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Wednesday, January 2, 2008 05:36 PM

karrsic

That's it? Tis a far cry from a 9/11 conspiracy theory.

I already stated that I lack both the knowledge and the acumen to come up with an overarching theory.

What I can see is that the government theory has holes you can easily navigate a small moon through.

All I'm really left with is questions.. I know damn well that if I were in that Florida school that morning I would have been burning boot to get the hell out before another hijacked jet came at me in an effort to get the CIC. Don't forget that Ctheney was hustled into the underground bunker in the White House.

The PPU are professional paranoids, it's simply not conceivable that they did not see the risk of another hijacked plane headed at Booker elementary.

Then you have the strange behavior of AF1 the rest of the day, zigzagging over a good portion of the country avoiding what eventually was to be revealed as a totally fabricated threat. And this during the time when AF1 had fighter air cover.

Wednesday, January 2, 2008 07:13 PM

karrsic

I apologize if I've grouped you where you don't belong. You dangle questions that are not particularly compelling (IMO) w/i the context of a conspiracy thread, which insinuates the answers you are not providing tend toward the conspiracy.

What is compelling to one is not compelling to another.

I just know how I would have reacted and seriously wonder why those who are far more experienced than I would have ignored what to me would appear as a clear threat.

At that moment all that was known that airliners had slammed into both of the WTC towers. America was under attack, as Andy Card told Bush, and no one knew the scope of that attack. Prudence would indicate getting Bush into the heavily armored Presidential limousine which has its own onboard air supply and getting him on the move.

Wednesday, January 2, 2008 07:24 PM

'Whatever trail was left was left deliberately -- for the F.B.I. to chase'".

Interesting point..

False flag operations are not all that uncommon in the shadowy world of intelligence.

It's not for nothing that the FBI are known as the feebs by many local police units.

Wednesday, January 2, 2008 07:42 PM

The Civil War started long before it was fought and it ain't really over yet.

Fergit, Hell!

The Navy Jack still flies lots of places around the South.

http://www.gettysburgflag.com/images/ConfederateSPin.jpg

Wednesday, January 2, 2008 07:58 PM

Greg in FL

Yeah, that jumped out at me too..

Cheap, cheap, cheap shot..

Wednesday, January 2, 2008 09:13 PM

karrsic

For all we know, the SS had their shit together and made what they thought was an intelligent decision based on ground truth data.

Interestingly enough, there were SAMs placed on the roof of the resort where Bush spent the night of 9/10/2001 and also an AWACS plane was circling overhead. No mention of any such precautions around Booker elementary are to be found though.

See this article for an overview of the events of the day with numerous citations.

http://historycommons.org/essay.jsp?article=essayaninterestingday

The entire episode is so fraught with wildly conflicting stories from people that would normally be considered highly reliable that we will probably never know what actually happened.

Thursday, January 3, 2008 04:23 AM

karrsic

I don't deny there are many unanswered questions, but not sure how much weight I'd put in that article. *NONE* of the links work.

The links do not work but the original sources are cited and can be confirmed, I found a few before I mentioned the article.

If you had bothered to go to the home page of the organization you would have read this:

http://historycommons.org/

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In January we raised enough money to get us through the end of May, but since then we've been operating in the red and our debt has accrued to about $15,000. We were unable to do a fundraiser in May because our server had been pushed to its limits by the increase in traffic and the surge in contributor activity, and as a result the site was relatively unstable. After optimizing the software that runs the site and upgrading to a faster server, everything is running extremely smoothly now. At the same time, our daily output of timeline entries has nearly doubled, so finacially we've fallen way behind. We no longer have the funds to support the 9/11 Timeline project and other important investigations. We can only run the site on our credit card for a few more weeks.

You might also note that bandwidth devouring photos are also missing from the article.

Thursday, January 3, 2008 04:42 AM

cresttwo

I am not one who is wholly enamored of everything about the Clintons [although the 90's were basically good years for the country, weren't they folks?], especially the fund-raising sleaze, but the vehement irrational hate-mongering by progressives depresses me.

Clinton signed NAFTA, dismantled welfare and greatly expanded the single most freedom destroying policy in the USA, the drug war.

Yes, the economy was good, but freedom consists of more than mere mammon.

Look at this chart and weep, freedom lovers.

http://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/incrate19252001.html

Thursday, January 3, 2008 04:53 AM
Original article: Viagra for women?

The perfect misanthropist..

Fetboy and brightstar65 joined by a Vulcan mind meld?

Thursday, January 3, 2008 05:01 AM

Bill Owen

An Ian Dury fan, eh?

I'm a Blockhead too..

Thursday, January 3, 2008 05:12 AM

Paul Rosenberg..

It's not paranoia when they're really out to get you.

The PNAC documents expressly pine for a new Pearl Harbor.

The PNACer's take power and almost immediately get a new Pearl Harbor.

"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." -Franklin D. Roosevelt

9/11 was nothing if not a political act.

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