SEPTEMBER 11 — 2001. We will never forget.
SEPTEMBER 11
2001 –Last year when I did this show I went on a big rant about the so-called religion of peace, talking about all the muslim related killings of Americans in the name of Allah throughout the years. The list was quite extensive. I decided I don’t want to do that again this year. 9/11 is a horrible story and difficult for me to get through. When I saw and heard the children and spouses late in the day asking fire chiefs if they were able to save their fathers or mothers or loved ones, I can hardly sit through it without getting sick. The horror unleashed on America that day was one that history had never seen.
Osama Bin Laden credited himself with the attacks as he financed Al Qaeda to to seek revenge against America due to America’s military involvement in the middle east and support for Israel. Some of the attackers took flying lessons in Aviation schools throughout America. On Sept. 11, 19 Al Queda hijackers got past security with box cutters and knives, which would be used as weapons against the pilots of the aircrafts they would take over.
At 8:45 on a clear day, American Airline flight 767 with a tank full of 20,000 gallons of fuel scheduled for California slammed into the north tower of the World Trade Center near the 80th floor. Television crews were instantly on the scene, of course, and as it was filming the result of what appeared to be a freak accident, Less than 20 minutes after the crash, United Airline flight 175 flew into the south tower. I, along with just about every other American, watched anguish as the towers burned. At the same time, American Airlines flight 77 hit the Pentagon in Washington D.C.. Meanwhile in New York, the World Trade Center buildings collapsed to the ground in a fiery blaze of smoke and debris. The result of this Al Qaeda attack led to over 3,000 American deaths, 10,000 wounded, and hundreds of fire, police and Port Authority officers killed.
As vile as I find this whole story, another one almost as bad has surfaced as a result of the 9/11 attacks: the conspiracy theories. Many of you know how I feel about them, but in this case, they’re just not funny and need to be debunked once and for all.
Let’s start with the falling of the Twin Towers.. Professor Stephen Jones takes issue in which the way the buildings collapsed and believes they were blown up by planned demolition. The reason they collapsed the way they did was mostly due to the construction of the buildings. Since this is an audio show I cannot show you diagrams or pictures of how this happened, so bear with me. If you believe Jones, try this experiment. Find a building at least 40 stories high, taking up a whole city block, has a Tube in a Tube design, came off its core columns at the bottom floor, used trussels bolted on with two 5/8” bolts and fly a fully-fueled airplane into it. Let it burn for six hours, and see what happens. Talk to a civil engineer for help.
The other conspiracy for destroying the towers was to get paid out by the insurance company. Oh please. You mean to tell me that The Silverstein Group had to pay out over $2B after the WTC was destroyed. The insurance company just wants to pass the bill to the public, right? Even though they’ve already fought Silverstein on the amount? Seems like that would have been a good tie to bring up the conspiracy. But it wasn’t. Because it didn’t go down like that. If it did, there would have been a leak somewhere.
The reason why smaller scandals like Enron, Iran-Contra Affair, Watergate, etc. is because someone blew the whistle. The amount of people involved in those scandals were a fraction of the ones that would have to be involved in sabotage by terrorist attacks for the purposes of starting a war or two.
Look, knock it off with that insurance nonsense, conspiracy theorists. You’re telling me United Airlines and American Airlines want to lose their reputation and money over an insurance scandal? Or a plot to start a war with the Middle East? Why use a plane, then? Why pick Osama Bin Laden to be the fall guy in stead of Saddam Hussein? You mean Bush, who couldn’t do anything right in the eyes of many conspiracy theorists, managed to pull off the greatest scandal in world history? You mean there have been investigations with no proof of a scandal?
Next.
The Pentagon. Why, even the most seasoned pilot wouldn’t be able to hit a building that low to the ground at that speed, let alone an amateur pilot, right? This can be explained using aerodynamics. You need to understand the concept of upwash and downwash created by trailing vortices and the effect of downwash in decreasing lift and drag, You also need to realize about ground effect is that when a plane is heading quickly towards the ground, there is no bubble or cushion to push it upwards.
Landing a plane recklessly, as any pilot would tell you, is much easier than safely landing on a runway. The other conspiracy about the Pentagon is that the crash didn’t leave ahole big enough. Conspiracy theorists base this on a single piece of footage used. All I can say about that is that I’d like to see a conspiracy theorist share this knowledge with some of my friends and co-workers and high-ranking officers who were there and saw it first hand. Stop it already.
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28 missing pages. According to 28pages.org, The 28 pages detail a vast array of connections between the 9/11 hijackers, individuals who supported them while they were in the United States, employees of the Saudi Arabian government and Saudi royals—most notably, then-Saudi ambassador to the United States Prince Bandar Bin Sultan. Bandar was also a close confidant of President George W. Bush, who classified the pages in 2003. So then that means this whole thing was setup by Bush then, right? Paul Thompson went on for hours about this in We Were Lied to About 9/11. Our would be friends in Saudi Arabia plotted to kill us, right? Who knew what and when, and why wasn’t something done about it. And then I get confused: wait. Are we talking about what Bush should have known about terrorist attacks on 9/11 2001? Or are we talking about what Hillary should have known about terrorist attacks on 9/11 in 2012 in Benghazi? When Egypt was supposed to be our friend? Look, I’m not trying to change the subject, dance around the issue, pointing fingers, compare the deaths of four soldiers, God rest their souls, and the 3000+ who died God rest their souls, and I’m definitely not trying to get get political. But this is how politics work between the U.S. and the rest of the world. But that’s a conspiracy for another time.
I think I covered the conspiracies best I good in a 5 minute show, the rest of the conspiracies are so ridiculous they’re just an insult to the loved ones of the thousands of people who died. Keep that in mind, conspiracy theorists. Of course you have the right in American to say what’s on your mind, but at this point you are just insulting the friends and families of the 3,000 plus who died on this day in 2001. The 125 military members and civilians in the Pentagon, 64 people on Flight 77, 343 firefighters and paramedics, 23 NYPD officers and 37 Port Authority police officers, 45 passengers on Flight 93. Think about it, conspiracy theorists.
If there was a conspiracy, don’t you think these people’s friends and families wouldn’t demand justice? Do you think flight attendance Sandy Bradshaw’s husband, who last heard his wife’s last words to him: she slipped into a galley and was filling pitchers with boiling water, saying quote: “Everyone’s running to first class. I’ve got to go. Bye.” What about Lisa Beamer, Todd’s wife? The last thing she heard him say as he was hanging up was Are you guys ready? Let’s roll”
As they went after the hijackers and crashed in Pennsylvania. There were investigations. No leginitate conspiracies. If there was a tiny one, wouldn’t have these people dedicate their lives to uncovering the truth? Lisa Beamer wrote a book on how much of a hero her husband was. Conspiracy theorists: what goes through your mind as you watch video clips of the horror unfolding n NYC when children have to ask the fire chief if their fathers and mothers were found? So conspiracy theorists, have some manners and try some common sense and dignity.
Knock it off already.