whats the point of 9/11 truth?

topic posted Mon, September 17, 2007 - 10:45 AM by  cDub
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Just from a tactical standpoint what is the point of focusing on 9/11 Truth? I don't know if it was some plot by the gov't or not. But its clear that either way, it doesn't change much. Its in the open that Bush and crew were warned. Everyone knows that, even the WaPo etc. have published that fact. So...whats the point?

Seems to me its worth pursuing to some extent but at a meta level its just wasting time we could be spending actually actively opposing crimes being committed TODAY.
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  • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

    Mon, September 17, 2007 - 11:55 AM
    by showing tthe truth we were fed is not

    will lead the sheep to wake the F up
    • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

      Mon, September 17, 2007 - 12:04 PM
      To help tear down the Empire built on lies. In case you didn't notice, the whole shebang since 9/11 has been built out of smoke, mirrors and lies.

      untangle the deception, untangle the assault on the constitution and bill of rights.
      • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

        Mon, September 17, 2007 - 11:37 PM
        by replacing them with other lies
        • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

          Mon, September 17, 2007 - 11:40 PM
          There was a countdown when Building 7 went down. 3, 2, 1, boom.

          If you can't see the significance of that, then I don't hold much hope that you can understand what happened on 9-11. So 9-11 truth won't be of much use to you at all.
          • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

            Tue, September 18, 2007 - 7:59 AM
            <<There was a countdown when Building 7 went down. 3, 2, 1, boom. >>



            In your head perhaps.
            • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

              Tue, September 18, 2007 - 8:54 AM
              Without 911 there would have been no war in Afganistan at all. They dont have anything we want. You notice that the administration pretty much left Afganistan the second the Taliban was defeated.

              Iraq would have happen regardless of 911. The same tactics Bush used to as a pretense to invade would have worked regardless of the WTC attacks. The plans were already half written before the attacks.

              To be fair though, 911 is used by Bush's enemies as much as its used by Bush. Both got what they wanted out of its use. Bush got his Iraq war and the loose change types get props for mad editing skills and hot vegan chicks.
              • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

                Tue, September 18, 2007 - 11:26 AM
                The thing that nobody seems to be able to answer is this: If 9-11 was faked by the Bush administration so they could invade Iraq, why did they use Saudi Nationals and Al Qaeda? Why not frame Iraqis?
                • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

                  Tue, September 18, 2007 - 11:50 AM
                  Sean,
                  That pipeline was always a pipe dream. We could have tried to build it after the soviets left. Instead we gave the Taliban empty promises of help and friendship and then turned our back on them. Eventually this turned out to be a wise choice but it probably did play a large part in them hosting Al Quada and its training camps. The country has never been stable enough to build something like that.
                • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

                  Tue, September 18, 2007 - 11:27 PM
                  jeff here's your answer! liver hit it right on the head.....the israel spies. the 5 dancing israelis (120-200 israeli spy ring which was deported right after 9-11) knew where, how, and when 9-11 was going to happen, plus had white vans full of explosives leaving ny right after 9-11. so who better to let take the blame and credit than bin Laden. israeli's are at hostilities with arabs and muslims in the middle east. now thanks to 9-11 so are we and other countries.

                  check out liver's links if you dare to want to see the truth.
                  uspolitics.tribe.net/thread/...83dc8a90
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                    Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

                    Sat, September 22, 2007 - 10:27 PM
                    "jeff here's your answer! liver hit it right on the head.....the israel spies. the 5 dancing israelis (120-200 israeli spy ring which was deported right after 9-11) knew where, how, and when 9-11 was going to happen, plus had white vans full of explosives leaving ny right after 9-11."

                    Which you can't support
                    • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

                      Sat, September 22, 2007 - 10:31 PM
                      <<The thing that nobody seems to be able to answer is this: If 9-11 was faked by the Bush administration so they could invade Iraq, why did they use Saudi Nationals and Al Qaeda?>>

                      Or AT LEAST fake up some WMDs!!

                      Seriously, that the dumbest administration in US history could pull off what these clowns swear happened is the biggest of many, many implausibilities.
                      • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

                        Sat, September 22, 2007 - 10:55 PM
                        Right. In eight months they can devise a plan and then plant explosives on virtually every floor of massive buildings in America's biggest city under the noses of over 50,000 workers and not one witness notices the demo preparations and not one whistle blower comes out of the woodwork in the last six years, yet the same administration can't plant a few WMDs in some isolated warehouse thousands of miles away in Iraq under the cover of war in order to justify the war.

