> Also, in a controlled demolition situation there is a characteristic sound of the many charges going off. This sound has been reported by many witnesses on 9/11. Of course they are all just people- office workers and the like, but even some firemen- so they aren't "authorities". But multiple explosions before the collapse are a common eye witness claim.

I happened to be able to observe a controlled demolition building across the street from my dorm room in undergrad. There's a distinctive set of sounds. Before the demolition starts, there was months of preparatory work, including concrete saws to cut out holes in the walls (those were particularly loud and noticeable from over a block away). The actual demolition had a few different kinds of charges going off, starting with a machine-gun-like rapid fire, followed by a few massive explosions in regular sequence.

If 9/11 were controlled demolition, it would be unlike any other controlled demolition I've heard of--a few sporadic explosions is not indicative of controlled demolition.

> I'm not sure how or why thermite would be involved.

The mysterious molten metal. Many conspiracy theorists hold that it's molten steel, and they invoke thermite to explain how to melt steel.

> I'm incredulous that the entire air force stood down for a day when just a year earlier they were on a rogue lear jet in 15 minutes after loosing contact with it.

KAL 007 was a civilian airliner that mistakenly flew over restricted Soviet airspace during a high-tension period of the Cold War. It took the Soviets about 2.5 hours to scramble a plane to shoot it down.

The flight you mention (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_South_Dakota_Learjet_cras...) appears to have gone 1.5 hours between loss of contact and first interception. This should also be countered with the fact that the transponder was on the entire time, and that intercepting planes were borrowed from wings already in the air. There was never any uncertainty about where the plane was, unlike a plan that turns off its transponder right before turning around 180°.

Intercepting the hijacked planes would have had to have been done within about 30-45 minutes of hijacking--requiring the FAA to notify the military of the hijacking, the military to scramble planes, search for the (transponder-less) aircraft among the other airplanes in the air (busy airspace!), and shoot it. If you think that's easy, go to <https://www.flightradar24.com/40.91,-76.43/7> and tell me how long it would take you to figure out which one of those planes was hijacked.

> Germans for years couldn't accept that the Holocaust had happened, and right under their noses. After all they arent[ monsters.

I recently read a book (The German War) which covered WWII from the perspectives of ordinary Germans. There was no delusion: everyone knew that the Holocaust was going on, but no one wanted to talk about it. The prelude to the total extermination of the Jews was the killing of mentally disabled, etc., populations, which was carried out with more secrecy (possible because it was much smaller scale), and met with some resistance by religious leaders--who decided not to repeat the ordeal when the much larger Holocaust actually went on.

If you want to believe that the towers were brought down by controlled demolition on the orders of the US government, then answer this: why is there nothing on Wikileaks about it?