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Do you believe there is a U.S. government cover-up surrounding 9/11? (pg. 202)
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| Krypton |
yep yep
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| {b.s.e.} |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
that it reminds me of some conspiracy theories in this thread, which seem to consider the American government some kind of almighty omnipresent entity. |
The States has been involved in 285 wars/conflicts since 1777. They've backed over 30 coups. God knows what those s are capable of.
The following sounds quite familiar.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
Journalist James Bamford summarized Operation Northwoods in his April 24, 2001 book Body of Secrets:
Operation Northwoods, which had the written approval of the Chairman and every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called for innocent people to be shot on American streets; for boats carrying refugees fleeing Cuba to be sunk on the high seas; for a wave of violent terrorism to be launched in Washington, D.C., Miami, and elsewhere. People would be framed for bombings they did not commit; planes would be hijacked. Using phony evidence, all of it would be blamed on Castro, thus giving Lemnitzer and his cabal the excuse, as well as the public and international backing, they needed to launch their war.
Of course.. there's no way they'd ever do something like that.:haha: |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by {b.s.e.}
The States has been involved in 285 wars/conflicts since 1777. They've backed over 30 coups. God knows what those s are capable of. |
Actually, I do live in a country where one of these 30 coups took place. However, we must take care with this slippery slope and understand that there's a big difference between supporting wars or backing up coup d'etats, as they usually do, and orchestrating grandiose conspiracies. |
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| hardcore trancer |
| quote: | Originally posted by Krypton
Wow..this thread turned into religion...Why was Jesus mentioned in a 9/11 thread anyways.?.?.? HARDCORE TRANCER!!! |
LOL Jesus to the rescue!!!!:tongue3 |
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| {b.s.e.} |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Actually, I do live in a country where one of these 30 coups took place. However, we must take care with this slippery slope and understand that there's a big difference between supporting wars or backing up coup d'etats, as they usually do, and orchestrating grandiose conspiracies. |
Agreed. But when oilmen take control of the Whitehouse... I guess everyone considers me a conspiracy nut? I'm saying this because in my opinion, no one in their right mind should look at the WTC tragedy and say, "That was caused by two airliner jets." And that WTC7 was just collateral damage. And that Silverstein didn't stand to gain anything from that Terrorism clause in his newfound lease. It was also coincidence that Marvin Bush was a principal player in Securacom, which provided security for the WTC. The mysterious evacuations days prior to the attacks are merely again, you know. ;) And those eyewitness testimonies from the basement reporting explosions are lying. We also have to accept NORAD's complete failure as coincidence and rarity of such a militarily sound nation, noting that Dick 'ing' Cheney was at the helm, telling them to stand down. Cheney by the way, usurped control of NORAD from the military.
But of course, they were simulating a plane flying into a building elsewhere, no wonder they were sidetracked :wtf:
And of course, we have to accept the worst impersonation of Bin Laden as Bin Laden, you'd be foolish to think otherwise. The tape that Usama released stating, "I was not involved in the September 11 attacks in the United States nor did I have knowledge of the attacks. There exists a government within a government within the United States. The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself; to the people who want to make the present century a century of conflict between Islam and Christianity. That secret government must be asked as to who carried out the attacks. ... The American system is totally in control of the Jews, whose first priority is Israel, not the United States." << That's the forgery :stongue:
And we should forget the Bush family altogether.. they've never been involved with anything shady. Wait, didn't Bush Sr. meet with Bin Laden's brother on9-11? He did. Wasn't Prescott Bush hiding Nazi gold in his banks? George Walker, the now President's great-grandfather set up the takeover of the company that pumped gas into gas chambers. They've sold weapons to Saddam, funded Contras, sold coke to destablise Argentina. That family is corrupt, corrupt, corrupt. The mere idea that they were in power during this catastrophe, with a liar like Rumsfeld as SecDef, and a sociopath like Cheney as Left Hand, how could it not be obvious that they are horrible, murdering, lying s? lol. It blows my mind how obvious it is, and how easily they seem to get away with it.
