Yeah I'd say those combine are are to blame!
Anyway, you are not getting the points. You are only reading the invaluable pieces of evidence that may actually be disinformation rather than a 'conspiracy theory'.
And let me just get one point straight, this is not a conspiracy theory. It is not a conspiracy theory that half of NYer's believe the Government was complicit in these attacks. Stop calling this a conspiracy, we want answers, and for the sake of all those who died at the hands of the Bush Administration, the truth has to come out, and we are not going to just leave them alone and let them get away with the biggest crime of the 21st Century. Their official explanation is 'sloppy', badly thrown together, missing fundemental facts, and In my views and the views of many others a complete and utter disgrace. And if you think that it's kooky to investigate the staged terror attack of 9/11, well you need wake up and start acting like a human being.
And no it isn't 'normal proceedure'.
"Interception is a standard - and mandatory - emergency procedure in the U.S. In suspected hijacks and one that had been used routinely in 67 air scares over America in the nine months preceding 9/11. But, fighter jets were instead ordered out of an air base 180 miles away in Cape Cod. And they flew so slowly that they did not even arrive in time to stop the second hijack attack on the south tower of the Trade Centre."
"...The Pentagon was hit by the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 at 9.38am, The aircraft, with 58 passengers on board, had left Dulles Airport, in Washington DC at 8.20am and suddenly disappeared from radio contact at 8.46am. Astonishingly, no fighter jets from Andrews Air Force Base, just ten miles from Washington D.C., were ever scrambled to intercept it. Instead fighters were ordered from 130 miles away at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. They finally arrived after the Pentagon crash had already happened. Thought to be flying towards Ohio, Flight 77 disappeared from radar screens for half an hour. But the plane astonishingly reappeared in airspace over Washington D.C. at 9:24am. It was then that the pilot executed a complex manoeuvre, turning almost a complete circle and dropping the last 7,000 feet in two and a half minutes to hit a wing of the Pentagon with perfect precision."
"It was the sort of flying that you would expect only from a seasoned airman. Yet at the cockpit controls was a rookie, a terrorist named Hani Hanjour, who had been such a bad trainee pilot that managers at his flying school had reported him to aviation authorities five times.
"A pilot they want us to believe was trained at a puddle jumper school for Piper Cubs and Cessnas brings the plane in so low and flat that it clips the electrical wires across the street from the Pentagon and flies it with pinpoint accuracy into the side of this building at 460 miles per hour..."
OK, here are some good points raised by the 9/11 Truth Movement. I chose to show you these because they present accurate facts that question the validity of the official 9/11 explanation of events. I fully support the 9/11 Truth Movement and I think alot of the victims of these terrible events also do.
Ignored Urgent Warnings
- In the months before 9/11, over 23 documented warnings of coming attacks from eleven foreign governments (including Presidents Putin and Mubarak personally) were received and ignored, many specifically mentioning the use of planes, symbolic urban targets, and Washington & New York. The administration never explained what ever became of these alerts and the 9/11 Commission apparently forgot to ask.
During the same period the Federal Aviation Commission received 54 terrorist hijack warnings, including some that mentioned the "preferability" of domestic flights for hijacker who wanted "to commit suicide in a spectacular explosion."
Quashed Domestic Investigations
- FBI field probes into Al Qaeda activities were routinely quashed or obstructed, and after 9/11 the headquarters' officials most responsible for the interference were promoted to higher posts. (Attorney General Ashcroft simultaneously downgrades terrorism as a Justice Department priority (below accounting and prison reforms) and tells acting FBI director Tom Pickard "I don't want to hear about it [terrorism] anymore.")
Incapacitated OversightIn May 2001 Cheney takes command of the Counterterrorism Task Force but never convenes a single meeting until September 8th. (Counterterrorism "czar" Richard Clark is gradually taken
- in Cheney's words - "out of the loop" and ordered to focus on cyber-security instead). In August 2001 Bush responded to the "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the US" presidential briefing by vacationing for three more weeks in Crawford and cutting a lot of brush.
Disabled Air Defenses
- In June 2001 Rumsfeld rewrites the NORAD/FAA air emergency response protocols to require his office's permission in the interceptor launch authorization chain. In the year before this revision the NORAD/FAA emergency response had worked flawlessly 67 times. On 9/11 the system missed four out of four.
