The Decline and Fall of Jim Fetzer

[Tracy Riddle]

I suspected nothing except Al-Qaeda lunatics with boxcutters and 747's for years. It was actual some study I did on the JFK assassination that made the 9/11 truth movement not seem so far out, not to mention some parallels I saw in the set-up of patsies etc.. Now, thinking about it it does seem like we were trapped inside a massive demolition site.

Same here, Matt. I just thought the Bush administration was using the whole thing as an excuse to go to war, etc. A friend said, you gotta read CTR. I borrowed, then bought my own. My eyes started to open eleven years ago. Joining DPR gave me the context. I was definitely late to the party.

Thanks for your story. It's very powerful.

Would you happen to know what firefighters think now about 9/11? I understand they have been told to STFU.

I suspected something wasn't right the morning of 9/11 with the complete failure of airport security (and cockpit security on the planes), NORAD/FAA and the jet interceptors. You could not just have everybody, at all levels, failing to do their jobs simultaneously. That's a coincidence theory too far. But for many years I was stuck in the "let it happen" camp.

Coming from an engineering family, and working at an engineering company on 9/11, I heard a lot of people in that field express their first gut reaction - "They used explosives to bring those buildings down" - but then they all went silent once the official story came out. There was so much fear and cognitive dissonance associated with that event. People practice denial as a survival mechanism.