Friday, December 8, 2006

The Infamous Larry Silverstein Comment


"I remember getting a call from the, er, fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, 'We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.' And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse." Larry Silverstein, owner of the WTC complex, speaking in the 2002 PBS documentary, America Rebuilds


This quote has become a distraction. Instead of focusing on real issues, people focus on what exactly Silverstein meant. Was he talking about the firefighters or was he using "pull it" in a controlled demoltion sense? What is even worse is that some even have the audacity to use the truth movement's response to this quote, in order to make the claim that we take things out of context (which does happen, just not here)- as if a plural group of firefighters could ever be referred to as "it".

In my opinion Silverstein is talking about CD, and that they are playing for the history books. We can't think about the Silverstein quote like it is some sort of slip-up. It is part of a PBS documentary and it was delberately included for a reason.

As the 9/11 truth movement and the controlled demolition idea gain 'currency', it will become increasingly apparent that the collapse of WTC 7 via fire is simply an untenable idea. Therefore, it is necessary to plant the seeds of the idea that WTC 7 was in fact taken down via CD.

The fact of the matter is that it takes weeks of careful study and planning in order in order to take down a building the way WTC 7 went down. The charges have to be set just right. And that is why there are only a handful of companies in the world that do CD.

So then what happened with WTC 7? Why the apparent screw-up? It is possible that flight 93 was bound for WTC 7. But the by the time flight 93 would have impacted WTC 7 the lack of fighter response would have been simply too apparent. There are many questions with which we will never have answers to.

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