Again until I looked into it closer I had no issue with the idea that this could be pulled off by any bunch of people with box cutters.
But if you really look at the evidence.... On 2/21/07, Stephen A. Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You left something out of this armchair analysis of the psyche of those who want to believe it was an inside job: Bigotry. If it was an inside job then it was Americans who destroyed our own buildings. That's obviously possible -- evil wicked mean and nasty, but possible. What Americans build, Americans are certainly capable of destroying. On the other hand, if it wasn't an inside job, then it was a small group of low-tech undereducated fundamentalist Muslim Arabs who did it, despite all that the United States government could do to stop them. That's a big lump to swallow! At the very least, the Arabs _must_ have had the tacit assistance of the Bush administration, which certainly _must_ have intentionally looked the other way while the Arabs were coming -- otherwise such a group of mere Arabs could certainly never have pulled something like that off; we'd have caught them at it and stopped them. Sure, that's it, we obviously /must/ have just _let_ them do it... Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: > As predicted, once again there have been a lot of vocal opinions > expressed on what were the ultimate causes for falling of the WTCs. > There appears to be the need to include pre-fired missiles, or thermite > explosives strategically placed within the support structures, all to > explain the ultimate collapse of the WTCs, the rationale being, the > passenger jets themselves just couldn't be held responsible all by > themselves. And so, where to lay the real blame. > > It would seem that many in the Vort collective are by nature a > contrarian group of individuals, myself included. I know I have made it > a personal life-task to, more often than not, reject the prevailing > party opinion without first looking into the matter myself. While it has > not been easy, it has occasionally served me well too look under the rug. > > Despite my desire to remain an irritating contrarian SOB I continue to > feel that the amount of thermal energy released from the fully loaded > fuel tanks of passenger jets, along with the jet's combined kinetic > energy to be a plausible explanation. Nevertheless, a vocal group can > not accept these explanations as plausible. For them, it would seem that > there MUST be additional more sinister explanations, that missiles > and/or strategically positioned chemical explosives had to have been > used as well. > > Why? > > I think it's fair to say that events happen in our lives that seem to > suggest the disquieting fact that we aren't always in control of our > destinies. How do we deal with this conundrum? Psychologically speaking, > there is an all-too-often tendency for many of us to externalize our > personal discomforts, to lay-blame in the nefarious actions of others or > events. We see this happen all the time in the political and > international arenas. People and societies find all sorts of scapegoats > to rationalize the problems experienced at home: The Jews are the reason > our society is all messed up; or America, the Great Satan, is the reason > why our society is suffering; or Secular Humanism is the reason for the > high rates of juvenile delinquencies and high rates of pregnancies in > our society; The Bush Dynasty is behind the orchestrated war against > terrorism - and to prop up oil profits; missiles and strategically > placed explosives were the real reasons why the WTCs vertically slid > into oblivion, all within a matter of seconds. > > Admitting to myself that I'm an irritating contrarian SOB also means > facing up to my own personal demons. I have had many to wrestle with in > my short 54 years of life. It's also been my experience that personal > demons when given a chance prefer to remain externalized, most likely as > a way to protect myself from portions of myself I'm not comfortable > owning up to. > > S%#T happens. It is only human to F%#K up. S%#T happens in the world as > well, most likely because we humans have a tendency to occasionally > misinterpret human events, and as a result F%#K things up. It was a > S#%TTY, horrible thing to witness two towers fall from the sky, > complements of a band of terrorists who remained faithful to their > instant deaths and ultimate rewards in heaven, convinced that god was on > their side - as if a massive invisible divine hand had simply chosen to > squash the two buildings in the middle of a beautiful September autumn > morning. WHY? How could this happen? There had to be a reason! WHOSE TO > BLAME? ...For something this horrible to have transpired there MUST have > been a methodical nefarious plan in place. It's just too horrible to > believe otherwise. > > Am I implying that a need to believe in missiles and strategically > implanted thermite explosives are just attempts to externalize a > horrible event too S%#tty to believe could have possibly been executed > otherwise? Yeah, I suppose so. As long as we externalize the emotional > trauma attributed to the WTC collapse as the result of missiles and/or > explosives, at least we won't have to wrestle with another personal > demon that every time we pay for an air ticket and take our seats in a > passenger jet that we are contributing the kinetic energy of our own > helpless bodies to a potential terrorist bomb capable of killing > thousands of people and leveling tall buildings in a flash of an eye. > Yeah, it HAD to have been missiles ...yeah, and explosives too. Yeah, > that's the ticket. > > Regards, > Steven Vincent Johnson > www.OrionWorks.com
