(Op-ed by J. L. Bach)
We all lived through the horror that was September 11, 2001. It was a tragic day that forever changed American history. The passage of time has healed some of the wounds but has not answered many of the questions that surround that day. How did 18 loosely organized men, armed with only box cutters, manage to attack the most powerful industrial and military nation on earth, and invade some of the most heavily guarded air-space on the planet?
If you have ever heard of the “9/11 Truth movement”, then you might also be familiar with how most 9/11 Truth advocates are portrayed by the main-stream media. Most that are quoted are “fringe elements”, third world dictators, “anarchists” or at the very least, people of little credibility or knowledge. Most are not aware there are thousands of highly credible American engineers, physicists, military intelligence officers, firefighters and airline pilots that have gone on record to state that the “official” version of the events of September 11, 2001 simply can’t be true. They can’t be true for hundreds of reasons, those reasons including gross violations of the laws of physics, FAA airspace protocol, standing military scramble orders, and so on.
So how about just one example of a so-called “official finding” in the 9/11 commission report that defies all logic? It was well documented, in fact even videotaped, that there was extensive pre-collapse damage in the lobby of the World Trade center buildings. This damage in the lobby was dozens of floors below the aircraft impacts, and was documented to be there well before the towers fell (see photo below). This damage included blast-proof glass being shattered from the inside out, ten foot square marble panels being blown off the lobby walls, and numerous injuries of WTC personnel. Also evident in the videotapes is a considerable residue of white powder, both airborne and on all surfaces of the lobby.
The official 9/11 commission report states that this damage was due to a “raging fireball of jet fuel” that streamed down the elevator shafts and erupted in the lobby. There are a number of problems with this scenario; first, please look at the photo below. Do you see the “bands” around the towers, one-third and two thirds of the way up the tower? You will see them in every known picture of the WTC Towers.
Those are the sky lobbies. That’s where you had to get off and change elevators to go to the next group of floors. There was a fire bellows in between the levels of the elevator shafts. Apparently, this was a very patient fireball, because it stopped and changed elevators twice.
Secondly, as exotic as jet fuel sounds, “Jet A” as is it known, is nothing more than highly refined kerosene. It’s not explosive, and it burns even cooler than gas. Finally, anybody that’s ever lit a kerosene lamp can tell you, it puts out a sooty black flame, not a white residue. While this might not seem to be a major reason to doubt the 9/11 Commission report, I can assure you there are hundreds of others. This particular example, however, can be told quickly and is easy for most to understand.
What about those credible professionals that have gone on record about challenging the 9/11 Commission report? Here’s a group of professional firefighters, many of whom were at the scene, that would like you to hear what they have to say: http://firefightersfor911truth.org ; Or how about over 1600 professional architects and engineers that would like you to know their view of the events of 9/11? http://www.ae911truth.org/; or a group of professional airline pilots that would like to share their views with you? http://pilotsfor911truth.org/.
If you’d like a five minute You Tube video that very quickly covers why there is so much wrong with the “official” version of the events, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuC_4mGTs98
I’m well aware that for every web page I’ve cited above, there’s at least another that contradicts it. But I’ve dealt with a lot of structural steel in my life, and I know what it takes to cut it or melt it. If you could do it with a hydrocarbon fire, I’ve wasted a lot of money on pressurized welding gasses over the years, and controlled demolition companies have in turn wasted a lot of money on implosions.
To put it in perspective, if I told you I was going to flood my backyard tonight in order to make a skating rink because the overnight low was going to be 40F degrees, you’d all call me bat-crap crazy because water won’t freeze below 32F degrees. Yet we all sit on our hands and accept it when the NIST states that the WTC fires (which are scientifically classified as “hydrocarbon fires” and would only reach 1300F under ideal conditions) were hot enough to soften the structural steel of the WTC towers. Yet they were almost 800 degrees too cold to do so. The lowest temperature at which plain carbon steel can begin to melt is 2066F. The WTC steel was higher grade, and a great deal of it was covered in fire-proofing foam when the towers were built, which would serve to move it’s solidus, or melting point, well over 2400F.
Maybe these 9/11 Loonies aren’t so loonie after all?
