Was 9/11 an Inside Job?
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Did the U.S. government plan and execute the 9/11 attacks? Does one internet video hold the shocking evidence? What does this man... 
...Have to do with this man? 
If you own a computer, odds are you have seen Loose Change, a slickly-produced viral internet video making the case that the U.S. government planned and executed the 9/11 attacks. No, I don't know why it's called "Loose Change." If you haven't seen it yet, you will soon. The Loose Changers will make sure of it. They sell this thing like they're getting a commission. In a single day I had four different people on four different forums try to get me to watch it. 
How viral videos are spread And most of the people who watch it, come away convinced. 
The film is a rapid-fire collection of video clips set to techno music, attempting to prove that:
They've sold more than 100,000 copies of this thing on DVD. It's been downloaded millions of times. But is it bullshit? There are basically two views on the subject, and I intend to provide both equally. You can make up your own mind. One side says... 1. The 9/11 Conspiracy guys are liars. Here's how it started. There was a teenager named Dylan Avery. 
According to his own site, when he was 18 he was doing construction work on a bar owned by James "Tony Soprano" Gandolfini. No, I didn't make that up. 
Anyway, Avery wanted to be a movie director. At a party he seized the opportunity to buttonhole Gandolfini, and the two had this conversation: Avery: Mr. Soprano! I'm a huge fan! That's pretty much how Avery tells the story, if you read between the lines. Dylan Avery wanted fame. Badly. How far would he go to get it? With Loose Change, we would find out. He sat down and started writing a FICTIONAL SCREENPLAY about he and his buddies finding out 9/11 was a government conspiracy. Fictional. Sort of an The X-Files episode. Avery mentions this in every interview he does. Since he had no money to film his own movie, he started cutting together video and photos off the internet, creatively editing them to make them scary and ominous, cutting the visuals to fit the story, making a fake documentary. Like Spinal Tap, only about mass murder. So, for instance, in his screenplay, the Pentagon was hit with a missile and then was covered up for the public as a plane crash. Avery sifted through photo after photo of the Pentagon attack, all showing hunks of airplane scattered everywhere... 
Including big pieces that have the Airline logo right on it (background)... 
...And close-ups of burned-up landing gear wheels (shown side-by-side with a regular 757 wheel, for comparison). 
All these pictures blink across Dylan Avery's monitor until FINALLY he finds a shot that doesn't show any wreckage. He saves it, puts it in the video, and writes voiceover that says NO PLANE HIT THE PENTAGON and NO PHOTOS SHOW ANY EVIDENCE OF A PLANE. 
From Loose Change. "Where's the wreckage?!?!?" Now obviously, hundreds of people were in the Pentagon that day, dozens of witnesses saw a plane crash, hundreds of people cleaned up airplane parts and charred bodies, air traffic controllers saw the plane fly in on radar, pairs of light poles more than 20 feet apart were knocked over when the massive wings of the airliner mowed them down like grass. But that's okay. He's just making a fictional movie, it's all in fun. So he does the whole video like that. He cuts sound bites in half, saving the part where a flight instructor says something like, "I met the hijacker and he was a bad pilot," and deleting the part where the same guy says, "but you don't exactly have to be fucking Chuck Yeager to crash a plane into a building." Without that second part, it sounds like the guy is saying the hijacker couldn't have done the flying. He has literally edited the words to make the guy say the opposite of what he said. But again, it's just fiction, a "what if" movie, a "War of the Worlds" broadcast. It was supposed to be a student film, his resume for the world, a viral video that would get his name out there. I have to admit, it was a great idea. But then... Conspiracy buff Phillip Jayhan ambles into Dylan's life, waving around a sweaty wad of money. Jayhan, by the way, says the world is run by a massive satanic cult that enslaves prominent politicians by delivering kidnapped boys for them to molest and then blackmailing them about it later. 
World leaders gather for massive Satanic ritual Okay, that's probably true. But the point is Jayhan offered to pay for Avery to get his little film off the ground. Only, the thing is, Jayhan didn't think it was fiction. Jayhan, who believed in every available conspiracy prior to 9/11, believes that the WTC planes had missiles on them that were fired at the towers and that's why they fell down. Oh, and also there were bombs in the towers. Or something. Avery, realizing now that the financial future of his film and his dreams of fame and fortune lie entirely in selling Loose Change as a factual documentary, miraculously discovers that, in fact, the plot behind 9/11 is real. After all, which is going to have a bigger impact on you: A friend who comes to work and says, "dude, I totally sat down and wrote a ghost story last night, wanna read it?" Or The same friend running up in a panic and saying, "DUDE, A FUCKIN' GHOST SHOWED UP IN MY HOUSE LAST NIGHT!!!" You're going to get the same story either way. But it's a much bigger impact if he presents it as fact. Now, if his goal is just to be creative, he'll have no problem admitting it's fiction and letting people criticize it as such, even if it means the work goes unnoticed. But if he's Dylan Avery, and his goal is to become famous, he'll do the one that he knows will get him noticed. From that point on, Loose Change was a "documentary." And man, it got Dylan Avery hella noticed. Now, at age 22, Avery is doing four or five interviews a day with the likes of Salon and TIME magazine and dozens of talk radio shows. 
