Tuesday, June 12, 2007
More Quote Mining from One of the Nation’s Top Critical Thinkers
Jeff Killtown purports to have a goldmine of eyewitness testimony proving that the Twin Towers were destroyed via controlled demolition. Unfortunately, his mine is full of fool’s gold.
55. EMT Jeff Birnbaum near the South Tower says he heard an eerie high-pitched noise and a 'popping sound' then an explosion before the top of the tower leaned toward him and started coming down. (CEE News)
WRH: The full quote from Birnbaum{1} is: “When we got to about 50 feet from the South Tower, we heard the most eerie sound that you would ever hear. A high-pitched noise and a popping noise made everyone stop. We all looked up. At that point, it all let go. The way I see it, it had to be the rivets. The building let go, there was an explosion, and the whole top leaned toward us and started coming down. I stood there for a second in total awe, and then said, ‘What the f*ck?’ I honestly thought it was Hollywood.” So Mr. Birnbaum attributes the noises to the failure of the bolts, not bombs.
57. Firefighter Edward Cachia says the South Tower gave at a lower floor then where the plane hit because they thought there was internal explosions going off from hearing successions of 'boom, boom, boom, boom' before the tower came down. (NY Times)
WRH: Mr. Cachia always qualifies with “as if” and his body language in the video shows that the floors pancaking on top of each other caused the noise.
58. Fire Captain Karin Deshore says there was orange and red flashes followed by explosions that were getting bigger going both up and down and then all around the WTC 2. (SF Gate)
WRH: The above quote fails to demonstrate the FDNY captain likening the collapse to a controlled demolition; he never makes that connection. He also qualifies with "I didn't know the building was collapsing" and "still unaware that this building had collapsed." His description matches that of a transformer explosion.
60. Commissioner Stephen Gregory along with a Lieutenant Evangelista from Ladder 146 say they both saw multiple flashes coming from the lower level of the WTC 2 right before it collapsed and mentions the flashes they saw are like what you'd see when they 'blow up a building.' (NY Times)
WRH: "I know I was with an officer from Ladder 146, a 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-leve] 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." ... "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. I don't know if that means anything. I mean, I equate it to the building coming down and pushing things down, it could have been electrical explosions, it could have been whatever."
Many more quotes will be addressed soon.
{1} It is always important to quote someone in context. Sedevacantists fail to do that when they try to show that e.g. Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI are heretics. See http://thebananarepublican.blogspot.com/search/label/Benedict%20XVI.
55. EMT Jeff Birnbaum near the South Tower says he heard an eerie high-pitched noise and a 'popping sound' then an explosion before the top of the tower leaned toward him and started coming down. (CEE News)
WRH: The full quote from Birnbaum{1} is: “When we got to about 50 feet from the South Tower, we heard the most eerie sound that you would ever hear. A high-pitched noise and a popping noise made everyone stop. We all looked up. At that point, it all let go. The way I see it, it had to be the rivets. The building let go, there was an explosion, and the whole top leaned toward us and started coming down. I stood there for a second in total awe, and then said, ‘What the f*ck?’ I honestly thought it was Hollywood.” So Mr. Birnbaum attributes the noises to the failure of the bolts, not bombs.
57. Firefighter Edward Cachia says the South Tower gave at a lower floor then where the plane hit because they thought there was internal explosions going off from hearing successions of 'boom, boom, boom, boom' before the tower came down. (NY Times)
WRH: Mr. Cachia always qualifies with “as if” and his body language in the video shows that the floors pancaking on top of each other caused the noise.
58. Fire Captain Karin Deshore says there was orange and red flashes followed by explosions that were getting bigger going both up and down and then all around the WTC 2. (SF Gate)
WRH: The above quote fails to demonstrate the FDNY captain likening the collapse to a controlled demolition; he never makes that connection. He also qualifies with "I didn't know the building was collapsing" and "still unaware that this building had collapsed." His description matches that of a transformer explosion.
60. Commissioner Stephen Gregory along with a Lieutenant Evangelista from Ladder 146 say they both saw multiple flashes coming from the lower level of the WTC 2 right before it collapsed and mentions the flashes they saw are like what you'd see when they 'blow up a building.' (NY Times)
WRH: "I know I was with an officer from Ladder 146, a 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-leve] 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." ... "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. I don't know if that means anything. I mean, I equate it to the building coming down and pushing things down, it could have been electrical explosions, it could have been whatever."
Many more quotes will be addressed soon.
{1} It is always important to quote someone in context. Sedevacantists fail to do that when they try to show that e.g. Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI are heretics. See http://thebananarepublican.blogspot.com/search/label/Benedict%20XVI.
Labels: Controlled Demolition, Killtown, Quote Mining, WTC
