Long Live The 9/11 Conspiracy!

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Long Live The 9/11 Conspiracy!

Anyone still care about the heap of disturbing, unsolved questions
surrounding our great tragedy?

By Mark Morford,
San Francisco Chronicle,
Wednesday, March 29, 2006.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2006/03/29/no tes032906.DTL

Here it is: an absolutely exceptional inside scoop on the white-hot
world of Sept. 11 conspiracy theories, writ large and smart by Mark
Jacobson over at New York magazine, and it's mandatory reading for anyone and
everyone who's ever entertained the nagging thought that something --
or rather, far more than one something -- is deeply wrong with the
official line on what actually happened on Sept. 11.

See, it is very likely that you already know that Sept. 11 will go down
in the conspiracy history books as a far more sinister affair than,
say, the murky swirl of the Kennedy assassination. You probably already
know that much of what exactly happened on Sept. 11 remains deeply
unsettling and largely unsolved -- or to put another way, if you don't know
all of this and if you fully and blithely accept the official Sept. 11
story, well, you haven't been paying close enough attention.

But on this, the third anniversary of the launch of Bush's illegal
invasion of Iraq by way of whoring the tragedy of Sept. 11 for his cronies'
appalling gain, what you might not know, what gets so easily forgotten
in the mists of time and via the endless repetition of the orthodox
Sept. 11 tale, is the sheer volume, the staggering array of unanswered
questions about just about every single aspect of Sept. 11 -- the planes,
the WTC towers, the Pentagon, the fires, the passengers and the cell
phone calls and the firefighters and, well, just about everything. It is,
when you look closely, all merely a matter of how far down the rabbit
hole you are willing to go.

Verily, Jacobson, in his New York mag piece, encounters crackpots and
fringe nutballs and those who think Sept. 11 was connected to aliens and
electromagnetic fields and the Illuminati. It can, unfortunately, get a
little crazy. But there is also a very smart, grounded, intelligent and
surprisingly large faction -- which includes eyewitnesses, Sept. 11
widows, former generals, pilots, professors, engineers, WTC maintenance
workers and many, many more -- who point to a rather shocking pile of
evidence that says there is simply no way 19 fanatics with box cutters
sent by some bearded lunatic in a cave could have pulled off the most
perfectly orchestrated air attack of the century. Not without serious help,
anyway.
..
There is also the very big question of what happened to 7 WTC, the only
building not hit by anything at all, but which collapsed anyway, in a
perfect controlled-demolition sort of way, for no reason anyone can
sufficiently explain. But which just so happened to contain vital offices
for the IRS, the Department of Defense, the CIA, the Secret Service, the
Securities and Exchange Commission and more.
..
The overwhelming quantity, the bloody, deadly stench of it. Fact is, it
is quite impossible to watch the entire "Loose Change" documentary
(www.911truth.info) and not come away just a little shaken, a little awed
by the sheer number of perversely interrelated facts and aberrant
coincidences-that-aren't-coincidences, shaking your head at how it all seems
to irrefutably prove there is far, far more to the Sept. 11 tragedy
than just crazy Osama and his band of zealots, as you begin to sink into a
sighing morass of rage and frustration and suspicion and mistrust. You
almost can't help it.

Of course, there is another option. There is another way out. You may,
as is the standard cultural default, simply ignore it all, scoff and
roll your eyes and shrug it all off because it's just too bleak and
distasteful to entertain the idea that the dark Sept. 11 thread winds all
the way through the NSA and the FBI and the White House and the Project
for the New American Century and Dick Cheney's mangled soul and God only
knows where else.

But then again, no. You have to look. You have to try. Knowledge is
power, and while the truth may be spurious and slippery and messy and
deep, the pursuit of it is just about the only thing we have left. Give
that up, and all that's left is spiritual numbness, emotional stasis and
death. So what are you waiting for?