I Believe I Will Just Have Another Beer

It finally happened. I downloaded and watched "Loose Change 2nd Edition". If you have not watched this video, you should. It is 1 1/4 hours long, but it is free. You CAN buy it on DVD, or you can click the link and watch it for free.

Now I am a big fan of conspiracy theories. Some of them are so crazy that you have to sit back and wonder why the LSD you hooked up with was never as good as the LSD other people were able to get. There are some theories that are so out there, it makes the super massive black hole in the middle of our galaxy seem like it is only a few miles away. This is why I am a big fan of them. The humor value some of these theories hold.

But then there is Loose Change. I have never been too keen on the 9-11 conspiracy theories myself. For one, there is the physical evidence. Missing planes. Missing people. Missing buildings. AA and UA planes *DID* crash, or at least vanish, on this day. If the jets used were cargo planes, then you would have more wiggle room to claim that the government used drones, as cargo planes have only enough crew on board to fly the plane - and no cabin crew. So there would only be a few people to buy off, or scare into keeping their mouth shut.

But a passenger plane is another story. These planes usually have people on board. Full flight crews. Passengers. Suddenly, you have to accept that hundreds of families have sold out or were otherwise made an offer they can not refuse. This scenario is more and more unlikely as the number of people involved increases. People squeal.

Here is the biggest flaw of all government conspiricy theories. The government is very large. something like 9-11 would require A LOT of people to not squeal. How much do you want to believe that the government is nothing but pure evil? To believe all of a conspiricy theory, you have to accept that the people at the top - from whatever party happens to be in power - are evil.

And another problem is you have to believe that the government, and the people running it now (mostly the guy at the top) can tie their shoes without the help of an instructional DVD. More likely with the people at the very top of the government is that they hire someone to tie their shoes for them, as the golden people should never have to do anything as mundane as this. Plus, shoelaces are close to the ground and dirty. Cant have the golden people putting their hands on something that might hit the floor! That is what Mexicans are for. No offence to any Mexicans reading this, but honestly a lot of rich people in America really do feel this way. Do you think that ANY rich person has EVER unclogged their own toilet? Hell no. They might have to touch the dirty plunger! Toilet water might slosh onto them! The horror!

Evidence of this, if you want to consider it evidence, can be found in the recently disclosed (leaked) list of demands Vice President Cheney sends to hotels he might stay in. There was really nothing on the list that I would consider to be over the top - in fact the list seems rather reasonable. Sprite for him, and for his wife Perrier. A private toilet for him. No big deal. It is not like he demands $6,000 a bottle scotch or anything. But there is one strange thing on the list - the request to have all TVs turned to Fox News. I can change channels on the TV. Everyone reading this can change channels on the TV. Hell, even my cat changes channels on the TV when he walks over the remote control (I think on purpose - the cat knows how to make me get up and feed it). But it seems the VP can't change channels on his own. That or he does not want to touch the same TV knob that a common person might have touched. Why, the cleaning staff might have touched that very same TV knob! Poor people germs might get on him!

So I am not a big fan of 9-11 theories.

But then I saw Loose Change. It brings up some stuff, and then presents somewhat credible evidence to back it. Interviews of firefighters. News reel footage. The lack of wreckage at the Pentagon because the plane "vaporized from the heat" yet jet fuel does not burn hot enough to melt titanium or steel let alone vaporize it. The fact that other skyscraper fires, some larger than the ones on 9-11, did not collapse buildings. The reports from FDNY crews of "secondary explosions". And so on. Is it possible for a jet engine - designed to withstand, contain, and make use of a jet fuel fire to simply melt and burn away because of a jet fuel fire? If so, how is it possible that the jet engine can not burn up during normal use? How can jets fly?

And really - there have been few if any answers to some of the things presented. Like why could the black boxes supposedly not be found when they are made to survive crashes - but passports from the terrorists were found? Maybe we should start making passports from hard metals and black boxes from paper. And so on.

And of course there were other parts of it that I just found to be too "out there" to go for. I will not disclose exactly what parts, I will let you decide that on your own.

So if you have not seen it, give it a whirl. Listen to what the film has to say. Then after it is over, decide what you think.

As for me - what I think is that I will just have a beer and try not to think. I do not believe everything the film tries to present, like I said before some parts are just too out there. But if even one thing is true, or even semi-true - the government is indeed criminal, and people need to stand trial for war crimes. People that speak English as their primary language. That is IF anything is true. Notice how if is in all caps.

I do not think we will ever know about the if. Clearly, not all the story is available to the public because some of it is "classified". And without all the evidence, it is impossible to know exactly why 9-11 happened. Government conspiracy? Attacks from the clear blue sky? Godzilla? Maybe it was Marvin The Martian and his Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator. Without all the evidence - even the classified stuff and the security camera footage from businesses around the Pentagon that the FBI confiscated - conspiracy theories will not go away. Nor can they be totally discredited. Here lies the problem. Not all of the conspiracy theories can be discredited without the standard "the film maker has a bias" line. The melting point of steel and titanium, and the heat jet fuel creates when it is burning has no bias.

So there you have it. My official opinion on Loose Change is that some of it could be true, while other parts are probably not true. So because some parts are probably not true do you just ignore the parts that could be true?

I will leave that up to you. Watch it. HERE IS THE LINK AGAIN.