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Old 06-11-2006, 08:09 AM  
FunForOne
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- Almost every engineering school in the country has either been looking into the collapse or using it as a case study. No college (not even Texas A&M who released this statement) has gone on record saying anything different about the collapse. This means either, they are correct or the next generation of engineers who will be building our buildings aren't qualified to put up woodsheds. I find it unlikely that we've universally trained a generations of idiots incapable of understanding gravity, at least not at the college level. K-12... well... let's not go there.

- In order to have a controlled demolishing of a building, it requires a large effort that would be very hard to keep secret and certainly take very long to set up if it were to be kept secret. For instance, there would be no way to set it up in 8 months if it were Bush or someone who came to office with him. I know, however, if I saw people carrying boxes of dynamite in the building back when I was working in the Sears Tower, I would have started working from home.

- Gag order or no gag order, I refuse to believe that the entire police and fire departments of New York would honor them and simply stay quiet about it. There has been no media organization that has received any "anonymous leaks". Both of those organizations lost people on 9/11, and I know if I were a cop and someone bureaucrat gave me a gag order like that I would arrest him. He'd be lucky if I got to him first. (Any cops want to back me up on that? Would you stomach someone telling you to shut up about your cop friends getting blown up by the man?)



This guys expertise is in the economics of crime and punishment that is clear. It's doubtful that he's got any experience in demolitions or civil engineering. Why would he say stuff like this? Maybe he was booted out of Labor on bad terms, maybe he wants attention (it worked for Ward Churchill), who knows. 9/11 conspiracies have become a cottage industry thought. What I do know is that this scenario is highly unlikely and if it was an "inside job" it would have had to be started before Bush got into office.
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