[Mb-civic] 9/11 Theologian Says Controlled Demolition of World Trade Center Is Now a Fact, Not a Theory

[Mike Blaxill]

9/11 Theologian Says Controlled Demolition of
World Trade Center Is Now a Fact, Not a Theory

October 21, 2005
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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 
at the Claremont School of Theology, California. 


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