What is a Conspiracy?

con·spir·a·cy (kən-spîr'ə-sē)
n., pl. -cies.

1. An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.
2. A group of conspirators.
3. Law. An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.
4. A joining or acting together, as if by sinister design: a conspiracy of wind and tide that devastated coastal areas.

Two people agree to rob a bank? It's a conspiracy.
Three kids execute a plan to sneak into a movie theatre? It's a conspiracy.
Nineteen highjackers make a plan to board planes and fly them into buildings? It's a conspiracy.

But what is it called when seven of the highjackers are believed to be alive?
What is it called when the highjackers names do not appear on published passenger lists for the flights that day?

Here are some observations made by James Fetzer, a professor at UMD, on the collapse of the towers. (Edited for readability.)

". . .there appear to be at least ten features of the collapse of the Twin Towers that are expectable effects of controlled demolitions but not from fires following aircraft impacts.

They include:

• that the buildings fell about the rate of free fall;
  
• that they both collapsed virtually straight down (and into their own "footprints");
  
• that almost all the concrete was turned into very fine dust;
  
• that the collapses were complete, leaving virtually no steel support columns standing;
  
• that photographic records of their collapse relect "demolition waves" occurring just ahead of the collapsing floors;
  
• that most of the beams and columns fell in sections of 30' to 40' in length;
  
• that firemen reported hearing sequences of explosions as they took place;
  
• that seismological events were recorded immediately prior to collapse;
  
• and that pools of molten metal were observed in the subbasements for weeks after.
  

I guess what I want to say by posting this is that we cannot afford to let these things go unexamined. By simply ignoring evidence, we are, in a way, part of the conspiracy.

More info and links to Fetzer's work, including recent analysis of photographic inconsistencies in the JFK Zapruder film, are available at: http://www.d.umn.edu/~jfetzer/.