p.m.a.
5th September 2007, 10:49
Like many other fringe concepts and hermeneutics, the Spectacle today has consumed and subsumed the notion of a conspiracy theory. The phrase brings negative connotations of pasty-skinned kids with tinfoil hats prattling on about UFOs and the new world order. But a conspiracy is merely a plan hatched in secrecy by a few people, to affect something on a larger scale. Conspiracies are often hatched in immediately hostile environments, and are forced into secrecy by threat of existence. In all parts of the left spectrum conspiracies have been important historical foils: from the Bolsheviks storming the Winter Castle, to every anarchist blowing up shit. These are plans, whose consequential implications are meant to affect society on a larger scale, hatched in secrecy by a few people.
Now, even the government-approved explanation of 9/11, the poorly written hole-ridden piece of shit, is technically still a conspiracy. They say a man on a dialysis machine in a cave in Afghanistan executed the whole ordeal with a computer and nineteen soldiers. These amateur pilots successfully conspired to take over four commercial airliners with a few boxcutters, and execute military flight maneuvers to fly them into the Twin Towers. But countless people, before and after the plane crashes, including many firemen (who were subsequently threatened by their unions to keep quiet), reported explosions, both seen and heard. Many of these are visible on the media coverage.
Now, as Marxists of varying persuasion, we pride ourselves on deriving our analysis from material reality, from economic factors, and from science. Any scientific observation of the Twin Towers will leave you with questions. If they claim that the fire was so hot that it could melt the 47 steel frames in each tower, why are people clearly seen on the floors around the plane crash? Why are there barely any flames coming from the tower, instead only plumes and clouds of dark smoke, a clear sign of an oxygen-deprived and thus barely-alive fire? Why was there molten steel in the sublevels of the tower over a month after the attack, and why were there traces of thermite, a common explosive used in controlled demolitions and the military? Why were thousands of putoption stocks (guaranteeing the decline of a stock's value) bought for UA, AA, and WTC in the days approaching 9/11, and why does the government refuse to inquire into the matter? How big of a coincidence is it that Marvin Bush was head of Securacom, the company that ran security for the WTC, and how strange that the weekend before 9/11, the towers were subject to 36-hour power-outs in the higher floors, and the bomb-sniffing dogs were pulled? Larry Silverstein bought the complex in the months before 9/11, on a contract that insured them $3bn against terrorist attacks. Not only was the WTC complex a tax-drain on the City of New York due to its ancient asbestos fireproofing, but Larry Silverstein successfully argued in court that each tower counted as a separate act of terrorism, thus winning over $7bn and an exclusive contract to rebuild the area. And finally, if you watch the towers, each falls exactly at Galileo's described free-fall speed, which would necessitate that when the top of the tower above the crash site began to topple, the bottom amalgamation of 47 steel frames and thousands of tonnes of concrete must've been pulverized immediately, to provide no resistance to the falling scraper. Never in the history of the modern world has a steel skyscraper fell from fire melting its support structure, even buildings that have been hit by planes and buildings that have burned 30x as long as the Towers did; but, on 9/11, we're expected to believe it happened three times.
Now, while I've always amused conspiracy theories based on UFOs and hollow-earth-living alien reptile overlords, of course my keen Marxist intuition has kept them as mere entertainment. But when trying to dismiss the 9/11 truth assertion, it's a lot harder. All that is just a tip of the iceberg of things that don't add up about the government story. And, furthermore, I know this isn't exactly a site full of people who believe the government anyway. States have been known to orchestrate terror attacks on their populace to rally support, and there are plenty of instances we all know of dirty politics. We know the bourgeoisie will stop at nothing to maintain its rule, because we've seen this a million times before. What if now we are in the end of a transitional period of capitalism? What if neoliberalism was a primary mode of the 1990s, and now neoconservativism is a reactionary attempt by the ruling class to maintain America's hegemony? China, India, and Iran are all rising fast, and Venezuela and South Korea are quickening too. The next fifty years, as David Harvey describes, will find America's dominance seriously threatened by burgeoning new capitalist economies. And oil was the only was for the Neocons to secure America's hegemony. In the face of a emerging supranational Empire (not an NWO, but instead of the Negri/Hardt description) loomed on the horizon of the 21st Century, so a new Pearl Harbor was exactly what was needed for a last stretch for 20th Century's formation of capital to remain in power. Thus, 9/11 was orchestrated not only to justify a war for virtual control of the world's oil spigot, but to instate new authoritarian policies in the domestic terrain. It's a class war accelerated in the 21st Century - and Marxists, and revolutionaries of all self-descriptions, to start exposing the lie, and using it as a tool to attack the state and spread revolutionary consciousness.
