Sir Knight, I'm glad to see that you're at least beginning to bring up some issues related to the topic of this thread. In the response to your first post, you were given the link to my analysis of the video "Loose Change."
Have you read it? If not, here it is again:
http://www.loosechangeguide.com/LooseChangeGuide.html or if you want to download the document as a .doc file, go here:
http://tinyurl.com/epp82
I'm very disappointed to hear that nothing can change your mind about 9/11 being an inside job. I assume then, that you are here to bring us around to your point of view. That will be an uphill battle, and you will need to have truly uncovered information that is not available elsewhere.
At least you brought up a couple of issues that can be addressed with facts. You do not believe that flight 77 hit the Pentagon. Have you spoken to anyone who was there? If not, why? I direct your attention to Hal Bidlack's post on this forum, which is linked below. He was there.
I hope you will also give serious consideration to the question (asked below also) of what standards of proof you would want to be used at your trial, should you be wrongly accused of a serious crime.
The following is an excerpt from an email I sent this morning to the most prominent Pentagon no-planers in this country and abroad. It is in response to an email sent to these people by another no-planer, Craig Hill. Please rebut the evidence below with your facts. I also cover this issue extensively in my "Loose Change" guide, linked above. You will need to address each point. Take your time. I await your answer.
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"Give me one good reason to think you're not the lying pseudo-science supporter of the terrorist traitors who attacked our country which the chief economist of the Labor Dept 2001-2002 says you are, and i won't nail you as such in the next edition of Wikipedia." ~ Craig Hill, 2006 Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate from Vermont
"Moseley, you're either an idiot or a traitor, and my guess is probably both." ~ Craig Hill, 2006 Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate from Vermont
Mr. Hill,
As I will show below, your "guesses" are not evidence. Further, it ill-becomes a candidate for the United States Senate to publicly hurl invective and threats at people who disagree with him, as I've seen you do in these exchanges. If elected, is that how you would respond to your constituents? Would the people who've donated to your campaign be pleased to hear that this is how immaturely you behave? This is my first email to this group. Please refrain from caliing me a shill, tool, idiot, or any of the other names I've seen you use. If you disagree with my evidence, present yours, with sources.
Mr. Hill, I don't know Jon Moseley, but as to the credibility of Morgan Reynolds, the former Labor Department economist you mentioned, do you also believe that no planes hit the Twin Towers?
Evidence, not opinion, should dominate these discussions. Suppose you were accused of a serious crime that you did not commit. Would you want your standards of evidence to be admissible at your trial? I thought not. As an American, please keep that in mind before making unfounded accusations about 9/11, or about the people who have honest disagreements with you.
And please, if you doubt that flight 77 hit the Pentagon, talk to the witnesses, first responders, and investigators who were there. I'm absolutely astonished that supposed "researchers" have the nerve to make outlandish claims and accusations without speaking to the people who were involved.
Craig Hill:
Barbara Honneggar [sic. It's Honnegger] interviewed dozens of Pentagon employees who told her that bombs went off in the Pentagon minutes before the Thing ("plane") hit it. The bombs took out the entirety of Naval Intelligence...
Mark Roberts reply:
I was unable to find these interviews on the internet. Please provide a source for them. If you don't have a source for "dozens," one person who was in the Pentagon and claims that a bomb went off five minutes before the plane struck will do for now. Thousands of people were there. Surely you can provide the account of one who makes this claim.
How about the Pentagon security staff? Do they confirm your story? Did alarms go off at 9:32? Were calls to 911 made at 9:32? What local emergency personnel were mobilized? I certainly haven't heard of any. Were people running in panic while emergency responders moved in? You know, the normal things that happen when bombs go off. As for the Naval Command Center being taken out by bombs, perhaps you should ask the survivors from those offices if bombs went off before the plane hit. I think they would have noticed that. Further, what would be the purpose of such bombs, the discovery of which would prove an "inside job?"
Craig Hill:
FYI, Li'l Jonny, the lawn in front of the tiny hole in the Pentagon betrays your superstitious belief/lie a 757 hit the building. For that to be possible, the hole just above the basement had to have been preceded by gouges in the earth from the 9-foot diameter engines, hanging beneath the wings, dragging on the ground, as the plane flew 4 feet above the lawn, as even the Pentagon claims. End of [expletive deleted by MR] story. Slam Dunk.
Mark Roberts reply:
False. Because of the wing position and dihedral, the underslung Rolls-Royce RB 211-535 engines on flight 77 did not project far below the fuselage. Further, flight 77 was not flying level over the Pentagon lawn, and it certainly did not skid into the building: it flew into it. It was descending after crossing about 15 feet above the highway, which is elevated on a berm. Its right engine just struck the top of the construction generator in front of the Pentagon, which was housed in a trailer. By the way, dihedral also explains why, although the plane hit in a slightly left wing down position, the left wing marks on the building were nearly horizontal. Please see the many eyewitness reports of the plane hitting the building (yes, "dozens," with sources) linked below. And for detailed information on damage to the Pentagon, please see the ASCE's Pentagon Building Performance Report, also linked below.
I hope any disbelievers of the flight 77 crash will review the evidence in the links below carefully. If you want to argue that the plane didn't hit the Pentagon, you will need to refute all of these facts with your own verifiable evidence.
First, an important message from someone who was at the Pentagon on 9/11. Please take it to heart.
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1849603&postcount=1
How about the dozens of eyewitnesses accounts of the crash? For your claim to be true, all of theirs must be false. Please provide your evidence that refutes these reports.
http://eric.bart.free.fr/iwpb/witness.html
http://www.geocities.com/someguyyoud.../witnesses.htm
Notice that many of those witnesses specifically mention seeing a huge American Airlines jet hit the Pentagon.
