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Stanchetalarooni Donating Member (838 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-11 04:49 PM
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Famed Civil Rights Activist Dick Gregory Joins Forces with AE911Truth
http://www.ae911truth.org/en/news-section/41-articles/452-dick-gregory.html

“People have told me that they knew something was wrong with the official 9/11 story, but they didn’t know what to do,” he said. “Now they feel empowered by my decision to fast for 9/11 Truth.”

Whether he is discussing strategy with Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. or fasting for 9/11 Truth, Dick Gregory excels at shining light upon the oppression of humanity

Even though Gregory has been a peaceful crusader for many causes, he believes the technical focus that AE911Truth has maintained will allow it to withstand the scrutiny and condemnation that has frustrated other activist groups. “The difference here is that mathematics is the same throughout the world,” Gregory said. “When architects and engineers see your research, it will make sense to them. Now those who feel inspired to share the truth with others have talking points that are backed by hard science and expert analysis.”


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spooked911 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-11 06:10 PM
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1. Cool. I have heard lots of good things about Gregory... he is a hero of the civil rights movement
though I imagine the character assassination will start in 3...2...1...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Gregory
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zappaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-11 07:20 PM
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2. No character assassination
Sometimes even the best of people are confused.
Any idea yet which theory he will be embracing?
No planes?
Green-screened planes?
Thermite?
Thermate?
Directed energy weapons?
Or Spooked's favorite...mini-nukes?
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whatchamacallit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 11:54 AM
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18. And sometimes the worst people are dead certain.
:hi:
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-11 10:49 PM
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4. I like Dick Gregory

He's wrong on this one, but I have no issues with his character.
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greyl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-11 11:20 PM
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5. Your imagine can be mistaken.
Apparently.
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-21-11 07:54 PM
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3. Someone needs to tell Mr Gregory that he is mistaken or
ill informed.

“When architects and engineers see your research, it will make sense to them. Now those who feel inspired to share the truth with others have talking points that are backed by hard science and expert analysis.”

AE911truther has not an iota of hard science or expert analysis to back up anything they think is truth.
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whatchamacallit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 11:57 AM
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19. Maybe you ought to be the one to tell him
Edited on Wed Feb-23-11 12:00 PM by whatchamacallit
Your credentials should be should be impressive enough. lol.
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:11 PM
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26. Actually, I think my credentials
Edited on Wed Feb-23-11 06:11 PM by LARED
are better than Gages'.

But I have learned that die hard truthers are basically immune to reality based thought processes, so I rarely spend time trying to help them.
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William Seger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 10:13 AM
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6. Richard Gage ...
... starts every lecture and every interview by stating his AIA affiliation and noting how many years he as "worked on" steel structures. You will never hear him volunteer that almost all of his experience was as a project manager, not actual architecture. Worse, never once does he volunteer that he has no training in structural mechanics, and in fact he does not seem to understand even simple concepts such as thermal expansion, shear strength of bolts, and progressive failure. If he has any knowledge at all of the WTC7 design details, he either does not understand or deliberately ignores why they are critical to understanding what happened, which in itself proves ignorance of structural mechanics. If he even knows the actual conclusions from the NIST study and the reasons for those conclusions, they make no appearance in his presentation, which belies intellectual dishonesty that ought to raise red flags with anyone even remotely familiar with critical thinking.

Not once will you hear Gage admit that the entirety of his knowledge about controlled demolitions comes from the same TV shows you and I have watched, and that the entire 'logical" structure of his theory rests on the laughable fallacy that if WTC7 falling resembled a controlled demolition, then it must have been a controlled demolition.

Instead, after misrepresenting himself as some sort of expert, he presents erroneous, ludicrous and contrived lists of "characteristics" of controlled demolitions and natural collapses. But these lists themselves prove beyond doubt that these are two subjects that he is unqualified to discuss, much less claim expertise.

It is clear that Gregory is reacting to Gage's sincerity in presenting himself as a expert and is unaware that Gage is presenting unadulterated horseshit instead of evidence. Gregory seems to believe that the technical community is just unaware of this "evidence," but in fact there is exactly zero chance that the nonsense Gage is presenting today will ever have any effect on more than a handful of architects and engineers of questionably mental stability. There was a time when I thought Gage's sincerity was real, too, but after watching him debate and noting that he persists is repeating bullshit that has been soundly debunked, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that he is a willful fraud and an opportunist attempting to milk 9/11 paranoia for all it's worth.

