Why was WTC7 brought down by explosives?

Bamspeedy, I took the time to read the article you posted but it mearly proves my point about the fine line between government perpetrated theories and so called conspriacy theories. The article offers no real evidence that Osama was behind 9/11. Insted it provides a detailed history of al-queda and its past actions but ultimatly nothing other than speculation. It pins the blame on bin Laden through past actions and probability, but not facts that link him to what happened on 9/11. On top of this, it has comments that can only be described as stupid.

"#69. No other organisation has both the motivation and the capability to carry out attacks like those of the 11 September – only the Al Qaida network under Usama Bin Laden."

Practically the entire develpoing world had motive. You and others believe flying those planes was an easy task, and we know anybody can easily get into this country if they want to. Following that logic, any 19 people who could fly an aricraft could have carried out 9/11; to suggests only al-quaida could have done it makes no sense.

There is evidence of a very specific nature relating to the guilt of Bin Laden and his associates that is too sensitive to release.

The crux of the matter. This is no different than conspiracy theorists pinning the blame on the CIA through speculation, past actions, and probability though lacking specifics and the complete facts.

Number 30: Why did the hijackers force passengers to call
relatives?

I overlooked this question so I did a google search and found the answer.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A14365-2001Sep11

Herded to the back of the plane by hijackers armed with knives and box-cutters, the passengers and crew members of American Airlines Flight 77 -- including the wife of Solicitor General Theodore Olson, a Senate staffer, three D.C. schoolchildren and three teachers on an educational field trip and a University Park family of four headed to Australia for a two-month adventure -- were ordered to call relatives to say they were about to die.

So George Sr. is in on the conspiracy, too?

Bush senior was meeting with Osama bin Laden's brother, Shafig bin Laden, in Washington on the morning of 9/11/01. They were attending a Carlyle Group business meeting just a few miles from where hijackers supposedly acting on behalf of Osama (evil "black sheep" that the people in charge blammed because they knew the public would not ask questions or doubt the claim) would fly a plane into the Pentagon. In the ensuing "War on Terrorism" the Carlye group has made billions of dollars. All coincidence, of course :rolleyes:

Because if they say one lie, then they should be implicated in far more sinister activities.

To say the US government is too moral to be involved in sinister activites that involve the deaths of thousands of people is extremely naive. The government doesn't care about the American people any more than they do the Vietmanese, Koreans, Iraqis, Afghanis, or any other group.

I do agree that 'the extent' to which they are a threat can be sometimes overblown or exaggerated. Doesn't prove Osama wasn't behind 9/11 or that islamic extremists didn't do 9/11, though.

Guilty until proven innocent? Use your common sense, the government gains greater contol and power in the name of security yet has practically wide open borders that allow possibly thousands of 'evil-doers' into the country. It doesn't makes sense unless they don't really give a damn about protecting us. When the next "attack" occurs the government will gain even more control over us and the majority of people will blindly follow along.

Rich and powerful are automatically considered 'evil and sadistic', huh? If you are rich, you can not have a meeting or a party with any other rich people. Did you think that maybe these people are discussing things like NAFTA and other trade agreements/laws that would benefit their own interests? I guess Mrs. Bill Gates (who went this year instead of Bill) is plotting world wide destruction. :rolleyes:

You asked me for 'proof' that the illuminati, i.e. the organized monatary elite of the world, existed and I gave it to you. Undoubtedly they have agendas that would benefit their own interests, in other words agendas that don't benefit you and I.

I suppose you secretly desire communism to return, don't you? You want to see Russia go back to the Soviet power and in communism and then you'd join your Russians friends who have probably been brainwashing you with their anti-U.S. government propaganda.

The Sovietization of American is exactly what I do not want to see. For decades the central government has grown too large and powerful and following 9/11, the government gained more controll over us (e.g. Patriot Acts), has increased even further in size, and has wasted the lives of thousands of people around the world for the benefit of a few.
 
This is no different than conspiracy theorists pinning the blame on the CIA through speculation, past actions, and probability....

What 'past actions' do you speak of? Any that DIRECTLY involve the killing of thousands of Americans?

Tell me, which pattern of activity makes more sense?

False information to justify a war--->Crashing planes into buildings killing your own citizens
Terrorist bombings---->Crashing planes into buildings, killing your 'enemies'

though lacking specifics and the complete facts.

Yes, I do find it a bit odd how much access the conspiracy theorists have to 'un-named' CIA operatives. I bet you believe those, don't you?

How often has the government changed their story about who was involved? From you and this thread, the perpetrators continually changes.

You have pointed your fingers at Mr. Silverstein, FEMA, demolition crew, to the CIA, Bush Jr., U.S. government (top officials), FBI, to the 'Illuminati', Bilderberg group, Carlyle group, Bush Sr. Did I forget anyone?

I overlooked this question so I did a google search and found the answer.

Where did the Washington Post get their information about the passengers being ordered to call relatives? Or perhaps that little sentence was speculation, since it was written the day after 9/11.

Bush senior was meeting with Osama bin Laden's brother, Shafig bin Laden, in Washington on the morning of 9/11/01.

Now why did you ask where he was if you already knew the answer?

Can you please post a link from a reputable news source. I typed 'Shafig bin Laden' into google and all I got was 365 message boards and kook sites. Almost all of those sites got their information from 'the Observer'. What is the Observer (reputable news source or kook news source, I'm not being sarcastic, I honestly do not know)? I tried google, but got the ObserverGaurdian, New York Observer, Jamaica Observer, etc.

