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World Trade Center Building 7
and the Lies of the 9/11 “Truth Movement”
I recently kept track of NY911truth’s statements at Ground Zero over a 3 ½ hour period. During that time I didn’t hear any of the 10 of them make a single true claim to the public. Recently they spent an hour arguing with an Air Force morgue technician who processed the remains from the Pentagon. Remember, this group claims that there were no remains of flight 77 passengers at the Pentagon, because that plane never crashed there. It takes a special kind of person to make that argument to the face of someone who personally handled those charred remains.
Abby Scott and Ray Rivera made a funny video based on some of these encounters, which captures a bit of the lunacy of the “Truthers:” /jrhk8. When I’m around the Truthers I often have the refrain of the old song “She’s More to be Pitied Than Censured” running around in my head:
She is more to be pitied than censured,
She is more to be helped than despised.
She is only a lassie who ventured
On life's stormy path, ill-advised.
Then I snap out of it and remember that these people give absolution to terrorists while accusing innocent people of mass murder, all without a shred of evidence. And they do this at Ground Zero. They are the most delusional people I have ever met, and their delusions are dangerous.
Below is a scanned and reduced reproduction of the pamphlet that NY911truth hands out by the thousand to tourists from Mexico, Sweden, and Nebraska. I’ve highlighted all the false statements in red, and all the misleading statements and photos in purple.
Journal of Debunking 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Volume 1, Issue 2 Journal of Debunking 9/11 Conspiracy Theories - Sept 2006/Volume 1, Issue 2 P a g e | 1
Firefighter’s Interviews - Sounds of Explosives or Explosive Sounds in the Towers
The context in which these quotes are given is important in this case. In the context of a conspiracy theory web site or paper, the quotes seem ominous. So many people using the word “explosion”… But in the context of a terrorist attack, and especially in the first few hours, it becomes understandable. All anyone knew at the time was that terrorists were attacking. Terrorists usually blow things up. They had already flown two planes into two buildings; it would not be unreasonable to expect the people on the scene to think of “bombs” when hearing loud sounds. Did they fly planes into the buildings AND blow them up? They had no way of knowing at that chaotic time.
The author of the paper goes on to make misleading statements about pancaking and the role of the 9/11 commission report. Here, the author says the NIST report doesn‟t mention pancaking, suggesting that pancaking did not occur. The NIST was not charged with putting conspiracy theorists‟ fears to rest so they never followed the collapse to the ground. The NIST report was for recommending future building codes to try and prevent future collapses and give people time to escape.5
Yes, one of the leading hypotheses for the collapse initiation in the beginning was pancaking but the NIST never held this view. This hypothesis took the lead in some papers and documentaries until all the evidence was examined by the NIST. [color=gold]Many of those papers and documentaries had nothing to do with the government but they are typically conflated by the conspiracy theorists as part of an “official story”. The word “story” is injected as a propaganda tool to cast doubt on the NIST report.
The NIST Report that explained the buildings collapses and was proclaimed by many Physicists, Scientists, Engineers, Architects, Professors, around the world to literally re-write physics.
I can post MANY well documented, verifiable statements from those people too.
The NIST Report was appointed to be headed by Bush's personal friend Frank Gayle who wrote the final report. The NIST investigation was told to explain the collapses without looking at the possibility of explosives. There were people who adamantly told Frank Gayle the NIST Report was flat out wrong and the Twin Towers should have easily stood.
Here is a simple comprehensive example that depicts how the NIST investigation went when Bush appointed his personal friend to head the NIST Report and collapse investigation.
The NIST investigation did NOT look at the possibility in explosives in the collapses....even though there are countless witnesses live on the news who heard many explosions.
www.usmessageboard.com...
4.) What is the NIST? Like FEMA, it has been turned to the “war on terror”:
en.wikipedia.org...
Institute_of_Standards_and_Technology
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, formerly known as The National Bureau of Standards) is a non-regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce’s Technology Administration.
