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Logical

(22,457 posts)
Fri Dec 30, 2011, 02:28 PM Dec 2011

It is this simple regarding 9/11...NO ONE has ever came forward and said 'I was part of it!"....

Once again. This "PLAN" would have taken 100s or 1000s of people to pull off.

10 years later, NOT ONE of these people has come forward, felt guilty or told a friend/lover about their part in this plan?

The BIGGEST conspiracy in the history of the world and NOT ONE person has come forward to say "I was part of it!".

In today's world, there would be offers of MILLIONS of dollars for ONE person to come forward with proof that 9/11 was an inside job. Book deals, movie deals, etc.

None of this makes any sense. How you keep 100s of people from ever breaking their silence?

This is the biggest flaw in this whole plan.







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It is this simple regarding 9/11...NO ONE has ever came forward and said 'I was part of it!".... (Original Post) Logical Dec 2011 OP
logical fallacy n/t ottobahn Dec 2011 #1
What logical fallacy? cpwm17 Dec 2011 #4
the logical fallacy of argumentum e silentio (argument from silence) stockholmer Aug 2012 #102
The OP's argument is legitimate. cpwm17 Aug 2012 #105
Well I see that you're not going to be able to ever respond cpwm17 Aug 2012 #107
Wow... Stockholmer got canned. Quantess Aug 2012 #111
I believe it was for accusing the wrong country in a BS Kennedy assassination theory... cpwm17 Aug 2012 #112
LOL......that was a very detailed answer. Thanks! Logical Dec 2011 #2
Do you think Homeopathy is a scam? n/t ottobahn Dec 2011 #3
Yes, most of it. I saw a guy, at a speech, take a whole bottle of "GNC" sleeping pills before the... Logical Dec 2011 #5
So if you believe homeopathy is a scam, ottobahn Dec 2011 #6
You do not think I can find consumers of Homeopathy who say it is a scam? Seriously? Logical Dec 2011 #7
I'm talking people involved with it that would know it was a scam, not ottobahn Dec 2011 #8
The difference is that....... Logical Dec 2011 #11
But if Homeopathy is a scam, there's got to be scammers involved ottobahn Dec 2011 #14
There's no comparison to potential 9-11 conspirators cpwm17 Dec 2011 #17
If homeopathy is out in the open, seems more easy to out those who would know it's a scam. ottobahn Dec 2011 #18
how could anyone PROVE that homeopathy is a scam? OnTheOtherHand Dec 2011 #21
Not a scam as in ripping people off. A scam in it does not work. Logical Dec 2011 #19
It's not the same thing. Homeopathy can rely on the placebo effect. chrisa Jan 2012 #38
I know BlueMidwest Mar 2012 #63
That was James Randi n/t chrisa Jan 2012 #37
Yes it was!! n-t Logical Jan 2012 #39
I don't think there's much doubt that additional people were involved who have not been revealed. eomer Dec 2011 #9
So you do not think the whole 9/11 inside job would have taken 100s of people? Logical Dec 2011 #10
I'm not sure what you mean by "the whole 9/11 inside job". eomer Dec 2011 #12
My point is that someone would come forward at some point. If people..... Logical Dec 2011 #13
OK, so there are some specific scenarios that you think would require hundreds. eomer Dec 2011 #15
Neither has anyone involved with the 200+ yr old homeopathy 'scam' ottobahn Dec 2011 #16
A scam in that it does not work. Maybe a placebo effect but that is it. Logical Dec 2011 #20
Why not hire international terrorist Politicalboi Mar 2012 #56
This message was self-deleted by its author wildbilln864 Dec 2011 #22
I was originally brought to this thread by jury Riftaxe Dec 2011 #23
A couple of thoughts on "why there is yet no proof". eomer Dec 2011 #24
And the fact that Politicalboi Mar 2012 #57
the answers would probably depend on the allegations OnTheOtherHand Dec 2011 #25
The thing that would prevent that scenario in my mind Riftaxe Jan 2012 #31
I haven't seen any good reason to believe CD OnTheOtherHand Jan 2012 #32
So squibs 30 stories below Politicalboi Mar 2012 #58
Why in the world would someone alert this OP? Logical Dec 2011 #26
Not the OP, post #22. Make7 Dec 2011 #27
yeah, I got called to jury on this post too. zappaman Dec 2011 #28
OK, thanks!! Logical Dec 2011 #29
so sorry for all the trouble. wildbilln864 Jan 2012 #30
Also, bin Laden said he did not do it 4dog Jan 2012 #33
Osama wasn't a big fan of dying cpwm17 Jan 2012 #34
'OBL wasn't a big fan of dying' gyroscope Jan 2012 #40
Nothing that he said denied his actual role in the attack. n/t Bolo Boffin Jan 2012 #35
This sounds to me like a denial: 4dog Jan 2012 #36
Why would anyone ever admit to mass murder? gyroscope Jan 2012 #41
The conspiracy people say no one knew the whole plan. So maybe a underling would realize they.... Logical Jan 2012 #42
Yeah right gyroscope Jan 2012 #43
I can find thousands that will say the hijackers did it. You.... Logical Jan 2012 #44
you left out birthers. zappaman Jan 2012 #45
Great point! Fiction is more fun! Logical Jan 2012 #46
Keep beating that strawman to death gyroscope Jan 2012 #48
Keep living in fantasyland gyroscope Jan 2012 #47
LOL......yes, because the world will end in 2012 and JFK is still alive in a hospital wing!! Logical Jan 2012 #49
with ELVIS! BobbyBoring Feb 2012 #50
Don't forget Tupac n/t RZM Feb 2012 #53
"Building 7 colkasped from fires!" stockholmer Aug 2012 #101
That's the conclusion of the scientists and engineers that studied the collapse. cpwm17 Aug 2012 #106
It is obvious 9/11 was not carried out by anyone but the 16 hijackers. Politicalboi Mar 2012 #59
There were 19 hijackers zappaman Mar 2012 #60
So, You've talked to every person in the world and came to this conclusion? Ghost in the Machine Feb 2012 #51
really, that is interesting! Celebration Feb 2012 #52
maybe it was the team that did the tight rope walk years ago. Maybe this was a ten year plan. They earcandle Feb 2012 #54
Because with this crowd Politicalboi Mar 2012 #55
a little context Shagman Mar 2012 #61
Duh! Many mobsters have written books! People leaked the Manhattan Project! The... Logical Mar 2012 #64
another source Shagman Jun 2012 #89
Excellent link, thank you. dougolat Sep 2012 #115
aagreed BlueMidwest Mar 2012 #62
no one owned up yet Rosa Luxemburg Mar 2012 #65
Again. Why would anyone ever admit to being part of a mass murder? gyroscope May 2012 #66
You keep asking this paired set of rhetorical questions as if it means anythings or proves something apocalypsehow May 2012 #67
You wish gyroscope May 2012 #68
I "wish" nothing, for the facts are on my side, not yours. It really is that simple. n/t. apocalypsehow May 2012 #70
You have offered no facts gyroscope May 2012 #74
Uh-huh. n/t. apocalypsehow May 2012 #85
Why not a deathbed confession? nt hack89 May 2012 #71
You been watching too many Hollywood movies gyroscope May 2012 #73
That's funny - massive secret government conspiracies are a staple of Hollywood movies hack89 May 2012 #77
Who would they confess to? gyroscope May 2012 #76
Top 10 deathbed confession hack89 May 2012 #78
Meaningless speculation gyroscope May 2012 #80
Too funny! zappaman May 2012 #82
And in your world gyroscope May 2012 #83
No, in my world zappaman May 2012 #84
You just broke my irony meter hack89 May 2012 #86
I agree SoutherDem May 2012 #69
You watch a lot of movies? gyroscope May 2012 #75
Why? SoutherDem May 2012 #79
You can speculate about deathbed confessions until the cows come home gyroscope May 2012 #81
How many are dead Why Syzygy May 2012 #72
But there are plenty of witnesses... deadinsider May 2012 #87
And more... deadinsider May 2012 #88
No one who's still alive. Eddie Haskell Jul 2012 #90
Proof Positive of an Insider coming Forward!... Indi Guy Aug 2012 #91
Why would it have taken "100s" or "1000s" to "pull off"? R.A.R Aug 2012 #92
Yes, you're right! Frank_Norris_Lives Aug 2012 #93
A person could probably find a quote to support, or deny, anything. R.A.R Aug 2012 #95
Hmmmmm.....I was thinking.... Frank_Norris_Lives Aug 2012 #96
"too many things worked in favor of the hijackers for coincidence" R.A.R Aug 2012 #109
I can think of these coincidences without digging too far... Frank_Norris_Lives Aug 2012 #110
+100000000 It is all about compartmentalisation, For instance, Able Danger, IMHO was patsy control, stockholmer Aug 2012 #100
How about if we call it...... Frank_Norris_Lives Aug 2012 #113
A person who would state that "100s" or "1000s" would be required, hasn't given it much thought. R.A.R Aug 2012 #94
OK, then here's your chance to give a plausible explanation on how 9-11 went down. cpwm17 Aug 2012 #97
Ok! Let me creatively speculate that..... Frank_Norris_Lives Aug 2012 #98
You make vague assertions cpwm17 Aug 2012 #99
Look at the Iran-Contra affair..... Frank_Norris_Lives Aug 2012 #103
Still Iran-Contra was exposed cpwm17 Aug 2012 #104
Still, it was exposed by accident... Frank_Norris_Lives Aug 2012 #108
It is this simple regarding 9/11...NO ONE has ever came forward and said 'I was part of it!".... Indi Guy Sep 2012 #114
LIHOP... PopeOxycontinI Sep 2012 #116
It wouldn't take 100's or 1000's, just PNAC and crew and a death pledge Politicalboi Sep 2012 #117
Lance Armstrong makes the case, I think. BB1 Oct 2012 #118
 

