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Title: The 9/11 conspiracy plots thicken
Source: Seattle Times
URL Source: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ht ... /2003250424_911conspire09.html
Published: Sep 09, 2006
Author: Michael Powell, wapo
Post Date: 2010-07-19 22:23:35 by Dakmar
Keywords: None
Views: 21678
Comments: 989

They are politically diverse and include academics, ex-officials and Web surfers. All share a belief that the Bush administration played a role in the 9/11 attacks. Their numbers seem to speak to Americans' innate distrust of their government.

By Michael Powell

The Washington Post

NEW YORK — He felt no shiver of doubt in those first terrible hours.

He watched the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and assumed al-Qaida had wreaked terrible vengeance. He listened to anchors and military experts and assumed the facts of Sept. 11, 2001, were as stated on the screen.

It was a year before David Ray Griffin, an eminent liberal theologian and philosopher, began his stroll down the path of disbelief. He wondered why Bush listened to a child's story while the nation was attacked and how Osama bin Laden, America's Public Enemy No. 1, escaped in the mountains of Tora Bora.

He wondered why 110-story towers crashed and military jets failed to intercept even one airliner. He read the 9/11 Commission report with a swell of anger. Contradictions were ignored and no military or civilian official was reprimanded, much less cashiered.

"To me, the report read as a cartoon," Griffin said. "It's a much greater stretch to accept the official conspiracy story than to consider the alternatives."

Such as?

"There was massive complicity in this attack by U.S. government operatives."

If that feels like a skip off the cliff of established reality, more Americans are in free fall than you might guess. There are few more startling measures of American distrust of leaders than the extent of belief that the Bush administration had a hand in the attacks of Sept. 11 to spark an invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq.

36 percent suspicious

A recent Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll of 1,010 Americans found that 36 percent suspect the U.S. government promoted the attacks or intentionally sat on its hands. Sixteen percent believe explosives brought down the towers. Twelve percent believe a cruise missile hit the Pentagon.

Distrust percolates more strongly near Ground Zero. A Zogby International poll of New York City residents two years ago found 49.3 percent believed the government "consciously failed to act."

Establishment assessments of the believers tend toward the psychotherapeutic. Many academics, politicians and thinkers left, right and center say the conspiracy theories are a case of one plus one equals five. It's a piling up of improbabilities.

Thomas Eager, a professor of materials science at MIT, has studied the collapse of the twin towers. "At first, I thought it was amazing that the buildings would come down in their own footprints," Eager says. "Then I realized that it wasn't that amazing — it's the only way a building that weighs a million tons and is 95 percent air can come down."

But the chatter out there is loud enough for the National Institute of Standards and Technology to post a Web "fact sheet" poking holes in the conspiracy theories and defending its report on the towers.

Motley crew

The loose agglomeration known as the "9/11 Truth Movement" has stopped looking for truth from the government. A cacophonous and free-range a bunch of conspiracists, they produce hip-hop inflected documentaries and scholarly conferences. The Web is their mother lode. Every citizen is a researcher.

Did you see that the CIA met with bin Laden in a hospital room in Dubai? Check out this Pakistani site; there are really weird doings in Baluchistan ...

Peter Knight, senior lecturer in American studies at the University of Manchester and editor of the 2002 book "Conspiracy Nation: The Politics of Paranoia in Postwar America," called the movement "a strange beast, an amalgam of elements. You've got the anti-Bush, anti-Iraq war crowd — you know, if they lied about the war, maybe they lied about 9/11. Another part is people merely interested in the anomalies, with no preconceived political agenda.

"Then you have the more traditional right-wing conspiracy part of the continuum that believes a vast cabal has taken over the United States, the mega-conspiracy of the right's new world order. To them, all of these things are connected. Each group inserts 9/11 into its pre-existing conspiracy model."

The academic wing is led by Griffin, who founded the Center for a Postmodern World at Claremont University; James Fetzer, a tenured philosopher at the University of Minnesota; and Daniel Orr, retired chairman of the economics department at the University of Illinois.

Professor suspended

The movement's de facto minister of engineering is Steven Jones, a tenured physics professor at Brigham Young University who has studied vectors and velocities and tested explosives and concluded that the collapse of the twin towers is best explained as controlled demolition, sped by a thousand pounds of high-grade thermite.

Jones has been placed on paid leave while the Mormon-church-owned school investigates his claims, it was announced Friday.

The physicist published his views two weeks ago in the book "9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out."

Former Reagan aide Barbara Honegger is a senior military-affairs journalist at the Naval Postgraduate School in California. She's convinced, based on her freelance research, that a bomb went off about six minutes before an airplane hit the Pentagon — or didn't hit it, as some believe the case may be.

Then there's Morgan O. Reynolds, appointed by George W. Bush as chief economist at the Labor Department. He left in 2002 and doesn't think much of his former boss.

