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by Philip Sherman Gordon
On Wednesday, February 1, a quiet, “churchy-looking” gentleman in a white shirt
and tie walked into a packed auditorium on the campus of Utah Valley State
College and electrified the room like a rock star. The 150-seat auditorium was
filled to capacity, with every seat occupied, and people sitting in the aisles
from the stage floor to the back of the room. Video cameras on tripods lined
the back row. Two documentary-film crews were in attendance, in addition to the
school’s camera crew, and various independent journalists. Seven “spill-over”
rooms, with seating for 40-50 each, were also filled to capacity. On this very
conservative campus (in the most conservative county in the most conservative
state in the union), where community leaders pulled out all the stops in 2004 to
prevent Michael Moore from speaking as part of his anti-Bush, pro-Kerry “Slacker
Uprising Tour,” Dr. Steven Jones, this pious professor from the Mormon
Church-owned Brigham Young University, calmly, gently, gave a simple physics
lesson on the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings, the implications of
which awed the audience with a sense of world-historical significance, and
implied an indictment of the present administration so utterly devastating that
it made Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 look like a Bush apologia.
Dr. Jones argues that the physics behind the government’s explanation of the
collapse of the Twin Towers on September 11 do not make sense, and that a better
(and perhaps only) explanation for their collapse was that they were demolished,
exactly the way structural engineers bring down large buildings, by
pre-positioned explosive devices set off in precise sequences. He argues that
the 650 degree Celsius temperature of burning jet fuel would not have been hot
enough to even bend the steel girders of the WTC Towers, let alone to melt or
evaporate them, as recovered beams indicate. And even if it was hot enough to
evaporate the steel, the towers should not have collapsed as they did, pancaking
so perfectly into their own footprints. On the rare times when such structures
have failed (always due to earthquakes), they have toppled over sideways. The
towers would have had to have been perfectly sliced, at every point along a
horizontal plane at exactly the same instant, for something even resembling a
pancaking effect to occur. And even if they did somehow pancake perfectly into
their own footprints due to a structural failure, they would not have done it in
the time it took for them to collapse, falling at essentially the speed of an
apple dropped from the top of one of the towers, with nothing between it and the
ground but thin air. The steel and concrete in the floors that collapsed should
have taken some measurable time to break, and thus slowed the collapse somewhat
as it unfolded. And even if it did collapse, at super speed, phwack phwack
phwack, floor by floor, as fast as an apple falling through the air, impelled by
the weight of the decapitated structure above it, its solid steel frame severed
like a head by a flaming guillotine, that does not explain the molten steel seen
at the Ground Zero clean-up site many days after the event. What could have
caused such heat? asked Professor Jones.
And on it went, point by point, for almost two hours. Nothing about the
physics of “what we know” about 9/11 seemed to add up. And all that’s not to
mention the mysterious collapse of the forgotten WTC-7, the third steel-frame
building that imploded due to fire, not only that day, but in the history of
architectural design--the building that was not hit by a plane, that was
surrounded by other buildings equally impacted but structurally undamaged by the
collapse of the towers, that, with no jet fuel or violent impact, but allegedly
due to a small number of scattered “debris fires,” collapsed, pancaking
perfectly into its own footprint, looking exactly like video images of buildings
being demolished by pre-positioned explosive devices. Playing the one available
video of WTC-7 collapsing at slow speed, Dr. Jones used his laser pointer to
indicate the explosive “squibs” clearly seen shooting their way up the sides of
the building as it collapsed from the top center down. He showed still images
of similar micro-explosions on the sides of the Twin Towers, with steel beams
clearly visible, ejected out of the sides of the buildings, ahead of the dust,
blown out before the above portions collapsed.
It is a devastating presentation, and one could feel the disequilibrium of 150
minds reeling at once. The defining moment of contemporary American experience
suddenly lost its definition. What is the meaning of 9/11? What really
happened that day? If these things are true, the implications clearly point to
some kind of “inside job” involving the government of the United States of
America. (The Department of Defense, the FBI, and the CIA all had offices in
the mysteriously collapsed WTC-7. Is it reasonable that outside terrorists
could have infiltrated that building and filled it with explosives? ) If the
WTC was brought down by pre-positioned explosive devices, somehow facilitated
and covered up by the government, it would be the most audacious conspiracy in
human history. When before have so many people been so spectacularly
bamboozled, with so much death and destruction, and such massive implications
for geo-politics? Never, that’s when.
And that is the problem Dr. Jones is facing with his research. People have
knee-jerk reactions to “conspiracy theories,” at least to the ones that do not
make it into their established and trusted news outlets. And the mainstream
media, so far, despite a blip or two in the New York Times, is taking a pass on
this story. Yes, my skeptical friends believe that the Bush administration
cynically smeared the war records of both John Kerry and John McCain during the
2000 presidential election through the use of shill agencies. Yes, they believe
there was suppression of black voters in Florida, and other schemes to cheat
their way into the White House in the 2000 election. Yes, they believe the
administration conspired to rig the intelligence they used to justify their
invasion of Iraq. Yes, if they are regular readers of The New Yorker, they
believe that the election fraud was worse in 2004, with rigged ballot machines,
in Ohio in particular, being used to great effect. And, yes, they believe in
massive wrong-doing and cover-up regarding October Surprise and the Iran/Contra
affair, as well as the CIA-orchestrated overthrows of democracies in Chile and
Iran, to name only two well-known examples. But no, they don’t believe in
conspiracy theories.
These are hardcore leftists who refuse to even entertain the question of whether
science supports the conclusion that the planes brought the towers down. “Too
many people would have to know about it for them to get away with it,” one
friend said. “They’re not that smart,” said another. “It’s just not
plausible,” said a third. The issues raised by Professor Jones are not breaking
along standard political fissures. People’s relative amounts of skepticism and
credulity, rather than their political affiliations, seem to determine their
openness to giving the professor’s analysis a hearing. Jones himself claims to
have been a lifelong Republican, but now affiliates with no political party.
The audience Wednesday night was definitely not the usual suspects of
progressive professors and pierced and tattooed activists and students who
regularly gather to share criticism of the President, although there were a few
of those, too. Mostly, they looked like a cross-section of average
middle-Americans. But by the end of the evening, it is no exaggeration to say
that most had become political radicals, not of the left and the right, but of
the right and the wrong.
If Dr. Jones’s work ever breaks into the mainstream media, and the rest of the
country reacts the way the Utah County audience reacted, traditional political
divisions will evaporate like steel beams exploded with thermite, and the whole
lot of them, the Democrats and the Republicans, will be swept away, along with
the military-industrial complex that has apparently managed to subvert the
constitution of these United States and to con the American public, mesmerized
by the shock of 9/11 and hypnotized by spell-binding incantations of freedom and
patriotism, into going along with their mad plans for world domination.
http://mujca.com/jonesphysics.htm
Alan
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Can't you see we're still here,
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We shall not go under,
We're still here."
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