Recently, I watched an amazing documentary about 9/11 called Loose Change that I challenge everyone to watch. Personally, I find it very interesting, if nothing else. Please, watch and give me your impression....
On that note, I will let it be known that I am a conspiracy theorist.
"The truth is out there."
"Trust no one."
Fox Molder is my freekin' fantasy/hero.
I don't trust people with lots of money and I don't trust people with lots of power. I don't trust corporations and, I certainly don't trust the govornment. (generally speaking, I don't trust men either, but that's a totally differnt topic. :) )
Think I have trust issues? watch the documentary...
Other facinating conspiracy theories that I half-way think could be plausible:
1) The Man-Made Origin of AIDS ; congress appropriations bill for biological warfare
2) The Best Democracy Moeny Can Buy ; Buy it on Amazon - it's a good read :)
5 comments:
good thing i dont have money or power... must be why you love me ;)
Hi, Miriam. Jen linked to your blog on AIM.
I only watched about 8 minutes because I was having internet problems, but I'll download the whole thing and watch it later. I did see something similar circulating around the internet which focused on the use of explosives at the base of the building, and the possibility that it was an "inside" job meaning that the U.S. government planted the explosives.
I'm not a huge fan of these conspiracy theories for several reasons. First, they take attention away from bigger problems with the Bush administration and the intelligence community as a whole. Richard Clark's book is probably the best criticism of Bush's mishandling of Sept. 11, and although it received a lot of attention when Clark testified before Congress, it's all but forgotten now. I don't think that the Bush administration could have pulled off this conspiracy even if it wanted to because him and his cohorts are utterly incompetent. Isn't that a lot scarier? The people who are supposed to protect us are doing a lousy job. I'm a lot more scared of a bunch of idiots who by most accounts did have warning, several years in advance, of a hijacking and an attack on the Twin Towers, yet were too incompetent to do anything about it. If the administration is at least competent enough to pull off a huge conspiracy, I can sleep a lot better at night. This guy doesn't even know what to do with a pretzel.
Also, if you buy into the whole conspiracy thing, there isn't a really great argument for political change. If there's a mass back-door conspiracy, it doesn't matter who is in office, you're still screwed. In fact, there's no reason to vote. I'd much rather have a Democrat than a Republican majority. Even if there is a conspiracy, at least I'd be able to get birth control. There's a quality of life issue.
In that same vein, these liberal conspiracy theories make liberals look like kooks. Most people vote for the lesser of two evils, and anything that makes the liberal candidates look less attractive than the GOP is a bad thing.
Also, there's a vein of anti-Semitism that runs through a lot of these conspiracy theories. Mayor Bloomberg is Jewish. The guy who owned the WTC is Jewish. If you google for the websites that support Sept. 11 conspiracy theories, you'll see a lot of them talk about the Protocols of Zion - which have been proven to be fake, by the way, yet they seem to live on in popular culture - the Jewish conspiracy, the Israel connection, yadda yadda. So, I'm wary of these conspiracy things because of that, too.
I've watched a documentary about the possibility of explosives, and there are two possibilities that the filmmaker left out. One, he doesn't address the issue of jet fuel. The buildings collapsed the way that they did because the hot jet fuel - and there was a ton of jet fuel - weakened the metal frame of the buildings. Secondly, he didn't address the possibility that terrorists planted secondary explosives. The whole thing kinda operated under the assumption that if secondary explosives were used, the government had to have planted them. I don't buy that. Terrorists could have easily gained access to the building to plant explosives. They did it before; they had a trial run.
Within the short portion of the film that I was able to watch, I identified a few problems. The biggest problem with these sorts of films is that they take everything out of context. A good documentary will give you context and let you make up your mind on your own. 1) So what the guy who already owned part of the WTC bought the twin towers AND a huge insurance policy? If I'm going to buy the two tallest buildings in the world, I'm sure as hell going to buy a big insurance policy. As far as him purchasing the whole thing, so what? He probably purchased part of the WTC with the intention of expanding ownership. Isn't that what businessmen do?
2) The stock market stuff with the airline industry - again, so what? I remember quite well that there was a ton of crap going on with the airline industry. The cost of jet fuel was ridiculous and flights were very expensive. I remember trying to book a flight for November 2001 before Sept. 11, and the cost was outrageous. Again, you have to put this stuff in context.
Did the GOP and Bush in particular exploit the tragedy of Sept. 11 for political reasons? Yes. Did he use the terrorist attacks as a pretext for political revolution, as those advisory documents suggest? Yes. Did the government know more about Sept. 11 and did it fail to prevent the attacks? Yes. Did the government plan the attacks? No. I highly doubt it. But, does that make Bush's actions any more commendable or less reprehensible?
It's a good video, indeed.
If the pentagon was hit by a plane where is it and why haven't stills from the security cameras shown it?
WTC7 was clearly demolished yet who is owning up to it?
Interesting footage of small explosions along the 2 towers. Suggests detonation.
911 was staged for TV and there is some crazy kind of game being played with the human race by these people. Killing used to justify more killing.
Just don't buy into it.
Killing cannot save one soul, only love can do that!
I can only hope there are actually people competent enough to pull something like that off... anyone who is able to perpertrate a hoax on millions of people as nearly flawlessly as that despite the literal thousands of eyewitnesses and millions of TV viewers and permanent video documentation is definately a winner in my book...
although anyone competent and powerful enough to do something like that would probably have already neutralized China and established firm proxy control of the oil reserves in the mid east/south america... or hell at the very least just established complete dictatorial control of the country... Hitler was an idiot and he was able to do that with the reichstag bombing...
but we live in the real world
Hitler was not an idiot.
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