by Byrne » Fri Nov 18, 2005 10:52 am
Regarding quotes by firefighters & how they have been sidelined/ignored.... Anyone know more about the background to William Langewiesche, & his book America Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center?<br><br>From a quick search, what I can gather is that Langewiesche (who has been described both as an 'invited WTC site reporter' & as a 'literary provocateur') accused firefighters of looting the WTC site . <!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Langewiesche describes a fire engine found crushed under the ruins that showed evidence of looting. In his account -- which he did not witness but says is meant to illustrate how fed up construction workers were with the lionization of the firefighters -- the engine is found to be "filled with dozens of new pairs of jeans from The Gap, a Trade Center store." When an unnamed fire chief at the scene contends that the jeans must have been blown into the truck by the collapse, a group of construction workers breaks into jeers. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> Tarpley discusses this in his book Synthetic Terror:<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>The firemen, we must remember, were those who knew most about the controlled demolition of the World Trade Center, and they were also the group most likely to tell what they knew. In this sense, the firemen posed perhaps the greatest immediate threat to the 9/11 myth upon which the oligarchy had staked so much. The obvious campaign of psychological warfare against the firemen, therefore, was of worldhistorical importance. Given the stakes, it would be impossible to exclude that the dungaree [Gap Jeans] incident which Langewiesche found so delightful had been cynically staged as a means of keeping the angry and rebellious firemen off-balance, distracted and confused. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>This appears to be what happened, & I can see why such a tactic would have been used.<br><br>Some background info is <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.wtclivinghistory.org/introduction.htm" target="top">_here_</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br> <p></p><i></i>