cpwm17

(3,829 posts)
4. What logical fallacy?
Fri Dec 30, 2011, 03:11 PM
Dec 2011

In over two words, please explain why this logical fallacy applies.

Then please give a plausible explanation on how 9-11 went down since you seem to believe that it took fewer people than what the OP claims.

 

stockholmer

(3,751 posts)
102. the logical fallacy of argumentum e silentio (argument from silence)
Tue Aug 14, 2012, 08:33 PM
Aug 2012

where the conclusion is based on the absence of evidence, rather than the existence of evidence

the OP also employs a shifting burden of proof as well

extremely common, and a telltale sign of a truly weak position

 

cpwm17

(3,829 posts)
105. The OP's argument is legitimate.
Wed Aug 15, 2012, 12:54 PM
Aug 2012

Common sense should tell anyone that such a massive operation would be exposed. It would be way too complex (actually the conspiracy couldn't be pulled off - exposed or not) to not be exposed.

The burden of proof is on the one making the positive claim. That's why I asked the second question: "please give a plausible explanation on how 9-11 went down since you seem to believe that it took fewer people than what the OP claims."

 

cpwm17

(3,829 posts)
112. I believe it was for accusing the wrong country in a BS Kennedy assassination theory...
Thu Aug 23, 2012, 01:46 AM
Aug 2012

...on a forum. Not a good idea.

 

Logical

(22,457 posts)
5. Yes, most of it. I saw a guy, at a speech, take a whole bottle of "GNC" sleeping pills before the...
Fri Dec 30, 2011, 03:38 PM
Dec 2011

speech and one hour later was still talking. Hmmm!

 

ottobahn

(13 posts)
6. So if you believe homeopathy is a scam,
Fri Dec 30, 2011, 04:00 PM
Dec 2011

how come none of the 100,000s or millions of people involved with it since its inception over 200 years ago ever came forward to admit it was a scam?

 

ottobahn

(13 posts)
8. I'm talking people involved with it that would know it was a scam, not
Fri Dec 30, 2011, 04:13 PM
Dec 2011

consumers who "think" it is a scam because it may not have worked for them.

