The Truth About 9/11

A sea of humanity lined up outside of my building yesterday, which is about a block from Ground Zero, to spread the word about what really happened on 9/11. They held up signs, passed out flyers, and chanted various slogans.

Unlike the usual anti war protesters or civil liberty defenders that I just snear at these guys actually caught my attention. What they were saying actually made sense. Maybe I just wanted to believe them. Could just be the conspiracy theorist in me overtaking my common sense and rational thought process. But whatever it was I kind of liked it.

As I read through one of the brochures I could easily see their side of the story. I'm not saying that I believe all of it but I think that if you read through it you can judge for yourself what you think actually has some credibility to it and what's too much of a leap of faith.

For instance, all the talk about 9/11 centers around the World Trade Center attacks but not much is made of the Pentagon attack. Questions remain about that incident since surveillance tapes from that day were conspiciously removed amidst allegations that the damage was more likely caused by blasts since the debris field was not consistent with that of a plane crash.

As for the Twin Towers themselves the nutjobs on the street corner believe that they were brought down not just by the planes but in conjunction with already planted bombs since the way the towers collapsed was neat just like when demolishing a building. Combine that with eye witness reports of a blast in the basement just prior to the plane hitting and you have all the makings of an inside job conspiracy theory.

Analysis of wreckage aside, the real meat and potatoes aspect of the theories is that the government either planned the attacks or knew about them and let them happen. The fact that a think tank with ties to Dick Cheney stated just weeks prior that an attack of this nature was needed in order to sell the American people on the idea of going to war in the Middle East sounds very suspicious. As does the fact that simulated war games involving a hijacking scenario were taking place the morning of 9/11 rendering our air defenses useless.

The pamphlet that I read as well as an article in Maxim further detail several theories including ones that indicated that 9/11 mastermind Mohammad Atta had ties to the CIA and they even went so far as to protect him from getting captured by Isreali intelligence officers.

Speaking of Isreal there's even a theory that the Jews are to blame but that's not surprising. What is surprising though is that most people agree with these nut jobs. According to the article in Maxim, something like 85% of Americans think that the government may have let the attacks happen.

Personally, nothing would surprise me. I've read way too many Clive Cussler books to not have an open mind about off the wall theories. Anything's possible. But the most plausible explanation is that the Free Masons had something to do with it.

If you're not familiar with the Free Masons just watch the movie National Treasure. It's all about them. Basically they were/are a secret society that may have included a lot of our founding fathers. They were secretly spread out across all government agencies which means that they are not bound by any obligations to any one post. Their ranks could include anyone from Bill Gates to George Steinbrenner to members of Bush's cabinet or even Bush himself. They are omnipotent. Everyone and no one at the same time. And if you ask me they had something to do with this.

But that's just me. The crazy guy on the street corner has his own ideas. Who you believe is up to you.