An entity would have to have been virtually omniscient and omnipotent to pull off the scenario described by OBF. Nevertheless, the government’s story is no more believable and there are other, much more credible hypotheses.
We can even posit for the sake of argument that the video footage is all 100% real (more or less the view I’ve held for the last three years or so). It doesn’t change a thing regarding the believability of the government’s story. WTC 7 collapsed in an inexplicably symmetrical manner and it collapsed for no good reason at all (thermal expansion? seriously NIST??). In fact, all three buildings collapsed symmetrically, at near free-fall speed and directly into their own footprint. Even if you posit that a jetliner could knock down a steel building (and there are serious problems with this assumption), the WTC 7 collapse doesn’t follow at all and the manner of all three collapses remains inexplicable. This isn’t a “thousand-moving parts” hypothesis, it’s very basic Logic 101 stuff.
If you’re looking to validate/invalidate the government’s story or competing hypotheses by wondering at the impossibility of people disappearing, you’re doomed to failure. People ruthless enough to brazenly endanger the lives of tens, even hundreds of thousands of people - for the express purpose of mounting a false-flag attack to scar the national psyche and prepare for a new era of increased militarization, police-state and decades of otherwise unjustifiable wars that would result in the murder of as many as a million Iraqis, tens of thousands of Aghanis and thousands of Americans in foreign lands - are certainly ruthless enough to mount a real hijacking and kill dozens of people in cold blood.
Perhaps they took the patsies by surprise on what they were told by their handlers was just another connecting flight to yet another city for more hooker- and coke-filled nights. It could have been performed by “the most dangerous people on the face of the earth” (or maybe these people who are probably more deserving of the title Murder Inc). The real hijackers could then fly the plane out over the ocean and blow it to bits after jumping out with a parachute, or land it at some remote/deserted airbase (three of the planes had enough fuel to fly at least 3000 miles from NY to LA) and simply line everyone up, shoot them in the back of the head and dispose of the bodies by a secure and convenient means. Who’s talking? These guys aren’t boy scouts, they’re “made men” in the world’s most powerful mafia, the USG.
It strains credulity beyond the breaking point to suggest that you could fake the plane takeoffs so the planes were real and what goes up must come down. They may have reused destroyed pieces from the real planes to plant fake evidence at the various crash sites. I’m undecided on whether all the 9/11 plane victims are genuine. Some almost certainly are - it would make sense to at least execute the suicide hijackers wouldn’t it?
In the end, the details don’t really matter. What is undeniable is that the government is lying and that our rulers (only some of whom are actually in government) carried out a brazen and purposeful false-flag attack in order to dupe the country into signing up for an orgiastic expansion of Federal power both at home and abroad: Iraq, Afghanistan, Gitmo, DHS, TSA, the PATRIOT Act, the Military Commissions Act, the REAL ID Act, TARP and the multi-trillion dollar bailouts and other Fed interventions, and now the latest and creepiest installment of all: the NDAA.
Clayton -
