Is this why 9/11 conspiracies thrive?

Question

When the terrorist in Iraq started beheading American's and other peaceful people and showed the grizzly tapes on line for everyone to witness it startled a lot of people. I wonder if that notion of "hate" on the part of al queda made people want to believe it was our own government. After all believing we did it too ourselves would mean we don't have to face such horrors as al queda - right?

Answer 1

You nailed it buddy, that is the EXACT reasoning behind 9/11 conspiracy nuts. They can not handle the truth of what is happening in the world. they know it's there, but would rather appease than fight. They're cowards of the worst kind if u ask me, sad.

Answer 2

Although I don't believe in the inside job theory, I believe the government handled the whole episode so badly that it was hard to accept that every bit of what happened that day was met with such failure. The buildings disintegrating into dust and burning for months was unbelievable. Then there was no apparent criminal investigation of the scene and no 911 commission for over a year after the fact. Then the anthrax attacks which singled out some very interesting victims. That's the stuff conspiracy theories are made of.

Answer 3

no... the reason the conspiracies thrive is because the government didn't do a lot of investigating into the actual scene...

you have the largest event in the past 50 years happen and they didn't even really investigate it very much... they were like cleaning it up the next day... they spend more time on a murder scene than that before any clean-up is done to preserve evidence...

the conspiracies were around LONG, LONG, LONG before any beheadings... and really the whole attack of 9-11 was much more horrible than any of the beheadings...

and really...if you ask me... if you think about it for about 5 minutes...

the prospect of the government doing it is MUCH scarier than the prospect of some guy in a cave half way across the world doing it...

now... all that being said... I don't believe in the theories...

but I think the investigation was very sloppy and left too many holes...

EDIT: al-qeuda was in the news... but not a household name... at least not in 99.9 percent of households... if you know anything about how the majority of America "watches the news"... and "watches tv news specials"... they are usually right below division I-AA bowling pre-season matches in the ratings...

Answer 4

Given that 9/11 conspiracy theories arose immediately after the 9/11 attacks, because of the many apparent inconsistencies, I don't think you're right.

Even tho my father acknowledged the many iconsistencies in the story, he couldn't bear to believe Americans did this to ourselves. I think that's more why the conspiracies are resisted.

I think the conspiracies emerged because of the WTC 7 falling right into its own footprint, the twin towers falling so fast tho the steel shouldn't have melted that fast, the plane in PA being exploded over a wide area, the plane that hit the pentagon flying 500 mph a few feet off the ground and turning around over the potomac river, even tho the alleged pilot was a flight school drop out, bush sitting there reading a book while it was happening, our military jets not scrambling, bush telling the press before he went into the school that he saw the first plane hit the tower, which no one saw until much later, the govt claiming Atta's passport fell to the ground from the twin towers, bush allowing bin laden's family to leave the country rapidly, bush sr having breakfast with the bin laden family on 9/11, the devout muslim attackers partying the night before, and the hero of flight 93 calling his mom and identifying himself by first and last name, and saying, 'it's mark bingham, you believe me, don't you?'

Watch this - it's not loose change related:

http://www.bushflash.com/buddy.html

Answer 5

They are just a bunch of nut-cases who don't have a real life, and are in serious need of psychological help.

God only knows why, but they seem to have to find a conspiracy in anything big that happens: Roswell, Elvis, JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Apollo 11's Moon landing "hoax", 9/11, the Colombia disaster and nearly every major event in the last 60 years or so.

It's almost like a cry for attention from these people. It has to be since their theories are so easily shot-down, and disproved... yet they keep on insisting there is a conspiracy. That is not healthy.

Answer 6

Well, your theory is interesting, but I think it's more simpler and direct than that. For example, from the first day I wondered why we did not scramble fighter jets the minute we knew there were hijacked planes in the air, and we knew this even before the first plane hit the World Trade Center. I never thought Bush was stupid but that whole scene in the classroom with him ignoring the whole matter makes me suspicious. His country has just been attacked in what could be only be construed as an act of war, and as Commander in Chief he just sits there? Almost like he knew this was going to happen? Very suspicious. If suspicion lies in one area, then all the other areas are suspect. And as far as our inability to scramble fighter jets goes, I find it hard to believe that the area around our nation's capital doesn't have the best air defense on the planet. If it doesn't, then that in and of itself is really gross negligence and flies in the face of all I know about national defense. Air defense is our first line of defense and we are supposed to believe somebody was asleep at the switch?

That said, I don't believe there was any conspiracy (except among the hijackers of course). But I would not rule out foreknowledge of the events on the part of an administration that needed something to put it in power with the backing of most of the country. In support of this assumption, I offer the fact that since that day one, this present administration has used fear tactics to keep the ball rolling. This is not only transparent and historically old hat (e.g., Nazi Germany), it is also contemptible beyond belief in a country whose principles should be (and used to be) an inspiration and role model to the rest of the world.

Answer 7

The 911 conspiracy people are generally poorly educated and more than a bit wacky. Watching other wackos, such as the Islamo Fanatics, really won't have much effect on them mainly because they are so wrapped up in their own little world. While most of the 911 believers are simply poorly educated or maybe even slightly psychotic, the people behind it is the Hate America crowd. They are slick propagandists.

For solid --scientific-- info on just HOW the propagandists are lying, see:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1227842.html

Joey'sBack--
You are badly mistaken. Al quada was very much in the news at the time of the attacks due to their multiple bombings on the African continent and the attack on the USS Cole. Everyone who was paying attention knew about Al Quada for at least several years. There were even TV specials on them. You know that too but won't admit it.

Note that NO ONE says the jet fuel -melted- the steel. In fact the official reports specify it did not MELT it. It didn't have to. When steel gets very hot, it loses most of it's strength and simply bends like warm plastic. Everyone with even a modest amount of college level science education knows this. Everyone who has actually read the reports would also know there was NO claim the steel melted, just softened. Wackos keep ignoring science and push the propaganda/paranoia.


Kent in SD

Answer 8

Huh? No, I don't follow that at all....

One of my very first reactions, while gazing in horror at the buildings burning and being hit again, was to wonder if our own gov't. was doing it to push some sort of agenda. (Don't forget, at that time, AlQaeda and Iraq were not household words) My reason for thinking this is the fact that our government has lied SOOOO many times, about VERY important things---that have cost the lives of innocents.

And that is why 9/11 conspiracy theories thrive!

Answer 9

Actually your theory sounds like a bunch of BS to me.Just like the "official" theory does.I thought at the time I was watching the towers fall(live) that something didn't look right to me then!One of the questions that really made me start wondering was if jet fuel doesn't burn hot enough to melt steel what was in the building that was?Also if jet fuel doesn't burn hot enough to melt steel(at point of contact) how could it melt the steel in the sub-basements?These are just a few of the questions I have about 9/11.

Answer 10

That might have added to it, but I know it was really soon after people were saying that a plane didn't hit the pentagon, and things like that, I believe way to many people would have to have been involved if it was a government conspiracy, and somebody would have talked, can you imagine how evil someone would be to know that 9/11 was going to happen and kept quiet?

Answer 11

That is the strangest logic i have ever heard. In fact others use the exact opposite argument for why People would believe it could be our Government.