"Who did it? Elements of our government and M-16 and the Mossad. The government's case is a laugh-out-loud proposition. They used patsies and lies and subterfuge and there's no way that Bush and Cheney could have invaded Iraq without the help of 9/11," Reynolds asserts.

They are cantankerous and sometimes distrust each other — who knows where the double agents lurk? But unreasonable questions resonate with the reasonable. Colleen Kelly's brother, a salesman, had breakfast at the Windows on the World restaurant on Sept. 11. After he died she founded September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows to oppose the Iraq war. She lives in the Bronx and gives a gingerly embrace to the conspiracy crowd.

"Sometimes I listen to them and I think that's sooooo outlandish and bizarre," she says. "But that day had such disastrous geopolitical consequences. If David Ray Griffin asks uncomfortable questions and points out painful discrepancies, good for him."

Griffin's book, "The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11," sold more than 100,000 copies and became a movement founding stone. Last year he traveled through New England, giving speeches. One evening in West Hartford, Conn., 400 mostly middle-aged and upper-middle-class doctors and lawyers, teachers and social workers sat waiting.

Griffin took the podium and laid down his ideas with calm and cool. He concluded:

"It is already possible to know beyond a reasonable doubt one very important thing: The destruction of the World Trade Center was an inside job, orchestrated by domestic terrorists. The welfare of our republic and perhaps even the survival of our civilization depend on getting the truth about 9/11 exposed."

The audience rose and applauded for more than a minute.

No patience

Chip Berlet, senior analyst at Political Research Associates, a Boston-based left-leaning think tank, is no fan of the 9/11 Commission. He believes a serious investigation should have led to indictments and the firing of incompetent generals and civilian officials.

But he has no patience with the conspiracy theorists.

"They don't do their homework; it's a kind of charlatanism," says Berlet. "They say there's no debris on the lawn in front of the Pentagon, but they base their analysis on a photo on the Internet. That's like analyzing an impressionist painting by looking at a postcard.

"I love 'The X-Files' but I don't base my research on it. My vision of hell is having to review these [conspiracy] books over and over again."

In the days after Sept. 11, experts claimed temperatures reached 2,000 degrees on the upper floors. Others claimed steel melted. Nope. What happened, says Eager, the MIT materials-science professor, is that jet fuel sloshed around and beams got rubbery.

"It's not too much to think that you could have some regions at 900 degrees and others at 1,200 degrees, and that will distort the beams."

The truth movement doesn't really care for Eager. A Web site casts a fisheye of suspicion at the professor and his colleagues. "Did the MIT have prior knowledge?" notes one chat room. "This is for sure another speculative topic ... "

Professsor Jones' suspension was reported Friday by The Associated Press. Peter Knight was quoted by McClatchy Newspapers.

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#249. To: AGAviator (#248)

You're not important enough to have anybody from the defense industry post to you.

Dude, I already figure you are a minimum wage stooge, it shows with every post you make. No, I wasn't referring to you there. LOL!

God is always good!

RickyJ  posted on  2010-07-25   2:52:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#250. To: AGAviator (#247)

LOL..... Fire Damage....


"So, now I am a liar, a lamebrain and a dimwit." -- buckeroo, circa 2010-07-16 20:04:00 ET

wudidiz  posted on  2010-07-25   2:56:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#251. To: AGAviator (#248)

Tell me one Congress person or government official you've had take up your "the government did 911" conspiracy theory in the last 8 years

Jesse Ventura, former Governor of Minnesota. Strong possibility he will run for president in 2012. You better hope he loses.

God is always good!

RickyJ  posted on  2010-07-25   2:57:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#252. To: AGAviator (#247)

Damage and fire? What damage? What fire? Get real!

God is always good!

RickyJ  posted on  2010-07-25   3:00:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#253. To: RickyJ, buckeroo (#249) (Edited)

a minimum wage stooge...shows with every post you make

You're the one flogging 8 year old CT's that fewer people believe in than believe in ET abductions.

And with zero public officials supporting them.

Promising "any day now" as though you can repeat the same thing day after day, year after year, and expect a different result than the one you've already been handed day after day, year after year.

Obviously never having heard that "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results."

BHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

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One of the major consequences of the 9/11 movement has been to draw enormous amounts of energy and effort away from activism directed to real and ongoing crimes of state, and their institutional background, crimes that are far more serious than blowing up the WTC would be, if there were any credibility to that thesis. That is, I suspect, why the 9/11 movement is treated far more tolerantly by centers of power than is the norm for serious critical and activist work....Noam Chomsky

AGAviator  posted on  2010-07-25   3:03:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#254. To: All (#253)

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We're alien hybrids - the apex of my learning so far

wudidiz  posted on  2010-07-25   3:04:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#255. To: AGAviator, RickyJ (#253)

Promising "any day now" as though you can repeat the same thing day after day, year after year, and expect a different result than the one you've already been handed day after day, year after year.

