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Originally posted by plube
Ok Exponent....logical thinking here....If questions are asked the people will just naturally want to answer them...Would you not Agree...Also once the questions are put forward who is to decide which are most valid...then once it is decide...who gets to decide who has the proper credentials to answer such questions legitimately without bias.
Not sure where it all stands...so when the submission part is done...is this where you decide to answer the questions that have been put forward.
so where does this thread stand.....I think it is at a standstill...but i will add a few more questions if you like...i know i have bullet pointed 20 so far
Originally posted by plube
reply to post by GoodOlDave
*why was WTC7 evacuated so promptly yet people in the towers were told to stay where they were...
*why was WTC7 not part of the official Story
*why was all that money spent on making "the bunker" but abandoned on the very day
*why did the MSM mistakingly say the building collapsed before it did.
*why was did NIST eventually show such large amounts of damage to WTC7 based mostly on apparent witness testimony rather than the video evidence.
It seems to me the facts should decide the scenario...not the scenario decide the facts....
Originally posted by exponent
[I made this thread. I think it's fair that I get to detail exactly what it's about. If you'd bothered to read the OP properly you'd know that I am suggesting creating new threads for discussion of the most important points.
I'm sure I have, but I created this thread to avoid that. All discussion threads in this forum degenerate to bickering as people cannot accept being incorrect on an issue or cannot justify things beyond trust.
People participating in this thread as I requested in the OP
we just want a list of questions to be consolidated
People participating in this thread as I requested in the OP
Originally posted by thegameisup
I think this thread will suffice, all the questions are here, all the questions are in the process of being answered. I will continue to participate in debating those questions with members. They are all relevant and do not need another thread.
If that is the case then making yet another thread will change nothing. I might just make a thread where people can ask 10 questions, and still get to discuss them in that thread, instead of adhering to silly restrictions. What is your real agenda? For you to chose which questions you want to remove from ATS, so you can control what people discuss?
You say you do not want your thread to turn into bickering? But why then are you bickering with many members in most of the other threads?
I don't think you will have many people backing you to petition the mods either.
I said to you "who is we" in response to the following quote in your OP:
You saying "we jsut want a list of questions to be consolidated" is now missing from you OP, and there is no green text to say you have edited, and it is a good while after you made the thread, so technically you cannot edit it, how come that has now been deleted, and how come there is no trace of it being edited?
Also, by saying that you are not talking about the people participating in the thread, because you do not know if people do want a consolidated thread. I find this comment, and the removal/stealth editing of it very suspicious?!
As anyone can see in my last reply in this thread, you did say that comment in your OP, and now it has gone, with no trace of editing!
edit on 9-7-2012 by thegameisup because: added quotes
Originally posted by thegameisup
reply to post by GoodOlDave
I think it depends on who really did 9/11, and what their actual agenda was? There could have been quite a few different agendas. If the attacks were commited by bin laden, as the USA government say, then the towers are not a low value target, because deaths of Americans would most likely have been their main objective.
If this was an inside job, then there could have been many finacial benefits for various different people, Larry Silverstein for example got 2 asbestos hazards out of the way, and a nice insurance packet to go with it. The felling of both towers would be more dramatic than say WTC7, and from a fear and disbelief perspective, they were good targets.
If you have read the OS, I'm am guessing you have, then you know as much as I about what the government claim actually happened, and that being 4 attacks against the American people and their government. However, this is just the government's version of 9/11, and as you know there is also a good argument for an inside job by the government.
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
All right then, they are a LOWER value target, because as you say, they were full of people and it would be a swift and easy way to kill 10,000 people at once. Plus, it would settle unfinished business that al Qaida left behind from 1993. This does make them a significant target however you look at it.
That said, I say they are a lower value target than the other buildings they might have been targetting, becuase I believe there was more to the attack than what was actually played out. Flight 93 was heading toward Washington, and Washington is a city chock full of critical government installations, and any one of them being destroyed would have have a much more traumatic impact than the destruction of the WTC had. Think on this for a moment- if it turned out flight 93 was targetting the US Capitol, and if it succeeded in crashing into the Capitol building and it took out most of Congress, and they were showing nonstop coverage of the US capitol building burning to the ground, do you think this would have had a more traumatic impact on the US infrastructure and the American people than the WTC attack did, or less?
