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(More customer reviews)One thing that potential buyers should be aware of is that this not really a 144 page book because it is set in extra-large type. It is just over 15,000 words (i.e. a little more than 5x longer than this review), if normal size type had been used the "book" would be only 1/4 - 1/3 as long. So for $10 plus shipping you'll get a 40 or so page essay that the author had to self-publish, by contrast 350 - 700 page commercially published books by Griffin, Tarpley and Ruppert (which I think are crappy too) go for $12 - $18.
The author claimed "I use the large font so my wife can read it." [1] I find that hard to believe because as noted above the use of jumbo size text increased the page count 3 - 4x and thus increased his publishing costs by a similar proportion [2]. Obviously he knows that he can easily change type size on the computer screen or print out a large type copy for his `significant other'. Presumably then the real reason was that he knew people would be unlikely to spend over $10 for a 30 - 40 page "book".
But it's like the Groucho Marx's joke about one old lady complaining that a restaurant's food is bad and her friend not only concurring but adding "and the portions are small too". The book is a good example of why even within the "truth" movement `no planers' are considered crackpots. `Debunkers' repeatedly point out that `truthers' rarely explain what exactly they think happened that day; Mr. Hartwell to his credit tries to do so but his account is marred by tortured logic and factual errors.
=== FLIGHTS 11 AND 77 AND THE BTS ===
One of his central theories is that Flights 11 and 77 never took off Logan and Dulles and were never even scheduled to fly because they did not show up on a Bureau of Transportation Statistics webpage [pg 11]. He further went on to speculate that they were replaced by decoy planes [pgs 12, 44, 57] which he believes took off from the same airports despite there being no sign of them in the same BTS database. He also chose to ignore that the theory spelled out above is patently absurd. As I pointed out to him on an Internet forum:
"The amount of people who would have to be "in on it" or otherwise silenced is prohibitively large and would have included all the AA ticket agents at Logan and Dulles and the ones for feeder flights at other airports (and probably for the entire US since the systems are linked), dozens or more flight controllers, baggage and security crews at Logan and Dulles, the people claiming to be next of kin of those on the flights as well as personnel from the NYC Medical Examiner's offices as well as any travel agents or users of sites like Orbitz who happened to look up flights from Logan or Dulles to LAX that morning etc etc. The idea that the PTB/CIA/ONI/PNAC/MIBH etc would put together this elaborate plot to murder thousands, involving hundreds of people etc, etc would be unwilling or able to fake a BTS list is mind boggling."[3]=== PASSENGER AND CREW PARTICIPATION IN THE PLOT ===
Hartwell repeatedly demonstrated that he will rationalize away any compelling evidence which contradict his fantasies. He did so in a particularly repulsive manner regarding the calls from Flight 11:
+++QUOTE ON+++
There are two reported calls from Flight 11, from Betty Ong and Madeline Sweeney. Their calls are reported as starting at 8:19 A.M. and 8:25 A.M.
Regardless of what types of phones were used, Ong and Sweeney could have made or had their calls made from another location (perhaps the actual Flight 11 plane on the ground) and continued until word came that the South Tower had been struck at 8:46. [pg 86]
+++QUOTE OFF+++In other words they were 'in on it', they were perpetrators not victims. He didn't limit this offensive speculation to the heroic stewardesses, he declared that he concluded that the "passengers" (use of 'scare quotes' his) were part of the plot and left "their family and friends...[and] agree[d] to participate in [the] plot...[because they saw 9/11 as] an opportunity to change United States policies and fight what they perceive as a greater evil...Some passengers could have been blackmailed into participating" he admited that, "this conclusion comes not from eyewitness or other solid evidence, but rather logic." [pgs 92 - 3] unfortunately all manners of lunatics think their beliefs are logical.
=== FLIGHT 1989 ===
Another of his theories is that two flights made emergency landings in Cleveland rather just Delta 1989 as per the official version. The basis for this are some discrepancies between media accounts regarding the landing time, number of passengers aboard and other details. Some said 10:10 and others 10:45, some said about 200 PAX other about 70. This ignores that it is common for mistakes to be made in breaking news accounts [e.g "Dewey Wins", "Giffords Killed"].
- Landing Time:
He assumes that the `earlier' flight was 1989 and dubbed the latter "an unidentified plane" and speculates that it was really United 175. However he neglected to inform his readers that the media accounts he cited referring to BOTH landing times described it as being a Delta flight or specifically Delta 1989. For example:
"Delta Flight 1989 made an emergency landing at Hopkins about 10:45 a.m"
"There also was uncertainty and fear for several hours at Hopkins while authorities searched a Delta airliner forced to land there for signs of terrorist sabotage...The scene inside the air traffic control tower yesterday morning at Hopkins was sober and calm as controllers brought down the Delta, a 767 from Boston, that was feared to have been sabotaged...The flight to Los Angeles landed at Hopkins at 10:45 a.m."