From reading some of the sites and from reading some sites after typing in "Carlyle group", I get the impression that there was indeed an annual meeting (most members would be in attendence) of the Carlyle group at a Washington hotel on 9/11. No mention that Bush was meeting personally with Shafig, though.

The Bin Ladins had dis-owned Osama from their family years ago and Osama had been expelled from Saudi Arabia. In the previous 10 years, only one half-brother had even spoken to or seen Osama and that was only for a few minutes at a wedding.

About Shafig's investment:

"I can confirm the fact that any Binladin Group investment in Carlyle has been terminated or is being terminated. It amounted to a $2m investment in the Carlyle II Fund, which was anyway a very small portion of a $1.3bn fund. In the scheme of the investments and in the scheme of the business of either party it was very small. We have to get this into perspective. But I think there was a sense that there were questions being raised and some controversy, and for such a small amount of money it was something that we wanted to put behind us. It was just a business decision."

has made billions of dollars.

I do not see any official statements of the profits, only speculation. They are an equity company that does have some investments in a couple of military hardware companies. I see speculations of millions of $, and the kookier sites speculate billions of $. What the true value is, is unknown.

More on Carlyle:

Carlyle spokesman Chris Ullman said the elder Bush does little more than give speeches on Carlyle's behalf when abroad and does not call up his son to lobby for Carlyle's business interests.

What is not well known is that Carlyle's profits also benefit the 1.2 million members of the California Public Employees Retirement System, or CalPERS, the largest public pension fund in the United States.

"These are all former government officials who have chosen to team with us in various capacities," he said. "I stress the fact that they are former government officials."

Do you realize how many people you are accusing of being involved?

John Major, the former British prime minister, is a Carlyle adviser, as are former Philippine President Fidel Ramos and former Thai Premier Anand Panyarachun. So is a former president of Germany's Bundesbank and a former head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Because the Carlyle Group is partly owned by CalPERS, the company's fortunes are shared not just by the political elite -- is there really such a thing as a former politician? -- but also by hundreds of thousands of California bureaucrats and school officials.

Sources for the above:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,583869,00.html
http://www.rense.com/general17/kdks.htm

All coincidence, of course

If he was involved-
Why would he be anywhere near Washington if he knew this would happen? Why would they have to have a meeting on the same day of the attacks?

If he was not involved-
How often did he have meetings with this group? For a group that is composed of former world leaders, I don't find it odd that a former president would be communicating with this group.

I find it a quite a bit more odd that Osama would order all of his officers to return to Afghanistan by 9/10.

The government doesn't care about the American people any more than they do the Vietmanese, Koreans, Iraqis, Afghanis, or any other group.

No, they don't care at all about their family, neighbors, voters and taxpayers. :rolleyes:

To say the US government is too moral to be involved in sinister activites that involve the deaths of thousands of people is extremely naive.

I find it more naive to think that someone would propose to a group of Americans to pull off a 9/11 and noone objected to it or ran to the media. Wouldn't you expose this plan? If you wouldn't and would just follow the leader's orders, then I guess we know who the real 'sheep' is.

Guilty until proven innocent?

That is your motto isn't it? The government is guilty until someone can prove otherwise.

When the next "attack" occurs the government will gain even more control over us and the majority of people will blindly follow along.

How many people do you know have been affected by the patriot acts? I will laugh my ass off at you if there ISN'T another attack before the elections like you keep promising us. I do believe an attack could very well likely happen, but obviously we disagree on who will conduct the attack. So, was the Madrid bombing just before the elections done by the U.S. government?

Hmmm, since you keep 'promising' an attack... that reminds me... Where were YOU on Sept 11, 2001? Now, you may humor me and actually tell me, but if I start asking you were you were for many other events, most people would eventually say to me "None of your damn business", and I should leave you alone unless I have any real indications that you may have been involved. But if I was a kook, I would say "He won't tell me, What's he hiding?"

Undoubtedly they have agendas that would benefit their own interests, in other words agendas that don't benefit you and I.

So does feminists groups, The Girl Scouts of America, PETA, and many other groups. Are they all out to 'get me'?

I haven't seen any proof that the Bilderberg group is nothing more than a group of rich people that meets ONCE A YEAR to discuss politics.

Bamspeedy, do you not do most things with your own best interests at heart? I do.

What we will do to get what we want, could be what makes our viewpoints different. I, for one, would never kill thousands of my fellow Americans for my own profit. Maybe you would if you were in a position of power and that is why you find it more believable someone would do this.

Government officials are people, too.

For decades the central government has grown too large and powerful

Thank you for some more insight. Because of your extreme distrust of the government, I was guessing you had 1 of 2 political leanings. It appears you are not a young person who has fallen for the Nazi/communism leanings because it's just the 'cool' thing to do'/'cool to be a rebel'. So, maybe you are in the other category of the anti-government crowd. How do you feel about Waco and Ruby Ridge?
 
What is the Observer (reputable news source or kook news source, I'm not being sarcastic, I honestly do not know)?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer

"The Observer is a broadsheet newspaper of the United Kingdom published on Sundays. It takes a liberal/social democratic line on most issues and is the world's first Sunday newspaper (first issue published on December 4, 1791)."

How often has the government changed their story about who was involved? From you and this thread, the perpetrators continually changes.

You have pointed your fingers at Mr. Silverstein, FEMA, demolition crew, to the CIA, Bush Jr., U.S. government (top officials), FBI, to the 'Illuminati', Bilderberg group, Carlyle group, Bush Sr. Did I forget anyone?

