737 Crashes into World Trade Centre
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Yes very true.
It appears he did considering his last post was around 10 years ago.
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Oh really, thats good news.....I didn't read that one, will have another look.
You want crazy? On March 4, 2001 the 'pilot' episode of X-Files spinoff The Lone Gunmen aired. The plot concerned a section of the U.S Government who, eager for a new enemy to emerge ever since the Cold War ended, remotely hijacks a jet liner and attempts to crash it into the World Trade Centre, thereby inducing a state of perpetual warfare.
This is the episode.
Writer Frank Spotnitz would later state "We were really upset, and worried that somehow we had inspired the plot. But we were relieved to discover that the plot pre-dated The Lone Gunmen, and that 9/11 had nothing to do with our work. And then once we realized that, my next thought was how the government hadn't known about this plot. There have been a lot of conspiracy theories about the connection between 9/11 and The Lone Gunman, but none of them are true..."
- May 7, 2007
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Can we please keep the conspiracy theories for the conspiracy board. There is plenty of discussion to be had on the topic there if you want it.
This thread is a record of what happened on that fateful day.
Last year, this thread got moved to the conspiracy board and was locked almost immediately. Thankfully it was restored to it's rightful place.
This thread is a record of what happened on that fateful day.
Last year, this thread got moved to the conspiracy board and was locked almost immediately. Thankfully it was restored to it's rightful place.
Where have we been talking about conspiracies?
- May 7, 2007
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Ok, I succumb to the interrogation.
Maybe I should of said hinting at conspiracies.
Please forgive me.
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Just read the first page of this thread & and you should get an idea of the historical significance of this thread.
I just dont want to see it moved to the conspiracy board again.
I just dont want to see it moved to the conspiracy board again.
Geelong Sicko didn't seem to be hinting at conspiracies just found an eerier coincidence.
FPPF might have been but got no idea what they are talking about.
I'll trust your judgement!
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Whether someone believes this was a conspiracy or not, this thread is a reaction to the events that unfolded that day by the big footy community and should be kept as such.
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I still cant believe it was 14 years ago! I remember coming home about 9.30 central time & the first plane had just hit. I was glued to the TV for days watching it all unfold.
I remember turning to my son when the second plane hit and saying "thats just about WW3 right there m8". He would of been about 22 so I wasnt scaring a little tacker!.
Watching it unfold was chilling. It seems like yesterday.
I remember turning to my son when the second plane hit and saying "thats just about WW3 right there m8". He would of been about 22 so I wasnt scaring a little tacker!.
Watching it unfold was chilling. It seems like yesterday.
I included series writer Frank Spotnitz's comment to show that the conspiracy talk around that particular episode of The Lone Gunmen was groundless. It doesn't alter the fact that this episode was actually aired six or so months before the towers fell.
I promise you, I did not make any of this up.
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My premise is not to debate whether this was a conspiracy or not.
It is just to make sure this thread stays on the correct board for posterity.
If the conspiracy is debated here, the thread gets moved, locked and is lost.
It is just to make sure this thread stays on the correct board for posterity.
If the conspiracy is debated here, the thread gets moved, locked and is lost.
True enough
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Being only 4 at the time I remember my parents having others over and locking me out of the lounge room so that I couldn't watch the TV. I didn't entirely understand and kept trying to get a sneak peek. Horrifying really.
I wasn't suggesting it was a conspiracy theory or that remotely controlled planes were used.
I was merely pointing out that that technology exists and has been tested before.
I suppose it's touchy because there were a lot of innocent civilians on those flights, and ordinary office workers at the towers. And I know the argument logically extends to a question of "Well how much 'collateral damage' (their word) has the United States caused in all its wars and interventions and police actions and all the other euphemisms they can invent for military action?" and it's a fair point.
But still... people got touchy. And I understood that as well.
Fair points..but one wrong doesn't justify another. What happened was mass murder in cold blood with no remorse. It was calculated and brutal.
It's astonishing to go back and read the comments as it was happening and see how quickly people jumped to blame and vilify (the quick accusation that it was Saddam Hussein, the claims it was Palestinians, that September 11 was the anniversary of the Camp David Accords - not true, they were signed September 17, but it was the anniversary of the coup in Chile where the CIA supported the military to overthrow the democratically elected Allende Government and install the dictator Pinochet for the next 15 years). It's of little wonder that this tragedy was so quickly exploited to go to war in Iraq despite there having no involvement in the attack.
I don't think anyone here supports what happened, and if they did they're obviously a lunatic. But American/Western foreign policy has been severely off base for a long long time now, and there was an inevitability that someone would eventually hit an awful body blow. The tragedy of those who died on September 11 is immense, but those who have died since due to America's bungled response, and now the complete ruins that are left at the Middle East and the largest refugee crisis in Europe since the 1940s are greater.
I don't think anyone here supports what happened, and if they did they're obviously a lunatic. But American/Western foreign policy has been severely off base for a long long time now, and there was an inevitability that someone would eventually hit an awful body blow. The tragedy of those who died on September 11 is immense, but those who have died since due to America's bungled response, and now the complete ruins that are left at the Middle East and the largest refugee crisis in Europe since the 1940s are greater.
Yep, agreed. Two wrongs never make a right where innocent civilians are involved.
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I can remember as clear as day where I was and what I was doing on that day. Hard to comprehend it then, hard to comprehend it now. Can't believe it's been 14 years.
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I was on an international flight when this happened. In flight entertainment had just started to roll out at that time, and delayed coverage showed the planes hitting; It looked surreal, like a movie. With the worldwide terror alert that followed, my families' first overseas trip was shrouded by anxiety.
If I could think of all the worst places you could possibly be (besides New York) when you hear the news of 9/11, being in the middle of an international flight would easily be number 1. Must've been an incredibly stressful experience.