Obviously never having heard that "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results."

I think it was Edison who said he didn't mind failing 500 times because that meant he was 500 steps closer to succeeding. Or something like that.


We're alien hybrids - the apex of my learning so far

wudidiz  posted on  2010-07-25   3:12:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#256. To: All (#254)

"Pull it"

They "pulled it" to smithereens.


We're alien hybrids - the apex of my learning so far

wudidiz  posted on  2010-07-25   3:13:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#257. To: AGAviator (#253) (Edited)

You're the one flogging 8 year old CT's that fewer people believe in than believe in ET abductions.

Well if you want to believe that, go right ahead. Deceiving your own self won't change the truth though. Every time someone sees WTC 7 come down for the first time you can see their eyes get wide and the lights go on upstairs. It is waking people up better than any words could. It is tough for you stooges that can't use your talking points to make it all go away. But don't despair, I am sure you will get paid regardless of your effectiveness. They couldn't expect much from you anyway.

God is always good!

RickyJ  posted on  2010-07-25   3:16:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#258. To: wudidiz, buckeroo (#255)

I think it was Edison who said he didn't mind failing 500 times because that meant he was 500 steps closer to succeeding

That only applies when you do something 500 different ways and learn from your 500 mistakes....

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One of the major consequences of the 9/11 movement has been to draw enormous amounts of energy and effort away from activism directed to real and ongoing crimes of state, and their institutional background, crimes that are far more serious than blowing up the WTC would be, if there were any credibility to that thesis. That is, I suspect, why the 9/11 movement is treated far more tolerantly by centers of power than is the norm for serious critical and activist work....Noam Chomsky

AGAviator  posted on  2010-07-25   3:20:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#259. To: Original_Intent, AGAviator, Rotara, buckaroo, James_Deffenbach (#98)

What has become apparent is that he is either in the military or been in it. That's why I am guessing he works for the CENTCOM disinfo squad.

AGAviator is probably AIR GUARD Aviator, which is where even young non coms can jockey cargo into hot (as in "war" and "profit") zones.

The patriotic tone is set mostly by young and dumb pilots and ground crewmen, and because critical thinking skills are seldom required and (any that contradict the prevailing political agenda are) certainly not encouraged in AG's MOS, he simply isn't permitted to think the unthinkable. In fact if not for self deception on an industrial scale there would be no volunteer military at all. ("I'm killing women and children in far away lands to keep America free!"- Get it?)

Even if he's an older pilot he doesn't get points for seeing through the corruption that is the US Govt from top to bottom.

The very idea of showing up at a monthly guard muster and speaking obvious truths i.e. "Pearl Harbor was no surprise" or "Vietnam was a mistake" would result in immediate loss of status and accrued macho points, which are essential to long term survival in govt service.

Remember what happened to the IRS agent (Joe Bannister) for simply asking to be shown "the law that never was"? You'll find that this demand for intellectual dishonesty spans the entire govt and all quasi-and ancillary occupations from federally licensed river pilots to research scientists, and it includes active and retired personnel.

It's no different for military pilots or critically wounded grunts like buck who want to keep their pensions. If they speak out their benevolent tyrant masters may cut off their incomes. The one point that I feel is fair criticism is that neither have revealed that truth about themselves, that their first loyalty is to their pension checks, and even if they agreed with you they wouldn't dare say it here or anywhere else where those who demand their blind loyalty may see it.

The simple fact is govt loyalists are of such low moral character that they shouldn't even be permitted to vote. They are with few exceptions criminally stupid or dishonest, and either way they predictably side with the tyrants who are dismantling America. (just look at dogmatic social security recipients, i.e. THE AARP agenda. What more proof of blind stupidity do you need?) If SS recipients are "Good Catholics" then military pensioners are "bishops and priests". Both groups can't wait to show the "Vatican" the absurd lengths they'll go to swallow anything they're fed if it means their checks keep coming, even to the point of unhinging their jaws like snakes to accommodate large portions of govt horse shit.

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2010-07-25   3:46:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#260. To: RickyJ (#242)

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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.

Eric Stratton  posted on  2010-07-25   8:08:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#261. To: AGAviator (#171)

continue to note with every post that Noam Chomsky states the 911 CT's take discourse into unproductive territories, which is why they're not seriously suppressed by the PTB.

Interesting.

And its easy to plant some absurd "theories" to discredit the discourse.

"Satan / Cheney in "08" Just Foreign Policy Iraqi Death Estimator

tom007  posted on  2010-07-25   8:53:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#262. To: IRTorqued (#170)

there you go using words AGovshill and bucky won't understand, again. their school girl tears will be a deluge which in past cases have washed away entire threads. with the amount tooth gnashing they've done they will have but bony gums by tomorrow.