In the end, it does not matter at all who believes Gage; it only matters why they believe him. It's clear that Gregory believes Gage because he has been taken in by the willful deceit and pseudo-scientific nonsense. It's clear that none of the "architects and engineers" who have signed Gage's petition can produce valid technical arguments for why controlled demolition is a better theory than NIST's. That's sad, but the number of people who have fallen for demonstrable bullshit has absolutely nothing to do with the actual events of 9/11.


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Stanchetalarooni Donating Member (838 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 05:22 PM
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7. Just asking for an investigation. If you need to rant...rant away>
1,448 verified architectural and engineering professionals and 11,326 other supporters
have signed the petition demanding of Congress
a truly independent investigation.

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Stanchetalarooni Donating Member (838 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 05:23 PM
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8. http://www.ae911truth.org/
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William Seger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 09:12 PM
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12. http://www.ae911truth.info
http://www.ae911truth.info

... and please do come back when you feel you're ready to defend Gage's nonsense.
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William Seger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 08:31 PM
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11. No, Gage is NOT "just asking for an investigation"
He is making outrageous claims of fact that aren't just wrong; many of them are idiotic. You keep posting them, but you seem to be completely incapable of either defending them or understanding why they are wrong.
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 06:38 PM
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9. Same shit, seger
Just a different day, eh?
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zappaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 07:48 PM
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10. heh
You are right.
Here a poster is copy/pasting the same old ae911 truth bullshit that has been debunked over and over and over again.
You would think they would learn, eh?
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William Seger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 09:27 PM
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13. Sure smells like it
... but maybe Stanchetalarooni is just about to astound us with an awesome defense of Gage's nonsense, eh?

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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-22-11 11:03 PM
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14. It's all from you
..and it smells.
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William Seger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 12:01 AM
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15. Feel free...
... to jump in there and give Stanchetalarooni a hand trying to defend Gage's nonsense. Maybe start by picking any one of Gage's assertions that you think you can defend, and we'll just see who's full of it, okay?
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zappaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 12:07 AM
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16. heh
show us what ya got!
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Stanchetalarooni Donating Member (838 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 11:34 AM
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17. What I am astounded by is your level of discourse.
You guys bark like wild dogs.
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zappaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 01:20 PM
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20. Ok, so now what?
Are you going to present your defense of Gage's findings?
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Stanchetalarooni Donating Member (838 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 02:44 PM
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21. Woof!
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zappaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 03:54 PM
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23. cool
I take it that you can't offer a defense of his nonsense.
Figures.
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William Seger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 03:41 PM
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22. You're carrying water for a huckster
... who uses bullshit to exonerate terrorists while accusing hundreds of innocent people of being complicit in mass murder. One thing I really don't care about is how much respect you think Gage's nonsense should receive just because you've fallen for it.
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Stanchetalarooni Donating Member (838 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 04:25 PM
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24. Dick Gregory a Huckster...I don't think so.
Do you know any hucksters? I know hucksters...America is full of hucksters and Gregory is no huckster.
Oh! You mean Gage? A huckster?
GWB = Huckster
Dick Cheney = Huckster
Jim Jones = Huckster
Rumsfeld + huckster
To borrow a phrase, "I know hucksters and Gage is no huckster."
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William Seger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 05:45 PM
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25. Gregory is another victim
... and yes, Gage is a huckster: He makes his living selling bullshit.
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AZCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 08:00 PM
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27. Are you implying...
Edited on Wed Feb-23-11 08:00 PM by AZCat
that because the Bush Administration was full of unsavory characters somehow Gage isn't one?
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Stanchetalarooni Donating Member (838 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 08:43 PM
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28. I'm saying these Bush admin. men are proven liars.
Unsavory is too kind.
You want to buy something from any of them go right ahead.
Last I heard Rumsfeld and Bush have books for sale. Buy one.
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 08:45 PM
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29. There are plenty of books and other items for sale at
Gage's site.
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 08:56 PM
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30. It's growing everyday
People are becoming more empowered to speak their minds and offer their opinions about 9/11.
That means bushco is failing a little more everyday. Bushco will come crashing down in due time.
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 10:37 PM
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31. Again I ask. What exactly is Bushco? nt
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zappaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 10:51 PM
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32. BUSHCO?
We preferred to be called BUSHINC.
:rofl:
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Ohio Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 11:30 PM
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33. bushco is still in power?
Does that mean you think Obama is part of bushco? Man oh man, they just control everyone and everything... unbelievable.
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