                        Sure
                        • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

                          Sat, September 22, 2007 - 11:30 PM
                          Anyone who'd ever been inside the WTC (or even spent fifteen minutes in lower Manhattan) knows their whole theory is ring-the-bell crazy. The ones who go for this are provincial boobs who'll believe any screwhead paranoia handed to them, however fantastic. These are the same mutts who swear there are still American POWs in Veet Nam and the moon landings were shot in a studio in Culver City in between episodes of "Green Acres."
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                            Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

                            Sat, September 22, 2007 - 11:41 PM
                            What annoys me is that energies better spent selsewhere are frittered away on this.

                            As a New Yorker who was there, I want to know why it took the AirForce almost an hour and a half to reach us.

                            I want Giuliani raked over the coals every day in every imaginable forum for the Olympian idiocy of putting the command center back in the WTC AFTER it had been hit ("because it was an easier walk from city hall", is the excuse often heard herabouts.)

                            And I want to know why nobody was let in and out yet the Saud and Bin Ladens were jetted safely home.
                            • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

                              Sun, September 23, 2007 - 10:34 AM
                              <<What annoys me is that energies better spent elsewhere are frittered away on this. >>

                              I for one am glad the morons have this shit to play with. People this stupid get in the way of anything serious.

                              Besides, this level of paranoia is typically an excuse to cower under the bed and do nothing.
            • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

              Tue, September 18, 2007 - 4:02 PM
              <In your head perhaps.>

              What kind of stupid fucking answer is that?

              You're the crazy here, dude.

              There was a countdown, and at the end of it, Building 7 was demolished on purpose. It could not have been rigged on the day of September 11, so it *must* have been planned before then.

              *THAT* is the point of 9/11 truth. This shit was planned beforehand and we need a new investigation whose point isn't to obfuscate reality.
          • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

            Tue, September 18, 2007 - 11:03 PM
            "There was a countdown when Building 7 went down. 3, 2, 1, boom."

            Prove it, since "truthers" have zero credibility
            • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

              Tue, September 18, 2007 - 11:12 PM
              tribes.tribe.net/conspirac...894c7fcdc5

              www.prisonplanet.com/article...down.htm

              9/11 First Responder Heard WTC 7 Demolition Countdown
              Former Air Force Special Operations for Search and Rescue expert witnessed officials attempt to conceal planned nature of demolition

              Paul Joseph Watson
              Prison Planet
              Thursday, September 13, 2007

              A 9/11 first responder has gone on the record to describe how he heard a demolition-style countdown precede the collapse of WTC 7, eyewitness testimony that dovetails with other EMT's and rescue personnel who were also told that Building 7 was going to be "brought down".

              Earlier this year, we reported on the testimony of an anonymous EMT named Mike who told Loose Change producer Dylan Avery that hundreds of emergency rescue personnel were told over bullhorns that Building 7, a 47 story skyscraper adjacent the twin towers that was not hit by a plane yet imploded symmetrically later in the afternoon on 9/11, was about to be "pulled" and that a 20 second radio countdown preceded its collapse.

              That account was backed up by another ground zero rescue worker who went on the record with her full name. Volunteer EMT Indira Singh described to a radio show how she learned that WTC 7 was going to be "brought down" and the context was clear that it was to be deliberately demolished.

              In addition, former NYPD officer Craig Bartmer described hearing bombs tear down the building as he fled the collapse.

              Now another ground zero first responder has shed more light on how he heard the countdown moments before attempting to escape the collapse of Building 7 as a stampede ensued.

              Former Air Force Special Operations for Search and Rescue expert, Kevin McPadden traveled to ground zero completely of his own accord and spent the next four days searching through the rubble and nearby buildings for survivors.

              In a speech given at this week's 9/11 truth events in New York City, McPadden describes the shocking details of what he witnessed shortly before WTC 7 imploded into its own footprint.

              Watch the video.

              www.youtube.com/watch

              "While we were on the right side, there was firefighters getting ready, they were bussing them back and forth, and a couple of vets that were there - they got the vibe that something was coming down," said McPadden.

              "We started asking questions, everybody started asking questions, and the next thing you know there was a Red Cross representative pacing back and forth in front of the crowd holding his hand over the radio - I couldn't hear what it was saying but it was like pulsed - whatever the speech was on there it was pulsed - and that means to me most likely it was a countdown."

