by Abel Ellis

Created on: November 28, 2009

Reframing 911: Evidence of Conspiracy

If our own government was responsible for the deaths of almost a hundred thousand people... would you really want to know? Inspector Finch in the 2005 film V for Vendetta saw innumerable coincidences, a certain chain of events that did not make sense to him concerning his government's actions (Internet Movie Database [IMDb], 2005, 1). This parallel's the events of September 11, 2001. The official reports had the general population believe that the incident was an accident. That is until the second plane stuck the World Trade Center. Then, the horrors of the imagination in the minds of every American became all too true - we were under attack. After the rush of the most tragic terrorist attack in the history of the United States, people began to ask why it happened. They turned primarily to the media, television, and supporting internet sites for the answers. The footage of the twin towers falling to their defeat repeated and repeated as if a broken record kept playing. The media served its role in serving the information the public demanded; albeit, all too well. Experts were lined up to testify against the structure and design of the World Trade Center as well as historians of the Middle East, top government officials, and independent survivors of the World Trade Center. The message was clear and set in the public's mind at a crucial and early stage in the thought process: the towers collapsed because the fire was too hot for the building to support itself. If the media is all showing the same story, it must be right, right? No one even thought otherwise at least not yet.

November 5th, 1605, a man by the name of Guy Fawkes dared to oppose those authorities. The day known in England as the attempt of the Gunpowder Plot, Guy Fawkes was arrested and tried for treason for trying to blow up Westminister Palace with the hopes of killing King James I. Fawkes knew that the forces of power in higher echelons were more dangerous to the country than foreign enemies. His attempt was not simply an organized murder attempt, but the killing of an ideology, a political statement and stance for the good of the people. Four hundred years later, the need for questions and action is still needed. Rhetoric and argumentation has largely replaced murder, and is a very effective tool: one that we should apply to September 11 (Wikipedia, Guy Fawkes 1).

There are several theories and opinions of individuals and experts alike concerning the true

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