"their school girl tears will be a deluge which in past cases have washed away entire threads." LOL! You're on a roll my friend.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic.
OsamaBinGoldstein posted on 2010-05-25 9:39:59 ET (2 images) Reply Trace

James Deffenbach  posted on  2010-07-25   9:05:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#263. To: IRTorqued (#178)

hey bucky thanks for the new tag line.

the most factual thing ever posted by buckeroo I have no freaking' clue. buckeroo posted on 2010-07-24 21:33:00 ET

That is a fine tagline. I had noticed that too and thought someone should jump on that. Good for you.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic.
OsamaBinGoldstein posted on 2010-05-25 9:39:59 ET (2 images) Reply Trace

James Deffenbach  posted on  2010-07-25   9:08:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#264. To: wudidiz, Cynicom, christine (#185)

Cyni, People are free to block the thread and/or any posters they don't like. Picture how many posts there would be if not for the 9/11 posts.

You make good points. Another thing to consider, now that buck and aggravator have found out that all they have to do is post endless references about their homoerotic fantasies and other vulgarities they can get threads locked which the government would rather people not talk about. And people can ignore the threads if they choose. Locking the threads so that they go down the memory hole plays into their hands in my opinion.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic.
OsamaBinGoldstein posted on 2010-05-25 9:39:59 ET (2 images) Reply Trace

James Deffenbach  posted on  2010-07-25   9:12:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#265. To: abraxas (#203)

buckeroo: "... but will anyone research your posts?..."

And the answer is: NO, NOBODY WILL CARE, NOBODY WILL RESEARCH THE POSTS.......only you buck--you are the wind beneath AG's wings.

LOL!

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic.
OsamaBinGoldstein posted on 2010-05-25 9:39:59 ET (2 images) Reply Trace

James Deffenbach  posted on  2010-07-25   9:21:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#266. To: wudidiz (#217)

"So, now I am a liar, a lamebrain and a dimwit." -- buckeroo, circa 2010-07-16 20:04:00 ET

Ah, very good. Buck is taking stock and admitting his shortcomings. That's the first step, or so they say. He forgot Sterno and Kook Aid guzzler but maybe he can add that on.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic.
OsamaBinGoldstein posted on 2010-05-25 9:39:59 ET (2 images) Reply Trace

James Deffenbach  posted on  2010-07-25   9:24:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#267. To: James Deffenbach, Christine (#264)

Locking the threads so that they go down the memory hole plays into their hands in my opinion.

James...

Experience is the best teacher and a hard taskmaster.

As I stated last night, I have been down this road before. Starting way back with the people that made FR a "success". Without going into detail, there were people that know where the bodies are buried.

With that in mind, the last forum and chat room that I helped to found and maintain became a total failure because the owner refused to maintain control of the forum.

Christine as an example, believes in freedom of speech without limit. While that is a laudable trait, it DOES NOT WORK.

There are two negatives to that belief.

One. Nowhere in organized society is ANYONE allowed to express themselves with vulgar and obscene language. Expressing a view in acceptable language IS FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Expressing ones view in gutter language is acceptable NOWHERE. That is not my opinion, it is a fact that may be discerned by trying it in Church, in your restaurant even at Wal Mart, and you will be hustled out into the street. It is NO different here.

Two. From my experience in a forum failure, endless, mind numbing posting hour after hour destroys the intent of any forum. No one is doing 4um and Christine a "favor" by posting vulgar tirades all day and all nite. That is NOT what the forum was created for. These threads have accomplished one thing, I and others have stopped posting.

The argument for bozoing is a childish cop out that does not work, it only helps those that destroy. Been there, done that, civil management has to be maintained or Christine will be left holding a forum with half a dozen posters before the collapse.

The concept that somehow these threads are helping the forum is totally wrong, good, intelligent people need to rethink something, the 4um is Christines, no one has a right to dominate and destroy.

When I first came here, Christine asked me to refrain from posting on certain threads, I have respected her wishes and we get along fine. That was forum management, her forum, her job and I complied.

Cyni...

Cynicom  posted on  2010-07-25   9:44:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#268. To: Cynicom, buckeroo, turtle (#267) (Edited)

One. Nowhere in organized society is ANYONE allowed to express themselves with vulgar and obscene language. Expressing a view in acceptable language IS FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Expressing ones view in gutter language is acceptable NOWHERE

So let's research just what exactly "vulgar," "obscene," and "gutter language" consist of.

In your paradigm is saying "Go sleep with your boyfriend" acceptable, and a reply "Go fuck yourself, little faggot wannabe" ***vulgar?***

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One of the major consequences of the 9/11 movement has been to draw enormous amounts of energy and effort away from activism directed to real and ongoing crimes of state, and their institutional background, crimes that are far more serious than blowing up the WTC would be, if there were any credibility to that thesis. That is, I suspect, why the 9/11 movement is treated far more tolerantly by centers of power than is the norm for serious critical and activist work....Noam Chomsky

AGAviator  posted on  2010-07-25   11:15:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#269. To: Eric Stratton, buckeroo (#212)

the liar movement is once again relying on smoke and mirrors.


the most factual thing ever posted by buckeroo
I have no freaking' clue. buckeroo posted on 2010-07-24 21:33:00 ET

IRTorqued  posted on  2010-07-25   14:00:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#270. To: AGAviator, FormerLurker, wudidiz, critter, HOUNDDAWG, farmfriend, christine, all (#245)

Careful there - you might throw your elbow out patting yourself on the back.