I'm talking about people who own and worked at the homeopathic remedy companies, the faculty at the schools who teach it, the doctors trained in it, etc. The people who would know if it was a scam, or not.

 

Logical

(22,457 posts)
11. The difference is that.......
Fri Dec 30, 2011, 04:32 PM
Dec 2011

the people making the medicine believe it. So they are not going to say it does not work because they think it works.

That is like me saying ask any working 'psychic' to admit that they really have no powers. They believe they do.

The people who worked on the Manhattan project even leaked secrets. The atomic bomb was leaked to many. You cannot get a large group and keep it quiet for long.

Why has no 9/11 participant came forward to sell his story?

And 9/11 is a much bigger deal than selling herbs at GNC.

 

ottobahn

(13 posts)
14. But if Homeopathy is a scam, there's got to be scammers involved
Fri Dec 30, 2011, 04:42 PM
Dec 2011

How many of them whistleblowed since homeopathy's inception over 200 years ago?

 

cpwm17

(3,829 posts)
17. There's no comparison to potential 9-11 conspirators
Fri Dec 30, 2011, 05:04 PM
Dec 2011

Homeopathy is out in the open. There are weak laws against their operations. Many people that practice homeopathy actually believe it works, and the rest find it a way to make a quick buck.

Practitioners of homeopathy are a self selected group of people that can easily find other practitioners since they operate in the open.

There is no conceivable way for such a large group of people to get together to commit 9-11. The laws are strong against mass-murder of American citizens. Any attempt would fail, and their cover would be blown.

If I wanted to conspire to commit a 9-11 type attack as truthers claim: Where would I go? Who would I meet? What organization can I find that conducts these types of operations? Do they have a link?

If it was done as a government operation, how would the government find all of the conspirators without their cover being blown? Most people would refuse to take part.

 

ottobahn

(13 posts)
18. If homeopathy is out in the open, seems more easy to out those who would know it's a scam.
Fri Dec 30, 2011, 05:08 PM
Dec 2011

Why hasn't any been? That would be a big victory to the anti-homeopathy crowd.

OnTheOtherHand

(7,621 posts)
21. how could anyone PROVE that homeopathy is a scam?
Fri Dec 30, 2011, 05:38 PM
Dec 2011

Homeopaths claim that their treatments are tailored to individual patients and conditions. Homeopathy is unfalsifiable (which is not a good thing). Presumably one could prove that a particular homeopath didn't believe in the efficacy of his or her own treatments, but that would no more rebut homeopathy than exposing a doctor as a quack rebuts mainstream medicine.

I think homeopathy is a scam in the sense that it has no medical merit, but I don't know that it is a scam in the sense that it depends upon conscious scammers. I suspect that most of its practitioners believe in it. Regardless, no conspiracy is required.

That said, unless someone specifies a particular 9/11 conspiracy scenario, there is no way to know how many people would have to be involved. The general premise that "the Official Story is untrue" is, in fact, unfalsifiable -- and perhaps trivially true, depending on what is meant by "the Official Story."

chrisa

(4,524 posts)
38. It's not the same thing. Homeopathy can rely on the placebo effect.
Mon Jan 9, 2012, 01:27 PM
Jan 2012

The people who are involved with it, or actually most of them anyways, actually believe that it works.

On the other hand, a plot to blow something up is obvious. There's no doubt about it.

eomer

(3,845 posts)
9. I don't think there's much doubt that additional people were involved who have not been revealed.
Fri Dec 30, 2011, 04:16 PM
Dec 2011

There are clues and leads that haven't been followed up on that would seem to indicate additional people involved in the funding and coordinating. Who might those people be? Could one or more of them be operatives of our government's covert services? I don't see why not.

There is no reason that having one single US government operative or a small cell of US government operatives involved somehow then means that hundreds or thousands have to be involved. There's no logic to that leap. There certainly could have been a small number of US personnel involved just as easily as a large number.

eomer

(3,845 posts)
12. I'm not sure what you mean by "the whole 9/11 inside job".
Fri Dec 30, 2011, 04:35 PM
Dec 2011

If I understand what you're driving at, you're arguing that there was no inside job. So you think the job could have been pulled of with zero people inside our government involved in it.

If you're right then isn't it also feasible for the job to have been pulled off with all the same people whom you believe did it, plus one single operative inside one of our covert services? Or, alternatively, all the same people whom you believe did it, plus some small tight-knit cadre of people from inside our government. For example, Dick Cheney together with two or three CIA operatives?

That latter example would still be an inside job. Why is that theory not viable? It seems to me you're building up this cast of thousands just so you can knock it down. In other words, you seem to be battling a straw man, no?

 

Logical

(22,457 posts)
13. My point is that someone would come forward at some point. If people.....
Fri Dec 30, 2011, 04:39 PM
Dec 2011

had to hide passengers (or kill them). Or remote control planes or plant explosives in multiple buildings then there are 100s involved.

No one has said "I was part of the plan".

eomer

(3,845 posts)
15. OK, so there are some specific scenarios that you think would require hundreds.
Fri Dec 30, 2011, 05:02 PM
Dec 2011

And you think those scenarios therefore are unlikely because with hundreds involved you think something would have leaked out.

I'm with you on some of that. I also think that scenarios involving a large number of people being in on the whole plot are unlikely because something would have leaked out.

But I think there are lots of scenarios that involve either a smaller total number of people involved or else a small number of people who knew the true plot combined with a larger number of people who played unwitting roles - who did some part but didn't know why they did it.

For example, creating a diversionary apparatus in the form of training exercises would have involved a large number of people but very few of them would have needed to know the true reason for it. A small number of people at the top could have manipulated the timing and synchronicity of the exercises while all the rest of the actors carried them out unwittingly, thinking they were routine operations.

There are lots of variations on this theme and I think lots of them could have been accomplished with only a small cadre of people who knew the true plan.

