Well I would consider myself politically aware.  And I certainly did not seriously consider a conspiracy was involved in bringing down the buildings.

I did find it surprising that two high rises collapsed into their own foot print.  And indeed that either building collapsed completely or even partially at all.

But to believe that factions of the government could successfully carry out a massive conspiracy and throughout the planning, setup, execution and subsequent cover up required --- that not only did it go off flawlessly or near flawlessly, but in secrecy to this day.

But the government laid out the "flawed" internal structure and floor design for the twin towers.  I thought it a brilliant design, and still do.  But the internal column construction...I just could not fathom how it collapsed in upon itself.  

I suspect a good five years or more passed with me not believing my doubts over-weighed the general official version until I saw "Loose Change."  I watch it three times...sometimes slowing things down, sometimes watching certain segments several times.

Then I started looking at other things.  I hate to admit ignorance but I had never heard of the third building that collapsed into its own footprint that day WTC7. 

I had never looked at the Pentagon closely before --- and UAL pilot Russ Wittenberg is the one who convinced me by saying he could not have flown that jet in the manner a really bad Cessna pilot with no landing training did in a way that defied both the laws of physics, as well as greatly exceeding the structural design capabilities of the aircraft.  But I am getting ahead of myself.

Those interior columns simply cannot have been reduced to powder and simultaneously collapsed with the outside floors. Sorry that violates the laws of physics if only some structural damage, low temperature fires and gravity are involved.  By themselves they simply cannot have accounted for the center column disintegration --- let alone multiplied by three buildings.  Some other man made outside force must have been present to utterly destroy all three buildings at the speed of a falling object.  Something that would have been planted throughout all three buildings over a good deal of time without raising suspicion. 

Unfortunately when you start investigating both the numerous "coincidences" that took place, and also the people known to be involved in various facets of the buildings and operations the coincidences mount to the point of incredulity that it would not make a Hollywood movie script because it is so unbelievable.  Government entities can release all the statements and reports that they wish.  But no government entity can overrule the laws of physics.

911 was an inside job planned and executed by some of the most powerful figures in government and outside government with the deliberate intent to kill thousands of people to get us involved in wars in the Middle East to get their wealth, to destroy our civil liberties to subjugate us and to rob our labor for the military industrial complex.  It succeeded.  The US population wildly applauds the war, the "security" and even defend the taxation and borrowing as a necessity to fund these two prior activities.  America is done.  The NWO is out in the open now.  And we cheer and beg to have some more.

Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees. The real conspiracy behind 9/11, which continues to this day, is to foist mass Muslim immigration on the U.S. and simultaneously refuse to ideologically screen for those showing signs of radicalization, letting them go on an infidel-hunting safari at will until it's too late. Maybe 9/11 was like the JFK assassination where they used Oswald as a patsy and dummy corporation in order to foist a regime change and New World order on the American people. If so, they had plenty of radical Muslims running around in the U.S. for it, didn't they? Does the govt. pay for something unless it's satisfied with the results, or is that only for consumers? :) Thus I suspect that real Muslims were piloting the planes, but that govt. agents rigged the bldgs. to go in order to escalate the damage and use it as an excuse to invade Iraq. Bush learned how to play the game from FDR probably.

But a few thousand infidel deaths out of 300 million is ultimately insignificant if the rest are still threatened. Unless and until the govt. starts singling the Muslim pop. of the U.S. out as potential dangerous political enemies, and ideologically profiles them along with all Muslims trying to enter the U.S., the war on terror is a joke, and the U.S. has lost. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to detect a radicalized Muslim, and the Constitution is not a suicide pact, so it's not unconstitutional to separate purely religious Muslims from those who have stepped over the line into the 7th cent. world domination form of Islam that gave the Western world hell for over a thousand years. The U.S. must make a decision now before Crotch Bombers become a daily occurrence. Only radicalized Muslims would strap a bomb into their crotch and set it off to receive Allah's promise of paradise for killing infidels, so playing the game that heightened security measures need to be used on non-Muslims is irrational and suicidal and must end, no matter who is president. Worse, all Muslims are constantly under pressure to go radical every time they read the Quran, and many are probably secretly radical, but haven't shown the signs, not that the govt. is keeping score yet.

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 Very thoughtful article. Indeed, we have only started to taste what 9/11 was all about. Endless, exhausting and scary wars...attacks on personal freedoms (especially in the USA)...U.S. financial collapse...official neglect of non-terrorist large-scale criminal activities such as corporate fraud...

Who placed the order for 9/11? Who has the power to get not only the U.S. government, but virtually all important institutions worldwide, to be part of the cover-up? Indeed, university professors asked about Dave Hodges' questions 8 and 9 by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth try hard to run away; what are they afraid of? Even governments with a supposed vested interest in a major U.S. political crisis (Cuban, Venezuelan, Iranian, North Korean) have essentially endorsed the official conspiracy theory.

Even Saddam evidently preferred to lose his comfortable job--and his life--rather than spill the 9/11 beans from his bully pulpit in the weeks prior to the Iraq war. What motivated him to make this sacrifice? Similarly, then-president of French government Chirac could have grabbed the Iraqi oil by opening his big mouth on 9/11; he preferred to relinquish its control to U.S. and British corporations. What convinced him of losing the Iraqi black gold?

Throughout the summer of 2007, the Bush administration threatened a repeat of 9/11, with more shock and more awe. Today, Obama emphasizes that the 9/11 conspirators will launch another attack if he does not amplify the Afghan war; could he be right? Has he been threatened by the 9/11 conspirators?

So many questions, so few answers.

If one is familiar with physics and logic, it is transparently clear that planes brought down the WTC, and that the ONLY way that the buildings could have collapsed is into their own footprint.  If you knew anything about physics, you would know that there is almost zero ways to take out a large part of the upper floors of a modern high rise and not have it collapse into its own footprint.  It really is basic physics.  You could actually do the basic research on line and read the papers.   But that would require actual effort, and it is so much easier to just believe the rumor mongers.

Now for the "And the warning proved prophetic as Jones was fired after publishing his results. "

Like almost all other statements in this article, this one is a lie. Jones was NOT fired, he was put on paid administrative leave, and then he retired four months later.     Oh... such great pain.  How could any person possibly stand it? 

Now if you want a laugh 

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/11818067/the_low_post_the_hopeless_stupidity_of_911_conspiracies