By Thomas Costanzo
The seminar I attended was put on by Architects and Engineers
for 911 truth, which was held at Sunnyslope high school auditorium in Phoenix
Arizona on 12/01/07. The seminar was conducted by Richard Gage who is a
practicing architect for the past 20 years and has designed many fireproof
steel framed buildings. From his concise and compelling presentation it
is absolutely clear he has not only the qualifications to back up the evidence
that each of the 3 towers came down as a result of a controlled demolition,
even more importantly, he went over in minute detail how the 3 collapses match
every SINGLE tell tail sign of a controlled demolition.
I have been to many conferences regarding 9/11 and I must say
that Mr. Gage's presentation was easily the most convincing and irrefutable line
of reasoning as to the cause of the 3 towers collapse. Mr. Gage
sticks to the actual physical evidence of the towers collapse as shown from the
well documented videos plus the eye and audio witness accounts from that
fateful day. Almost all the information presented was about the buildings
themselves and HOW they came down. When the evidence is laid all the
questions are answered THE BUILDINGS CAME DOWN AS A RESULT OF CONTROLLED
DEMOLITION.
Mr. Gage first became interested in the 9/11 truth after listening
to a radio broadcast of Dr. Ray Griffin about 18 months ago. He became so
engrossed in the radio show he pulled his car over to listen to the broadcast
and even to show up late to the meeting he was traveling to. The
result was his investigation into the matter and the founding of the
organization Architects and Engineers for 9/11 truth. The reason Mr. Gage
founded the organization is because the attack on 9/11 served as the pretext to
2 invasions, millions of people dying and loss of our civil liberties here in
this country. It could happen again if we do not find out EXACTLY what
happened on 9/11.
Already there are 226 Architects
and Engineers who support the Organization and reopening the investigation
with subpoena powers. There are also 100 Senior Military, Intelligence, Law
Enforcement, and Government Officials Question the 9/11 Commission Report. 110 - 9/11 survivors
question the official story and 120 distinguished
Professors also question the official report.
There are many polls which indicate Americans do not believe
the official story. Scripts-Howard
poll said 36% do not believe the official story, 16% by the Washington
Post, 51 % by Zogby poll and 28% by the New York Times/CBS poll all do not
believe the official story. It is interesting to note that before the
presentation Mr. Gage took a poll of the 3-400 people in the audience. He
asked who believed the official story behind the collapse i.e. the planes
destroyed part of the structure and the heat from the fires caused the
structure to give way and collapse. There were 39 people who raised their
hands and there were 18 who were not sure. Those numbers would all
change by the end of the presentation. I am going to outline the
presentation here in this report and a video is also available www.ae911truth.org for free.
The American people were introduced to Shock and awe on
9/11. We have had 6 years to come out the hypnotic trance which we were
exposed to on 9/11. It was a myth that the fires burned so hot to cause
the beams to give way and fail. In 10 seconds 110 stories were pulverized
into DUST. The myth breed into the FEMA report that said the airplane
damaged the buildings and the fires cause the towers to collapse. THIS is
THE conspiracy theory.
Fire does destroy buildings and has its own time tested and reproducible
characteristics. Fires tend to creep looking for new places to
burn. Buildings fall
over because of earthquake, however they remain mostly intact.
Explosions have pyroclastic flows with streamers shooting out, dust going
everywhere. Demolition or implosions building head straight down and is
the most common method to demolishing a building. Timed explosions are
starting inward at the bottom of the structure moving outward and then moving
upward. The building collapsing at free fall speeds. The
characteristics of an Implosion are:
All columns are exploded at once
Sounds and flashes produced by explosions
Rapid on Set of destruction at the locations of explosions.
Dust clouds: thick billowing & enormous (from Pulverized
concrete)
4000 degree heat, molten pools of molten iron.
Squibs: ejection from explosive charges.
