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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
9/11 conspiracies are a different animal--generally positing huge numbers of people either complicit in or helpless to prevent a giant fraud being perpetrated on an entire nation--or better yet, an entire globe. That isn't really in keeping with the definition you cite, in my opinion--and assumes a higher level of organization than is possible in the simple "conspiracy to power" that you allude to. In any case, that "conspiracy" of the powerful against the weak is more or less transparent in Western society, and needs no video evidence to substantiate it.
/grad student mumbo-jumbo. Sorry guys.
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a higher than plausible level of organization would be required to line up ALL facets of something as complex as the 9/11 attack, agreed.
but to me it just doesn't need to have thousands or hundreds or even dozens of directly complicit individuals.
all that is required is a central focus of a group of individuals that believe in something larger than themselves, and not getting in the way of something that they see coming. a few monkeywrenches get tossed in the works from the highest levels, and some long-standing goals get near enough to touch.
it's not the dozen, or hundred, or whatever number of high-level officials that had any combination of prior knowledge or direct involvement.
it's their extensions, their aquaintances, the people one or two levels of organization down that know of some purpose but don't make any decisions in it. these are the people that sold stocks and sent warning e-mails and phoned people to warn them not to fly in the days leading up to the attacks, they heard the news, got in their expensive cars, and drove to work like any other day.
some part of them knew and they did not care.