Kevin Barrett
Griffin Seals Case for 9/11 WTC Demolition
Mon Oct 24, 2005 17:44
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Griffin Seals Case for 9/11 WTC Demolition
Calls on NY Times to End Coverup
Theologian Says Controlled Demolition is Now a Fact, Not a Theory
In two speeches to overflow crowds in New York last weekend, notable
theologian David Ray Griffin argued that recently revealed evidence seals the
case that the Twin Towers and WTC-7 were destroyed by controlled demolition
with explosives. Despite the many enduring mysteries of the 9/11 attacks, Dr.
Griffin concluded, "It is already possible to know, beyond a reasonable doubt,
one very important thing: the destruction of the World Trade Center was an
inside job, orchestrated by terrorists within our own government."
On Oct. 15th and 16th, New Yorkers filled two venues to hear the prominent
theologian and author of two books on 9/11 give a presentation entitled "The
Destruction of the Trade Towers: A Christian Theologian Speaks Out." Dr.
Griffin has continued to blaze a trail of courage, leading where most media
and elected officials have feared to tread. His presentation went straight to
the core of one of the most powerful indictments of the official story, the
collapse of the towers and WTC 7.
Dr. Griffin included excerpts from the firemen's tapes which were recently
released as a result of a prolonged court battle led by victim's families
represented by attorney Norman Siegel and reported in the NY Times. He also
included statements by many witnesses. These sources gave ample testimony
giving evidence of explosions going off in the buildings. A 12 minute film was
shown for the audiences, who saw for themselves the undeniable evidence for
controlled demolition.
Dr. Griffin listed ten characteristics of the collapses which all indicate
that the buildings did not fall due to being struck by planes or the ensuing
fires. He explained the buildings fell suddenly without any indication of
collapse. They fell straight into their own footprint at free-fall speed,
meeting virtually no resistance as they fell--a physical impossibility unless
all vertical support was being progressively removed by explosives severing
the core columns. The towers were built to withstand the impact of a Boeing
707 and 160 mile per hour winds, and nothing about the plane crashes or
ensuing fires gave any indication of causing the kind of damage that would be
necessary to trigger even a partial or progressive collapse, much less the
shredding of the buildings into dust and fragments that could drop at
free-fall speed.
The massive core columns--the most significant structural feature of the
buildings, whose very existence is denied in the official 9/11 Commission
Report--were severed into uniform 30 foot sections, just right for the 30-foot
trucks used to remove them quickly before a real investigation could
transpire. There was a volcanic-like dust cloud from the concrete being
pulverized, and no physical mechanism other than explosives can begin to
explain how so much of the buildings' concrete was rendered into extremely
fine dust.
The debris was ejected horizontally several hundred feet in huge fan shaped
plumes stretching in all directions, with telltale "squibs" following the path
of the explosives downward. These are all facts that have been avoided by
mainstream and even most of the alternative media. Again, these are
characteristics of the kind of controlled demolitions that news people and
firefighters were describing on the morning of 9/11. Those multiple
first-person descriptions of controlled demolition were hidden away for almost
four years by the City of New York until a lawsuit finally forced the city to
release them. Dr. Griffin's study of these accounts has led him beyond his
earlier questioning of the official story of the collapses, to his
above-quoted conclusion: The destruction of the three WTC buildings with
explosives by US government terrorists is no longer a hypothesis, but a fact
that has been proved beyond a reasonable doubt.
It's important to note that Dr. Griffin is one of many prominent
intellectuals--including the likes of Gore Vidal, Howard Zinn, Peter Dale
Scott, Richard Falk, Paul Craig Roberts, Morgan Reynolds and Peter
Phillips--who have seen through the major discrepancies of the official
explanation of 9/11 and have risen to challenge it. These brave individuals
represent the tip of an ever-growing iceberg of discreet 9/11 skeptics.
Indeed, 9/11 skepticism appears to be almost universal among intellectuals who
have examined the evidence, since there has not yet been a single serious
attempt to refute the case developed by Dr. Griffin and such like-minded
thinkers as Nafeez Ahmed and Mike Ruppert. As for the general public, polls
have shown that a strong majority of Canadians (63%, Toronto Star, May '04)
and half of New Yorkers (Zogby, August 2004) agree that top US leaders
conspired to murder nearly 3,000 Americans on 9/11/01.
How, then, can the mainstream US media continue to ignore the story of the
century? Perhaps the best answer was given by Dr. Griffin himself in the
conclusion of his talk, and is worth quoting at length:
"The evidence for this conclusion (that 9/11 was an inside job) has thus far
been largely ignored by the mainstream press, perhaps under the guise of
obeying President Bush's advice not to tolerate "outrageous conspiracy
theories." We have seen, however, that it is the Bush administration's
conspiracy theory that is the outrageous one, because it is violently
contradicted by numerous facts, including some basic laws of physics.