I never changed my story about who was involved. As this thread evolved and grew so did the cast of characters. The Illuminati and the Bildergerg group are essentially the same thing. The top officals of the U.S. government includes the top officials of the CIA, FBI, and FEMA.

Bamspeedy said:
That is your motto isn't it? The government is guilty until someone can prove otherwise.

No, everyone is innocent until proven guilty. That includes the government, Osama, Saddam, or anybody else.

More on Carlyle:

Carlyle spokesman Chris Ullman said the elder Bush does little more than give speeches on Carlyle's behalf when abroad and does not call up his son to lobby for Carlyle's business interests.

What is not well known is that Carlyle's profits also benefit the 1.2 million members of the California Public Employees Retirement System, or CalPERS, the largest public pension fund in the United States.

"These are all former government officials who have chosen to team with us in various capacities," he said. "I stress the fact that they are former government officials."

Because the Carlyle Group is partly owned by CalPERS, the company's fortunes are shared not just by the political elite -- is there really such a thing as a former politician? -- but also by hundreds of thousands of California bureaucrats and school officials.

Do you realize how many people you are accusing of being involved?

The fact that it benefits a large number of people does not mean that those people know what is going on at the top levels of the company. What you are implying is that because 1.2 million people get money from Carlyle the theory cannot be true because 1.2 million people cannot hold a secret. But those 1.2 million are not Carlyle group members; i.e. do no attend annual meetings or are involved in decisions at the top level of the company. To suggest that they are involved in the business of the company to the degree that the top officials are would be like saying all employees of Enron are guilty of involvement in that situation.

Here is a well done Dutch documentary done on the Carlyle group:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1/claryle.ram
Source

This program was broadcast on VPRO Netherlands TV. The first one minute forty seven seconds of this program is in broadcast in Dutch, the remainder is in English.

I find it more naive to think that someone would propose to a group of Americans to pull off a 9/11 and noone objected to it or ran to the media. Wouldn't you expose this plan? If you wouldn't and would just follow the leader's orders, then I guess we know who the real 'sheep' is.

Information like that is not shared to everyone in the government. And it would not have mattered even if someone did expose it. After 9/11, anyone who said anything that wasn't conforming to what the majority had already decided, came under intense attack by the media. Remember what happened to Bill Maher? His comment about the hijackers being braver than American soldiers caused him to be the target of much criticism. Not long after that incident, he wrote an anti-Islam propaganda book titled "When You Ride Alone, You Ride with bin Laden".

Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) demanded evidence against Osama bin Laden and the Taliban:

Cynthia McKinney said:
We know there were numerous warnings of the events to come on September 11th. . . . What did this administration know and when did it know it, about the events of September 11th? Who else knew, and why did they not warn the innocent people of New York who were needlessly murdered? . . . What do they have to hide?

Ms. McKinney believed that Osama was innocent until proven guilty. However she was attacked by the media as "Jihad Cindy", and "dumber than rock salt and more repugnant than Yasser Arafat's three-week-old underwear".

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24998
http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg041202.asp
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/news/opinion/3083914.htm

I will laugh my ass off at you if there ISN'T another attack before the elections like you keep promising us. I do believe an attack could very well likely happen, but obviously we disagree on who will conduct the attack.

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/archive/040524/20040524044447_brief.php (have to pay)
http://catholicsforbush.blogspot.com/2004/05/from-white-house-nightmare-scenario.html (article that was in U.S. News Magazine above, for free)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q="From+the+White+House,+a+nightmare+scenario" (more sites offering the article for free)

"White House officials say they've got a 'working premise' about terrorism and the presidential election: It's going to happen. 'We assume,' says a top administration official, 'an attack will happen leading up to the election.' And, he added, 'it will happen here.' There are two worst-case scenarios, the official says. The first posits an attack on Washington, possibly the Capitol, which was believed to be the target of the 9/11 jet that crashed in Pennsylvania. Theory 2: smaller but more frequent attacks in Washington and other major cities leading up to the election. To prepare, the administration has been holding secret antiterrorism drills to make sure top officials know what to do. 'There was a sense,' says one official involved in the drills, 'of mass confusion on 9/11. Now we have a sense of order.' Unclear is the political impact, though most Bushies think the nation would rally around the president. 'I can tell you one thing,' adds the official sternly, 'we won't be like Spain,' which tossed its government days after the Madrid train bombings.".

So does feminists groups, The Girl Scouts of America, PETA, and many other groups. Are they all out to 'get me'?

I haven't seen any proof that the Bilderberg group is nothing more than a group of rich people that meets ONCE A YEAR to discuss politics.

Girl scouts and PETA do not have any influence over your life. I do not have influence over peoples' lives. It does not matter where I was or what I was doing on 9/11/01 because I have no influence or power over masses of people. Top world leaders and business fat cats do.

http://www.rense.com/general10/under.htm

Invited as speakers, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair were groomed at Bilderberg meetings before rising to fame as U.S. President and British Prime Minister respectively.

They groomed Clinton and Blair. It shouldn't come as a surprise that the rulers of the world groom puppets to act as our "leaders". This is extremely obvious with Bush the second, who was an alcoholic cokehead that became president with a cabinet of people with corporate connections. Or Reagan the actor. Or Clinton the smooth talking southerner. All of whom did nothing but read telepromters and remember speeches written for them. Now it looks like they are grooming John Edwards.

