If you found any sarcasm in the above paragraph, you may keep it, of course (there is a long and growing list of confirmed ("Wikipedia-true", as I like to call them) "conspiracy theories" in the /r/conspiracy wiki). Far from alleging that all conspiracy theories are true, and more than proving a broken clock is right twice a day, it demonstrates that alternative explanations of history should not be dismissed based solely on their public perception as "conspiracy theories".

Let us talk about 9/11.

Why #investigate911? Because it has never been investigated properly.

"But the 9/11 Commission Report", you say, but consider:

Six out of the 9/11 commissioners are on record distancing themselves from the report and its veracity or strongly criticizing the proceedings and conflicts of interest, repeatedly and independently, going so far as calling it a "cover-up" and "set up to fail" -, among them both authors of the 9/11 Commission Report: Thomas Kean, Lee Hamilton, Timothy Roemer, Max Cleland, John Lehman and Bob Kerrey:

Lee and I write in our book that we think the commission in many ways was set up to fail, because we had not enough money, we didn't have enough time, we've been appointed by the most partisan people in Washington. :: Thomas Kean, 9/11 Commission co-chair, Commission "set up to fail"

So there are all kinds of reasons we thought we were set up to fail: we got started late, we had a very short timeframe - indeed we had to get it extended - we did not have enough money, they were afraid we're gonna hang somebody, that we would point the finger :: Lee Hamilton, 9/11 Commission co-chair Commission "set up to fail"

"We were extremely frustrated with the false statements we were getting. We were not sure of the intent, whether it was to deceive the commission or merely part of the fumbling bureaucracy." :: 9/11 commissioner Timothy Roemer, 9/11 panel distrusted Pentagon testimony: Commissioners considered criminal probe of false statements, cnn.com, August 2, 2006

We purposely put together a staff that had – in a way - conflicts of interest. [...] All of the staff had, to a certain extent, some conflict of interest. :: John Lehman, 9/11 Commissioner: 'We had to go through Karl Rove', Nick Langewis, David Edwards, rawstory.com, February 3, 2008; see also: Lehman: Commission Purposely Set Up So that 9/11 Staff Had Conflict of Interest

The independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks reached an agreement with the White House yesterday to gain restricted access to years of classified presidential briefings, which had been the focus of subpoena threats from the panel's chairman. [...] Cleland called the agreement "unconscionable" and said it "was deliberately compromised by the president of the United States" in order to limit the panel's work. "If this decision stands, I as a member of the commission cannot look any American in the eye, especially family members of victims, and say the commission had full access," he said. "This investigation is now compromised . . . This is `The Gong Show'; this isn't protection of national security." :: 9/11 panel to get access to withheld data, Laurence Arnold, Associated Press, The Boston Globe, November 13, 2003

President Bush personally has nixed the effort of the 9-11 Commission to get all the documents in the White House, especially the Presidential daily briefs, which basically tell the Commission and the American people what the President knew and when he knew it in regards to the potential attack on 9-11 and the attack itself and the follow-up. He has personally nixed that information coming to 9-11. That means to me that all of the members of that commission will never get to see the real documents that I think are sensitive. The President, as I think John Kerry mentioned, had time to go to rodeo, but didn’t have time to appear fully before the 9-11 commission. Truth of the matter is, the White House has played cover-up and a slow walk to this game from the beginning. Now after sewing to the wind, they’re reaping the whirl wind. Now what they’ve done is forced the Congress to extend the 9-11 Commission two more months, which kicks the final report in July right before the Democratic National Convention. That’s not the Democrats’ fault. That’s not the 9-11 Commission’s fault. That is the fault of the White House, to slow up this thing and it never even held any public hearing for six months. [...] One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up. :: "The White House Has Played Cover-Up" - Former 9/11 Commission Member Max Cleland Blasts Bush, Interview with Amy Goodman, Democray Now!, March 23, 2004

At some level of the government, at some point in time … there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened. :: The Ground Truth: The Story Behind America’s Defense on 9/11, John Farmer, 2009

"I was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described," John Farmer, a former New Jersey attorney general who led the staff inquiry into events on Sept. 11, said in a recent interview. "The tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public for two years. . . . This is not spin. This is not true." :: 9/11 Panel Suspected Deception by Pentagon, Dan Eggen, Washington Post, August 2, 2006

