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By: Ian Essling
Every year it gets worse. It started off as a bunch of crack-addicted malcontents who were too stupid and too lazy to get real jobs making a bunch of ludicrous claims about what happened on September 11th.
These sad people were still upset about Al Gore losing the 2000 Election, still wishing for Bill "I Lie Under Oath" Clinton to be back in office, and too hung up on how "evil" Americans are to ever even consider that Islamic Jihadists killing 3000 Americans because we are not their same religion is an extremely viable and plausible scenario.
These people decided to get back at god knows who by creating some far fetched dreamscapes that they could play out in their sick, twisted minds.
It's been five years now, and unfortunately, the conspiracy theories have not evaporated; instead, these fringe radicals are starting to filter into our daily lives. People who consider themselves "mainstream" are now grabbing a hold of these twisted theories and claiming them to be truth.
I, for one, am quite sick of it. Conspiracy theories are nothing new; alien cover-ups in Roswell comes to my mind as one of the longest living and most popular conspiracy theories in existence.
It is my sincere hope that the disgusting 9/11 conspiracy theories never attain such notoriety. Due to a bunch of shrill Leftists, however, that hope is fading as fast as the Democrat's chance to win the House and Senate next month.
Public personalities such as David Ray Griffin and Cynthia McKinney have been hailing certain 9/11 theories as fact, which aside from being depraved, is also hideously ignorant and self-absorbed.
One of the things that makes these conspiracy theories so stupid is the fact that most of them use such sketchy data and such broad assumptions that you really have to be grasping at straws to consider them real.
One of the dumbest (and thus most popular) of these things is the "controlled demolition," theory, the twisted and half-baked conglomeration of random facts that supposedly explains how the "Zionist" Bush Administration murdered 3000 American citizens as a pre-text and justification for going to war. The preposterousness of this grand theory becomes easily discernable by anyone who takes the time and makes an honest effort to conduct research, and not just take what they hear on the evening news as gospel.
I could argue all day long that the Bush Administration would never do such a thing on legal and moral grounds, however, that line of reasoning is not the most solid (not because I think that they would do it, but because morals are subjective, and there apparently ARE many people who think they would); I tend to prefer facts and numbers as backup for my arguments, so that is where I will head.
What I just love about conspiracy theorists is the "facts" that they use. You see, these fringe radicals are masters of taking things out of context.
Take controlled demolition theory for example. One of the cornerstones of this thing is the "fact" that jet fuel would not burn hot enough to melt the steel girders in the WTC, and thus could not have brought down the building.
Conspiracy theorists like to point out two numbers: 2750 and 2012. The first is the temperature that steel generally melts at, and the second is the temperature that commercial airline jet fuel burns at, both in Fahrenheit.
Anyone can see that the jet fuel could not have been burning hot enough to melt the steel. This is the point where radicals stop. They take those two numbers and make entire websites about them. Michael Moore probably has these numbers framed in his kitchen, and Ted Kennedy has them printed on his daily bottle of Scotch.
Much to their horror, however, I am going to go a step further. You see, steel does not have to actually be liquid before it stops bearing weight. At 700 degrees Fahrenheit, steel begins to lose strength. Let me repeat that in case anyone missed it: seven-hundred degrees.
Steel loses half its strength at just over 1100 degrees Fahrenheit, and at 1800 degrees Fahrenheit, it retains less than 10 percent of its strength, this according to Farid Alfawakhiri, a senior engineer of construction codes and standards at the American Iron and Steel Institute, and research conducted by Popular Mechanics.
Now, a NIST (National Institute of Science and Technology) report on the WTC collapse stated that pockets of fuel were burning as hot as 1832 degrees Fahrenheit.
The math isn't hard; the fires were burning hot enough to bring steel to 10 percent of its strength, making it impossible for the load-bearing columns to support the tremendous weight of the building. At 10 percent strength, we're talking about massive steel columns that were about as strong as rubber.
The puffs of smoke and dust that came out of the buildings as they collapsed? The untrained eye may view those puffs as explosions, but they are actually due to a process called 'pancaking' that happens when floors of a building fall onto one another and the air has nowhere else to go, according to FEMA and NIST reports, as well as a NIST lead investigator Shyam Sunder, who detailed the entire process for Popular Mechanics' book on the 9/11 myths.
What is my point here? Well, I could sit at my desk all day and refute claim after claim that these conspiracy theorists have published, but that's not what I'm here to do. If you want that, check out Popular Mechanics' study, which takes apart pretty much every popular theory.
The above facts are simply an example of how insanely stupid these theories are and why their perversion of the 9/11 Anniversary is so disgusting.
September 11th was a terrible day for our country. Thousands of innocent people died, and our nation will never be the same. What we must do is everything in our power to make sure it doesn't happen again, and we must honor those that died that day. Regardless of your politics, you know deep down that those people jumping out of a burning 110 story building did not deserve the fate that was dealt to them.
The sad and deranged people that continue to spout hate and misinformation in an attempt to sway public opinion on the current administration should be ashamed of themselves. The information I used in this article is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg when it comes to downing conspiracy theories. For every crazed madman who publishes some ridiculous claim about 9/11, there are ten facts to refute that claim.
These crazed people are stomping on the deaths of everyone who died that day; using other people's suffering as a cudgel to be wielded for political agendas is something that I have come to expect from the left, but enough is enough. |
