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Jun 30, 2009
Berkeley, CA — Monday, July 13, through Friday, July 17, the nonprofit group DC911Truth will bring San Francisco Bay Area architect Richard Gage, AIA, to Washington, DC, for a series of public events and meetings with congressional representatives. Gage represents more than 700 architects and engineers who cite evidence for explosive demolition as the cause of the destruction of the three World Trade Center towers on 9/11. After careful examination of forensic data inconsistent with the official account, these professionals are calling for a new, independent investigation into the 9/11 attacks.
May 29, 2009
FRESNO - More than a hundred people filled the Clovis Veterans Memorial Building to hear a call for an investigation into what happened to the buildings destroyed in the attacks of September 11th. "We realize that this is very difficult information to take in," Architect Richard Gage said. Gage spoke and presented evidence on why his group, Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth wants the U.S. Congress to look into how and why the Twin Towers and another building, known as WTC-7, fell. Some video was provided to KMPH News by the group, which claims a membership of more than 600 architects and engineers. "We're not conspiracy theorists, we are technical building professionals looking at the forensic evidence, so we provide the evidence, and we ask for a new investigation, and let's let the chips fall where they may," Gage said. Andrew Isolano is a retired New York City firefighter who watched the events of September 11th from the roof of his fire station in Brooklyn, before he was sent to ground zero. "We're like 'oh man this is going to burn for days there was so much fire, and that's when we saw the second plane come in and hit the second tower," he said. Isolano lives in Fresno now, but as an eyewitness, he's satisfied with the government's conclusion: the blame for the hijackings, building collapses and deaths lies with Al-Queda terrorists, and gage and his group should not reopen old wounds. "There's the families of three thousand people that now have to relive this because these people choose to come up with a theory, there's theories on everything, we still don't know who killed Kennedy," Isolano said. The group Architects and Engineers for Truth is a non-profit organization. Attendees were able to sign up to support the group's efforts with pledges of between 10 to 911 dollars a month.
May 29, 2009
Richard Gage of Berkeley has been a practicing architect for 20 years, and founded Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth in 2006. On May 29 at Cal Poly, he will present and discuss information on the collapse of the twin towers and building 7 of the World Trade Center destroyed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Gage's group asserts that the collapses were the result of controlled demolitions, not the planes that crashed into them. New Times caught up with Gage before his presentation to ask a few questions. New Times: What information did you first hear that made you question the official 9/11 story and look deeper, and how have you taken that information further? Richard Gage: I was in the car, driving to a construction site, and I was listening to this interview with David Ray Griffin on KPFA Radio. … He was talking about explosive testimony that was released in August 2005; 500 oral recordings from 500 first responders, 1,000 pages of testimony. Of course, we didn't know about any of this testimony until August 2005, because the New York Times had to sue to have it released100 of these first responders were talking about sounds of explosions before the buildings fell, and flashes of light, both around the site of the crash and below it too. … I haven't done a lot of independent research, mostly compiling information, including video testimony of the first responders, and video footage of the buildings coming down. I allow the architects and engineers I present to, to give me feedback. The information is analyzed in several different ways, including the feedback, and in peer-reviewed papers. New Times: You want an investigation into what, and by whom? Gage: Our petition is to Congress for an unbiased investigation. The 9/11 Commission failed miserably, they did not even mention [building 7's collapse], the third-worst structural failure in modern history. The 9/11 Commission also did not interview people under oath, or use subpoena power to force people to testify. New Times: What would you say to people who call you a conspiracy theorist? Gage: Everybody needs to understand that they are both conspiracy theories: The official story tells us that 19 fundamentalist hijackers, plotting from a cave in Afghanistan, conspired to crash planes into these buildings; the other story tells us that someone else did. The only question is: Who are the conspirators? New Times: What successes have you had, and have you suffered any setbacks? Gage: Over 660 architects and engineers have signed our petition so far. [Editor's note: Ten people from San Luis Obispo are on that list but several are not architects or engineers]. We hope to have 1,000 by September. That's really the gauge by which we measure our success. We haven't had any setbacks, we've just been plugging along. It's a slow process trying to wake the American public. … We present only science-based forensic evidence. We're just asking the people and the government to acknowledge evidence, and let the chips fall where they may. New Times: Do you think what you're telling people is controversial? Gage Yes. It contradicts our own understanding of what happened on September 11. No one wants to believe that they have been lied to.
May 4, 2009
Richard Gage does not endorse any particular theory of how the World Trade Center towers fell and he and his group, AE911Truth, have never assigned blame for the attacks to any party. Incorrect information appeared in a column on Saturday. An April 18 Post Homes cover story about Peter Freed and the Fashion House development incorrectly stated that Mr. Freed's father had passed away. Leonard Freed, a real-estate lawyer in Toronto, is very much alive. Harry Pellow of Pellow + Associates Architects Inc. designed The Shops at Don Mills in collaboration with Ralph Giannone of Giannone Petricone Associates Architects Inc. Incomplete information appeared on Thursday. The Post regrets the errors.
