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by skittles on March 11th, 2009

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About what percentages of Americans think 9/11 was a conspiracy?

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  • by kedar on March 28th, 2009

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    According to the Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll, more than one-third of Americans suspect officials helped in the attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could go to war

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  • by Contrak on March 29th, 2009

    Contrak

    I am a builder by trade and it is impossible for a plane to bring down a building of that size without help. Think about the 2nd world war and the buildings that where bombed ( keeping in mind also that the buildings where not built as well as the WTC ). All of that bombing still did'nt bring down those buildings on the magnitude that the WTC was brought down.

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  • by purplecows on March 29th, 2009

    purplecows

    About 100%.

    Nobody thinks it was done by a single terrorist acting alone. HELLO! A CRIME COMMITTED BY A GROUP IS A CONSPIRACY!

    The only disagreement is on WHO the conspirators were.

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  • by iwnit on March 28th, 2009

    iwnit

    1) 9.11 %


    ----- ADDED --------
    (just kidding)
    Now for a serious answer...
    The results could be very different according to various polls, how and when they were done.


    2) "A Zogby International poll of New York City residents two years ago found 49.3 percent believed the government "consciously failed to act." "
    Source and further information:
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14723997/

    "More than a third of the American public suspects that federal officials assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could go to war in the Middle East, according to a new Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll.

    The national survey of 1,010 adults also found that anger against the federal government is at record levels, with 54 percent saying they "personally are more angry" at the government than they used to be."

    "Thirty-six percent of respondents overall said it is "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that federal officials either participated in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon or took no action to stop them "because they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East." "

    "The poll also found that 16 percent of Americans speculate that secretly planted explosives, not burning passenger jets, were the real reason the massive twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsed.

    Conspiracy groups for at least two years have also questioned why the World Trade Center collapsed when fires that heavily damaged similar skyscrapers around the world did not cause such destruction. Sixteen percent said it's "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that "the collapse of the twin towers in New York was aided by explosives secretly planted in the two buildings."

    Twelve percent suspect the Pentagon was struck by a military cruise missile in 2001 rather than by an airliner captured by terrorists."
    Source and further information:
    http://www.scrippsnews.com/911poll


    3) "Conspiracy Theories Around 9/11:
    It seems to me that the one thing that is a significant contributor to the growth of conspiracy theories is the knowledge that your government lies to you. Tom Kean's support of the ABC mockumentary is shredding the credibility of the 911 Commission Report. And everyone knows that Bush's administration has been lying from day one about everything: on the economy, on science, on sex education, on global warming, on Iraq, on not spying on Americans, on not torturing, and on and on and on. If anyone wants to know why so many people are irrational, one only need to point to the decades long conspiracy hatched by the VRWC to make Americans think Black is White and War is Peace. The Bush administration merely raised the irrationality level to the next tier and continue to do this as they wrap more and more of our governmental affairs under the cloak of secrecy. They've done a heck-of-a-good job in making sure the conspiracy theories could grow deep roots into the psyche of the American public."
    Source and further information:
    http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/008702.php


    4) "Poll: 2/3rds Of US Believe 9/11 Conspiracy
    Nearly two-thirds of Americans think it is possible that some federal officials had specific warnings of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, but chose to ignore those warnings, according to a Scripps Howard News Service/Ohio University poll.

    A national survey of 811 adult residents of the United States conducted by Scripps and Ohio University found that more than a third believe in a broad smorgasbord of conspiracy theories, including the attacks, international plots to rig oil prices, the plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and the government’s knowledge of intelligent life from other worlds.

    The high percentage is a manifestation, some say, of an American public that increasingly distrusts the federal government.

    “You wouldn’t have gotten these numbers a year or two after the attacks themselves,” said University of Florida law professor Mark Fenster. “You’ve got an increasingly disaffected public that is unhappy with the administration.” …

    An earlier Scripps Howard/Ohio University survey, conducted in July 2006, revealed that more than one-third of Americans thought federal officials assisted in the 9/11 attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could go to war in the Middle East.

    “What (the recent survey) could mean is that people are thinking that the Bush administration is incompetent, that there were warnings out there and they chose to put their attention on other things,” Fenster said.

    At a time when the price of crude oil has neared $100 per barrel, 81 percent of Americans also said it was “somewhat likely” or “very likely” that oil companies conspire to keep the price of gasoline high.

    “It shows that the oil companies are not trusted by a lot of people,” said Tyson Slocum, director of the Energy Program of Public Citizen, the consumer watchdog organization founded by Ralph Nader.

    Record-breaking quarterly profits stir the pot, too.

