American expat aims to raise funds to ‘recreate’ 9/11 in countryside

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American expat aims to raise funds to ‘recreate’ 9/11 in countryside
By Coconuts Bangkok



BANGKOK: -- A delusional American expat living in Thailand has publicly announced a plan to finally get to the bottom of a 9/11 conspiracy theory – he just needs THB10 million to make it happen.

Over the years, speculation that the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington DC were fake has grown steadily amongst a certain type of armchair internet theorist. File these people somewhere between “Elvis Presley is alive” and “staged NASA moon landings.”

One 9/11 conspiracy theory postulates that the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers in New York defied Newton’s law of motion. Now, 15 years later, an American man believes he can end that debate once and for all here in Thailand.

Paul Salo, an American entrepreneur based in Asia, announced in a homemade video filmed in Bangkok that he wants to raise USD300,000 (THB10.5 million) to buy an airplane similar to the ones used in the World Trade Center attack and a building in a remote area to recreate 9/11 using auto-pilot.

Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2016/05/10/american-expat-aims-raise-funds-recreate-911-countryside

-- Coconuts Bangkok 2016-05-11

[chiang mai]

A delusional American expat, trying to debunk delusional American conspiracy theories, in Thailand, such irony.

[SpokaneAl]

Sounds like something from The Onion.

[BwindiBoy]

I'm assuming the "delusional" bit is the cost. The way building 7 went down, it's clear to all that something was not all it has been reported to be.

[chiang mai]

Here we go!

[Thechook]

Americans.

[Bluespunk]

Cuckoo cuckoo

[Bluespunk]

“Several people have estimated costs to recreate 9/11 and they usually are about USD3 million. We are trying to do it for 10 percent of that," said Paul.

"I wanna fly that sucker in there and see what happens," he said in the video. "We're gonna prove it once and for all: Was 9/11 a hoax or was it real?"

Let me save you some time and money on that...it was real.

"We deserve to find out what happened.”

We already know what happened.

[ChrisY1]

Obviously been here far too long......the Thai psyche has attached!

[NCC1701A]

I am an American and I am crazy for being in Thailand but I don't even do this sh*t.

I am sure many of us have met people who believe in all sorts of strange things and start talking with great conviction about their unbelievable theories.

Sad as this man can't even make one valid point during his video without getting the facts wrong and talking about using Go Pro cameras and "not letting anyone mess with them".

Mildly paranoid at this point, in another 10 years he will be talking to himself on a street corner.

Believe me. I lived in California the UFO capital of the world. Please. YOU MUST BELIEVE ME. THEY'RE HERE! THEY'RE HERE!

Wait. someone has changed my post. LOOK. YOU SEE IT RIGHT?

[nausea]

Maybe not so delusional, sounds like it could be a nice little earner.

[canuckamuck]

The only skyscrapers to ever fall into their own footprint because of a fire, all fell on the same day at the same place, but at different times.

One didn't even appear to have been heavily damaged and it's fall was reported on BBC several minutes before it actually fell.

A very strange day indeed.

[daoyai]

Maybe he he should do it in Saudi Arabia, they have the experience, expertise and piles of money.

[Bluespunk]

The only skyscrapers to ever fall into their own footprint because of a fire, all fell on the same day at the same place, but at different times.

One didn't even appear to have been heavily damaged and it's fall was reported on BBC several minutes before it actually fell.

A very strange day indeed.

Not that strange if you look for the facts

"It turns out that the respected news agency Reuters picked up an incorrect report and passed it on. They have issued this statement:

"On 11 September 2001 Reuters incorrectly reported that one of the buildings at the New York World Trade Center, 7WTC, had collapsed before it actually did. The report was picked up from a local news story and was withdrawn as soon as it emerged that the building had not fallen."

From

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/07/controversy_conspiracies_iii.html

Here's some facts about what happened.

http://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_9_11_truth_movement_the_top_conspiracy_theory_a_decade_later

Edited May 11, 2016 by Bluespunk

[Smiley Face]

After reading this thread, it seems that the expat American fruitcake may have some company. He should try promoting his crusade here on TV. Sounds like he can get some supporters.

[tracker]

The man is thinking outside the box. Not common here....

[theguyfromanotherforum]

He needs 10mil for sinsod

[JeremyBowskill]

I have a theory man can actually breath underwater, chuck yerself in pal and we shall see.

[Bluespunk]

The man is thinking outside the box. Not common here....

No, he's not thinking at all.

Conspiracy theorists fantasize, they don't think.

[JeremyBowskill]

The only skyscrapers to ever fall into their own footprint because of a fire, all fell on the same day at the same place, but at different times.

One didn't even appear to have been heavily damaged and it's fall was reported on BBC several minutes before it actually fell.

A very strange day indeed.

