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."
from
Global Research
