MCFCinUSA said:
Maintainin said:
MCFCinUSA said:
A friend of mine asked me to watch this because they wanted to know my opinion of it, and I fully concur with your assessment above, Dr Damocles.
What's really most shocking is how you'd expect people to be able to think for themselves and be intelligent enough to figure out that man really did land on the moon and hijackers really did overpower aircraft and destroy the WTC with them. A lot of this rubbish being peddled by crackpots is easily debunked, and that's before you get into the really lunatic fairy-tale explanations and 'motivations' of invisible groups of people profiteering out of 9/11 or who needed to stir up an agenda through it.
People who think there's a mass conspiracy simply have no idea of what this would entail, and how impossible it would be, irrespective of how irrational and insane these ideas are.
It is truly frightening how stupid some people can be.
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity" Martin Luther King Jr
...nice paraphrase by the late Dr. MLK Jr tho what make's me laugh is the way you and others chuck the words
crackpots, irrational, lunatic, agenda, conspiracy and theorists etc around as if to say anyone open minded enough to free-think out of the box for themselves with an analytical mind approach should be ridiculed subject to mockery and derision.
Power of the media eh ! (how truly frightening)
- because Maintainin, such stories are utterly foolish and childlike in their simplicity and lack of substance; hence the words I ascribe to them.
beatyswollocks said:
In my opinion, September 11th was an inside job. Now there will be a fair few, in fact probably the majority of members on this forum who will quickly dismiss the claim, stating it "impossible" and "irrational". Answer me this, why does the 9/11 commission report not even mention building 7? there are dozens upon dozens of unanswered questions, that in any other global catastrophic event would have been answered without hesitance, or at least looked into, which can not be said for 9/11. What makes you think the us government would not kill thousands of innocent lives, if what as a result of 9/11, the invasion of iraq, resulted in the killings of tens of thousands of innocent lives, men women and children. This is, of course, just my opinion, however, as some users have said throughout the topic is that these truthers or as so many of you call them "braindead conspiracy theorists" include Professors of physics, mechanical engineering, demolition experts, firemen on the scene of 9/11, ex cia members and countless more have come out and supported the "inside job" theory. Answers that are not answered and most sadly, will probably end up not being answered for the foreseeable future.
A few questions for you:-
- do you believe everything you 'read' and 'see'?
(like stories in newspapers similar to 'Aliens abducted my baby and brought her up as Elvis for six years')
Such a lot of what has been written and spoken about the above is absolute horseshit. Your job is to use your noddle and figure out what is sensible and rational, and what isn't.
Einstein did a lot of his theoretical physics work with what he called 'thought experiments'. Anyone with any experience and intelligence should be able to do the same sort of thing to figure out a few things regarding 9/11 and all the bullshit that's written and spoken about it.
- have you actually read the 9/11 Commission Report which you mention above with such authority?
There's about as much sense talked about this as there is in the Sanchez thread and the Transfer Forum. Use your common sense in interpreting things that other people sensationalise, make-up, and put out there for their own purposes.
- just because WTC 7 fell down, and possibly in a way that isn't easily understood or explained, it doesn't follow that there is a deep dark conspiracy behind the WTC attacks. In all probability it just means that after the aircraft hitting the buildings, and those buildings coming down, there was concomitant structural damage that weakened and collapsed other buildings around them. If you ever went to the WTC you'd know that underneath them there was extensive infrastructure including shops and transportation networks. Who knows what effect the collapse of the Twin Towers had on all of that, and in what sort of state the foundations of nearby buildings were left in? Those buildings stood 1/4 mile high and together weighed approximately 1 million tons. Think about it.
- finally, when you talk about "The US Gov't" just who are you referring to?
Every organisation is made up of individual people. There isn't this grey all-powerful faceless entity doing things off its own bat like in the Terminator movies (Skynet) it is made up of real people. Real people have children, wives, pensions, and ethical values. They make their own individual decisions, based upon their own self-interests; mostly pretty good ones.
Rather than regurgitate my earlier postings on this I invite you to read this <a class="postlink-local" href="http://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=139026" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">viewtopic.php?f=5&t=139026</a> (it'll only take you 2 minutes) and then come in back in here and explain what and how you envisage happened, AFTER you've given it a little more thought.
I know you can't be so stupid as to swallow hook, line and sinker the idiotic ramblings of other people without applying any of your own intelligence to the problem whatsoever!
...it were his personal opinion thought of by himself then shared,
buh' there you go again eh
Chuckie !
Anyways, let us step away from the WTC for a moment and have a lil look at events in the nations capital...
The general public are told that after contact were lost with Flight 77 and its transponder was deactivated an 'unidentified' aircraft was eventually picked up on radar headin for the nations capital at some 500 miles an hour and that this turned out to be Flight 77.
