Tin Foil Hats on 9/11? (x-posted at Boo) | 43 comments (43 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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The title is escaping me right now, but a friend loaned me a book a couple of years back, in which this very topic was given as a hypothesis...

And someone recently sent me an article about how this is fairly commonly believed in New York City.

I think one should at least be objective and wait for compelling evidence that refutes this hypothesis. I have often wondered why the debris after 9/11 was gotten rid of so quickly, as any true crime scene investigation would request it to be left and sifted through carefully...

Too many un-answered questions. But to contemplate what it might mean IF this hypothesis were to be true. It is a very scary thought...an inside job...who was on the inside?

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia

by whataboutbob on Sat Nov 12th, 2005 at 04:32:21 PM EST

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Again Bob, my instincts are always sceptical. As I said, this type of operation would have so many people involved that I can't believe that it could possibly occur. Yet... the prof makes a good argument on the law of physics. I'm not saying one way or the other, but perhaps it should be given some credibility since the article is accepted by a peer-reviewed academic journal next year. I just don't know.

"Schiller sprach zu Goethe, Steck in dem Arsch die Flöte! Goethe sagte zu Schiller, Mein Arsch ist kein Triller!"

by Jeffersonian Democrat (rzg6f@virginia.edu) on Sat Nov 12th, 2005 at 04:59:17 PM EST
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If this was an insider job, why did they bother to get the highjackers and the planes involved in it? Why target the Pentagon too? What about the plane, which was brought down by the passengers? Why would the 'insiders' have opted for such a complicated plan?

"The USA appears destined by fate to plague America with misery in the name of liberty." Simon Bolivar, Caracas, 1819

by Ritter on Sat Nov 12th, 2005 at 05:30:13 PM EST
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No idea, I was throwing this out there for smarter people than I to comment on.

"Schiller sprach zu Goethe, Steck in dem Arsch die Flöte! Goethe sagte zu Schiller, Mein Arsch ist kein Triller!"

by Jeffersonian Democrat (rzg6f@virginia.edu) on Sat Nov 12th, 2005 at 05:37:31 PM EST
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What do we know about the hijackers? The flight manifests were never made public by the airlines or the FBI, the versions given by the media are inconsistent, and in any case don't list the hijackers, and the FBI named about half a dozen hijackers who turned up alive and well.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Nov 12th, 2005 at 09:41:06 PM EST
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"Peer-reviewed journal" (none / 0)

Here's the citation on the website:
Steven E. Jones, (2006). "Why Indeed did the WTC Buildings Collapse?," The Hidden History of 9-11-2001, Research in Political Economy, Volume 23, P. Zarembka, editor, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2006.

Perhaps someone can enlighten me about whether political economists are the best people to review a document that would require knowledge of the effects of explosives, reaction of materials to intense and prolonged fire in an enclosed space, etc. In fairness, I should add that perhaps the editor of The Hidden History of 9-11 has assigned scientific peers to review the paper.

I have a very good dentist but would not go to him for brain surgery or for a software problem.

by Plan9 on Mon Nov 14th, 2005 at 12:38:55 PM EST
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Very good question.

"Schiller sprach zu Goethe, Steck in dem Arsch die Flöte! Goethe sagte zu Schiller, Mein Arsch ist kein Triller!"

by Jeffersonian Democrat (rzg6f@virginia.edu) on Tue Nov 15th, 2005 at 05:35:37 PM EST
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Look at the videos yourself (none / 0)

One can look at a range of videos at:

http://www.plaguepuppy.net/public_html/collapse%20update/

I must admit, the collapse of WTC 7, in particular, appears to show squibs running up the side of the building before the collapse...

by Minerva on Sat Nov 12th, 2005 at 08:37:48 PM EST
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