Demolition waves
Total collapse
We started with WTC 7 which was located 110 feet from the
north tower WTC 1 incidentally opposite the direction of impact from
Flight11. WTC 7 sustained some damage and small fires on floors 5, 7, 12
and 13. Floors 12 and 13 housed the SEC which had thousands of files
relating to Enron and Worldcom cases. If it were damaged by debris from
the falling WTC 1 or 2 it should have fallen towards the damaged side instead
it fell straight down. In fact Dan Rather commented that “was deliberately
destroyed by well placed dynamite to knock it down.”
WTC 7 was an extremely secure building 47 stories tall,
larger than any building in 33 states housing the: CIA, IRS, Department of Defense,
SEC and the NYC emergency management offices. It collapsed 7 hours after
the WTC 1 and 2 without much media attention. Larry Silverstein said “he and the fire department
made the decision to ‘Pull’ the building”. Fire departments don’t
“pull” a building that is what demolitions companies do.
How do
you bring down a 47 story building inside its own footprint? There
are 24 columns that all need to be blow out within a 10th of a
second. Then ½ a second later you have to blow out the 57 perimeter
columns again all within a 10th of a second. We then watched 3 separate videos documenting
the perfect demolition. Eye witness accounts
state shockwaves windows being blown out and thunder and then the building
coming down.
There are pyroclastic flows moving at 35 miles per hour.
No modern steel framed building has ever fallen because of fire. A
building in Caracas Venezuela burned for 17 hours and did not fall over.
A building in Los Angeles California burned for 3.5 hours. Buildings that
fall down always FALL OVER they don't disintegrate and pulverize themselves into DUST.
The official investigation of WTC 7 was done by the American
Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) this organization is heavily dependent on 10
million dollar plus contracts from the government. Also Federal emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) investigated the matter and spent only $600,000 on the
investigation. When Bill Clinton was investigated for his affair with
Monica Lewinsky the government spent 40 MILLION DOLLARS.
FEMA in its own report said there was a small debris field
typical of a demolition with pyroclastic flows. And said fire had a low
probability of collapse. The site was completely scrubbed with no chance
to re-investigate. Senator Max Cleland resigned and called the investigation
a complete compromise.
FEMA then subcontracted with the Applied
Research Associates (ARA) to investigate and but would not allow them to
investigate the floors 1-7 and the 47th…WHY?
There is an acceleration of the building
falling speed that is consistent with gravity we looked at an Italian show
called “Matrix” of a demolition
side by side with WTC 7 and the fall rate is identical. We also see
slow motion video of the squibs, which are ejections of explosive gases from
the exterior of the building. At the bottom of the debris tons of molten
metal were found which were OMITTED by FEMA, NIST and the 9/11 commission
report!
There was foreknowledge of the actual event. Fire Chief
Nick Visconti said in interview with Firehouse magazine “we have to move the command
post that building is coming down” also there is police and construction
workers who knew the building was coming down. Further a BBC story is run
20 minutes mentioning the building has already fallen yet it is in the
background as the reporter is telling the story that the building has fallen!
At this point we have a review and it is clear that the
building was a controlled demolition as is exhibits EVERY SINGLE characteristic
of out of a controlled demolition.
Before moving on to WTC 1 and 2 Mr. Gage polls the audience
and we find there are now only 2 people believe in the fire theory and 3 that are still
unsure.
WTC 1 and 2 were engineered by John Skilling and won awards
for innovation they were 1368 feet tall and 1 acre in surface area. The
building were actually in need of 5-15 BILLION dollars worth of renovation as
the cladding was coming loose on the exterior of the building and scaffolding
would need to be erected in order to correct the problem. Plus there was
need to remove the asbestos in the building at a cost of 800 million
dollars. Much of the space was unrented and the port authority had denied
permits for demolition on multiple occasions. In effect the buildings
were condemned structures.
The WTC complex was leased for 99 years by Larry Silverstein
just 3 month prior to 9/11. Silverstein invested only 15 million dollars of his
own money. Silverstein paid 3.2 billion for obsolete building needing 15
BILLION in repairs? The lease had an all important escape clause “If the
buildings were struck by act terrorism then all obligations under the lease are
void”. As a result the Mr. Silverstein did not have to make the
remaining payments of 3.2 billion and collected 7 BILLION dollars from the
insurance companies from an investment of only 15 million! The insurance
companies also made out, as they raised their premiums by 2000%!