Apr 25, 2009
Three years ago, Richard Gage says, he was just a run-of-the mill architect, designing steel-frame buildings for clients in the San Francisco area. In March, 2006, that changed: While flipping through stations on his car radio, he caught an interview with David Ray Griffin, a retired philosophy and religion professor who calls the official account of the 9/11 attacks "one big lie." Beginning that day, Gage became skeptical of the idea that "people living in Afghan caves" could possibly have brought down the World Trade Center. The more likely explanation, he decided, was a plot by warmongering elements within America's own government. Spreading this message is now the man's full-time job. As radical as Gage's theory may sound to readers, it's surprisingly popular. The "9/11 Truth Movement," as it is now commonly called, has millions of adherents across the world. According to one poll, 39% of Canadian respondents said they either disagree, or are unsure, that al-Qaeda was responsible for 9/11. What makes Gage stand out from the millions of students and young activists who comprise the bulk of the Truther community is that he is an architect -- and a respectable-looking middle-aged one at that, complete with suit and tie and receding hairline. His group, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, even scored a booth at the upcoming American Institute of Architects conference in San Francisco. Last Saturday, I went to see Gage speak at a Montreal event hosted by the Mouvement montrealais pour la verite sur le 11 septembre, along with about 150 others (not a bad crowd, given the $10 cover charge, and the fact it was a hockey night). As part of my research for a book I'm writing on the Truther movement, I've gone to see a variety of events like this -- but none of the speakers I've seen are as lucid as Gage. Truthers often are prone to rambling: Your average speaker at a 9/11 Truth event, taking the podium with an overflowing sheaf of Internet printouts, might start his presentation on the mechanics of the WTC attacks, segue into a denunciation of George W. Bush's war crimes and then veer into a lengthy disquisition on the 1995 Oklahoma bombing, before bringing the audience back to the Twin Towers. Not Gage: His singular focus -- laboriously examined in a 527-slide PowerPoint presentation -- is the sequence of events leading to the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings. Expertise is critical to the mission of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, he says. "We're building and technical professionals," Gage told the audience. 'We're not conspiracy theorists." Much of Gage's two-hour-plus presentation was dry and technical -- including a seemingly endless series of slides analyzing the chemical composition of the WTC debris (an inquiry central to his claim that the Twin Towers were brought down from within by a particular type of iron-oxide-based explosive). But he also has plenty of videos embedded in his slides. And this is where the crowd came alive. In one particularly effective segment, he put up shots of the localized fires that broke out in the lower floors of WTC Building 7 hours before it collapsed. Seconds later, he shows footage of Beijing's Mandarin Oriental hotel -- which suffered an epic top-to-bottom conflagration in 2009...and remained standing. It's a cinematic juxtaposition that plays to the Truthers' strongest card: Even architects and engineers who've never heard of Richard Gage will concede they aren't quite sure why WTC 7, a fairly typical tube-frame structure located about a football field away from WTC 1, would be struck down by localized fires and random debris. As one would expect, it was a friendly crowd to begin with. Before beginning his presentation, Gage polled the crowd on their views. Five people -- including me and my guest -- said they believed the "official theory" of 9/11. Ten others said they were "unsure." Everyone else -- 90% of the crowd -- said the WTC came down through "controlled demolition." The presentation only made the balance of opinion in the room more lopsided. There were emotional gasps and shouts when some dramatic bit of evidence was displayed. A couple sitting behind me seemed particularly moved. "How can those war criminals look at themselves in the mirror after what they've done," one exclaimed. (She wasn't talking about al-Qaeda.) Even my own guest, a conservative-minded woman who normally laughs off this sort of thing, seemed transfixed, falling silent at points where I expected she'd be chortling and eyeball rolling. During the Q&A, high passions caused the proceedings to turn nasty: When I took the mic and asked how such a massive conspiracy, presumably involving hundreds if not thousands of insiders, could possibly go undetected, the crowd began shouting me down. "Educate yourself," one audience member screamed after someone at the podium outed me as a journalist. "Typical media bullshit," yelled another. On the other hand, I protested, at least I'd shown up in the first place -- the only working mainstream journalist (to my knowledge) in the room. I'd hoped this would count for something: One of the Truthers' biggest complaints is that they are ignored by the mainstream media. No major media outlet has done a truly comprehensive profile or investigation of the Truther movement -- which is what led me to my book project in the first place. Even if you are -- like me -- part of the majority that believes the "official theory" of 9/11, it's a mistake to ignore a movement as large and passionately championed as this one. Across North America (never mind Europe and North America), millions of people have decided that the leaders of the free world truly are murderers --or, at least, in league with murderers - who would wantonly slaughter thousands of their own citizens as a means to advance a geopolitical agenda. Isn't that something that should interest us? And the movement is attracting new recruits, too. Once he'd finished his lengthy presentation last Saturday, Gage conducted a second poll of the room. This time, when he asked how many people supported the "official theory," mine was the only hand raised. Shocked, I turned to the friend sitting beside me. After three hours in a room with Richard Gage, she'd changed her vote to "not sure." jkay@nationalpost.com
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