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Richard Gage, AIA, Architect - "How The Towers Fell" -
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-----To: 911 ALL Subject: RICHARD GAGE OF AE911TRUTH RESPONDS TO THE SLANDER OF MARK
WEITZMAN OF THE SIMON WEISENTHAL CENTER

BRAVO RICHARD! BRAVO RICHARD! http://www.911blogger.com/node/12914

AE911Truth Response to Mark Weitzman of the Simon Wiesenthal Center
Submitted by ae911truth on Mon, 12/10/2007 - 6:27am.

Simon Wiesenthal Center www.AE911Truth.org

This official response was e-mailed and mailed via the U.S. Post Office to Mark Weitzman
(certified) and the noted individuals in the CC.Thank you to all for your support regarding this matter.
Note and FYI: Mark Weitzman's response e-mail regarding this matter that was forwarded
to us last month is posted below our letter. This response has also been posted on our website on the front page: www.ae911truth.org

December 8, 2007

Mr. Mark Weitzman
Simon Wiesenthal Center
1399 South Roxbury Drive
Los Angeles, California 90035
310.553.9036
310.553.4521 (fax)

50 East 42nd Street, Suite 1600
New York, NY 10017
212.370.0320
212.883.0895 (fax)

Via: Certified US Mail & Email:

Re: SWC testimony 11/6/07 before the Homeland Security
Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment

Dear Mr. Weitzman,

Thank you for responding in your email form letter to a couple of the many important concerns raised
recently by other members of the 9/11 Truth & Justice Movement to your presentation at the House
Committee on Homeland Security - "Using The Web As A Weapon: The Internet As A Tool For Violent
Radicalization And Homegrown Terrorism" on 11/6/07 before Representative Jane Harman. Your
clarifications, however, offer no correction or retraction for the irresponsible and false statement
"Incubator of 9/11 Conspiracies and Disinformation" the heading that you placed over our science-based
website "AE911Truth.org" Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, which bears my name, Richard Gage,
AIA, an architect of 20 years.

Also, you made no apology, explanation, or correction for your words which you stated precisely
during the time in which you displayed the 911sharethetruth.com and AE911Truth.org websites:

"And then finally we end with a site that literally talks about the bombing of - 'soon, soon, soon
the attack on Manhattan'."

This part of your presentation can be reviewed at the 45:50 mark in the video located at:
http://homeland.edgeboss.net/wmedia/homeland/chs/internetterror.wvx

The C-SPAN Archive version of the video is in two parts. The sentence above occurs at the
28:20 mark of the second portion of C-SPAN's version.i

I am aware of no page on our site ever having contained this sentence or any sentence like it.
Our staff has researched the matter, and the phrase appears nowhere on our site, nor was it
found by an internet search. Curiously enough, we find the phrase only whenyou are being
quoted.

I am aware of no page on our site ever having contained this sentence or any sentence like it.
Our staff has researched the matter, and the phrase appears nowhere on our site, nor was it
found by an internet search. Curiously enough, we find the phrase only when you are being
quoted.

The clear implication is that our website promotes "conspiracies", "disinformation", and since you sandwiched
it between violent Jihad militant training type websites "terrorism" too. A brief review of our website shows that
it simply contains science_based facts and questions regarding the destruction of the WTC Twin Towers and
Building 7 as well as a petition listing over 800 signatories, including more than 230 well_respected architects
and engineers who are demanding a real investigation of these building "collapses" based upon the clear
evidence presented in our website.

For your information, since you have obviously not taken the time to review the website before defaming it,
this evidence of the controlled demolition of the three WTC high_rises includes careful documentation of
these facts:

The destruction occurred with rapid onset, at virtually free_fall speed, and with radial symmetry.

One hundred eighteen first responders described hearing, seeing and feeling explosions and seeing flashes
of light at the onset of destruction.The concrete floors were almost completely pulverized into dust and gravel.

The structural steel framework was largely dismembered into shippable lengths. Much of it was hurled outside
the Twin Towers' perimeters, some as far as 500 feet away.

Tons of molten metal were seen by FDNY and others, and was described as "flowing like lava" for weeks after
9/11, yet its existence was denied by NIST.

FEMA documented structural steel samples showing evidence of rapid oxidation, sulfidation, intergranular
melting, and partial evaporation features which occur only with temperatures at least 1,000Â° F. hotter than
office or jet fuel fires.

Proven chemical evidence of thermate, an incendiary material which produces molten iron as its by_product,
found on the columns and beams, previously molten metal, and iron_rich micro_spheres in the dust by
Dr. Steven Jones (and corroborated by the USGS but never explained).