… In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks, NIST is playing a key role in enhancing the nation’s homeland security. Through projects spanning a wide range of research areas, NIST is helping the millions of individuals in law enforcement, the military, emergency services, information technology, airport and building security, and other areas protect the American public from terrorist threats. For example, NIST is currently developing government-wide identification card standards for federal employees and contractors to prevent terrorists, criminals and other unauthorized people from getting into government buildings and computer systems….
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5.) Payoff #2 – Who ran the NIST at the time of its famed $26-million study?”
Dr. Arden L. Bement, Jr.
NIST Director, 2001-2004
www.nsf.gov...
/bement/bement_bio.jsp
Dr. Arden L. Bement, Jr.
Director
National Science Foundation
… Bement came to the position as NIST director having previously served as head of that agency’s Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology, the agency’s primary private-sector policy adviser; as head of the advisory committee for NIST’s Advanced Technology Program… [He] was a member of the Space Station Utilization Advisory Subcommittee and the Commercialization and Technology Advisory Committee for NASA; and consulted for the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory… positions included: vice president of technical resources and of science and technology for TRW Inc. (1980-1992); deputy under secretary of defense for research and engineering (1979-1980); director, Office of Materials Science, DARPA (1976-1979); professor of nuclear materials, MIT (1970-1976); manager, Fuels and Materials Department and the Metallurgy Research Department, Battelle Northwest Laboratories (1965-1970); and senior research associate, General Electric Co. (1954-1965).
He has been a director of Keithley Instruments Inc. and the Lord Corp. and was a member of the Science and Technology Advisory Committee for the Howmet Corp. (a division of ALCOA).
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6.) Dr. Bement left the NIST in 2005, and currently directs the National Science Foundation (NSF). It has also received a whopping budget increase – at at time of severe fiscal constraints – and this has not passed unnoticed in the District of Columbia:
chronicle.com...
2005021801n.htm
2/18/2005 Senators Lay Into Bush’s Proposed
Budget for National Science Foundation
By JEFFREY BRAINARD
Originally posted by iamcpc
I love how people say when you research 9/11 only research the websites that say that the buildings collapsed via controlled demolition and the websites that say that the buildings collapsed becuase they were hit with 110-150 ton airplanes and set on fire are lies.
Originally posted by impressme
Here are some examples:
World Trade Center Building 7
and the Lies of the 9/11 “Truth Movement”
I recently kept track of NY911truth’s statements at Ground Zero over a 3 ½ hour period. During that time I didn’t hear any of the 10 of them make a single true claim to the public. Recently they spent an hour arguing with an ... I’ve highlighted all the false statements in red, and all the misleading statements and photos in purple.
Journal of Debunking 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Volume 1, Issue 2 Journal of Debunking 9/11 Conspiracy Theories - Sept 2006/Volume 1, Issue 2 P a g e | 1
Firefighter’s Interviews - Sounds of Explosives or Explosive Sounds in the Towers
The context in which these quotes are given is important in this case. In the context of a conspiracy theory web site or paper, the quotes seem ominous. ...
www.jod911.com...
www.debunking911.com...
It is plain as day, the author gives his “opinions” as facts, yet they are not true.
The author of the paper goes on to make misleading statements about pancaking and the role of the 9/11 commission report. Here, the author says the NIST report doesn‟t mention pancaking, suggesting that pancaking did not occur...
www.jod911.com...
www.debunking911.com...
This is a joke, why didn’t NIST help past laws that any natural "office fires" could bring down buildings, do to their findings, and demand Congress to past stricter laws in fire prevention and safty in all high-rises.
Yes, one of the leading hypotheses for the collapse initiation in the beginning was pancaking but the NIST never held this view. This hypothesis took the lead in some papers and documentaries until all the evidence was examined by the NIST. [color=gold]Many of those papers and documentaries had nothing to do with the government but they are typically conflated by the conspiracy theorists...
Had nothing to do with the government? Is he kidding or what? This author thinks he can fool you by out right lying.
