In another post, the subject of holocost deniers and doubters was brought up. This got me thinking.
How can we prove that the holocost actually happened, or any historical event actually took place for that matter?
For me, it starts with my own personal experience. In 2004, I worked second shift in a convenience store for nearly a year. There was one regular customer who would always come in wearing a VFW baseball cap. I believe he said he was 82. He had been in Germany in WW2. One night, after he'd purchased his regular brand of cigarettes, he stood at the counter, as he often did, to chat for a bit. He told me his story of how he had been detailed to help in the clean up of one of the nazi concentration camps. It was one of the lesser known ones, so I don't remember the name he told me. He told me that by the time he got there, all the survivors had already been removed. But there were still the skelital remains of people lying in the gas chambers and in the baracks. He painted a frightening picture of the situation those people had lived through. He had enough personal detail that corresponded with the historical record, that I had no doubt that he was actually there. So proof #1 is an eye witness account.
In the winter of 1988, I had the opportunity to travel to Germany myself. The guide I was with and I became friends, he even brought me to his house to meet his wife and son. Lovely woman. One day, we began to discuss the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and the imminent re-integration of East Germany. This conversation lead back to a discussion of the reason it was built in the first place, which gave me an opportunity to discuss with him the concentration camps. I asked him how the German people felt about what happened. He said that they all felt very sorry for what Germany had done, but that most, if not all, the people involved were dead, and the German people just wanted to put it behind them and move on. He said they didn't want to forget about it, but that they did not want to be faced on a day to day basis with the terrible things their uncles and grandfathers had done. So proof #2, the country involved acknowledges that it actually happened, even throughout their private citizenry.
I have seen many first hand news reals of the people in those camps, as have most other people in the world. Seen the evidence on film of their living conditions, seen some of the only surviving documents from those camps, the lists of the names who were killed there written by the military officials who were doing those deeds. These were official German military documents. Proof #3, comes in the way that we can confirm most historical events, normal documents from the people participating in them.
So, why is there little evidence still around? Well, that's not so hard to figure out. You see, when the allies invaded Germany, the nazi command knew their days were numbered. Documents, movies, pictures, were consistantly destroyed by all branches of their military, including the staff of those concentration camps, in order to cover up what they knew was a terrible humanitarian crime. The majority of the German population did not even know of the existence of these camps, the knowledge was confined to the small villages that were near them, and the people in those villages mostly didn't want to know what was happening there. They were a very well guarded secret. Also, because the German people don't want to have that era of their country staring them in the face, as is normal for anyone, all but one, i believe, of those camps has been destroyed. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember reading last year that the last known survivor of those camps died. Nearly all the ally personnel with first hand involvement are now dead. When I moved to a new job, I never saw my friend again. He was 82, and this was 4 years ago, and he could very well be dead also. So any eyewitnesses to those events are most likely dead by now.
Let's look at this in another way. How do we know that it was actually civilian aircraft that caused the distruction of 9/11? By the time the news was breaking, the first tower had already been hit, and there is very little photographic evidence of what actually hit it. In fact, while the story was breaking and all the news cameras were rolling, the news casters still didn't really know what it was until a few minutes later when they captured another plane flying into the second tower. Those images are the only evidence the public has that it was actually aircraft that hit any of the targets. And there are very few of those available to the public.
For the pentagon, there is no photographic evidence. Even though there were over 100 security cameras from neighboring buildings that had the wall framed in their view, none of those tapes have been viewed, because within minutes of the event, FBI and CIA agents were combing those buildings and collecting those tapes, which have been sequestered for 'security reasons'. And from all official reports, there were only a few small pieces of evidence that it was an airplane, it is said to have vaporized on impact.
In pennsylvania, there is no photographic evidence, and only the word of one farmer that a plane was even in the vacinity. There was absolutely no physical evidence of a plane crash in that field, only a large hole. This is somewhat suspicious, since even a bomb, a device that is constructed to vaporize on impact, will often leave some physical evidence behind.
So, do we know that the pentigon was attacked and partially destroyed? Yes, there is a multitude of physical and photographic evidence of the aftermath. Do we know what actually caused the distruction? Well, that is not so clear cut.
Do we know the towers were destroyed? Yes, there is a mountain of physical and photographic evidence of the aftermath. Do we know what actually caused the distruction? Well, with at least one tower, we have the photographic evidence and eye witness accounts that it was an airplane. But there is some doubt as to whether this was a military or a civilian craft. There are eye witness accounts of the plane striking the first tower, but as yet, I've not seen any photographic evidence of this event. If there is some out there, could you please supply it to me? And understandably, there is no physical evidence of either aircraft that has ever been found. There are a few recordings of conversations between aircraft and ground control, supposedly from the aircraft involved, but those have some doubt connected with them. There are recordings of telephone conversations from a few of the passengers on a couple of those planes, but they are somewhat dubious also. I'm not saying they weren't genuine, just that they have been called into question, and those questions were never satisfied, so there is doubt left.
Here's my point. NONE of the people who were on these aircraft survived. No recount from those who lived it, as were thousands of accounts from jews that lived for years in the concentration camps, and helped in the distruction of their own race, willingly or not. Strong, undesputable evidence that the camps existed and were involved in the attempted genocide of German jews is preserved and on display for the world public. But strong evidence that there were 4 civilian aircraft involved in 9/11, does not exist, or if it does, it is not available to the world public. In 2, 3, 4 decades from now, when all the eye witnesses who were on the ground that day are dead, and these suspicions begin to rise, there will be those who say it was not civilian aircraft, and have much more compelling reasons for doubt than anyone can possibly have for the holocost. There is more evidence of the holocost than there is of the Spanish Armada in 1588, but no one doubts the validity of those events.
To sum this up, if anyone has any reason to doubt that the holocost took place, then they have MUCH more reason to doubt that it was civilian aircraft involved in 9/11.
Weighing the evidence in the balance of the only way humans can, the holicost event happened, just as it has been discribed to us today.
