Meet the No Planers...By Brendan O'Neill

[SidDithers]

They believe there weren't any planes on 9/11, just missiles wrapped in holograms - and there weren't any London terrorists on 7/7 either. The new-wave conspiracy theorists aren't green-ink types: they're educated; they have secret service connections; they live in Highgate.

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Sitting on the comfy couch, their cups of tea in hand, they try to convince me that the 11 September 2001 attacks were executed by elements in the west who wanted to launch wars and "make billions upon trillions of dollars".

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Then things really go off the rails. I ask Shayler if it's true he has become a "no planer" - that is, someone who believes that no planes at all were involved in the 9/11 atrocity. Machon looks uncomfortable. "Oh, fuck it, I'm just going to say this," he tells her. "Yes, I believe no planes were involved in 9/11." But we all saw with our own eyes the two planes crash into the WTC. "The only explanation is that they were missiles surrounded by holograms made to look like planes," he says. "Watch the footage frame by frame and you will see a cigar-shaped missile hitting the World Trade Center." He must notice that my jaw has dropped. "I know it sounds weird, but this is what I believe."

And the most accurate 'graf:

These 9/11 truth campaigners merely add a supposedly scientific gloss to already existing conspiracy theories, trying to make the ridiculous seem respectable. In the process, they actually do a disservice to "historical truth". History gets reduced to a mysterious force beyond our control, and politics - real politics - is imagined to be the preserve of unknown, faceless puppet-masters whom we can never hope to influence. And the rest of us are reduced to the status of helpless spectators, searching amid the rubble of 9/11 and the aftermath of 7/7 for signs of truth and meaning.

Full article here: http://www.newstatesman.com/200609110028

An interestng take from the noted British newsmagazine.

Sid

[Big Pappa]

1. They

mention an American missile but do not specify what kind. I cannot believe that 1 tomahawk cruise missile per tower would be sufficient. What do we have with that kind power short of nukes that could do this. I am also not sure if Washington had a missile defense system employed at this time. There have been numerous incursions into Washington airspace since and I have yet to see a missile defense system launch. More nonsense.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

2. It's hard to not laugh at these people's arguments

[MervinFerd]

3. Why make the effort?

[Kingshakabobo]

4. Good point. nt

[G Hawes]

5. What an amazing coincidence

I just saw a no-planer start a new thread here posting the same old pod-plane bunkum that has been done to death a thousand times elsewhere, as though it was something entirely new and earth shattering!!111eleven!111 I can't believe that anyone still believes that nonsense. I really can't.

[SidDithers]

6. Kick...

Since Shayler was mentioned in a now-locked thread defending holocaust truth-seeker Eric Hufschmid (!), here he is confirming his status as a no-planer.

Sid

[Kingshakabobo]

7. kick