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  Posted in 9/11 on February 7th, 2010 by RoswellUFOs.com

  

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  Nathan Alexander, a media liaison at the Pentagon, survives the September 11th attack but tragically losses his wife in the event. Years after the tragedy, Nathan s suspicion leads him to discover that his wife had inside information of a major conspiracy within the U.S. government. While investigating into the conspiracy, Nathan comes across a computer hacker, Daniel Lewin, who is also interested in uncovering the truth about 9/11. Together, they use their com… More >>

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1. J. Dickson Says:
   February 7th, 2010 at 11:22 am

   It is hard to believe how gullible the foaming-at-the-mouth true believers are who highly recommend this travesty. Poorly written. Poorly argued. Poorly and misleadingly documented by simple distortions of the real facts. These deceptions are difficult to spot if you don't have any background in engineering or other hard sciences or if this is your only source for information about the events of 9/11. There are no credible engineers, physicists or other scientists who argue the "truther" line that is pitched in this novel masquarading as "serious" commentary.

   Of course the "truthers" lie about that as well, pretending that there are many scientists or engineers who support their own line of insanity.

   Give the whole idea of a massive conspiracy to blow up the WTC about 3 minutes of good solid thought. That is all you need to see through the idiocy of this whole argument. Do you really think that the vast world of engineers, academics, scientists etc are in on a "conspiracy" to blow up the towers? Certainly reputable academics, who hate the Bush adminstration with a purple passion, would hasten to "expose" any such conspiracy. Why have they remained silent? Are you now telling me that the world of academia is in on the conspiracy? Yah, right.

   Do you have any idea how many people and how complex such a consipracy would be? You would expect that someone in this massive conspiracy would have exposed the plot to murder thousands of innocents.

   Any single conspirator could come forward but not one has stepped up to expose the conspiracy. Not one person out of a conspiracy that must necessarily involve many people has taken the step. Now that is not hard to believe, it is IMPOSSIBLE to believe.

   Your average government worker can't keep his or her mouth shut about office politics to say nothing of a massive conspiracy that would take literally hundreds if not thousands of people to execute.

   Give me a break. Common sense alone (an all too rare characteristic in this day and age) is enough to warn you off from the 911 conspiracy nonsense.

   The 911 "truthers" (read: deniers) are an embarrassment to real skeptics. They are of one with the nutjobs who deny that we ever went to the moon, or more to the point, the whack jobs who deny the Holocaust.

   Take the time to read serious refutations of the 911 "truthers" by real scientists and engineers Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts[[ASIN:B000IHZMZS Debunking 9/11; It's time to finally put the conspiracy theories to rest]. or view DVDs [see the History Channel DVD on 9/11]. Check out SKEPTIC magazine's serious scientific analyses of the many misleading claims and outright lies made by the "truthers" in their numerous self-referential works]. The "truthers conspiracy argument" has been debunked numerous times as sheer nonsense that is is.

   It is hard to explain the passionate irrational conspiracy mentality. The 911 "truthers" are actually deniers of reality, much as are Holocaust deniers.

   You have to give the author credit though. By disguising nonsense as a "novel" he can't be held to any standards of truth for his wild-eyed nutty unsupported and unsupportable speculations.

   Save your money and your sanity. Stay away from this mind numbing garbage.
   Rating: 1 / 5

2. B. Marold Says:
   February 7th, 2010 at 11:41 am

   `The American Truth', a novel by Nick Shelton, is a clever amalgam of an initial 39 `facts' about the September 11, 2001 attacks on the New York World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon, and some third unknown target aborted by the passenger heroics on that fourth hijacked plane. Be aware that Mr. Shelton solicited my review, and I hope he does not regret his very honest profession that he simply wanted to get my honest opinion on his book.
   
   My overall impression of the book is that it would have been stronger if it were cast as pure fiction, and therefore a pure work of imagination. The perfect precedent for this model is the play `MacBird', written and published a few years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. My memory of the play is dim, but I know it was a parody of Shakespeare's `Macbeth' with JFK in the role of King Duncan and LBJ in the role of Macbeth, Duncan's murderer. This was an outgrowth if the many speculations arising out of the seemingly improbable circumstances and missing information surrounding Kennedy's assassination. The play was even accepted as worthy of actually being produced and performed at the time, as a work of satirical fiction. I see real promise for a work of fiction based on Mr. Shelton's premise cast in the style of `Dr. Strangelove'. Unfortunately, Mr. Shelton is no Stanley Kubrick.
   
   Mr. Shelton's major premise is similarly based on gaps in evidence regarding the events of 9/11; however his primary weakness is in his wanting us to take his reconstruction of an alternate theory of perps, substituting a cabal of American neo-conservatives, headed by none other than President Bush, Vice President Chaney, and their fellow true believers in American domination of a `New World Order'.
   
