But you’d need to not only have those covert operatives in several different buildings in New York, but also in L.A, and London, and every other major city that had reporters on the ground on 9/11, plus hundreds and hundreds of amateurs with cameras who caught all this on tape. Plus, once you’ve got the people whose job it is to make the switch in place, you’d need some way to keep the hundreds of news professionals in each building unaware that this vitally important footage of major, breaking news was being manipulated. You’d have an editing booth full of people screaming their heads off, wanting to know why they don’t have the footage yet, all in seperate locations scattered around the globe. And that’s something we would have heard about by now. Unless they were all in on it, too.
Which is why you should be as outraged about this bullshit as everyone else in this thread. I don’t know which particular theory you favor. No offence meant, but I kinda suspect it’s about as well grounded as the one presented in the OP. But let’s say you’re really on to something. You’re going to have a hell of a time convincing people that your theory is right, because the well has already been poisoned by all these nutcases babbling about orbital death rays. You want to talk about what the Bush administration really knew about 9/11 before it happened, a whole lot of people are going to write you off as another loon, simply because they’ve been bombarded by so many patently psychotic “conspiracy theories” that they put all these theories in the same box, and ignore the lot of them. Whatever view you want to put forward is only hurt by the existence of videos like those linked to above. Whatever the truth was about 9/11, the exsistence of videos like those linked to above only make it that much harder to get to it.
Fair enough, I was letting my rhetoric carry me away there. Make that the second most important historic event etc.
Actually, I can say it’s impossible. I’m saying it’s impossible right now. Because the government, while very wealthy and very powerful, is not magical. There are limits on what even the most advanced technology can do, and further limits to how far you can advance a particular area of technology without the antecedent developments filtering out to the general population. Technology does not exist in a vacuum. It comes about through a series of incremental improvements on previous inventions. If the technology necessary for the theory described in those videos to exist, even in a top secret government lab, those of us without government clearances should be able to see that technology on the horizon.
I mean, compare this putative government cover-up of a program designed to kill thousands of people with a very real government cover-up of a program designed to kill thousands of people: the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb during World War II. We’re talking about a top secret government super weapon program, carried out at the height of war time, on an invention that had no civilian applications, in a field of science that was so new it still had all the labels attached. And it was still common knowledge that the US was working on a weaponized form of atomic energy. The theory linked to in the OP, on the other hand, would have been carried out prior to the outbreak of any hostilities, and it’s not on a science that’s obviously offensive in purpose, so you can’t use the war effort as a whip to keep quiet the hundreds of scientists and technicians involved in the project. And it’s in a field with intense private sector interest: as advanced as the computer graphics and video editing techniques available to the government may be, the ones available to Disney, or Industrial Light and Magic, can’t be that far behind. (Actually, I’d wager they’re significantly more advanced.) If these techniques were possible with the most cutting edge technology available, even if they weren’t widely available now, we’d know they were around the corner based on extrapolations of what we have right now. But what we have right now is so far from what you’re speculating about that it’s not even on the radar.
Okay, but what about the days and weeks afterwards? Ten thousand people see a missile hit the WTC. That very same day, the TV shows a plane hitting it. Wouldn’t you expect people to notice and comment on the discrepency, at least for the first dozen or so times they saw the altered footage?
Because the truth is important.
You said, “The US government or some other super secret society.” Which is a clear statement that the US government is a super secret society. Which, obviously, is an absurd thing to say. But then, so is virtually everything else you’ve posted here, so I had trouble telling if that was simply poor wording, or an actual statement of your beliefs. I decided to play it safe and assume the latter.
