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9/11 Deniers pissing on graves once again
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This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes. 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers. A Must Read. |
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Thinker
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The comments alone are rediculous.....
Seems like every time I think I've seen the worst side of these conspiracy theorists, I see something like this that makes them appear to sink even lower. |
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Join Date: Sep 2006
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I just love the way you guys buy the official packages. It's so.....so.....how shall I put it???? Conventional? Conservative? How 'bout Faithful? Trusting?
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The Spikey Mace of Love and Mercy
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The Spikey Mace of Love and Mercy
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Every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life. I♥NY You gotta love cops. |
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: the land of make-believe
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Re: the "boxcutters aren't dangerous" thing -
First of all, I note with regret the complete lack of CTists offering to demonstrate the ineffectiveness of "box cutters" as weapons. They should have no problem whatsoever being strapped unarmed into a chair in a confined space and left to fight off a couple or three adrenaline-fueled attackers armed only with box cutters and a furious god on their side. Ask any prison guard how comfortable they would be issuing box cutters along with prison uniforms. Prisoners have infamously fashioned quite lethal weapons for who knows how many years from plastic combs, toothbrush handles, even sharpened bones from T-bones and pork chops. The idea that you need some sort of huge Crocodile Dundee / Rambo knife to be utterly deadly is one that obviously comes from leading a sheltered life. Second, in the mid 1990s, I used to carry something very similar to this. Once upon a time, I had to take a family member to the airport. In those days, you could go through security and wait at the boarding gate without a boarding pass or ticket. I got up to the security station and remembered my knife. I asked the screener if I needed to leave it with him or go back and return it to my car, fully prepared to relenquish it permanently rather than cause a fuss or undue alarm. The screener looked at it for about 3 seconds and told me to just put it in the bucket with my keys and continue on through. That's anecdotal to be sure, but there's no reason to believe that it would have been impossible or even especially unlikely for the 9/11 hijackers to have been armed with more "traditional" knives. Not that it makes a damned bit of difference anyway. I'm sure the galley was well stocked with forks and knives and other pointy things that could have been just as dangerous. |
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And actually, when you think of a utility knife, you think of the little blade pointing out 1/2 an inch or less. You know, how you'd use it for practical purposes like cutting a box. But most of them you can extend out a good 4-5 inches and they're very sharp; they have to be to make precision cuts. Those would make very dangerous and substantial weapons.
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The Onmyouza Theatre, An unofficial international fanclub forum dedicated to the Japanese heavy metal band Onmyo-Za: "In the interests of time and space, it is not unreasonable to cite one point at a time. Citing 30 is the equivalent of citing none. Obviously." - Robert Prey "Physical evidence must be observed and interpreted by witnesses which makes it subjective and subject to mistakes and to fraud." - Robert Prey |
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The Spikey Mace of Love and Mercy
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All this talk about how dangerous a boxcutter actually is is really beside the point, though, isn't it?
The only hijacked flight in history in which passengers rushed the hijackers was the one in which the passengers knew that it was their only option--flight 93. And guess what? The hijackers on that flight were armed with boxcutters and mace. And yet, it didn't stop the passengers once they'd made up their minds. So boxcutters aren't all that dangerous after all...that is, not if you know that it's all that stands between you and the possibility of avoiding certain death. |
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That and the bombs did not exist. The hijackers KNEW that if it was just boxcutters, the passengers might rush in. However, to create fake explosives on your body and say "we have a bomb"...no one is really going to touch you unless they knew they were going to die anyways.
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Penultimate Amazing
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Were there not fake bombs as well?
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I have a couple of dogs that are faithful and trusting. So my reading of your remarks is that you are likening those that don't subscribe to your insanity to dogs.
You pathetic attempts to do so and not condemn this type of nonsense invalidate your opinions. Had you the slightest shred of humanity you would quickly and swiftly condemn this. But I guess your obedience to your CT masters stops you from doing so. |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Apr 2003
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The guys who make jokes about plastic knives never went shopping at BudK.:
http://budk.com/product.asp?pn=CHP http://budk.com/product.asp_Q_pn_E_CS92FBB http://budk.com/product.asp_Q_pn_E_CS92FTP Or ever heard of plastic products like Grivory, or Zytel. |
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Every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life. I♥NY You gotta love cops. |
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Join Date: May 2004
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As you say, it wasn't just "boxcutters," it was also utillity knives, probable fake bombs, and mace. There was also the psychological impact of stabbing and, in some cases, killing passengers, and crew members. An important fact that some overlook is that according to the calls placed to AA and UA, by the crews and those of the passengers, in some cases, the pilots were already dead. How likely would it be that the passengers would want to rush the hijackers when, as far as they know, the only pilot alive on board is one of the hijackers? Especially the people on the on the flights 11 175 and 77.
