The weekend did not afford me the blogging time I thought it might. I am not certain when I will be able to fully finish part 2 of the post on 9/11, but I thought I could put up at least a little teaser preview of the second part for now. Enjoy.

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It seems, for many, a difficult thing to delve into the mental labyrinth of alternative 9/11 theories. Many do not seem willing to do so at all. Perhaps for some, the memory of 9/11 is just too painful and all their anger has been too intensely focused on the accused “Islamic terrorists”. And for others, it is absolutely impossible to consider anything suggesting our government could have been involved in such attacks or even allowed them to happen. But, it is curious how such people have no trouble believing any part of the story that 19 men armed with box cutters and limited flying experience were able to pull off the attacks alone, unhindered, and even able to fly undetected into restricted D.C. airspace, performing an outrageous manuever into what one would think would be one of the most protected buildings in the world. They also have no trouble believing the reason the two world trade towers collapsed straight down at near freefall speed was supposedly because of the impact and the heat of the fires, even though there seem to be no other examples in the world, before or since, of a like occurrence. (It is little known that building 7 of the World Trade Center also collapsed the exact same way that day, though it was not hit by a plane and the fires did not seem to be raging. More on this later.)

I don’t think unyielding acceptance of or refusal to question the government story is due to any solid evidence or lack of worthy questions. Instead, I believe it is due in large part to the ugly taboo put over the word “conspiracy” in our society. “Conspiracy theory” seems to be the label of choice people use to discredit any idea as kooky or overly paranoid; as somehow automatically invalid. In effect, the actual meaning of the term conspiracy is often ignored. Any ideas that stray from or challenge the government story of 9/11 are harshly shot down simply as wild conspiracy theories. The definition of conspiracy, though, is simply; An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime. Regardless of who was responsible, the attack was a crime and therefore involved conspiracy. Given that and the unanswered questions left by the 9/11 commission, the government story itself is a conspiracy theory. Once this is realized, all that’s left to explain 9/11 are conspiracy theories, and our purpose here is to try to find out which one works best.

To be continued…