The 9/11 Truth Movement

The Anti-Empire Report

by William Blum

October 2, 2010

The Truthers have long been pressing me to express my support for their cause. Here’s how I stand on the issue. I’m very aware of the serious contradictions and apparent lies in the Official Government Version (OGV) of what happened on that fateful day. (Before the Truthers can be dismissed as “conspiracy theorists”, it should be noted that the OGV is literally a “conspiracy theory” about the fantastic things that a certain 19 men conspired to do.) It does appear that the buildings in New York collapsed essentially because of a controlled demolition, which employed explosives as well as certain incendiary substances found in the rubble. So, for this and many other questions raised by the 9/11 Truth Movement, the OGV can clearly not be taken entirely at face value but has to be seriously examined point by point. But no matter what the discrepancies in the OGV, does it necessarily follow that the events of 9/11 were an “inside job”? Is it an either/or matter? Either a group of terrorists were fully responsible or the government planned it all down to the last detail?

What if the government, with its omnipresent eyes and ears, discovered the plotting of Mideast terrorists some time before and decided to let it happen — and even enhance the destruction — to make use of it as a justification for its “War on Terror”? The Truthers admit that they can’t fully explain what actually took place, but they argue that they are not obliged to do so; that they have exposed the government lies and that the fact of these lies proves that it was an inside job. The Truthers have done great work, but I say that for me, and I’m sure for many others, to accept the idea of an inside job I have to indeed know what actually took place, or at least a lot more than I know now. It is, after all, an incredible story, and I need to know how the government pulled it off. I need to have certain questions answered, amongst which are the following:

1. Were the planes that hit the towers hijacked?
2. Did they contain the passengers named amongst the dead?
3. Were they piloted or were they flying via remote control?
4. If piloted, who were the pilots?
5. Did a plane crash in Pennsylvania? If so, why? What happened to the remains of the plane and the passengers?
6. Did a plane crash into the Pentagon? What happened to the remains of the plane and the passengers?
7. Why do Truthers say that some, or many, of the named Arabic hijackers have been found alive living abroad? Why couldn’t their identity have been stolen by the hijackers?

If the Truthers can’t answer any or most of the above questions, are they prepared to consider the possibility of 9/11 being a “let-it-happen” government operation?

29 Responses to The 9/11 Truth Movement

Keenan

November 5, 2010 at 10:16 am

Julian Ware represents a tiny and shrinking minority in the 9/11 Truth movement of LIHOPers (Let It Happen On Purpose), who pretend to still not see the buildings being destroyed with explosives, which you don’t need an advanced degree or a lot of time spent researching to see. All it takes is one to simply be honest with themselves with what your naked eyes can see in the close-up videos of the WTC demolitions.

Julian also through out that old canard, “the Jews dd it”, in order to deflect attention away from the overwhelming evidence that Israel and Mossad are implicated in 9/11 and engineering the “War on Terror”, which is really a War on Israel’s Enemies. See Timeline 1992-2001: Lead up to the Zionist-Engineered War on Terror http://www.wtcdemolition.com/blog/node/2941
the irony

November 5, 2010 at 4:54 pm

Mr. Blum, please see this link for answers to some of your demands:

http://rockthetruth.blogspot.com/2010/11/israels-grand-deception.html
Gretavo

November 6, 2010 at 5:41 pm

I will give my own answers to Mr. Blum’s questions and then suggest better questions.

1. Were the planes that hit the towers hijacked?

We know very little about the planes that hit the towers. No effort appears to have been made to positively (as opposed to by deduction) identify any wreckage as belonging definitively to any specific plane or flight.

2. Did they contain the passengers named amongst the dead?

Impossible to say with certainty for any of the flights when the only evidence for them being on the planes comes from the same sources that have lied about so many other parts of the story.

3. Were they piloted or were they flying via remote control?

Impossible to say with certainty but remote control seems more likely since it would have been more foolproof than human hijackers, important since the planes were to provide the plausible (to an underinformed public) reason for the demolition of the buildings.

4. If piloted, who were the pilots?

I would ask the same question of proponents of the OGV (OCT). And expect more solid evidence than passports impossibly found on the scene.

5. Did a plane crash in Pennsylvania? If so, why? What happened to the remains of the plane and the passengers?

A plane does not appear to have crashed in PA per the OGV wherein the plane was flown intact into the ground, embedding itself in the soft earth. The existence of a crater and debris is not in itself proof of anything.

6. Did a plane crash into the Pentagon? What happened to the remains of the plane and the passengers?

Specifically flight 77 does not appear to have crashed into the Pentagon. Some explosive event certainly occurred there, but allegations of a Boeing passenger jet having been the cause are not supported by positive evidence.

7. Why do Truthers say that some, or many, of the named Arabic hijackers have been found alive living abroad? Why couldn’t their identity have been stolen by the hijackers?

Because it was reported in mainstream news sources and never denied. FBI director Mueller did indeed suggest the hijackers may have been using stolen identities. The hijackers originally named are not the same as the hijackers who ended up in the final version of the list, which includes individuals whose “identities may have been stolen”.

Here are my own questions:

1) If the hijackers may have been using stolen identities then why has the government not revised its list to say that? And what if any attempts have been made to ascertain the hijackers’ real identities?

2) If you don’t already understand based on the impossible physics that the OGV of the WTC destruction that explosives and/or incendiaries were used, then how do you explain the reports of massive damage in the basements reported by among others Mike Pecoraro (google chief engineer 9/11)? Falling elevators? Pouring jet fuel? Neither makes any sense.

3) Why did the government not attempt to determine if explosives were involved in the towers’ destruction when it is officially claimed that terrorists linked to al Qaeda placed explosives in the WTC in 1993?
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Rob

March 7, 2011 at 3:56 am

I would put myself in a brand new group, somewhere between Let it Happen, and Made it Happen. Its called, Helped it Happen. Its well known, at least in this crowd that the US govt works hand in glove with terrorists and has for a long time. So is it crazy to think that they knew it was coming, and helped it along? How else could the planes have avoided being intercepted for such a long period. How else could the buildings have been demolished? (Its not like you find out a couple of months in advance and then rig up 3 high rises for demolition that fast. At the very least, it seems highly unlikely.) How else could half of the guys on the official list have even gotten into the country in the first place?

I don’t buy into the “Inside Job” line, where the whole thing was just a US govt plot with no terrorist involvement whatsoever. I think its far more likely that the original plot was at some point “Hijacked” by elements of the US govt who then used it to their own ends.

Did the hijackers fly the planes? Probably not, but who knows? Were they on the planes and played a role in hijacking them in the first place? I certainly wouldn’t rule it out.

Whatever happened, I agree that people on both sides of the argument have to start looking for middle ground here. This either/or attitude that so many people take, whether they are truthers, or deniers, is getting very old. Surely its been long enough that people can look at this more objectively now?

I sure hope so. Its long overdue.
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