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Would you mind terribly then legitimately explaining why over a hundred eyewitness accounts who all say they saw the same thing shouldn't be considered credible? It would be one thing if only a few people saw the impact, or if it can be shown there were major discrepencies in eyewitness accounts, or if it can be shown most of the eyewitness accounts were really heresay, but NOPE, when so many eyewitnesses who were physically there all specifically say they saw a plane hit the Pentagon, the philosophy of "eyewitness accounts aren't reliable" is simply a cop-out and it cannot be used here. Otherwise, you ARE calling them all liars, whether you wish to admit to the fact or not.
Originally posted by maxella1
I don't have to explain it because I never said it... You on the other hand should explain this comment you posted about me in which every single word is a lie.
You ARE the one who made the blanket statement that we cannot accept eyewitness accounts, even though so many of them were all saying the same thing, were you not?
Agree to that and I'll retract my statement
Sorry, but you do not get to set the standards of evidence. You do not get to decide that since there is no clear video, it is logical to reject all other evidence, That is illogical.
CAPTAIN KARIN DESHORE
SOMEWHERE AROUND THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER THERE WAS THIS ORANGE AND RED FLASH COMING OUT INITIALLY IT WAS JUST ONE FLASH THEN THIS FLASH JUST KEPT POPPING ALL THE WAY AROUND THE BUILDING AND THAT BUILDING HAD STARTED TO EXPLODE THE POPPING SOUND AND WITH EACH POPPING SOUND IT WAS INITIALLY AN ORANGE AND THEN RED FLASH CAME OUT OF THE BUILDING AND THEN IT WOULD JUST GO ALL AROUND THE BUILDING ON BOTH SIDES AS FAR AS COULD SEE THESE POPPING SOUNDS AND THE EXPLOSIONS WERE GETTING BIGGER GOING BOTH UP AND DOWN AND THEN ALL AROUND THE BUILDING.
ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER STEPHEN GREGORY
Lieutenant Evangelista, who ultimately called me up a couple of days later just to find out how I was. We both for whatever reason -- again, I don't know how valid this is with everything that was going on at that particular point in time, but for some reason I thought that when I looked in the direction of the Trade Center before it came down, before No. 2 came down, that I saw low-level flashes. In my conversation with Lieutenant Evangelista, never mentioning this to him, he questioned me and asked me if I saw low-level flashes in front of the building, and I agreed with him because I thought -- at that time I didn't know what it was. I mean, it could have been as a result of the building collapsing, things exploding, but I saw a flash flash flash and then it looked like the building came down. Q. Was that on the lower level of the building or up where the fire was? A. No, the lower level of the building. You know like when they demolish a building, how when they blow up a building, when it falls down? That's what I thought I saw. And I didn't broach the topic to him, but he asked me. He said I don't know if I'm crazy, but I just wanted to ask you because you were standing right next to me. He said did you see anything by the building? And I said what do you mean by see anything? He said did you see any flashes? I said, yes, well, I thought it was just me. He said no, I saw them, too.
FIREFIGHTER RICHARD BANACISKI
We were there I don't know, maybe 10, 15 minutes and then I just remember there was just an explosion. It seemed like on television they blow up these buildings. It seemed like it was going all the way around like a belt, all these explosions. Everybody just said run and we all turned around and we ran into the parking garage because that's basically where we were. Running forward would be running towards it. Not thinking that this building is coming down. We just thought there was going to be a big explosion, stuff was going to come down.
PARAMEDIC DANIEL RIVERA
THEN THAT'S WHEN KEPT ON WALKING CLOSE TO THE SOUTH TOWER AND THAT'S WHEN THAT BUILDING COLLAPSED. HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT IT WAS COMING DOWN? THAT NOISE IT WAS NOISE .WHAT DID YOU HEAR WHAT DID YOU SEE? IT WAS A FRIGGING NOISE AT FIRST THOUGHT IT WAS DO YOU EVER SEE PROFESSIONAL DEMOLITION WHERE THEY SET THE CHARGES ON CERTAIN FLOORS AND THEN YOU HEAR POP POP POP POP POP THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT BECAUSE THOUGHT IT WAS THAT WHEN HEARD THAT FRIGGING NOISE THAT'S WHEN SAW THE BUILDING COMING DOWN.
FIREFIGHTER JOSEPH MEOLA
As we are looking up at the building, what I saw was, it looked like the building was blowing out on all four sides. We actually heard the pops. Didn't realize it was the falling -- you know, you heard the pops of the building. You thought it was just blowing out.
Originally posted by maxella1
No I WAS NOT the one who made that statement.
If you gonna retract you should retract a lot more than this particular lie because it's not greater or lesser a lie than most of what you post here.
Originally posted by maxella1
GoodolDave ignored my question about what is being described by these First Responders, but I'm wondering what you think about it?
Give me an example please, since the statement that multitudes of eyewitnesses did in fact see the plane hitting the Pentagon is an established fact...or was your brushing everything off you don't want to accept as being true a correct observation all along??
Originally posted by maxella1
First thing that comes to mind is how you and others make it seem like firefighters expected a complete collapse of WTC 7 when in fact none of them did. Also the way you and others pretend to know what they were describing by saying "definitely secondary explosions'.
Eventhough we don't see the flashes on video footage we have many eyewitnesses to the explosions and we have the final result of complete and rapid collapses of buildings. Take this and the fact that the government started covering up immediately after the attacks. Three skyscrapers collapsed in a way that no other building collapsed without planned implosion before or after 9/11, thousands of people were killed and the White House was trying to block investigation for over a year. I believe the firefighters and other eyewitnesses that there were explosions prior to collapse.
