Reply #9: There's an arsenal of smoking guns for anyone who cares to look

[bottomtheweaver]

but what they boil down to is this:

(a) none of the other suspects -- the janitor, the fifth-grader, or some unidentified student "sneaking a smoke" -- could have started the fire in any of the scenarios officially or semi-officially floated since the day the school burned;

(b) the fire seems clearly to have been arson and to have been professionally set, probably with a military incendiary device or accelerant; and

(c) the biggest beneficiary of the replacement building boom sparked by the publicity surrounding the OLA fire was the global asbestos mining industry, which roared back from the grave to peddle its carcinogenic wares to manufacturers of every conceivable product, including floor, wall, ceiling, and decorative exterior finishes; insulation in walls, around pipes, in ducts, heating and light fixtures; curtains, furniture, and on and on, thanks to the national wave of fear inspired by the terrifying school fire no one has been allowed to forget.

In other words, only the asbestos mining industry had the motive, and through our intelligence community, means and opportunity to use state-sponsored terra -- a must in any GOP administration -- to drum up business.