Scientists! What do they know? I have my faith to rely on. Next thing they'll be trying to tell us that the earth revolves around the sun and that bad sanitation spreads germs.

Go ask copernicus and galileo what having a theory that flies in the face of religion and cultural emotion will do for you.

Look, if I even begin to entertain the idea that 9/11 was an inside job, I'd have to re-evaluate every notion I have about the world we live in. I'd have to stop watching football in the winter, baseball in the summer... I'd have to get angry and be a debbie downer at parties. who wants to do that? I want to believe that my bread and circus is real, and not merely feces and farce.

You can believe what you want to believe. I could forget all that I have learned in the last five years and live in ignorant bliss. It would be so sweet to go about life and not worry about the future. There is none.

So sorry but it is a shit sandwich that they have been feeding us.

I want to believe that my bread and circus is real, and not merely feces and farce.

#2 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine

Wheeew weeee, boy, that's some fancy talking ya doin' there.

Are you actually saying that we should ignore the truth in favor of party jokes?

Forget that question, I've got a better one. (thinking in terms of 'laws of fives') How many people do you think would have to know all the details of a conspiracy this vast, assuming there was one?

three? five? everybody else is just doing what they are told to do.

but yet, you tie your whole spiritual fortune into believing something so strong, that to find out, convincingly that it was not true, would damage your whole overall faith, forever? This is the same mindset lot's of americans find themselves. They'd rather just forget the whole mess, despite the fact that it was part of our current problems.

but that path leads not to enlightenment.

but that path leads not to enlightenment.

#4 | POSTED BY LIPZOIDIAL

Sadly Lipzoidial, enlightenment isn't something the majority of the US populace desires. Why become enlightened when there's so many options on the TV?

we need a new 9/11 commission, Barrack

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If there isn't one, doesn't that mean Obama was part of the conspiracy?

Bush's fault. That's all you morons need to know.

Lipz,

I was being sarcastic! I sadly feel much the same way as you do. I find no joy in it (feeling that way, not sharing an opinion... nothing personal).

I guess in terms of keeping it look very much not like a conspiracy, 5, of course. Unless you found one incredibly secretive, driven individual.

"but that path leads not to enlightenment."

We appreciate your enlightening us on 9/11, really, Lipz. But now...on to the smokestacks on the moon!

But now...on to the smokestacks on the moon!

#9 | Posted by jestgettinalong

Sorry, I usually limit my conspiratorial paranoia to things that have a basis in reality.

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Why become enlightened when there's so many options on the TV?

#5 | Posted by Sluggo

How about if we make a reality TV show called 'Enlightnement TV' and we could have contestants. You ask them a question, such as 'Who Am I'? and if they can't answer it, you make them sit and watch 8 hours straight of Lifetime TV.

If they still have a thought in their heads, You make them read 'Common Sense by Thomas Paine'.

Then if they still don't get it, just prop 'em up in a store window to serve as a mannequin.

US Military Command Structures and the 9/11 Attack

Although the September 11th attack was designed to appear and was marketed as the work of sleeper cells of Islamic terrorists, it bears numerous signs of a sophisticated military operation executed by elements within the US military.

* The jetliners attacked their targets with great precision, arguably achievable only through computerized flight control.
o The Twin Towers were struck at high speeds and with great precision. Flight 11 hit the northeast wall of the North Tower nearly dead center and banked so as to spill fuel into over five floors. Flight 175 hit the corner of the South Tower so that most of its fuel exploded into the atmosphere, producing a spectacular fireball for the cameras trained on the towers.
o The Pentagon attack plane executed an extreme aerobatic maneuver on its approach, losing 7000 feet in about two minutes in a 270-degree spiral dive, and then crashed into the ground floor of the facade after a dive so shallow that it clipped lamp-posts on the nearby highway.
* The jetliners and their targets in New York City were destroyed with a thoroughness that helped to erase details of the attack's execution.
o Building 7 collapsed in a manner identical to an expertly engineered controlled demolition, plunging into its footprint at nearly free-fall speed.
o The Twin Towers were shredded and pulverized so thoroughly that virtually the only identifiable remains were fragments of their steel skeletons.
* The attack unfolded like clockwork, with no interference from the defensive systems that would have stopped a surprise attack.
o The four jetliners were taken over in nearly identical fashions, with the transponders shut off, and no distress calls from the pilots.

o None of the four jetliners were intercepted or shot down, with the exception of Flight 93, which was apparently shot down in spite of indications that passengers had regained control. Commentators speculated that the plotters intended for Flight 93 to crash into the Capitol building or the White House, but its downing in Pennsylvania was likely planned to provide heroic drama.

The apparently flawless execution of the attack is consistent with a sophisticated military operation and not with a kamakazi attack by ragtag bands of Islamic terrorists. Contrary to common assumptions, such a military operation did not require a wide-ranging conspiracy within the US military, but only of a small number of top-level officials. This is the case because of the nature of military command structures and extent of computer automation in US military systems.

First consider the structure of the military. Of all human institutions, military organizations are some of the most hierarchical and opaque ever devised. Military personnel are trained to follow orders without question, and to maintain strict secrecy about operations. Violations of codes of secrecy are strictly punished. More important, military personnel are typically directed on a need-to-know basis. Operatives are briefed only on facts necessary to the execution of their task. By dividing up a mission into sufficiently small tasks and delegating the tasks to different operatives, it is possible to execute the mission while preventing any individual operatives from seeing much of the larger picture. Such compartmentalization is an essential feature of the US military and intelligence agencies. In the execution of the 9/11/01 attack, even stricter compartmentalization and secrecy could have been practiced without that being apparent to operatives following orders.

Then consider how automation could have reduced the manpower requirements of the attack. Each of the principal tasks required to execute the attack were likely facilitated through computer automation.

who has access to nano thermite? or is it just a naturally occurring substance in Afghanistan caves?

They are alien thermites from the moon.

Sorry about posting the other headline of the same. I looked at the back page twice trying to find this headline, and I thought they had memory holed it.
I admit, I need glasses. I just don't want to wear them.