 

ottobahn

(13 posts)
16. Neither has anyone involved with the 200+ yr old homeopathy 'scam'
Fri Dec 30, 2011, 05:02 PM
Dec 2011

according to your logic, Mr. Logical.

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
56. Why not hire international terrorist
Sun Mar 11, 2012, 01:35 AM
Mar 2012

That got paid to do the job, and go back home before it all went down. You know Nutinyahoo said "9/11 was good for Israel" could have been some of their guys who have no American connection, and who doesn't like America. And who would believe them? I take it you don't believe it was an inside job, so if someone did come forward, you and the rest would probably call him a nut. If you think about all the things our government didn't do on 9/11 it should make you wonder what did happen.

Why do we spend so much on defense, but yet our biggest defense building gets hit. The Pentagon was hit at about 9:35 am. The second plane hit the second tower at 8:55. So 40 minutes goes by, and the Pentagon doesn't even close down the highway near the Pentagon. If it were a true attack, how did they know that no trucks with explosives was on it's way? Why didn't they set up SAMS on the roof of the Pentagon? How come they didn't protect D.C.? They are after all, a DEFENSE building.

This is why there has been no trial. How does our government explain all the fails that day. How do they explain DNA that was ID'd when they couldn't even reconstruct any of the planes. So human remains are tougher than a Titanium engine or plane debris. Is that what we are suppose to believe?

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Riftaxe

(2,693 posts)
23. I was originally brought to this thread by jury
Sat Dec 31, 2011, 04:57 AM
Dec 2011

However, the post i was supposed to judge was thrown into an infinite loop since the post to be judged was deleted by the poster (a very nasty loop, apparently logging out does not cure it!)

So this will be my first post in Creative speculation (the name alone, I have to admire!)

My imagination leads to all things, I am an avid fan of science fiction...however with that i cannot ignore my educational background since before the first page of a SciFi book, I already know it is fiction.

I dearly would love to believe a lot of things that would make the universe a bit more spectacular! (for now the LHC is keeping me more then interested)

In the absence of the broken jury system *infinite loop again*, if asked directly how would those who believe that 9/11 was MIHOP/LIHOP after a decade answer the questions of why there is yet no proof?

To me it really comes down to the difference between a David Weber book (a person whose knowledge of physics is terrible at best!)
and why those who believe the 9/11 was not as it appears is true?

eomer

(3,845 posts)
24. A couple of thoughts on "why there is yet no proof".
Sat Dec 31, 2011, 06:18 AM
Dec 2011

First, there are crimes every day for which there is never "proof". Because I take it you're looking for some single or compact finding that solves the case and eliminates all doubt - a Perry Mason moment as it were. That happens all the time in fiction but not so much in real life.

So there isn't proof of that type but what there is is evidence. Especially for LIHOP there is a lot of evidence that makes a pretty convincing case. It has been established that the Bush cabal had realized that a massive attack on the U.S. would enable them to do some things they really wanted to do. It has been established that they had ample warning. And it has been established that they were determined, stubbornly, to not respond to the warnings. And, finally, they clearly lied afterward about many of the facts including the warnings and their inaction. All these add up to a very strong case of at least LIHOP.

Regarding MIHOP, to some extent the reason there isn't more to go on is because they didn't like where the evidence was leading. When indications were found that funding came from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia they refused to follow those leads and gave us the explanation that it really wasn't necessary to follow the money. That, of course, is an obvious and outrageous lie. Following the money was an essential thread of the investigation, especially the investigation of who the high-level sponsors of the attack were. So if we don't have "proof" of who the sponsors were, it's at least partly because they didn't like who it was pointing to. We have no way of knowing, to date, whether that was just because it was pointing toward allies of the Bush cabal or, even more, was going to implicate the Bush cabal itself, directly, if followed.

I think it's almost certain that more people were involved than have been revealed so far and that therefore there definitely are parts of this story that are true even though "proof" for them hasn't yet been found. Those leads in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia simply have to have involved more than one person in each and those additional people have not yet been found. And there's no "proof" for anyone beyond the 19 perps, yet there obviously would have been more people than that involved in the instigation and planning of the attack.

Clearly there were more people involved than we have found out about. And the Bush cabal seem the most likely suspects to me based on motive, opportunity, circumstantial evidence, and lying about so many things afterward. If I were a juror I would find the sum of the evidence enough to convict G.W. Bush and Dick Cheney in a way similar to the guilty verdict of Scott Peterson, for which there was no "proof", but merely evidence.

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
57. And the fact that
Sun Mar 11, 2012, 01:47 AM
Mar 2012

Rumsfailed announced that the Pentagon "misplaced" 2.3 Trillion dollars on 09/10/01. And the next day 9/11, no questions ever again about the 2.3 Trillion dollars.

OnTheOtherHand

(7,621 posts)
25. the answers would probably depend on the allegations
Sat Dec 31, 2011, 11:42 AM
Dec 2011

As for the physics arguments that the twin towers must have been taken down by CD, I suppose if I believed those arguments, I would construe that they had already been proven, at least by a preponderance of the evidence.

Different allegations entail different implications. As eomer points out, we wouldn't expect to have conclusive proof for (or against) all such implications, even if such proof is obtainable in principle.

Riftaxe

(2,693 posts)
31. The thing that would prevent that scenario in my mind
Sun Jan 1, 2012, 10:29 PM
Jan 2012

is that steel is malleable a long time before it reaches melting, and by that time both towers were the center of attention.

One of the things brought up on the old DU2 board was why there no explosions heard?

Since it was a "cage" design, any explosives strong enough to blow a support, would have certainly propelled debri much further then anything in the videos taken suggest.

That and i am sure it would be loud enough to blow the mic's on the ground at the very least.

OnTheOtherHand

(7,621 posts)
32. I haven't seen any good reason to believe CD
Sun Jan 1, 2012, 10:42 PM
Jan 2012

As to the question why no explosions were heard, you may get the response that explosions were indeed heard, and besides, thermite can be silent. I don't see many attempts to piece such assertions into a plausible explanation of what happened.

