Broken Down Van

I noticed there was a lot of hits on my previous post in this medium about one Van Jones, who got out of the kitchen yesterday because he couldn’t take the heat.

One of the things Jones gets criticized for is that he is a “9/11 Truther.”  I, too am one of those, but the more I read about what Mr. Jones though about 9/11, the more I realize that some Truthers are more equal than others.  For instance, Jones (and many like him) are only into 9/11 Truthism because they want to find a way to blame it on former President Bush, and a supposed cabal of “neo-cons” and the military-industrial complex.  With Mr. Jones, I think it’s a matter of racial jealousy; I don’t know if this is true or not, but there are supposedly writings of his circling around that show him approving of Johnny Jihad’s terroristical boogie-woogieism on September 11, 2001, for racial reasons.  You know how that goes, the enemy of my enemy.  But that’s inconsistent with 9/11 Truthism.  You can’t say that you approve of AQ doing what they did on 9/11 out of a common contempt for honkey/infidel, then turn around and say that Bush did it.

However, you’re not getting anywhere near the Truth about 9/11 if you stroll down those roads.  I hardly know (or am comfortable with) any solid conclusions about the Rest of the Story about 9/11, but I am very comfortable in concluding that:

(1)  No President, neither Bush 43 nor Clinton, had any prior knowledge.

(2)  Sorry, David Duke.  There WERE Jews that died in 9/11.  I remember there was one day a few years ago that I watched a scrolling applet on the side of a website I used to read regularly, that showed names and faces of 9/11 victims.  I watched it for quite awhile, and must have seen several hundred names and faces.  And my guesstimation is that about one in twenty New York victims (don’t forget there were some at the Pentagon that died) had both obviously Jewish names AND obviously Jewish looks.  Some people had obviously Jewish names but not looks, and might or might not have been Jewish.  Some didn’t have an obviously Jewish names but did have obviously Jewish looks, and they might or might not have been Jewish.  It is also possible that there were some with neither the name or the looks that actually were Jewish.  Norm Coleman, the former Senator from Minnesota (but not a 9/11 victim) has neither an obviously Jewish name nor obviously Jewish looks, but is Jewish.  But the whole upshot of this is that the theory circling around certain (i.e. white right-wing anti-Semitic) circles that no Jews died because they were told to stay away from the WTC, is total bullshit.

Then, there is the matter of common sense.  It’s physically impossible to call every Jew in New York City metropolitan area, a metro area that spans three states and 20 million people, to tell them to stay away from a certain place.  Hell, to prevent any Jews from being in a set of certain buildings at a certain time on a certain day would require you calling every Jew in America, and probably the world.  Ever hear of business travelers?  On top of that, there’s the name/look dilemma I mentioned above.  If you’re someone in a secret bunker that has to call every Jew in the world to tell them to stay away from WTC on September 11, what do you do when you get to the “Coleman” listing in the Minneapolis-St. Paul white pages?  What do you do when you get to the “Berg” listing in Reading, Pennsylvania?  Many stereotypically Jewish surnames were borrowed from German, and names like “Berg” could be Kraut instead of Jewish.  What of ethic Jews that convert to Christianity?  I don’t know if this supposed Jewish cabal would give them the pleasure of surviving a terrorist attack, so they might have to get their psychic on to figure out which Jewish names in the phone book not to call.  Hint:  Avoid “Rothstein” in Tulsa.  There are such things as blended Christian-Jewish families.  I suppose that you would tell a son of one Jewish parent and one Christian parent to keep half of himself away from the World Trade Center, but let the other half come.

(3)  The two airliners flown into the two WTC towers by radical Islamic jihadists would have caused irreparable harm to the two towers, so much so that they would have been unusable.  However, the plane-building collision and subsequent fires (and any other damage as a result) would not have been able to cause the self-implosion of the buildings.  Something else had to cause that.

And that’s all I have been able to conclude.  Anything else is pure speculation, and will be pure speculation until real credible people with real subpoena power can do a real credible investigation.  And whatever Van Jones thinks, you can send straight to File 13.

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