Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

You are not being truthful, Backes. You said:

"The hijackers raided the cockpits and killed the pilot."

There is no evidence of that. Barbara Olson told her husband, Solicitor General of the United States Ted Olson that the pilots on American 77 were herded to the back of the plane along with the passengers. She reported being near a pilot, and then near two pilots, but she never said a word about the pilots being dead or injured or attacked.

This is how CNN reported the Barbara Olson story:


“Barbara Olson, a conservative commentator and attorney, alerted her husband, Solicitor General Ted Olson, that the plane she was on was being hijacked Tuesday morning, Ted Olson told CNN.” According to this story, Olson reported that his wife had “called him twice on a cell phone from American Airlines Flight 77,” saying that “all passengers and flight personnel, including the pilots, were herded to the back of the plane by armed hijackers. The only weapons she mentioned were knives and cardboard cutters.”

Now, that says what it says, and it means what it means, and it's what I'm talking about, Backes. I'm saying that Captain Charles Burlingame would NEVER have been herded to the back of that plane. He would have fought- and fought to the death. 

But, you should know that everything that Ted Olson said has been called into question:

"The most serious official contradiction of Ted Olson’s story came in 2006 at the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker. The evidence presented to this trial by the FBI included a report on phone calls from all four 9/11 flights. In its report on American Flight 77, the FBI report attributed only one call to Barbara Olson and it was an “unconnected call,” which (of course) lasted “0 seconds.”9 According to the FBI, therefore, Ted Olson did not receive a single call from his wife using either a cell phone or an on-board phone."

"Ted Olson’s story has also been quietly rejected by the historians who wrote Pentagon 9/11, a treatment of the Pentagon attack put out by the Department of Defense.11
      According to Olson, his wife had said that “all passengers and flight personnel, including the pilots, were herded to the back of the plane by armed hijackers.”12 This is an inherently implausible scenario. We are supposed to believe that 60-some people, including the two pilots, were held at bay by three or four men (one or two of the hijackers would have been in the cockpit) with knives and boxcutters. This scenario becomes even more absurd when we realize that the alleged hijackers were all small, unathletic men (the 9/11 Commission pointed out that even “[t]he so-called muscle hijackers actually were not physically imposing, as the majority of them were between 5’5” and 5’7” in height and slender in build”13), and that the pilot, Charles “Chic” Burlingame, was a weightlifter and a boxer, who was described as “really tough” by one of his erstwhile opponents.14 Also, the idea that Burlingame would have turned over the plane to hijackers was rejected by his brother, who said: “I don’t know what happened in that cockpit, but I’m sure that they would have had to incapacitate him or kill him because he would have done anything to prevent the kind of tragedy that befell that airplane.”15

      The Pentagon historians, in any case, did not accept the Olson story, according to which Burlingame and his co-pilot did give up their plane and were in the back with the passengers and other crew members. They instead wrote that “the attackers either incapacitated or murdered the two pilots.”16

But wait, they are just pulling that out of the same place Backes stores his proscenium arches. Granted, they are applying my logic, that the pilots would NEVER have done what Barbara Olson said they did, but still, it belies logic to think that these slender, small Arab men could succeed at incapacitating or murdering pilots on 4 planes, and all before a single one of them could get off a distress signal.  

Backes, you need to read my post again on why box-cutters are puny as weapons go:

http://oswaldinthedoorway.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-other-thing-is-this-if-man-is.html

But, let's remember: the ONLY source of the box-cutter story was Barbara Olson. That's where it came from. It is the ONLY place it came from. And according to the FBI, Barbara Olson never spoke to her husband. 

So now you tell me how those small slender Arab men took out Charles Burlingame. You think maybe they knocked him out with chloroform? Put a tarantula in the cockpit? What? You said they raided the cockpit and murdered the pilot? How did they even breech the cockpit door? You can't even explain that. 

You're a fucking liar, Backes. You lie about JFK, and now you're lying about 9/11. But, I'm the guy who takes down you and your lies, and I don't need a box-cutter to do either one.