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
58. So squibs 30 stories below
Sun Mar 11, 2012, 01:56 AM
Mar 2012

The falling debris isn't enough? How do squibs happen 30 stories below if what they say floors dropping caused it. How did those floors cause squibs 30 stories below? Or how come the lobby had all it's windows blown out, but windows above and near the crash site were intact? And a lot of people heard explosions. I think some people got blown out of the building and they didn't jump as thought. When the towers are collapsing, you can see huge beams flying away from the building. If the pancake theory were true, there should have been 50 stories of debris with the center columns still standing. Even their quack demo video shows the center columns standing, but we saw what was really left. The official story is junk science.

zappaman

(20,612 posts)
28. yeah, I got called to jury on this post too.
Sat Dec 31, 2011, 12:17 PM
Dec 2011

when it is self-deleted it really puts everything out of whack!

 

wildbilln864

(13,382 posts)
30. so sorry for all the trouble.
Sun Jan 1, 2012, 12:51 PM
Jan 2012

Was going to make a joke and after thinking about it thought it better to withdraw it. Didn't realize it would cause any problems I do see bringing others to this group to be a good thing though. Welcome to the new dungeon...

4dog

(518 posts)
33. Also, bin Laden said he did not do it
Mon Jan 9, 2012, 12:38 AM
Jan 2012

As reported by AP less than a week after the towers fell. Found recently on CNN site also.

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
40. 'OBL wasn't a big fan of dying'
Mon Jan 9, 2012, 03:00 PM
Jan 2012

why would anyone for that matter ever come forward to admit they helped murdered 3000 Americans? are they fans of dying?

thats exactly the reason why no one in the govt will ever come forward to admit their role in 9/11. they aren't fans of dying either.

4dog

(518 posts)
36. This sounds to me like a denial:
Mon Jan 9, 2012, 01:08 PM
Jan 2012

OBL: "I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children, and other humans as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children, and other people."

OBL's statement and reputation for truthfulness were corroborated by Hamid Gul, former ISI head and OBL colleague, later in September in an interview that can be found on the Washington Times web site.


Incidentally, I am not intending to come to this group and be a pest. I discovered the group accidentally while exploring the new DU3 look and saw a post that I thought needed a comment, though stale.

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
41. Why would anyone ever admit to mass murder?
Mon Jan 9, 2012, 03:04 PM
Jan 2012

and have to spend the rest of their life in jail or on death row?

is it normal for murderers to voluntarily come to the police station and say they did it?
especially when they aren't even a suspect? I don't think so.

 

Logical

(22,457 posts)
42. The conspiracy people say no one knew the whole plan. So maybe a underling would realize they....
Mon Jan 9, 2012, 04:22 PM
Jan 2012

did something and come forward.

Does it really matter? It is obvious 9/11 was not carried out by anyone but the 16 hijackers.

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
43. Yeah right
Mon Jan 9, 2012, 05:03 PM
Jan 2012

even if they were to come forward, the govt and the media would simply ignore them.

ever heard of Sibel Edmunds? Edmunds was an FBI employee at the time of the attacks.
she revealed, among other bombshells, that the US govt had been working closely with OBL up to the day of 9/11. the 9/11 commission simply ignored her as did the MSM. she was never called to testify even though she was considered extremely credible and endorsed by prominent members of the house and senate.

edmunds is a member of a whistleblowers group:

http://www.justacitizen.com/



 

Logical

(22,457 posts)
44. I can find thousands that will say the hijackers did it. You....
Mon Jan 9, 2012, 05:17 PM
Jan 2012

Are living in a world where facts do not matter. Building 7 colkasped from fires! That is all!
People love conspiricys! They are more fun than the truth!
JFK, moon landing, 911, 2012, etc. all the same!

zappaman

(20,612 posts)
45. you left out birthers.
Mon Jan 9, 2012, 05:20 PM
Jan 2012

they have about as much evidence of their beliefs as so-called "truthers" do.

 

cpwm17

(3,829 posts)
106. That's the conclusion of the scientists and engineers that studied the collapse.
Wed Aug 15, 2012, 01:29 PM
Aug 2012

Even common sense should tell anyone that the massive fire in building 7 could cause it to collapse. Perhaps you've come up with some new physics that only applies to 9-11 which protects buildings from large fires.

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
59. It is obvious 9/11 was not carried out by anyone but the 16 hijackers.
Sun Mar 11, 2012, 02:08 AM
Mar 2012

So we're to believe that 16 "terrorist" who live in a cave fooled our military for hours, flew over military bases, when all they had to do was book a flight out of NY's JFK were the towers were visible. They were supposedly pilots, and mingled with the crew, so it would have been easy for them. And waited till the plane got speed and altitude, took over the plane, and crashed into the towers? Why risk getting shot down over military bases. If this was a well planned operation, they knew the risks. Why not take the easy one?

zappaman

(20,612 posts)
60. There were 19 hijackers
Sun Mar 11, 2012, 11:20 AM
Mar 2012

You might want to learn the most basic of facts before tackling the ones you really don't know about.

Ghost in the Machine

(14,912 posts)
51. So, You've talked to every person in the world and came to this conclusion?
Tue Feb 14, 2012, 05:22 AM
Feb 2012
10 years later, NOT ONE of these people has come forward, felt guilty or told a friend/lover about their part in this plan?


Where do you come up with this conclusion? Where is your proof that NOT ONE of these people has come forward, felt guilty or told a friend/lover about their part in this plan?

A couple of years ago, I had a few white supremacists bragging about helping plant explosives in the towers. It was a way for them to hit the "ZOG" {Zionist Occupied Government} where it hurt, and usher in "the day of the rope", which is their dream of taking over the Government. They were very loud, vocal and brash about it, in a public setting at an indoor flea market, with hundreds of people around. Strangely, within a period of about 5-6 weeks, all four were dead.. 2 in separate motorcycle accidents, the other two together in a single vehicle crash. All late at night, on isolated roads.

