Weeell, what if al-Qaeda really works for us, al-CIA duh, or at least the Bin Laden branch of it. Don't assume that the Bilderbergers/Masons/Illumati//Trilateral Commison/David Copperfield, (no kidding about Copperfield) are really on the side of USA, if were talking about Globalists they are loyal to social class, bloodlines, they use countries. Yes I am talking about World empire, the dream of dictators and control freaks from the begginning of time. According to Alex Jones there was an article in the London Financial Times where they said yes were bringing in Global Government, yes we have been hiding it from you...yes it's tyranny...but it's good for you.
Two problems with this paragraph -- (1) "what if". It's never a good sign if a response has "what if" has the hinge bridging two scenarios. No disrespect RGB, but I could play the "what if" game till the cows come home on dozens of topics. Quick aside -- the original SNL used to a semi-regular skit called "What If" and it was always some kid in Indiana writing in about bizarre What-Ifs. My favourite was, "What If Eleanor Roosevelt Could Fly"? The skit concluded she wouldn't have helped the U.S. in WWII because she lacked armor, wasn't aerodynamic and her scarf would have gotten in her way.
Anyway, my second problem is your referencing Alex Jones, who has as much credibility as David Icke.
See my feeling about folks who sell Conspiracy is that they have more of an agenda than the ones they rail against. Realize they are trying very hard to make money, gain notiriety, sell books, gain advertisers for their radio shows, etc. If they wrote a book, or came on the air and said, "Gee I've got 100% videotape evidence Oswald did it", or "I've been given a truckload of inconvertible proof 9/11 was the result of al-Qaeda terrorism" -- how many books would they sell? How much would their ratings for their shows fall? How much notiriety would they lose?
It's in their own self-interest to keep the conspiracy game going. They can, and do, make up the wildest, nonsensical ramblings and no one can call them on it. It creates its own industry with themselves being at the center. And at the end of the day, these guys have zero, zilch, nada proof whatsoever. It's all a big story, not very well told, with plot holes large enough to fly a 767 through.
I find them completely unbelievable, dishonest, narcissistic and maybe a little paranoid. If they want me to buy into what they say, I need a butt load of objective data. This is where I, and the average person, is regarding 9/11. It's not about being sheep or drinking kool-aid or any other buzz word showing one is part of a special collective with inside knowledge. It's about proving the hypothesis, backing up the assertion and answering all questions. Honestly the 9/11 conspiracy side just doesn't come close to doing it.
And with all due respect RGB, you still haven't provided a good, solid data-backed answer to this thread. This thread is pretty damning to the 9/11 conspiracy cause. If this were a murder trial, we've got the victim, we've got forensics, we've got mathematical data on free fall, we've got foresenic analysis on building collapse, we've got videotape of the planes striking each building, we've got the accuseds' admission they planned the event months in advance, and are indeed proud of the murder -- geez, this would be a slam dunk verdict. Not even Johnny Cochran could get them off!
Remember when Malcolm X said eventually the Chickens come home to roost. Well eventually what gets down in other countries in our name can eventually get turned around and used against us, such as perfected torture techniques, such as public survellience techniques and blasting different sound weapons into Iraq cities to disrupt their thinking process, psych warfare that can be used anywhere
The U.S. has been stunningly ignorant and downright stupid dealing with the Middle East. But they're not alone. Britain and France ignored T. E. Lawrence's advice (Lawrence of Arabia) when drawing up the countries' boundaries after WWI. He submitted to them a map based on tribal loyalties. They didn't look twice and carved up the Middle East according to their own self-interest. Interestingly, Lawrence's map (which among other things would have provided a separate country for the Kurds, and a separate state for Jews), even today, would go a long way toward solving thousands of years of conflict between people that just don't seem to have anything better to do than hate each other.
But the U.S. was woefully ignorant and refused to learn from others' mistakes. But that doesn't make the U.S. pawns of Globalists. It makes them stupidly beaucratic; much like other world powers before it.
As for what kind of proof I'd like. Well frankly about a few documents, maybe even just one, that indicates Globalists run the planet (similar to the hundreds of thousands of pages from the Nazi government confirming the Holocaust). Or maybe the sworn deposition or testimony of someone with intimate knowledge of the Globalists' plans and schemes (similar to Darfur; or the purges of Stalinist Russia). Globalists aren't perfect, they can't cover 100% of their tracks 100% of the time with 100% coverage and 0% leakage. Not possible. If "they" are ruling the world, there would, sooner or later, be some leak, or someone anonymously stepping forward before they're murdered (or whatever).
I need more than what-if, or Alex Jones/David Icke ramblings to sway me. Sorry but that's just me. I'm hard to convince. I really was born in Missouri.
Chris