He can not claim he was unaware of this because 1) I pointed it out to him on the aforementioned forum back in November [4]. 2) the 1st quote and part of the 2nd appear on a webpage he cited [5]. Additionally the 9/11 Timeline, which he cited several times, said it landed at 10:18 but "other accounts will say it lands at between 10:33 a.m. and 10:45" and provided links to an FAA document (10:33) and two AP articles which reported that Delta "flight 1989" a 767 from Boston to LA "landed about 10:45 a.m." [6]
- Number of Passengers:
Most accounts said there were "about 60 passengers" or 69 PAX and nine crew members but Hartwell pointed out that, "early press reports said a plane at the [Cleveland] airport had 200 passengers" [pg 61]. However he failed to inform his readers that with one exception the reports attribute or seem to attribute the number to "Cleveland Mayor Michael White" speaking at a press conference, [7] none of the accounts mentioned his location so it is doubtful he was at the airport. The exception was a reporter for a Cleveland radio station who said, "A few hours after Mayor White's first news conference, FBI Special Agent Mark Bullock confirmed that the Delta jet with 200 people aboard had landed safely and had not been in danger" [8] but the number seems not to have come from the FBI agent because:
1) A 11:37 AM 9/11 forum post (cited by Hartwell's source) said "The mayor of Cleveland has announced that an airplane containing 200 passengers has been sequestered at the Cleveland Hopkins Airport" (i.e. the number was cited less than 90 minutes after the plane landed not hours after the mayor's news conference) [9].
2) A 9/11 article from AP which cited Bullock reported "78 passengers aboard" [that was a minor error, there were 78 people {PAX and crew} on it] [10]
- 1989 or 175:
Hartwell thinks that the "2nd plane" was probably flight 175 because it, "had the capability and the opportunity to take Flight 11 passengers (to make 157) and its whereabouts were reasonably in question" [pg 17]. There are a few problems with this absurd theory.
1) There is absolutely no evidence passengers from another flight, let alone another airline, being transferred to 175. I have never heard of passengers from one airline being transferred to a competitor's flight except in the case of mechanical problems.
2) Flight 175 took off at 8:14 [11]and flight time from Logan to Cleveland is only about 68 minutes [12]. By 10:45, 2 ½ hours later if the plane had not been hijacked it would have been half way to LA [13] Probably over Iowa or Nebraska [14]
3) The flight's "whereabouts were NOT reasonably in question", its transponder was only turned off for 30 seconds before being reset it was tracked from Boston to NYC air traffic controllers at NY Center and Newark Airport, the latter of whom also see it through their windows for its last few minutes [15].
4) It was also tracked by several workers at United's crisis center in Chicago. [16]
5) 27 of the passengers and crew had their remains identified (26 via DNA) by the NYC Medical Examiners Office [17]. Hartwell knows this but made contradictory claims about it in his "book" (more on this below).
- Flights 175 and 93 Wheels -off Times:
Because the FAA and NTSB said Flight 175 took off at 8:14 but the BTS said it did so at 8:23 Hartwell speculated that the first was "a decoy" and the second carried the passengers [pgs 54 -7] and due to a similar contradiction between the BTS and press accounts regarding the take off time for Flight 93 [pgs 58 - 60] he speculated there might have two of the latter as well. Hilariously he added "but I cannot prove it" as if he offered anything approaching evidence (let alone proof) there were two 175s. Nor does ever offer a coherent explanation as to why the conspirators would not only make the plot complex but leave traces in the offical record.
=== IDENTIFICATION OF...Read more›
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Were planes really hijacked on 9/11?What is the credible evidence that any planes were overtaken by anyone?Were there any planes with passengers associated with the attacks?The "evidence" given to the public of hijackings came through the phone calls made by \'passengers" supposedly at elevations higher than a cell phone can be used.You will read further that many of the \'conversations" have internal contradictions and contradict each other.Furthermore, no credible videotape of any of the so-called "hijackers" at any of the airports in question has ever surfaced.A tape released in 2004 that was purportedly of hijackers at Dulles Airport on 9/11 has been challenged widely for its lack of date and time of recording.Nor has any independent authority ever established the finding of the remains of any of the \'passengers" at the crime scenes. And there is no record of any pilot taking a few seconds to punch in the emergency code that pilots are taught to use in hijackings!Instead, the plotters spread the phony story of nineteen hijackers to scare the public into believing that a group of Muslims, acting under orders from radicals who hate the United States, committed an unspeakable atrocity on our soil.The official story needed scapegoats and a motive for them to act against us. The use of hijacker names and pictures in the mainstream media shortly after the event also began to lock up a verdict of guilty against Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda and all other "terrorists" in the public mind without a trial by reasoned inquiry.But the clinching blow was the selling of the story of hijackings by people who do not look typical to the majority of those in the United States, terrified passengers calling loved ones on cell phones and their horrifying deaths in New York, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.Read Planes without Passengers: the Faked Hijackings of 9/11 to find out why this story is not at all true.
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