I know, it was all just a coincidence, right?


Peace,
Ghost

Celebration

(15,812 posts)
52. really, that is interesting!
Fri Feb 17, 2012, 06:16 AM
Feb 2012

Is there an internet page somewhere about it, with links to their death notices, and witness accounts of their statements?

earcandle

(3,622 posts)
54. maybe it was the team that did the tight rope walk years ago. Maybe this was a ten year plan. They
Sun Feb 19, 2012, 04:06 AM
Feb 2012

managed access where it was supposed to be secure. And bragged about it.

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
55. Because with this crowd
Sun Mar 11, 2012, 01:12 AM
Mar 2012

They would be laughed at. Just look at us. Some of us don't believe the governments story, and we get laughed at. Who would believe them, when people believe that fire can take down steel and concrete at 10 stories a second. Never happened before, and has never happened again. And WTC 7 never got hit by anything other than debris, if that is even true. They would be talking to a WALL. And I would say welcome to DU.

Shagman

(135 posts)
61. a little context
Thu Mar 22, 2012, 12:47 PM
Mar 2012

Did anyone ever come forward to "confess" to the Iran-Contra scheme? Do members of organized crime ever spontaneously admit they've broken the law? Any conspiracy on this scale wouldn't have sprung into being overnight, it would be an operation put forward, handled, and kept quiet by people who do that sort of thing every day. Is it a coincidence that GHW Bush was once head of the CIA?

 

Logical

(22,457 posts)
64. Duh! Many mobsters have written books! People leaked the Manhattan Project! The...
Fri Mar 23, 2012, 10:05 PM
Mar 2012

Iran Contra project was discovered.

Your examples are horrible!

Shagman

(135 posts)
89. another source
Fri Jun 1, 2012, 09:41 AM
Jun 2012

Another opinion, well informed, from Russ Baker: "Someone Would Have Talked? Someone Would Be Crazy."

WhoWhatWhy

There are mechanisms in place to intimidate or neutralize whistle-blowers. Believing otherwise simply ignores the depths to which human nature can sink, as well as the way expediency can become ingrained in bureaucracy.

Also, reflexively assuming that conspiracies never happen is just as narrow-minded as assuming they always do.

apocalypsehow

(12,751 posts)
67. You keep asking this paired set of rhetorical questions as if it means anythings or proves something
Sun May 6, 2012, 05:47 PM
May 2012

Hint: it doesn't. There was no wider conspiracy on 9/11, no MIHOP or LIHOP or any of that jazz. We know who committed the crime(s) that day, and why. Case closed.

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
68. You wish
Mon May 7, 2012, 12:40 PM
May 2012

It's a simple, legitimate question. Why can't you answer a simple question?

Because you know it destroys your ridiculous fairy tale.


hack89

(39,179 posts)
77. That's funny - massive secret government conspiracies are a staple of Hollywood movies
Sat May 12, 2012, 06:30 AM
May 2012

so you are right - real life doesn't work like it does in the movies.

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
76. Who would they confess to?
Sat May 12, 2012, 04:51 AM
May 2012

their wife? good luck with that. a confession is meaningless unless it is conducted in front of a judge in a court of law. but the case has long been closed anyway, so that will never happen. the word of the wife means nothing, if she even decides to tell anyone what her husband just confessed to her. her second-hand information is worth even less than her dying husband's word. who would believe her? why would the dying perp even want to confess in the first place and have his family's name and reputation forever tarnished and associated with those who planned and carried out 9/11?? this deathbed confession nonsense is really quite laughable. which is why it only happens in the movies.

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
80. Meaningless speculation
Sat May 12, 2012, 05:52 PM
May 2012

and wishful thinking.

the government and mainstream media have completely ignored the testimony of people such as Sibel Edmunds, Barry Jennings, and a host of others. if a deathbed confession were to ever take place do you think there would be any chance of them bothering to report it? keep dreaming. it only happens in the movies.



 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
83. And in your world
Sat May 12, 2012, 07:50 PM
May 2012

people who take part in mass murders always eventually 'fess up to it, for no apparent reason. even when they are under no pressure to do so and the perps have already been decided on. now that it is truly hilarious.



zappaman

(20,612 posts)
84. No, in my world
Sat May 12, 2012, 09:11 PM
May 2012

when someone makes an assertion about what would be the biggest conspiracy in the history of the world, they at least try to back them up with facts.
Get back to us when you get some, eh?

hack89

(39,179 posts)
86. You just broke my irony meter
Sun May 13, 2012, 07:23 AM
May 2012

Sibel Edmunds is not a Truther - she says the FBI ignored credible evidence that Bin Laden was planing a massive terrorist attack in America.

There is evidence that Barry Jennings got his times mixed up and the "explosions" were due to the collapse of the towers. The man that was with him tells a different story for one thing.

SoutherDem

(2,307 posts)
69. I agree
Mon May 7, 2012, 11:17 PM
May 2012

By now someone would have been guilt ridden, on their death bed, have found religion or wanted to turn a buck. Washington is a sieve for secrets, they can't keep the little things secret much less something this big, supposed to be known by so many for so long.

SoutherDem

(2,307 posts)
79. Why?
Sat May 12, 2012, 10:04 AM
May 2012

You haven't heard of this happening? Greed and Guilt brings many skeletons out of the closet.

But, do I believe the "Loose Change" answers. NO!

But, in additions to the 1000's of people being involved, for their answers to fit would take such execution the chances of the plan working seem unlikely.

Am I saying, Bush isn't responsible for being arrogant for thinking it could never happen to us, for completely ignoring the dangers which were present, or for that matter discarding a plan which Clinton had in place which Gore is likely to have continued which may have stopped the attack? NO!

If I am understanding you and you do believe the "Loose Change" theories. Maybe it is you who watches too many movies and you are the one with the vivid imagination.

 

gyroscope

(1,443 posts)
81. You can speculate about deathbed confessions until the cows come home
Sat May 12, 2012, 05:56 PM
May 2012

but its really just your desperation talking.

