Posted on 08/15/2006 10:46:58 PM PDT by Moseley
9/11 Bush bashers
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: August 16, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Jonathon Moseley © 2006
On this fifth September 11 anniversary, some who hate Bush will gather in New York to profane the memory of the 3,000 victims. They will try to convince the country that 9/11 was not an attack by Islamic terrorists, but criminal mass murder by the Bush administration. Amazingly, fully one-third of Americans now believe that the government is guilty of some conspiracy concerning 9/11. Everything liberals believe about foreign policy was proven to be disastrously false on 9/11. Therefore, liberals must somehow deny that 9/11 actually happened.
After debating these characters extensively, I believe people need to know who they really are. Organizations like "Scholars for Truth" do not ask any questions seeking truth, but announce absolute conclusions that the Bush administration executed a criminal conspiracy to murder 3,000 Americans. Literally, they offer science fiction, not science. Remarkably, many 9/11 conspiracy peddlers spontaneously slander the Jews without rhyme or reason.
At a national conference broadcast nationwide on C-SPAN, key conspiracy leader Alex Jones announced that the American government has already collapsed and a shadow government is now running our country. This radio talk-show host next announced – on tape – that Osama bin Laden is now a paid agent of the CIA.
Professor Steven Jones of Brigham-Young University accused George Bush of being a dictator, mimicking the preamble of the Declaration of Independence. When asked if violent revolution was necessary, this scientist declared – in front of national TV cameras – that there is no peaceful way to achieve the group's goals. In the context of the question, professor Jones was calling for the violent overthrow of the government.
James Fetzer, a philosophy professor at the University of Minnesota who poses as a scientist, praised Venezuela President Hugo Chavez and promoted Chavez's proposal for an international criminal tribunal to put the Bush administration on trial. By e-mail, professor Fetzer accused me of being Jewish – sadly, I am not – because I disagree with his theories.
The goal is to convince Americans that there are no foreign enemies. We can all drop our guard. Stop defending America. Don't be ready to fight. Such agitprop helps America's enemies to more effectively attack the United States.
First, al-Qaida has repeatedly admitted planning and executing the 9/11 attacks. In a captured videotape recording of a private meeting in November 2001, bin Laden talks in detail about the 9/11 plot, comparing his expectations in advance to what actually occurred.
End of discussion, right? Nope. The 9/11 conspiracy peddlers reply that bin Laden is –today – on the payroll of the CIA and the Israeli Mossad. To explain away al-Qaida's proud admission, they "out" bin Laden as a CIA agent. (Where is Joe Wilson when you need him?) Some also insist that Al Jazeera is a television network operated by Israel, because Qatar lacks technical skills.
Second, of the World Trade Center, professors Fetzer and Jones insist "there was not enough kinetic energy to cause one floor to bring about the collapse of the floor below it." Yet about 29 floors tilted and fell onto the crumbling floor where the aircraft gouged out and removed support structure. Why would a university professor talk about "one floor" falling when everyone knows that 29 floors, plus 140 tons of aircraft and cargo, fell? Fetzer is intentionally deceiving the gullible. (But I am Jewish, he says, for disagreeing with him.)
Third, Fetzer and Jones argue that the Twin Towers could not have collapsed so neatly without a controlled demolition. Architects clarify that any such building is designed to load-shift. The failure of part of a floor causes other parts of that structure to compensate and take up the load. This means that each floor must always fail symmetrically. As long as any part of the floor remains intact, it is designed to pick up the remaining load. Thus, it was inevitable that the towers collapsed symmetrically and down the center. Furthermore, controlled demolitions start from the bottom up. The WTC collapse bears no resemblance to that whatsoever.
Fourth, many conspiracy peddlers insist that no airplanes ever hit the World Trade Center or Pentagon. The airplanes never existed. They refuse to acknowledge that tens of thousands of eyewitnesses went outside and watched the WTC burn before the second airplane hit. News footage was faked, they say, but they do not explain how thousands of journalists and New Yorkers all watched the airplane hit or how dozens of cameras all show the same thing. They ignore how American Airlines crash investigators verified their airplanes from the wreckage in order to file insurance claims and prepare for lawsuits. They do not explain why hundreds of civilian air traffic controllers and airport radar operators confirm the official explanation (indeed, are the sources for much of it). They assume that hundreds of local police and firefighters crawling over the wreckage covered up for the murderers of their fellow firefighters and cops.
