On the issue of how politicians and governments take advantage of people during crises – the late, great author Michael Crichton dealt with this in a very good novel called State of Fear, which tackled the whole issue of Anthropogenic Global Warming – sorry, "climate change" – and pointed out that it was just the latest in a long series of boogeymen designed to keep us scared and compliant. Well worth reading.

I always hear someone say 'My uncle who is engineer (or whatever) said blah blah blah…'. Upon hearing this it sounds very believable, but then again other experts who join in the subject will give contrary evidence.

There is an awful lot of that stuff going around. The 9/11 Commission Report apparently argues very strongly against the conspiracy theory that the buildings fell because of controlled detonations. I haven't read it so I don't really have strong views one way or another.

I do think that U.S politicians have greatly dishonored them by using 9/11 as an excuse to attack their own citizens. Ever since then you hear about periodic Islamic attacks that the FBI or some othe shady government branch knew about it but not done anything. It just looks as if the goverment allows those attacks to take advantage of every 'crisis'.

Absolutely. Governments always use crises to arrogate to themselves more powers and more authority than they should reasonably be given.

The people who attacked America on 9/11 were Muslims – but instead of actually screening Muslims more thoroughly and preventing them from entering the USA and discouraging or even outright banning the spread of Mohammedanism, the US authorities decided to make life difficult for EVERYONE. Really brilliant idea, that…

I'm not discounting the deaths of the victims, but I do think that U.S politicians have greatly dishonored them by using 9/11 as an excuse to attack their own citizens. Ever since then you hear about periodic Islamic attacks that the FBI or some othe shady government branch knew about it but not done anything. It just looks as if the goverment allows those attacks to take advantage of every 'crisis'.