   I cannot address all the issues in this short review; however, those I know about leave me with the impression that Mr. Shelton's evidence for his alternate theory, `the truth, no less', is roughly as strong as the evidence for flying saucers. And yes, I believe that evidence is pretty thin. At best, it is purely circumstantial, and the construction of this scenario is probably based more on the quite genuine evidence that the president and his staff are not entirely trustworthy.
   
   One piece of evidence Mr. Shelton presents is the improbability of a steel framed sky scraper being downed by an airliner crash. If the building were the Empire State Building, he would have been correct, as the outer walls of that skyscraper are indeed steel framed. The world trade center towers, on the other hand, had an inner core of steel, and the outer walls were really not much more than curtains dropped from the frame cantilevered out from the central core. This was explained in detail shortly after the event, and irony of ironies, there is even a video of Osama bin Laden's explaining how he expected the towers to fall the way they did because of that construction. In that very same video, it is quite obvious that bin Laden is delighting in the fact that he and his organization in fact planned and executed the attack.
   
   Another piece of evidence is the complete absence of videos of the plane crashing into the Pentagon, in contrast to the many films of the World Trade Center attacks. This is not convincing, as the Pentagon is relatively isolated from large crowds with lots of video cell phones and the like, while downtown Manhattan is probably newshound central, with a very high probability that a dozen or more cameras would catch the event, and they did. The premise that the attack could not have been made by a commercial jetliner, and was, instead done by a drone plane is simply too improbable for words. First, where did that jetliner, with the loss of over 60 passengers actually crash, if not into the Pentagon.
   
   One serious flaw in the author's argument is a faith that anything which appears on the internet somehow has the stamp of truth on it. I suspect exactly the opposite is true. Since anyone, at any time, can post statements on both a web site of their own creation or on a public web site such as Wikipedia or, can we believe it, Amazon.com means that you quote from the internet at your own risk, unless it happens to be a site such as `The New York Times' site, where published material is edited and checked for accuracy.
   
   Taken as pure fiction, I think the book is just a bit weak. The belief we are asked to suspend for the benefit of fiction is simply too farfetched, and the narrative is not skilled enough to get us caught up in the fictional premises. Too many historical and technical facts are simply wrong, such as the statement that TNT is an ingredient in cordite (they are two different types of explosives), and that the `neo-conservative' movement somehow started with Averill Harriman and other Kennedy era `cold warriors'. I may be wrong, but I'm virtually certain that the thing which most people call `neo-conservatism' was born among the supporters of Ronald Reagan during his Presidency.
   
   It's fun to see how Mr. Shelton manages to bring in virtually every pie-eyed conspiracy theory of the last 50 years, while ignoring the one TRUE conspiracy, Watergate! I also was just a bit put off by the large number of grammatical errors, very few of which were caught on the supplied Errata page.
   
   If I were to recommend this book to anyone, it would be as the subject for a legal or philosophical case study on how suspicions and missing information can be woven together to create a seemingly plausible fiction.
   
   Rating: 3 / 5

3. James B Says:
   February 7th, 2010 at 12:07 pm

   While I understand the author is just a student, so I am willing to give him a little leeway, this is a horribly researched and written book. Numerous factual errors aside (there is no oil pipeline through Afghanistan, Cordite is not used in explosives, Rumsfeld was not the former Defense Secretary at the time the novel takes place etc.) the writing is wooden and cliched. There is absolutely no character development at all, or development of any kind. Event A happens, character responds to event, event B happens, repeat.

   This is not all entirely the fault of the the author. There is an old saying that you should write what you know about, well it is obvious that this was written by a student with no experience in the real world (particularly working in government) and based entirely off of Internet searches, as he can't even get the basics right. I am sure the "truth" movement (his target audience) will eat it up, but it is a waste of time and money for anyone else.
   Rating: 1 / 5

4. Jan Michaels Says:
   February 7th, 2010 at 12:49 pm

   I thought it was a good book, and it is like a small Da Vinci Code. But just like with the Da Vinci Code, I am a little skeptical of the ideas that the author puts forth.

   The author is very slick in putting forth his ideas concerning the 9/11 tragedy. Shelton has a lot of good arguments, but I personally do not buy into the idea that the U.S. government was behind the attacks.

   I did enjoy how Shelton did not force his views onto the reader and allowed them to come to their own conclusions.
   Rating: 4 / 5

5. Casey Says:
   February 7th, 2010 at 1:20 pm

   The book presents it's ideas in a creative way. And I agree with all the other reviews that this is a really good story. But I really did not get into it because I don't have an interest in politics.

   The controversies behind 9/11 are interesting, and one can make them seem like there was a government coverup involved. But people can twist information so much that anything makes since.

   But like I said before, I'm not interested in politics and don't really feel like I am the one to judge whether there is more to the 9/11 attacks than we've been told.
   Rating: 4 / 5

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