First, there are photos taken before the firemen were deployed and the wall collapsed, which show a hole on the ground floor about 18 feet in diameter with little damage to the sides and top. Nor are there any skid marks on the lawn. Yet the alleged aircraft weighed about tons and had a wing span of feet together with two huge engines and a tail of 40 feet in height.
Although the cabin could conceivably fit into that hole it is impossible for the whole plane to do so. The photographic evidence shows no pieces of plane, baggage, passengers, etc. Some debunkers of the inside job hypothesis claim that the plane disintegrated upon impact and its wings and tail conveniently folded up so as to enter the hole.
The Pentagon released a series of four photographic frames purporting to show their version: The last three show a fireball at the impact, while the first shows a billowing white exhaust trail of something covered up by an object in the parking lot foreground.
The military refuses to release the complete set of photos to support their version. Moreover, the FBI confiscated surveillance photos at a nearby gas station reportedly five minutes afterwards and a nearby hotel. Some additional problems for the official story are: The alleged Saudi terrorist who flew Flight 77 was described by his flight school trainers as being completely incompetent.
When the government finally released the flight control transcript, the last 20 minutes was missing. The alleged attacking craft made a difficult degree descent to fly horizontally a few feet above the ground to hit the most fortified and least populated portion of the Pentagon.
As Griffin points out, however, the evidence is not a chain of events linked together so that the disproof or invalidity of one link would destroy the whole theory. Indeed the pieces of evidence are largely independent, each suggestive of an official complicity. I agree with Griffin that the cumulative evidence is overwhelmingly supportive of the scam theory.
Obviously there are many mysteries remaining, like what happened to the planes and passengers. One would hope that further independent research would be able to answer the many remaining unresolved questions. There are other objections which are not based upon disputing the material evidence of the scam, but rather upon the irrationality or implausibility of the scam as a whole.
Let me summarize some of these objections see Griffin, for a fuller discussion. In short, acceptance of scam theory also implies massive incompetence of the authorities. In particular, why demolish Building 7? Why hit the Pentagon? You must read Griffin to appreciate this point. Instead, the questions they have raised about the official account are based on conflicts between this account and known facts, whereas the questions just now raised about the complicity theory are rhetorical questions, implying that no answers could be given to any of them.
But perhaps answers can be given to at least some of them. My response would add the following. We have to try to make sense of it in that context. There is another important aspect to consider, namely the projected militarization of space. I agree that if we clever leftists were to devise such a scam it would be a lot simpler and less damaging, while still accomplishing the goal of galvanizing the people for Pax Americana.
And I bet we could blame it on Iraq, Iran and gay marriage to boot. Anyway, who said the planners have to be rational? What difference would it make if the alleged inside job was more rational and managed to implicate Saddam Hussein? Why not — but why even bother when the media and the Democratic Party are totally subservient? Implicit in these various objections is a certain amount of wishful thinking that a critical mass of people will wake up, and that there will arise sufficient whistleblowers to expose the system.
The neocons, on the other hand, in their contempt of truth and democracy, believe they can rule forever by blatant deception and intimidation.
The Bush regime is arrogant and thinks it can get away with almost anything and they are masters of the psychology of the Big Lie. Never underestimate the power of the Big Lie: The complexity and irrationality of the alleged scam is one of its bulwarks in the sense that the bigger the lie the more apt it is to be believed.
In view of the solid evidence in support of the scam theory, I think it behooves the respectable Left to take Griffin and other researchers more seriously. First, conspiracy theorists are generally not involved in grounded political and economic projects. In addition, conspiracy scenarios attract some genuine nuts whose outrageous speculations tend to discredit any serious inquiry. In my discussions with various people on the left I have encountered a variety of responses, which would serve to make a good psychological study.
In particular, the faint-hearted liberals generally recoil in horror that the government could be so diabolical and corrupt; it undermines their whole world view to the point they turn off their reasoning faculties. There is another interesting psychological aspect. So the usual way out of this indecision is either to reject the theory out of hand, or to ignore the whole thing because it is a waste of valuable time to sift through all the evidence and arguments on the subject.
So far, to my knowledge the orthodox left press has only uniformly either ignored or ridiculed the scam theorists and done it in the most superficial and sectarian way.
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The author of that post likened the collapse of the North and South Towers to an act of controlled demolition due to the way the buildings fell so quickly and perfectly into their own footprint. After the dust had settled, theorists raised further evidence in the form of witness testimonies, citing reports of explosions being heard before the Towers collapsed and debris visibly shooting out from the lower levels of the buildings.
When the official report stated the Towers fell due to severe structural damage caused by the planes and resulting fires, conspiracy theorists or 'truthers' as they are otherwise known, argued the fires did not burn for long enough 56 minutes in the case of the South Tower to cause the catastrophic collapses.
Early video footage and photos taken from the scene did not seem to show much evidence of plane wreckage. Theorists maintain this was evidence that the Pentagon was not struck by Flight 77, but by a missile or unmanned drone instead. They also argue that the structural damage to the building was too minor to have been made by a commercial airliner and question why the plane piloted by an amateur was even allowed to crash into the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense.
According to official reports, the passengers onboard Flight 93 attempted to take back the plane from the hijackers and the subsequent struggle caused the aircraft to crash into an open field in Pennsylvania. As with the Pentagon attack, theorists state that little plane wreckage was actually discovered in the field and the crash site itself was too small for an airliner that size, arguing instead that the plane was shot down by the military and so it disintegrated over a larger area.
A common belief amongst 'truthers' is that the North American Aerospace Defense Command NORAD deliberately ordered their fighter jets to stand down and allow the hijacked planes to reach their targets. America seemingly had the most powerful air force in the world but failed to intercept any of the planes that day, which theorists believe is an indication of a government conspiracy to let the attacks go ahead.
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