galanter wrote:The less obvious conspiracy theory is that Flight 77 is a red herring. Some "investigators" are now opining that Flight 77 really did plow into the side of the Pentagon (or the synthesized/photoshopped version of the story), and the cabal is letting time pass...letting conspiratorial expectations grow...letting the story reach Fox and CNN....and then BAM! The Fed's release the tapes and they show exactly what "they" have been saying all along.
And the entire 9/11 conspiracy theory factory is undermined.
This double reverse conspiracy theory is very clever. Now the conspiracy movement has inoculated itself, and if the video tapes get released and they show Flight 77 plowing into the Pentagon...well that just proves that the conspiracy is in full effect!!
Ain't dat sump'in?
That's a classic trick, and one of the best-known examples of this might be the Alient Autopsy tapes. I'm not saying I believe anything about anything (and you know that about me by now, I trust) but if you look at the hypothetical, if there *were* aliens that the US govt had knowledge of, dating back to the era of the detonation of the first atomic bombs as the story goes, sure they would want it kept on the down-low. And what better way to leave the general public where we are today-- which is that many if not most people believe that aliens at least *could* or *should* exist, regardless of whether or not we've met them, though anybody who believes it (especially if vehemently) is shunned as a fruitcake whackjob-- than to put out proof of the conspiracy (the Alien Autopsy tape) and then so readily pull the rug out from under it?
Classic technique!
Well Phil, I don't know whether you'll get it from bob, but from me, here's a big "right on" for what seems like your measured consideration of more alternative and less accepted perspectives. I think it's good that everyone consider as many angles as are conceivable, even if they're not the most plausible or the most Occum's-Razor-friendly.
Sometimes I wonder if I shoulda taken that job the FBI guy was pushing on me back in '99. I can't even being to imagine how different my life might be right now.