This leads me back to the question I asked earlier- is the "official story" one of an attack to murder as many random people as possible that largely succeeded, or is the "official story" one of an attack against the US infrastructure itself that largely failed?
This is predominantly grasping at straws to support a preconceived hypothesis. Silverstein took all that insurance money and put it into the construction of their replacements...yes, even WTC 7...so even that statement is argumentative.
Let's face it, the more you stare at anything, the more you're going to notice something weird about it. This is why people are insisting the crash site in Shanksville was staged. Like it's somehow far fetched for a mediocre pilot with a death wish to crash an airplane into the ground, or something?
..but as you certainly have to be aware, the main problem the "inside job" proponents are suffering is that they cannot even agree amongst themselves as to what the "inside job" actually is. For every person insisting it was a gov't plot, there's another insisting it was the work of the Jews. How many times have we seen verbal fistfights break out between those who insist the towers were brought down by controlled demolitions vs. those who insist they were brought down by directed energy weapons? There's even one guy here insisting the towers were really fake buildings! Despite the varied theories, the one thing they all have in common is that "they are all based upon sound research and careful analysis." I'm not a physicist so I can't make heads or tails of Judy Wood's junk science, but it cannot be refuted she has produced at least something to defend her case with.
Originally posted by dillweed
Dave, would you do me a solid, and just answer question #5. Can you give us a clue as to why they insisted upon these 'conditions'? If there was no 'conspiracy', why the dodge? Why no recording? For two guys with nothing to hide, they sure weren't too open about what happened that day. What's your take?
Originally posted by conwaylemmon
Thanks for this thread. I'll contribute a few questions:
1. What happened to the most expensive and best military in the world, that it failed to intercept any of the planes at least 1 hour and 40 minutes after hijacks were suspected, and if the shanksville plane was indeed shot down, why is it denied?
2. Why was the president allowed to sit in a classroom, when it was clear that we were "under attack". (a) Wasn't the commander in chief's safety in question? (b) Wasn't the commander in chief needed immediately to lead the military/country?
3. Why did the administration continually deny that they could have possibly foreseen using planes as weapons?
4. Why did the administration attempt to thwart an investigation, and why was in underfunded?
5. Why did Bush and Cheney request, and why were they allowed, to testify to the commission together, off the record, and not under oath?
Originally posted by wmd_2008
reply to post by psikeyhackr
psikeyhackr YOU like ANOK dont understand the physics related to the construction/destruction of the WTC buildings and that is a FACT!!
Originally posted by dillweed
reply to post by conwaylemmon
Thanks, Conway. Dave, would you do me a solid, and just answer question #5. Can you give us a clue as to why they insisted upon these 'conditions'? If there was no 'conspiracy', why the dodge? Why no recording? For two guys with nothing to hide, they sure weren't too open about what happened that day. What's your take?
Originally posted by wmd_2008
reply to post by psikeyhackr
psikeyhackr YOU like ANOK dont understand the physics related to the construction/destruction of the WTC buildings and that is a FACT!!
Originally posted by waypastvne
I second that.
Show of hands ?
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
Originally posted by waypastvne
I second that.
Show of hands ?
I third that.
I also submit that this thread has now been officially derailed by the truthers like they derail every other thread here. Once Psikey starts introducing his junk physics into a thread like he does over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over, the thread has officially jumped the shark. Show of hands?
I thank Exponent for his attempt, but I think he overestimated the audience he is appealing to.
Originally posted by thegameisup
If we are to believe it was a real terrorist act by bin laden, which has yet to be conclusively proven, then yes the pentagon would have been a lower value target due to more people being in the towers.The 1993 bombings are also heavily debated as an inside job, and so should be left separate from 9/11.
We do not know what the actual motive was for 9/11, when we have all the evidence independently investigated, and we can find out who really was behind it, only then can we know what the motive was. If it was an inside job, then there would be many reasons for why it was committed, but at this moment we do not conclusivel know either way.
Let's not get side-tracked with other theories, only verifiable evidence that is thoroughly investigated independently, can conclude what really happened on 9/11. I cannot stress this enough.