georgephillip
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- Dec 27, 2009
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Mike:George,Please watch these two short videos (36 and 9 seconds) of WTC7's 6.5 second vertical collapse without the words "controlled demolition" going through your mind.
The reason why so many people believe the Towers were brought down by controlled demolition is they have seen controlled demolitions on television and the similarity in the way the Towers fell have them convinced that nothing else could produce the perfect "pancaking" effect they saw. The explanation offered by a group of architects and structural engineers on a Discovery Channel program disputes that belief with the logical argument that key structural members were melted by intense fire, gave way and initiated the progressive vertical collapse. But even that perfectly credible and logical explanation is the least convincing reason why I reject the controlled demolition theory.
Start with the fact that there are perhaps three or four demolition contractors in the U.S. with the kind of expertise and experience it would take to accomplish such an elaborate task. Even if it were possible to somehow induce one of those crews to undertake what clearly would be the most egregious crime in American history, consider the fact that the World Trade Center employed a highly efficient, armed security force which was supervised by an exceptionally conscientious manager. Do you believe it would be possible for a crew of sappers to get past them with case after case of explosives and related equipment and weave a timed network of demolition charges without being noticed? Do you know how long a job like that would take -- times two?
And even if all of the above were indeed possible, how many individual sappers would a job like that require? Six? Eight? A dozen? These people are not criminal mass murderers. They are extraordinary tradesmen, decent people with families and jobs they are content with. They aren't cynical Timothy McVeighs who hate everything and everybody. And even if they were, and if you were one of them, would you risk being involved in something like that with the possibility of even one accomplice being caught and informing? And how about the instigators who might conceive and fund such an operation. Would they assume such a risk?
When you think about all that would be involved in effecting the controlled demolition of the World Trade Center the possibility of it actually being carried out is beyond reason. It is pure fantasy.
There are at least four good questions to ask when evaluating the Bush/Cheney explanation for the destruction of the World Trade Center buildings.
First, WTC7 collapsed in roughly the same way as the Twin Towers, yet was not struck by an aircraft.
"Second, the fires in these buildings were not as big, hot (they never came close to temperatures required to melt steel), or long lasting as fires in steel-framed high-rises that have not induced collapses.
"In 1991, a fire in Philadelphia burned for 18 hours, in 2004, a fire in Caracas burned for 17 hours. But neither fire produced even a partial collapse.
"The World Trade Center's north and south towers burned only 102 and 56 minutes, respectively, before they collapsed. WTC7, moreover, had fires on only a few floors, according to several witnesses and all the photographic evidence.
"Third, total collapse of steel-framed high-rise buildings have never been brought about by fire and externally caused structural damage. All such collapses have been caused by explosives in the procedure known as 'controlled demolition.'
"Fourth, the collapse of these three buildings all manifested many standard features of the kind of controlled demolition know as 'implosion' such as: sudden onset (whereas steel, if weakened by fire, would gradually begin to sag); straight-down collapse (as opposed to falling over); collapse at virtual free-fall speed (indicating the massive steel columns in the core of each building had been broken into many pieces--which is what explosives do in controlled demolitions); the production of molten metal; and the occurrence of multiple explosions."
I don't know the truth about what happened on 9/11/2001.
I do know I can't rely on Bush/Cheney for anything except fantasy.
The American Empire pp.7-8