Reply #24: Wow, you sum it all up really well, Daveparts! [View All]

I especially liked this: "...they calculate how buildings with eighty undamaged stories collapse into their own footprint a new magic bullet theory."

And your comparison of Oswald and Osama (the fall guys).

What really got me about 9/11 was NORAD. It's not that they didn't shoot the incomings to DC down; it's that they didn't even try. They didn't go to step one of standard procedure--getting AF jets into the air immediately to observe the suspicious planes. I was just flabbergasted when I learned that. Then I found out that Rumsfeld had pulled all NORAD decisions into his own hands six months before--then that Rumsfeld was AWOL during the critical hour ("in a meeting," he said, unaware) while two hijacked airlines headed for DC. Then...

I mean, just the series of events having to do with air defense should have put Rumsfeld immediately into a courtroom, fighting for his life against charges of high treason. It is unfrigging believable what he didn't do, and what NORAD didn't do, and their excuses for it.

Anyway, I appreciate your haunting narrative of the parallels between these two crimes, having lived through both. It is a very revealing comparison. I had never quite thought of it that way. Similar MOs. Similar mass delusions. Similar coverups. And similar marginalizing of the people who make the effort to look at the facts, and to break out of the delusion.