I stumbled across this tonight. It's pretty scary to listen to even though (or maybe because) we know the outcome:
Why do you believe that?TheEternalPessimist said:
I don't believe 9/11 was faked or any of that jazz.....
...I do believe our intelligence services and key people in government knew that there was a threat with these 19-20 men ....... and that they did nothing substantial to stop them.
That is not a conspiracy theory.
It is.TheEternalPessimist said:
I don't believe 9/11 was faked or any of that jazz.....
...I do believe our intelligence services and key people in government knew that there was a threat with these 19-20 men ....... and that they did nothing substantial to stop them.
That is not a conspiracy theory.
eric76 said:It is.TheEternalPessimist said:
I don't believe 9/11 was faked or any of that jazz.....
...I do believe our intelligence services and key people in government knew that there was a threat with these 19-20 men ....... and that they did nothing substantial to stop them.
That is not a conspiracy theory.
And I despise all conspiracy theories with my entire soul and consider anyone who believes in them to be seriously mentally defective.
eric76 said:It is.TheEternalPessimist said:
I don't believe 9/11 was faked or any of that jazz.....
...I do believe our intelligence services and key people in government knew that there was a threat with these 19-20 men ....... and that they did nothing substantial to stop them.
That is not a conspiracy theory.
And I despise all conspiracy theories with my entire soul and consider anyone who believes in them to be seriously mentally defective.
I have read the 9-11 commission report. There were missed opportunities to arrest and/or deport the terrorists.Geddy Lee soul patch said:Why do you believe that?TheEternalPessimist said:
I don't believe 9/11 was faked or any of that jazz.....
...I do believe our intelligence services and key people in government knew that there was a threat with these 19-20 men ....... and that they did nothing substantial to stop them.
That is not a conspiracy theory.
eric76 said:It is.TheEternalPessimist said:
I don't believe 9/11 was faked or any of that jazz.....
...I do believe our intelligence services and key people in government knew that there was a threat with these 19-20 men ....... and that they did nothing substantial to stop them.
That is not a conspiracy theory.
And I despise all conspiracy theories with my entire soul and consider anyone who believes in them to be seriously mentally defective.
There were missed opportunities. That doesn't mean that they plotted to miss those opportunities for whatever nefarious reasons you imagine.TheEternalPessimist said:I have read the 9-11 commission report. There were missed opportunities to arrest and/or deport the terrorists.Geddy Lee soul patch said:Why do you believe that?TheEternalPessimist said:
I don't believe 9/11 was faked or any of that jazz.....
...I do believe our intelligence services and key people in government knew that there was a threat with these 19-20 men ....... and that they did nothing substantial to stop them.
That is not a conspiracy theory.
To sum up the numerous failures with our intelligence services, Thomas Keen, who was on the commission said: "President Clinton and President Bush were not well served by the CIA or the FBI"
eric76 said:There were missed opportunities. That doesn't mean that they plotted to miss those opportunities for whatever nefarious reasons you imagine.TheEternalPessimist said:I have read the 9-11 commission report. There were missed opportunities to arrest and/or deport the terrorists.Geddy Lee soul patch said:Why do you believe that?TheEternalPessimist said:
I don't believe 9/11 was faked or any of that jazz.....
...I do believe our intelligence services and key people in government knew that there was a threat with these 19-20 men ....... and that they did nothing substantial to stop them.
That is not a conspiracy theory.
To sum up the numerous failures with our intelligence services, Thomas Keen, who was on the commission said: "President Clinton and President Bush were not well served by the CIA or the FBI"
To believe that the Feds to have the kind of overwhelming knowledge and control that the conspiracy theories would require in order to be true is preposterous. There are plenty of things that they have to do. I suspect that they are largely reactive to that which they have neither foreseen nor encountered previously and not directing it behind the scenes.
I think the odds are overwhelming that there was some kind of lab leak, but it is far more likely that the lab leaks was some kind of accident than it was that it was orchestrated by the Chinese government in some kind of deep plan to overthrow the US government. Accidents happen. This wouldn't be the first time that an organism escaped from a lab due to negligence or to stupidity.TheEternalPessimist said:eric76 said:It is.TheEternalPessimist said:
I don't believe 9/11 was faked or any of that jazz.....
