by professorpan » Wed May 10, 2006 4:32 pm
Thanks, DE, I'd forgotten about that one.<br><br>Let's not forget about the $20 bill:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/news/05172002.shtml">www.glennbeck.com/news/05172002.shtml</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>We can take all the examples of images that resonated (sometimes dramatically) with the WTC attack and come to several different conclusions.<br><br>One -- The Coup, Steve Jackson Games, The Lone Gunmen Pilot, and the creators of the $20 bill were privy to the 9/11 plot and embedded clues in diverse places. (Evidence? None)<br><br>Two -- Some of the above were in on the plot, some are coincidences. (Evidence? None)<br><br>Three -- It's all coincidence, synchronicity, Sheldrakian morphogenic fields, etc. (Some historical evidence)<br><br>Four -- The WTC towers are obvious symbolic targets of Western Capitalism/Imperalism/Consumerism/Whateverism, towering above arguably the most important and influential city on the planet. The idea of terrorists attacking major targets in the U.S. has been on the public radar screen for a decades, and the WTC was attacked by a bomb in 1993. (All assertions supported by evidence)<br><br>The idea that the U.S. government is not to be trusted, and would attack its own citizens to achieve dark aims related to a New World Order, has also been in the public consciousness, particularly in the realm of conspiracy researchers and (in the 90s) right wing militia groups. (Abundant evidence)<br><br>Creative artists (game designer Steve Jackson, rap group The Coup, the writers of the X-Files and Lone Gunmen), with their radar tuned to various conspiracy themes and ideas and current/contemporary history, independently create imagery showing the destruction of an obvious target of terrorists.<br><br>The writers of the Lone Gunmen pilot episode -- creative artists working in the field of conspiracy-themed entertainment -- come up with the idea of a secret cabal flying a remote-controlled plane into the WTC. After 9/11, X-Files and Lone Gunmen producer Frank Spotnitz says:<br><br>"That was such a disturbing thing. It was very upsetting. As I say in the DVD featurette, you write something like that, and you assume that if you can think of it, being a Hollywood writer, then somebody in the government has thought about it already."<br><br>And of course, people in the government *had* thought about it.<br><br>--<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-04-18-norad_x.htm">www.usatoday.com/news/was...orad_x.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>In the two years before the Sept. 11 attacks, the North American Aerospace Defense Command conducted exercises simulating what the White House says was unimaginable at the time: hijacked airliners used as weapons to crash into targets and cause mass casualties.<br>One of the imagined targets was the World Trade Center. In another exercise, jets performed a mock shootdown over the Atlantic Ocean of a jet supposedly laden with chemical poisons headed toward a target in the United States. In a third scenario, the target was the Pentagon — but that drill was not run after Defense officials said it was unrealistic, NORAD and Defense officials say.<br><br>--<br><br>And one last thing -- whoever you believe destroyed the WTC towers *picked them* for a reason. They were not selected randomly.<br><br>So take your pick of explanations. The obvious choice, supported by evidence, is that the iconic towers have been considered terrorist targets by many people pre-9/11, and, in fact, were bombed only 8 years before 9/11. It's to be expected that images and narratives about an attack on them would be found in art, especially anti-Capitalist or conspiracy-themed art.<br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>