Once again you demonstrate your willingness to twist and distort the data to suit your distorted misrepresentations.

A Commercial Pilot's Certificate DOES NOT convey at certification the ability or right to Pilot a multi-pilot Airliner. While it does convey the right to be a co-pilot on most major airlines an Airline Transport Pilot License is the norm AND IS REQUIRED to sit as Pilot and Captain. It is a considerably higher rating and requires a minimum of 1,500 hours of flight time logged on flights of greater than 50 NM and has a night flying and instrument requirement as well. A Commercial Pilots Certificate, while conveying the ability to fly for pay on a LIMITED level, DOES NOT CONVEY A LICENSCE TO FLY AN AIRLINER and as such is A LEARNER'S PERMIT to learn to fly one and to accumulate the hours necessary to qualify for an Airline Transport Pilot License which is what is required to set in the Pilot Seat of a multi-pilot Airliner. Your attempt to misrepresent Hanjour's qualifications to inflate them beyond their level is simply an attempt to confuse and to obscure the fact that by all accounts Hanjour was an INCOMPETENT.

From your own link:

(b) Limitations. (1) A person who applies for a commercial pilot certificate with an airplane category or powered-lift category rating and does not hold an instrument rating in the same category and class will be issued a commercial pilot certificate that contains the limitation, The carriage of passengers for hire in (airplanes) (powered-lifts) on cross-country flights in excess of 50 nautical miles or at night is prohibited. The limitation may be removed when the person satisfactorily accomplishes the requirements listed in 61.65 of this part for an instrument rating in the same category and class of aircraft listed on the person's commercial pilot certificate.

Hanjour met none of the requirements for an Airline Transport Pilot's License and given his poor command of English it is doubtful that he truly met the requirements for the Commercial Pilot's Certificate.

Further we know from every reliable witness testimony from his schools and instructors, including his attempt to rent a single engine Cessna for which he was turned down THREE TIMES, that Hanjour WAS INCOMPETENT as a pilot.

We also know that he HAD NEVER sat behind the stick on a Jet Aircraft OF ANY KIND. The largest aircraft he is ever known to have flown is a Piper Apache Twin Engine Propeller Driven 4 seater.

Your attempts to misrepresent Hanjour's Licensing and Qualifications amount to nothing more than an attempt to inflate and overstate his abilities and qualifications as a pilot.

The bottom line is that Hanjour had never under any circumstances flown a jet aircraft whether single or multi-engine, was not qualified or licensed to fly a Jetliner, and by all evidences from witness testimony of his instructors likely should never have been given a Commercial rating in the first place as he was incompetent as a pilot and his command of English was insufficient to meet the criteria stipulated for the rating.

"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator

Original_Intent  posted on  2010-07-25   14:11:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#271. To: Original_Intent, abraxas (#238)

Lying seems to be part of the "debunker" mentality. Their patron un-saint "The Less Than Amazing Randi" and the Septical Inquirer crowd have been caught more than once. Their mindset also seems to be "The Champions of Official Orthodoxy" whatever the current official orthodoxy is. The debunkers have made more twists and turns than a corkscrew. Every time the "received" wisdom from the Holy Establishment changes their opinion immediately changes with it - "and that's the way it's been forever".I have little patience for them because "the lights are on but there is nobody home". They do not think they regurgitate. And because it is either a fixation or something that they are, in some cases, paid to believe the likelihood of their ever waking up is vanishingly small. Still they are useful for one thing and that is making us think and to refine our understanding of the facts. We do have a couple of advantages over them though. The truth is the basic fundamental isness and is the reality and because of that their lies have to constantly be repeated over and over and over to keep them in place whereas the truth just is. The other advantage we have is that we can be wrong a thousand times and still be right as it only takes "1" incontrovertable fact to show that what they are pushing is a lie whereas they cannot admit error even once or else their entire edifice of lies crumbles.

this is why they are the liar movement, they are complete factaphobics. with the one exception referenced in my tag line.


the most factual thing ever posted by buckeroo
I have no freaking' clue. buckeroo posted on 2010-07-24 21:33:00 ET

IRTorqued  posted on  2010-07-25   14:14:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#272. To: AGAviator (#268)

You have nothing to say against the fact that WTC 7 was a controlled demolition. Not one bit of evidence from you, yet you still cling to your fantasies that is just fell down due to minor damage and a few small fires. No wonder you have to try to divert this thread to language usage, because you surely can't defend your belief the government told the truth about WTC 7.