As for the Pentagon I don't and never did say that it wasn't a jet that hit it. Although I don't believe the light pole story, and I have a hard time believing that whatever it was it was not filmed by anyone. And i don't believe that it couldn't been intercepted in time either.
All you're doing here is arguing over whether Gage is a complete liar or just a partial liar.
b) not a single firefighter who reported these explosions believe to this day that these were controlled demolitions
That's NOT an answer. We have video footage taken from almost every possible vantage point of the remaining tower, and if any such "red and orange flashes appearing all around the building and then down its length" occurred it would have been seen live by millions of television viewers and captured on film along with all the other events of the day. Either this firefighter was mistaken, or miles of video and a few million television viewers were magically co-opted to forget what they all saw. You were the one who kept prompting me to follow you down this rabbit hole, as you recall. It is bad form for you to run away now just because your own path led you to a contradiction you don't want to face. If you believe the rest of the world is wrong and this firefighter is right, please have the integrity to just come out and say it.
You were the one who kept prompting me to follow you down this rabbit hole,
Over a hundred eyewitnesses specifically said it was a passenger jet they saw, so your argument over the lack of video is entirely moot. if you're about to accuse them all of lying, then I might as well just as well put you back on that list of accusations I took you off of.
I went back through this thread to review the meat of this argument, and I discovered the mistake is in fact mine. It was Totallackey who keeps insisting eyewitness accounts cannot be considered valid testimony regardless of how many are all saying the same thing, conveniently whenever it involves testimony that shows he's wrong. It's a case of mistaken identity due to the (cough cough) vacation we all recently took from the 9/11 forum. I apologize and I retract the claim. There, see how easy that was? To set the record straight, I now erase your name and amend it properly; Totallackey: What evidence do you have that a plane hit the Pentagon? Me: a hundred eyewitnesses in the vicinity saw it was a plane that hit the Pentagon Totallackey: LIES! What else do you have?
YOU on the other hand have been VERY DIRECT and CLEAR, stating the full video of the WTC 7 collapse was not included in the Gage documentary
Originally posted by totallackey
reply to post by maxella1
Gage did not snip anything from the video. It is all there. Every second of the video from start to finish is included. I watched the documentary. Dave has not. All he need do is go to the time frame I pointed out and he would see the video in its entirety.
Originally posted by maxella1
reply to post by GoodOlDave
nope im not arguing about Gage at all. He might be a liar and he might not be a liar, it doesnt matter what he says because I saw the buildings come down with my own eyes From across the east river and on TV and I don't need anybody to tell me that they were exploding because it's obvious. Now it would be nice to know who was responsible for it but Gage doesn't talk about that and as you know very well the government lied since day one.
That is not true but i'm not going to get into it. I know for a fact that many firemen think it was brought down by explosives but they don't speak out for multiple reasons. I don't agree with it and I wish they would start talking. But that's just the way it is for now, maybe it will change.
Nearly every person who came out of those buildings before the collapse reported explosions. I was there on 9/13 and explosions were talked about a lot. Dave I believe my own eye and the people i work with, I don't believe that there were no explosives because I worked many scenes of buildings collapses that just does not happen like that without explosives...
I'm not arguing over the video Dave, maybe you are again confused. I said that I find it hard to believe that there is no video. I'm entitled to my opinion or no? I think Lloyd England is lying for whatever reason because the story of a light pole being pulled out of his taxi cab without leaving a scratch on the hood by him a man who didn't say a single word is just ridiculous. Now why would he lie I don't have a clue but why did the government use this joke as evidence of a jet crashing into the pentagon is suspicious in my opinion.
Originally posted by totallackey
Dave, review what I said. You will find I have also stated no such thing. I have stated eyewitness testimony is unreliable. You are twisting my words and I do not appreciate it.
Bait and switch. Did you see the "red and orange explosions up and down the structure" that this paticular person claims to have witnessed? That was the statement that makes his testimony noteworthy, was it not?
More bait and switch. I didn't say "firemen". I said "firemen why were physically there". Of course there might be firemen who thinks it was brought down by explosives. The main reason is because they weren't there and they're relying on the drivel those conspiracy con artists are putting out If the eyewitness who WAS there and who saw the "red and orange flashes up and down the building" believes the building was brought down by controlled demolitions, I invite you to show it.
Stop the game playing, Maxella. Noone ever said "there were no explosions", least of all me. I talked to a woman who worked in the building at the time and even she heard explosions. The discussion is over the conspiracy theorists deliberately making the explosions out to be explosives rather than any of the hundred thousand other reasons that something might go BOOM when set on fire.
FYI that woman who was there thinks the "controlled demeolitions" theorists are all nuts.
There were a hell of a lot more eyewitnesses than just Lloyd England. The fact that you're specifically targetting Lloyd England's testimony exclusively while ignoring everyone else's (such as the immigrant form El Salvador workign as a groundskeeper) tells me you know that already.
Originally posted by maxella1
The testimony of red and orange flashes came from firemen and other first responders who were physically there.
Read what I said regarding the controlled demolition again Dave.
I would love to know what do you think the red and orange flashes up and down the building were caused by if not explosives? This is third time I ask you by the way..
Here's the problem Dave, there were no fire where something went BOOM. But we already had that discussion you just forgot as usual.
Ask her what was exploding and if she thinks that blowing up a building and a controlled demolition is the same thing.. Also list some of the things that you think were exploding on floors far below the impact level?
Here again you failed to read what I said about the Pentagon. Lloyd England is full of crap with his light pole story but that proves nothing.
Originally posted by vipertech0596
reply to post by totallackey
Okay this is where I have to step in and point out that you are lying when you say a CNN reporter said there were no pieces of the plane. What he sai that there was no evidence the plane had hit the GROUND prior to hitting the building.