From: Andrew Johnson
Date: 2006-02-11 23:27:31
www.bbc.co.uk/compla… I sent them the text below. Please do something similar when time. Dear Sir/Madam, I have a general complaint about the impartiality of the BBC on some extremely important issues. Over nearly the last 18 months, it has come to my attention that there are grave and serious problems regarding the official story of the 9-11 attacks. Since I first became aware of these problems in approximately August 2004, a number of significant things have happened and these have not been covered by the BBC: 1) In September 2004, an event, organised by Florida Millionaire Jimmy Walter called Confronting the Evidence was held in New York City where researchers presented to the public some of the facts which were not addressed by Kean Commission. · Facts such as the collapse times of the World Trade Centre Towers 1, 2 & 7 being close to those for free-fall. · Facts such as the collapse of WTC 7 happening at 5:30 in the evening when no plane had hit this building. · Facts such as the WTC Owner Larry Silverstein saying building 7 had been pulled by the FDNY, even though the FDNY do not pull buildings. · Facts such as the FEMA report about WTC 7 saying (essentially) the cause of the collapse was unknown (despite the *owners* comments above) 2) In November 2004, a group of people presented a Citizens Complaint to the Attorney General of New York (Elliot Spitzer) regarding the Unsolved Crimes committed in New York City on Sept 11th 2001 (including those committed by the EPA stating that the air was safe to breathe). 3) In May 2005, Jimmy Walter organised a number of public hearings in London and other European cities discussing the evidence raised above. 4) A new group has formed (of which I am privileged to be a member) called Scholars for 9-11 Truth. There are a great many other issues and facts and questions which news researchers at the BBC ought to be seriously looking at, especially now. The BBC ought to be looking at our Website (www.st911.org). It ought to be reporting facts rather than fear-mongering rumour about 1 or 2 dead swans in Europe. Whoever is stopping this reporting, it seems, has a fair degree of control. I suggest that whomever is reading this stop whatever they are doing and look at a selection of facts, data and video evidence presented on either the above site or www.st911.org, www.reopen911.org. I submitted the Press Release below to many addresses at the BBC and have repeatedly advised them of significant stories which they have not researched and reported on. There stories involve former US Bush Administration people, for example. What on Earth do you think you are doing? I can not for the life of me understand what has got into you. Why arent you researching and reporting this? Why am I out on the streets (literally) giving this information to people spending 100s of pounds of my own money – when I pay a licence fee so that you can do this? I am now lodging a formal complaint about impartiality and expect a response in 2 weeks. If an appropriate response is not forthcoming, I will be taking legal advice over this issue and finding out how I can get the BBC to report this verifiable evidence in a measured and appropriate manner. The pattern of events that is now unfolding necessitates that action of this sort is taken as quickly as possible. (For this reason, I have kept a copy of this complaint on my computer). You must take this issue seriously, because you need to catch up with people who already know what is happening. Time is running short. Please act quickly and appropriately. Yours Sincerely, Andrew Johnson 22 Mear Drive Borrowash Derbyshire DE72 3QW Scholars for 9/11 Truth www.st911.org/ OP/ED: SCHOLARS REPUDIATE OFFICIAL VERSION OF 9/11 Claim government’s account violates laws of physics and engineering 27 January 2006 An influential group of prominent experts and scholars have joined together alleging that senior government officials have covered up crucial facts about what really happened on 9/11. The members of this new non-partisan association, “Scholars for 9/11 Truth” (S9/11T), are convinced their research proves the current administration has been dishonest with the nation about events in New York and Washington, D.C. These experts contend that books and articles by members and associates have established that the World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions and that the available relevant evidence casts grave doubt on the official story about the attack on the Pentagon. They believe that the government not only permitted 9/11 to occur but may even have orchestrated these events to facilitate its political agenda. The society includes U.S. and international faculty and students of history, science, military affairs, psychology, and even philosophy. According to its spokesmen, S9/11T represents a concerted effort to uphold the standards of truth and justice and to strengthen democracy in this nation, which has taken a terrible hit in the aftermath of 9/11, when “everything changed.” Its function is to bring scientific rigor to the study of 9/11 phenomena. The members of this group are dedicated to exposing falsehoods and to revealing truths behind 9/11, “letting the chips fall where they may.” The evidence has become sufficiently strong that they are speaking out. They are actively devoting themselves to reporting the results of their research to the public by means of lectures, articles, and other venues. The society includes numerous notable professors and scholars, including: · Morgan Reynolds, Texas A & M Professor Emeritus of Economics, former Chief Economist for the Department of Labor for President George W. Bush, and former Director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis · Steven E. Jones, Professor of Physics, Brigham Young University, co-chair of S9/11T and the creator of its home page and its forum · Robert M. Bowman, former Director of the U.S. “Star Wars” Space Defense Program in both Republican and Democratic administrations, and a former Air Force Lieutenant Colonel with 101 combat missions · Lloyd DeMause, Director of The Institute for Psychohistory, President of the International Psychohistorical Association and Editor of The Journal of Psychohistory · James H. Fetzer, Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, author or editor of more than 20 books and co-chair of S9/11T · Andreas Von Buelow, former assistant German defense minister, director of the German Secret Service, minister for research and technology, and member of Parliament for 25 years The society, founded by Professors Fetzer and Jones, who serve as its co-chairs, is approaching 50 members to date. Fetzer, a philosopher of science, observed that the government’s “official account” is not even physically possible, because it violates laws of nature. “What we have been told is fine,” he said, “if you are willing to believe impossible things. Serious scholars don’t believe in tooth fairies.” Beyond encouraging its members to vigorously express their concerns on this score through lectures, conferences, symposia, articles, and books as well as other access routes that publicize their findings,the society’s initial activities, which are expected to increase in frequency and intensity, include the following projects and endeavors: · Professor Jones is refining his influential analysis of the physics of the collapse of buildings at the World Trade Center. · Professor Fetzer is editing a collection of new studies about 9/11 that will include contributions from the members of S9/11T. · A major conference is being planned for this fall to further inform the American public about the group’s most recent findings Studies by the society’s founders and by prominent theologian David Ray Griffin, who has taken a leading role in exposing false claims about 9/11, are accessible from the association’s home page, scholarsfor911truth….. Information for those who may want to join S9/11T can also be found there. OP/ED: THE OFFICIAL 9/11 STORY IS A HOAX We call for verification and publication by an international consortium. 