(Unidentified) Have you seen the tracking technology available to NORAD and Cheyenne Mountain ?
Even when a transponder is turned 'off' a plane can still be tracked by conventional radar let alone by the technology those guys have !
At around 9.27 NORAD says it ordered jets scrambled from Langley Air Force Base over in Virginia (where CIA's own fleet are based) to intercept Flight 77.
At 9.35 it is said three F-16 Fighter Falcons took off from Langley for Washington DC, note the approximately eight minutes' response time before they were in the air in this official story when the Air Force apparently claims response times of scramble to 29,000 feet in two and a half minutes.
An F-16 has a top speed of some 1,800 miles an hour, twice the speed of sound.
At 9.37 Flight 77 was 'lost from radar screens' and as the story goes hit the Pentagon a minute later precisely 60 years to the day since construction of the building began on 9/11 1941 same year as Pearl Harbor.
Anyway the general public were told the NORAD jets arrived at
9.49 !
These jets flew at speeds of about ".9 mach" or juss below the speed of sound according to information shared by Barry Venable the spokesman for NORAD, he's noted as saying that .9 mach is between 603 and 675 miles per hour depending on the altitude the jets were flying at, the higher they fly the faster they go.
Of course, their top speed of 1,800 miles an hour is not possible over land at lower altitudes, but less than the speed of sound for jets capable of twice the speed of sound might legitimately be questioned here when they were pursuing a suspected hijacked passenger airliner headin for the nations capital after two others had been crashed into NYC's WTC buildings...
The same NORAD spokesman Barry Venable also quoted similar speeds for the jets NORAD say were scrambled from Otis Air Force Base,
how
ever an Otis spokesman quoted by the local Cape Cod Times said the 153 miles from there to NYC can be made by an F-15 in as little as ten minutes, that's around 918 miles per hour.
This speed would have put jets from Langley over the Pentagon at about 9.38/39 just as Flight 77 was turning in to crash not "12 minutes or 105 miles away" as the NORAD timelines says they were at the time of impact.
A commercial airliner can fly from Washington DC to Ohio turn back and fly all the way from the Midwest to cross a
'No Fly Zone' and then crash into the
headquarters of the most powerful military force on the Planet Earth without a military reponse worth the name ! ? !
Vice President Dick Cheney even told NBC
Meet the Press programme that: "It doesn't do any good to put up a combat air patrol if you don't give them instructions to act, if, in fact, they feel it's appropriate." Did he say this to divert attention from the fact that this is precisely what was/is happening every week in the skies of North America ?
You can check out and intercept, stop, deflect or interrupt the progress or intended course of an aircraft without shooting it down
for goodness sake ! or was this Cheney's attempt to mislead the general public from the central questions that will inleash the genie.
Andrews Air Force Base the very one designated to defend the nations capital is only a little over ten miles away over the water from DC and pilots from AAFB could have had breakfast and still intercepted Flight 77 with time to spare.
This is even allowing for the fact that NORAD only activated interception procedures some 34 minutes after contact with the plane was lost.
Andrews Air Force Base is a minute or so away by fighter jet from Washington DC and that's why it is the nations capital's first line of air defence, in the name of
sanity the airspace above the Pentagon
and the White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is a
No Fly Zone ffs and thus of course there are going to be squadrons on standby at the nearest Air Force Base to defend and protect it's interests.
AAFB is one of the most famous bases in America and home of Air Force One not to mention foreign heads of State often pass through there. Again, are you going to locate the presidential plane at a base that does not have fighters that are ready to move at a moment's notice?
AAFB in fact has two major squadrons on what are officially termed the highest possible state of readiness, these are the 121st Fighter Squadron of the 113th Fighter Wing and the 321st Marine Fighter Attack Squadron of the 49th Marine Air Group.
Yes thousands of people are employed at the base and they have at their disposal the very F-16s that NORAD says it deployed from Langley, plus F/A-18 Fighters.
The sidewinder missiles carried by F-16s have a range of 18 miles and they would only have to get off the ground, lock in and fire to stop a plane crashing into the Pentagon, the fact that these jets were not scrambled from Andrews Air Force Base at any time before impact with the Pentagon is stunning.
The Andrews AFB website went down immediatly after 9/11 and did not reappear until around mid-November, when it came back online it no longer had a link to the Air Force web pages describing the capabilities and mission of 113th Fighter Wing of the Air National Guard at Andrews and the capability of reacting immediately to any threat by air to the nations capital.
MCFCinUSA: In your personal opinion, putting the actual size of the initial hole aside for a moment, what caused the first shown and reported hole in the wall at the Pentagon ? (serious question btw)