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In reply to the discussion: The Great Thermite Debate... [View all]BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)You are arguing that the plane hijackings and crashes are unlikely because they depend on a lot of people in government not being very diligent.
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I just don't find that surprising in the least.
People were able to get box cutters past security? Not exactly news.
They were able to overpower flight attendants? No story there.
They killed pilots? Gruesome, but not very surprising.
They steered 3 or 4 planes into their targets on a day when visibility was good? Takes some skill, but if I don't have to learn how to take off or land, I think I could manage to steer a plane with a little practice.
The military couldn't sort all this out, get planes aloft, and shoot the hijacked craft out of the sky? Well, we didn't take out many of the attackers at Pearl Harbor either. The element of surprise is a big advantage.
I agree the WTC7 collapse/implosion is most bewildering, and the government theory is nowhere near adequate.
But the problem we have is that if you back up from WTC7 and say that proves there was a planned demolition, that means that the two big towers had to be planned demolitions also. That, in turn, means that there had to be some team in that building that had the expertise, access, time, and opportunity to plant thousands of charges in order to do what is claimed in these video analyses.
I'm sorry. None of Osama's people could have done that in 1000 years. So the only way that version of things works is if you believe either a rogue element of the government -- perhaps using somebody like Blackwater, did such an operation. Or alternatively, all those financial interests that would profit from the towers crashing and the SEC records being destroyed employed a company like Blackwater to do it.
But we know that the planes crashed into the building. And if you believe that Osama was behind THAT part of it, then you have to believe that the demolition team (either the government or Wall Street money) was teamed up with Osama, each seeing their common interest in this operation.
In other words, the video argument doesn't stand on its own. To accept the video argument, then you must accept that this was a plot that goes way beyond Osama bin Laden. I'm not saying that is impossible. Our government has done some pretty damned evil things throughout its history. This would top them all by a wide margin.
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