"There is, of course, another reason why the mainstream press has not pointed
out these contradictions. As a recent letter to the Los Angeles Times said:
"'The number of contradictions in the official version of . . . 9/11 is so
overwhelming that . . . it simply cannot be believed. Yet . . . the official
version cannot be abandoned because the implication of rejecting it is far too
disturbing: that we are subject to a government conspiracy of ‘X-Files'
proportions and insidiousness.'
"The implications are indeed disturbing. Many people who know or at least
suspect the truth about 9/11 probably believe that revealing it would be so
disturbing to the American psyche, the American form of government, and global
stability that it is better to pretend to believe the official version. I
would suggest, however, that any merit this argument may have had earlier has
been overcome by more recent events and realizations. Far more devastating to
the American psyche, the American form of government, and the world as a whole
will be the continued rule of those who brought us 9/11, because the values
reflected in that horrendous event have been reflected in the Bush
administration's lies to justify the attack on Iraq, its disregard for
environmental science and the Bill of Rights, its criminal negligence both
before and after Katrina, and now its apparent plan not only to weaponize
space but also to authorize the use of nuclear weapons in a preemptive strike.
" In light of this situation and the facts discussed in this lecture---as well
as dozens of more problems in the official account of 9/11 discussed
elsewhere---I call on the New York Times to take the lead in finally exposing
to the American people and the world the truth about 9/11. Taking the lead on
such a story will, of course, involve enormous risks. But if there is any news
organization with the power, the prestige, and the credibility to break this
story, it is the Times. It performed yeoman service in getting the 9/11 oral
histories released. But now the welfare of our republic and perhaps even the
survival of our civilization depend on getting the truth about 9/11 exposed. I
am calling on the Times to rise to the occasion.
Dr. Griffin's speech given at the University of Wisconsin earlier this year,
entitled "9/11 and the American Empire," was broadcast twice on C-SPAN. In
late September Dr. Griffin was asked to give expert testimony at hearings
sponsored by Cynthia McKinney and the Congressional Black Caucus investigating
the 9/11 Commission Report. He is currently Professor Emeritus at Claremont
College in California.
Kevin Barrett
Coordinator, MUJCA-NET: http://mujca.com
=============
As always we feature the action link first, this one to call for impeachment
of George Bush
http://www.millionphonemarch.com/impeach.htm
Calls on NY Times to End Coverup
Theologian Says Controlled Demolition is Now a Fact, Not a Theory
In two speeches to overflow crowds in New York last weekend, notable
theologian David Ray Griffin argued that recently revealed evidence seals the
case that the Twin Towers and WTC-7 were destroyed by controlled demolition
with explosives. Despite the many enduring mysteries of the 9/11 attacks, Dr.
Griffin concluded, "It is already possible to know, beyond a reasonable doubt,
one very important thing: the destruction of the World Trade Center was an
inside job, orchestrated by terrorists within our own government."
On Oct. 15th and 16th, New Yorkers filled two venues to hear the prominent
theologian and author of two books on 9/11 give a presentation entitled "The
Destruction of the Trade Towers: A Christian Theologian Speaks Out." Dr.
Griffin has continued to blaze a trail of courage, leading where most media
and elected officials have feared to tread. His presentation went straight to
the core of one of the most powerful indictments of the official story, the
collapse of the towers and WTC 7.
Dr. Griffin included excerpts from the firemen's tapes which were recently
released as a result of a prolonged court battle led by victim's families
represented by attorney Norman Siegel and reported in the NY Times. He also
included statements by many witnesses. These sources gave ample testimony
giving evidence of explosions going off in the buildings. A 12 minute film was
shown for the audiences, who saw for themselves the undeniable evidence for
controlled demolition.
Dr. Griffin listed ten characteristics of the collapses which all indicate
that the buildings did not fall due to being struck by planes or the ensuing
fires. He explained the buildings fell suddenly without any indication of
collapse. They fell straight into their own footprint at free-fall speed,
meeting virtually no resistance as they fell--a physical impossibility unless
all vertical support was being progressively removed by explosives severing
the core columns. The towers were built to withstand the impact of a Boeing
707 and 160 mile per hour winds, and nothing about the plane crashes or
ensuing fires gave any indication of causing the kind of damage that would be
necessary to trigger even a partial or progressive collapse, much less the
shredding of the buildings into dust and fragments that could drop at
free-fall speed.
The massive core columns--the most significant structural feature of the
buildings, whose very existence is denied in the official 9/11 Commission
Report--were severed into uniform 30 foot sections, just right for the 30-foot
trucks used to remove them quickly before a real investigation could
transpire. There was a volcanic-like dust cloud from the concrete being
pulverized, and no physical mechanism other than explosives can begin to
explain how so much of the buildings' concrete was rendered into extremely
fine dust.
