My older sister had afriend in highskool, who read alot( too much maybe) and decided to write a book. This book was finshed and on its way to publishers when 9/11 happened. When the book reached the publishers, they refused to publish it. Why? Because it told exactly what would happen on 9/11, the way Bush would react, the way the country reacts, the only thing is, the person in the story was fake. Though she went through much trouble trying to explain that she wrote it before 9/11, they wouldnt publish it because they thought it would cause a riot....Hmm...Kool,huh?
Posted by Nato (Member # 1448) on :
quote:http://www.andrew-may.com/lgm.htm said: The pilot episode of the Fox TV series The Lone Gunmen, which first aired in March 2001, involved a conspiracy theory as persuasive as anything which emerged post-9/11. In that episode, the Lone Gunmen (three characters who will be familiar to viewers of The X-Files) uncovered a plot by a group of Pentagon officials who were unhappy with the decline in defence spending following the end of the Cold War. The plotters seized control of a domestic airliner en route from Washington DC to Boston (not by hijacking it, but by hacking into its flight control computer), and set it on a collision course for New York’s World Trade Center. Their reasoning was that in the wake of such a high-profile atrocity, extremists around the world would be quick to claim responsibility, an outraged government would declare an all-out war on terrorism, and defence budgets would soar. In the TV version, the Lone Gunmen foiled the plotters, saving the plane and the Twin Towers. Tragically, in the real world six months later there was no such happy ending. Whether or not the US military/industrial complex really was behind the attacks, there’s no denying that it’s profited from them. The pilot episode was omitted from the Sci-Fi channel’s UK run of The Lone Gunmen, but a full transcript (on which my knowledge of the episode is based) can be found at this address