- Three overlapping air war games were scheduled and run on September 11th that diverted NORAD air assets to Alaska, simulated an East Coast hijacking, and inserted phantom objects into FAA radar screens that confused air controllers on the ground. See more on war games here!
The Amazing Disappearing National Chain of Command
- If we are to believe the 9/11 Commission's account nearly 40 million Americans were watching the attacks on TV before word ever got to our Secretary of Defense or the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. George Bush heard much earlier but was busy with a pet goat story and stuck around the school for photo ops for a half hour more. The behavior of our top defense officials on 9/11 morn remains inexplicable to this day. See Gail Sheehy's "Who's in Charge Here?" and George Bush's "Interesting Day."
The Pakistan Intelligence Chief who Loved Everyone at Once
- In early September, three weeks after wiring $100,000 to "lead hijacker" Mohammed Atta, Pakistan Army Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt Gen Mahmoud Ahmed was in Washington conferring with George Tenet and breakfasting on 9/11 morn with the new CIA chief Porter Goss. After his peculiar web of friendships surfaced he was encouraged to step down, but he has never been subpoenaed or even questioned about it by the 9/11 Commission or journalists to this day. But then we must remember that the Commission Report did conclude that, "Ultimately the question [of who funded 9/11] is of little practical significance" and thus assure us that the classic investigatory follow-the-money technique is now obsolete and we shouldn't trouble our little heads with such details today.
The Bitter Fight against Investigations
- The Bush administration repeatedly refused and resisted attempts to launch investigations and consistently underfunded and obstructed those that managed to get underway. The National Transportation Safety Board which ALWAYS investigates every airplane crash was totally shut out by the FBI and told to stay away. The 9/11 Commission was given less than a quarter of the funds of Clinton's Whitewater investigation, and many high official (including Bush & Cheney) would not testify under oath. The FBI anthrax inquiry lost all momentum once the strain was identified as a US military brand. And Ashcroft urged all federal agencies to ignore all the Freedom of Information requests that they possibly can.
The Amazing Disappearing EvidenceShort sampling: The FBI claimed all four WTC black boxes were destroyed and missing (but rescue workers claim that three were found), the FAA air controller tapes were systematically destroyed within hours of the attack, the WTC steel was immediately shipped abroad before it could be tested, the last three minutes of the Shanksville crash tape have never been released, and all court cases regarding the attacks have been denied access to vital evidence because of "national security concerns"
The Amazing Disappearing Demand for Accountability
- Although the government's entire 9/11 fable and its Commission apologists depend on the incompetence defense, no one in any agency has ever been reprimanded, let alone fired or punished for that same murderous level of "incompetence." Although to be fair, neither has the government ever successfully prosecuted ANYONE ANYWHERE for their role in the attacks. American whistleblowers who have come forward with proof of government misconduct and deceit, however, have been quite efficiently fired, persecuted, and discredited in the public eye.
The Ripley Believe It or Not Sideshow of 9/11 Miracles
- Brief sampling: The symmetrical demolition-like collapse of the 47-story WTC building without any major fires or damage (also pronounced inexplicable by the FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency] investigation team); the five surviving "hijackers" who still noisily protest that FBI claims about their murderous suicides are premature at best; the magic hijacker passport that floated threw the WTC fireball and building collapse to land totally unscathed in the New York street below; the eight-mile debris trail from Flight 93 in Shanksville, a plane that supposedly flew straight into the ground; the WTC first responder testimony that "there were bombs going off all around" - so many odd mysteries, so much still left to know...
For a good insight into this whole thing, I recommend you read
'The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11' by David Ray Griffin.
"It is a puzzle that may never be solved because, in another odd coincidence, no pictures exist of the moment the aircraft penetrated the building. Jose Velasquez, an employee at the petrol station opposite the Pentagon, has stated that security cameras there would have recorded the moment of impact. 'But I?ve never seen what the pictures looked like. The FBI were here within minutes and took the film away," he told reporters. - David Ray Griffin.'"
"There are only unanswered questions, such as that posed by Kristen Breitweiser, whose husband died in the World Trade Centre. She apparently told a television show: "I don't understand how a plane could hit our defence department (The Pentagon) an hour after the first plane hit the Twin Towers. I don't understand how that is possible. I'm a reasonable person. But when you look at the fact that we spend a half trillion dollars on national defence . . . I think there were procedures and protocols that were not followed on September 11."
P.s. Rileymo, just "go back to bed", as Bill Hicks would say to the American people, "...your Government is in control again, go back to bed."