These features are characteristic of controlled demolitions, and not office or jet fuel fires. Of course, the
47_story WTC Building 7 was not even hit by an airplane and yet its unnatural destruction exhibits all the
same features except it imploded into its own footprint in 6.5 seconds!

Maybe now you understand why our membership of architects, engineers, and other building professionals,
who are all calling for a science_based forensic investigation which has yet to be performed is growing
exponentially! We ask SWC for nothing less than the tolerance it espouses so well.

And yet you have made the egregiously false statements noted above in public, on television, and to
Congress about us. These statements have the clear potential to inflict serious damage to my reputation,
my standing in the community, and my career, as well as each of our 230 architects and engineers and
other distinguished members.

I and the members of Http://www.911Truth.org therefore demand a retraction of these false, defamatory,
outrageous and insulting statements that you made in the scope of your duties at the SWC. This retraction
must be thorough and exculpatory, exceeding the scope of your original publication(s), lest it be ineffective
and meaningless. We at Http://www.911Truth.org demand a formal apology from SWC for having
displayed our website at all in your Homeland Security presentation.

Your timely apology must be sent to (and aired on) C_Span, to Rep. Jane Harman, and all congressional
representatives and others in attendance. It must be posted on the SWC. And it must explain your motives
in making the publication and the retraction.

Our constitutional republic was founded upon the fundamental right to ask questions, demand answers, and
to seek truth and justice. This is all that we in the 9/11 truth movement are seeking. Of all people and of all
organizations, you and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, who highlight the virtue of tolerance, should be
honoring our right to ask these questions, not branding us as terrorists. Your behavior reeks of the
McCarthyism of the 1950's, and is totally unacceptable to me, our members, and all Americans who
cherish the first Amendment.

Regarding the anti_Semitism noted in your email form letter: We, too, abhor bigotry in all its forms, and
have distanced ourselves from those few who engage in it. But anti_Semitism has nothing to do with our
website or the science of the destruction of the three WTC high_rise buildings on 9/11 to which it is dedicated.
The scientific method is non_partisan, apolitical, and a transparent process. Scientists defend their positions
in public based on accepted, defensible processes. While reports put forth by the government and others have
labored in vain to explain away the massive scientific evidence for controlled demolition left behind in the rubble,
the witness testimony, and the videos, we at AE911Truth.org have simply collected, assembled, and structured
it in a way which enables everyone to understand it easily.

Simon Wiesenthal was a paragon for seeking the truth, however hard and difficult it might be. The SWC should
be honoring our right to publish technical information and encourage fact based forensic inquiry into the three
largest structural failures in U.S. history not branding us inciters of terrorism.

Tolerance arises from understanding, and understanding from direct experience. In this light we would like to
meet with you and your board and staff to present to you the specific concerns documented on AE911Truth.org
regarding the basic science of these "collapses". We would like to learn from you what you perceive as so
threatening so as to deem it necessary to "warn" Congress about us. By understanding each other's concerns,
we will strengthen our mutual resolve to work toward the creation of a more truthful and tolerant society.

We reserve all rights, and communicate to you without any prejudice to any rights. We are ready to move
forward. Please let us know the best time to meet. We can assemble in your New York or Los Angeles office.

Sincerely,

[signature]

Richard Gage, AIA, Architect

For the 800 members of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth

(signed copy to Commission)

cc:

Jane Harman (CA_36)

Dave Reichert (WA_8)

Bennie Thompson (MS_2)

Mike Honda, (CA_15)

Dianne Feinstein (CA)

Barbara Boxer (CA)

Testimony and prepared statements for the hearing:

http://homeland.house.gov/hearings/index.asp?ID=102

From: Mark Weitzman

To: [e_mail protected]

Sent: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 6:54 am

Subject: RE: 9/11 truth has nothing to do with conspiracy theories

Dear Ms. F.....,

Over the past few days I have received a number of emails regarding my testimony to the House Committee
on Homeland Security. Much of those emails appear to have been based on misapprehensions of my testimony.
My testimony was about "the Internet as a tool for violent radicalization", and not about 9/11. My reference to 9/11
consisted of 1 sentence out of 6 pages of testimony, and in that sentence (with 2 out of 38 accompanying Power
Point slides) I referenced "how 9/11 is viewed in some eyes, including those who applauded it as well as some
conspiracy sites." I then continue by illustrating the types of conspiracy theories often found online, such as those
based upon of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the infamous antisemitic text, or that generally blame the US
government in a pernicious manner (i.e. for intentionally spreading the AIDS virus), or that have the "entire Western
World engaged in a conspiracy against Islam" Nowhere in there is there any mention of 9/11! In this regard our
only concern with 9/11 is when the inquiries slide into incubators for hate (i.e. "This fake Hamas soldier wearing
a "Star of David" is as much a Zionist as the 9_11 terrorists Chertoff covers for. Chertoff is the son of a terrorist
himself. Don't let him off the hook!").