He, along with friends Korey Rowe and Jason Bermas, have knocked out updated and prettier editions of Loose Change. They are the stars of a 9/11 "Truth" movement (as they call themselves), a cabal of smaller conspiracy groups, some of whom believe no planes hit the towers (they were missiles with airplane holograms around them) and others who simply believe Bush hired the hijackers to do it. People have asked me, "why would he do it if he didn't believe it was true?!?!?" I know why. You do, too. Why do people have blogs? Why do people line up for American Idol auditions? Why is Hollywood full of food service workers dreaming of stardom? Where do Japanese game shows get their contestants? 
Why do I have this website? Everybody wants the attention, the validation. It's just that some will do more to get it than others. You see, there's a dark underside to this thing. Those conspiracy buffs who have catapulted Loose Change into stardom, you surf their sites and a similar theme comes up again and again. They'll talk of "Zionism" and the "Zionist" conspiracy. They'll talk of Jewish bankers who secretly run the world. They'll talk about how maybe the Holocaust didn't happen, or wasn't such a big deal after all. That's a common theme among the 9/11 conspiracy crowd. I'm not suggesting that Avery denies the Holocaust. In fact, other 9/11 "Truth" members have snidely dismissed Avery and his crew as "Holocaust promoters." No, what I'm saying about Avery is that he will gladly align himself with neo-Nazis if that's what it takes to become famous. For instance, Loose Change is filled with screen grabs of newspaper headlines that mention things like missing planes and bombs at the World Trade Center... but all of those shots are from the American Free Press... 
...A Neo-Nazi newsletter obsessed with the Zionist takeover of the world (yes, that's DavidDuke.com on their "links" page). 
Every time you see a newspaper headline in Loose Change, it's pretty much always from the American Free Press. Meanwhile, I had a good chuckle the first time I saw the Loose Change end credits, where they boast research done by "Killtown." 
Now, memory told me "Killtown" was a white 80's rap group... 
...But a quick Google search turns up a "Killtown" who is a member of the Loose Change forums. Here we have him talking about, you guessed it, how the Holocaust was no big deal. Word. But hey, which of us wouldn't hitch our wagons to some neo-Nazis if it meant career advancement? That doesn't make him a bad person, does it? Well, this does. Listen to Avery laughing his ass off about the hijacking victims: ____________________ (Dylan Avery, being interviewed by radio talk show host Jack Blood):____________________ Or maybe you'd like to hear the guys talk about Bernard Brown. First, picture Avery sitting at his computer, sorting through those Pentagon photos, all the ones showing the plane crash. Picture him writing his fictional screenplay. Bernard Brown was a Pentagon employee. His 11 year-old son died on board Flight 77 (the one that hit the Pentagon). The father happened to not be at work that day, or else you could have had the horrific situation where the son would have been a hostage on the plane that, upon crashing, killed his own father. Remember this is a real, actual person, who actually lost his son. Now listen to Avery say that Bernard Brown was in on the conspiracy and intentionally took a day off to "go play golf" while his own son... 
...was being burned alive in a plane crash he helped plan. Playing golf, while his son dies. That link was the text. Here's the audio. Dylan Avery, who knows this is fiction. Who has seen the evidence he left on the cutting room floor proving these planes were hijacked. And he accuses this grieving father of murdering his own son... ...Because it will help sell his movie and advance his film career. Really, the whole Loose Change thing would be funny if it wasn't for the murderous lies and horrific deaths and the Nazis. 
Members of the Jury, "The 9/11 Conspiracy guys are liars" rests its case. But there is another side to this argument and they will now be heard. |
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You know, with all those people they'd have paid off, it probably would have caused some kind of a financial... crisis... or something...
Wait a minute! COINCIDENCE????!!!1oneone
I forgot my #1 biggest concern about the gov't Re: 9/11 .... why in the HELL did we get rid of all of the steel immediately? I am an engineer, and I know we should have been studying that steel for DECADES following 9/11/01. Yet it wasn't studied for a single second. This is absolutely flabbergasting to me. It has to be considered the #1 structural engineering failure in all of human history. Hell, when there is a housefire in a small 2 bedroom house here in Louisville, KY, they will take samples to labs for testing. We wasted an absolutely incredible opportunity to increase our knowledge of high-rise safety by a considerable amount...we would have learned so much from that wreckage.