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040606-103603-4126r.htm

Among the 100 or so invitees to the annual Bilderberg conference under way Sunday in a northern Italy resort is potential U.S. vice president John Edwards.

Sen. Edwards is regarded in Democratic circles as a good performer in his battle with Sen. John Kerry for the nomination to be presidential candidate and so is expected to be a finalist when Kerry chooses a running mate.

Edit:

Kerry picks Edwards to be vice president

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040706/lo_WCVB/2275909
 
Bamspeedy said:
What 'past actions' do you speak of? Any that DIRECTLY involve the killing of thousands of Americans?

There aren't any examples of the CIA directly involved in killing thousands of American citizens. However we all know of programs such as MK-ULTRA that show a total disregard for citizens of this country. We know of some of the CIA's greatest hits around the globe so it isn't a big leap of thought to think it could happen in American. It is important to mention that the US military had plans in the 1960s to conduct terrorist acts on its own citizens and then blame it Cuba to provoke a war with that country. These plans had the written approval of all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff but we rejected by Kennedy.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/jointchiefs_010501.html

"Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.

The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro."
 
"The Observer is a broadsheet newspaper of the United Kingdom published on Sundays. It takes a liberal/social democratic line on most issues and is the world's first Sunday newspaper (first issue published on December 4, 1791)."

Yes, please read the Observer/Guardian instead of abovetopsecret and informationclearinghouse. Even if biased (often anti-U.S. government), you will get more truthful, mainstream news than the hardcore kook sites.

I never changed my story about who was involved. As this thread evolved and grew so did the cast of characters. The Illuminati and the Bildergerg group are essentially the same thing. The top officals of the U.S. government includes the top officials of the CIA, FBI, and FEMA.

And as the cast of characters grows, you should start to realize how many people would needed to have been involved. Yet, you downplayed earlier comments about 'too many people would have needed to be involved', and that you said 'hundreds' of people would not have been needed.

Look at how many of Bush's advisors went off and wrote books slandering Bush in regards to the Iraq war and warning signals about 9/11, yet not one single person has done the same for the actual 9/11 plot.

However she was attacked by the media as "Jihad Cindy", and "dumber than rock salt and more repugnant than Yasser Arafat's three-week-old underwear".

Well, a politician accusing the president of being involved when SHE HAD NO PROOF, deserved what she got.

There is much more to the story of why she was labeled 'Jihad Cindy' than just asking for proof against the taliban and Osama:

Remember, this is the same McKinney who practically tackled Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed bin Talal when New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani turned down the prince's offer of $10 million following the 9-11 attacks. McKinney criticized Giuliani and U.S. policy in the Middle East, and grotesquely offered to find appropriate charities for the Saudi's munificence.

Since making her radio comments, McKinney has backtracked a few steps. "I am not aware of any evidence showing that President Bush or members of his administration have personally profited from the attacks of 9-11," she said. "A complete investigation might reveal that to be the case."

"Might" is a mighty big word when you're accusing the president of the United States of being a mass murderer and of otherwise helping kindle World War III.

McKinney has a strong record of hating America....saying the White House is "just full of latent racists."

Take McKinney's pandering letter to Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, in which she apologized for the valorous actions of New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Talal, nephew of Saudi King Fahd, recently visited New York to see the World Trade Center remains and gave Giuliani a $10 million check for relief efforts. Then, the prince released a statement full of moral equivocations, rationalizing the murder of 6,000 innocent Americans and blaming U.S. foreign policy, "suggesting" it be changed.

It's hard to ignore a $10 million dollar suggestion, no matter how ridiculous and immoral.

But not for the valiant Giuliani. In the highest act of moral and civic courage, he promptly returned the check with a statement: "There is no moral equivalent for this attack. The people who did it lost any right to ask for justification when they slaughtered 5,000, 6,000 innocent people ... Not only are those statements wrong, they're part of the problem." Giuliani is an American hero.

Back to the American villainess. Last Friday, McKinney, in a ludicrous letter, apologized to the prince for Giuliani's actions, accusing Giuliani of denying the prince's "right to speak and make observations about a part of the world you know so well."

"Your Royal Highness, the state of Black America is not good." McKinney wrote, "There are many people in America who desperately need your generosity," making the false assertion that a black baby born in Harlem has a worse life expectancy than one born in Bangladesh.

McKinney's new buddy, Prince Alwaleed, is the sixth richest man in the world, according to Forbes. Giuliani showed him that even the wealthiest of scoundrels cannot buy respectability with their blood money. Unless they're buying Congresswoman McKinney.

At an Oct. 3 House Committee on International Relations Hearing on al-Qaida and the Global Reach of Terrorism, McKinney had a temper tantrum when Oliver "Buck" Revell testified. Revell, associate director of the FBI in charge of Investigative and Counter-Intelligence Operations from 1985-1991, attempted to show segments of the 1995 documentary, "Jihad in America."

McKinney wanted to censor it, so that Americans watching on C-SPAN would not see evidence of the extensive Muslim terrorist network in America documented in the film, including that of Islamic Jihad front-man and University of South Florida Professor, Dr. Sami Al-Arian. No complaints from her about denying Revell's right to speak.

We're in the middle of war. But atop her tax-funded website, alongside a photo of her in leopard-print accents, are "news briefs," including "COINTELPRO: The Untold American Story," an attack on the U.S., which she and the Black Caucus presented to the U.N. World Conference Against Racism. Hello! – COINTELPRO took place under Nixon, three decades ago. And the victims cited in this 78-page diatribe by America-hating leftists Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn are guys like Dhoruba Bin Wahad aka Richard Moore, a Black Panther who machine-gunned police officers, and convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal.

