On Sep 23, 2013, at 3:43 PM, John Berry wrote:
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Jed Rothwell
<[email protected]> wrote:
John Berry <[email protected]> wrote:
That is a good point, but the some of the same could have been
argued about the disruption of taking the WTC down and flying
something into the Pentagon.
Yet I and based on surveys possibly a majority of people are certain
this did happen.
The claim that the government was behind 9/11 is another example of
how willing people are to believe insane explanations of events. They
are so willing to distrust the government that they will believe
something that has no evidence or rational reasons. Yes, 9/11
happened. Yes, the US government was incompetent in preventing the
act. However, no evidence exists, except is some irrational minds,
that the towers came down because of planted explosives or because the
US government arranged for the flights to be hijacked. The US
government is not clever enough to pull off such a stunt without all
the details eventually being leaked. If the government does something
insane, it will be done in full view, such as attacking Iraq.
I guess it depends on how much you want to reshape things, it
doesn't make sense to me.
Also what if the nuke's yield was reduced to appear more like
whatever North Korea managed to detonate underground a few years ago?
Also I do not know much about the size of Washington DC, but if it
was detonated in a remote area? Possibly to be argued that it was
detonated early because the good guys were on to them...
I know I can't make sense of a lot that governments do.
If you were to set off a bomb in a small city in North Carolina or
the Midwest, the economy would survive. It is cruel to say this, but
that would kill far fewer people, and most of the victims would have
smaller life insurance policies.
So maybe the insurance money is part of the reason?
I know that things that seem inconceivable to me look like good
ideas to the wrong kind of psychopath.
They may be ignorant, stupid, or self-centered, but they are not
insane. Bush was the closest person that fit this category, but he
is gone along with the rest of his group.
I am afraid that I am unable to understand the sense in a great many
things that are done.
There are degrees of senselessness. There are mistakes, big
mistakes, horrendous mistakes, and then there are things like the
Battle of the Somme or the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Governments seldom make mistakes on the latter scale.
Yesterday I watched an episode of QI, it is reasonably amusing,
funny and informative.
One bit of info was a steam submarine, it had funnels to let the
steam out.
Well it worked the way you would imagine a submarine with hole in it
would work.
More people have been killed by their own government than in all wars.
John