Just released was the flight 77 Flight path analysis, which contains detailed information.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB196/doc02.pdf
And the Air Traffic Control transcripts were also released recently:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB196/doc06.pdf
Summary of Flight 77 depicting the identity of crew, seat assignments of passengers, and seats from which telephone calls were made:
http://www.vaed.uscourts.gov/notablecases/moussaoui/exhibits/prosecution/flights/P200054.html
More on the phone calls, from the 9/11 Commission Report:
http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch1.htm
Of course, for anyone interested in the damage to the Pentagon, the ASCE's Pentagon Building Performance Report is essential reading:
http://fire.nist.gov/bfrlpubs/build03/PDF/b03017.pdf From page 35: "The width of the severe damage to the west facade of the Pentagon was approximately 120 ft (from column lines 8 to 20).
A single 16-foot hole? As mentioned above, that is laughably false. The hole extends along the wing line left, and especially, right, of the fuselage hole, all the way to column 18. It is not a cookie-cutter hole: that simply cannot happen with a reinforced concrete building. Note in the following picture the total destruction of masonry and the reinforced columns broken and bent in the direction of impact (the plane came in from the right of the picture):
http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/pentagon/images/6.jpg
No debris on the lawn? That couldn't be less true. Why don't CTs show these photos?
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/imagehosting/879044e5acd97bcc7.jpg
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/imagehosting/879044e5acd9b75a6.jpg
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http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/imagehosting/879044e5ad1fb1eb4.jpg
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/imagehosting/879044e5add2ebf1b.jpg
Need more photos of 757 debris? There are hundreds of photos and several videos showing a huge assortment of debris. Here is a montage with a small sampling:
Many debris photos at 911myths.com
http://www.911myths.com/html/757_wreckage.html
How about the account of the C-130 pilot who saw both the flight 77 attack and the aftermath of flight 93? Lying?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCVRkAkC8n4&search=Shanksville
Photos from witness Steve Riskus, seconds after the crash (he gives his contact info, but be nice: he gets a lot of email):
http://www.criticalthrash.com/terror.html
Next, you need to remember that the remains of every flight 77 victim but one (a two-year-old) was recovered and positively identified by forensics experts. Personal effects of many survived the crash and fires and were returned to the victims' families. Articles on Pentagon disaster morgue operations and victim identification:
http://ndms.chepinc.org/data/files/3/266.pdf and
http://www.dcmilitary.com/army/stripe/6_48/national_news/12279-1.html
As for the question, "Where are all those Pentagon video cameras?" the answer is that the Pentagon uses live security – human beings – for its perimeter security. Here's a post on the BAUT forum from a Pentagon employee who was there on 9/11.
http://www.bautforum.com/showpost.php?p=746514&postcount=173 An excerpt:"Why isn't there more video? Without telling too much of what I know of Pentagon security, you would be suprised how few cameras there are outside the building. Humans actively patrolling a building's perimeter are a tad more effective than dozens of monitors which may or may not be watched at any given moment."
A brief look at the ridiculous "A missile hit the Pentagon" theory:
1) No missile was seen or heard by anyone. All eyewitnesses report a passenger jet crash.
2) No missile debris was found
3) Missiles do not carry thousands of gallons of jet fuel
4) Missiles do not carry the remains of flight 77 passengers
5) Missiles do not carry tons of 757 debris
6) In the photo below, the yellow dots indicate the broken light poles. The red line indicates the path a missile would have to take in order to knock them over. Or, the missile would have to have a wingspan of over 100 feet.
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/imagehost/879044caa801aabf4.jpg
An examination of numerous Pentagon/flight 77 questions at 9/11myths.com
http://www.911myths.com/html/pentagon.html
A detailed examination of the Jet engine pieces found at the Pentagon
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/conspiracy/q0265.shtml
And how about the hundreds of first responders and investigators who were on the scene the first day? All lying? Your position is deeply disrespectful of their service. Have you attempted to contact any of the 8,000 people who were on the scene after the crash? If you still have doubts, please do so. Here are a few suggestions for contacts:
the Pentagon 3-person Crash Response Team
the Arlington County Fire Department
the Arlington County Sheriff's Department
Arlington County Emergency Medical Services
the Arlington, VA Police Department
Fairfax County Fire & Rescue
Montgomery County Fire & Rescue
Alexandria, VA Fire & Rescue
District of Columbia Fire & Rescue
the Metropolitan Airport Authority Fire Unit
the Military District of Washington Search & Rescue Team
the Fort Myer Fire Department
the Arlington County SWAT Team
the Virginia State Police,
the FBI's Evidence Recovery Teams
the National Transportation Safety Board Investigators
American Airlines representatives
the HHS National Medical Response Team
the Pentagon security staff,
the DOD Honor Guard
the Pentagon Medical Unit
the Pentagon Defense Protective Service,
Four U.S. Army Chaplains
One Catholic Priest (Stephen McGraw)
the FBI Hazmat Team
the EPA Hazmat Team
the FEMA Incident Support Team
the FEMA Emergency Response Team
the FEMA Disaster Field Office
the FEMA Virginia-1, Virginia-2, Maryland-1 and Tennessee-1 Task Forces
the US Army Reserves of Virginia Beach, Fairfax County and Montgomery County
the National Naval Medical Center CCRF
Federal Disaster Medical Assistance Teams
the Virginia Department of Emergency Management
the U.S. Army 54th Quartermaster Company Mortuary Staff
the U.S. Army 311th Quartermaster Company Mortuary Staff
the U.S. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
the American Red Cross,
the United States Secret Service,
the C-130H crew
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Sir Knight, I hope you will take seriously my appeal to, at minimum, speak to the people who were involved as witnesses to the crash itself, as rescuers, and as investigators. Anything less means that your claim is insincere.
Will you do that?