Reply #11: Haven't read the book yet, but I'll pick it up...

[warren pease]

And I think the conclusions I -- and I assume you as well -- have developed are simply based on motive, means and opportunity, and an impartial reading of the evidence. The motive, as usual, is money -- billions and possibly trillions of dollars for arms manufacturers, fossil fuels companies and special favorites of the House of Bush, such as Halliburton.

The means is a little more involved. If you subscribe to the controlled demolition hypothesis, a fair amount of explosives would have had to be brought into the buildings (including WTC #7) and placed to destroy key support systems -- internal columns, elevator shafts and so forth. That much activity raised some eyebrows, as witnesses to the 9/11 collapses said immediately after the events, but the official story drowned them out within minutes. And the alleged means, driving airliners into the towers and somehow doing enough structural damage to the entire buildings to bring them down, is simply insufficient. Also insufficient is the ridiculous fairy tale that the alleged pilots learned how to handle large jets through their training on Cessnas. That's the equivalent of learning to drive on a VW bug and, fresh from the DMV with your first license, immediately stepping into the cab of a semi pulling a 50-foot trailer.

The opportunity was there as long as people assumed extraordinary activities, such as placement of explosives, were just normal events devoid of any significance. And that's how most people see things; they don't stop and analyze if every single thing is part of a grand pattern to kill or injure them -- and those who do are called paranoid schizophrenics and are afflicted by a very serious mental disorder.

And then you ask who benefits? Well, certainly not Al Qaeda. They didn't even claim responsibility until they were identified as the perps on US media, at which point they probably said, what the hell, might make some use of all this. It certainly wasn't the people of the US, because just a month down the road they would be robbed of many of the freedoms BushCo claims to stand for. It wasn't the rest of the world, since BushCo painted a giant bullseye on the rest of the planet.

Nope. It was the arms industry. It was the rich elites, who had already been given enormous tax rewards, and who benefited yet again because the fix was in, social controls were back in place and the rest of us were again diverted from tearing their oppressive throats out. And it was the investor class, which loves deficits because the feds borrow money from them in the form of T-Bills and pay the interest with tax revenue extracted from those who lack the correct set of write-offs -- continuing the steady transfer of wealth upward. Whoever sold American and United short the previous week made out like a bandit. And of course it was BushCo, whose legitimacy was coming under some fire by the summer of 2001 and whose approval numbers were already well below 50 percent. The WTC falls over and BushCo's approvals jump to 90 percent or higher, since he was marketed by every paper, radio station and TV news featherhead as a strong leader, a war president, the right guy for the times.

So BushCo gained a new legitimacy that only now is starting to erode, despite six years of bungling, suppression, genocide -- and placing this country and the rest of the world at greater risk of nuclear conflict than at any time since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.

Good work, boys. Here's another trillion for your efforts.



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