As for attempts to discuss 9/11, after "alarming" so many people who prefer their "snooze" buttons, I began looking for effective ways to get them thinking, which lead to using the following conversation. On every occasion, they become attentive, listen, and then seem to become quietly reflective. I've met with all kinds of vociferous reactions with other approaches, but never using these personally-observed, logical details to cast doubt on the government's conspiracy.
Snoozer: [insert your favorite provocation here] "Wow! Did you see that "Flight 93" movie? It was great!"
JG: No, but, I could stand here for hours reciting to you hundreds of details that prove the governments story about
9/11 is the biggest lie ever told. Let me tell you just TWO very simple ones that are based only on things YOU saw
with your own eyes.
Snoozer: OK
JG: Alright, so imagine you're a terrorist. You've managed to hijack a passenger jet. Even though flight school trainers
said you could barely fly a Cessna, you've managed to navigate all the way to the Pentagon. You're moments away from
dying in a fiery crash. OK?
Snoozer: Yeah
JG: So, now, all you have to do is crash into the Pentagon and Allah's commendation awaits you. You're approaching the
Pentagon at 500 mph. It has a 29-acre roof. Where would YOU, or anyone, aim that jet before closing your eyes to die?
Snoozer: (silent reflection usually)
JG: Would you aim for the 40-foot-high, vertical wall of the Pentagon -- somehow aiming the plane's second-floor-level
nosecone into the FIRST-floor-level wall -- yet not destroying the second-floor windows above or the grass below.
Or, would you quickly aim for that huge 29-acre roof!!!!!
Snoozer: (stunned silence usually)
[Just exactly how does an inexperienced pilot, in the "irrecoverable nose-dive" reported by a military-contractor who "watched the whole thing from his office window," then "recover" to proceed on a horizontal trajectory through numerous masonry walls? The contractor's e-mail reply to my feigned confusion was entertaining, if nothing else
]
JG: OK, now about the Trade Towers. How long would you say it'd take a concrete block to fall ten feet? Imagine it. A second? Two? A half-second?
Snoozer: I don't know. Maybe two seconds.
JG: OK, let's say two seconds. So the government theory says that burning jet fuel melted the steel, causing the upper floors to fall through onto the lower ones, thus "pan-caking" down floor by floor. So you estimated two seconds to fall one floor and there were 110 floors. So that equals 220 seconds, which is 3 1/2 minutes.
Now, remember watching it fall on TV? How long did it take to fall down? It took less than 15 seconds -- the same speed as those 250 who jumped to their deaths. The only way a building can fall down at the speed of a free fall is if it's demolished by explosives.
(Where do you think all that "dust" came from that now is causing a respiratory epidemic in NYC? Aside from the concrete, the building was full of asbestos insulation and fire-proofing which would've costs many millions to remove -- at least, using traditional, EPA-approved techniques -- that leave the building intact!)