              "But he took his hand off at the last three seconds and he gave this heartfelt look - like just run for your life - because he didn't want to bring it on his conscience - he didn't want to go to his grave with that - and then we had a couple of seconds to put our heads together," said McPadden.

              McPadden then describes the frantic attempts to escape as the building began to collapse.

              In a taped interview with us after the event, McPadden made it clear that he and onlookers clearly heard "three, two, one" from the radio before the building collapsed. We will be releasing that tape over the next week. We also talked to other first responders who verified the story.

              McPadden's account, when added to the testimony of other first responders, clearly suggests that officials knew the building was about to be brought down in a planned demolition, and that they made a conscious effort or were ordered to hide that fact from the first responders, though at the very end onlookers were given a brief warning which enabled them to escape safely.

              The following video from CNN clearly shows firefighters and police telling the public to get back because Building 7 was about to come down and in the words of the cameraman was about to "blow up."

              www.youtube.com/watch

              In June it was revealed that an individual who had a high level security clearance and was stationed in the Office of Emergency Management in World Trade Center 7 witnessed explosions and damage to the lobby of the building before either twin tower had collapsed.

              The testimony of these individuals meshes with others in confirming that Building 7 was deliberately brought down on the day of 9/11, a fact that eviscerates official investigations into Building 7 as nothing more than part of an orchestrated cover-up.

              In February of 2002 Silverstein Properties won $861 million from Industrial Risk Insurers to rebuild on the site of WTC 7. Silverstein Properties' estimated investment in WTC 7 was $386 million. This building's collapse alone resulted in a payout of nearly $500 million, based on the contention that it was an unforeseen accidental event.

              A cursory insight into professional building demolition tells us that experts are required to spend weeks and months planning the demolition of any building, ensuring that the explosives are placed in exactly the right spots, that the collapse will not impact surrounding buildings, and that a myriad of sufficient safety procedures are followed.

              To imagine that demolition experts could rig such a huge building amidst the chaos of the day, unsure of whether further attacks were coming, in a matter of hours and bring the building down neatly in its own footprint without afflicting major damage to adjacent buildings is beyond belief.

              Even if one entertains the notion that this is within the realm of possibility, the fact is that the federal government, FEMA and NIST and Silverstein Properties are all knowingly lying in claiming that the building collapsed by accident as a result of burning debris from the twin towers.

              Now it is established that they lied about Building 7, how can we trust their often changing explanations of the collapse of the twin towers, especially considering the dozens and dozens of eyewitnesses who have gone on the record to report the fact that explosives were seen and heard on all levels of both towers, including underground explosions before the planes even hit?

              We are being asked to put our faith in either the federal government, who deliberately lied about 9/11 in the very days after the attack in telling emergency workers and firefighters that the toxic air was safe to breathe, or the emergency workers and other rescue heroes who risked their lives and are still suffering the consequences of their courage.

              This testimony demands an immediate grand jury inquiry into both monolithic insurance fraud, potential manslaughter, and a complete re-appraisal and re-investigation into everything else that happened on 9/11 in an effort to discover what else the government lied about concerning the events of that day and its aftermath.
  • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

    Mon, September 17, 2007 - 11:41 PM
    Moderation in pursuit of justice....is no virtue.

    9/11's success as a means to rapidly implement totalitarian agenda creates the strong possibility that it will happen again if its perpetrators are not exposed fully, and rapidly to the light of day.

    You just dont let things like this slide.
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      Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

      Tue, September 18, 2007 - 12:07 AM
      "You just dont let things like this slide."

      Oh, yes we do, collectively. Obviously. Sadly. 'They' tread ALL over us, Sean, and I, for one, am retiring as the coalmine canary. It comes to naught, it always has. Just get our names on ugly 'lists'. My focus now is to carve out a beautiful life however possible with the scant time I have left... and we all have scant time left.
      • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

        Tue, September 18, 2007 - 12:18 AM
        It's not mutually exclusive, Xanadu. You can create your pretty life, and still know what went on. Beyond that you can still take time out of your day to enlighten "in the dark" folks as to what occurred. It gives even MORE reason for people to live beautiful lives. The whole yin/yang paradox.
    • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

      Tue, September 18, 2007 - 12:12 AM
      Sean, over 1 million Iraqis have likely died. Isn't that more important than 3,000 Americans?