The buildings were designed around 47 steel massive girders
36 inches across and 4 inches thick at the base. The steel design makes a
great heat sink meaning excessive heat would be wicked away by the metal
frame. In fact no steel that was analyzed had any evidence of being any
hotter then 500 degrees. Any collapse around the perimeter would have left
the massive steel core intact. Also the collapse because of design
failure would have left the floors stacked up and not pulverized into dust as
they were at ground zero.
The design team also had accounted for a 707 ramming into the
building at 600 MPH. A 707 is approximately the same weight as the planes
that actually flew into the towers on 9/11. The building were designed to
withstand the force of 30 times the energy of the planes from wind load.
The North Tower was hit at 8:46 am and the south Tower was
hit at 9:05 am both towers withstood the force of the impact and the south
tower received a less direct impact yet is was the first to fall this question has still yet to be addressed.
The animations provided to the public on the PBS show “why
the towers fell” were grossly inadequate. Not showing the massive center
columns nor the cross bracing that was both welded and bolted to the
structure. The architectural drawings are now available online at www.ae911truth.org
NIST said the WTC 1 and 2 could not be a controlled
demolition it does not start from the bottom. Duh!
We see video of sights and sounds of the demolitions,
including eye and ear witnesses to the explosions. In fact NYC tried to
suppress evidence by 503 FDNY personnel of these accounts. We also have a
debris field that is 1200 feet in diameter. In slow motion you can
clearly see the flashes and the squibs of the explosions occurring BEFORE the
floor is demolished. Windows are being blown out PRIOR to the floors
being demolished. We have a 600 ton girder (the weight of 3 747’s) thrown
400 feet deep into another building. Falling buildings don’t the ability
to generate this kind of energy. Bone fragments 1 centimeter long
discovered recently on neighboring buildings.
We see pictures of core columns cut at a 45 degree angle
that is exactly how a building is “pulled” causing the building to “walk” and
fall down.
Ace Elevator had office on the 35th floor and had access to
the core columns and was in the middle of an elevator restoration prior to
9/11. Was this the guise use to place the demolitions? Silverstein
replaced the security company with Securecom who
happened to have George Bushes brother Marvin Bush as one of the principle
owners.
We also see the interesting way the top of the tower starts
to fall. First it starts to fall then it completely disintegrates with
huge pyroclastic flows all around. Further the radio antenna drops first
indicting a core failure.
We see how the advancing demolition in slow motion is in
advance of the building coming down with debris being ejected at tremendous
velocity. And the rate of fall is only slightly slower than
gravity. Multiple explosions can bee seen in slow motion. We also
see the top of the south tower lean to on side then completely disintegrate
violating the physical laws of motion. Next is video of a top down
disintegration of a building in Philadelphia in a controlled demolition.
The speed of the buildings collapse is only .3 seconds slower than a free
falling object, indicating the massive 36 inch steel core offered absolutely NO
resistance to the buildings collapse.
Talk is now on the pile driver theory well the pile driver is
completely disintegrated where is it in the video? NIST says the squibs
are caused by increase in air pressure as the building is falling however the
velocity can be determined and the speed is 260 feet per second. Much
more energy here than is possible. Plus the air pressure would be uniform
and blow out all the windows not just in one area. And the squibs are
20-40 stories below the collapsing floors above.
When viewed from above there are no distinguishing characteristics
of the original buildings. With the debris field 20x greater than the foot
print of the buildings…20x! Shouldn’t we see the PANCAKED floors
somewhere? The rubble height should have been 1/8th the height of the
towers yet the height of the debris is only 2% the height of the towers and all
dust. All that is left is twisted metal and DUST!
Ariel heat density readings by the USGS are discussed with
readings heat readings are 1000-1300 degrees at the sites of WTC 1, 2 & 7
on 9/16/07. This is 5 days later! Molten metal is found weeks later
and the last fire finally extinguished 3 months after 9/11. The
FEMA, NIST and 9/11 commission report omit any references of molten metal. John Gosse the lead engineer
for NIST lies when he says there is no evidence of molten steel.