God is always good!

RickyJ  posted on  2010-07-25   14:19:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#273. To: buckeroo, Samuel Gray, Original_Intent, IRTorqued, wudidiz, abraxas, James Deffenbach, Rotara, christine, ALL (#93)

Ah, behind my back, you have to start lying about what I've said in order to feel you've "won" the debate, eh?

Your dishonesty here is epic.

The fabled conspiracies keep rattling around without facts or witnesses... I think it is all BS. FormerLurker created a thread about FLT77 BRIEF WHILE BACK about the cabin door proving that Hanjour couldn't have done his dirty deeds. FL was BUSTED.

WRONG. I posted an article which reported the findings of independent reseachers that Flight 77's FDR data provided by the NTSB through a FOIA request indicated that the cabin door had not been opened during the entire flight.

You brought up the possibility that the FDR was not wired to collect the FLT DECK DOOR parameter, but you never provided any proof that was true. It IS listed as a valid parameter in the aircraft's maintenance manual, but it isn't clear if that manual covers all variants of the 757, so it is STILL uncertain if that data was actually collected, but it is NOT proven one way or the other if it was in fact collected, it is still UNKNOWN.

FL also claimed that Hanjour did not have pilot credentials based on the FAA structure and requirements. FL was busted.

Wrong. I questioned the validity of any such credential, since Hanjour did NOT have the qualifications to legitimately have one. I simply asked you to provide a copy of said credentials, since I didn't believe he would actually have a valid FAA certificate, but ok, you found a copy of it and posted it.

THEN, by looking up the name he used on those credentials, where he used the last name HANJOOR rather than HANJOUR, I discovered a mother-lode of well researched facts and testimony concerning his qualifications, or lack of them.

I posted that information to you, and invited you to discuss that evidence, instead, you posted pages and pages of vulgarities, and simply ignored every documented fact I posted.

FL has claimed that everyone under the Sun but any terrorists created demolitions of the WTC ... to include all government officials that day. FL has no proof.

You are a liar. I've never said "everyone under the sun" "created" demolitions of the WTC, in fact, I provided evidence that the elevators were serviced weeks prior to 9/11, and THAT would have been a perfect opportunity to plant explosives within the cores of the towers.

As far as who was responsible for that and who planned the operation, I've never said "all governement officials", I've said it was more than likely an international consortium who was behind it, which included high level officials within our own government.

It's obvious that this government is NOT trying to find out what happened, and IS actively issuing disinformation in regards to the events which unfolded that day. It's not those 19 angry arabs who "hated us for our freedoms" that would have the power to do that, nor did they have the ability to order several war games that very morning which simulated hijacked aircraft on FAA and NORAD screens, confusing the actual hijackings with simulated blips.

This continuing speculation and silly behaviour has gone on too long. It is time to slap the speculators into reasonable sanity with FACTS

You didn't even understand the basics of how buildings fall in terms of how an object drops through thin air, yet I provided you the basic fundamentals of such, only to see you continuously demand physics and math, which you obviously can't understand and claim is BS, although any reasonably intelligent high school student would understand it and know it to be true.

Yes, you are truly a piece of work there bucko, keep up the shilling, I'm sure you'll make a lot of friends that way.


"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen

FormerLurker  posted on  2010-07-25   14:38:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#274. To: IRTorqued (#269)

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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.

Eric Stratton  posted on  2010-07-25   14:38:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#275. To: Cynicom, AGAviator, buckeroo, turtle, ALL (#268)

Likes like AG is DETERMINED to pull this thread down into the gutter, no matter WHAT.

Hey buck, blame your pal if this thread get's locked, not your victims.


"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen

FormerLurker  posted on  2010-07-25   14:57:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#276. To: Eric Stratton (#274)

Funny, kinda like the last bunch of Administrations.

going back for sixty plus years any way. they all bank on the thirds theorem in that a third will believe any thing they tell them and another third won't care one way or another and then they try to play off the other third (who know the government and its shills are lying thieves) as a minority unworthy of mention.


the most factual thing ever posted by buckeroo
I have no freaking' clue. buckeroo posted on 2010-07-24 21:33:00 ET

IRTorqued  posted on  2010-07-25   14:58:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#277. To: HOUNDDAWG (#259)

The simple fact is govt loyalists are of such low moral character that they shouldn't even be permitted to vote. They are with few exceptions criminally stupid or dishonest, and either way they predictably side with the tyrants who are dismantling America. (just look at dogmatic social security recipients, i.e. THE AARP agenda. What more proof of blind stupidity do you need?) If SS recipients are "Good Catholics" then military pensioners are "bishops and priests". Both groups can't wait to show the "Vatican" the absurd lengths they'll go to swallow anything they're fed if it means their checks keep coming, even to the point of unhinging their jaws like snakes to accommodate large portions of govt horse shit.

