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October 4, 2006
This weekend I realized that
a friend of mine took the
"9/11 Truth Movement" guys (You know the Truthies, right?
somewhat seriously... They're into ideas like:
planted-explosives must have
taken out the World Trade
Center, a few plane crashes
I was a little suprised by alone *couldn't* have done it).
that, because I'd heard the
"Loose Change" guys debated by
the "Popular Mechanics"
people, and while the Pop (On "Democracy Now!".)
Mechanics guys did not come
off as very scintillating, the
"Loose Change" folks seemed
like classic nutjobs...
These are the guys who like to
coldly repeat Facts like "jet
fuel doesn't burn hot enough
to melt steel".
You don't have to look into
this much to turn up the
counter-arguments to that one:
(1) it doesn't have to *melt*
it, just weaken it
(2) there *are* reasons that
they require thermal (And the quality of the
insulation on steel supports. thermal insulation used
on the WTC is an open
But anyway, since I met someone question, I would say...)
who seemed to think that there
was something significant about
the Building 7 collapse I spent
a good chunk of the time the
other day reading up on the Not such an easy task, really.
Truthies and digging around for Every published criticism of
rebuttals the "Movement" produces a
firestorm of indignant whining
What I found: from the entire crew, and they
are absolute *masters* of the
Building 7 went down "google bomb": their own
after burning for many rebuttals always get top billing.
hours... It had debri
rained down on from the
other collapses. Why
does this seem so weird?
Even if you argue it should've
been able to take it, why
postulate thermite charges when Much is made of the
you can easily explain it by, remark "I guess we'll Could it
for example, sub-standard have to pull it", be he meant
thermal insulation on a corrupt which is supposed to "pull out"
government construction job? be demolition expert and misspoke
lingo... (or was
misheard)?
This would seem Naaahh...
more significant
if anyone
speaking were
demolition experts.
It's hard to get
the scenario to make
sense as any sort of
conspiracy... why
was it necessary to
I note that there are some order it "pulled" if
schisms in "The Truth that was the nefarious
Movement", in particular scheme all along?
there are complaints about Why would you talk about
so many of the critics it in public? Why not
focusing on the "not hot use code?
enough to melt" factoid.
SKEPTIC_MOLE
It is evidently not fair to
regard this particular
argument as representative It's not clear to me what
of The Movement... is supposed to be a
representative argument.
And at least one There was some short-selling
fellow insists of airline stock before hand,
that the "Loose but the counter-claim is that
Change" guys are this is traceable back to a
part of a single investment newsletter.
conspiracy to I couldn't
make the "Truth make one up (June 21, 2007)
Movement" look better than More recently, I've come
bad. that. across the argument that
there were multiple war
game exercises scheduled
for that day that tangled
things up enough to prevent
interception of the
hijacked planes.
Even if this is all
correct, it's difficult
to see why you would
assume it was planned
But any way, here's that way...
another item for the
"grimly amusing" file: I've heard the factoid
hyped that there wasn't
This entire debate takes just *one*, but *many*
place on the grounds of training exercises
technical plausibility. scheduled at the same
time... but so?
No one ever seems to say:
"It is absurd to think Even if that's a weird
that our fine, upstanding state of affairs --
leaders would be willing and I have no idea if
to kill innocent it is, or even if the
civilians for political claim is accurate --
reasons". "providing cover for
the bad guys" would
only be *one* possible
explanation.
You want another?
Maybe the various
warnings of possible
terrorist attack were
starting to filter into
the institutional brain
of the military, so
they were stepping up
their readiness
"On August 6, 2001, the CIA delivered exercises and thereby
its daily briefing to President Bush at shot themselves in the
his ranch in Crawford, Texas, with the foot.
headline 'Bin Laden determined to
strike in U.S.,' ..." -- Chalmers (Far-fetched, eh?)
Johnson, "Dimantling the Empire" (2010)
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