The incredible meaningless- building-demolition conspiracy
We have decided, as a people, to not believe this, some for political reasons, some for reasons of denial, some because the media is ignoring it, some out of ignorance of the facts of the case, but the evidence is clear: WTC7 was demolished using high explosive charges deliberately placed and detonated to cause its collapse—a so-called "controlled demolition"—and those charges were almost certainly placed in that building prior to the crash of the planes into the towers that morning. How this was so, and why this was so, I have no idea. Who is responsible, I of course have no idea. What it implies within the broader context of the fall of the towers, I can't say. But the fate of WTC7, to me, is the nub of the current, ongoing tragedy of this day: we Americans don't know all of what happened on 9/11, and thus we as a society continue to be blinded to the implications of the truth.I love stuff like this. Why, as a conspiracy mastermind, would you go to such pains to fly planes into the only two buildings in the area that anyone is going to care about (whether or not those buildings were rigged with demolition charges or not) and then also blow up a nearby building that no one cares about? Of course the writer offers no explanation for this odd behavior, and even punts on any obligation to propose a logical motivation. Yet what he suggests is as implausible as someone pulling off the perfect double murder, elegantly disguised as a murder-suicide, then waiting around for the police to arrive and shooting one of the officers. Keyser Soze would never do such a thing.
Another cornerstone of the conspiracy theories is that the claim that the hole in the Pentagon was too small to have been caused by a jetliner and must have been caused by a missile. Overlooking the fact that people witnessed a plane hitting the Pentagon, you have to really ask yourself what kind of conspiracy paradigm would have required an attack on the Pentagon in the first place. I have a hard time picturing an X-Files-like group of conspirators, planning the thing in their elegant brownstone sanctum, and deciding that blowing up two giant buildings wouldn't be enough to provide whatever pretext they needed to accomplish their nefarious ends. Can you imagine someone raising his hand and saying "the American people won't buy it unless we also shoot a missile at the Pentagon"? Right. What possible basis would conspirators have for thinking the WTC attack—by itself the worst terror attack on U.S. soil by about an order of magnitude—would not be enough to galvanize the public response they needed? Oh, I suppose you could say they wanted to send a message to the military that "we can get to you" . . . hmm . . . yep, that must be it.
It's striking how passive all these conspiracy theorists are. They never seem to want to do anything more than write blogs and and create websites. With all this dreadful stuff going on, shouldn't they be arming themselves or something?
Come to think of it, wasn't there supposed to be a Yakuza scalar-weapon weather attack on the West Coast around the end of last year? I guess it did rain a lot in California. Maybe that was it.
posted at 12:35 AM
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