Six months prior to 9/11...

[Subdivisions]

An interesting coincidence...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIZ205ccX8M

[Ohio Joe]

1. I can't see videos on my POS computer...

Any chance of a summary?

[LARED]

2. You are not missing much

It's an outtake from an X file show where two guys are talking about a airliner attack on NYC. Of course it is part of a conspiracy orchestrated by the government. After all it is the X files.

[Ohio Joe]

3. That wasn't the X-Files

That was The Lone Gunmen. Chris Carter is in on it you know :rofl:

[Bolo Boffin]

4. It wasn't just an airliner attack on NYC

The plane was set to crash into the World Trade Center itself.

And there are other instances in popular culture. One of Stephen King's Bachman books has the same scenario, though the target is not the World Trade Center but the skyscraper headquarters of a soulless media empire.

This shows us one of the more silly statements to come out of the government, though. The "failure of imagination" wasn't on Hollywood's side, or on Al Qaeda's, for that matter. And the Bush Administration certainly showed no lack of imagination when it came to conjuring up WMD programs in Saddam's hands.

Personally, I think there was a failure of motivation as well here. I know that gets me perilously close to LIHOP-land or its neighbor LSHOP (let something happen on purpose). Until some documentation of the position come forward (like an enshrinement of the "bring it, and then we'll use it to invade Iraq" mentality before 9/11), it's all unprovable and yet plausible enough against the backdrop of actual government conspiracies, especially the ones that senior Bush Administration officials were involved in up to their eyeballs ever since Watergate.

I got some summer reading done - can you tell? :D "Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11" by Kathryn Olmsted. It's a great overview of the place of conspiracy theories in American politics. A really nice book, one I would recommend in college courses as side reading.

[Theobald]

5. Crazy, but that's how it goes, millions of people living as fools.

[scott75]

8. So many things to think about..

..they generally don't find the time to seriously look at 9/11. But many people are suspicious of what happened on that day. I think the only thing keeping the lid on the thing is the mass media, which doggedly sticks to the official story and ridicules people who don't follow the party line on it. But even some movies are becoming more openly suspicious of official stories; there was that movie based on a true story with Angelina Jolie about how, after her son went missing, the police gave her an orphan or something of that nature to replace him; but she, ofcourse, knew that it wasn't her son.

There are definitely some (I include myself) who, after having examined a lot of evidence, are not buying the official story and won't be satisfied until all the questions we have have been resolved.

[SDuderstadt]

9. Yeah, well in another 40+ years...

you'll be like those pathetic JFK buffs who've wasted a half century of their lives setting up embarrassing card tables proclaiming JFK was actually killed by his driver. And all because, you just ''can't buy the 'official story' ''.

[trumanh59639]

6. Spooky

I'm no CTist, but that's definitely strange.

[scott75]

7. I wouldn't be surprised if...

I wouldn't be surprised if the person who wrote that script knew or atleast had heard of what was going to happen; if not it was an -immense- coincidence. Perhaps someone should try to find out who wrote that script and try to contact them.

[SDuderstadt]

10. I've heard that everyone who's tried to contact...

the scriptwriter has wound up myteriously dying. Don't you think the ''PTB'' can get to anyone?

[defendandprotect]

11. Did you watch that program at the time?