Finally, in my recommendations, I never urged any type of censorship. In fact, I specifically state that (#5) that
any steps taken in regard to the Internet must be done legally, and over the course of a decade in dealing with
this issue I have consistently stressed that the First Amendment must be maintained in the virtual as well as the
real world. I have even argued that in conferences in Europe when attempts were being made to impose
international controls on the Internet, saying, as I did last year in Berlin that we should "avoid getting bogged
down in a useless debate on the First Amendment" because we (in the US) are not going to erase it, nor
should we.
Please feel free to share this with any interested parties.

Sincerely,

Mark Weitzman

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September 11, 2007
http://www.cathousechat.com/cathouse_chat/history/index.html

YOU won't show the video?! Well, then, I will... (UPDATED)

It's too upsetting? It's too graphic?

You know what, you media cowards?
These barbarians are out to kill us, to take away our God-given rights,
to beat us into submission, to weary us until we give up -
and YOU'RE letting them. YOU'RE aiding them.

Don't EVER forget what happened six years ago:

On September 11, 2001, at Barksdale Air Force Base, President Bush concluded his brief statement with

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake: We will show the world that we
will pass this test. God bless.

Yes. We were and are being tested. President Bush said we would pass this test, and I suppose in some
ways we have - life has gone on, our economy has recovered, elections have been held as usual, our
citizens do not live in terror.

But our resolve - most particularly that of the lunatic left - has faltered and become unfocused.
The Main Stream Media would prefer to support and empathize with terrorists, publish sensitive material
about national security, and excoriate and second-guess our Commander in Chief. Organizations like
Code Pink and MoveOn -dot- org accuse our military leaders of lying for President Bush, yet they claim
that they support our troops. Democratic leaders of Congress claim we have lost the way, that the surge
has failed, and that the war - the one THEY VOTED FOR - is illegal.

Yeah, guys, I question your patriotism. I question your integrity. I question your love for this country.

I despise your weak willed and disruptive waffling (and I am including Republicans in this), and your quest
for power and influence at the expense of securing our borders and truly supporting our military personnel
and their mission. You disgust me, and your actions shame our proud and brave heritage. You are an
embarrassment to the heroes who have sacrificed their lives to defend this country and promote freedom.

Who was it that said, "First, we hang all the lawyers"? He ought to have said "politicians"!

UPDATE: Misha, as always, expresses my sentiments far better and more eloquently than I could here:

Later that evening, as the full realization of what had just happened had finally sunk in, the Empress
and I were holding each other tight and it struck me (she was very very pregnant with the Royal
Heirs back then): “Our children will never know the world we grew up in. To them, the pre-9/11 world
simply won’t exist.”

And I resolved, right then and there, that I would never rest, I would never be satisfied until every last
motherfucking son of a syphilitic Moongod-worshipping goat had been annihilated so that our boys
could live in a world where sick fanatics DIDN’T use civilian airliners as cruise missiles.

And I will stay true to that until I die. This isn’t over until every single Asshole for Allah and everybody
who has ever muttered as much as a sympathetic word about them is dead and rotting, if I have to kill
the swine myself.

There will be no forgetting, there will be no forgiving until they’re dead. All of them. Wipe them out, erase
every single memory of them and make it a capital offense to as much as mention their names without
immediately spitting.

Then wipe out their offspring, their friends, their pets, their cities, their villages, their holy sites,
ANYTHING that might remind people that they ever were.

THEN I will be at peace, not before.

Amen, my brother. Amen, indeed.

And just as a wee small sample of the "character" of our enemies...

(Submitted to the Open Trackback post at Stop the ACLU)

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Posted by Kat on September 11, 2007 at 12:19 PM in Current Affairs,
History, Islam, Pics and Video, War on Terror Permalink Comments (0)

NEVER forget!

It may have been six years ago, but I will never forget.

I will never forget who was responsible. I will never forget the ideology which
promoted this atrocity. I will never forget the inhumanity of these murders.

I will not forget those who are apologists for Islamic terrorism.

If I did, the ghosts of the 3,000 killed that day and those of our brave soldiers
who gave their all to the fight would rise up and condemn me.

NEVER FORGET!!!

http://www.cathousechat.com/cathouse_chat/WindowsLiveWriter/TwinTowers911.jpg

(Thank you, Ward, for reminding me of this video)

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Posted by Kat on September 11, 2007 at 06:50 AM in
Current Affairs, History, Islam, War on Terror Permalink Comments (1)

August 19, 2007

NEVER forget!
http://www.cathousechat.com/cathouse_chat/history/index.html

A GERMAN'S POINT OF VIEW ON ISLAM

A man whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II owned
a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German
people were true Nazis, the answer he gave should guide our attitude
toward fanaticism.