      How much of our energy do we spend chasing 9/11 conspiracy theories when there are real problems, and real slaughters happening NOW that we have the ability to lobby against and maybe stop, right here right now in the US?
      • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

        Tue, September 18, 2007 - 12:17 AM
        There's scale involved, I'll give you that

        So, considering scale, there are reports that a nuke just got stolen in the US. If that nuke is used, it is very likely that more than 3,000 people will die from it. 9-11 was just leading up to something of a much grander scale. So making people awake of this is very important. It's not just awareness of the one event, 9-11, but how that leads to much greater crimes, with many more people as victims.

        Awareness is NEVER a bad thing, as hard as it may be to see what is reality. Ignorance is NOT bliss.
      • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

        Tue, September 18, 2007 - 12:26 AM
        Nothing will change unless the weed is pulled up from its roots.

        You can stop a war today, but the criminals will rise to power tomorrow and start one anew. They will be better practiced to counter whatever strategies you used to win the previous day.

        Our history since 1913 has been one of accelerating bloodshed. This despite increasing cries for peace, and despite all the lessons we claimed we would "never forget". The monster we unknowingly feed only grows stronger.

        Relinquishing the war to win a battle today makes as much sense as not fighting at all.
      • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

        Tue, September 18, 2007 - 3:42 AM
        " Sean, over 1 million Iraqis have likely died. Isn't that more important than 3,000 Americans? "

        But these things are linked..

        Without 911 the Iraq war and the war on Afghanistan would have been a very hard sell (if not impossible).

        I know this because i was opposed to both wars from the beginning and i witnessed how 911 was used in a propaganda manner..The warmongers used fearmongering with 911 as proxy and they still do sometimes..

        The secondary consequences of 911 are far greater then the 3000 Americans killed.
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          Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

          Tue, September 18, 2007 - 9:09 PM
          The point of 911 truth is to hide a willful disinterest of a potential danger and criminal exploitation of the realized event by the current administration. I don't believe that Bush planned Katrina, but just like 911 they could have worked to prevent it, and did not, then they made a fair show at exploiting the devestation for their own personal politics.
          • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

            Tue, September 18, 2007 - 9:14 PM
            I just wish people did less whining and more activism.
            • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

              Tue, September 18, 2007 - 9:55 PM
              kent state
              • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

                Sun, September 23, 2007 - 11:11 AM
                just meaning that if you do get too active in your pursuit of justice, your government has a surprise for you and you probably ain't gonna like it.

                Like Jeff, I have my little question, and that is, Who among you wants to argue that there is a sense of proportion between Kenneth Starr spending 70 million on Bill Clinton's penis and George Bush grudgingly and reluctantly awarding 3 million dollars for the biggest military and intelligence failure in American History which only served to raise more questions than it answered.?


                remember no fibbing or exaggerating the facts. just a nice impassioned defense of your rreality.
                • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

                  Mon, September 24, 2007 - 1:01 PM
                  "Kenneth Starr spending 70 million on Bill Clinton's penis"

                  You keep repeating this myth and your obsession with Billy's willy. The amount spent on Lewinsky was about $6.2 million. Most of that was for the overly high prices lawyers charge. And do your numbers include the costs of the still ongoing NIST investigations?

                  archive.southcoasttoday.com/dail...8.htm

                  www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...199.htm

                  edition.cnn.com/ALLPOLITIC...robe.costs/

                  www.ardemgaz.com/prev/Clin...ton29.html
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                    Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

                    Mon, September 24, 2007 - 1:27 PM
                    and from NIST


                    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coll...ade_Center

                    The NIST report
                    [edit] Design of the study

                    The outer shell of the south tower (tower 2) of the WTC is still standing at right. The 22 story Marriott Hotel in the foreground was crushed when the adjacent tower collapsed.After the FEMA report had been published, and following pressure from technical experts, industry leaders and families of victims, the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology conducted a three year $24 million investigation into the structural failure and progressive collapse of several WTC complex structures.[50] The study included in-house technical expertise and drew upon the knowledge of several outside private institutions for aid to include:

                    Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (SEI/ASCE)
                    Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE)
                    National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
                    American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC)
                    Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)
                    Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEANY)


                    How has the investigation been funded?

                    The agency received $16 million for the investigation in September 2002 from the fiscal year 2002 supplemental appropriation.

                    www.nist.gov/public_affa...tion_911.htm


                    • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

                      Mon, September 24, 2007 - 10:52 PM
                      "How has the investigation been funded?

