9/11 PROJECT
MISSION
I WANT TO TRY AND FIND TRUTH. IS TRUTH SOMETHING THAT IN THIS DAY AND AGE OF DIGITIAL PHOTO AND VOICE MANIPULATION SOMETHING THAT CAN HAPPEN. ARE WE LIVING IN AN ORWELLIAN WORLD WHERE THE TRUTH CAN BE MANUFACTURED? I HOPE NOT. I AM NOT A SUPPORTER OF PRESIDENT BUSH NOR DO I THINK THAT HE IS AN EVIL MAN. I BELIEVE THAT HE IS THE MOST UNENGAGED PRESIDENT THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN. HE WOULD RATHER LEARN THE INNER WORKINGS OF AN OFFICE PRANK THAN AL-QAEDA
FOR THOSE THA DON'T KNOW THERE IS A GROUP OUT THERE CALL 9/11 TRUTH MOVEMENT (SEE SIDEBAR). THEY CLAIM THAT THE HEINOUS ATTACK THAT HAPPENED ON THAT CLEAR DAY IN SEPTEMBER 2001 WAS AN INSIDE JOB OR AT LEAST THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION WAS COMPLICIT IN THE ATTACK.
IT IS NOT MY AIM TO DISMISS WHAT PEOPLE THINK BUT TO SHOW THAT THESE CONSPIRACIES DO NOTHING TO HELP THE SITUATION. THAT THEY ARE LOOKING IN THE WRONG PLACE FOR ANSWERS. THE WORLD OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IS MORE TERRIFYING THAT ANYTHING MOST AMERICANS WOULD LIKE TO THINK AND RATHER THAN FACE THAT THEY LOOK FOR ANSWERS THAT DON'T HAVE TO HAVE THEM FACE IT OR TRY TO UNDERSTAND IT.
WE NEED TO BE MORE ENGAGED ON WHAT IS OUT THERE BEYOND OUR BORDERS. THAT WE ARE NOT AN ISLAND IN AN EMPTY SEA. AND THE ANSWER IS NOT HATE AND BOMBS BUT TRYING TO UNDERSTAND.
IN THE ALTERNET ARTICLE THERE IS A PART WHERE DAVID RAY GRIFFIN TALKS ABOUT THAT ANYONE WHO BELIEVES THE OFFICIAL STORY IS A CONSPIRACY THEORIST CAUSE IT WAS CARRIED OUT BY A GROUP IF INDIVIDUALS. THIS IS PART OF HIS DEFINITION OF A CONSPIRACY TO SECRETLY CARRY OUT AN EVENT. HE IS MAKING UP WORDS. A CONSPIRACY THEORY IS ON THAT HAS A SECRET GOVERMENT OR SHADOWY CABAL THAT CARRIES OUT AN EVENT RATHER THAN BROAD SOCIAL FORCES AND HUMAN COLLECTIVES. 9/11 WAS CARRIED OUT BY SOCIAL FORCES AND A HUMAN COLLECTIVE, SORRY TO SAY MUCH OF WHICH THE UNITED STATES HAD BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR.
THE HUMAN COLLECTIVE WAS THE MUJAHADEEN THE UNITED STATES ABANDONED AT THE END OF THE COLD WAR WHICH BECAME THE TALIBAN AND AL-AQEDA. THE SOCIAL FORCES WAS THE POVERTY AND EVEYTHING THAT CAME WITH THE UNITED STATES AND THE WORLD TURNING THEIR BACK ON THEIR ONCE ALLIES
FROM WHAT I'VE BEEN READING THERE ARE FIVE SMOKING GUNS AS THE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT. ONE: WHERE WAS AIR FORCE RESPONSE. TWO: BUSH STAYS IN THE SCHOOL. THREE: THE COLLAPSE OFWTC 1,2 AND 7. WHAT HIT THE PENTAGON AND WHAT HAPPENED TO FLIGHT 93, WAS IT SHOT DOWN?
AS FOR THE AIR FORCE THEY DID RESPOND. THEY WERE NOT INFOMED TILL ALMOST 9AM BECAUSE OF SOME CONTROLLERS NOT KNOWING WHAT WAS HAPPENING. THEY LOST TRANSPONDER AND TRIED TO RETRY TO ACQUIRE THE SIGNAL. WHEN THE AIR FORCE DID GET TO MANHATTAN FROM OTIS AFB IN CAPE COD, MASS. BOTH TOWERS WERE ALREADY HIT.
NOW THE TRUTHERS SAY THAT DOZENS OF BASES COULD HAVE SCAMBLED FIGHTERS TO RESPOND. THIS IS PARTL CORRECT. THERE ARE ONLY 2 BASES ON THE EAST COAST AFTER THE END OF THE COLD WAR THAT HAD ALERT FIGHTER, FIGHTERS THAT COULD BE AIRBORNE IN 15 MINUTES FROM THE TIME THEY GET THE SIGNAL. THESE TWO BASES WERE OTIS AT CAPE COD, MASS AND LANGELY AFB IN VIRGINIA.
ONE OF THE PROBLEMS WAS NOT THAT THERE WAS NO RESPONSE WAS THAT THE RESPONSE WAS SLOW. NO ONE IN THEIR WORST NIGHTMARE ON THE LOWER LEVELS OF THE GUY IN THE SEAT THOUGHT THAT MULITPLE AIRCRAFT WOULD BE HIJACKED FOR THE PURPOSE OF SLAMMING THEM IN TO BUILDINGS. THERE HAD NEVER BEEN A CASE OF MULTIPLE HIJACKINGS IN THE UNITED STATES.
THE ONE CASE THAT THE TRUTHERS LIKE TO BRING UP IS THE PAYNE STEWART CASE THE F-16 WAS ALREADY AIRBORNE AND IN THE AREA ACCORDING TO THE NTSB. TRUTHERS WOULD HAVE A CASE IF THERE WERE IN FACT FIGHTERS IN THE AIR AT THE TIME.