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by {b.s.e.}
Agreed. But when oilmen take control of the Whitehouse... I guess everyone considers me a conspiracy nut? I'm saying this because in my opinion, no one in their right mind should look at the WTC tragedy and say, "That was caused by two airliner jets." And that WTC7 was just collateral damage. And that Silverstein didn't stand to gain anything from that Terrorism clause in his newfound lease. It was also coincidence that Marvin Bush was a principal player in Securacom, which provided security for the WTC. The mysterious evacuations days prior to the attacks are merely again, you know. ;) And those eyewitness testimonies from the basement reporting explosions are lying. We also have to accept NORAD's complete failure as coincidence and rarity of such a militarily sound nation, noting that Dick 'ing' Cheney was at the helm, telling them to stand down. Cheney by the way, usurped control of NORAD from the military.
But of course, they were simulating a plane flying into a building elsewhere, no wonder they were sidetracked :wtf:
And of course, we have to accept the worst impersonation of Bin Laden as Bin Laden, you'd be foolish to think otherwise. The tape that Usama released stating, "I was not involved in the September 11 attacks in the United States nor did I have knowledge of the attacks. There exists a government within a government within the United States. The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself; to the people who want to make the present century a century of conflict between Islam and Christianity. That secret government must be asked as to who carried out the attacks. ... The American system is totally in control of the Jews, whose first priority is Israel, not the United States." << That's the forgery :stongue:
And we should forget the Bush family altogether.. they've never been involved with anything shady. Wait, didn't Bush Sr. meet with Bin Laden's brother on9-11? He did. Wasn't Prescott Bush hiding Nazi gold in his banks? George Walker, the now President's great-grandfather set up the takeover of the company that pumped gas into gas chambers. They've sold weapons to Saddam, funded Contras, sold coke to destablise Argentina. That family is corrupt, corrupt, corrupt. The mere idea that they were in power during this catastrophe, with a liar like Rumsfeld as SecDef, and a sociopath like Cheney as Left Hand, how could it not be obvious that they are horrible, murdering, lying s? lol. It blows my mind how obvious it is, and how easily they seem to get away with it.
:thepirate |
, youre nothing but a known fallacy parrot. indeed, its your complete and utter inability to adequately assess the evidence re 9/11 that stopped me bothering with your other stupid conspiracy theories. If youre that inept with an event that occurred only a few years ago, why would we listen to you about the era of jesus?
10 characteristics of conspiracy theorists
A useful guide by Donna Ferentes
5. Inability to employ or understand Occam's Razor. Aided by the principle in 4. above, conspiracy theorists never notice that the small inconsistencies in the accounts which they reject are dwarfed by the enormous, gaping holes in logic, likelihood and evidence in any alternative account.
6. Inability to tell good evidence from bad. Conspiracy theorists have no place for peer-review, for scientific knowledge, for the respectability of sources. The fact that a claim has been made by anybody, anywhere, is enough for them to reproduce it and demand that the questions it raises be answered, as if intellectual enquiry were a matter of responding to every rumour. While they do this, of course, they will claim to have "open minds" and abuse the sceptics for apparently lacking same.
8. Leaping to conclusions. Conspiracy theorists are very keen indeed to declare the "official" account totally discredited without having remotely enough cause so to do. Of course this enables them to wheel on the Conan Doyle quote as in 4. above. Small inconsistencies in the account of an event, small unanswered questions, small problems in timing of differences in procedure from previous events of the same kind are all more than adequate to declare the "official" account clearly and definitively discredited. It goes without saying that it is not necessary to prove that these inconsistencies are either relevant, or that they even definitely exist. |
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| XaNaX |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
10 characteristics of conspiracy theorists
A useful guide by Donna Ferentes
6. Inability to tell good evidence from bad. Conspiracy theorists have no place for peer-review, for scientific knowledge, for the respectability of sources. The fact that a claim has been made by anybody, anywhere, is enough for them to reproduce it and demand that the questions it raises be answered, as if intellectual enquiry were a matter of responding to every rumour. While they do this, of course, they will claim to have "open minds" and abuse the sceptics for apparently lacking same.
