All in all, I think something pretty fishy went down that day. I\'ve spent time probably stressing about it and thinking about it too much. Maybe we are being duped and fucked over in all kinds of unimaginable ways. Maybe the American Dream is being chipped away for the benefit of the greedy few.
I have a legit question (quoting Tuna but for anyone who wants to answer it): who other than foreign terrorists would be behind the carnage in NYC? The government? Why would the government want to create a false scenario to create two wars that took trillions away from GDP and gave nothing back?
Al raises a completely legitimate question. In fact, this question should always be the first response given to anyone who says that they don\'t completely buy in to every detail of the media/government story.
I have a very hard time coming up with a good answer. This question is what keeps me as high as 90-99% confident that what I\'ve been told is true. Especially when it comes to controlled demolition. Based on physical evidence alone I\'m only 50% confident as to whether the planes could possibly be the sole catalyst to make a building collapse in the manner that they did...but when I factor in Al\'s question (i.e. motive and plausibility) for any alternatives, it makes the media/government story seem more like the best option.
It\'s certainly hard to believe that the government played an active role in 9/11, but it\'s equally hard to believe that everything was really a total shock as they say it was. It warrants mention that many, many governments have done far, far worse things to their own people. I don\'t think that the government had any active role in planning the events of 9/11 but I do think that the following conversation between heavies could very well have happened:
CIA heavy: We have credible evidence that terrorists are planning to hijack planes and fly them into buildings in the next couple of days or weeks.
Military heavy: We can stop them. We may have to take some measures that will be visible and possibly scary to the public, but we can certainly stop them.
Political heavy 1: Now hold on a minute. Let\'s think this through. What are the pros and cons of stopping this versus letting it happen?
Political heavy 2: Well, if we let it happen...
The political heavies in the room then go on to rationalize both sides and eventually determine that there is sufficient political benefit for them to let it happen.Again, I don\'t actually think that this happened. I think that the story we\'ve been given is the most plausible story. I\'m just saying that it\'s plausible that we haven\'t been given the entire story. It\'s hard to believe that everything was a total surprise. I know it sucks to think about. Al\'s question of "what was there to gain?" is totally legit. I have no idea what anyone thought they would gain. Then again, a lot of governments have done far, far worse to their people for what turned out to be no gain.