EDIT: Anyone willing to consider the possibility should watch 9/11 Mysteries: Controlled Demolition (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8129564295534231536), available for free, for an indepth look at the Towers.
Now, even the government-approved explanation of 9/11, the poorly written hole-ridden piece of shit, is technically still a conspiracy. They say a man on a dialysis machine in a cave in Afghanistan executed the whole ordeal with a computer and nineteen soldiers. These amateur pilots successfully conspired to take over four commercial airliners with a few boxcutters, and execute military flight maneuvers to fly them into the Twin Towers. But countless people, before and after the plane crashes, including many firemen (who were subsequently threatened by their unions to keep quiet), reported explosions, both seen and heard. Many of these are visible on the media coverage.
Now, as Marxists of varying persuasion, we pride ourselves on deriving our analysis from material reality, from economic factors, and from science. Any scientific observation of the Twin Towers will leave you with questions. If they claim that the fire was so hot that it could melt the 47 steel frames in each tower, why are people clearly seen on the floors around the plane crash? Why are there barely any flames coming from the tower, instead only plumes and clouds of dark smoke, a clear sign of an oxygen-deprived and thus barely-alive fire? Why was there molten steel in the sublevels of the tower over a month after the attack, and why were there traces of thermite, a common explosive used in controlled demolitions and the military? Why were thousands of putoption stocks (guaranteeing the decline of a stock's value) bought for UA, AA, and WTC in the days approaching 9/11, and why does the government refuse to inquire into the matter? How big of a coincidence is it that Marvin Bush was head of Securacom, the company that ran security for the WTC, and how strange that the weekend before 9/11, the towers were subject to 36-hour power-outs in the higher floors, and the bomb-sniffing dogs were pulled? Larry Silverstein bought the complex in the months before 9/11, on a contract that insured them $3bn against terrorist attacks. Not only was the WTC complex a tax-drain on the City of New York due to its ancient asbestos fireproofing, but Larry Silverstein successfully argued in court that each tower counted as a separate act of terrorism, thus winning over $7bn and an exclusive contract to rebuild the area. And finally, if you watch the towers, each falls exactly at Galileo's described free-fall speed, which would necessitate that when the top of the tower above the crash site began to topple, the bottom amalgamation of 47 steel frames and thousands of tonnes of concrete must've been pulverized immediately, to provide no resistance to the falling scraper. Never in the history of the modern world has a steel skyscraper fell from fire melting its support structure, even buildings that have been hit by planes and buildings that have burned 30x as long as the Towers did; but, on 9/11, we're expected to believe it happened three times.
Now, while I've always amused conspiracy theories based on UFOs and hollow-earth-living alien reptile overlords, of course my keen Marxist intuition has kept them as mere entertainment. But when trying to dismiss the 9/11 truth assertion, it's a lot harder. All that is just a tip of the iceberg of things that don't add up about the government story. And, furthermore, I know this isn't exactly a site full of people who believe the government anyway. States have been known to orchestrate terror attacks on their populace to rally support, and there are plenty of instances we all know of dirty politics. We know the bourgeoisie will stop at nothing to maintain its rule, because we've seen this a million times before. What if now we are in the end of a transitional period of capitalism? What if neoliberalism was a primary mode of the 1990s, and now neoconservativism is a reactionary attempt by the ruling class to maintain America's hegemony? China, India, and Iran are all rising fast, and Venezuela and South Korea are quickening too. The next fifty years, as David Harvey describes, will find America's dominance seriously threatened by burgeoning new capitalist economies. And oil was the only was for the Neocons to secure America's hegemony. In the face of a emerging supranational Empire (not an NWO, but instead of the Negri/Hardt description) loomed on the horizon of the 21st Century, so a new Pearl Harbor was exactly what was needed for a last stretch for 20th Century's formation of capital to remain in power. Thus, 9/11 was orchestrated not only to justify a war for virtual control of the world's oil spigot, but to instate new authoritarian policies in the domestic terrain. It's a class war accelerated in the 21st Century - and Marxists, and revolutionaries of all self-descriptions, to start exposing the lie, and using it as a tool to attack the state and spread revolutionary consciousness.
EDIT: Anyone willing to consider the possibility should watch 9/11 Mysteries: Controlled Demolition (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8129564295534231536), available for free, for an indepth look at the Towers.