And she should be looked up to as a role-model or 'crusader of the truth'?

That includes the government, Osama, Saddam, or anybody else.

So let's catch Osama and hear his side of the story. The rest of the world believe he was involved and authorized the invasion of Afghanistan....well, of course the taliban said there was 'no evidence', but that is to be expected coming from them.

But aren't you the one that was convinced there was a 'mid-east connection' to the OKC bombing? And now you point your fingers at everyone EXCEPT mid-east connections. Just have to always take the position that disagrees with the government, right?

John Doe #2 from OKC bombing and Jose Padilla:
johndoe2.jpg


Here is a well done Dutch documentary done on the Carlyle group:

Seriously, you need to stay away from informationclearinghouse and abovetopsecret, they will rot your brain. The file doesn't work for me. Is it supposed to be in .ram format?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...e+scenario% 22 (more sites offering the article for free)

They are talking about how they are preparing for an attack, if it happens!. They said "we assume" (it will happen). First you slam them for being unprepared for an attack, and now that they prepare for an attack you imply this means they are going to be staging/plotting an attack.

'we won't be like Spain,'

Sounds like wishful thinking, rather than a plan to abuse the masses. Also, because the Spanish government had at first blamed ETA, when it had Al-quada written all over it, played a role into the government being voted out.

Girl scouts and PETA do not have any influence over your life.

My point is, would they ever kill thousands of people for their own interests, even if they thought they could get away with it?

However we all know of programs such as MK-ULTRA that show a total disregard for citizens of this country.

Yeah, a program in the 50's that killed 1 person. Some knowingly took part in the experiment and some CIA agents themselves took the drugs.

It is important to mention that the US military had plans in the 1960s to conduct terrorist acts on its own citizens and then blame it Cuba to provoke a war with that country.

We don't know the full context that it was written in. They write scenarios for all kinds of situations but don't necessarily act on them. It's important to note that this plan was indeed rejected and the person who came up with this idea was demoted. So, this plan was rejected and they put it away for 40 years until they used it?

And it would not have mattered even if someone did expose it.

Yes it would. It would help convince some people.

Remember what happened to Bill Maher? His comment about the hijackers being braver than American soldiers caused him to be the target of much criticism.

Anyone portraying terrorists in any positive light should be criticized. I don't care if you feel differently.

This is extremely obvious with Bush the second, who was an alcoholic cokehead

It is possible to get a DUI, without being a 'full-blown alcoholic'. But I will give you that one. Where you get the 'cokehead' garbage, I don't know. That sounds like abovetopsecret/informationclearinghouse speak.

They groomed Clinton and Blair.

I will not deny that they attended or spoke at the meeting. 'Groomed' is speculation.

cabinet of people with corporate connections.

Duh! What do expect in a capitalistic society? While I may accuse/suspect corporations of being greedy in regards to worker abuses, I will not accuse them of master-minding the death of thousands of Americans.

It’s true that many of Bush’s choices for his incoming cabinet and top White House posts come from former Republican administrations, going all the way back to Gerald Ford.

^Another comment from same article.

Or Reagan the actor. Or Clinton the smooth talking southerner.

No, politicians can never get the vote of fellow Americans through their own charisma. :rolleyes:

So every former/future president is 'evil' and out to get us? What benefit would these 'conspirators' have to put Reagan in office? Reagan felt government was getting too big, just like you feel.

The Illuminati and the Bildergerg group are essentially the same thing.

The illuminati is such a broad term, though. Find any group that involve 2 or more politicians and they can be considered in the 'illuminati' category whenever it is convenient. You are including in this conspiracy the Bilderberg group and the Carlyle group. When you want to pick on Kerry, you bring up the Skull and Bones and say that fraternity is 'evil' and full of conspiracies. Heck, you already used the broadest group of 'corporate connections'. So all these groups are 'in on it'?

Among the 100 or so invitees to the annual Bilderberg conference

Maybe the bolded part will help put things into perspective. Your list of 'perpetrators' includes people who attended the conference IN THE PAST. 100 different people every year for 10 years would be 1,000 people. Now, I'm sure people like Gates may go there every year or two, so these wouldn't all be new people every year, so for the last 10 years, there would still be hundreds of names on this list.

A long list of names to choose from and throw into whatever conspiracy you want.

Timothy McVeigh and Osama bin Laden bought into the theory that the Bilderberg group decided the World's fate.

It does not matter where I was or what I was doing on 9/11/01

True. Most of the conspirators would not have needed to be anywhere near Washington or New York at all on 9/11 or any other date. Yet, you make a huge point about it if any of your suspects were at these places.

because I have no influence or power over masses of people. Top world leaders and business fat cats do.

So let's just accuse the leaders of every country and the owners of every corporation. That will solve everything.

It begs the question of who were these guys, and who did they work for.

Unless whoever was involved starts coughing up the answers we will never know. How could the FBI ever find out their real names, otherwise? There is actually a precedent for this. D.B.Cooper was a hijacker, and that wasn't his real name, but the FBI still calls him by that, because they do not know his true identity. Does that mean there was a conspiracy?

Please, further explain this 'boogey-man'/hijacker thing. By 'boogey-man', do you mean they did not exist at all? Was the plane flown by remote, then? I find it hard to believe that CIA agents would be the hijackers and commit suicide so that others can benefit economically. And do you believe that the phone calls were somehow faked?

