- TG: You are persistent. I’ll give you that.
- Me: That’s one word for it. A nicer one.
- TG: All right then. Let’s talk conspiracy.
- Me: Must we?
- TG: We must.
- Me: Well, people conspire.
- TG: No, not little stuff. Big stuff. You imagine that there are thousands of people who are acting in concert and not talking about it in public. That’s bizarre.
- Me: Kind of hard to grasp. For all of us.
- TG: Like, you know, impossible, dude. Impossible.
- Me: Well, let’s break it down. Let’s say that I wanted to shoot the mayor of Anywhere, USA. How would I do it?
- TG: Well, you get a gun, and then you shoot him.
- Me: But I don’t want to be caught. So I get someone else to do it for me.
- TG: Good luck.
- Me: I set it up so that my shooter is not really the shooter. He just looks like a shooter. Someone else I hire does the actual shooting. Then I shoot the patsy. Me and the real shooter walk free. Of course, I might kill the shooter too. It can be complicated.
- TG: People will figure it out. There’d be an investigation.
- Me: Oh, it works. It works all the time. Say that I have power in that town. I have people working for me, and if a police officer starts asking too many questions, I shoot him too. Or have him die suspiciously. Staged suicide is always useful.
- TG: There are others. You can’t stop people from investigating.
- Me: Oh yes I can. The minute that police officer hits the ground, all of the others get the message. If another one tries anyway, I find out he’s having an affair, and I expose him. He winds up getting a divorce, and when there is marijuana in his trunk, he loses his job, his life is ruined.
- TG: OK. So you have set up a scam, shot the mayor and stopped an investigation in Anywhere USA.
- Me: It kind of looks like the whole police department is in on it. Doesn’t it.
- TG: That’s hardly New York City, and jets flying into buildings. Pretty bizarre. Pretty damned bizarre.
- Me: That’s what I call the “first threshold.” That’s what stops most people in their tracks. It can be a small conspiracy like 20 crazy Arabs, but it cannot be big, like a couple of hundred powerful Americans, Israelis, Brits, Canadians. Someone would talk.
- TG: That does it for me.
- Me: Me too. Why don’t people talk? All I can imagine is that they are afraid. I mean, there are not just a few – there are tens of thousands of people in government, the military, connected corporations, who know that 9/11 was a contrived event. But they don’t talk. If you leave the bubble here in the US, hundreds of millions have figured it out.
- TG: Or, maybe you are just imagining things. You ever question yourself, your own mental stability?
- Me: Yeah. Like, every morning. Every afternoon and evening. Can this be real?
- TG: Perhaps you should listen to those inner voices?
- Me: Which one? There’s so many!!! Just kidding. Kidding, OK? Let’s go back to step one: Evidence.
- TG: Crap. This stuff gets old, you know? It’s boring. You’re just looking under rocks. But OK. I’ll go with you a brief while, but I must tell you in advance that I don’t buy it.
- Me: Fair enough. And that’s a good way to go, because I am not going to give you any evidence. That does not work. It does not change minds.
- TG: So where are you going with this?
- Me: Humans. The nature of humans. Our beliefs are like our children. Even when they are flawed, we still cling to them and love them. Like my parents did me. Well, Mom, anyway.
- TG: Please. People are rational.
- Me: No they’re not. Not in groups, anyway. You know this! We just went through an election campaign with billions of dollars of TV advertising, and none of it appealed to rational humans. It was all emotional.
- TG: Well, I don’t listen to that. I make my decisions based on factual materials.
- Me: That’s not true, of course, but that is how I have to approach you.
- TG: You’re getting insulting here. I am capable of evaluating data and making rational decisions.
- Me: Data? What data?
- TG: Candidates’ positions on issues. I vote based on those positions.
- Me: Even if that were true, we don’t hold them accountable. And anyway, I never did. I pretended. But when I got in the voting booth and looked at all the candidates, I realized that I didn’t know anything about them. So I just voted party line.
- TG: You? Mr. Rational Human? You just mindlessly voted?
- Me: Yes. You too. Everyone out there. There are only a few things that sway us from party line voting, highly emotional issues. Candidates hire advertising companies and psychologists to study us and find those issues.
- TG: What are the issues?
- Me: Abortion. Guns. Immigrants. Fear. Hatred. Jealousy. Fear. Fear. Fear.
- TG: Those are important issues – not the slurs, but the issues.
- Me: To you maybe. But not to people in power.
- TG: OK – we’ve gotten off course. 9/11 – a massive conspiracy. Prove it.
- Me: Can’t to your satisfaction. No one is talking.
- TG: So you believe without evidence? That’s religion.
- Me: No. Evidence is everywhere. It’s even overwhelming, slam-dunk. There’s just none of it in the “I confess” vein. People are afraid to talk.
- TG: Who’s behind it?
- Me: Can’t say. You’d be surprised, however, to know who knows.
- TG: Like who?
- Me: Obama. Biden. Clinton’s. Roberts. Alito. Romney. Even George W. Bush! Smart people, and him too.
- TG: Yeah, right. They know all about it.
- Me: They also know to shut up. They were not part of it. They just go along because if they don’t, they do something else for a living. They might die in a fire or small plane crash, commit suicide, disappear in the desert. You have to remember that politicians and judges do not have real power. They merely front for it. The police in Anywhere USA where the mayor was shot – they wear uniforms, but where is the power?
- TG: You make them sound like weasels, losers.
- Me: Next question?
- TG: No. I’m still stuck on how big 9/11 is, and how many people would have to be in on it.
- Me: Yeah. That is tough to comprehend. It takes a transition to threshold number two, to a higher level of thought, the realization that democracy is an illusion, that people are sheep who need their miracles, need to be in a flock, and that the only threat we have ever presented to power is to organize and resist. Jefferson thought we would only survive as an educated public. Ain’t much of that going on in this land.
- TG: So you are going to change people now?
- Me: No.
- TG: So why bother?
- Me: We live a long time, change is slow. And anyway, I got nuthin’ better to do.
Piece of Mindful 
TG, you are asking the wrong questions to start. There is an order to conducting an investigation. We were told on TV by 11:30 AM on 9/11/01 who did “it.” We were told who did “it” before their could have been any investigation conducted. We haven’t waivered since.
The first question is what happened? I know what I think happened. I think the towers mostly turned to exceedingly fine dust in mid air and blew away. that would be 80% of the steel, the concrete, the toilets and the people. All of it, almost, except for the paper which was everywhere. That’s an extraordinary claim but it fits all the available evidence. The claims have to fit the evidence, not the other way around.
What do you think happened, TG?
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