A few weeks ago I stumbled upon this film called “Loose Change”. I dare not call it a documentary since a documentary is defined as: based on or re-creating an actual event, era, life story, etc., that purports to be factually accurate and contains no fictional elements. I had thought about blogging after I watched it, but to be honest, I didn’t want to even dignify it with a response…it was just completely ridiculous. However, since then I’ve heard of people who have seen it and actually believe the lies, so here I am. For those of you unfamiliar with the film, basically it is a hodgepodge of conspiracy theories in regards to the government’s involvement with 9/11. Essentially it makes the case (albeit a weak one) that the US government was behind everything.
Now I could go point by point and debunk the whole thing, since practically nothing in it is based on fact, but there are plenty of other sites that do that (links at the bottom) So, I’m going to just point out the major logical flaws.
1. If it was true, the film makers would be dead. - If the US government would actually plan such a horrific event, spend billions upon billions of dollars, and kill thousands of innocent Americans don’t you think they would actually want to keep it covered up? Have you never seen the movie “Pelican Brief” or “Conspiracy Theory”? If “Loose Change” was true, I think they would probably have killed the film makers long ago (they first started on the story in 2002).
2. Nothing like 9/11 has ever happened before. The movie spends a majority of the time trying to explain the reasoning behind why the towers collapsed that day but the closest thing they could find to compare was back in 1945 when a B-25 (they lied and said it was a B-52) hit the Empire State Building. FYI- A B-25 weighs 1/10th that of a 737, goes half the speed (max), and carries 1/35th the fuel. So how does that compare exactly? There is nothing, NOTHING that compared with the impact on that day…and besides, unless you’re a structural engineer, stop pretending like you know more than the experts.
3. What did we gain? Just looking around on the internet a bit and you can read that 9/11 cost around $500 billion…that doesn’t count the war that has followed. Overall, probably closer to $1 trillion. Oh, but we did it for the oil right? Not even close…if Iraq cranks it out they might be able to export $5 billion a year, in addition to their pre-existing commitments and after they pay off the debts to other countries. So, in about 200 years we’ll break even! Even in the brightest, most optimistic outlook there is no way that the financial cost was worth it.
So those are 3 major logical points to debunk the whole thing, in addition to all of the others which are outlined in the links below.
Don’t believe everything you see.
Internet Detectives
9/11 Myths
Screw Loose Change
Wikipedia - Loose Change
Debunking 9/11