I admit I screwed up that information with the speed of the planes and the black boxes.

But if the government makes a mistake, then that is 'proof' of a cover-up/plot? You have explained that you made a mistake and that is your version of the story. Whether it was a deliberate lie, a simple mistake, or a result of faulty information, I do not know, I can only take your word for it or speculate. Do you want me to be like the conspiracy thoerists and speculate?
 
You and I could go back and forth on this for a very long time since we have different opinions. Arguing opinion is pretty pointless; just look at this forum. People constantly make threads on the same subjects debating things they have already gone through many times before, but usually a person doesn't change from a liberal to a conservative or from a libertarian to a green or a Christian into an atheist by reading internet posts. I don't know what kind of proof you need; obviously there was motive, which is the number one argument that Osama did it. Yesterday I sent a couple of letters to demolition companies asking how long it would take to prepare to demolish a building the size of Building 7. I suggest you do the same. If the answer is anything more than the roughly 9 hour window that the demolition crew would have had to complete the job that day, that should be the smoking gun you are looking for.

About abovetopsecret/informationclearinghouse

I don't visit those sites. I found that video accidentally by researching the Carlyle group a while back. However I do not see anything about informationclearinghouse that makes it a "hardcore kook site". http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ says it is "A source of unreported (or under reported) news from around the globe". And that’s what it is. Regardless what you think of what is presented there, it is nothing more than links to other news sites that are both inside and outside of the mainstream. They have links from the Boston globe to al-jazeera to the Observer and Guardian. This is the nature of most of the "kook" sites you so adamantly oppose.

I had never visted abovetopsecret before you mentioned it in your post, but it is just a site consisting of theories with a huge forum for people to argue those theories. Fine, but I don't know where you got the idea I frequently visit that website.

The video I linked to was made by the Dutch equivalent of the BBC (or so I’m told, I’m not Dutch so I don't know for sure).

Both links work fine for me and in my post it is in .ram format.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1/claryle.ram

Cynthia Mckinney & Bill Maher

I used the example of Bill Maher to show that in a time of national confusion and emotion about what was going on, someone who made a comment that was not in-line with the majority was attacked and villainized. Now I agree that condoning the people who killed thousands of Americans (nevermind what the truth about what happened is, he and most of the world though it was terrorists) should be condemned. But since he made a comment people took offense to, he had to write that propaganda book "When You Ride Alone You Ride With bin Laden" in order to help salvage himself in the eyes of the public.

Cynthia McKinney never accused the president of involvement. Her stance on those issues (which I disagree with) has nothing to do with demanding evidence that Osama was guilty. She questioned whether the policy response (war for peace) was protecting America or simply enriching Bush’s big arms industry donors and business partners. The Bush Administration received $2.9 million from traditional energy sources as campaign contributions for the 2000 election. Compare that to the American taxpayers paying the president $400,000 a year to do the job. Most people work for whoever pays them the most money.

The Number of People "in on it"

The number of people involved in the 9/11 conspiracy would not have to be excessively large. We have Silverstein, a few people at the top of FEMA, the demolition crew, a few people at the top of the CIA, a few important people in the administration, the top brass of the Carlyle group, and a few dozen other people here and there from various corporations who profited for 9/11. Even Bush Jr. wouldn't need to be in on it.

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They are talking about how they are preparing for an attack, if it happens!. They said "we assume" (it will happen). First you slam them for being unprepared for an attack, and now that they prepare for an attack you imply this means they are going to be staging/plotting an attack.

Sounds like wishful thinking, rather than a plan to abuse the masses.

I got the impression that by "we won't be like Spain" they meant they will get "revenge".

If there is another attack, won't that seem a bit suspicious to you? Supposedly al-queda attacked us on 9/11; the western elite greatly benefited from the ensuing wars, 4,000 Afghanis and 9,000 Iraqis are dead and their countries occupied. So al-queda attacks again and watches the cycle repeat? If you were the leader of al-queda, wouldn't that seem a bit stupid?

The people who you view as "kooks" could be described as the more extreme wing of the anti-globalization movement. They see what the business elite have done to people in other nations around the world over the last century, and don't deny the possibility that they would purposely kill 3,000 people for their own gain. Remember Dick Cheney said that the "war on terrorism" could last for fifty years or more. It seems we are to live with the threat and illusion of endless war in order to justify increased social control and government power, while the elite pursues its goal of global supremacy. September 11, 2001, did not "change everything", it just accelerated the undermining of the Bill of Rights that has gradually been going on for years. A popular analogy is the one of boiling a frog. You cannot boil a frog by putting it into a pot of boiling water because the frog will immediately jump out of the pot. Instead, the technique for boiling a frog is to put it in a pot of water at room temperature and warm the water slowly. The frog will swim contentedly until it is cooked.


But aren't you the one that was convinced there was a 'mid-east connection' to the OKC bombing?

No.

I believe the are some major loopholes in the OKC bombing story, and I mentioned in another thread that there is a possibility of a mid-east connection. But if there was, it would not mean the government was not involved. If there was a mid-east connection it would have to of been teamed with the government otherwise why the cover-up etc.

Here is a very good article on OKC: http://www.conspiracypenpal.com/columns/mcstrange.htm

If you look at other articles on that site, don't assume I agree with all of the man's opinions.

By the way, Padilla doesn't look all that similar to the sketch of Jon Doe #2. Hell, boxer Tommy Morrison who co-stared in Rocky 5 is a closer match:

tommygunnmorrison.jpg


So every former/future president is 'evil' and out to get us? What benefit would these 'conspirators' have to put Reagan in office? Reagan felt government was getting too big, just like you feel.

