The Pentagon 9/11 Truth & Disinformation
"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments" - Friedrich Nietzsche
Before reviewing any of the Pentagon crash site evidence we can be sure of one thing: there was no way the attackers could have known ahead of time that when the attack was all over that they alone would control of all images and/or videos of the attack. That the attack occurred in a highly-exposed area, during rush-hour on a weekday morning means they had to have presumed someone might just record it. A single image would reveal the lie. This is exactly what happened in Manhattan, when a documentary filmmaker working nearby heard a plane low overhead and swung his camera upwards just in time to catch the North Tower impact.
One of the most telling things about the claim that Flight 77 did not hit the pentagon is that it would have served no conceivable purpose or benefit from the perspective of the attackers, while adding numerous additional and unnecessary complications. The notion that no commercial airliner hit the pentagon does not even qualify as a hypothesis because it does not explain observations. In fact, it goes counter to the substantial body of evidence we do have.
The function of the no planes meme is obvious: to associate nonsensical claims with 911 Truth, there-by discrediting the legitimate evidence proving these were domestic crimes. That dozens of cameras ring the roof of the pentagon yet the only video released were five frames from a parking garage camera, shot through a fish-eye lens, is a transparent attempt to push the no planes meme. Just because footage of impact was never released does not mean it did not exist. To even suggest such a thing is ludicrous. It simply means those in control chose to not release it and mostly likely, destroyed it, just like they did the hundreds of tons of evidence at Ground Zero. Watch David Chandler's "Going Beyond Speculation" and read the papers linked below.
The idea that no large commercial aircraft hit the pentagon was out of the gate almost immediately. The first person to spread this idea widely was French journalist Thierry Meyssan in a book published within 90 days of the attacks, and subsequently translated into dozens of languages. [see: The Complete No Planes on 9/11 Timeline The same book was reprinted again and again, with minor changes (like CIT did with its 'documentary') using different titles for subsequent editions over the years, i.e. "L'effroyable imposture", "11. September. Der inszenierte Terrorismus," "La Terrible Impostura," "Le Pentagate", "O pentagate", "L'incredibile menzogna. Nessun aereo è caduto sul Pentagono," "Pentagate Hunt The Boeing," "L'incredibile menzogna", "9/11: The Big Lie" etc. Based on nothing other than the deceptive use of photographs and mischacterization of the size of the hole.
No Planes claims are designed to do a number of things. Not least of which is to be as offensive as possible by denying the victims even existed, or did not die at that location. No reason is ever given for how it would have benefited the terrorists to use a 'missile' or a" bomb", etc. rather than the already-hijacked Flight 77.
An interesting case to compare this to is that of TWA 800, where the official story says that a missile was not involved, yet over 100 eyewitnesses all said they saw a missile hit the plane. It was a blatant cover-up. *See the TWA 800 Documentary on YouTube, if it is still up. Eyewitnesses have no reason to lie. Although eyewitness accounts are considered one of the poorest forms of evidence in a courtroom, when there is a large body of concordant accounts, their value as evidence increases exponentially. If you have 100 people saying they saw the same thing , it is a pretty safe bet that is what happened. In this case we have a catastrophic event that left numerous trails forensic evidence.
Disinformation today is a finely-honed craft that exploits the way memory functions. Through the use of keywords, memes are formed that serve as triggers that create a conditioned emotional response through the pairing of ideas and our feelings about them. This way, they are spread like a virus, from person to person, throughout society.
They are far more sophisticated than might first seem to be the case, by targeting different groups (both inside and outside the Truth Movement) and co-opting people's best intentions.
Nonsense as a weapon is nothing new. What is particularly insidious about the no plane hit the pentagon claim is that it works in tandem with the claim that no planes hit the towers, i.e. that they were 'CGI on TV only', a much more transparently absurd claim. In this way, it hijacks the more plausible idea (based purely on a superficial review of the evidence) and associates the two using the same 'no plane/s-911 truth' meme in the minds of people already predisposed to not face the implications of this very disturbing reality.
Wayne Coste : Explanation of the Evidence at the Pentagon on 9/11 Narrated by David Chandler.
Blinked Views of
the Plane at the Pentagon
By David Chandler
Nonsense as a weapon - Jim Hoffman
Compilation of Pentagon Eyewitness Accounts
Honegger Hypothesis Refuted
Seeing the Pentagon Plane by David Chandler
Bringing Closure to a Manufactured Debate
The Pentagon Attack: What the Physical Evidence Shows by Jim Hoffman
Going Beyond Speculation - David Chandler
The Complete No Planes on 9/11 Timeline
history of the hoax
"Where's the plane?"
Images from the Germanwings suicide-mass murder crash into the Alps make for an interesting comparison because like the Pentagon impact you do not see anything that resembles a plane. And in the Alps, there was no building for most of the plane to go inside of, as was the case at the Pentagon.