Thermite and thermate traces are found by Professor Steven
Jones of BYU and the signature compound 1, 3 Dipherylpopene in both the metal
and the dust from ground zero. Thermite is a compound which is made with
iron and aluminum having a high heat and rapid burn rate ideal for cutting
metal. Thermate is thermite and has added sulfur making it work even
better. He also found iron rich spheres in the dust which are
indicative of the thermate blasts. Only the paint on tops cars
from ground zero was also corroded off also indicates thermate, however the
paint on the sides of the cars is left intact. FEMA discusses the mysterious sulfidation in its
report and not mentioned on the NIST report.
Pyroclastic
flows are found in nature only 2 sources: volcanic eruptions and undersea mud
flows. We watched videos of these flows in the WTC 1 and 2. The
ejection actually goes higher than the building itself. Could a falling building
produce them…NO! In addition 90,000 tons of concrete missing from the
cleanup for each building!
Firefighter radio transmissions indicated there are only few small pockets of
flames and they can knock it out easily. Structural steel looses about
half its strength at 1200 degrees and the heat from a hydrocarbon fire (jet
fuel) rarely gets hotter than 1000 degrees. The black smoke from oxygen
starved fires at WTC
did not exceed 500 degrees from NIST’s own report. Do your pans
or your oven melt when you cook with them?
The NIST report objective States the report “does not
actually include structural behavior of the tower after the conditions
for collapse initiation were reached and collapse became inevitable.” Why
would they not want to analyze anything afterwards? The whole
report is based on unfounded assumptions such using extreme heat to generate the
1650 degree temperatures, no evidence of a global collapse in human history for
this kind of structure, and violating scientific theory having reproducible
results! Further NIST also failed to publish data used in computer models.
NIST threw out data from UL labs as the test failed to show
ANY failure even with a 2000 degree heat and double the load of the
building! The only way the NIST could achieve failure in their jet impact
models was to increase the speed of the plane, decrease the angle of approach,
increase airplane weight, increase aircraft strength, decrease tower strength,
and increase fuel carried on the planes! The NIST simply adjusted the
values in the computer models until they got results they wanted to find!
Scientist Kevin Ryan of UL labs was fired when he wrote
letter to boss stating “the
official story just doesn’t add up” Fire Engineering Magazine states “FEMA investigation is a half
baked farce.”
We are now faced with the foreknowledge of the events. FEMA
conveniently came to New York on Sept 10th 2001 for a drill on bio-chemical
attack. It took FEMA weeks so to get to New Orleans for Katrina; however
FEMA was Johnny on the spot for 9/11! Rudi Giuliani actually
informed the media that the towers were going to fall! How did he
know? Why didn’t tell the firefighters in the building they were coming
down? ABC news 9/11/2001 12:01 report
Destruction of evidence: Most of the debris from the largest
and least understood structural collapse was destroyed with remarkable speed
and vim. Conveniently most of the metal was sold off to the Chinese.
This is remarkable in itself as Giuliani himself was federal prosecutor and all the
evidence and the crime scene was destroyed.
The presentation ends with a recap outlining the evidence and
how it exactly mimics an explosive demolition on every single point. By a
show of hands no one who has remained in the audience for the entire
presentation believes the official story.
Conclusion: Mr. Gage encourages the audience to
pass the information to Architects and Engineers and join the organization to
promote the awareness of the lies promulgated by the federal agencies and
regurgitated by the media. A non-partisan formal investigation
complete with subpoena powers needs to be performed so that We The People will
know exactly what happened to the buildings on 9/11 and the exact causes
for the most infamous tragedy in American history! Architects and Engineers
Demand it, Senior Military & Law Enforcement Demand it, 9/11 Survivors
Demand it, Fire Professionals Demand it, Professors Demand it, We The
People Demand it and History DEMANDS IT!
After the 2.5 hour presentation Mr. Gage answers questions,
most of the questioners mention how brave the presenter is with the giving of
the information. Some talk is about HB 1955 and 1959 the homegrown
terrorism bill, which turns all dissenting Americans into “terrorists”. Videos
and other memorabilia are available for sale in the foyer.
