Pod Theory, Controlled Demolition And The Flash Is Not A Sunday Matinee Hardcore Bill At CBGB

The Village Voice brings us up to date on various Sept. 11 conspiracy theories*:

Many Truth activists now dismiss the “pod theory” and its cousin “the flash,” which contend that the planes that struck the towers had unusual shapes on their undersides that may have fired missiles. More maligned is the idea that no planes hit the towers — that what we saw were drones or holograms. Even the no-planes-at-the- Pentagon theory divides Truth-ers.

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By saying they’re only checking facts, the Truth activists avoid having to address the weaknesses in their own yarn. Why do the “booms” at the trade center come several minutes before the “demolition”? Why would the government destroy WTC7 when no one knew or cared about it? What happened to the people on the planes?

Some skeptics, however, aren’t shy. Fringe pol Lyndon LaRouche thinks the attacks were “an attempted military coup d’état.” Hufschmid says the Arab terrorists were patsies of several governments, including the U.S. and possibly Britain, France, Canada, and Israel. Ruppert, an adherent of the theory that oil reserves have peaked and that the petroleum-based economy is in great peril, postulates that 9-11 was a desperate effort by a couple dozen elites from the Clinton and Bush administrations to cling to dwindling energy supplies. His version stresses the links between the CIA and Wall Street and drug money, suspicion of the Secret Service, and a plot to rid the world of 4 billion people in order to reduce demand for petroleum.

*Ed Begley, Jr. is asked what he thinks of all this.