I come to/. daily to check out tech and political news. It always has the stories I want to see or heard of, and it's great to see everyones opinion on the subjects. That's what/. is all about.
If you don't want to read political news, then just skip over the headlines that start with "Politics." Problem solved.
Thanks, I've always loved slashdot, maybe I'll become a regular.:)
Most of the dissenting opinions about 9/11 are coming from outside the US. Granted there is a growing movement inside, but it is tough because the media refuses to address any of the hardcore and solid issues.
I appluad anybody who questions the official story, even if they still believe it. My goal is to stick to the important facts, leave any partisan involvement out of it, and try to inform people of the truth.
Getting back to topic...Is it not plane to see yet? Our government planned well in advance to invade Iraq and Afganistan, knew that 9/11 was going to happen (if they didn't actively perform it), and used it to gain the public support for the war they knew people would never go for otherwise. The Diebold voting machines had major security flaws in them, thousands of Florida voters were scrubbed from the voting lists, and we ended up with Dubya in office. The man who openly states that he can and will break any law he chooses. Isn't that, by definition, a dictator?
I've been watching slashdot for many years now, just never felt inclined to post anything.
Now, to reply to your posting, I've been involved in the 9/11 Truth Movement for about a year now. I started investigating it when I was surfing around Google video and found a short video documentary about 9/11. What I came to find was nothing short of chilling. I really do believe that our government planned 9/11 to gain public support for their goals, specifically PNAC, The Project for a New American Century. Many conspiracy theorists believe that no plane hit the Pentagon, I am unsure. The physical evidence suggests there wasn't a plane, yet over 30 or 40 eyewitness's claim to at least have seen a plane heading in direction. But to reply to your claims...
1. This claim came from Loose Change. It is true. Extra patrols of bomb-sniffing dogs were pulled a few days before the attacks. They still had their normal patrols, they had just been receiving supposed phone threats, so they had beefed up their patrols for a short amount of time. This isn't to say it isn't related to the destruction of the towers, just inconclusive.
2. As far as that goes, yes. My father is a private pilot and taught me about VORs. A flight plan is not point A to B. It is, but there are numerous points in between that connect the dots, if you will. If a plane goes off of their scheduled course by around 10 or 15%, the standard procedure is for the air traffic controllers to contact the aircraft. If there is no response, they will contact NORAD and send up fighter jets to investigate. This takes less than 10 minutes, usually around 2.5. They rock their wings, trying to get the pilots attention. If that fails, they assess the situation, and if it is determined that the plane is hijacked and heading for a target, they then make the decision whether or not to shoot it down. Now, many have refered to an executive order claiming it changed procedure so only the Secretary of Defense could give the shoot-down order. This is untrue. It only changed it for all non-immediate situations. The power for anybody in charge was still their if they felt a shoot down order was needed to prevent furthur damage.
3. I believe it was Scott Forbes, a database administrator that worked in the WTC from 9/8-9/9, said that his company was given three weeks advance notice that New York's Port Authority would take out power in the South Tower from the 48th floor up. The reason: the Port Authority was performing a cabling upgrade to increase the WTC's computer bandwidth. This may explain how the explosives were put into this tower, but how would they be put into the North tower if there was no power down there?
4. You are correct. 90,000 tons of concrete pulverized to fine powder. 65 miles of steel columns chopped to short pieces. A pyroclastic cloud of sub 100-micron particles. 1000 megawatt hours of excess heat energy...all in 15 seconds, and that's just the North Tower. CDI, Controlled Demolition, Inc., was in charge of the cleanup operation at the WTC. Initially FEMA wasn't allowed in, and many claimed they never were, but I have read they were. Some of the steel was taken to the Fresh Kills landfill, where a few engineers (I am unfamiliar what credentials they had.) were allowed to examine the steel. Most of the steel was immediately taken to China to be sold and melted down before it was fully examined for every possibility, including explosives. Steven Jones, the now famous BYU physics professor, has steel from the WTC and has found all of the tell-tale signs of a controlled demolition, actually pointing to the use of Thermate, rather than Thermite.
5. Not true. This comes from people believing Marvin Bush was in charge of the WTC security. The security company, formerly named Securacom and now named Stratesec, is in Sterling, Va.. Its CEO, Barry McDaniel, said the company had a ``completion contract" to handle some of the security at the World Trade Center ``up to the day the buildings fell down." Marving was on the Board of
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I come to /. daily to check out tech and political news. It always has the stories I want to see or heard of, and it's great to see everyones opinion on the subjects. That's what /. is all about.