Why do you think officials tried to obscure some of the faulty decision making and communication on 9/11? It's almost a culture of concealment, for lack of a better word. You have someone like Sandy Berger, who by all accounts is a decent guy, taking rather extreme measures to remove documents from the National Archives and hide them at a construction site where he could retrieve them later and destroy them. There were interviews made at the FAA's New York center the night of 9/11 and those tapes were destroyed. The CIA tapes of the interrogations were destroyed. The story of 9/11 itself, to put it mildly, was distorted and was completely different from the way things happened. :: John Farmer in Q&A: A New Look at the 9/11 Commission, Dan Fletcher, time.com, September 11, 2009

Lehman: Commission Purposely Set Up So that 9/11 Staff Had Conflict of Interest

911 Commissioner Bob Kerrey claims 911 was a 30 year conspiracy (alt)

This doesn't prove, or intend to prove, that "9/11 was an inside job", or that "Bush did 9/11". It demonstrates however that it would be a grave mistake to think that the 9/11 Commission Report answered all questions, left no stone unturned, or was the least bit "independent" and thorough. When President Bush agreed (despite initially great resistance) to come before the commission, it was only together with Dick Cheney, not under oath, and behind closed doors, afterwards, he called it a "good conversation". Last month's long-awaited, but ultimately ignored release of the "28 pages" originally redacted from the report only served to confirm the suspicion that anything resembling "truth" is not to be expected from the government.

why care if 9/11 was a conspiracy

In this YT clip gone viral, "Tye the Blacksmith" says: "If it was conspiracy, I do not care." This stance has become quite common, with many who weren't even alive in 2001 now joining the debate. This was 15 years ago, let it rest, there are other things of greater importance, they say, and forget that 9/11, after 40+ years of cold wars, iron curtains and red phones, triggered the first and only casus foederis according to Article 5 of the NATO Charta, and that 9/11 served and continues to serve as justification for:



An Iraqi in Abu Ghuraib rejoices at all the freedoms

Just a few weeks ago, government speaker to the FRG Christiane Wirtz justified the deployment of German military to Syria with the "War on Terror".

Although 9/11 happened almost 15 years ago - and probably for most of us, in a faraway country - it still of great importance, as its fallout concerns all of our everyday's lives.

Inarguably, 9/11 simply fell into the laps of well-prepared profiteers and racketeers; a compelling case is made by Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine and those who favor the LIHOP (Let It Happen On Purpose) reading.

Let it not be suggested that the answer to Cui bono? (not Osama bin Laden, not the people of Afghanistan and not the people of the Western World!) is already irrefutable proof of conspiracy.

Instead, on to the loose nuts suggesting the rabbit hole goes even deeper.

illuminati lizard alien outer space beam nanotermite mikronuke MIHOP

Upon completion, the World Trade Center buildings 1 and 2, called "North Tower" and "South Tower", were the tallest buildings in the world for a while, standing over 400 meters tall, built from finest structural steel, and were considered miracles of modern engineering. Their style often considered "gothic", architect Minoru Yamasaki had slightly different ideas for the design.



The kerosene deflagration upon impact

When the towers fell, it was a matter of seconds - almost free fall, some initially said, more conservative numbers go from 12 to 16 and even up to 30 seconds, counting the swaying portion of the core (the "spire") that stood out for two additional blinks of an eye. In a physical phenomenon never seen before nor after, these two giant, slender steel structures, minutes apart, disintegrated progressively from top to bottom in a huge, explosive, mushroom-shaped fountain of dust and debris, down through themselves and in all directions of the heavens, leaving the whole city in a thick blanket of ultrafine powder - paper, microscopic steel spheres, concrete, wallboard, glass, human remains - and the footprints themselves stinking holes filled with molten metal and concrete with fires that would burn into december, a "chemical factory" surrounded by a fence from the lowermost perimeter columns and a level field consisting of the wafer-like perimeter column assemblies strewn around the plaza.



Elevation map generated by NOAAs LIDAR

Now there are two irreconcilable views on why and how that could happen.

View Number One

is summarized minutes after the second tower's "collapse" by "Mark 'Harley Guy' Walsh", FOX freelancer: