9/11 HOAX? ... Cont'd.

So for days now I've been driving past a construction dumpster that says, well, you can see in the picture. Which is amazing to me. And yet, in some ways, not surprising. I mean, people who don't believe in the moon landing live among us, and "The X-Files" remains a potent pop cultural touchstone.

The gist, from 911Hoax.com:

Historical Fact: No planes struck the World Trade Center.
Restated: The TV networks aired fake video of animated "planes" striking the WTC.

Uh, what? Now, that's got to be one of the least likely scenarios I've come across in my admittedly brief Web searching. Having spent the past 15-years-plus in newsrooms, I find it highly unlikely that a blabby bunch of journalists could be part of any conspiracy in any way.

The somewhat more interesting, if not believable take is that the attacks really did take place, but have different motivations than what we have been led to believe: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/hoax.html

I'd sum it up, but it's just tiresome.

And finally, this site has the ring of, well, stuff that seems like facts:

http://www.rense.com/general36/hoax.htm

"The attacks of 9/11 COULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED without the willful failure of the American defense system. In Washington, Air Force pilots demanded to fly but were ordered to stand down. Yet instead of prosecuting the president and military leaders for this unprecedented dereliction of duty, military leaders were promoted and the president was praised for presiding over a defense system that suspiciously failed the most crucial test in its history. None of the deaths would have happened without the deliberate unplugging of America's air defenses.

Planes that lose contact with control towers are usually intercepted by fighter jets inside of ten minutes, as the incident with the golfer's plane a few months earlier so clearly demonstrated. Yet on 9/11, the jetliners that struck New York were allowed to proceed unmolested for more than a half-hour, and the plane that supposedly crashed in Washington was not intercepted for more than an hour and forty minutes after it was widely known that four planes had been hijacked.

The twin towers could not have collapsed as a result of burning jet fuel. Most of that fuel was consumed on impact. In the south tower, most of the fuel was spilled outside the building. Heat caused by burning jet fuel does not reach temperatures needed to melt steel. What does stand out as particularly suspicious and still unexplained is that fires raged out of control beneath THREE of the collapsed towers for ONE HUNDRED DAYS, clearly indicating the presence of some kind of substance utilized in the demolition of the structures.

The Twin Towers did not fall because of plane impacts or fires. Most likely explosives were placed on structural supports in the towers (as was done in Oklahoma City), and these controlled implosions snuffed out the lives of three thousand people.

FBI Director Robert Mueller insisted officials had no idea this kind of attack could happen when in fact the FBI had been investigating the possibility of EXACTLY this kind of attack for almost TEN YEARS. Numerous previous attempts at using planes as weapons, intimate knowledge of terror plans called Project Bojinka, and knowledge of suspicious characters attending flight schools who were being monitored by the FBI make his utterance a clear lie on its face."

I'm willing to give the dumpster defacer a few moments of research and interest. But any interest I may have had in this is severely undercut by the fact that Charlie Sheen is the best known proponent of the hoax notion.