If this is discussed elsewhere on the board forgive me as I am a recent member. On the Loose Change forum I've been going back and forth recently with "Terrorcell" on the subject of Edward Felt's phone call from United Flight 93. He claims that there has been a gag order placed on John Shaw, the operator who actually took Felt's call, and on Glenn Cramer, the supervisor. "Terrorcell" goes on to imply that he contacted Shaw and Cramer directly and that is his source for the gag order claim. I asked him to provide me with their contact information and he referred me to this board and then made an odd comment that I could be "that inbred troy from west va" for all he knew and he wouldn't provide with their contact information. I have no idea what the troy remark is supposed to mean but that's beside the point. Anyone's help in this matter of this supposed gag order would be appreciated.
Welcome, cozmo236.
1) I would not believe anything that Terrorcell says (let alone anything he merely implies) without legitimate, verifiable evidence.
2) If he had any evidence at all of this alleged "gag order", you can bet that he would be shouting it from the rooftops and posting it on every conspiracy site on the internet.
3) The "gag order" meme appears to be an invention of some of the die hard conspiracy fantasists. Lots of them refer to it in passing, but none of them has ever presented a scintilla of evidence to prove that any such order exists.
This is common among conspiracy fantasists: one of them exaggerates and/or misinterprets something, it gets passed along and further exaggerated and further misinterpreted, and then repeated on numerous conspiracy fantasist websites. Kind of in the same way as urban legends get to be what they are.
Here's a hypothetical: A conspiracy fantasist calls up one of the men on the telephone and starts grilling him about what he knew, and the man tells him, "I'm sorry, I can't talk to you right now" or "I'm sorry, I have nothing to say to you" or "I'm sorry, I just can't talk about this" to get the caller off the phone - quite correctly, since this is some random stranger calling him out of the blue and asking him about a very traumatic event.
The conspiracy fantasist reports to his fellow fantasists that "he said he couldn't talk to me", which conspiracy fantasists morph into, "he's under orders not to talk", followed by "the FBI ordered him not to talk - he's under a gag order".
That's how a lot of the conspiracy theories morph and evolve - speculation, bad research, misunderstanding facts and evidence, misinterpreting facts and evidence, and outright deliberate distortion and lies.
4) "Troy in VA" is a rather strange person who seems to have made it a hobby to ridicule the Loose Change boys in videos that he posts on YouTube or Google Video. He was a member here for only a very short time and was quickly banned, for advocating violence and other bad behaviour, if memory serves correctly. He was also a member of the Loose Change forum, and has numerous sockpuppets there as well.