You remind me of a witticism I saw, might have Ambrose Bierce, defining a pensioner as a "Kept Patriot".

However, their persistence in accepting and furthering lies and disinformation goes above and beyond the call of silence on government crimes. They have traveled over into the dark side of actual disloyalty, even treason, in defending the crimes of criminals in government positions. These types always seem to forget that key phrase in the oath we all swore who served - "all enemies foreign and domestic". Of course they are probably as clueless about the definition of domestic as they are on many other topics.

"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator

Original_Intent  posted on  2010-07-25   15:05:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#278. To: AGAviator, Cynicom, buckaroo, turtle (#268)

Why are you speaking to Cyni like that? He has never been vulgar in any way to you. Not once. What will your feeble excuse be this time since "he did it first" won't work?

In your paradigm, you lash out at anybody with no regard because you perceive your fragile little ego has been bruised and everytime you claim you are justified.

The lot of us are calling bovine excrement on your victim routine and your complete lack of civility to people like Cyni who have done NOTHING to deserve your filth.

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." Edward Bernays, Father of Public Relations

abraxas  posted on  2010-07-25   15:05:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#279. To: IRTorqued (#276)

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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.

Eric Stratton  posted on  2010-07-25   15:06:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#280. To: abraxas (#278)

The lot of us are calling bovine excrement on your victim routine and your complete lack of civility to people like Cyni who have done NOTHING to deserve your filth.

AG's and buck's strategy is to hurl rocks and bricks at their victims, then when their victim punches each one of the them in the face, they cry foul and say "see", he started it.


"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen

FormerLurker  posted on  2010-07-25   15:09:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#281. To: FormerLurker (#275)

it is as if their handlers have realized the people aren't falling for their past string of tales and have advised their shills to kill the discussion in any manner needed to keep the official fairy tale from being completely eroded. they fear the third who currently do not care may just start caring which would without fail lead to the ousting of the oligarchy they have spent the past six plus decades to install.


the most factual thing ever posted by buckeroo
I have no freaking' clue. buckeroo posted on 2010-07-24 21:33:00 ET

IRTorqued  posted on  2010-07-25   15:10:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#282. To: Eric Stratton (#279)

maybe.


the most factual thing ever posted by buckeroo
I have no freaking' clue. buckeroo posted on 2010-07-24 21:33:00 ET

IRTorqued  posted on  2010-07-25   15:13:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#283. To: IRTorqued (#281)

it is as if their handlers have realized the people aren't falling for their past string of tales and have advised their shills to kill the discussion in any manner needed to keep the official fairy tale from being completely eroded. they fear the third who currently do not care may just start caring which would without fail lead to the ousting of the oligarchy they have spent the past six plus decades to install.

Thing is, it becomes clear that IS what they are trying to do, and people begin to wonder WHY would people go to that degree of effort if there WERE nothing to it...


"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen

FormerLurker  posted on  2010-07-25   15:14:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#284. To: Original_Intent, buckeroo (#270)

From your own link:

(b) Limitations.

A commercial pilot's license is not a learner's permit.

A commercial pilot license does authorize a pilot to be a pilot in command for a sinble aircraft engine - remember saying he couldn't even fly a single engine airplnane, huh? - and a co pilot on a multi pilot aircraft.

Once again, contrary to your claims, you are WRONG, and once again you try to move the goalposts after your statement is debunked.

Additional type certifications can and are completed on ground school, simulators and other methods than getting direct instruction from a right seater.

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One of the major consequences of the 9/11 movement has been to draw enormous amounts of energy and effort away from activism directed to real and ongoing crimes of state, and their institutional background, crimes that are far more serious than blowing up the WTC would be, if there were any credibility to that thesis. That is, I suspect, why the 9/11 movement is treated far more tolerantly by centers of power than is the norm for serious critical and activist work....Noam Chomsky

AGAviator  posted on  2010-07-25   15:25:49 ET  (2 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#285. To: RickyJ, buckeroo (#272)

You have nothing to say against the fact that WTC 7 was a controlled demolition

I don't have to say anything. I post links that blow your theories to hell.

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One of the major consequences of the 9/11 movement has been to draw enormous amounts of energy and effort away from activism directed to real and ongoing crimes of state, and their institutional background, crimes that are far more serious than blowing up the WTC would be, if there were any credibility to that thesis. That is, I suspect, why the 9/11 movement is treated far more tolerantly by centers of power than is the norm for serious critical and activist work....Noam Chomsky

AGAviator  posted on  2010-07-25   15:28:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#286. To: abraxas, Cynicom (#278)

The lot of us are calling bovine excrement on your victim routine and your complete lack of civility to people like Cyni who have done NOTHING to deserve your filth.

Since I have been posting here I can't recall even one time when Cynicom was ever vulgar to anyone. Not saying he hasn't been but that I haven't seen it (and I doubt he has been).

