-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 05 January 2002 23:07, you wrote: > > I'm even beginning to wonder whether or > > not certain individuals in our government > > KNEW of this attack before it > > occured and were just waiting to grab at the > > chance to take away our freedoms. > > Do you really think our government would allow people to be killed, just so > they can pass legislation?
I am certain that the FBI and other similar groups have been waiting for something like this for years so they can get in all their wiretapping laws and such. While elected areas of the government may be prone to stupidity, the unelected areas (such as the FBI/NSA/CIA/whatever) are often extremely intelligent. I remember being told that you have to have a masters degree to get in to the US Marshels, and I believe that extends to the FBI as well. The NSA employs an awful lot of expert mathmatitions for creating and breaking crypto, so they're no fools. These are the groups we should be most worried about. Further, what else would make an unpopular president suddenly skyrocket to 90%+ approval ratings? I don't know if they really knew about the attacks beforehand, but the hypothisis fits the available facts. > > The government can't hide conspiracies. They are horrible at keeping > secrets. That's why I never bought into the idea there's a UFO at area 51, > simply because the government couldn't keep a secret for that long. They > are too incompetent. Perhaps not a UFO, but there most certianly is an Area 51 as a place to test experimental aircraft. The military finally admitted to it's existance a few years ago, and then shut it down and moved to a new base (apprently in Utah), which they are now denying the existance of :) <> > I think the real issue here is why didn't we prevent this? Why was a plane > able to actually crash into the pentagon? Don't they have an air defense? > Why didn't they see it coming and evacuate the building? I see it as a perl > harbor situation where our people were sitting on their ass (remember, > radar told them we had incoming planes). Not only radar, but crypto. It was almost certain that FDR knew of the coming attack far in advance but did nothing (because he wanted a disaster that would unite the American people in a war). Very much like today's situation. - -- panic: can't find / -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjw4o7IACgkQqpueKcacfLTPcQCdHZkLey6gIHP9gR5fLKk2gzSK buEAoJF2Ex7K8m2n5G8qe+cy6WvFuL1G =jkVD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list Chat at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
