9/11: The False Dilemma propaganda strategy

Seven questions for both the believers and the disbelievers that reveal the kind of event 9/11 really was

Sep 04, 2023

False dilemma fallacy - When only two choices are presented yet more exist, or a spectrum of possible choices exists between two extremes. False dilemmas are usually characterized by “either this or that” language, but can also be characterized by omissions of choices.

For how the false dilemma strategy - or fake binary - is used by those in power as a weapon against us generally see Catte Black’s article, The Function of the Fake Binary.

“The purpose of propaganda is not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponds to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.” – Edited quote from Theodore Dalrymple, aka Anthony Daniels, British psychiatrist, my emphasis

“If journalists continue to endorse the official account of the destruction of the World Trade Centre, they should begin their articles by saying: ‘I believe in miracles - lots of them.’” – Late professor of philosophy of theology and prolific scholar, David Ray Griffin

“The official narrative is preposterous. On its face it is a ludicrous explanation. We don’t accept it.” – Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Media Studies, NYU

What we are told happened

On the morning of 9/11, the US multi-trillion dollar military and intelligence infrastructure suffered catastrophic failure at the hands of 19 Islamic terrorists. Armed with boxcutters, utility knives, Mace and pepper spray the terrorists managed to hijack four passenger airliners, a failure of defence that ultimately led to the total destruction or extreme compromise of a number of important buildings including penetration of Defence HQ and to the deaths of 3,000 people and injury to more than 6,000. Also, on the day, a number of government operations and exercises took place, some ongoing, including a simulated hijacking.

Seven questions

Below are seven questions backed by clearly-shown evidence (the vast majority of which is from mainstream sources) that lead to a different interpretation of 9/11 from that held by most people whichever side of the conspiracy fence they are on.

What we clearly see when we blow away the layers of magic propaganda dust is that 9/11 wasn’t the event the majority of people believe it to be … but nor was it the event a significant minority believe it to be and this false dichotomy has been achieved through the sophisticated propaganda strategy.

1. On the day of 9/11, ABC’s Cynthia McFadden outside Bellevue Hospital emergency entrance reports:

“These empty stretchers and wheelchairs say it all as far as the medical personnel in the city at this point. There have been a couple of firefighters who have made their way here for smoke inhalation and dust inhalation but none of the severely wounded people have made their way here yet.”

What does Cynthia’s first sentence mean (“say it all”?) and why haven’t any of the severely wounded of the 6,000 injured we were told of “made their way” to the hospital yet as the hospital has set up for receiving the wounded and a couple of firefighters having already “made their way” would indicate rescue operations have started?

2. In the evening of 9/11, Cynthia McFadden reported the following outside a trauma centre set up in West Manhattan:

“We have talked to sources who have been within the triage centre all day and asked them why the volume of extreme trauma, the number of people just hasn’t been seen. You can see this parade of ambulances behind me here … we’ve been seeing ambulances coming through all day and rescue vehicles, all of them for the most part empty with the exception of some rescue workers and some other rescuers at the scene. But by and large they have been walking into the centre, not the kind of severe trauma … and when I just asked why they weren’t here someone simply said, ‘Cynthia, it’s because the victims are dead.’”

How does “no extreme trauma” and “empty ambulances” make sense in a scenario where close to 3,000 died and 6,000 were injured at a devastated World Trade Centre? How does “because the victims are dead” makes sense if 6,000 were injured? (Believers in the death and injury have actually said in response to this question that all those injured in the destructions of the two 110-storey buildings simply walked away - truly.)

3. AP has entitled this report showing a man being wheeled along in a wheelchair, "Last burns victim from WTC leaves hospital". Do you believe that what you see before you represents a burns victim or someone with vitiligo?

4. From the images returned in a google search for “9/11 injured”, can you find an image of any alleged injured person that shows the kinds of compromises to the body that would be expected as a result of fires and the destructions of two 110-storey buildings, in other words any image that doesn’t perfectly fit “drill” injured?

5. While the analysis, 118 Witnesses: The Firefighters’ Testimony to Explosions in the Twin Towers, by the sadly recently-departed 9/11 scholar, Graeme MacQueen, of 118 firefighter testimonies, published by the New York Times, indicates clearly that the documents support the controlled demolition hypothesis, a rather glaring question has been left unconsidered:

Why is not a single reference made to any of the deaths of 343 of their colleagues in these 118 testimonies? Surely, there would be at least one reference to these numerous tragic deaths in these 118 testimonies with many more, in fact, to be expected. And where is the “orality” of these so-called “oral histories”? Why weren't the recordings of the 118 firefighter "oral histories" published in addition to the "transcripts"? What were the transcripts based on if not recordings?