                      The agency received $16 million for the investigation in September 2002 from the fiscal year 2002 supplemental appropriation."

                      lol. So much for the myth that more was spent on Bill's penis.

                      Another myth bites the dust
                      • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

                        Mon, September 24, 2007 - 11:21 PM
                        My opinion is that the governments responsibility is at least is at the level of willful negligence and perhaps opportunism if not direct involvement. I dont claim to know what happened. The evidence pointing towards conspiracy seems to have some substance, but I dont claim to be an expert.


                        I agree with Cdub though. There are enough crimes that we know for goddamn sure are happening today, and those alone should be enough to make us want to revolt, so why spend so much time on a controversial point that is difficult to prove? Assuming the government actually would fly planes into our own buildings, is that really worse than killing a million people based on an intentional lie in Iraq? I dont think it is. What we know for sure the government is doing is worse than if the government was behind 9-11, so maybe we should focus on the issue at hand and what we know is real.

                        The government is just as evil even if they had nothing to do with 9-11.
                        • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

                          Mon, September 24, 2007 - 11:25 PM
                          I didnt believe the government was behind 9-11. Now Im not sure. However, I dont necessarily believe they were behind it, but I no longer rule it out entirely.

                          Still, the crimes we know about are greater than than what happened on 9-11.
                          • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

                            Mon, September 24, 2007 - 11:40 PM
                            I think its perhaps more likely that Bush actually had nothing to do with 9-11, but didnt take enough precaution to prevent it, perhaps even wanting it to happen to exploit the aftermath.
  • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

    Mon, September 24, 2007 - 8:19 PM
    Not following the tribe closely as it's activity is numerous, I hadn't notice this thread, and pardon me for those who had haven't read above.

    I don't really know who is behind 9/11 Truth, but it does resemble that from a page of the COINTELPRO book. It could also be just something that people are making quick buck, and taking advantage of some speculations that people were already having.

    A common thread I noticed among conspiracies is that they tend to happen when the government is secretive, and we have one of the most secretive one since at least the Roosevelt administration. People know that the government has lied, and the media isn't very straight forward either.

    If the government is behind the theory (not the action itself), and I really can't really be to sure that they necessarily are, and we may never know, then it would be to get to people who didn't buy the lie that Hussein is behind 911, but want to deny that any US presence that is in the mid-East and the Gulf States is actually making security worst in the United States, and that 9/11 had nothing to do presence their. But this would be speculation on my part, as I have nothing to prove that. It is quite possible that the government had nothing to do with the fabrication of the theory, but would take advantage of the fact that such a theory is going around.

    I've always had doubts about it because it would have been just to risky for the government to do this sort of thing and it's demise would happen, and the evidence has been pretty weak.

    A side note I would like to make is about the term conspiracy theory. While the ones like this one seem so unlikely to me, conspiracies do happen in the sense that people do scheme for certain things to happen. But it is hard for some people to figure which is the truth and what is not. When I was a kid, I asked my father if people heard about the Holocaust that was happening in Germany; his response was that people did, but war often has so many rumors that people don't always believe them. I don't think this is very different. If WMD's and the Hussein connection were the ones promoted by the government, and they weren't true, perhaps this one is from the eyes of many people.

    It doesn't help matter when it was brought up that there would have to be another Pearl Harbour mentioned frequently by 911 conspiracy proponents, But that doesn't mean it would have been worth it to the government to blow up a few buildings that could have caused considerably more lives than it did. I think the Bush administration would have gone to war anyway, just a couple of years later.
    • Re: whats the point of 9/11 truth?

      Mon, September 24, 2007 - 8:59 PM
      Jim, I am sooo flattered that you've been paying such close attention to my Clinton's penis/9/11 funding analysis. Hell, I'm blushing.!

      Although no one has answered my question yet about the sense of proportion or propriety yet, I'd like to show you where we got started with the numbers and why it's so hard to get a crisp clean breakdown on Republican spending because its hard to tell where the cigars leave off and the stained dress begins.

      www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/....probe.costs/

      Looks like the Total of Bill's shenanigans according to Starr's overzealous scrutiny was close to 80 million and perhaps only seven of that went directly to the spilled DNA.

      So maybe the final tally is 2.2 to 1 spending, sticky skirts to murdered americans, that probably sounds better to some of us eh?

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