Quote from Antipitas:
Consider the "9/11 was an inside job" conspiracy. Even a quick thought of the implications of that, would reveal that many, many people would have to be involved in such a cover-up. Any conspiracy that relied upon so many people to keep it secret would fail. Utterly.
Well Antipitas, millions of American citizens (including myself) would say the attempt to keep it secret is indeed failing.
(In fact, 42 percent of America could be labled "conspircay nuts" since a Zogby poll showed 42 percent of Americans believe we were not told the truth regarding 9-11, and 49 percent of New Yorkers thought the same. Is it at least a little intersting that 49 percent of New Yorkers are "conpiracy nuts" and that 42 percent of the United States consists of "conspriacy nuts" like me?)
One of the reasons we (42 percent of America) are so doubtful, is the fact that WTC Building 7 was "pulled" on the afternoon of September 11th, 2001, according to statements given by the owner of the Building, Larry Silverstein. Since he owned it, you have to at least pay some attention to what he said. It is not a "conspiracy theory" to believe what someone tells you is it?
Silverstein said the Fire Department called and told him they were going to "pull" the building, meaning bring it down in a controlled demolition.
WTC Building 7 came down in a perfect 6.5 second free fall. But this building was not hit by any airplanes. Some portions of the building were damaged by debris, but there were no thousands of gallons of jet fuel burning it's way through steel beams 47 stories downward. But the building's owner said he was told the building was going to be "pulled."
Problem was, few believe a crew could place the explosives necessary to drop a 47 story building (perfectly within it's own footprint at a free fall rate of 6.5 seconds) in the time period between 11:30 a.m, and 5:30 p.m. Sept. 11th, 2001.
It was pulled. It indeed was done by explosives, as a simple viewing of the 6.5 second free fall will confirm. But I (and 42 percent of Americans polled in that Zogby poll) find it very, very hard to believe it was decided at 11:30 a.m., on Sept. 11th, 2001 to install the explosives and pop them off by 5:30 p.m. the same day.
Granted, the 9-11 Commission says their report is "incomplete" but are pretty sure that "building damage" alone made it fall right down.
A lot of people believe that the story was changed because people kept pointing out the fact that it appeared questionable that charges could be installed after 11:30 a.m, and it be dropped perfectly at 5:30 p.m., same day.
The only goofy conspiracy thing going on with WTC, is the hypothesis that small areas of fire on different portions of ten separate floors simply made the building fall right down, or that a 47 story building was pulled in less than six hours for the first time in the history of the demolition industry.
Stop and consider. If they could do that job in six hours, why does it cost MILLIONS of dollars and take several weeks to coordinate a "pulling" of other buildings of the same square footage and height?
If damaging portions of ten floors in separate areas of a building, or just lighting the building on fire make it fall right down, (in 6.5 seconds, directly and safely into it's own footprint) wouldn't it be much safer, and therefore much more cost effective from a demolition company's liability insurance premium standpoint, to just use a Bic lighter instead of the hundreds of pounds of explosives a company must purchase and store?
I think it may be that a fire will not make a 47 story code-built skyscraper just fall right down, nor will doing damage to 21 percent of the building make it drop like a rock.
The conspiracy to keep it a secret certainly has appeared to have (as you say) "failed." "Utterly."
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