9/11 Conspiracy Theory

I would like to relink my two primary treatments of this topic: https://moderatesunitedblog.com//2010/10/plausible-911-conspiracy-theory.html

and https://moderatesunitedblog.com//2010/11/tower-7-thoughts.html

Here is the crux of my argument: steel I-beams do not collapse as a result of anything but extremely high temperatures.  Jet fuel may reach the levels needed, but nothing in an office–no desk, not the carpet, not books (Fahrenheit 451), not computers, not cable, NOTHING–burns hot enough to come close to compromising an I-beam.

Yet, this is what is claimed in the official report on the collapse of Tower 7.  I have not read the report, but it seems likely no plausible means CAN be claimed for how the fires started, how a building full of flame retardant furniture, ceiling tiles, etc, was able to sustain a fire for 8 hours, why the sprinklers failed, or how even if one single I-beam collapsed the building would fall straight down at the pace of gravity as if it had been blown.

A friend of mine involved in counter-terrorism suggested that the bombs may have been placed by Islamic terrorists.  Since we don’t know who did it, all possibilities are on the table, but I have two principle objections to this:

1) the amount of sophistication and intelligence needed to pull this off would have been considerable, and if wreaking havoc and killing people in spectacular ways was their sole goal, they would have committed more attacks by now.

2) More importantly, the goal of Islamic terrorists–or so we have always been told–is mass death, the more the better.  If they got bombs into the buildings, why not collapse them without the planes?  Many, many more people would have died.

Thus, it seems most likely to me that the whole thing was staged theatrically, to generate as much raw emotion, as much horror and anger, as possible.  Why?  We can’t know, but it seems now likely to me that it was to create public support for the creation of a surveillance state, in which all communications are recorded, our genitals groped in public, and wars are staged that would otherwise have been unnecessary.

Some people want us always at war.  Some people want our freedoms subverted, and a pervasive command and control apparatus set up.  Some of these people have power and influence.

Certainly, I am a bit paranoid.  I have reasons for this which any regular readers of my blog can readily grasp. 

But the fact remains that many of these people put their thoughts on paper, and are taken very seriously.  As I tend to do, I will post as one small example the excellent essay on the environmental movement from the Claremont Institute: http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1588/article_detail.asp

I will the oldie but goody Report from Iron Mountain.

As I have stated before, satire needs to be funny.  The claim that this book was intended to make people laugh is itself risible.

The thirst for power has existed forever.  It is not behind us.  The potential size and scope of consolidated power, quite to the contrary, has never been greater.  A world government ruled by a small junta or even individual is not inconceivable, and is routinely proposed by science fiction authors.