Ed, I strongly disagree with that logic, whether or not I believe it was a conspiracy matters not.
To say that our government had no involvement, and to use the reasoning that if we believe they did then the terrorists have won, is nothing but an emotional appeal.
A very strong one, certainly, but it does nothing except make people stop trying to make sense of the facts they are struggling to understand.
It bothers me because I've had people use the same logic about me in other issues. I've been told that I'm not a patriot and that I do not love our country, because I believe our government has too much power and is abusing it. It's happened with other stuff. It's not nice, it's not fair, and I'm sure people hurt when they are called names that do not apply to them, especially names that are associated with crimes that can earn the death penalty, and crimes that cause the deaths of many innocent.
Please don't insinuate that those who question the given information on 9/11 are hard to distinguish from terrorists. That's a pretty nasty accusation against Christian Americans.
Gina L.: //To say that our government had no involvement, and to use the reasoning that if we believe they did then the terrorists have won, is nothing but an emotional appeal. //
Sorry, but i'm a survivor of the OKC Terroist attack.
The same illogical claims against the USgovernment are
being made there as made in OKC.
Being a survivor is
an emotional experience.
It is very hurtful to survivors
to have our very own government accused of the hurt the
TERRORISTS did.
Sorry, but coddling terrorists is
giving aid and comfort to the enemy - AKA (also known as)
TREASON
:(
Gina L relating what some say about her:
//I'm not a patriot and that I do not love our country, because I believe our government has too much power and is abusing it.//
I belive that also.
But I don't go around
hurting survivors and coddling terrorists.
Gina L: //
Please don't insinuate that those who question the given information on 9/11 are hard to distinguish from terrorists. That's a pretty nasty accusation against Christian Americans. //
Sorry.
I describe shoes.
If the shoe fits wear it.
See also my posts at:
Yes words mean stuff. There are dozens, maybe hundreds of websites out there repeating the conspiricy theories over and over. They are generally based on emotionalism, and their starting point is that our government is somehow behind 911. When there are those who continually try to tear down our confidence in our government and our country, then it's bound to provoke emotional response at times. There has been alot less meanness here, it seems to me.
This link answers most of the conspiricy questions.
Brother Ed, were you or a relative in the WTC?
Or are you speaking in a general sense?
If speaking in a general sense, we are all survivors and we do have a right to question what we have been told by our government.
There are many conspiracy theories about 09/11.
The truth probably lies somewhere in between all of them.
People should not be made to feel guilty about questioning whether we have been told the truth by the people we vote into power.
Then again, if it ever is proven that elements of this government were comlpicit or were behind the OKC and WTC attacks then you may find that you have been the one coddling terrorists all along.
This is a government of by and for the multinational corporations not the people, as long as we keep deluding ourselves that it is anything but that and refuse to look at any of the abundant evidence that proves it, then we are all complicit in treason against our own country and it's constitution.
I didn't see him mention that Michael Chertoff's 25 year old cousin was the senior reseacher in the Popular Mechanics article.
Did the article debunk the whole conspriacy theory by answering all the questions, or did it only debunk a few of it's own strawmen? Did it supply references and footnotes from the experts whose information and analysis it relies on?
Thermate(link)
is something Phillip hasn't touched on, he's doing a good job of explaining things don't get me wrong, but I'd like to see him explain how the top 30 floors of the south tower, well let me just quote Steven Jones who has already been dismissed as a fruitloop because he isn't asked to make regular appearances on network tv... like other "experts" have.
Photos are provided in the link. </font>[/QUOTE]Thermite has been discussed exhaustively.
Also discussed has been the temperature generated by massive amounts of burning kerosene, along with the tendency of liquid to spill in the direcion of the pull of gravity.
This site brings up dozens of things we've discussed.
The buildings collapsed because the method of construction, while a blessing for those who like to build very tall buildings, doesn't lend itself to being hit by very large planes. The examples of collapse the web page offers are insisting that apples look like oranges -- horizontal stresses placed on buildings in earthquakes produce results far different from those hit by large, fully-fueled jetliners.
The idea that the core collapsed before the outer walls is consistent with the construction of the building and its structural failure due to flames and impact. The floors were "hung" against the outer steel "skin," thus when the hangars gave way, the center mass would have shifted a few milliseconds before the outer shell buckled. The apparent "disappearance" of the top thirty floors can be explained by the phenomenon of impact. The "smoke" on the columns in the photo could be from debris (after all, concrete makes a LOT of dust) or from kerosene fire, or (most likely) from both.
The oint, Poncho, is that nothing that has been raised on any of these tinfoil-hat sites you keep posting has legs.
NiteShift: // There are dozens, maybe hundreds of websites
out there repeating the conspiricy theories over and over.
