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Larry Silverstein explaining what he meant by 'pull it'

ergo said:
Yes, "pull it" is a demolition term.

Ten bucks says that the slingers of bunk, in any case,

1) won't be able to find a single reference where the phrase "pull it" refers to an operation involving pulling personnel.

2) will ever explain why an operation that, in the end, had no personnel in it would need to be "pulled".

But of course, as their last resort, they can always just claim another 9/11 "first".
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Would you like to ask someone an actual question, or to make an assertion that is not a passive-aggressive dig at your opposition?
 
RedIbis said:
I agree. Normally, I'd be ready to fire off hundreds of posts in this thread, spend many hours and type the callouses off my fingertips, but there is the second leg of the Copa Del Rey this afternoon, so I'll have to pass for now. Go Barca!
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Speaking of you and Larry Silverstein, did you ever recant your claim that he "made out like a bandit"?
 
Edx said:
In no way does what Larry said suggest that it all happened immediately one step after the other.
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But he said it one after the other in his sentence. That obviously means it happened immediately, silly.
 
ergo said:
It's frustrating listening to people who really should have no personal investment in what Larry Silverstein said or didn't say,
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Poisoning the well.

nevertheless for some reason feel the need to stretch the truth beyond any credibility. Over and over. Despite the fact that this point has been established and the debate on it is over.
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Baseless assertion.

"Pull it" is a demolition industry term. It doesn't matter whether it refers to explosive demolition or not. A turn of phrase from a previous era is often applied to a new technology. Silverstein is in property management, not demolition.

If the interpretation that is trying to take hold here had any validity at all, Silverstein's comment would look more like: "...and they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse the firefighters pulled out." Or ".. and the personnel evacuated the area.." Or " ... and we watched them pull away from the building..."
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Why the "and X"? He already made a complete statement. Adding any of your hypotheticals would mean very little. If he says "pull it" in the sense of abandoning firefighting efforts, he wouldn't need to say that they abandoned firefighting efforts.

It is also well established that there were no firefighters in Building 7 after that morning. If there were personnel monitoring the building from the outside, they would be the ones to know when to pull away from the building, not Larry Silverstein. If WTC 7 collapsed from structural weakening, as you claim, then Silverstein does not have some kind of omnipotent power of prediction to know when to "pull" personnel away from it. Yet he said "...and they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse."
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It doesn't matter whether he knew it was going to collapse. The call could've and was been made on the basis of utility; "do we need to keep fighting fires in this empty building when the personnel doing so would be useful elsewhere?" The answer, of course, is no.

It's a pretty clear statement. Pulling personnel from monitoring duties on the outside is not going to suddenly cause the building to collapse.
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Straw man. The statement does not imply or state any link between the two. It says "X happened, and Y happened".

You really should drop this point, guys. It's stupid that you keep bringing it up.
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This coming from the person who can't make a post without a personal attack.
 
timmyg said:
Wow.
I can't imagine this simple question ever leading to 2 pages of emotion on any other forum... and not one post giving an answer
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When you're doing it on this forum, or on a site that has a similar collection of people talking about this frequently it's part of what to expect unfortunately. As ozeco has pointed out in the past, there's very little if any legitimate skeptic movement left here to discuss with, and when people do speak out the answers people provide have a likelihood of being drowned out. The attitude comes from argument fatigue... the argument keeps popping in like new even though it's been covered millions of times already
 
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Miragememories said:
Yeah like I care what puppets think.

Too funny.

MM
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The only puppets I see are twoofers. They move in exactly the way their Gods tell them to move, think the way they are instructed by the troofers gods, and recycle all the same proofless garbage. The day one of the troofers has an original thought and does some actual real research instead of making baseless claims would be a most pleasant day indeed. It won't happen though they just run around in circles like good little robots.
 
timmyg said:
Wow.
I can't imagine this simple question ever leading to 2 pages of emotion on any other forum... and not one post giving an answer


A simple 'No. I haven't seen the video interview you are talking about' would suffice.

I wasn't trying to make a point. Just genuinely would like to see the interview if it exists.
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It doesn't. I told you that earlier. I was just a statement made on his behalf. IIRC there was never a video of Mr. McQuillan making the statement.

ETA: Thanks Oystein. Saw your post after I posted :D
 
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ergo said:
"Pull it" is a demolition industry term. It doesn't matter whether it refers to explosive demolition or not. A turn of phrase from a previous era is often applied to a new technology.
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Yet you have 0 evidence that is the case. "Pulling" is still carried out. Again...0 evidence "pull" has ever been used to refer to explosives and even less for Silverstein being involved in demolishing 7.
 
Good God...

We've known since 2006 that the only time "pull" applies to demolitions is when cables are used to literall pull a building down. The "pull it" page at 911myths has only existed for what, 4 years now? Yet, truthers want to continue to make hay of this?

This thread is proof that conspiracy peddlers don't want to actually prove anything. They only exist to be argumentative. There's nothing about Silverstein's quote that supports what the truthers are saying. Pretending otherwise is ignoring reality.
 
It's all about context.

I often use the word pull in my job, but I am often refering to retrieving documents from a file or other source. When I tell someone to "pull a file" I am not asking them to throw ropes around the file cabinet and topple it. I would probably question their intelligence and sanity if they did.
 
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Guys, when you are going to realize that Clayton Moore knows more about controlled demolition than experts and those who work in the fields, because he has the power of Google and lack of critical thinking.

Sometimes I just hate how the internet gives a platform for such <SNIP>.

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Edited, breach of rule 0; please ensure your posts are civil and polite.
 
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CptColumbo said:
It's all about context.

I often use the word pull in my job, but I am often refering to retrieving document from a file or other source. When I tell someone to "pull a file" I am not asking them to throw ropes around the file cabinet and topple it. I would probably question their intelligence and sanity if they did.
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I am gonna go out on a limb here and guess that you don`t mean for that someone to rig the file cabinet with explosives and blow it up either if you ask someone to pull a file? Or pour superdupernanamamaholybananathermite in it, and see it fizzle and turn into "molten steel" either (although its not made of steel!). :D
 
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Have any of our resident twoofers explained how Larry Silverstein is connected to the Pentagon crash or Shanksville yet? Or are they content with implying it's all a massive coincidence?
 
minnemouse said:
I am gonna go out on a limb here and guess that you don`t mean for that someone to rig the file cabinet with explosives and blow it up either if you ask someone to pull a file? Or pour superdupernanamamaholybananathermite in it, and see it fizzle and turn into "molten steel" either (although its not made of steel!). :D
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When I want a document destroyed I take a cue from the gubmint and demolish an entire building.
 
CptColumbo said:
When I want a document destroyed I take a cue from the gubmint and demolish an entire building.
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Exactly! The best part is, like WTC7, most of your documents will be recovered, too! Much easier than just wiping a harddrive or shredding a piece of paper a few times.
 
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