Well let me thank you for your insight and very rational, heart-felt retort. It starts to feel like a madhouse when surrounded by people who are just desperate to fight reason, logic, and even the laws of nature.

Glad I could lighten the mood for you even if only slightly and momentarily. I'm sure it had to be a difficult anniversary for you, being so close and personally touched by it all.

Cheers.

In reply to this comment by thesnipe:
Thank you for your contribution to this post, it made me feel like I wasn't alone in my thoughts and gave me a very much needed laugh today

-Anthony NREMT-B Hoboken, NJ

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Oh, right. The genious hypothesis...

You know.. I used to think conspiracy theorists were nuts also... but once I saw Bush state that he watched the first plane crash into the North tower then later an agent came in telling him the 2nd plane hit that did it for me. That's what got me to launch my own investigation into 9/11. I'm still unsure about what really happened of course, but I've seen too many nasty things done by the powerhead figures in this and other countries, too many scandals, too much mindblowing government waste. It seems to all make sense. Check out what these people in government positions have to say about 9/11: http://patriotsquestion911.com/
and http://www.pilotsfor911truth.org/

CP

hey friend, I'm sorry if this hurts, but I hate seeing those heroes that are claiming they heard explosions being called liars and when Rodriguez helped a man that had his skin burned off from one of these explosions, and ppl are calling him a liar it pisses me off a bit.

You were inside the tower also?.. where were you in relation to the twin towers when the attack happened?... when did you appear on the scene?.. I know the manhattan area.. I used to live on 89th st.

I'm not claiming that I know for sure what happened. If you all want me to shutup about here, then fine. I'm not exactly making any friends by holding this viewpoint and personally I hope you all are correct and I'm wrong but some things just don't add up and it bothers the hell out of me. If the government wouldn't be so secretive, suppress full and independant investigations, withhold/alter/destroy evidence then I would have never even considered foulplay, but with all this and hearing testimony of account from firsthand responders like that of Mr. Rodriguez while they refused to use his testimony in the release of the analysis, what the hell is one supposed to think?

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"So, what do you think about the firefighters and that head janitor that went through the north tower.. he's claiming that a bomb went off about several seconds before the plane hit.. and also claims of people being hurt by some of these explosions... at the base levels.. I'm not making this up.. they were there 1st hand ... reports of multiple explosions from the hero firefighters.. they must be crazy loons huh? What the hell is wrong with you ppl? I suppose you can't get out of the denial phase. This was all over CSPAN two days ago."

I was there too, first hand so don't go disputing the obvious. It's so nice to sit back and think that some guy on youtube has the facts of a conspiracy to demolish a building from a structural engineer standpoint. For this one claim of people saying they heard explosions there are HUNDREDS of others who dispute it first hand. Ya know people who call 9-1-1 reporting that there are gunshots when in fact their neighbor just lit off a firecracker, it's the same damn syndrome. I know people who were there from t minus 1 hour, 99% know what they saw and heard, they decide to stand next to reason as oppossed to claims from some whackjobs without the proper intelligence to analyze an incident that the most elite of our engineers and physicists struggle to determine the magnitude of. Lucky isn't making any shit up, if reason and physics is shit, then your personal attacks stand to clarify your comments at shit as well.

Is it THAT hard to believe that actual physics could come into play and bring down a building exposed to the trauma that WTC 7 did? Noooo it's some secret explosive technology developed in some dark ass lab by engineers who were disgruntled by normal existing technologies and contractors in the field of demolition. And don't start calling me out on the heroism of the firefighters that may have seen or heard these "explosions", I was there and know the agony and display of heroism EVERY single fireman/police officer and EMT went through. In the heat of the moment what a minority of what people think they see and heard can easily be misinterpreted.

Ya know what it probably is, all the people who were there were brainwashed as well by another secret government only technology. That would explain why I, and the hundreds of emergency response workers that were with me want to debunk this conspiracy theory.

Oh yeah and if something I said doesn't make perfect sense, excuse me but it's a difficult day for those who are busy paying respects to the friends and comrades they lost rather than coming up with useless and dumbass theories.

Contest, eh?

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Congrats, your post http://www.videosift.com/member/MarineGunrock is in the lead for this month's contest at http://animation.videosift.com !

hey mate, just concerning the bike climing vid. my mate made a video of my other mate riding. I am the one with the youtube account and videosift account. so i posted it on youtube for him then posted it here for him as well.... is that bannable?

Nope, it wasn't. The other video has been discarded for over a week.

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“dupe *discard”

sent invite.. it appears I might as well make it Presidential races only. Originally I was thinking to do gov races etc.

Much obliged.

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Hey, got a save available for some Walken loving?

I hadn't considered this as being "snuff" since it is news and not at all entertainment. I did add a warning, but I'd be happy to discard it if you found it offensive.

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Glad to help; hopefully it'll escape this time!
Offhand, I can't think of anything, but I'll keep you in mind.
p.s. what's your avatar? it looks familiar, but I can't place it...!

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Can I get an invite to the Asia collective?