Reply #54: Oh yes, no doubt about that one.

[bottomtheweaver]

I think more than one federal employee got "randomly" eliminated and the whole deal got lots of scary media attention to add to the anthrax, 911, and the plane that went down in Queens on November 12, 2001, killing 265 MORE people.

About OLA -- I first heard about it when I was in second grade, and I've been hearing about it ever since, but it was only a couple of weeks ago when the fireman in a famous photo, Richard Scheidt, passed away and it was in the news again that I looked into it a little, thanks to someone here who posted a link to a website with tons of information on it --

http://www.olafire.com

What hit me was that a) the cause remains officially undetermined, but is unofficially given out as arson; b) there's been a publicity campaign in recent years to blame a fifth-grade OLA student for setting the fire; and c) according to the information on the site including the recollections of many survivors, the fifth-grader couldn't possibly have done it. The more I looked into the circumstances, including the original 1959 NFPA fire report posted here --

http://www.nfpa.org/assets/files//PDF/Lady_of_Angels_report.pdf

the more I realized this was another rabbit-hole covert op pinned on another patsy. It's a theory, but I'm about 99.9% sure the kid didn't do it, and the janitor sure didn't do it, and the archdiocese (under heavy suspicion for "covering it up") obviously didn't do it. Since the asbestos industry was far and away the biggest winner, it's hard not to put two and two together.