Blame Environmentalists for 9/11! The World Trade Center towers collapsed, killing thousands, because of "environmentalist" scare-mongering. The World Trade Center towers were designed to withstand the impact of fully loaded 707 aircraft. Part of this design was asbestos insulation that would prevent burning aircraft fuel from melting the interior steel supports of the buildings. After the towers had been built to the 45th floor, however, the use of asbestos insulation was discontinued because of protests from environmentalists. The asbestos was regarded as too toxic to use. One engineer then predicted that a fire above 45th floor on either of the buildings would result in their collapse. He was right. Is asbestos really so hazardous? No. There are different mineralogical varieties of asbestos. Some varities are dangerous, and their fibers can cause nasty forms of lung cancer. Most of the asbestos mined and used in North American, on the other hand, is entirely harmless. The hysteria over asbestos in the World Trade Center, and most other places, was thus unncessary -- and dangerous. Asbestos has always been a superior fire-proofing insulation, which is why it was used in the first place. Leaving it out of the World Trade Center was perilous. Now thousands of people have died because of the falsehoods of environmentalist scare-mongering. Will they admit their error and their guilt? Not likely. ------------------------------------------ Blame the Drug Warriors for 9/11! Why did police arrest 734,498 pot-smokers, instead of tracking murderous terrorists? American law enforcement is guilty of something close to "criminal neglect" for arresting 734,498 people for marijuana violations last year -- instead of investigating and stopping murderous terrorists, the Libertarian Party says. "Thousands of innocent Americans may be dead because law enforcement considered it more important to raid college frat parties and arrest people for smoking marijuana than to find and stop the deadly terrorist 'sleeper' cells that were plotting the greatest mass murder in American history," said Steve Dasbach, the party's national director. "You just have to wonder: If the tens of thousands of law enforcement officers, the millions of man-hours, and the billions of dollars that were spent monitoring, investigating, arresting, charging, processing, jailing, and bringing to trial non-violent marijuana users had been used, instead, for anti-terrorist activities -- could the September 11 atrocity have been prevented?" Among the materials seized from the World Trade Center bombers of 1993 were plans for hijacking airplanes and crashing them into buildings. Nothing was done about this.