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I've been involved in a lot of cults, both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower, but you make more money as a leader.--Creed, "The Office" The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be only found in the minds of men. Prejudices and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own.--Rod Serling |
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Just rememeber: D.B. Cooper didn't even have a boxcutter.
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I mean, there's a lot of other motivators for not wanting to take the plane back, like, in addition to what's been mentioned, being conditioned by the media and entertainment industries to always stay calm and quiet and let the professional authorities negotiate and handle the situation for you.
But still, they always seem to imply that none of the highjackings should have been successful because boxcutters are the equivelant of a Muslim slapstick comic with a floppy fish and beef jerky duct taped to an alarm clock. It's pretty offensive for people to make it seem that the possibility of hijackers using boxcutters, which are actually long, sharp blades, pretty dangerous weapons, is laughable and a joke. It's not, those things can cut you wide open, they're very dangerous. |
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Downsitting Citizen
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This is an excerpt from my new Loose Change Guide, which will be released...sometime.
Avery is not alone in his hero-delusions, in which real men don’t take guff from armed terrorists. James Fetzer, the unhinged co-chair of the conspiracy group Scholars for 9/11 Truth, said on camera at a conference in Los Angeles that if the hijackers were real, “American” passengers would have beaten them to death with their luggage. Therefore, the hijackers were not real. The crowd found this statement amusing. Perhaps in his senescence he’s forgotten that the hijackers told the passengers they had bombs on board, and that prior to 9/11, the rule was to cooperate with hijackers in order to get the plane on the ground safely. Perhaps he’s also forgetting that real American heroes took action on board flight 93, and gave their lives that others might live. How about Loose Change Forum Administrator “JohnDoeX,” who claims to be an airline pilot on leave due to stress, which accounts for the time he has to make up to 200 posts per day on that forum. Pilots who’ve read and posted to that forum have cast serious doubt on the idea that Mr. DoeX has piloted large passenger planes, as does this post of his (typos not corrected):
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Keeper of the Kool-Vax
Join Date: Jul 2006
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awesome, as always Gravy. Keep up the fantastic work.
TAM |
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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A big THANK YOU!
Years ago (pre 9/11) I saw some knives like that. When 9/11 happened and they mentioned plastic knives that was the first thing I thought of, not the hobby knives that everyone talks about. I tried to look for them on the net but couldn't find them. Thanks for pointing them out. Steve S. |
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Orthogonal Vector
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Mabey, I have not handeled to many of them and those that I have I was unimpressed with their cutting ability. But I have seen stabing demonstrations that led me to believe that that could to real harm to someone.
Call the mythbusters? Personaly anyone who downplays the threat of a weapon should get a chance to back up their words, unfortunately such duels are not legal. |
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That was funny.
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Master Poster
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A previous post of mine on the boxcutter issue:
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I'm not really into all those CT details, what is the official story about those boxcutters etc ? What equipment did they have on-board ?
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Join Date: Sep 2006
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I thought that there was one section that was pretty funny on that thing though; the hostages. ^^
"Amhed Al Bean" I nearly pissed myself at that. But anyway, to the point of the topic: If they wanted, they could have taken over the plane with ballpoint pens. (In primary school another student stabbed me in the neck with one and I nearly died; trust me, a bunch of terrorists could do it too :P) But the fact that they threatened the passengers with a bomb should be evidence enough that the Loosers look for another tree to bark up. |
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Taken over the plane with ballpoint pens.. oh yes very realistic. On my school there was a guy who burned me with a lighter. Nobody would expect I kicked him into all corners of the class, even the teacher's jaws were dropping because I was the silent student.
What's your life worth if your life will end? And psychologically seen, what will happen in panic situations, from a psychologist I've heard that there are 3 possibilities, - Total chaos because of adrenaline, you are going to attack, you will do it - You stiffen by fear, you can do nothing. - You want to escape. |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Quite a bit, as was proved on United 93.
However, nobody on the other planes had any reason to think that their lives were about to end just because they had been hijacked. I'm sure this has been pointed out many, many times. I wonder why it doesn't seem to be sinking in. |
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