Red Jezza said:
whaaat?
are you pulling my chain?
No, but it looks like somebody is.
in the normal run of circumstances, there is FUCK ALL reason to doubt that a call was made from phone A to phone B, if that's what's there.
I'm afraid you seem to have lapsed into moonspuddery here Red... "In the normal run of circumstances"!?
So, what was "normal" about the "circumstances" running on September 11?
There are a multitude of reasons to doubt the veracity of the claims of "hijackings" in progress described in various "passenger" phone calls Red, not least of which is a rather glaring absence of HARD material evidence establishing the physical presence of any of the 19 alleged hijackers in any of the targeted airports and that they ever boarded any of the flights in question. No "Al-Qaeda" presence at any of the airports can only mean one thing: "Al-Qaeda" didn't board the flights and therefore, the aircraft couldn't possibly have been "hijacked" by them.
As for the calls themselves, several of them have a distinct ring of fakery about them. Like the guy who formerly introduced himself to his own mother: "mom? this is Mark Bingham" for example. Or what about the speed certain other calls were converted into sobbing joint prayer sessions at the early instigation of the callers (these will have played well in the bible belt market, don't you think?).
There's a body of evidence...
Pardon me Red, but clearly there is no "body of evidence" categorically establishing the presence of any of the 19 alleged hijackers in any of the targeted airports that morning, or that they ever boarded any of the targeted flights.
At the very least then the descriptions given of "hijackings" in progress by "passengers" in the "phone calls" cannot possibly have involved the 19 named "Al-Qaeda operatives," that is if they involved anyone at all.
What you and the rest of the usual suspects are desperately contriving not to grasp, is that real events always unfold in real time. That means in reality that the alleged hijackers must have been present in the targeted airports long BEFORE any of the "passengers" could make any of the alleged "phone calls."
Instead of simply recognizing this FACT, you are here frantically attempting to cover over the rather obvious real time evidence hole with a patch made from the moth eaten cloth of a rather obvious logical fallacy.
most of the whole world thinks those calls were made - that's important, and it's called consensus, unless you know better than the majority of the world's population.
I'm afraid your claim to knowing how world public opinion stands in regard to the phone calls can only be a wild and hysterical exaggeration Red. Take the population of Egypt, just for one example.
98 percent of the people of Egypt hold an unfavorable view of the US. My estimate would be that the vast majority of them will also view the "phone calls" with a great deal of skepticism too and rightly so. Or did you forget to factor in Arab public opinion when you concocted your earlier survey?
As for consensus, then the recent New York Zogby poll, along with a similar poll conducted in Canada in July, both clearly show—as does the poll on this thread—that a major polarizing shift in public opinion is taking place without much help at all it has to be said from either the mainstream media or the editor of these boards (why does the image of King Kanute enthroned before the ocean with his court together screaming (((((PHONE CALLS - DON'T FORGET THE PHONE CALLS)))) at the ever rising tide, spring into my mind at this point I wonder).
It looks to me as though that "open mind" of yours must have succumbed to what is commonly known as "group think", or a variant form known as "clique think". Let's hope it's only a temporary set back and you quickly regain the independence of your senses once again.
It's up to you, surely, to prove the calls were NOT made, or have I missed something here?
Yes, you've missed the elephant in the living room.