(Photo above of empty used American Airline 767 being flown by wire just before collision with the World Trade Center.)
On the other site, Waldenswimmer, I link to Dmitry Orlov's cluborlov.com. For reasons I've explained, I am unable to de-link there because I use an outdated Google format. That's how long I've been wasting my time doing this. I've seen a paradigm come and go.
Anyway, in his most recent Tuesday post I was surprised to see Dmitry go all-in on a series of conspiracy theories, including the 9-11 "Truther" stuff and, what is more particular to him, the Boston marathon "conspiracy," in which Dmitry basically contends that the massacre was staged by the government, or the Illuminati or some shadowy force, complete with Hollywood special effects (exploding "blood" bags), Photoshopped pictures of missing legs for those who were "supposedly" traumatically amputated, and many other fiendishly clever tricks and wiles designed to frame the Chechen brothers as terrorist bombers.
The 9-11 story was a little more familiar to me. The twin towers and Building 7 of the World Trade Center were a false flag operation using decommissioned commercial airliners crashing (flown by wire) into buildings already rigged with demolition explosives. Among Dmitry's arguments in support of this thesis is the following:
"But most of the time a parallel universe pops into existence when things get twisted in impressively brazen and shameless ways. A lot of people start with 9/11. The twin towers collapsed because they were hit by jet airliners because, you see, kerosene melts steel. Was it special, magic kerosene, and were the buildings were [sic] made of special, magic steel? Maybe that's why since then skyscrapers can't be insured against fire any more. Previously it was thought that skyscrapers can't collapse due to fire because they are made of steel, and a hydrocarbon-based fire isn't hot enough to melt steel."
That's true: a jet fuel (kerosene) fire, combusted with ordinary air, is not hot enough to melt the steel superstructure of a skyscraper. So if the twin towers collapsed because of collisions followed by fires, they did not do so because steel girders and spanning joists within the buildings melted. Following this logic out: the twin towers (which did collapse because jet airliners flew into them, disintegrated and spilled kersone into the interior which caught fire and burned), did not collapse because of "melted" steel superstructure.
Yeah, and so what? Who said they did? The MIT Civil Engineering Department (co-conspirators in the most successful coverup in world history) published an analysis of the catastrophic failure of the twin towers and Building 7 about a month after 9-11. They dealt with this issue concisely and logically in their report. They pointed out a couple of things. The twin towers were the first skyscrapers in history to be hit by large commercial airliners fully loaded with fuel traveling at 500 miles per hour on impact. The steel did not "melt," but the heat is sufficient to soften the steel members of the superstructure and contribute to buckling. The design of the twin towers was such that damage to the outer columns (on impact of the jets), coupled with the lightweight construction of the interior spanning joists (which weakened with intense heat, on the order of 1000 degrees F) set them up for just the kind of "pancaking" catastrophic failure observed. That's a Cliff Notes version of a much longer analysis, but 9-11 Truther is not worth a point-by-point argument.
Mr. Orlov also brings up the "Magic Passport" argument. It was found outside World Trade Center 2 by a pedestrian and turned over to the police. It belonged to one of the hijackers. Dmitry snarks:
"The perpetrators' identity was found out thanks to a passport found at the World Trade Center site. It was a magic passport; unlike the steel girders of the twin towers, a kerosene fireball could not even singe it."
Isn't this best explained by Newton's law of inertia: "An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force." So wouldn't a hijacker near the front of a jet liner have a tendency to continue flying forward at 500 miles per hour as he exited the airplane in its direction of travel, and wouldn't he decelerate and disintegrate as he collided with the wreckage of the plane, the interior of the building and the windows of the tower? And couldn't a passport carried in a pocket be ejected from his disintegrating person and flutter to the streets of Manhattan far below before the explosion had a chance to "singe" it? Do drivers of cars with seat belts unbuckled ever get ejected through windshields when they smash into a solid object, like a stopped car, at high rates of speed, even at speeds under 500 miles per hour?
I think so. Lots of stuff from the airplanes was found on the streets below: body parts, seat cushions, etc. They were obeying Newton's law of inertia. They weren't burned, either. So add "magic seat cushion" and "magic body parts" (some of which were probably recycled for use in the Boston Marathon bombing hoax) to the list of conspiracy paraphernalia.
But the main reason the 9-11 Truther Conspiracy is wrong is that it's just batshit crazy. It's irritating to go through any kind of itemized refutation. I wrote one comment on Cluborlov, which did not get published: "Ted Olson must be thrilled to know his wife Barbara Olson is still alive." The Official Story is that she died in the airplane that crashed outside the Pentagon, after spending her last minutes in a telephone conversation with her husband (the former Solicitor General), who told her what had happened in New York and what probably awaited her. Ted's willingness to go along with the Conspiracy, and to keep his wife in hiding (although she had been a prominent television news commentator) for over 13 years is maybe the most surprising part of the cover story. Word has it she's in a support group with Elvis and a very elderly JFK.
I think I'll write about this again, because I want to say something about the true downside of this dumb Truther nonsense; that is, the extent to which it tends to hide serious questions about the 9-11 aftermath which were subject to official manipulation, and how that manipulation tends to be enabled and potentiated by prominent conspiracy theorists parading around in T-shirts emblazoned: I'm Not Serious And I'll Believe Anthing.
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