Reagan was a phony. Reagan said that government is not the solution and then presided over a 67% increase in federal spending during his 8 years in office. Yet people still view him as a conversative hero due to the propaganda surrounding the man.

Here is a good libertarian site on Republicans and classical conservatism (hence the term, neo-conservative) http://www.alanchapman.org/libertyvault/gwb.html

Maybe the bolded part will help put things into perspective. Your list of 'perpetrators' includes people who attended the conference IN THE PAST. 100 different people every year for 10 years would be 1,000 people. Now, I'm sure people like Gates may go there every year or two, so these wouldn't all be new people every year, so for the last 10 years, there would still be hundreds of names on this list.

A long list of names to choose from and throw into whatever conspiracy you want.

There is no reason to suggest the majority of attendees are different every year. Here is a good 43 minute video on the Bilderberg group:

http://www.global-elite.org/realmedia/mastersoftheuniverse.ram

Unless whoever was involved starts coughing up the answers we will never know. How could the FBI ever find out their real names, otherwise? There is actually a precedent for this. D.B. Cooper was a hijacker, and that wasn't his real name, but the FBI still calls him by that, because they do not know his true identity. Does that mean there was a conspiracy?

No, but like with D.B. Cooper it means they don't know ANYTIHNG about them; let alone that they were Muslim extremists working for Osama.

Please, further explain this 'boogey-man'/hijacker thing. By 'boogey-man', do you mean they did not exist at all? Was the plane flown by remote, then? I find it hard to believe that CIA agents would be the hijackers and commit suicide so that others can benefit economically. And do you believe that the phone calls were somehow faked?

The way the theory goes is that Osama Bin Laden is a dead former CIA agent playing the role of the head of the CIA created al-queda, and is the boogeyman they used to blame the events of 9/11/01 on. He was seen in a US military hospital on a kidney machine in July 2001 and he may have died there.

As for the CIA agents committing suicide; you seem to easily believe that the hijackers in the official story would die for the benefit of others. I believe the plane was flown by remote control and flown into the towers and then pre-planted explosives demolished the buildings. All conducted from the Building 7 command bunker. If there even were hijackers onboard, they were probably Manchuiran Candidate types whose only purpose was to control the passengers. As you said, MK-ULTRA was back in the 50s and it would be foolish to think they haven’t made any advancement in mind control in the last half century.

But if the government makes a mistake, then that is 'proof' of a cover-up/plot? You have explained that you made a mistake and that is your version of the story. Whether it was a deliberate lie, a simple mistake, or a result of faulty information, I do not know, I can only take your word for it or speculate. Do you want me to be like the conspiracy theorists and speculate?

You don't seem to understand that there must be motive in these things. I don't gain anything by screwing up. The Girl Scouts don't gain anything by killing 3,000 Americans. As I said above, there isn't any motive for Arabs to carry out another attack, and it is questionable that they had motive to carry out 9/11. The specific purpose of terrorism is to gain a political end through the credible threat to commit future acts of violence but since the United States has never negotiated with terrorists, and has always responded with war after being attacked on its home soil, what the hell did they think would come out of 9/11? If the reason was to "kill infidels" they would be blowing up things all over America on a regular basis as in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
 
I don't visit those sites.

I thought abovetopsecret was where you got the 'Sears Tower' thing from. When that event didn't happen, they proclaimed that the arrest of some terrorists in London that day is what prevented the attacks from happening, just like you did, IIRC.

informationclearinghouse is often linked to when others have posted about conspiracy theories, so that is why I lumped it as a 'kook site'. Instead of linking to informationclearinghouse, people should link to the original site, so we can base the material based on the original source. Sometimes when people post news from an original source (like the BBC) to another place (such as informationclearinghouse), they leave out a few very important sentences that change the whole meaning of the original article. (One example is where they ask a guy what he would do in a hypothetical situation. They left out the sentence that explained it was a hypothetical situation, so the reader is left thinking he was explaining a past event). Most people don't bother to go back and read the original source.

Her stance on those issues (which I disagree with) has nothing to do with demanding evidence that Osama was guilty.

But you portrayed it as if asking for proof against Osama was the only reason she got the name 'Jihad Cindy', when it is obvious that she earned that nickname due to many other actions.

someone who made a comment that was not in-line with the majority was attacked and villainized.

Don't downplay his comment. Saying terrorists are braver than firefighters should never be said by anyone, regardless if 9/11 had happened or not.

and a few dozen other people here and there from various corporations who profited for 9/11.

Oh my, if there is a heat wave, we better accuse the bottled water companies of conspiring to make the earth hotter so more people drink water.

There can never be one single military conflict without the businesses who make war materials being accused of conspiring to start the conflict.

If there is another attack, won't that seem a bit suspicious to you?

As for the CIA agents committing suicide; you seem to easily believe that the hijackers in the official story would die for the benefit of others.

No, it would not be suspicious at all. Al-queda wants Americans dead. They view us as the devil. Religion (for hard-core believers/fanatics) is a far more powerful driving force for people than money.

4,000 Afghanis and 9,000 Iraqis are dead and their countries occupied. So al-queda attacks again and watches the cycle repeat? If you were the leader of al-queda, wouldn't that seem a bit stupid?

Al-queda doesn't care if some afghanis and Iraqis died, as long as they get to kill some westerners in the process, to gain them access to their 72 virgins in heaven.

