Are people who believe in a 9/11 Conspiracy stupid?

Question

Seeing that-
Engineering Magazine "Popular Mechanics" debunked the 9/11 myths (John McCain also Chimes in):
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/defense/1227842.html

And a guide to "loose change" has sprung up that answers every sneering accusation the video makes line by line:
http://www.loosechangeguide.com/LooseChangeGuide.html

In the face of all this reason, how can anyone still believe it was a conspiracy by the government?

Are they just stupid? Or is it that they "want" to believe and pin some holocaust type human moral crime on this administration?

BONUS QUESTION:
1) If the government has the resources to plan and orchestrate 9/11 and doesn't mind killing 3000 people, why wasn't the college kid who made the 9/11 conspiracy video "loose change" killed?

Yes, I agree, healthy questions are good, but as Popular Mechanics puts it: "Healthy skepticism, it seems, has curdled into paranoia."

Answer 1

Let's be polite and call them gullible.

Answer 2

I think the idea of a conspiracy is unimportant as it represents that people are capable of independent thought rather than being led by both government and the media into accepting everything as fact. The government has done many other things, we arranged the Gulf of Tonkin Incident and simply spent billions and only lost 50,000 men and then came home with our tails betweens our legs...a mere 3,000 to start a war to gain or 'earn' billions seems pretty cheap. Since government is monopolized by the wealthy, and the wealthy just happen to be businessmen who have owned or been shareholders in the companies that benefitted most by war. We have been lied to before...i.e. IranGate, the infamous WMDs, etc....so why not this. The picture that the government paints is not so lily-white as you might think...torture of POWs is not new, but of course it was denied. We have assassinated leaders of other countries, supported petty dictators for our own purposes...i.e. Marcos, Chiang Kai Shek, etc. To accept things at face value is being led by the nose. But then people are led by the nose everyday by the media too. I would be skeptical.

Answer 3

This is America we have a right to our opinions and beliefs. Some of us blindly but our faith in our Government and some don't. Some of us question everything, some don't.

Did our Government have the resources to pull of a 9/11 attack, I believe so ...but did they? That is a complex question. You can find holes in everything if you look hard enough.

I tend to believe that 9/11 was a tragedy and I pray for all the families affected. I hope America had nothing to do with it and if they knew it was going to happen tried with every resource they had to stop it or prevent it.

I think most Americas Question 9/11 because America is suppose to be a Great and Powerful Nation but a couple of guys took over planes and hit us right in our back yard .....it really makes you loose alitte security in how your government can or will protect you.

In short no they aren't stupid, there nothing wrong in questioning you should worry when people stop questioning
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Answer 4

I think that people who believe in that particular "conspiracy theory" are either not well-informed or are very gullible. And yes, there is no doubt that many are inclined to believe the worst of the Bush Administration, so are quicker to believe horrible things about him. (See also "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" for an instance of predisposition to believe based on political views... ;-) )

In particular, it would have been, practically speaking, impossible to keep a secret that big when so many people would have had to know about it.

However, consider for a minute the less drastic possibility that at least SOME people were aware of the possibility of an attack and did nothing to deter it. This could have been quite well-intentioned, based on a belief that the US actually NEEDED to become involved in the toppling of Saddam or in a Holy War with radical Islamists and the knowledge that such a new crusade was extremely unlikely or downright impossible without a cause celebre to raise public outrage. I don't think that's an impossibility, either practically or theoretically speaking. If people in the administration TRULY believed this, such actions might at least be defensible, even to people like me who believe the invasion was a dramatic mistake.

For example, look at the case of Pearl Harbor. As more and more documents from the period are released, it is IMHO increasingly likely that a similar scenario was in play then. Certainly many top American officials, including the President, knew that the embargo on Japan would likely lead the Japanese to an act of agression (we were, after all, reading all of their diplomatic and military transmissions, having broken their codes), and that this would at least draw the American people into supporting a war that virtually all of the administration thought vital to long-term American interests. In my opinion they greatly underestimated the capacity of the Japanese to strike and the resulting damage, but they consciously waited for Japan to strike the first blow. Could something similar have happened in 2001?

Even in the perfect 20/20 vision of hindsight, I find it difficult to judge whether such a "conspiracy" by Roosevelt, Marshall, King, et al would have been justified or not. Although the war against Japan may or may not have been a necessity of national policy, our involvement in the European war against Hitler was critical to the present shape of the world. Imagine the consequences of a German victory or mutual standoff? Of the destruction of western European democracy in Britain, France, the low countries, etc.? Or, perhaps worst of all, of a Stalin/Soviet-dominated victory over Naziism? We might find ourselves in a very different and very unpleasant world today.

Whether or not FDR really allowed the Japanese attack to proceed, would he have been justified in doing so if he did have advance information? My judgement leans toward "yes". Ask yourself the same question as to whether Bush might have been justified in allowing the 9/11 attacks to proceed if he had advance knowledge. It's too soon for history's judgement, but so far I would say the answer is no.

Answer 5

My favorite 9/11 conspiracy lie is that "the 9/11 hijackers have been seen alive." Elvis has been seen alive too, at every mall in America. I'm sure the government would have killed 4,000 Americans and let the hijackers live.


The reason people are willing to buy into this rumor is they've let their hatred of George Bush cloud their judgment.

The "hero" crash was convenient? Do you think they would have destroyed the WTC and poisoned downtown Manhattan, but they spared Pennsylvania?

Lady, you're a typical Bush hating moron. It's true because you have the video college kids made? Get real.

Answer 6

This administration has been very dishonest with the United States and its no wonder people believe this. No they are not stupid. In answer to your bonus question - you only get one major conspiracy per lifetime or you run the risk of getting caught.

P.S. I don't believe this administration was responsible for 9/11 they were only negligent in trying to prevent it.

Answer 7

Stupid may be a little harsh but I agree I looked into all the "conspiracies and found them lacking". Most listen,read headlines but do not investigate further,likely young or very busy people. I wish I had a pat answer,but one can only keep speaking out, just add compassion then more are willing to listen.
Hope that helps ~A~

Answer 8

imho, the biggest evidence of a conspiracy, coverup, and/or some sort of government involvment is (to me):

1. no plane parts recovered from the pentagon. this obviously means that it wasn't hit by a plane, and that government assertions that this happened must be false.

2. the "so-called" hero flight over pennsylvania: i think it is mighty convenient that the plane crashed in an empty field, or that jets were sighted in the vincinity. imho, i think it was shot down.

but yes, i agree that conspiracy theories about the WTC are on the iffy side, without hard evidence like the pentagon.

Answer 9

Because it is!!! I have variety of Videos showing clear information and evidence that the government himself has planned all of this....Money and resources to this government is much more important than the lives of its people and citizens.....as you can see the government doesn't mind many of its soldiers are dieing in Iraq and making their families miserable...and you know why?? Natural Resources!!! Oil is the only reason....Iraq doesnt want America in its country and they made clear of that but america just seems to stick there until they achieves something!!! the American peope do not deserve to be treated this way by their government...and to feel sorry for them beacuse they seem to be baised and think that what america is doing is for their sake and is right.

Answer 10

Absolutely YES!!! The bonus question should tell these "people" that the 9/11 Conspiracy film is not true and the "People" who made it should be rounded up and sent to GITMO and be introduced to the Islamo-Fascist terrorists and see what these bastards are all about.

Answer 11

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