Hunter S. Thompson raises an interesting LIHOP/MIHIP question

For the record he believes in some version of those theories.

But he wonders about the minutes before the standard clips of those planes hitting the buildings that we always see...this is from a recent interview...

" Direct line of sight. The first one, he didn't get really get a line on, but it got his attention, though he hadn't seen the approach. But the second one, he said, uh, and I heard this from other people, but very few, really, calm and sane accounts the moments of insanity. I happened to see the second one go in, but just the last few seconds, as it came out of the left, stage left, and then plowed right into the front of the center of the TV picture and the center of the building, uh, perfectly. And I wrote that it was one of the most efficient, uh, most skillful and just about impossible um, acts of piloting... That's a very rare, uh, uh pilot... can take a big plane and plant it right as if a target or bulls-eye was on the side of the building. Apparently that second plane approached, and veered off, and made sort of a half-loop and then sort of came back and aimed again and then hit the building."

"But have you seen what would be before the tape that we see, like a minute before the hit?

No, I haven't.

Well, I haven't either, really. But there were eyewitnesses. And several people have said that, but you had to be watching. This guy happened to be at the Meadowlands. Cause I've kind of seen it as something that's really horrible and atrocious but not that hard to pull off. I mean it just seems like they got some box-cutters and they hijacked a plane and they flew it into a building. It doesn't seem like there was that much skill or that much preparation really. It's pretty broadly assumed that there's is a lot more to that story than the uh, the simple, kind of evil guys who just wanted to learn enough about flying to take a plane off but not land it."

http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.asp?id=287

What do you think of the state of America today vs. when you
were writing in the 60s and 70s?

Hunter: Ho, it's a whole different game. Yeah, this is a, uh, oh, a corporate, uh
state, really. Pretty much on the order of uh...

Like the Weimar Republic, kinda?

Hunter: Yeah, yeah exactly. There we go! And it's ah, I don't know, National
Socialism in a way, that would be a good conversation. Let's, wait, let's say
something about that. Let me hear, what do you think about that, just, I'll
go on, I just want a little uh... lets see, the thing that fascinates me is, I've
been reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich again. I see parallels
throughout the Third Reich to the extent where I often refer to this as the
Fouth Reich.

Hunter S Thompson is too wacked out for credibility.

Or so said Hunter. Well, it's here now.

"Remember, everything we know about that, that incident, and it was a horrible thing, I mean tragedy! Uh, and about Iraq and about Afghanistan and the people allegedly inside those countries, you know, Bin Laden.... Everything we know in this country is spun through the CIA or NSA, but let's call it the CIA."