulling it off" quite successfully. The Manhattan Project required the silence of 100,000 people involved.