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You can see this one in damn near every pro conspiracy theory post in this thread. A janitor said that bombs exploded in the WTC basement to bring down the buildings? That must be a fact then right? Wait, it contradicts all other eye witness testemony plus video evidence that we all saw live on TV showing two planes hitting the WTC and the building clearly collapsing from the top down? Never mind that, if a janitor saw explosions in the basement that must have been what happened, right? |
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| {b.s.e.} |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
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You really like that list, don't you? If you'd like to argue the basmement eyewitness, fine. You don't give me a clear reason why Cheney usurped power from the military and controlled NORAD on 9-11? And of course, the Bush/Saudi/Bin Laden ties are all fallacies as well.
You do a great job of being cynical, let me say, but copying and pasting from that stupid list is pretty redundant and means nothing to me. Explain to me why all those 'little' coincidences are overlooked by you in your reply.
Let's stick to the facts, I'll leave eyewitness testimony to the birds. Truly, he might be lying, and there's no sense in muddling fact with stories.
-Cheney, without reason, usurped NORAD from the military months prior to 9-11 and had them stand down from intercepting the planes.
-Marvin Bush, head of Securacom, contracted to WTC
-Nearly all the concrete in the Towers was pulverized to dust the consistency of talcum powder in the air. That required far more energy than floors falling a few feet or even a thousand feet.
-The mushrooming of the Towers into dust clouds three to five times the diameter of each Tower before the destruction reached the ground cannot be explained by the falling of floors and damage to the core foundations.
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On the Jesus tip, get over yourself. Go do some research yourself, join the ranks, make a decision, don't look to me to 'trust'. Like I give a what some Aussie douchebag thinks about Jesus. |
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| SiLveR_NrGy_985 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Krypton
God ain't gonna be blessin America for much longer if it continues to go on the current path... |
i've always found this statement rather selfish.... what about "blessing" the rest of the world ? lol |
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| LazFX |
| quote: | Originally posted by SiLveR_NrGy_985
i've always found this statement rather selfish.... what about "blessing" the rest of the world ? lol |
this is true.... and the same got me slapped many a times when I was a child... :( |
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| colonelcrisp |
| quote: | Originally posted by {b.s.e.}
-Nearly all the concrete in the Towers was pulverized to dust the consistency of talcum powder in the air. That required far more energy than floors falling a few feet or even a thousand feet.
-The mushrooming of the Towers into dust clouds three to five times the diameter of each Tower before the destruction reached the ground cannot be explained by the falling of floors and damage to the core foundations.
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care to show some evidence of these statements?
How much energy does it take to pulverize concrete to the consistency of talcum powder?
How did you benchmark this calculation? which ASTM / CSA standard did you use to carry out this test?
What, if any, knowledge do you posess with respect to behavioural characteristics of portland cement based concrete?
as for your mushroom argument. here is a simple experiment you can do in your own back yard to illustrate why these "mushroom clouds are perfectly logical.
Take a bag of portland cement or fly ash or talcum powder. spread it over the ground in an area of lets say 4' x 4' now take a 4' by 4' piece of 1/2" plywood and drop it straight down over the fine powder and observe the radial cloud of powder that is ejected by the air being squeezed out between the plywood and the ground as it falls. |
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| XaNaX |
| quote: | Originally posted by {b.s.e.}
Let's stick to the facts, I'll leave eyewitness testimony to the birds. Truly, he might be lying, and there's no sense in muddling fact with stories.
-Cheney, without reason, usurped NORAD from the military months prior to 9-11 and had them stand down from intercepting the planes.
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Since you want to talk about facts, can you please post links to evidence that proves that Cheney took over control of NORAD prior to 9/11 that are not from tinfoil hat wearing truther conspiracy theory websites? I'm talking legitimate news sources here, because I sure as hell can't find any.
Also, who was in control of NORAD on 9/11/01 makes absolutely no difference. At that time NORAD did not monitor flights that start and end in the USA, only those coming to the US from outside of the country. All hijacked flights originated within the continental US. Because NORAD did not monitor those flights they could only do what air traffic controllers could tell them to do. In the early hours of the 9/11 hijackings there was much confusion with conflicting reports coming in and don't forget that the hijackers had turned off the planes transponders so the air traffic controllers had no idea where the planes were to even ask NORAD to vector in fighters. When the controllers finally picked up the jet heading to D.C. they asked NORAD to intercept and fighters were launched with shoot down orders however they arrived too late.
So maybe you should check again what the definition of a "fact" is. |
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