Fifth, conspiracy mongers claim that no steel building has ever collapsed from fire alone, so the Twin Towers couldn't, either. However, the heavy-steel-construction McCormick Place Exhibition Hall collapsed after only 30 minutes of an ordinary fire in Chicago. No physical damage. No jet fuel. Just an ordinary fire softened the steel to the point of structural collapse. And that steel was not carrying the load of 110 floors above it. A dozen other fires in steel buildings have also collapsed floors because the steel softened and buckled. The Hotel Windsor lost its entire upper half in a fire. Clearly, the temperature of an ordinary fire can make a steel structure fail.
But, of course, the WTC towers did not collapse from fire alone, but from the severe physical damage of a 140-ton aircraft traveling at 540 mph shredding the support structures, not to mention the weight of the planes themselves. Incredible temperatures resulted from approximately 30,000 kilograms of jet fuel. But the fireball itself was an enormous, cataclysmic bomb, shattering the building's interior. They ignore how this fantastic bomb of jet fuel damaged the building. During the ensuing fire, the expansion of steel in 1,500 degree fires distorted the building and sheared off bolts and connectors, as the steel expanded, buckled and warped. Later, a "fuel air bomb" from jet fuel leaking down the elevator shaft shook the entire structure.
Sixth, conspiracy mongers engage in pure science fiction about whether the WTC buildings should have collapsed as they did. Such calculations are meaningless because we can never know the actual circumstances: What was the temperature inside? We will never know. Was there substandard construction material? Was the construction perfect? Was there corrosion from the salt air of the ocean during 35 years? Was the architectural design as good as the architects thought?
All such calculations are pure science fiction because there are a hundred variables we can never know. The mythmakers ignore the structural damage from the 1993 bombing. Islamic terrorists had calculated that their truck bomb in the basement garage would bring down the Twin Towers completely. The towers stood, but with what damage?
Similarly, the mythmakers claim that the towers fell at the same rate as objects in free fall. Actually, the towers fell in a span of between 12 and 20 seconds, whereas free fall is 9.22 seconds. Dr. Frank Greening's exhaustive paper demonstrates brilliantly that the Twin Towers collapse is entirely explainable from gravity alone. Furthermore, how the government can make buildings fall faster (consistent with the news footage) is never well explained.
Seventh, engineers at the Pentagon measured the hole from Flight 77 at 90 feet wide. Yet the fiction-peddlers claim that the hole was only 16 feet wide, based on a French author who apparently has never visited the United States. Conspiracy peddlers argue that a Boeing 757 would have made a hole wider than 16 feet. It did. Yet vast arguments, websites, books and careers are based on the hole being only 16 feet, instead of the actual 90 feet.
Eighth, other mythmakers point to lists of victims on each flight. They claim that the hijackers are missing from the passenger manifests, which proves that the government slipped the hijackers past security gates. But lists of victims obviously do not include the murderers who killed them.
Ninth, the 9/11 conspiracy peddlers all contradict each other. Collectively, they will claim that there is "overwhelming evidence" against the official explanation of 9/11. However, what is "overwhelming" is a mish-mash of contradictory and mutually exclusive scenarios. Each of the conspiracy peddlers proves the others wrong. Moreover, the conspiracy theories keep changing. When confronted by the falsehoods and contradictions, they simply change their story. This proves that they are not seeking the truth, but any excuse to bash Bush.
In general, conspiracy theorists point to elements of the official explanation they find hard to believe – but then adopt infinitely less believable, preposterous scenarios. Their scenarios do not answer their own questions any better than the official explanation (or even as well). These activists are simply intent on bending the truth, not finding it, to bash George Bush.
SPECIAL OFFER: The September edition of WND's acclaimed Whistleblower magazine takes a serious and comprehensive look at the conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11. Subscribe today!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jonathon Moseley is executive director of the U.S. Seaports Commission.
ping
Good thing I won't be in New York on 9/11, I would end up in the klink for beat the stuffing out of one of those snot nosed little punks.
These people are off their rockers.
Now, that's funny! Yes, we cannot advocate any physical abuse or assault. But some humor is what is sadly lacking. It is definitely true that these characters are way TOO serious. If they would step back for a moment, perhaps with a little humor, they might hit their forehead with their hand and ask "What am I doing?"
How do we know THEY weren't in on it??? How do they prove they weren't?
Hey -- this one actually sounds more plausible than theirs!
They were in on it? You are obviously referring to thinly-disquised documentary :) "Manchurian Candidate" an expose of mind-control techniques. You are on to something. After all, WHY are these conspiracy peddlers drawn back again and again to talk about 9/11? Could it be... memories.
Remember the conspiracy theorists credo: QUESTION REALITY!
Someone needs to explain to these a$$holes that they should Try on Bushes shoes.