They are generally based on emotionalism, and their
starting point is that our government is somehow behind 911.
When there are those who continually try to tear down
our confidence in our government and our country,
then it's bound to provoke emotional response at times.//
Amen, Brother NiteShift - preach it!
I still have a hard time telling those who make conspiracy
theory web sites from the terrorists.
IMHO the
conspiracy theory people assault the integrity
of tens of thousands, maybe millions
- the terrorists
just kill a few thousand - the conspiracy theory folk
are the worse
:(
Please note i'm dissing
web site hosts for conspiracy theories NOT those who read
the sites and get fooled by them.
Why otherwise kindly
people stay confused by these terrorist-fellow-travellers
when there are knowledgable folk who skillfully debunk the
myths INVENTED to SPREAD THE TERROR of the bombing.
LadyEagle: //Brother Ed, were you or a relative in the WTC?//
The answer is not important.
THe answer is 'no'.
LadyEagle:
//People should not be made to feel guilty
about questioning whether we have been told the truth
by the people we vote into power.//
I can't make anybody feel guilty, 'guilty' comes from
within a person.
Nor do I judge anybody who posts here
in regards to if they should feel guilty or not.
I do however feel guilty about one thing.
In 1995 when
OKC was bombed killing 168 people (171 if you count the
unborn as 'people') and in following times, I could have
listed almost a month-by-month growth of the anti-intellectual
growth of TERROR.
I'd even have probably predicted for 5-½-years
after 2001sept7 the same thing that happened to me
5½-years after OKC (that would have been in Sept 2000).
And that prediction is inane discussions among nice people
on otherwise reasonable religious boards about the USgovernment
committing treason against itself.
Only in the USofA can it happen.
(as one Red Chinaman said:
I don't see what you USers have
that is so great.
YOu think it is great to dis your governemnt;
why anybody in China can dis your government????)
Nobody ever blamed the emperor of Japan for ordering the
destruciton of Hiroshima???
Look how good it makes the
emperor look in 2000
;)
Rbell: //It's time to abandon this fruitless discussion.
Let's leave this thread to the conspiracy theorists.//
Sorry, I like the Baptist Board (BB) and don't want to see it
become a conspiracy theory hotbed and get the BB destroyed.
Another nearby bulletin board (bb)* doesn't allow conspiracy
theory conversations.
Such conversations are not only counter
to public responsibility, they can cause the owners of the bb
(including BB) to be liable for more than the board is worth.
If what the conspiracy nuts says is true,
that the USGovernment is 'out to get us'
then the USGovernment would be rounding up
those who post it on the internet.
The fact that such junk is still posted
proves the untruth of such conspiracy
idioticy.
September 11, 2001
Explosives Planted In Towers, N.M. Tech Expert Says
By Olivier Uyttebrouck
Journal Staff Writer
Televised images of the attacks on the World Trade Center suggest that explosives devices caused the collapse of both towers, a New Mexico Tech explosion expert said Tuesday.
The collapse of the buildings appears "too methodical" to be a chance result of airplanes colliding with the structures, said Van Romero, vice president for research at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
"My opinion is, based on the videotapes, that after the airplanes hit the World Trade Center there were some explosive devices inside the buildings that caused the towers to collapse," Romero said.
Romero is a former director of the Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center at Tech, which studies explosive materials and the effects of explosions on buildings, aircraft and other structures.
Romero said he based his opinion on video aired on national television broadcasts.
Romero said the collapse of the structures resembled those of controlled implosions used to demolish old structures.
"It would be difficult for something from the plane to trigger an event like that," Romero said in a phone interview from Washington, D.C.
Romero said he and another Tech administrator were on a Washington-area subway when an airplane struck the Pentagon.
He said he and Denny Peterson, vice president for administration and finance, were en route to an office building near the Pentagon to discuss defense-funded research programs at Tech.
If explosions did cause the towers to collapse, the detonations could have been caused by a small amount of explosive, he said.
"It could have been a relatively small amount of explosives placed in strategic points," Romero said. The explosives likely would have been put in more than two points in each of the towers, he said.
The detonation of bombs within the towers is consistent with a common terrorist strategy, Romero said.
"One of the things terrorist events are noted for is a diversionary attack and secondary device," Romero said.
Attackers detonate an initial, diversionary explosion that attracts emergency personnel to the scene, then detonate a second explosion, he said.
Romero said that if his scenario is correct, the diversionary attack would have been the collision of the planes into the towers.
Tech President Dan Lopez said Tuesday that Tech had not been asked to take part in the investigation into the attacks. Tech often assists in forensic investigations into terrorist attacks, often by setting off similar explosions and studying the effects.