Before I get into some more of the reasons why many have come to believe 9/11 was an inside job, I think it would be good to first share some statements I just came across on RedBlueChristian.com. These are a good illustration of the way those who question 9/11 are often misrepresented and unfairly discredited as simply crazy, paranoid, and hateful “conspiracy theorists” or “cranks” as the title of the post says. Ron Ballew writes:

I have been trying to figure out why so many people have fallen for conspiracy theories about 9-11. There seems to be an inherent distrust in anything American and a deep antipathy towards Bush…
The polarisation and hatred emanating from conspiracy theorists seems to be almost pathological. Notice I am speaking about conspiracy theorists here and not just the left. They mistrust a president and political party so much that what they want to believe is more important than truth…
…This ignorance [about Islam] mixed with a paranoid fear of conservatism has bred something ridiculous.

A reader then commented with another explanation attempt:

The insight goes like this. 9/11 and these other events are incredibly important and life-changing, so our subconscious wants to find an equally complex explanation. The official explanations don’t satisfy: One lone gunman can’t have taken down a young charismatic president; a few terrorist cells couldn’t demolish two towers and severely damage the Pentagon; all those UFO sightings can’t all be weather balloons; those Christians must have had something to do with Rome’s fires.

The first key problem with these two statements is that they fail to take into account any of the actual valid reasons why these “conspiracy theorists” have called 9/11 into question and determined the official story to be untrue. (more…)