24 hours of being a 9/11 researcher

I have spent pretty much all of my waking hours trying to justify for myself what really happened in 9/11. I watched a documentary and another and another . I started off just trying to figure out why these people believed some stuff, and once I saw the evidence it seemed that their evidence was in surmountable. Then I started seeing that there are contradictions and omissions. These different websites all seem to agree and disagree on different random things. In fact this documentary is so out there that another 9/11 site goes out and debunks it. The fact that all these different movies are made is part of the most amazing part of this movement, the fact that it exists. The key about this is that there is a city of people who were personally affected by the event and are looking for explanations of their loss, aided by the information sharing and investigation that the internet provides.

There are hundreds hundreds of websites all with different slants. What they all seem to agree on is that the World trade center 7 collapsed very much like a controlled demolition, implying some sort of pre-placed bombs in all the wtc buildings. This is a premise that is probably the only one with some scientific backing and the fact they don't like to show this collapse on tv much adds to this argument. This is the center piece of most of them because it is so suspicious, there was no plane that hit it to alter the building structurally. Also the building holds stuff that somebody might want destroyed, like CIA and the SEC, which was holding evidence that incriminated enron and other corporations. There is also very little data out and the governments own report still isn't done. While WTC7 is central to all stories there are many stories with much more embellishment. The craziest one I came across is "Scenario 404" which has no science and loads of circumstantial data. It involves military shooting down the planes and using missiles or military jets being flown via remote control. This of course would mean that the military also had to use computerized voice impersonators to call the family members of the people. Another said flight 93 landed in fine condition at the cleveland airport.

The thing with the internet is that there is nothing stopping anybody from putting stuff up there. So you can look all day and probably never find anything concrete, but any and everything circumstantial. If your mind likes wandering, you can do it all day no matter what you are looking for. Luckily I found what I was looking for in a couple of things. A) wikipedia which led me to the government report that analyzed the destruction. This pretty much overturned much of the assertions that commonsense hadn't already. Although it doesn't really completely say there were not explosions in WTC7, it certain explaians why they probably weren't needed in the regular tower. The WTC7 report won't come out until next year. And B) This 911 timeline, a collection of all the confirmed newsreports surrounding 911 from the soviet-afghan war until today. This website seems very legit and the movie based on it is a good, compelling story of the families of some 9/11 victims. Its good because it focuses more on the U.S. government's attempt to hide their own ineptitude, and not pursuing ana imagined attempt to consolidate public opinion. It also backs up every single claim with citations and traces the cause years before and after all the way to Pakistan.

Once I saw the two documents I stopped looking on the internet for 9/11 stuff with almost complete confidence in what happened. I am convinced of no government involvement in the massacre, but the suspicious collapse of building 7 is hard for me to understand. I am about 70% sure that it collapsed like the government says, and I am 30% sure of my own conspiracy theory ...
If anybody was going to bomb it for any reason the only person who would gain would be the owner because of his insurance payout, and maybe some other corporataions. It's possible he knew of the terror plot, or at least knew the buildings were a target, and wired it with a little something extra around the central columns to make sure they fell, like a self destruct button. Then if it did happen that way, they wouldn't have found out until deep into afghanistan because they would have had to unearth all the metals and stuff. By that point America had pretty much gotten over the whole thing so I could see the explosion story just getting buried.

Given that most of the people who are coming up with these theories were coming up during the communist era the idea of vast government operations and spies seem pretty commonplace. For these people to go from the cold war model of very small very strategic military action to the daring, kamikaze attack of 9/11 it might be hard to deal with. Perhaps these theories help offer a coming to grips with the dangers of the new world while failing to let go of the structures of the old. They focus all their efforts on looking at the evidence of this one event and when they reach a road block to their story they find an even more extreme governmental action to explain it. The government is fucked up, but not that fucked up.