    “People look at the huge profits and put two and two together,” he said. “‘Those high prices I’m paying are fueling those profits.’”

    All the talk about oil and terror has distracted some of the believers in government cover-ups of UFOs.

    Thirty-seven percent of the respondents said they think it is “very likely” or “somewhat likely” flying saucers are real and the government is hiding the truth about them…

    Forty-two percent of the American public still thinks some people in the federal government might have known about the assassination of Kennedy in advance…

    The survey was conducted by telephone Sept. 24 to Oct. 10 among 811 adult residents of the United States who were selected at random. The survey was conducted by the Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University under a grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation and has a margin of error of about 4 percent."
    Source and further information:
    http://sweetness-light.com/archive/poll-23rds-believe-in-911-conspiracy

    Further information:
    - "The 9/11 conspiracy plots thicken":
    http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003250424_911conspire09.html
    - "Are Any 9/11 Conspiracy Films Plausible?":
    http://www.motherjones.com/media/2008/09/are-any-911-conspiracy-films-plausible
    - "Conspiracy Theorists Insists the U.S. Government, not Terrorists, Staged the Devastating Attacks":
    http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/2728
    - "Think Progress Distances itself from “Conspiracy Idiots”":
    http://www.truthnews.us/?p=974


    5) "after a good long think about potential time and energy being lost by our entire community to senseless and ultimately inconsequential musings, I have to come out and say it: the alternative theories about 9-11 are wrong. Worse, the endless theorizing and speculation about trajectories, explosives, military tests, fake airplane parts and remote control navigation actually distracts some of our best potential activists from addressing the more substantive matters at hand.

    Yes, I believe that 9-11 theorizing debilitates the counterculture. It robs us of some potentially creative thinkers. It replaces truly important questions with trivial ones. It marginalizes more constructive investigation of American participation in the development of Al Qaeda as well as its subsequent aggravation. And perhaps worst of all, it is precisely the sort of activity that government disinformation specialists would want us to be involved with.

    9-11 theorists are unwittingly performing as the unpaid minions of the administration’s propaganda wing."

    "I’m all for supposing. It’s how the best science fiction gets written, the best science gets speculated, the best innovations get developed, and the wildest thoughts get hatched. But forensics is a different beast. As any detective will tell you, the most straightforward solution is usually the right one. As one NYPD detective explained to me, “Nineteen hijackers took four planes and crashed them at different places: WTC 1, 2, the Pentagon and a field in PA. These accounts broadly correspond to all that was observed and heard that day, who was on the flight manifests, where they came from and what they claimed to want to do, and yet do not involve vast US government conspiracies and do not need the coordinated, perfect lying of tens of thousands of people about the mass murder of their fellow citizens and those they gave their oath to spend their careers protecting.”

    True enough, these huge incidents have produced many unexpected details. The plane in Pennsylvania scattered its parts differently than we might have expected it to. Lamp posts near the Pentagon got knocked over when we wouldn’t have thought were vulnerable given the altitude of the approaching plane. Building number 7 fell hours later, even though it was never directly hit by a plane. Video photography of the collapses show the towers falling quite neatly, as if in a planned detonation.

    But strange and unexpected details don’t necessarily point to the fallacy of the central premise—especially when the alternative involves the active coordination of thousands, if not tens of thousands of citizens in a conspiracy to attack the United States. We must look at what each intriguing detail or inconsistency actually says about how the crime took place. Again, in the words of my favorite member of the NYPD, “These explanations are principally based on the fatally flawed idea that any confusion or misinterpretation or differing accounts in times of crisis must be the product of purposeful lies. They neglect the idea that in crises, and when there is mass confusion, people do not have specific recollections, only general ones that are highly subjective, such as what direction a plane sounded like it was coming from. Their stories seek to poke holes in prevailing truth, yet offer no alternative that could be seen as remotely plausible.” "

    "And that’s where I suspect all this theorizing really takes us: to the heart of a racist jingoism worse even than the triumphalism justifying our foreign policy to begin with. They can’t bring themselves to accept that our big bad government can really be so swiftly outfoxed by a dozen relatively untrained Arab guys. And rather than go there, they’d prefer to maintain the myth of American hegemony. On a certain level, it feels better to believe that we are only vulnerable by our leaders’ sick choice—not by our adversarsies’ increasing strength and prowess.

    But maintaining this comforting illusion comes at a price. It paralyzes our ability to do the real work necessary to parse what is going on. I mean, on a certain level, what does it matter whether Osama Bin Laden, a CIA-trained former ally is currently acting on his own or as an operative of some covert semi-governmental organization or corporation? We can’t even begin to ask these questions when the people who might be most qualified to look into them are instead crippled by their own ethnocentrism.