The NIST Report that explained the buildings collapses and was proclaimed by many Physicists, Scientists, Engineers, Architects, Professors, around the world to literally re-write physics...
Originally posted by jthomas
Originally posted by iamcpc
I love how people say when you research 9/11 only research the websites that say that the buildings collapsed via controlled demolition and the websites that say that the buildings collapsed becuase they were hit with 110-150 ton airplanes and set on fire are lies.
Truthers have to say that to try to shift the burden of proof from their shoulders and avoid having to support their claims with actual evidence. It hasn't worked in 9 years and we will keep reminding them that the burden of proof remains with them.
Nothing will happen until and unless they recognize that in order to get a new investigation, Truthers are going to have to demonstrate why.
My advices: websites that promote mostly “opinions” as their facts and bashes Truthers are not credible websites.
Read some of these sites that I have presented and tell me if you support them and why.
Originally posted by vicen
So every website that doesn't support the view that Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld were behind 9/11 is lying, and every conspiracy website is telling the truth?
Surely it can't be as simple as that.
Originally posted by _BoneZ_
Originally posted by vicen
So every website that doesn't support the view that Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld were behind 9/11 is lying, and every conspiracy website is telling the truth?
Surely it can't be as simple as that.
But yet it's so simple and okay when "debunkers" do the exact opposite and continuously claim that all 9/11 truth sites are lying and every debunker site is telling the truth.
Give me a break.
The burden of proof remains on your shoulders -- and on those of every other Truther -- to support your claims with evidence. You do not want to accept that burden. You avoid it at all costs. You are satisfied to make claims without evidence and are offended that you should have to support your claims when challenged and/or presented evidence inconvenient to your deeply-held beliefs.
You do not want to accept that burden. You avoid it at all costs.
You are satisfied to make claims without evidence
are offended that you should have to support your claims when challenged
when challenged and/or presented evidence inconvenient to your deeply-held beliefs.
Originally posted by impressme
I have notices, the “OS believers” will not answer my OP but to only ridicule it.
Originally posted by curious_soul
I also want to give a special shout-out to a special debunker who likes to continually ask "Where's your evidence for a new investigation." The people who have questions have NEVER been given the power to subpoena! Only the 911 commission and NIST were given these powers and guess how many people NIST subpoenaed?
I'm just beginning to read the 911 commission report and from someone who's job is to read legeal descriptions and write reports i couldn't hardly get through the introductions, preface and the first few pages of the report without going WTF!
I would REALLY like for one of you debunkers to start a thread and tell me exactly what the "Facts or Evidence" is and let people who have questions about 911 play the role of debunker.
Originally posted by impressme
Here is a small list of websites that many OS believers avoid.
[color=gold]Pilots for 9/11 Truth
www.pilotsfor911truth.org...
Originally posted by curious_soul
reply to post by jthomas
How am "I" going to get a new investigation?
"I" would ask "you" are you ready to accept the 911 Commission Report and the NIST Report as a leagally complete and factual based set of docuements explaining the events of 911?
Would you legally testify in a court of law under oath and accept the possible penalty of perjury that both of these reports were done to the best of their ability?
Exactly what convincing do you or anyone else need?
If i was to word a Preface in one of my "Reports" like is worded in the Preface of this 911 Commission Report, i'm sure any first year lawyer would rake me or the LS i may work for across the coals in a court of law.
Originally posted by impressme
I love it, there are ignorant people who really do not get it.
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I set up this thread to give an example of how disinformation works on some websites, pertaining to 911 and that there are well known websites set up against the Truth movement and the Truth. Not only will you read their garbage, but the websites gives people tools on how to attack Truthers and how to evade answering simple questions. I call these websites “Trolling strategies,” Some of these websites are good at giving advice on how to disrupt civil conversations and railroad topics. Not only do they do all of those things, they have no problems in speaking their hatred towards the Truth movement; they also put ideas in the minds of those who are ignorant to the facts.
I welcome your opinions on this topic.
[edit on 11-5-2010 by impressme]