We’ve all heard the “official conspiracy theory” of the Death Star attack. We all know about Luke Skywalker and his ragtag bunch of rebels, how they mounted a foolhardy attack on the most powerful, well-defended battle station ever built. And we’ve all seen the video over, and over, and over, of the one-in-a-million shot that resulted in a massive chain reaction that not just damaged, but completely obliterated that massive technological wonder.
Like many, I was fed this story when I was growing up. But as I watched the video, I began to realize that all was not as it seemed. And the more I questioned the official story, the deeper into the rabbit hole I went.
A funny page on an neat website.
Seriously, though...there are some serious 9/11 conspiracy buffs in my department. Enough in that I stopped really trying to argue with them about some of the stuff they were telling me. We had people who were saying it was an inside job and gave really good arguments for it, and others who were saying the airplanes were CGIed real-time into everyone's news footage, and were never there to begin with. Ranging from good stuff to downright kooky.
I'm a skeptical person, and I like seeing both sides of the argument before making any decisions on anything. From all the conspiracy theories, and evidence on both sides, I came to a decision really quickly that the felling of the towers was NOT an "inside job" (at least not in a "The towers were a controlled demolition" theory...my money's still on "it was allowed to happen"), but a natural reaction to the extreme stresses put on the buildings.
The evidence on my side was that in highschool drafting class, we studied the building of the World Trade Towers. And I mean really got into how it was constructed and the methods behind some of the engineering decisions, because, at the time, the WTC was unlike any other building made, and was a new class of engineering that had raised the ceiling on how high buildings could be built. I was reading up on tube structures, trestleing, it's skeletal weight distribution before they ever became hot button issues. Not many people know that the WTC design is an amazing feat of engineering (three "buildings" stacked up on each other), with a neat weight distribution design (All on the outside skeletal structure and inside elevator structure), and using the same design, you can make more WTCs, that are even TALLER, as long as you have a larger footprint to place the buildings on.
The problem with the folks here was that they were refusing my evidence as "just the research of a high school kid" in regards to why I thought the buildings fell. Again, a lot of the research (and I'm not saying ALL of the research) they were looking at were highschool and college kids with either faulty knowledge of the how the buildings were constructed, or misinterpreting evidence on the scene, or over-connecting evidence. Granted, not ALL the evidence was from people talking about fields they weren't experts in, but a the same time, neither was evidence I was looking at.
Actually, I began to think for a long time there, what with me listening to Coast to Coast AM, and the occasional Alex Jones show, I might be the only one thinking that this WASN'T an inside job, and really just stopped talking about it. Then a friend pointed me to the Star Wars story up there, which I thought was hilarious, but lead me to
http://www.debunking911.com which finally, FINALLY was saying things I'd said about the WTC collapses (those aren't squibs, that's air pressure, WTC 7 collapsed because of a support beam failure, the towers fell straight down because the center tube structure was sill pretty solid and evrything flattened around it).
It's nice to know I'm not alone. Again, I'm looking at their evidence, weighing it with others, thinking about it, and my judgements are pretty much in line with theirs. Not totally, but pretty much in line. It's a good read, even if you're just wanting to convince yourself that the Government has Bought This Website for Disinformation (as a friend told me).
I have to admit, though, I do still have my own somewhat scary off the wall theories. I do believe 9/11 was allowed to happen through inaction, that the evidence for the Pentagon hits being an airplane are VERY shaky, and my own personal belief that the flight that crashed in PA was shot down, and not crashed by people on board. So I guess I still kinda have some kook-cred. :)
I also believe orbs in pictures are dust and drizzle, wispy ghostly images in pictures are cigarette smoke, Roswell was a weather baloon, Count Saint Germaine is alive and well and living in Austin.
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