Reply #108: 1000% proof "Pod" is a bad joke from the "webfairy" operation

[DougFir]

The "pod" campaign is a deliberate effort to discredit the legitimate investigations into official complicity in 9/11. It is an old tactic to "muddy the waters" with nonsense.

A history of disinformation masquerading as "9/11 Truth"


Much of the bogus evidence about 9/11 was manufactured to support the official conspiracy theory -- 19 guys directed by a dialysis patient in a cave of Afghanistan managed to outwit the largest military and intelligence system in history, a system so incompetent that it needs a massive budget increase.

A different kind of bogus evidence -- which makes wild claims about complicity based on poor quality, doctored images -- has been increasingly prominent as the 9/11 Truth Movement has begun to experience long overdue political successes.

This material pretends to be investigative journalism but does not present a scintilla of credible evidence.


Webfairy

The most ridiculous fringe 9/11 websites claim that there wasn't a plane at the World Trade Center north tower, and that a missile was fired at the tower that was masked by giant holograms. The fairy godmother of this modus operandi is an internet persona called "webfairy," who claims to be an elderly, poor grandmother in Chicago who somehow has learned how to do sophisticated video analysis and host a very high bandwidth expensive website that hosts more video clips of the 9/11 attacks than any other website. Webfairy has spent years creating "new footage" of the 9/11 attacks, even though all of the authenticated video clips were taken that day.

The webfairy's "no planes at the North Tower" claim took advantage of the fact that there is really only one, low quality video publicly available of the North Tower attack. However, the webfairy is easily disproved by the most obvious "physical evidence" - the hole in the side of the North tower is the size of a 767 (see the photo below) Fortunately, the "webfairy" thesis only found a couple supporters, and has been of limited utility in discrediting the 9/11 truth movement.
 
Pod plane

Since the webfairy didn't fly, a subsequent disinformation effort was floated that has been somewhat more successful in attracting an audience. This new campaign claims that the plane that hit the South Tower had an unusual "pod" underneath it. This pod allegedly fired a missile at the tower one-third second before impact, carried a napalm bomb, or was the location for the remote control system (the promoters have developed a variety of fanciful fictions to explain the alleged pod). The pod theories claim that this anomaly proves that the plane that hit the South Tower wasn't actually Flight 175, and therefore 9/11 was an inside job. The primary pod promoters urge the public to focus on this story, and worry about the other evidence at some point in the future.

However, the photographic evidence for the pod consists of blurry, low resolution photos that have been digitally altered. All that these photos reveal is the oval shaped structure that connects the wing to the fuselage, as conclusively shown by comparing a real photo of a 767 to the pod photos.

A major point of the staggering of the timing of the attacks of the twin towers was to ensure maximum photographic coverage of the second crash. The idea that the plane had an extra pod is especially ridiculous, since a single clear photo of this would instantly expose the conspiracy.

The idea that a missile was fired a split second before the South tower was hit is even more bizarre, since there was no "need" for this to happen (no tactical advantage for the attackers, since the towers were not anywhere as strong as the sector of the Pentagon that was hit - which had been strengthened against attack immediately prior to 9/11).

Blurry low resolution photos that magically appear two years later, just as the 9/11 truth movement grows in popularity and political influence, are not evidence of alternative views of what happened, they are only evidence of people's unfamiliarity with photo editing software and their gullibility. Just because someone says "inside job" does not mean that their theories of what happened, whether well-intentioned or malicious, are proven or even provable. Indeed, a major component of the "inside job" thesis is that 9/11 was at least in part a "false flag" operation, staged by the US government to discredit its opponents in the Middle East in order to provide the pretext to seize the oil fields and impose the "Homeland Security" police state. It would be naive to assume that the "inside job" conspirators were not also conducting false flag operations to persuade the public that 9/11 skeptics were easily debunked in order to hide the actual evidence for complicity.


Webfairy and Letsroll

At the very least, the Webfairy and Letsroll sites are closely allied, and may be part of the same operation. Recent spam on the web from the pod theorists has admitted that the webfairy has done photographic alteration for the letsroll site. Webfairy and Letsroll are both located in the same community (Chicago), a city without much 9/11 skeptic organizing. Letsroll hosts webfairy's video alteration work on their website. And the newest promotion of these themes -- a film called "In Plane Site" -- only directs viewers to the Letsroll website, bypassing the credible investigations based on verifiable evidence.

Webfairy and Letsroll base their material on claims that have been conclusively debunked, and resort to abuse when challenged on the misinformation that their websites are based upon. If they have any legitimacy and truly want to help expose official complicity in 9/11, they will remove the "no plane at the tower" and "pod plane" material, and refocus upon the actual evidence.

"Webfairy and Letsroll" is a sign that our political efforts are having an effect, and therefore these "theories" must be distributed to "muddy the waters" to make those who seek to expose the lies of 9/11 as crackpots who have no idea what we are talking about.

A similar campaign was waged to discredit the citizen investigations into the coup against President Kennedy -- people popped up claiming inside knowledge who turned out to be spreaders of deliberate disinformation. The most memorable occurrence was during Jim Garrison's prosecution of Clay Shaw, a CIA agent who participated in the plot against Kennedy. This episode was nicely dramatized in Oliver Stone's film JFK. Garrison's legal team had found a witness who claimed to have participated in meetings with Shaw, Lee Harvey Oswald and others, but on the stand, the man's claims of participation were totally shredded by his claims that he had fingerprinted his daughter before and after she went to college to prove that she was the same person (and therefore, this obviously insane testimony was used to discredit the genuine evidence that Garrison had used to prosecute Shaw). Shaw was found innocent by the jury (even though subsequent research and official admissions revealed he was CIA), although that jury did admit that there had been a conspiracy to kill JFK, they merely didn't believe that Shaw was a participant.


http://www.oilempire.us/bogus.html#letsroll

is "lets roll" really a FEMA disinformation campaign?
http://empirewatch.org/pages/_archives/911/3_post_911_data/2004.06.17-Lets_Roll_911/index.html


Shortly the article alleging that "letsroll" was official disinformation was posted to lots of list serves and websites, along with a critique that Letsroll had not provided high quality photographic evidence for its claims, Letsroll suddenly claimed to have discovered the identity of the military pilot who shot down Flight 93. It is possible that their discovery is genuine, but it is not possible (at this time) to prove or disprove it. If it is genuine, then it is probable that "letsroll" was leaked the information to establish "bona fides" as a real investigative website.

A further development came during the posting of this "Bogus site" report -- Let's Roll made the following dramatic announcement:



LetsRoll911.org discovers New Proof! At ground zero, first clear picture found of far side of Pseudo flight 175 found.
Shows more Military Ordinance tucked between engine and pylon. Click here for picture!



One prominent 9/11 activist who has been trying to convince this webmaster that there could be some reality behind the "pod" claim recommended that this new photo be examined -- it is posted in the LetsRoll forum at


http://letsroll911.org/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1185


Before looking at the photo, the question -- as always -- is why any photos allegedly showing an anomaly would not surface until nearly three years later, and after the "letsroll" site was challenged harshly as a disinformation website. Looking at the actual photos posted as the "new proof" shows that the whole "pod" campaign is really just a bad joke.