If you don't want to read political news, then just skip over the headlines that start with "Politics." Problem solved.
Thanks, I've always loved slashdot, maybe I'll become a regular. :)
Most of the dissenting opinions about 9/11 are coming from outside the US. Granted there is a growing movement inside, but it is tough because the media refuses to address any of the hardcore and solid issues.
I appluad anybody who questions the official story, even if they still believe it. My goal is to stick to the important facts, leave any partisan involvement out of it, and try to inform people of the truth.
Getting back to topic...Is it not plane to see yet? Our government planned well in advance to invade Iraq and Afganistan, knew that 9/11 was going to happen (if they didn't actively perform it), and used it to gain the public support for the war they knew people would never go for otherwise. The Diebold voting machines had major security flaws in them, thousands of Florida voters were scrubbed from the voting lists, and we ended up with Dubya in office. The man who openly states that he can and will break any law he chooses. Isn't that, by definition, a dictator?
I've been watching slashdot for many years now, just never felt inclined to post anything.
Now, to reply to your posting, I've been involved in the 9/11 Truth Movement for about a year now. I started investigating it when I was surfing around Google video and found a short video documentary about 9/11. What I came to find was nothing short of chilling. I really do believe that our government planned 9/11 to gain public support for their goals, specifically PNAC, The Project for a New American Century. Many conspiracy theorists believe that no plane hit the Pentagon, I am unsure. The physical evidence suggests there wasn't a plane, yet over 30 or 40 eyewitness's claim to at least have seen a plane heading in direction. But to reply to your claims...
1. This claim came from Loose Change. It is true. Extra patrols of bomb-sniffing dogs were pulled a few days before the attacks. They still had their normal patrols, they had just been receiving supposed phone threats, so they had beefed up their patrols for a short amount of time. This isn't to say it isn't related to the destruction of the towers, just inconclusive.
2. As far as that goes, yes. My father is a private pilot and taught me about VORs. A flight plan is not point A to B. It is, but there are numerous points in between that connect the dots, if you will. If a plane goes off of their scheduled course by around 10 or 15%, the standard procedure is for the air traffic controllers to contact the aircraft. If there is no response, they will contact NORAD and send up fighter jets to investigate. This takes less than 10 minutes, usually around 2.5. They rock their wings, trying to get the pilots attention. If that fails, they assess the situation, and if it is determined that the plane is hijacked and heading for a target, they then make the decision whether or not to shoot it down. Now, many have refered to an executive order claiming it changed procedure so only the Secretary of Defense could give the shoot-down order. This is untrue. It only changed it for all non-immediate situations. The power for anybody in charge was still their if they felt a shoot down order was needed to prevent furthur damage.
3. I believe it was Scott Forbes, a database administrator that worked in the WTC from 9/8-9/9, said that his company was given three weeks advance notice that New York's Port Authority would take out power in the South Tower from the 48th floor up. The reason: the Port Authority was performing a cabling upgrade to increase the WTC's computer bandwidth. This may explain how the explosives were put into this tower, but how would they be put into the North tower if there was no power down there?
4. You are correct. 90,000 tons of concrete pulverized to fine powder. 65 miles of steel columns chopped to short pieces. A pyroclastic cloud of sub 100-micron particles. 1000 megawatt hours of excess heat energy...all in 15 seconds, and that's just the North Tower. CDI, Controlled Demolition, Inc., was in charge of the cleanup operation at the WTC. Initially FEMA wasn't allowed in, and many claimed they never were, but I have read they were. Some of the steel was taken to the Fresh Kills landfill, where a few engineers (I am unfamiliar what credentials they had.) were allowed to examine the steel. Most of the steel was immediately taken to China to be sold and melted down before it was fully examined for every possibility, including explosives. Steven Jones, the now famous BYU physics professor, has steel from the WTC and has found all of the tell-tale signs of a controlled demolition, actually pointing to the use of Thermate, rather than Thermite.
5. Not true. This comes from people believing Marvin Bush was in charge of the WTC security. The security company, formerly named Securacom and now named Stratesec, is in Sterling, Va.. Its CEO, Barry McDaniel, said the company had a ``completion contract" to handle some of the security at the World Trade Center ``up to the day the buildings fell down." Marving was on the Board of