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Conspiracy Theories vs. Conspiracies and the Case of the World Trade Center

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But these two incontrovertible facts are definitely consistent with controlled demolition.  Every video of any successful controlled demolition shows the building collapsing according to a carefully planned choreography into its own footprint or into a predetermined debris field.  If the building is planned to collapse into its own footprint the collapse time is very near free fall time.  There are scientific reasons for the short collapse time.  Longer collapse times result from some of the potential energy being employed to cause lateral force to be applied to direct the debris to a planned or accidental final resting place. 

 

Then, if the observed collapses are consistent with controlled demolition, are they also consistent with the observed jet plane impacts and the resulting fires in the absence of controlled demolition?  No, they are not.  On June 15, 2009 a program titled “Blasted” was shown on the Science TV Channel.  This program showed many controlled demolitions with interviews of the managers of the demolitions.  The program made clear that each collapse is the result of a very carefully planned sequence of explosions involving precise timing and specific types and weights of charges for specific structural elements and architectural designs.  Nothing is left to chance.  The program also showed demolitions that went awry due to mistakes in demolition design.  It is made clear that in no case would a collapse sequence caused by any sort of chance or imprecisely delivered damage produce the desired debris footprint or even a guaranteed total collapse.  Free fall collapse time with minimum debris footprint requires that no falling part encounter resistance on its way to the ground.  Nothing but a planned demolition sequence can produce this result.

 

We have now, without invoking any objection to any of the five points listed above, destroyed the official theory that the jet plane impacts and resulting fires caused the demise of WTC 1 and 2 and that fire alone caused the demise of WTC 7.

 

Q. E. D.

 

I suggest that it is time to put away the official U. S. government conspiracy theory and proceed from the observable facts of the case.  There is much critically important work yet to be done before this case can be closed.



[1] Many 9/11 conspiracy theories have been presented to explain the September 11, 2001 attacks, many of them claiming that individuals in the United States government knew about the attacks beforehand and purposefully allowed them to occur, or orchestrated the attacks themselves, as a pretext for the "War on Terror", wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, increased militarization, expansion of the police state, and other intrusive foreign and domestic policies by which they would benefit. Proponents point to the Project for the New American Century, a conservative think tank that argues for increased American global leadership, whose former members include ex-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, former Vice President Dick Cheney.  Pearl Harbor" would be needed as a pretext for carrying out their plans for "United States global hegemony" in the 21st century. The 9/11 Truth Movement is the self-bestowed name of those who seek the purported "truth" about 9/11. (From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conspiracy_theories#False_flag_operations ) and several other key Bush administration figures. A 2000 report from the group stated that "some catastrophic and catalyzing event — like a new

[2] David Ray Griffin, Debunking 9/11 Debunking, p.23.

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