Now they're saying that all the people who died on the airplanes didn't die, because nobody in their small community of perpetual undergraduates personally knows anyone who died on the flights.
I'm not good at the math, so I can't even understand all this stuff about "Terminal Velocity" and "Free Fall Speeds." I had the lowest grades in math in the history of New York's elite Stuyvesant High School, and my assistant principal's reaction to that was to try and ship me to Automotive High School on the belief that if a student was not the new Fermat, he was scum.
However, I may not know math, but I can understand the humanities. And I find such prattle disgusting, crass, and boorishly insensitive.
These folks did not die? Why are their relatives still in mourning and pain?
These folks did not die? So where are they? How were they rounded up and sorted out? Who did this? What were these people told? Were they taken to Babi Yar and shot? Were these flights and their passengers picked at random? How were their last phone calls faked?
And yes, I do know of someone who died on Flight 77...the wife of the Solicitor General of the United States...admittedly the friend of a friend, but that woman is that friend's boss in the Department of Justice. The government is this cavalier with its high-ranking officials and their families?
A central thread of these Loose Changers and all conspiracy theorists is that behind the government folks who sit at their desks and do their jobs is a fairly large army of harder government people, with neither emotions nor empathy, who obediently participate in all kinds of horrific and highly illegal acts at the behest of their supervisors, out of rote obedience, religious obeisance, or conspiratorial oath. Then these villains, having done their dirty work, remain silent forever.
I guess they analogize it to Nazi Germany, but that doesn't work...during and after the war, numerous participants in the Holocaust admitted their misdeeds and evils. Rudolf Hoess, commandant of Auschwitz, wrote his memoirs, revealing himself to be a cold, unemotional killer. Other Nazi bigwigs like Otto Ohlendorf and Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski testified as to their acts in postwar trials. Adolf Eichmann wrote his memoirs, which even said that Hitler gave the verbal order to Himmler to kill all the Jews. They knew it happened, and they provided the evidence for future generations of scholars to study. There is no such "evidence" to confirm the Loose Changer theories.
I think they actually see the world as a continuing James Bond movie, in which supervillains with armies of flunkies carefully and secretly arrange the world's destruction, to achieve their nefarious dreams, and only the lone all-knowing, handsome hero, battling his own leadership as well as the evil genius, can solve the mystery, and defeat the super-villain -- preferably in hand-to-hand combat amid his flaming headquarters -- and save humanity.
These guys see themselves as modern-day Byrons or Greek heroes, the sole defense of civilization against Blofeld and Goldfinger. They're not old enough to realize that James Bond is fiction, and so are most conspiracy theories.
The sheer waste of energy is incredible.