Common sense tells me he wakes up to have his wife tell him what to do, see, hes just a man. Then from that point on he is under the microscope. Media wants to fry him for a screw up, they all wanna be Bernsteins and Woodwards. Opposition wants his ass too cuz he has the seat that drives the country. Within the party there are some that want his job, want his a$$ cuzz they think they are better. Whistle blowers and conspirators that have issues. Every moment he and his image are under assault. Everyone wants to find that big secret. Poor guy cant stop to fart, pick his nose nor scratch ole lester. See a$$holes, hes walking a very fine line.
Opposition wants him to spend more in iraq, want him to get out,do anything other than what he is doing. Taxpayer wants Rummy to spend less.
Its a very competitive place and efficient too. Guaranteed if there was a story, aspiring Bernstein and Woodwards would be found, sources would feed him and there would be a huge blo out. Buttttt it aint happened.
Best part? Tomorrow, if there were a democrat leader in those shoes, he would have the same life in a petri dish under the microscope and his detractors would sing the same chorus.
The lemmings need to think this thru.
Amazingly??
A large chunk of the under-25 crowd is being told what to think through our educational systems. If that weren't enough to drive socialist propaganda into their minds, they have endless channels of streaming media and Podcasts going 24/7 from Noam Chomsky, Alex Jones and the major left-wing nutcase groups.
WinAmp TV alone has at least 10 streams of related content from several sources going at any one time. Conservative streaming media? Where is it?
Sad to say, but when it comes to spreading a message, we conservatives don't make good use of the available tools.
Let's see... first on the list on Youtube.com's "News & Blogs" section is the group, "Bush Sucks" with (currently) 3,163 members. "Conservative Youtubers" has only 664 members and it's private. The videos in "News & Blogs" is littered with anti-Bush videos.
Where is our side being represented to younger minds?
I live very close to Ground Zero & they're out there all the time. It takes self-control sometimes to keep from getting violent. Mostly I see college-age kids, with signs. It's pretty infuriating, perhaps not on the level of a Phelps GodHatesFags funeral protest, but maybe not all that far off.
I have a friend who's become immersed in this stuff & is leaning towards accepting these theories that are concocted by college professors from out West who seem to be missing a few key facts that relate to the layout of the complex & how that affected certain factors. Some of the questions & issues posed by these people seem interesting & almost legitimate for half a second--until logic intrudes & unravels any & all of their ideas.
The most important point in all of this is that any coverup would've entailed an awful lot of people keeping secrets. That doesn't happen, & knowing that is the easiest way to apply some common sense to this garbage. I mean, you'd think a major news organization would've uncovered something by now, for Pete's sake.
But I don't even waste my time with common sense with these people, because nothing seems to change their minds, so I leave them to it. They're convinced, they're true believers. My mind's made up, don't confuse me with the facts. Moronic.
There is one aspect to the whole thing that does give me pause, and that is the way Christie Todd Whitman proclaimed the air to be safe. If I wanted to spend the time looking at all of the pertinent occurences in that, I might well find something that I wouldn't like. A lot of people are starting to become very, very ill, some already are. Some are dying. There's something about all that that doesn't seem right at all, in spite of the fact that many workers down there weren't properly protected. But I'm not interested in fishing for conspiracy theories, and if the government did something I think is crappy, it wouldn't be the first nor the last time. The workers should bear some responsibility if they were advised to wear proper gasmasks & refused, but who knows if that's actually the case, and it's distasteful to think about assigning blame here. I'm left thinking it could have and should have been handled better, and probably on the parts of the EPA, the adminstration, and the workers. What has resulted is a real shame.
But the whole 9/11 thing & how they're trying to accuse the government of all sorts of nonsense is positively nauseating. In correspondence with my friend, I did find a site that had a lot of good info. www.911myths.com. The Popular Mechanics piece might be there, I wasn't looking for it, but if not, that's another good piece of work.
Lee Harvey Oswald was one of the hijackers.
Thanks. This may be the best piece I've seen on this subject.
Great news, the BS will swing a ton of votes to Republicans in November. Works for me.
How on earth is this guy teaching at BYU?!?
I lived in Salt lake City from 1996-2002 and seriously, UT is the most Republican state in the union, BYU seriously conservative and there is really very little separation of state and church there...the Mormons do run just about everything, especially the college and they love George W.
It's really hard to believe they would put up with this kook for one minute.
I am not much older than those college aged kids. I never went through that phase and I went to H.S. in CA. Must have been going to church while I was growing up. Too many of these kids growing up with one parent and no good spiritual upbringing. Of course maybe some are just rebeling against their conservative parents. Thia nonsense wil not stop until we take back our schools and the media. I guess if I am ever at Ground Zero, I will have to wear earplugs so I do not hear their drivel.
lemmings
i think i'll have to get a tatoo so i too can fit in
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.