...I do believe our intelligence services and key people in government knew that there was a threat with these 19-20 men ....... and that they did nothing substantial to stop them.
That is not a conspiracy theory.
And I despise all conspiracy theories with my entire soul and consider anyone who believes in them to be seriously mentally defective.
So you despise people that theorized there was a lab leak of COVID19? (hey that's another topic)
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I don't make ridiculous claims about WTC7 being 'demolitioned' or that explosives contributed at all to the collapse of the structures or that the government itself coordinated the hijackings etc etc.
It is not conspiracy to state that these men who carried out these hijackings/suicide missions were not appropriately dealt with by authorities prior to that fateful day.... even though some of them had been monitored by not only our intelligence service but ones in Europe as well.
If you want to despise me for saying that.... then so be it.
The implications were clear -- that we knew what they were up to and did nothing to try to stop them.Aggies1322 said:eric76 said:There were missed opportunities. That doesn't mean that they plotted to miss those opportunities for whatever nefarious reasons you imagine.TheEternalPessimist said:I have read the 9-11 commission report. There were missed opportunities to arrest and/or deport the terrorists.Geddy Lee soul patch said:Why do you believe that?TheEternalPessimist said:
I don't believe 9/11 was faked or any of that jazz.....
...I do believe our intelligence services and key people in government knew that there was a threat with these 19-20 men ....... and that they did nothing substantial to stop them.
That is not a conspiracy theory.
To sum up the numerous failures with our intelligence services, Thomas Keen, who was on the commission said: "President Clinton and President Bush were not well served by the CIA or the FBI"
To believe that the Feds to have the kind of overwhelming knowledge and control that the conspiracy theories would require in order to be true is preposterous. There are plenty of things that they have to do. I suspect that they are largely reactive to that which they have neither foreseen nor encountered previously and not directing it behind the scenes.
He never said that our agencies were purposefully bad at their jobs. He just said that they were bad at their jobs. But by all means… triple down.
eric76 said:The implications were clear -- that we knew what they were up to and did nothing to try to stop them.Aggies1322 said:eric76 said:There were missed opportunities. That doesn't mean that they plotted to miss those opportunities for whatever nefarious reasons you imagine.TheEternalPessimist said:I have read the 9-11 commission report. There were missed opportunities to arrest and/or deport the terrorists.Geddy Lee soul patch said:Why do you believe that?TheEternalPessimist said:
I don't believe 9/11 was faked or any of that jazz.....
...I do believe our intelligence services and key people in government knew that there was a threat with these 19-20 men ....... and that they did nothing substantial to stop them.
That is not a conspiracy theory.
To sum up the numerous failures with our intelligence services, Thomas Keen, who was on the commission said: "President Clinton and President Bush were not well served by the CIA or the FBI"
To believe that the Feds to have the kind of overwhelming knowledge and control that the conspiracy theories would require in order to be true is preposterous. There are plenty of things that they have to do. I suspect that they are largely reactive to that which they have neither foreseen nor encountered previously and not directing it behind the scenes.
He never said that our agencies were purposefully bad at their jobs. He just said that they were bad at their jobs. But by all means… triple down.
The reality is that they are not omnificient. They are well trained and good at what they do, but they cannot catch everything that happens. At least, not without a police state and our complete loss of freedom. We do not need North Korea as a role model.
I think it was more arrogance and incompetence in our intelligence agencies.TheEternalPessimist said:
I don't believe 9/11 was faked or any of that jazz.....
...I do believe our intelligence services and key people in government knew that there was a threat with these 19-20 men ....... and that they did nothing substantial to stop them.
That is not a conspiracy theory.
ts5641 said:I think it was more arrogance and incompetence in our intelligence agencies.TheEternalPessimist said:
I don't believe 9/11 was faked or any of that jazz.....
...I do believe our intelligence services and key people in government knew that there was a threat with these 19-20 men ....... and that they did nothing substantial to stop them.
That is not a conspiracy theory.
BudFox7 said:eric76 said:It is.TheEternalPessimist said:
I don't believe 9/11 was faked or any of that jazz.....
...I do believe our intelligence services and key people in government knew that there was a threat with these 19-20 men ....... and that they did nothing substantial to stop them.
That is not a conspiracy theory.
