# Freedom tower...something for conspiracy theorists to chew on?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower-something-for-conspiracy-theorists-to-chew-on/310412>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 29, 2005, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower-something-for-conspiracy-theorists-to-chew-on/310412 "2005-06-29T19:28:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![ready29003](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@ready29003](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ready29003)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower-something-for-conspiracy-theorists-to-chew-on/310412/1 "2005-06-29T19:28:23Z")

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Anyone see any potential for conspiracy theories in the new Freedom Tower design. Looks like you might argue thier could be a pyramid and an ever seeing eye over head with that “beacon of freedom”.

[Freedom tower images](http://www.thesearchforwisdom.com/mattswiki/index.php/Freedom_Tower)

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**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower-something-for-conspiracy-theorists-to-chew-on/310412/2 "2005-06-29T20:12:24Z")

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Are you saying that the Illuminati are building the new tower?

That would explain much. 😉

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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower-something-for-conspiracy-theorists-to-chew-on/310412/3 "2005-06-29T20:17:02Z")

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WTF? Chew on? I can’t even swallow it! It’s in terrible taste - not to mention a really tall order. This is an obvious recipe for disaster.

(In other words…um, no. Doesn’t look anything like it in the real pic and only kind of sort of maybe in the completely doctored pic. How does an elongated triangle suddenly become the Mason’s truncated pyramid?)

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**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower-something-for-conspiracy-theorists-to-chew-on/310412/4 "2005-06-30T13:51:28Z")

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> [@The Mad Hermit](#):
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> Are you saying that the Illuminati are building the new tower?
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> That would explain much. 😉

Hmmm. Lets see…

Which would be better? A tower built by the Illuminati or one built by Trump?

Tough choice! 🙂

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**Author:** ![flood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@flood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flood)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower-something-for-conspiracy-theorists-to-chew-on/310412/5 "2005-06-30T18:42:08Z")

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What exactly is the link supposed to show? Linky no worky for me.

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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-tower-something-for-conspiracy-theorists-to-chew-on/310412/6 "2005-06-30T19:45:02Z")

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Hmmmm…linking to a dodgy Wikipedia article isn’t going to last long!