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The conspiracies I am reading on this board on the other hand, require god like competence. These conspiracies contain RC planes, explosives, thermite, destruction of physical evidence, fake eyewitnesses, fake victims, fake footage, complicit emergency services etc, the list goes on.
Originally posted by samkent
reply to post by Varemia
People knew from day one that there was still asbestos and tons of other really nasty stuff in the air.
I agree.
I think that many of the people involved in the clean up took the macho attitude. Choosing to ignor the obvious in favor of "I'm gonna get this done".
I don't think anyone would think that breathing any kind of smoke for 8 hrs or more a day for weeks is acceptable.
I'll bet they would now advise their children differently now.
Originally posted by maxella1
If the true contents of the dust were publicly revealed how many and for how long do you think Wall Street people would stay away from there?
Originally posted by Varemia
Originally posted by maxella1
If the true contents of the dust were publicly revealed how many and for how long do you think Wall Street people would stay away from there?
Not exactly sure what you're asking, but the Wall Street folk are just greedy money-grabbers in it for their own, no matter who gets hurt in the process. If they can make an extra buck by denying toxins and illnesses resultant from 9/11, then they will deny forever. As soon as it stops being profitable (probably when they can leech off the insurance system or something), you see all sorts of diseases starting to be classified under the toxins. Lawyers will especially see it as a moment to strike, making big bucks off of people for not giving coverage to first respondents earlier.
It's dirty and it's wrong, but that's just how greed works.
Originally posted by maxella1
Do you think they are so greedy that they would go back to work on september 17 even if they knew how dangerous the dust was?
They might be greedy but I don't think they're suicidal. And that's why EPA lied in the first place. They knew that the rescue workers would still go and do what had to be done, but the average Wall St firm workers would stay away for as long as the toxic dust was in the air and on the ground.
This is speculation on a ridiculous scale now, but the dust in the air would have been mostly settled by the 17th. The only way they would be getting high levels of exposure would be if they were sifting through debris themselves or putting it into their coffee, which I doubt.
Not Just Responders: 9/11 Health Crisis Broadens to Wall St and Beyond
In all the chaos and mayhem, Cosmello felt lucky to be alive. Wandering the locked-down city with a fellow dust cloud victim for the next 24 hours, he finally escaped to his home in Hoboken and then resumed his professional life on the Stock Exchange on September 17th, 2001, when the city of New York pulled back the barricades and declared Wall St and Lower Manhattan open for business. “Everyone in the Financial District watched that cleanup and smelled that stench, day after day,” Cosmello recalls. “It didn’t look right, it didn’t feel right, but the official EPA word was that, horrific as it seemed, it was still safe to go down there.”
Originally posted by Varemia
reply to post by maxella1
Hm, well the only gain I can see from it for anyone is to make money from not covering the first respondents. I'm not sure who you think is responsible for the crime of misrepresenting the danger.
EPA’s Response to the World Trade Center Collapse: Challenges, Successes, and Areas for Improvement
As a result of the White House CEQ’s influence, guidance for cleaning indoor spaces and information about the potential health effects from WTC debris were not included in EPA’s issued press releases. In addition, based on CEQ’s influence, reassuring information was added to at least one press release and
cautionary information was deleted from EPA’s draft version of that press release.
Few written records were available on the process used to prepare WTC press releases. We found draft versions for two of the press releases. However, the White House’s role in EPA’s public communications about WTC environmental conditions was described in a September 12, 2001, e-mail from the EPA Deputy
Administrator’s Chief of Staff to senior EPA officials: All statements to the media should be cleared through the NSC [National Security Council] before they are released.
The White House Council on Environmental Quality influenced, through the collaboration process, the information that EPA communicated to the public through its early press releases when it convinced EPA to add reassuring statements and delete cautionary ones.
Heck, it's possible that the people in charge just plain didn't want to lose another day of revenue from people not being able to get to work.
Originally posted by maxella1
And how is this different from allowing the attack or even making sure that the attack will succeed because they didn't want to loose the potential revenue from the opium in Afghanistan?
Or do you think that opium is only profitable when sold as a street drug and our government would never ever get involved in drug trafficking?edit on 21-10-2012 by maxella1 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Varemia
Originally posted by maxella1
And how is this different from allowing the attack or even making sure that the attack will succeed because they didn't want to loose the potential revenue from the opium in Afghanistan?
Or do you think that opium is only profitable when sold as a street drug and our government would never ever get involved in drug trafficking?edit on 21-10-2012 by maxella1 because: (no reason given)
What are we even debating? I do think that members of the government helped the attacks succeed, though opium seems a little off the wall. I mean, I wouldn't put drug trafficking past the government, but how far will this conspiracy theory stretch? Adding more complexity when there is a simpler answer is just silly to me.
You have to understand the history...
Originally posted by maxella1
Why would anybody think that they wouldn't keep trying until achieving their objective?
Originally posted by vipertech0596
reply to post by maxella1
There were reports of weapons being shipped from Iraq to Syria before we even went into Iraq.
And I'm not sure where "we actually did find WMDs in Iraq" becomes "it's official we didn't find any"...
So is it official now that we didn't find the WMD's or "the amount as were originally thought to be there" because it's actually in Syria? How long did we know this exactly?
Originally posted by TrickoftheShade
reply to post by maxella1
That was a really long post to write, given that you based it on a significant error.
I pointed out that the difference in evidence between a government sending people to Iraq and ground zero on false premises, and "attack[ing] their own people" was marked. Indeed enormous.
You responded by showing that there was lots of evidence for the first two. Like I said. And none for the third. Like I, um, said.