And I despise all conspiracy theories with my entire soul and consider anyone who believes in them to be seriously mentally defective.
This person is delusional or simply not intelligent.
eric76 said:I think the odds are overwhelming that there was some kind of lab leak, but it is far more likely that the lab leaks was some kind of accident than it was that it was orchestrated by the Chinese government in some kind of deep plan to overthrow the US government. Accidents happen. This wouldn't be the first time that an organism escaped from a lab due to negligence or to stupidity.TheEternalPessimist said:eric76 said:It is.TheEternalPessimist said:
I don't believe 9/11 was faked or any of that jazz.....
...I do believe our intelligence services and key people in government knew that there was a threat with these 19-20 men ....... and that they did nothing substantial to stop them.
That is not a conspiracy theory.
And I despise all conspiracy theories with my entire soul and consider anyone who believes in them to be seriously mentally defective.
So you despise people that theorized there was a lab leak of COVID19? (hey that's another topic)
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I don't make ridiculous claims about WTC7 being 'demolitioned' or that explosives contributed at all to the collapse of the structures or that the government itself coordinated the hijackings etc etc.
It is not conspiracy to state that these men who carried out these hijackings/suicide missions were not appropriately dealt with by authorities prior to that fateful day.... even though some of them had been monitored by not only our intelligence service but ones in Europe as well.
If you want to despise me for saying that.... then so be it.
We used to do much of our more dangerous research on Plum Island to help reduce the consequences of a leak by making it improbable that an infected animal could reach the mainland.
I would say the real international crime the Chinese perpetrated was after the spread of COVID was known in Wuhan they prohibited travel from Wuhan in China. However, they allowed international flights out of Wuhan.eric76 said:I think the odds are overwhelming that there was some kind of lab leak, but it is far more likely that the lab leaks was some kind of accident than it was that it was orchestrated by the Chinese government in some kind of deep plan to overthrow the US government. Accidents happen. This wouldn't be the first time that an organism escaped from a lab due to negligence or to stupidity.TheEternalPessimist said:eric76 said:It is.TheEternalPessimist said:
I don't believe 9/11 was faked or any of that jazz.....
...I do believe our intelligence services and key people in government knew that there was a threat with these 19-20 men ....... and that they did nothing substantial to stop them.
That is not a conspiracy theory.
And I despise all conspiracy theories with my entire soul and consider anyone who believes in them to be seriously mentally defective.
So you despise people that theorized there was a lab leak of COVID19? (hey that's another topic)
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I don't make ridiculous claims about WTC7 being 'demolitioned' or that explosives contributed at all to the collapse of the structures or that the government itself coordinated the hijackings etc etc.
It is not conspiracy to state that these men who carried out these hijackings/suicide missions were not appropriately dealt with by authorities prior to that fateful day.... even though some of them had been monitored by not only our intelligence service but ones in Europe as well.
If you want to despise me for saying that.... then so be it.
We used to do much of our more dangerous research on Plum Island to help reduce the consequences of a leak by making it improbable that an infected animal could reach the mainland.
Opinions, everybody has one like...something, something...eric76 said:It is.TheEternalPessimist said:
I don't believe 9/11 was faked or any of that jazz.....
...I do believe our intelligence services and key people in government knew that there was a threat with these 19-20 men ....... and that they did nothing substantial to stop them.
That is not a conspiracy theory.
And I despise all conspiracy theories with my entire soul and consider anyone who believes in them to be seriously mentally defective.
TheEternalPessimist said:
I don't believe 9/11 was faked or any of that jazz.....
...I do believe our intelligence services and key people in government knew that there was a threat with these 19-20 men ....... and that they did nothing substantial to stop them.
That is not a conspiracy theory.
Waffledynamics said:
One of the most horrifying things I've ever heard, right up there with this:
4:41 was the last words this man ever spoke.
Absolutely **** the perpetrators that did this. May they burn in agony in Hell forever.
eric76 said:It is.TheEternalPessimist said:
I don't believe 9/11 was faked or any of that jazz.....
...I do believe our intelligence services and key people in government knew that there was a threat with these 19-20 men ....... and that they did nothing substantial to stop them.
That is not a conspiracy theory.
And I despise all conspiracy theories with my entire soul and consider anyone who believes in them to be seriously mentally defective.