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

[Ian]

I remain on record as the first of Civic's members to speak out about this - 
in no uncertain terms - and to risk being called a "crackpot theorist" or 
worse.

I strongly suggest that all of you find a copy of the DVD entitled "Painful 
Deceptions," and watch it.  Meanwhile, I am a member of 9/11 Truth, the 
organization that sponsored Mr. Griffin's recent talks.  If anyone is 
interested in a video copy of either or both of them, let me know.

The truth will out!

Peace.

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> 9/11 Theologian Says Controlled Demolition of
> World Trade Center Is Now a Fact, Not a Theory
>
> October 21, 2005
> GlobalResearch.ca
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20051021&articleId=1129
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