Why Syzygy

(18,928 posts)
72. How many are dead
Wed May 9, 2012, 02:53 PM
May 2012

or unaccounted for? Start with even a simple list of the eye witnesses. If 90% of them are dead, does that change your theory? If not, then how can you say NO ONE has come forward, not knowing if one of the dead ones would have/did?

 

deadinsider

(201 posts)
87. But there are plenty of witnesses...
Thu May 17, 2012, 03:03 AM
May 2012

First off, let's start with the Franklin Conspiracy: it is absolutely obvious that there are elements outside of our normal acceptance of the big U.S.A. we learn in elementary school.



Discredit and destroy their academic reputation.
Don't publish their testimonies.
Blackmail: see Franklin Conspiracy.
Death threats

Off the top of my head.

Indi Guy

(3,992 posts)
91. Proof Positive of an Insider coming Forward!...
Wed Aug 1, 2012, 07:36 PM
Aug 2012

Last edited Thu Aug 16, 2012, 03:30 PM - Edit history (1)

For the intellectually honest and curious -- very many of your answers can be found here:



(watch on Youtube & check out all 8 segments)

Also see -- http://www.democraticunderground.com/11353298


R.A.R

(4 posts)
92. Why would it have taken "100s" or "1000s" to "pull off"?
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 06:19 PM
Aug 2012

I would suggest that this assumption is absolutely false.

Frank_Norris_Lives

(114 posts)
93. Yes, you're right!
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 08:35 AM
Aug 2012

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead.

but on the other hand.......

""Planning the attacks was a master deed, in technical and organizational terms. To hijack four big airliners within a few minutes and fly them into targets within a single hour and doing so on complicated flight routes! That is unthinkable, without backing from the secret apparatuses of state and industry." - Andreas von Bulow, former FRG minister.

....so maybe 19 middle-easterners is not enough after all....

R.A.R

(4 posts)
95. A person could probably find a quote to support, or deny, anything.
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 05:20 PM
Aug 2012

That's why it may be best to do your own thinking.

Frank_Norris_Lives

(114 posts)
96. Hmmmmm.....I was thinking....
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 02:58 AM
Aug 2012

..that by throwing out two opposites that someone might realize that they can, this case, both be true. Any effort has a core of dedicated individuals but that does not negate their far-reaching machinations. I definitely am of Bulow's viewpoint, too many things worked in favor of the hijackers for coincidence. But how many needed to know the full picture? Outside of the core I would argue, few. Many individuals/agencies unknowingly abetted while some individuals at agencies knowingly abetted.

R.A.R

(4 posts)
109. "too many things worked in favor of the hijackers for coincidence"
Sat Aug 18, 2012, 06:45 PM
Aug 2012

[QUOTE]too many things worked in favor of the hijackers for coincidence[/QUOTE]

F_N_L, please go into this further. What are some examples?

Frank_Norris_Lives

(114 posts)
110. I can think of these coincidences without digging too far...
Mon Aug 20, 2012, 10:03 AM
Aug 2012

1. Significant air exercises, not necessarily linked to each other, are scheduled for 11 Sep.
2. The alleged hijackers just happen to pick that day to execute.
3. Warnings of attacks using planes come in from several other countries' intel agencies - bureaucratic ineptitude prevents any response
4. Warnings of attacks using planes come in from the Pentagon's 'Able Danger' task force - again - bureaucratic ineptitude prevents any response
5. The same airport security company handled security for Dulles, Newark & Logan
6. No hijacking signals were sent from any of the four planes
7. The 'Unseen Hand' - Even though the planes (I believe all four) took off late and there was no way for the alleged hijackers to communicate once off the ground, the first three planes all execute a sequential attack, i.e. the second plane doesn't deviate from its course until the first one is on its final approach, the third plane doesn't deviate from course until the second plane is on its final approach.

 

stockholmer

(3,751 posts)
100. +100000000 It is all about compartmentalisation, For instance, Able Danger, IMHO was patsy control,
Tue Aug 14, 2012, 08:20 PM
Aug 2012

not just for 9-11, but for the vast bulk of latent operatives from a multitude of schema set up both inside and outside the US. You task a group (Able Danger in this case) with a supposed objective, then use the data they obtain for the true, secondary purpose, without their knowledge. The CIA, NSA, etc, have a vast, global network of both artificially created and organic actors for thousands of different contingencies at their fingertips.

The only true 'conspiracy theory' (oh how I hate those words, they are a true refuge of a feeble, sheep-like mind) is the official story.



Frank_Norris_Lives

(114 posts)
113. How about if we call it......
Thu Aug 23, 2012, 02:24 AM
Aug 2012

'Collusion Analysis' ?

We the People, in order to secure better understanding of the criminal conspiracies we face, do hereby accept conspiracy as a common fact of local, regional, national and international criminal machinations. Therefore, let us identify and analyze the criminal collusion of common interests and punish those persons who have caused harm.

R.A.R

(4 posts)
94. A person who would state that "100s" or "1000s" would be required, hasn't given it much thought.
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 10:32 AM
Aug 2012

And THAT'S the real problem.

 

cpwm17

(3,829 posts)
97. OK, then here's your chance to give a plausible explanation on how 9-11 went down.
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 08:35 PM
Aug 2012

Go for it.

Frank_Norris_Lives

(114 posts)
98. Ok! Let me creatively speculate that.....
Tue Aug 14, 2012, 10:52 AM
Aug 2012

1. Most of the account of "Collateral Damage: U.S. Covert Operations and the Terrorist Attacks on
September 11, 2001" is true. Destroying the trail of evidence and crashing the US financial system until the Fed resets it. This is the motive and helps to explain why the Office of Naval Intelligence in the Pentagon was hit and not the White House (which surely should have been the target of whichever plane reached Washington first).

2. A cover operation of Arab hijackers was developed (strung-along patsies) and the planes were remote-controlled in (Flt 93 took off 25 min. late and lost it's operational window and was put down on purpose).

