posted on Mar, 21 2007 @ 05:32 AM
Let’s start with the assumption that 9/11 was an inside job, planned and executed by someone or some people within one or more US government
agencies, with or without the involvement of non-US elements.
Now let’s suppose that WTC-1, WTC-2 and WTC-7 were brought down in a controlled manner; that Flight 77 did not hit the Pentagon; and that Flight 93
was shot down. I don’t want to appear defeatists, but is it actually possible to prove any of these suppositions?
Six years worth of analysis, debate and argument have not, in my view, taken us much closer to being able to establish that this was an inside job,
despite what we ‘know’. Those who believe it was (and I include myself among them), excitedly latch onto media mis-reporting and label it a
‘smoking gun’, when in truth, it’s probably no such thing. We get all triumphant when one anonymous person is reported by Prison Planet to have
heard a 20 second count-down to the WTC-7 collapse, when really, we need so many more corroborating witnesses to come forward before we can make such
a claim stick. We trembled with anticipation when analysis conducted on its FDR and eyewitness testimony revealed Flight 77 flew north of the Citgo
station, not south as the official story would have us believe, only to find that even the so-called ‘truth’ community cannot agree on the
provenance of the source data and its interpretation.
Some of the contributions I’ve seen here at ATS have been simply breathtaking. There are so many researchers, analysts and thinkers doing some
extraordinary work in this field and yet I’m beginning to fear that it’s all in vain. I’m beginning to fear that we’ll be told when
‘they’ are good and ready to let us know; that 50 years from now a McCollum or Northwoods style document will find its way into the public domain,
courtesy of the FOIA. And by then, of course, our grandchildren will be embroiled in another ‘inside’ job and, in any event, too dislocated from
9/11 to really appreciate the significance.
So, my question is, is our current strategy one that will ultimately enable us to prove our case? If not, what should we be doing differently?