Not that strange if you look for the facts

"It turns out that the respected news agency Reuters picked up an incorrect report and passed it on. They have issued this statement:

"On 11 September 2001 Reuters incorrectly reported that one of the buildings at the New York World Trade Center, 7WTC, had collapsed before it actually did. The report was picked up from a local news story and was withdrawn as soon as it emerged that the building had not fallen."

From

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/07/controversy_conspiracies_iii.html

Here's some facts about what happened.

http://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_9_11_truth_movement_the_top_conspiracy_theory_a_decade_later

Easy to release a statement after the fact to substantiate whatever you like, not that I agree or disagree with this fella, I really just don't care. I have looked at both sides and come to the conclusion knowing which one is correct doesn't bring back the dead.

Edited May 11, 2016 by JeremyBowskill

[Bluespunk]

The only skyscrapers to ever fall into their own footprint because of a fire, all fell on the same day at the same place, but at different times.

One didn't even appear to have been heavily damaged and it's fall was reported on BBC several minutes before it actually fell.

A very strange day indeed.

Not that strange if you look for the facts

"It turns out that the respected news agency Reuters picked up an incorrect report and passed it on. They have issued this statement:

"On 11 September 2001 Reuters incorrectly reported that one of the buildings at the New York World Trade Center, 7WTC, had collapsed before it actually did. The report was picked up from a local news story and was withdrawn as soon as it emerged that the building had not fallen."

From

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/07/controversy_conspiracies_iii.html

Here's some facts about what happened.

http://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_9_11_truth_movement_the_top_conspiracy_theory_a_decade_later

Easy to release a statement after the fact to substantiate whatever you like, not that I agree or disagree with this fella, I really just don't care. I have looked at both sides and come to the conclusion knowing which one is correct doesn't bring back the dead.

I completely disagree with him, he's a nut job.

[JeremyBowskill]

The only skyscrapers to ever fall into their own footprint because of a fire, all fell on the same day at the same place, but at different times.

One didn't even appear to have been heavily damaged and it's fall was reported on BBC several minutes before it actually fell.

A very strange day indeed.

Not that strange if you look for the facts

"It turns out that the respected news agency Reuters picked up an incorrect report and passed it on. They have issued this statement:

"On 11 September 2001 Reuters incorrectly reported that one of the buildings at the New York World Trade Center, 7WTC, had collapsed before it actually did. The report was picked up from a local news story and was withdrawn as soon as it emerged that the building had not fallen."

From

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/07/controversy_conspiracies_iii.html

Here's some facts about what happened.

http://www.csicop.org/si/show/the_9_11_truth_movement_the_top_conspiracy_theory_a_decade_later

Easy to release a statement after the fact to substantiate whatever you like, not that I agree or disagree with this fella, I really just don't care. I have looked at both sides and come to the conclusion knowing which one is correct doesn't bring back the dead.

I completely disagree with him, he's a nut job.

I am suspicious as to how planes get through the most guarded airspace in the world and his the most guarded building without so much as a picture of it. Could be another Pearl Harbor but not my country to really care about or pass comment on.

[DGS1244]

Money would be better spent in controlling Soi dogs at least they are real.

[simon43]

I quote from the Official Website of the Tourist Authority of Thailand (http://www.tourismthailand.org/About-Thailand/Passport-Visa) (My bold/underline)

"It should also be noted that foreigners who fall into any of the following categories are prohibited from entering the Kingdom:

* Those having no genuine or valid passport or document used in lieu of passport; or having a genuine and valid passport or document used in lieu of passport without obtaining a visa from a Royal Thai Embassy or Consulate in a foreign country or from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, except if a visa is not required for certain types of aliens in special instances.

* Having no appropriate means of living following entrance into the Kingdom.

* Having entered into the Kingdom to take occupation as a laborer, or to take employment by using physical energy without skills or training , or to work in violation of the Alien Work Permit Law.

* Being mentally unstable or having any of the diseases as prescribed in the Ministerial Regulations....."

[Crash999]

The only skyscrapers to ever fall into their own footprint because of a fire, all fell on the same day at the same place, but at different times.

One didn't even appear to have been heavily damaged and it's fall was reported on BBC several minutes before it actually fell.

A very strange day indeed.

How many jet planes have flown into skyscrapers?

Central World collapsed and it didn't even need jet fuel to weaken the steel.

[Emster23]

Evidence not only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid day sun.

[AlphMichaels]

Tool. Leveraging online to generate an income and little more. Google him. Look at LinkedIn profile for professional history. Stop by his "recently" created web blog.

[Kerryd]

Sounds more like a "send me money to do something" (which will never be done but many bar owners and bar girls will be made very happy). Almost like setting up a condo project that you never intend on building, especially after you've already spent all the money early investors have given you.

Nah, that would never happen in Thailand would it ?

[AlQaholic]

Obviously a last ditch scam, Unless you have an exact replica of a World Trade Center whatever you do with that Jumbo will not explain or prove anything.

[phantomfiddler]

10 million for the plane ? Where is the lucky building ? Not often we see complete drivel here, lots of nonsense on many occasions but, spare us