3. Some destructive mechanism was used inside the towers that melted cars 5 blocks away, created particles far smaller than can be explained through pulverization, caused two separate 'tubular cages' to burrow down some 70+ stories through their larger and more stable bottoms and burned in the rubble for 3 months.

4. We're back in Eurasia and War's On!

In view all we know about the CIA via drug running, arms smuggling, their wall street origins, sure, it's plausible. What's 3,000 lives in a world of 6 billion with Eurasia at stake?

 

cpwm17

(3,829 posts)
99. You make vague assertions
Tue Aug 14, 2012, 03:51 PM
Aug 2012

and provide little evidence or details on how 9-11 went down.

Your operation would take thousands of people to pull off and could never be accomplished. It would be exposed very easily and quickly, before it ever got off the ground. No sane person would ever take part - let alone thousands.

The simple hijacking and crashing of airliners into the towers and Pentagon could be accomplished with very few people. And that is what all of the evidence supports.

Frank_Norris_Lives

(114 posts)
103. Look at the Iran-Contra affair.....
Wed Aug 15, 2012, 04:58 AM
Aug 2012

....a conspiracy that was planned and executed over almost a year and a half, involved dozens & dozens of persons, if not several hundred, in a half-dozen countries. NOBODY said anything about this conspiracy until Eugen Hasenfuss was shot down.

Your assertion that people, and lots of them, can't keep a secret, doesn't hold.

 

cpwm17

(3,829 posts)
104. Still Iran-Contra was exposed
Wed Aug 15, 2012, 12:37 PM
Aug 2012

and Iran-Contra was many orders of magnitude less complex and, from an American perspective, many orders of magnitude less evil.

The negative consequences for the Iran-Contra conspirators were small. Oliver North was actually made a hero by the dumb fucks on the right. What do you think would happen if a 9-11 conspirator was exposed - made a hero?

It's impossible to assembly all of the necessary experts to pull off a 9-11 inside job. Most people would go to the police if asked to take part in mass murder against their own citizens. The politicians themselves don't have such expertise. In fact, no one has the expertise to pull off a 9-11 type inside job.

Frank_Norris_Lives

(114 posts)
108. Still, it was exposed by accident...
Thu Aug 16, 2012, 03:48 AM
Aug 2012

wasn't it? Nobody was talking.

My old scoutmaster was the McDonnell Douglas International Sales Manager for the F4 at that time. I later asked him if Mac was supplying the parts and he said no, Israel was counterfeiting them. This fellow was once a navy test pilot and John Glenn's roomate at one time. Very patriotic. And he never spoke up although he knew something was amiss. He didn't know the full picture at the time. But still, he didn't open his mouth about the piece he had.

Two old friends of mine are pastors and they abhor conspiracy theory (I prefer to call it Collusion Analysis), always saying, 'Nobody would be so evil.' Hah! I find that a strange response coming from a pastor but whatever. Individuals and groups follow their self-interests. When it gets extreme, we call it evil. But it is certainly there.

Operation Northwoods contemplated killing Americans. We now know of US government medical experimentation on unsuspecting Americans. There are plenty of people in the right circles available for something like 9-11. As we slowly and painfully learn over decades, such individuals have always been in or around our government.

Indi Guy

(3,992 posts)
114. It is this simple regarding 9/11...NO ONE has ever came forward and said 'I was part of it!"....
Sun Sep 9, 2012, 03:39 AM
Sep 2012
Simply not true. I posted this in this group -- "Former CIA Asset (Turned Whistleblower) - Susan Lindauer Comes Clean Re: Fed Involvement in 9/11..." -- http://www.democraticunderground.com/11353298

...and I posted this in this very thread -- 91. "Proof Positive of an Insider coming Forward!..." -- http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1135&pid=3300

Anyone care to respond?


PopeOxycontinI

(176 posts)
116. LIHOP...
Tue Sep 11, 2012, 03:45 AM
Sep 2012

Would not require near as many people as MIHOP. Another thing to consider is that to get
into a position with real pull in almost any large organization these days,
corporate or government, you have to be a sociopath or one real brainwashed
fucking sheep.

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
117. It wouldn't take 100's or 1000's, just PNAC and crew and a death pledge
Tue Sep 11, 2012, 09:14 PM
Sep 2012

Just common sense. How did our government react after 9/11. When the Pentagon shows us the ONLY proof of the attack in a blurry video and we all accept it, why would we believe someone who knows what really happen. People like you would just say they are just "truthers". People like you are the ones who believe steel and concrete collapse due to fire at 10 stories a second. How can we help you believe that it can't? Why WTC7? No plane hit it. There was also the other WTC's that didn't collapse that were closer to towers 1 and 2. And a shit load of debris fell on those.

But if I were ever convicted of a crime, and the video they showed me was blurry and it wasn't even me, should I accept their "evidence"? Or should fight it? Why aren't we fighting to find the truth. Those that fight, get called names, and aren't taken seriously. Why are we taking their word? These are the same assholes that brought us into war over lies. I don't accept the Pentagon video as evidence. It shows us NOTHING.

BB1

(798 posts)
118. Lance Armstrong makes the case, I think.
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:11 AM
Oct 2012

A massive conspiracy to cheat and cover up. The game was on for over 15 years. Hundreds of people were involved, many bribed or threathened. The people who came forward on foul play were ridiculed, blacklisted, humiliated and outcast.

Why? Not for the act of cheating in itself, but for massive gains. If there's enough money to be made, people will turmn a blind eye to anything.

And here comes the parallel.
Suggestions, accusations and suspicions ran wild. Outers were prosecuted. Everybody took dope, except for Lance Armstrong, the great hero.
In the end, it turned out he bribed officials, blackmailed team mates and cheated from the beginning.

I never believed Armstrong was clean. The official story never convinced me. Too many gaps, too many loose ends, too many people involved.
Same goes for the 9/11 official report. Too many unanswered questions, too little evidence to support the government stance.

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