The debris was ejected horizontally several hundred feet in huge fan shaped
plumes stretching in all directions, with telltale "squibs" following the path
of the explosives downward. These are all facts that have been avoided by
mainstream and even most of the alternative media. Again, these are
characteristics of the kind of controlled demolitions that news people and
firefighters were describing on the morning of 9/11. Those multiple
first-person descriptions of controlled demolition were hidden away for almost
four years by the City of New York until a lawsuit finally forced the city to
release them. Dr. Griffin's study of these accounts has led him beyond his
earlier questioning of the official story of the collapses, to his
above-quoted conclusion: The destruction of the three WTC buildings with
explosives by US government terrorists is no longer a hypothesis, but a fact
that has been proved beyond a reasonable doubt.
It's important to note that Dr. Griffin is one of many prominent
intellectuals--including the likes of Gore Vidal, Howard Zinn, Peter Dale
Scott, Richard Falk, Paul Craig Roberts, Morgan Reynolds and Peter
Phillips--who have seen through the major discrepancies of the official
explanation of 9/11 and have risen to challenge it. These brave individuals
represent the tip of an ever-growing iceberg of discreet 9/11 skeptics.
Indeed, 9/11 skepticism appears to be almost universal among intellectuals who
have examined the evidence, since there has not yet been a single serious
attempt to refute the case developed by Dr. Griffin and such like-minded
thinkers as Nafeez Ahmed and Mike Ruppert. As for the general public, polls
have shown that a strong majority of Canadians (63%, Toronto Star, May '04)
and half of New Yorkers (Zogby, August 2004) agree that top US leaders
conspired to murder nearly 3,000 Americans on 9/11/01.
How, then, can the mainstream US media continue to ignore the story of the
century? Perhaps the best answer was given by Dr. Griffin himself in the
conclusion of his talk, and is worth quoting at length:
"The evidence for this conclusion (that 9/11 was an inside job) has thus far
been largely ignored by the mainstream press, perhaps under the guise of
obeying President Bush's advice not to tolerate "outrageous conspiracy
theories." We have seen, however, that it is the Bush administration's
conspiracy theory that is the outrageous one, because it is violently
contradicted by numerous facts, including some basic laws of physics.
"There is, of course, another reason why the mainstream press has not pointed
out these contradictions. As a recent letter to the Los Angeles Times said:
"'The number of contradictions in the official version of . . . 9/11 is so
overwhelming that . . . it simply cannot be believed. Yet . . . the official
version cannot be abandoned because the implication of rejecting it is far too
disturbing: that we are subject to a government conspiracy of ‘X-Files'
proportions and insidiousness.'
"The implications are indeed disturbing. Many people who know or at least
suspect the truth about 9/11 probably believe that revealing it would be so
disturbing to the American psyche, the American form of government, and global
stability that it is better to pretend to believe the official version. I
would suggest, however, that any merit this argument may have had earlier has
been overcome by more recent events and realizations. Far more devastating to
the American psyche, the American form of government, and the world as a whole
will be the continued rule of those who brought us 9/11, because the values
reflected in that horrendous event have been reflected in the Bush
administration's lies to justify the attack on Iraq, its disregard for
environmental science and the Bill of Rights, its criminal negligence both
before and after Katrina, and now its apparent plan not only to weaponize
space but also to authorize the use of nuclear weapons in a preemptive strike.
" In light of this situation and the facts discussed in this lecture---as well
as dozens of more problems in the official account of 9/11 discussed
elsewhere---I call on the New York Times to take the lead in finally exposing
to the American people and the world the truth about 9/11. Taking the lead on
such a story will, of course, involve enormous risks. But if there is any news
organization with the power, the prestige, and the credibility to break this
story, it is the Times. It performed yeoman service in getting the 9/11 oral
histories released. But now the welfare of our republic and perhaps even the
survival of our civilization depend on getting the truth about 9/11 exposed. I
am calling on the Times to rise to the occasion.
Dr. Griffin's speech given at the University of Wisconsin earlier this year,
entitled "9/11 and the American Empire," was broadcast twice on C-SPAN. In
late September Dr. Griffin was asked to give expert testimony at hearings
sponsored by Cynthia McKinney and the Congressional Black Caucus investigating
the 9/11 Commission Report. He is currently Professor Emeritus at Claremont
College in California.
Kevin Barrett
Coordinator, MUJCA-NET: http://mujca.com
=============
As always we feature the action link first, this one to call for impeachment
of George Bush
http://www.millionphonemarch.com/impeach.htm
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