9/11 Conspiracy Theorists

The confusing world of the conspiracy theorist. Now you can take the point of view that all of the 9/11 conspiracy theories floating around the Internet are just the ramblings of over-active imaginations in search of a desperate need for attention, or that perhaps reasonable people who don't accept the government's simplified explanations are re-examining existing information in as rational and scientific a way as possible and coming up with calmly deducted and reasonable conclusions based on the facts, such as they are.

However, there's always going to be problems with conspiracy theorists getting their views across without sounding like panicky gossip-mongers. If you take the point of view that the whole thing was an overly-elaborate plot made up by the U.S. government to instigate conflict in the Middle East for whatever corruptive policies people might envision from Bush et al. then you can easily take just about every aspect of what happened in New York on 9/11 and twist and turn the facts to suit your own conspiracy storylines. From the small explosions going off at various points in the building as they started to collapse to supposed faked cell-phone messages coming from high-altitude commercial aircraft.

Conspiracy theorists thrive on points that can neither be proved nor dis-proved beyond a shadow of a doubt and with 9/11 there's a cluster-full. Take for instance the puffs of smoke coming from lower floors of the buildings and explosive sounds some people experienced when the buildings collapsed. Experts say that the incredible weight of the building collapsing at such a rate would cause such high pressure areas within the structures that floors (even 40 floors +) below the actual collapsing floors would basically burst, exploding windows and structures from the intense pressurization caused. Alternately the Conspiracy theorist might take the view that these were controlled explosions at certain points throughout the building in order to aid in its collapse. So the problem with a Conspiracy Theory here is that you have nothing to back it up with. Sure, if a controlled explosion took place it may look exactly the same but you have to prove it beyond just the suggestion that this is what took place. A theory is a theory and a theory is as useful a myth, unless you can provide documentation to back it up. I'm all for being cynical about one's government. Taking things at face value and accepting everything the Government tells you is just dumb. We all owe it to ourselves to question motives and agendas of all our respective Governments. Does the U.S. Government sanction hits on people. I'm sure they do. Do they tell us about it? I'm sure they don't. No Government anywhere in the World is going to survive by telling their respective public everything. I can accept that but to infer ridiculous accusations with no hard-evidence is a waste of everyone's time.

There's a domino effect with theories in as much as soon as you knock one down the rest tend to follow. For the U.S. to organize such a ridiculously complicated plan where so many things could have gone wrong would surely have meant co-operation with the very people we are at war with now. So many cover-ups it would only be a matter of time before at least some were uncovered. It would need the help and support of way too many people and organizations. As you can see I am in the camp of those who err on the side of this being a purely terrorist driven event but I don't completely discount dodgy goings-on or the possibilities that maybe the U.S. are or were are up to something. What I and anyone else in this country needs before we get up-in-arms about 9/11 are facts and documentation rather implications and ego-centric rhetoric.