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic.
OsamaBinGoldstein posted on 2010-05-25 9:39:59 ET (2 images) Reply Trace

James Deffenbach  posted on  2010-07-25   15:30:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#287. To: FormerLurker, abraxas, christine, IRTorqued, wudidiz, Cadet D, Eric Stratton, RickyJ, Kamala, AllTheKingsHorses, farmfriend, Critter, HOUNDDAWG, Anyone Who Cares About the Truth, all (#280)

The lot of us are calling bovine excrement on your victim routine and your complete lack of civility to people like Cyni who have done NOTHING to deserve your filth.

AG's and buck's strategy is to hurl rocks and bricks at their victims, then when their victim punches each one of the them in the face, they cry foul and say "see", he started it.

Like much of what they do it is the classic signature of a Disinformation Operative - whether they work for the government, a PR firm, or are simply weak minded enough to believe uncategorically every utterance of a government PR Flack or talking head in the controlled media, or "The Less Than Amazing Randi" (who likely is part of CIA's Operation Mockingbird).

Here are a few of their favorite things:

Twenty-Five Ways To Suppress Truth: The Rules of Disinformation

5. Sidetrack opponents with name calling and ridicule. This is also known as the primary 'attack the messenger' ploy, though other methods qualify as variants of that approach. Associate opponents with unpopular titles such as 'kooks', 'right-wing', 'liberal', 'left-wing', 'terrorists', 'conspiracy buffs', 'radicals', 'militia', 'racists', 'religious fanatics', 'sexual deviates', and so forth. This makes others shrink from support out of fear of gaining the same label, and you avoid dealing with issues.

The point FL was making i.e., the constant whining about name calling etc., the very tactic they constantly use in attempting to degrade and upset anyone not supporting the "Official Conspiracy Theory™".

9. Play Dumb. No matter what evidence or logical argument is offered, avoid discussing issues except with denials they have any credibility, make any sense, provide any proof, contain or make a point, have logic, or support a conclusion. Mix well for maximum effect.

Another constant ploy - regardless of the firmness and references supporting a datum they will deny it extists etc., ....

12. Enigmas have no solution. Drawing upon the overall umbrella of events surrounding the crime and the multitude of players and events, paint the entire affair as too complex to solve. This causes those otherwise following the matter to begin to loose interest more quickly without having to address the actual issues.

Done all the time by the Liar's Movement as they are constantly seeking to create confusion with superficially logical sounding objections - which upon closer examination fall apart.

13. Alice in Wonderland Logic. Avoid discussion of the issues by reasoning backwards or with an apparent deductive logic which forbears any actual material fact.

Routine for them. Taking one fact, again the Commercial Pilot's License serves as an example. Taking the fact that Hanjour/Hanjoor had somehow managed to get a Commercial license reasoning backwards he becomes an honorary member of Baron Von Richtoften's Flying Circurs and a wizard behind controls of a size and type of plane which he had never flown.

15. Fit the facts to alternate conclusions. This requires creative thinking unless the crime was planned with contingency conclusions in place.

They do this all the time by using their pre-written cut and paste counter arguments either from "debunker" web sites or from, I presume, a cut and paste file of counters that have been developed over time to attack points of the arguments favoring complicity at the highest levels.

16. Vanish evidence and witnesses. If it does not exist, it is not fact, and you won't have to address the issue.

While they do not do this directly or personally they do rely upon it as the pool of key witnesses who have testified to evidence directly contradictory to the "Official Fairy Tale™" start dying e.g., Barry Jennings.

17. Change the subject. Usually in connection with one of the other ploys listed here, find a way to side-track the discussion with abrasive or controversial comments in hopes of turning attention to a new, more manageable topic. This works especially well with companions who can 'argue' with you over the new topic and polarize the discussion arena in order to avoid discussing more key issues.

This one is thrown out under cover on a frequent basis - such as attempting to divert from the evidence that Hanjour was an incompetent pilot by shouting that he had a Commercial Pilot Certificate and then acting as if somehow that conveyed the ability to do aerobatics in a Jumbo Jet.

"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator

Original_Intent  posted on  2010-07-25   15:36:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#288. To: FormerLurker, blockquote (#275)

Likes like AG is DETERMINED to pull this thread down into the gutter, no matter WHAT.

Hey buck, blame your pal if this thread get's locked, not your victims.

I am posing a very basic question of whether obscene commentary is considered as vulgar as saying "fuck" especially when saying "fuck" is a direct response to said obscene commentary.

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One of the major consequences of the 9/11 movement has been to draw enormous amounts of energy and effort away from activism directed to real and ongoing crimes of state, and their institutional background, crimes that are far more serious than blowing up the WTC would be, if there were any credibility to that thesis. That is, I suspect, why the 9/11 movement is treated far more tolerantly by centers of power than is the norm for serious critical and activist work....Noam Chomsky

AGAviator  posted on  2010-07-25   15:40:58 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  



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