29 January 2006 We believe that senior government officials have covered up crucial facts about what really happened on 9/11. We are therefore joining together in common cause as members of “Scholars for 9/11 Truth” (S9/11T), because we are convinced, based on our own research, that the administration has been deceiving the nation about critical events in New York and Washington, D.C. We believe these events may have been orchestrated by elements within the administration to manipulate Americans into supporting policies at home and abroad they would never have condoned absent “another Pearl Harbor.” We appreciate that this White House is incapable of investigating itself and would prefer to believe that the possibility that Congress might hold an unaccountable administration accountable is not merely wishful thinking. We encourage news services around the world to secure scientific advice by taking advantage of university resources to verify or to falsify our discoveries. Extraordinary situations require extraordinary measures. If this were done, one of the great hoaxes of history would stand naked before the eyes of the world and its perpetrators would be clearly exposed, which may be the only hope for saving this nation from ever greater abuse. We trust this might include The New York Times, which, in our opinion, has repeatedly failed to exercise the leadership we expect from our nation’s newspaper of record by a series of inexplicable lapses. It has failed to vigorously investigate tainted elections, lies leading to the war in Iraq, or illegal NSA spying on the American people, major unconstitutional events. Perhaps it might compensate for its loss of stature by helping to reveal the truth about one of the great turning-point events of modern history. Stunning as it may be to acknowledge, the government has brought but one indictment against anyone and, to the best of our knowledge, has not even reprimanded anyone for incompetence or dereliction of duty. The official conspiracy theory–that nineteen Arab hijackers under control of one man in the wilds of Afghanistan brought this about–is unsupportable by the evidentiary data. There appear to be good reasons for suspecting that video tapes officially attributed to Osama bin Laden are not genuine. The 9/11 Commission, designated to investigate the attack, was directed by Philip Zelikow, part of the Bush transition team in the NSA sector and the co-author of a book with Condoleezza Rice. A Bush supporter and director of national security affairs, he could hardly be expected to conduct an objective and impartial investigation. The 9/11 Commission Report is replete with omissions, distortions, and factual errors, which David Ray Griffin has documented in his book, The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions. The official report, for example, entirely ignores the collapse of WTC7, a 47-story building, which was hit by no airplanes, was only damaged by a few small fires, and fell seven hours after the attack. Here are some of the kinds of considerations that are profoundly troubling to objective reason: · In the history of structural engineering, steel-frame high-rise buildings have never been brought down due to fires either before or since 9/11, so how can fires have brought down three in one day? How is this possible? · The BBC has reported that at least five of the nineteen alleged “hijackers” have turned up alive and well living in Saudi Arabia, yet according to the FBI, they were among those killed in the attacks. How is this possible? · Frank DeMartini, a project manager for the WTC, said the buildings were designed with load redistribution capabilities to withstand the impact of airliners, whose effects would be like “puncturing mosquito netting with a pencil.” Yet they completely collapsed. How is this possible? · Since the melting point of steel is about 2,700°F, the temperature of jet fuel fires does not exceed 1,800° under optimal conditions, and UL certified the steel used to 2,000°F for six hours, the buildings cannot have collapsed due to heat from the fires. How is this possible? · Flight 77, which allegedly hit the building, left the radar screen in the vicinity of the Ohio/Kentucky border, only to “reappear” in very close proximity to the Pentagon shortly before impact. How is this possible? · Foreign “terrorists” who were clever enough to coordinate hijacking four commercial airliners seemingly did not know that the least damage to the Pentagon would be done by hitting its west wing. How is this possible? · Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, in an underground bunker at the White House, watched Vice President Cheney castigate a young officer for asking, as the plane drew closer and closer to the Pentagon, “Do the orders still stand?” The order cannot have been to shoot it down, but must have been the opposite. How is this possible? · A former Inspector General for the Air Force has observed that Flight 93, which allegedly crashed in Pennsylvania, should have left debris scattered over an area less than the size of a city block; but it is scattered over an area of about eight square miles. How is this possible? · A tape recording of interviews with air traffic controllers on duty on 9/11 was deliberately crushed, cut into very small pieces, and distributed in assorted places to insure its total destruction. How is this possible? · The Pentagon conducted a training exercise called “MASCAL” simulating the crash of a Boeing 757 into the building on 24 October 2000, and yet Condoleezza Rice, among others, has repeatedly asserted that “no one ever imagined” a domestic airplane could be used as a weapon. How is this possible? Physics research establishes that only controlled demolitions are consistent with the near-gravity speed of fall and virtually symmetrical collapse of all three of the WTC buildings. While turning concrete into very fine dust, they fell straight-down into their own footprints. We are obliged to conclude that the 9/11 atrocity represents an instance of the approach–which has been identified by Karl Rove, the President’s closest adviser–of “creating our own reality.” Robert M. Bowman James H. Fetzer Wayne Madsen John McMurtry Morgan Reynolds Andreas von Buelow
