Interesting Wash. Post story on the 9/11 conspiracy movement

[Double Down]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/07/AR2006090701669.html

To be clear, I don't endore these people's pshycotic tinfoil hat theories, but thought it was an interesting way for a journalist to look at them. The people quoted, including Morgan Reynolds, cheif economist in the Dept. of Labor until 2002 under George W. Bush, who believe that plans never actually hit the World Trade Center towers strike me as completely Looney Toons.

Nico Haupt, a gaunt fellow in black sneakers, black socks, black jeans and black T-shirt, stands up in St. Mark's Church in the Bowery. He holds aloft two blue Oreos boxes taped to resemble the twin towers. A pen juts out, kind of like a Boeing airplane.

For an hour he's shown videos of planes hitting the towers. If you note the glinting sunlight and angle of wings and you're honest about vectors and maybe the hashish is kicking in, you'll realize there were no planes.

Truth movement veterans distance themselves from Haupt, who has a bit of a temper. But Reynolds, the former Labor Department economist, also is a "no-planer."

"There were no planes, there were no hijackers," Reynolds insists. "I know, I know, I'm out of the mainstream, but that's the way it is."

But what about all those New Yorkers who saw airplanes hitting the twin towers? A chuckle rumbles down the phone line. "I don't believe anyone in Lower Manhattan," he says. "You hire three dozen Actors' Equity dudes and they'll say anything ."

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Good gosh.

I can kinda see where people might say a plane didn't hit the Pentagon. But saying no planes hit the WTC is completely and utterly batshit crazy.

 

[alleyallen]

Folks, we're all stupid for overlooking the fact that David Copperfield is actually at the center of this conspiracy. If he can make a statue disappear, do you think he'd have any problems with a handful of massive buildings and thousands of people?

 

[Double Down]

Quick, someone stop him! He's moved on to the Empire State building!

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Isn't one of the obvious holes in the guy's seemingly meticulous argument that there are records of cell phone calls from people on the planes saying they were hijacked? How can someone say "There were no hijackers" with evidence to the contrary?

 

[Armchair_QB]

I love the "we don't need a theory" answer to the question of where the planes (and people) that didn't crash into the Pentagon and Pennsylvania went.

 

[Starman]

It's all the JOOOOS' fault.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Isn't one of the obvious holes in the guy's seemingly meticulous argument that there are records of cell phone calls from people on the planes saying they were hijacked? How can someone say "There were no hijackers" with evidence to the contrary?

The Phone cops are the worst ones. They're the ones you never hear about! /johnnyfever

 

[Ashy Larry]

Isn't one of the obvious holes in the guy's seemingly meticulous argument that there are records of cell phone calls from people on the planes saying they were hijacked? How can someone say "There were no hijackers" with evidence to the contrary?

JD...it's obvious the CIA were making those phone calls, duh!

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

 

[alleyallen]

People who claim the attack never happened are insane. If you want to have a conspiracy theory about how they were pulled off, fine (weirdos), but to say it didn't happen is just too wild. Four airplanes don't exist any more. More than 2,000 people don't exist anymore. Two really big buildings I've actually been inside don't exist anymore.

Never happened.

And more than six million people just never actually existed during the whole Holocaust.

 

[Chuck~Taylor]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/07/AR2006090701669.html

To be clear, I don't endore these people's pshycotic tinfoil hat theories, but thought it was an interesting way for a journalist to look at them. The people quoted, including Morgan Reynolds, cheif economist in the Dept. of Labor until 2002 under George W. Bush, who believe that plans never actually hit the World Trade Center towers strike me as completely Looney Toons.

Nico Haupt, a gaunt fellow in black sneakers, black socks, black jeans and black T-shirt, stands up in St. Mark's Church in the Bowery. He holds aloft two blue Oreos boxes taped to resemble the twin towers. A pen juts out, kind of like a Boeing airplane.

For an hour he's shown videos of planes hitting the towers. If you note the glinting sunlight and angle of wings and you're honest about vectors and maybe the hashish is kicking in, you'll realize there were no planes.

Truth movement veterans distance themselves from Haupt, who has a bit of a temper. But Reynolds, the former Labor Department economist, also is a "no-planer."

"There were no planes, there were no hijackers," Reynolds insists. "I know, I know, I'm out of the mainstream, but that's the way it is."

But what about all those New Yorkers who saw airplanes hitting the twin towers? A chuckle rumbles down the phone line. "I don't believe anyone in Lower Manhattan," he says. "You hire three dozen Actors' Equity dudes and they'll say anything ."

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