Clearly I have waited too long to post again.
If you doubt this, go back and read the last comment on the previous post, posted by someone called “Enlightenment.” I published my post way back on the 15th of this month, so Enlightenment sure took his/her sweet time to get here. Go ahead and read it. I’ll wait. I think I’ll get some coffee. It will take you that long. Because it’s really long, maybe the longest comment ever on revision99.
Back already? Did you read the whole thing? OK, you don’t really have to read the whole thing. You can get the idea after four or five sentences. For you non-readers, let me summarize: The attacks of September 11, 2001 on New York City and Washington, D.C. were not the work of Islamist terrorists, but rather some combination of United States government, military and (possibly) commercial interests, and the evidence for this is so blatantly obvious that we must all be stupid or blind not to see it.
Frankly, I don’t know how to respond to this. I wouldn’t want to brush the whole tirade off as nonsense. I haven’t trusted the government or politicians in general for decades, so it’s not like these ideas don’t have a bit of traction with me. But what the hell? My instinct is simple: The suggested conspiracy is too complicated, and would have to involve too many people. Certainly “they” could pull off a bombing or a few hijackings, but nobody could keep it secret for five minutes, let alone five years. With hundreds of people involved in the plot, it’s inevitable that somebody would go for his fifteen minutes of fame and spill the inside scoop to Bob Novak, or Bob Woodward, or Bob Scheer, or maybe Bob Seger, and then there it would be, plastered all over the Washington Post, or maybe featured in a song.
In any case, whether the Bush administration was involved in the attacks a lot or a little, or even if they were completely taken by surprise. it’s for sure that there will be no serious look into Enlightenment’s claims until they are out of office, at which point it will have been seven and a half years since the events, and the trail will be pretty cold. Maybe some facts can be uncovered at that time, maybe not. But since I am trying to turn over a new leaf on revision99, and get away from grumbling about politics for a while (not that there’s anything wrong with that), I am biting my virtual tongue and choking back an angry rant, and I’m proud of myself. I hope you are proud of me, too.
I will leave this discussion to you Precious Few, and to you Enlightenment. What happened to us on September 11, who did it, and what – if anything -Â is being covered up?
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PS: Food for thought along these lines is available aplenty at Loose Change.
I support limiting comments to a set number of characters.
By the way, the day after Sept 11, I was at a shipping store in San Francisco run by a man who appeared to be of Arabic extraction. His radio was blaring a report about how the Jews caused 9/11! According to said report, the Jewish employees of the WTC and Pentagon knew about the attacks in advance and so there were no Jews at work that day.
kStyle – Wow. No Jews in New York. And it was on the radio, so it must be true! Are you listening, Mel Gibson?
Who made the bagels? Who, I ask you!
While I love your political rants, and I almost always agree with you, I’m looking forward to your new leaf. As a matter of fact, I think you owe me a birthday sex post from a year and a half ago. Let’s hop to it, Baby!
If being completely unprepared and inept is a form of conspiracy, then we are really in trouble. Then again, there are a lot of coincidences, like the scheduling for a war game on the Eastern seaboard on 9-11 involving a hijacking, which led to even more confusion.
If you want to get really into paranoid theories, maybe it was ETs whispering into the ears of our leaders in an attempt to grab more power and further subvert the human race to otherworldly intentions.
Maybe the real answer is somewhere in between crazy-insane and real world pragmatism? All I know is that ETs make for more Independence Day type fun!
Anyway, we all know it’s going to come down to ETs Vs. Killer Robots for the domination of the human race and the Earth. Do not trust your toaster.
I wouldn’t trust my toaster to TOAST, much less overthrow the – Any! government!
That’s what I get for buying from Big Lots on sale. {sigh} {-;
And I’m pretty sure that, just last week, I deleted the Exact Same Comment from my “I Voted!” post. Enlightenment, by the way, is the name of a Holoship in the Brit-Com called Red Dwarf.
Thusly do I cast my conspiratorial vote for the ET Option.
RAmen!
kStyle – Thank you for showing us the potential horror of a city without Jews. We must all work to avert such a catastrophe.
Theresa – A sex post? Would that be like a shiny steel pole?
Aydreeyin – A race of space aliens smart enough to travel here from a distant star would probably be profoundly uninterested in us and our dirty little habits.
Michael B. – I’d say you need a better toaster. I have an Italian model, the Machiavelli 3000. It burns the toast, blames it on the other appliances, and yes, plots to overthrow the government.