Larry Silverstein makes a statement that he never repeats or acknowledges again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jPzAakHPpk
How is it possible that within a few hours of making the decision to demolish Bldg 7 it falls into its own footprint?
According to Larry Silverstein the NYFD achieved in a few hours what demolition teams and engineers take weeks to accomplish.
Given that before 911 no high rise has fallen to its basement due to fire, this is not just suspect this is arguable proof of pre meditation given who made the statement. Can any poster propose a scenario that rebuffs the obvious?
This piece adds more "obvious" scenarios needing to be explained. The detractors last statement of "reporters do your job...ask some questions" expresses the exasperation of those who for good reason do not believe the media.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OE3Adu4l0g
So your hypothesis then is that a real estate developer ordered the FDNY (not NYFD) to blow up a building? And you think that said real estate developer, after pulling off the most fiendish and secretive criminal plot in all of human history just decided to casually admit to the whole thing on national TV, right? And you don't find it odd there was not a hint of follow-up after that alleged admission from his insurers, the FBI, etc, etc, etc... And you find this whole thing more plausible than 19 terrorist thugs with a long history of attacking the United States hijacking 4 airplanes and crashing them into symbols of American economic, military and political power to achieve their own political aims?
Really?
This begs two rather obvious questions that most of the rest of us have already considered but I suspect you have not:
1. Since when does the FDNY take orders from a real estate developer AND
2. Since when is the FDNY is the business of blowing up buildings?
Beyond that there are additional obvious questions which I suspect you may not have considered. What is the motive for example?
What's that you say? Insurance scam?
OK, let us consider that. Silverstein properties got what from its insurers, about $4.6 billion? Seems like a lot doesn't it? But wait, what were the conditions on the use of those funds? They could only be used to rebuild on the same site, right? How much did that cost? Best estimates are about $9 billion. Even using Truther math I'm not finding the big windfall here and we have not even considered 12 years of lost rental revenue, legal expenses, etc, etc, etc,... which will add up to several billion more dollars at least. Not to mention they billions that would have to be paid out to the co-conspirators in the FDNY who were in on the plan. I mean, they lost several hundred of their brothers in that whole thing - it is going to take a LOT OF MONEY to hush them up about something like this.
But wait, if 9/11 was just a big insurance scam, how does one explain Flight's 77 and 93 and the attacks on Washington DC? How does that fit into an insurance scam? Did Larry Silverstein Properties own the lease on the Pentagon?
I'm starting to think this whole Larry did it for insurance money angle doesn't hold much water. Besides, no 47-story high-rise building has ever been destroyed in a controlled demolition before and of course we all know that if something has never happened before it can never happen. And of course the FDNY has never blown up a building before either and since things that have never happened before can never happen,...
But we are getting ahead of ourselves. Really we need to examine exactly what is it Mr. Silverstein claims to have said. During an interview for the documentary America Rebuilds: A Year at Ground Zero, broadcast on PBS in 2002 Mr. Silverstein made the following statement when discussing the loss 7 World Trade Center, a non-descript and virtually unknown office building in the WTC complex that collapsed at 5:21pm on 9/11:
"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."
Sounds to me like this means;
"there has been so much loss of life already lets pull the firefighting operation so as to not risk the lives of more FDNY members on a lost cause." I honestly don't know how or where one gets
there has been so much loss of life already lets blow the thing up from. That strikes me as the Chimpanzee part of the brain at work.
What do the FDNY have to say about the collapse of 7? How about this from Chief Hayden;
"But also we were pretty sure that 7 World Trade Center would collapse. Early on, we saw a bulge in the southwest corner between floors 10 and 13, and we had put a transit on that and we were pretty sure she was going to collapse. You actually could see there was a visible bulge, it ran up about three floors. It came down about 5 o’clock in the afternoon, but by about 2 o’clock in the afternoon we realized this thing was going to collapse."
"It was a heavy body of fire in there and then we didn’t make any attempt to fight it. That was just one of those wars we were just going to lose. We were concerned about the collapse of a 47-story building there. We were worried about additional collapse there of what was remaining standing of the towers and the Marriott, so we started PULLING the people back after a couple of hours of surface removal and searches along the surface of the debris. We started to PULL guys back because we were concerned for their safety. Yeah, we had to PULL everybody back. It was very difficult. We had to be very forceful in getting the guys out. They didn’t want to come out. There were guys going into areas that I wasn’t even really comfortable with, because of the possibility of secondary collapses. We didn’t know how stable any of this area was. We PULLED everybody back probably by 3 or 3:30 in the afternoon. We said, this building is going to come down, get back. It came down about 5 o’clock or so, but we had everybody backed away by then." (emphasis added)
Seems to me that when the FDNY says "pull" they literally mean pull their people out of harms way
not blow up building.
That's my explanation. Can you do better?