Jed Rothwell wrote: > Jones Beene wrote: > >> > Won't matter.. it over,it's in the past.. in today's world, anything >> being instant attention is past tense. >> >> >> Unfortunately, you are probably right - especially with the massive >> payoff$$ to the families of the 3000+ victims - some of whom otherwise >> would never let the story die. Is this a case of 'buying silence' to >> some degree? > > That's nothing Jones! Those people hardly matter. The massive payoff > must have gone to the engineering firms and consulting engineers > worldwide who reviewed the NIST report. Thousands and thousands of them, > in every country.
The thing which is interesting about all this, IMHO, is that, if we cut through the noise and gubbish about physical causes, and pretend for a moment that the videos and witnesses are all about as accurate as videos and eyewitness usually are, then the thing could have been pulled off with a rather small conspiracy. But ... to make this theory "work" we need to give up on the notion that there was 1500 pounds of thermite involved. All we need to do is accept for the moment the notion that Bin Laden may have had some CIA contacts at one time, and confess that we have no idea whether those contacts were still "active" on 9/11, and admit that some carefully placed orders, involving very few people, could have made it impractical for NORAD to get the planes before they got the towers. And then we need to accept that the vice president may very well have had foreknowledge of Bin Laden's plans, through possible CIA contacts, and admit that he also had the power to prevent an effective air defense that day. And whether it's true or not you'll never be able to prove it, and neither will anyone else, no matter who wins the upcoming election, because the number of people involved is probably not larger than a dozen. On the other hand, if we assume there were hoards of elves scurrying through WTC 1, 2, and 7 drilling holes in walls and beams and lugging in great barrels of thermite and stringing miles of detonator wire (don't forget the wires, this needs to be set off by a computer if it's going to work right), and if we assume that the NYFD actually knew the plunger was being pushed to dynamite WTC7, then it's quite likely that someone will eventually "spill the beans". And if the TV networks were all in on it, as some have claimed, then it becomes even more likely that somebody will talk. But I won't hold my breath (oh that's right, I forgot, they've all received death threats and are afraid to talk -- and that includes all the firemen, too, and the graphic arts people who faked the video footage). ********************* Incidentally, if debris didn't hit WTC 7 -- I mean, like major hunks of it -- what set WTC 7 on fire? Conversely, if enough junk busted in through the walls to set fires in the middle of the building, how can anyone be so sure it was not significantly damaged by that same debris? I don't really see any need to assume "fire *alone*" brought down the building, unless the fire was set by arsonists working inside the building.