In addition to the anomalies above, the oral histories contain nonsensicalities that completely undermine their authenticity, eg, a route to the WTC (located at the southern tip of Manhattan) from a fire station on the Upper East Side via Second Ave, Houston and West Side Hwy when the east side FDR Dr would be much more convenient and there is no southbound turn from Houston - see Nonsensicalities in the 9/11 firefighter oral histories.

6. These miracle survivor stories, published in the New York Times magazine, lack credibility to the point of hilarity. Allegedly, Pasquale Buzzelli, structural engineer, survived falling 22 floors in the 12-second destruction of the 110-storey North Tower and was back at work within three months seemingly showing nary a scratch.

7. What says that from the acknowledged operations and drills on 9/11, extrapolation cannot be made that, in fact, 9/11 itself was, in reality, a massive Full-Scale Anti-Terror Exercise comprising numerous smaller exercises and drills incorporating a massive demolition job? What says that the footage of the people standing at the windows and images of the jumpers isn’t staged? What says that the alleged dead people didn’t comprise: real people who were given new identities, already dead or dead-soon-after people and made-up people (see lack of reality of alleged flight attendant, Betty Ong, and Nishi-Nippon Bank employees, Kazuhiro Anai and Takuya Nakamura)? What says that the loved ones aren’t actors, a few of whom may well have lost someone but not someone who died on 9/11?

An argument often presented against fakery of death is, “But I know someone who …”. As we know that at least some people who allegedly died on 9/11 were real people, they had to be known by others. I, myself, know someone whose insurance agent allegedly died in one of the towers. The Full-Scale Exercise (FSE) hypothesis accommodates this reality as we can simply infer that the real, still-alive people who agreed to participate would be given new identities in the same way people in Witness Protection programs are without telling most people they know. Where these people disappear who knows?, however, not being privy to this part of the puzzle doesn’t in any way invalidate the FSE hypothesis because the evidence of it from numerous angles is very clear and there is not a single clear piece of purported evidence for death and injury that cannot easily fit the FSE hypothesis; if death and injury were real this simply wouldn’t be the case - not to say that no one died or was injured, it’s quite possible, perhaps even probable that a few people died and/or were injured, but there is no clear evidence of it.

My final question

What are the psychological, intellectual, spiritual and societal effects of pushing out a story of a massive real terror event that casts aspersions on people of a particular religion, using a false dilemma propaganda strategy where people are faced with a “Sophie’s choice” as stated by Gerard Holmgren in the headlining quote. Either the event was:

A. a terror attack where a bunch of extremists armed with boxcutters brought the mightiest nation in the world to its knees or

B. a terror attack staged by the mightiest nation in the world that included the killing of its own people purely for the purposes of staging the event

when it was really C. just a massive demolition job in the guise of a massive exercise in yet another guise as a real event?

What does this kind of event that has been perpetrated on us relentlessly for centuries (see The Great Fire of London – Cui Bono? and Gunpowder, Treason & Plot), if not millennia, do to us?

The False Dilemma propaganda strategy has also been used in other events including the post-9/11 anthrax attacks, JFK, Pearl Harbour and the 1980 Bologna Station bombing as the evidence clearly shows that JFK’s alleged assassination was not only not committed by a lone gunman but that it wasn’t committed by anyone as it was faked - the questions of why and what happened to him I have no answer for. Like 9/11, the evidence shows that Pearl Harbour and Bologna Station were evacuated bombings.

Addendum: Bonus anomalies

ABC-7 reporter, Nina Paneda, tells us at the World Trade Centre, “It looks like a ghost town. There are federal agents with guns standing outside the federal buildings, clearing people out. The only thing left in the street are people’s shoes as they ran out of their shoes to escape the firebombs and the explosions.”

ABC-15 News reports interview by radio talkshow host Preston Westmoreland with flight instructor (disguised voice) of Top Gun terrorist, Hani Hanjour, who executed expert manoeuvre into US Defence HQ.

Newscaster: What kind of student was Hani Hanjour? A slow learner who started concerning his flight instructor when he refused to land the plane or practice stalls or steep turns.
Voice of flight instructor: He would just refuse, he would start crying, you know, he would refuse to do it, he would beg with me, plead with me not to …
Newscaster: Hanjour’s instructor even said he had to cancel several flights because his student was so emotional and when he saw what Hanjour did there was a feeling that a trust was violated.

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