Now, I know the #1 concern at the time was trying to recover survivors or bodies. I understand that. I'm not saying the NYFD and NYPD should have gotten out of the way so the scientists could do their thing. What I don't understand is why every single scrap had to IMMEDIATELY be sent to melting furnaces around the world, not a shred being saved. It took weeks, and almost nothing was saved. It should have all been taken to a government-controlled storage facility and studied for years and years and years. This was an EPIC failure from an engineering standpoint.
I don't think it immediately points to conspiracy, although it certainly gives "truthers" a major piece of circumstantial evidence to boost their beliefs. It not only opens the door for questionable motives, but allows a plethora of purposeful-destruction theories to infest Internetland without being testable.
The most reasonable explanation I can come up with is, basically, the people in charge were not engineers, and they were not concerned with the concerns of engineers or scientists at the time, but rather public safety (disregarding the incredible safety-learning opportunity that was melted away) and morale. The faster you get it cleaned up, the faster people will heal. I understand that, but it still doesn't explain why the steel had to go to a furnace instead of a laboratory or controlled warehouse.
So, if anyone could point me to a convincing resource regarding my concerns about WTC-7 or the steel removal, I would appreciate it.
First, I definitely don't believe the gov't set up any of the attacks on 9/11. The ONLY way it is possible is if there is basically "Manchurian Candidate" technology (mind control - robotic humans) that is secretly being harnassed by a gov't organization none of us have heard of. But just like the multiverse theory being completely necessary yet completely unproveable for materialist beliefs, the robot-human theory is nothing but fiction at this point. So basically, yes, it was Islamic terrorists from the Middle East.
With that said, I think you (David Wong) went overboard with the 9/11 salary calculations. It's no secret that people can/will believe anything, so it's not completely obsurd for a 9/11 "truther" to believe the hundreds of thousands of people just believed what was told without proper evidence (ignoring the fact that the evidence is overwhelming AGAINST the "truth" movement). So assuming they were robot humans performing all of the actions, I would guess the minimum amount of people that would have known about it would have been around 100 (assuming everything went PERFECTLY, with no suspicious witnesses). You mentioned the thought that the "bombs" were planted within the walls, and the drywall patched back up.
(If this next part has been discussed in the comments, I apologize) The most recent theory I have heard (and the only one with even a shred of evidence) is that the columns were sheared by thermite-impregnated ceiling tiles. First, apparently some thermite was discovered in the air around ground zero after 9/11. I'm unsure of the validity of that, but I have not seen it refuted. So the theory is that if you had thermite ceiling tiles, a small team of men could easily replace hundreds or thousands of ceiling tiles, at night, over just a few weeks. That seems plausible...You can change a ceiling tile in seconds, it is undetectable by janitors, like discovering "wet paint" on drywall. That still disregards how no dogs found them (they can't detect thermite? I don't know, honestly). But for the couple of not-completely-unbelievable things the thermite-tile theory has going for it, there are plenty of reasons to believe it almost certainly is also no true (like how do you get the plane to hit at the exact location you need, so you don't have floors detenating ABOVE the impact site? Hologram-cloaked missles? Moving at plane-like speeds and leaving wing-shaped/sized holes in the building? Seems, err, plausible.)
Most of what Loose Change is about is B.S. to me. What I still don't understand is WTC-7. Was it just pitifully constructed? Have they really not admitted it was demolished? I don't think it would take weeks of prepartion to do that, assuming it was decided that day for legit reasons. I'm not an expert, and will admit my emergency-tower-implosion experience is mainly relegated to the final scene of Volcano, but it seems realistic for a team of demolition experts to quickly plant explosives and bring that building down. I remain fully convinced that terrorists attacked Washington and NYC, but honestly am not close to believing accidental fire brought down WTC-7. Perhaps I have not seen the proper evidence, and I would love to see it if someone would like to point me somewhere.
Just take a look at the people who REALLY made money off 9/11:
http://www.freedomhaters.org/content/alex-jones-chasing-nwo-all-way-bank
I don't believe the WTC was an inside job, as this article (briefly) touches on some of the huge walls that would have been faced by the government in performing the attacks.
I came to the conclusion a while ago that a more important issue is whether the governments conscience would be capable of secretly masterminding such a scale of murder and the subsequent war etc. that the WTC led to, and if it could cope as a body willingly putting this into place knowing the resulting tradgedies.
(that may not have made sense but its about the coping with the moral implications of starting a war for economic gain etc.)
Unfortunately for my piece of mind historical evidence (Suez crisis) states clearly yes. It can and has before.
I'm going to assume the below is a joke... yep... just a joke... I'm sorry David, I don't share your faith in humanity.