"Very few people were true Nazis," he said, "but many enjoyed the
return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was
one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So,
the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we
knew it, they owned us, we had lost control, and the end of the world
had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration
camp and the Allies destroyed my factories."

These days, "so-called experts and political talking heads" tell us
repeatedly that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast
majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this
unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is
meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant somehow to
diminish the specter of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the
name of Islam.

The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history.
It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one
of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically
slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are
gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is
the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder or honor kill. It is the
fanatics that take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who
zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and
homosexuals. The hard quantifiable fact is that the "peaceful
majority," the "silent majority," is cowed and extraneous.

Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in
peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of
about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant.

China's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists
managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.

The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a
warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way
across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the
systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by
sword, shovel and bayonet.

And, who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery. Could it
not be said that the majority of Rwandans were "peace loving"?

History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all
our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated
of points: Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their
silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they do not
speak up, because like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one
day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world
will have begun.

Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs,
Afghanis, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and
many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up
until it was too late. As for us who watch it all unfold; we must
pay attention to the only group that counts; the fanatics who
threaten our way of life.

Lastly, at the risk of offending, anyone who doubts that the issue is
serious and just deletes this email without sending it on is
contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand.

So, extend yourself a bit and send this on and on and on. Let us
hope that thousands, world wide, read this - think about it - and
then send it on.

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Ken Rubin
Garden Wall Graphics
818-508-9028 land
818-631-9028 air
www.gardenwallgraphics.com

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

CHINA SHINING (AND CASTING A SHADOW)

Always read Leah Krauss:

Solar World: China becomes a growing force
Leah Krauss, February 22, 2007 (UPI)
- Two years after China passed a comprehensive renewable energy law, its solar
energy industry is poised to enter the world market in a big way.

- "Thin film will be the future," solar energy markets expert J. Peter Lynch told United Press International, referring to an emerging type of solar
technology that relies on much thinner solar panels than the traditional black panels on many rooftops today. "As more and more Chinese (thin film)
companies (go) public, they will drive prices down and shrink margins."
- …The scarcity of solar-grade refined silicon has driven up traditional photovoltaic prices, and the shortage is not expected to ease until 2008.
- "I would definitely foresee (China taking a bigger role in the world solar market),"
Yong X. Tao, a professor and Undergraduate Program Director
in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Florida International University, wrote…
- "Right now, Suntech is the only significant player from China in the world solar market: its market is outside of China…" Tao said…

- One of the smaller companies has already started making international waves…China's Solarfun
Power Holdings Ltd. "…will sell approximately 140 megawatts of photovoltaic modules to UB Garanty Project S.L. in Spain over the next three years. The contract is expected to have an
estimated value of between $40 million and $50 million in 2007…and we are confident that Solarfun will continue to penetrate high growth (photovoltaic) markets such as Spain, Italy and other emerging markets in Europe…"
- China gets about 7 percent of its energy from renewable sources…The 2005 Renewable Energy Law called for the country to increase its renewable energy consumption to 10 percent of the total by 2020… - "A few wise men in Chinese government listened to the scientists and made right decision to push
the policy. The 2008 Olympics (slated for Beijing) is another reason," Tao said…The government "supports (solar) in many ways," Tao said…

- Not all observers agree with this positive outlook, however: "Manufacturers are expanding their capacity,
but I don't see a major drive to install solar power domestically," Wang Xing, a senior program officer for electricity and renewable energy at the China Sustainable Energy Program, told the news agency AFX earlier this month.
- "Right now there is not a very strong incentive program for solar power…Most domestic manufacturers are gearing production toward the export market…"
- …Tao…says the Chinese solar domestic market, which is mostly focused on solar water heaters, is doing quite well…The 2005 law required all new smaller buildings to install solar water heaters.

Dear activists, colleagues and friends,>From Robert Greenwald,We have been deep in research,
interviews and editing (23 versions!) about Rudy's failure
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to four key questions about Rudy's handling
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was demonstrated in the 1993 World Trade Center attack?When new radios were finally ordered,
why did the city block other companies besides
Motorola from bidding on the contract?Once Motorola was given the contract, why did its cost
jump from $1.4 million to $14 million?Why were these new radios never tested?These questions
should and must be investigated. New York City councilman Eric Gioia has the
power to begin an investigation. If we can garner enough attention and signers, we have a
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of you to help.Robert Greenwald, Cliff Schecter, Jason Zaro and everyone at Brave New Films--
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