    The cultivation of a critically aware public is too important right now for us to entertain this silliness any longer. When a full 40 percent of the American public believes that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9-11, we can’t afford the luxury of this delusional behavior. We are the alternative to the FoxNews version of events, and we must strive to present a more responsible alternative to Karl Rove’s disinformation.

    The war profiteers are absolutely delighted that so many of us are still distracted by this phantom menace. And they delight in our belief that the central government is really powerful enough to pull something like this off. I’ve been interacting with intelligence people for the past three years, going to conferences and writing articles promoting an open-source approach to national security. After these encounters, I can assure you—anyone who knows anything about our government knows that a conspiracy on this order is well beyond their capabilities. Hell, the administration couldn’t even “find” weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. They can’t even reveal a Valerie Plame or fire the few remaining honest US attorneys without a complete backfire. Conspiracy is not what these folks are good at.

    Our government excels at doing its really bad stuff out in the open. They break laws in order to spy on citizens, and refuse to acknowledge objections from lawmakers or justice. They take taxpayers money and give it to the companies they run. They acknowledge the many billions of dollars that go missing, and offer not even a shrug. They put the people who formerly lobbied on behalf of industries in positions running the agencies that are supposed to be regulating them.

    By looking under the rug for what isn’t even there, we neglect the horror show that is in plain view. In the process, we make it even easier for the criminals running our government to perpetuate their illegal, unethical and un-American activities.

    In fact, the most logical conclusion I can draw from the existing evidence is that 9-11 theorists are themselves covert government operatives, dedicated to confusing the public, distracting activists from their tasks, equating all dissent with the lunatic fringe, and provoking the counterculture’s misplaced belief in the competency of its foes.
    That’s the real conspiracy. "
    Source and further information:
    http://www.arthurmag.com/2007/09/20/rushkoff-on-911-conspiracy-theorists/

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  • by tomsims on March 30th, 2009

    tomsims

    Since more than one person participated, it is, by definition, a conspiracy and, I suspect, 100% of Americans believe that.

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  • by Kommandor Kody on March 30th, 2009

    Kommandor Kody

    It's so common a subject today that I would "guess" at least 20% or more of Americans think there was something phony going on. As long as the American people let the fed play world cop there will be no transparency in government, & of course no trust in government. Below is a link to another CON theory that STILL refuses to die out & probably never will!

    http://www.armageddononline.org/pearlharborconspiracy.php

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  • by Robster on March 29th, 2009

    Robster

    I find conspiracy theorist as lateral thinkers, and just that thinkers as they have no real proof.

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  • by mr. Bill on March 11th, 2009

    mr. Bill

    Oh Please!

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  • by Legend In Your Own Mind on April 10th, 2009

    Legend In Your Own Mind

    No idea what percent, but I will say those who buy hook line and sinker the whitehouse accounts are either delusional, extremely stupid or complicit to the point of criminal actions or more.

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  • by Daze on March 28th, 2009

    Daze

    thats funny because just the other day my dad told me his friend believed that george bush was behind 9/11....(he WAS seen with the family members of the attackers),,,or people say he was...

    but this guy believes in ufo's too so....lol

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  • by Mr. Knowitall- The Poli Sci Guy on March 28th, 2009

    Mr. Knowitall- The Poli Sci Guy

    does it matter, it wasn't

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  • by Corgingus on March 28th, 2009

    Corgingus

    I think the government knew about an attack but wouldn’t let it get to the top echelon because it might jeopardize their career. Conspiracy by Bib Ladin and he's baby and innocent people killers.

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  • by anddeb on March 29th, 2009

    anddeb

    We all know it was. Time to move on from that and know that we will face worse since we have let so many from the middle east into America.

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  • by RC loves ice cream on March 29th, 2009

    RC loves ice cream

    I'd say there are MANY Americans - and quite a few non-Americans - who believe that the official version of events leaves many questions unanswered - that either they're not telling us all they know, or they don't know as much as they pretend to. It is understandable that when people feel that they're not being told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, they will try to fill in the blanks themselves, giving rise to the conspiracy theories.

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  • by Moongrim on March 30th, 2009

    Moongrim

    Damned if I know.

    But those Muslims were a conspiracy.

    But I've never found out WHO were the folks who made a mint off of the Airlines futures going south, just around 9/11.

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  • by Mr. Sex ~ The Original Mr. Knowitall on March 30th, 2009

    Mr. Sex ~ The Original Mr. Knowitall

    Sadly, less than 3% at any given time.

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  • by Salty Light on March 28th, 2009

    Salty Light

    nope

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