If the reason was to "kill infidels" they would be blowing up things all over America on a regular basis as in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Arab terror groups have a heck of an easier time getting access to Isreal than the U.S.

No, but like with D.B. Cooper it means they don't know ANYTIHNG about them; let alone that they were Muslim extremists working for Osama.

They know D.B. Cooper was white from witnesses, just like they know the hijackers were Arabs from the phone calls (which you suggest were faked :rolleyes: ). They have communications from Al-Queda to some of the hijacker's aliases.

There is no reason to suggest the majority of attendees are different every year.

You include several 'suspects' who only attanded the meeting ONCE!

If there was a mid-east connection it would have to of been teamed with the government otherwise why the cover-up etc.

Perhaps because they didn't have enough evidence to accuse anyone in the mid-east? Clinton's administration probably questioned more information before believing it, unlike Bush's administration and Iraq's WMD.

I believe the plane was flown by remote control and flown into the towers and then pre-planted explosives demolished the buildings.

:rolleyes:
 
This thread is like a sick old relative that is mean and bitter, who you wish would just die, but never seems to finally pass away.
 
I was going to let this thread die, but I recieved an email from Mr. Brent Blanchard of www.implosionworld.com that I think is significant to this discussion.

I sent an email to implosionworld.com asking how long would it take to prepare to implode a building that had forty or more stories, but I did not specifiy WTC7. They sent me a response this morning:

Not knowing the footprint and area of your building, it is hard to give a precise answer. But lets use WTC Bldg. #7 at Ground Zero as an example. No, there is no way a steel building over 40 stories with that large of a footprint could be loaded and prepared in hours (maybe a concrete building, but it probably would not collapse completely). A 40-story steel tower-type structure, however, could be loaded and shot in that timeframe. It's a question of pre-burning and preparation. If you don't prepare the columns properly, the blast will simply shoot backwards (path of least resistance) and put a small black mark, or at best a dent, in the column. I have seen inexperienced blasters prove this hypothesis several times. We'll be touching on this more in our follow-up to 9/11, set to be posted in the next couple of weeks. Check our 9/11 page next month, and you may be able to apply some principles we explain to your specific building.

Mr. Blanchard states that "there is no way a steel building over 40 stories with that large of a footprint could be loaded and prepared in hours" when refering to whether or not the building could have been imploded. A building implosion is when a building is made to collapse down into the total area at the base of the building (i.e. the footprint) to prevent damage to adjacent buildings.

http://www.howstuffworks.com/building-implosion.htm

Here is the pile of ruble that became of building 7:

wtc7_pile.jpg
 
I sent an email to implosionworld.com

I think we can agree that implosionworld.com seems to be unbiased, so would have no motive to lie or stretch the truth to support any theory, whether it is the official story or not. I have a few questions I'd like to ask Mr. Blanchard, but I may just wait and see what will be included in his '9/11 update'.

Therefore, you should toss your theory that there was planted explosives in the WTC towers.

http://www.implosionworld.com/wtc.htm

DID THE WORLD TRADE CENTER TOWERS ACTUALLY “IMPLODE”?
No. They collapsed in an uncontrolled fashion, causing extensive damage to surrounding structures, roadways and utilities. Although when viewed from a distance the towers appeared to have telescoped almost straight down, a closer look at video replays reveal sizeable portions of each building breaking free during the collapse, with the largest sections--some as tall as 30 or 40 stories--actually “laying out” in several directions. The outward failure of these sections is believed to have caused much of the significant damage to adjacent structures, and smaller debris caused structural and cosmetic damage to hundreds of additional buildings around the perimeter of the site.

WHY DID THEY COLLAPSE?
Each 110-story tower contained a central steel core surrounded by open office space, with 18-inch steel tubes running vertically along the outside of the building. These structural elements provided the support for the building, and most experts agree that the planes impacting the buildings alone would not have caused them to collapse. The intense heat from the burning jet fuel, however, gradually softened the steel core and redistributed the weight to the outer tubes, which were slowly deformed by the added weight and the heat of the fire. Eventually, the integrity of these tubes was compromised to the point where they buckled under the weight of the higher floors, causing a gravitational chain reaction that continued until all of the floors were at ground level.

DID THE TERRORISTS PLANT ANY BOMBS IN THE BUILDINGS IN ADVANCE TO GUARANTEE THEIR DEMISE?
To our knowledge there is no evidence whatsoever to support this assertion. Analysis of video and photographs of both towers clearly shows that the initial structural failure occurred at or near the points where the planes impacted the buildings. Furthermore, there is no visible or audible indication that explosives or any other supplemental catalyst was used in the attack.

One thing that always puzzled me about some of these theories is why would the explosives (or missles in the more bizarre theories) even be needed for the towers? You may present a good case for WTC 7 being a controlled demolition, but totally lose it when trying to include the towers into this theory.

I'd like to see what Mr. Blanchard thinks of the pictures you presented for the WTC 7 collapse.
 
I'll send an email to Mr. Blanchard about the WTC7 collapse.

I agree, there isn't much evidence for the towers being controlled demolitions. The only real evidence for that is the firefighters who reported hearing explosives. However I also read that on implosion world and I have been changing my mind on what I think happened. I was having a conversation with someone at another forum who explained that it would not have to be the fire alone that would weaken the steel core, the area would already be extremely hot because of the impact the the planes; so an extremely hot fire would not be nessessary to make them weak enough to cause a collapse. This makes sense. New information new opinions. :)
 
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