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History of 9/11 remains incomplete
Aaron Crossen
The
Valley Vanguard
Wednesday September 19, 2007
While I was driving to school on Sept. 11, I saw some people
holding signs on the corner of Bay and Tittabawassee. I figured
they were war protestors, which I've seen on that corner before.
It wasn't until closer inspection - one guy ran up to my car and
started waving a sign - that I realized that these people were
9/11 conspiracy theorists. Their signs encouraged people to look
up "Building 7" on Google and visit the Web site infowars.com.
Another sign read "9/11 was an inside job."
A few years ago, I was pretty big into conspiracy theories, especially
the theories behind the assassinations of JFK and his brother,
Robert. But I also read up on 9/11, and so I was familiar with
what the protestors were getting at: World Trade Center Building
7 was not hit by a plane, nor did it suffer any serious structural
damage as a result of the collapse of WTC buildings 1 and 2 (the
Twin Towers). Yet, half a day after the initial attacks, WTC 7
collapsed neatly into its own footprint.
Videos of the collapse are available all over the Internet. 911research.wtc7.net
is one of the premier conspiracy sites, and it has lots of videos
of the attacks and the collapse, so if you haven't seen or even
heard of WTC 7, it's certainly worth a look. You will be surprised,
and perhaps even shocked, at what you find. I certainly was. The
video of WTC 7's collapse looks eerily like a controlled demolition
one might see on late-night Discovery Channel shows about big
explosions. It sent my head into a tailspin.
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I eventually grew tired of conspiracy theories, including those
explaining 9/11. But that's not to say I totally forgot everything
I read, which included the 9/11 Commission's report, one of the
worst pieces of literature ever published. Re-reading Watership
Down could tell you more about 9/11 than that book. If the report
did anything at all, it proved that in times of crisis, it is
more pertinent to erect monuments than to perform serious analysis;
to react emotionally and brush aside difficult questions.
The 9/11 Commission's report is one of a number of things that
keeps those protestors on the corners whenever Sept. 11 rolls
around. Another is the mainstream media's embargo on anything
even remotely suggesting that 9/11 was not entirely the work of
al-Qaeda.
It seems that every episode of Crossfire that I see is about
the same set of two or three hot-button issues that rotate every
two weeks or so. Not once have I ever seen a serious debate in
broadcast or print media that looks critically at the conclusions
of the 9/11 Commission. I mean, once in a while, some Q-list celebrity
will go on the record saying elements of the U.S. government allowed
9/11 to happen. But for as many pissing contests that take place
concerning the Iraq war, it's surprising, and depressing, that
there aren't more arguments over the events the served as the
war's pretext. It's basically taboo.
Also shunned in the light of Iraq are arguments that suggest
that a foreign state was at all responsible for 9/11. Now, one
will occasionally see an article in a sub-sub-sub-mainstream report
suggesting that bin Laden had some stately help (Iran pops up
here and there, in various ways). But for the most part, if any
popular writers have anything resembling an opinion on the matter,
they've held it close to their hearts. Such is the media's fear
of anything contradicting the story it's reported for years and
opening up a billion-ton can of worms.
But like I said, I'm quite sick of conspiracy theories, and have
developed decidedly non-conspiratorial conclusions as to what
happened on 9/11. So I gave those protestors a menacing look as
I drove past them. But I understand why they were there. Six years
after the fact, the truth is still muddled behind deceit, disinformation,
idiocy, and contradictory stories that the government and media
have made no effort to analyze. The 9/11 Commission Report is
functioning in much the same way the Zapruder film works: the
truth is there, but hidden from plain view. It is a disservice
to the Republic that such a pivotal moment in American history
remains shrouded to this day.
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