Conspiracy Theorists: 9/11

I first heard of 9/11 conspiracies when some French author published a book with a no planer theory. Than I saw In Plane Site and thought it was the most ridiculous thing. I was able to debunk both quickly.


I started discussing it with a group an Improv Comedy Forum. It was a bunch of nuts versus me and none of them wanted to hear rational arguments.
 
The first 9/11 conspiracy I ever heard was on some insane hate group message board in early 2002 (resist.com, or something like that), when a poster determined the real culprit was the Jewish-controlled government.
 
A point of perspective...

Throughout most of early 2001, conspiracy theorists were speculating that "something big" was coming soon. A few "friendly insiders" were contributing to RumorMillNews.com, and the (small at the time) online conspiracy community was poised for ... "something".

Conspiracy speculation related to PNAC and some N.E.S.A.R.A. nonsense began immediately. And in fact, the earliest theories involved a "faction war" among intelligence agencies, and not the Bush administration.

The people on my site were picking up on conspiracy speculation right away... but none of the early theories involved "no planes" or "controlled demolition"... the experienced conspiracy people were interested more in:
- foreknowledge and cover-up
- missed intelligence and cover-up
- potential covert maneuverings of Taliban to inspire Iraq invasion
- internal agency bickering and cover-up

Within six months of the attack, a long time conspiracy radio show guy we always thought was "way out there" warned us that really crazy theories would be surfacing soon, and all hell was going to break loose in 9/11 conspiracies.

Unfortunately, the early edition of our board during that time (running IkonBoard) crashed hard and all data was lost... but just about any "conspiracy theory" board that was up and running then contains similar discussions.

Then came the no-plane theories, controlled demotion, pods on the planes, and 9/11 Truth.

So... the Internet firestorm of 9/11 conspiracies began immediately, it's just that the online conspiracy theory community was small at the time, and not overrun by activists looking for a reason to be angry.
 
I think I first encountered the story about the 4000 Jews who didn't turn up to work that day - posted by one of the anti-semitic nuts who post regularly on Usenet. I considered it as part of the daft Jewish conspiracy family rather than a new area of its own. I pointed out how unlikely it was that Mossad would have a list of all the Jews at the WTC, and that it would somehow be able to contact them all on Jew-Net, and that this would not have leaked out somehow.

I looked up David Duke promoting the same theory, and this led to some of the other ideas.
 
Started back in 2003 when I searched out some info about WTC - found
PRISON PLANET and other CT nuts spewing usual mix of nonsense. Also
on USENET many of these nuts were also posting their idiotic rants -
in one group were trying to debate Vince Brannigan, professor of Fire
Science (and son of legendary fire fighter and structural analyst Frances
Brannigan). No matter how hard Vince would try to set the idiots straight
would come back with same nonsense (sound familar?). Came across
Screw Loose Change forum, when UNITED 93 came out last spring witnessed
how CT loons hijacked forum with their stupidity (CHIPMUNK STEW was
one of the few tring to beat back raising tide of stupidity). From there
found links to JREF and started reading here.
 
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