First of all many building have fallen due to fires, not all but it happens. second two much larger buildings collapsed right beside it. That collapse sent a wall of dust down the surrounding streets and shook many buildings within a certain distance to the point they had to be evacuated for fear of collapse, and there is no internet source for my argument, I know it because I know people who worked in the area. Even if the fire didn't cause the collapse, to say the building had to be hit to fall is not true.
My, what a condescending article. I've never even seen loose change and I know 9/11 was an inside job. Really all it takes is a cursory understanding of basic engineering principles. Look at WTC7, the building across from the twin towers, you know, the building that didn't get hit by a plane and yet still managed to collapse because of "internal fires".
Go ahead and go to youtube and search "WTC7" and watch the collapse. The fires are fairly minimal. Now search "Chinese skyscraper fire", here we have a building that is a raging f*****g inferno and guess what? That buildings frame was still standing intact after the fire.
Buildings don't collapse in the manner WTC7 did by catching on fire, and that is a fact. No steel structure building in the history of modern engineering has ever collapsed as the result of a fire. That's all you need to know to realize that we are being fed a line of bullshit here.
Peace be among you friends.
I don't believe it was an inside job, but I do believe that the government exploited the event.
Alot of great points.
Great article, hope it lives on forever. I just found this linked on a site where these idiots are hijacking (no pun intended) a forum discussion to rant and rave about their B.S. beliefs. Of course they completely ignored this article. You can't give a comeback to this pwnage.
They mean well, they're just terribly misguided. It would be great if they could use their never ending enthusiasm on factual issues we're facing in the world. But they'd rather live in this X-Files fantasy where they can be Fox Mulder uncovering the government plot. It's from a safe distance, makes them feel big. I see why they go for it.
But it still is annoying when they leave their fantasy world and try to convince the real world they're right. Bless their hearts. But still, they come in so worked up and enraged that they don't realize they're turning everybody off before they even get started by acting like rabid jackasses. Uh, guys, you can't come in insulting people as stupid. You're trying to sway them into a pretty big jump in reality, guys. But I guess they feel so "persecuted" for "believing in the truth" that they give up and don't care anymore.
Or maybe I should have waited until I got my $10 million government check before I wrote all this. Curses!
wat they are saying is not a lie! it actaully was planned! i mean if you think about it and if you payed attention to the news and all the reports like i did.....you could tell when it happend that it was indeed a government planned attack!
i have believed this since the day it happend and i have NEVER seen any of the videos that these ppl have made! but i will back them up all the way on it! count me in on that!
If the US government had no problem killing some 3000 people for whatever reason and covering it all up, why would it stop short of killing people like Avery?
Wouldn't he have been killed, and all other idiots like him, the second they started squaking about this?
The fact we even know Avery's name basically proves the US government is not out to cover up anything, or keep anyone from talking. Sadly, really. These truthers could all use a visit from black clad government hitmen.
Love the article. Have read it at least a dozen time, no joke.
And to all the asshats who keep arguing with the article, saying 9/11 was an inside job. please tell me how a governemnt that can't keep a guy getting sucked-off in his office a secret, or figure out if some baseball players took steroids, is capable of this s**t? please enlighten me.
Wow, well said but as you said you probably won't convince the conspiracy hobbyists otherwise. Funny how every single commenter arguing with this are only confirming what you have said about their mentality. There are many parallels between this mentality and the psychology of cult members. Like trying to make themselves feel important, as well as an incredible distrust of anyone who does not share their views.
spainintodo, I think you missed the joke with the Haliburton ad. seeing as it came right after the part where he said conspiracy nut-jobs would focus on one thing in the whole article to justify their dismissal of it, it's called irony
"So even if you strapped them down and forced them to read this, they'd just pick out one detail that they thought would give them reason to discredit the whole thing and dismiss it from their minds."
how true that is...
You had me right up until Kellog, Brown & Root.
Ah, well, this article is very old and now there's a Halliburton Ad playing across it (that's not metaphor, there's a f*****g HALLIBURTON ad playing across page 2).
Anyway, you make a lot of sense, for someone who might be this generation's E. Howard Hunt.
I'm still not convinced, Wong.
The illuminati pulled it off without a hitch.
including the subsequent clean-up afterwards.
You underestimate what these fuckers are capable off, no matter how grand a scale.
But whatever, this is still a comedy website.
Preach on.
bookhead01 and ShellyJones. sure it is our basic right to question things and know the answer, but when the evidence of terrorism is screaming right out at you surely you have to admit that this could not have been a conspiracy.
Res ipsa loquitur.
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Excellent - EXCELLENT article. Thank you so much for putting all that out there in words, especially the last bit about the 'worldview' of these people. You've nailed it, sir, kudos.