June 10, 2008 - 5:13PM
Sen. Karen Johnson's floor speech about 9/11
Provided to the Tribune
9/11 Floor Speech
MR. PRESIDENT – POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE.
INTRODUCTION OF GUESTS IN THE GALLERY … and then I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST
THAT MY REMARKS OF
MORE THAN 200 WORDS BE ENTERED INTO THE JOURNAL.
Members -- I would like to introduce a very special guest who has been
joined today by several
of his closest friends. Up in the gallery, we have many of the members of
the Phoenix 9/11
Truth group – people who are asking for a new, independent investigation
of the attacks of
Sept. 11, 2001. In particular, I would like to introduce to you a VERY
courageous man named
Blair Gadsby. I’m going to ask the folks with Blair to help him to stand
as I tell you a little
about him. Blair is very weak because he has been fasting for more than
two weeks to try to
bring attention to the cause of 9/11 Truth. This is the 16th day that
Blair has gone without
food and spent his day outside the office of U.S. Senator John McCain
pleading with the senator
to take a look at new evidence in the 9/11 crimes. We have one man who is
sacrificing his own
personal needs and desires to stand boldly pleading for the world to take
notice, to question,
to research and not place their lives into the hands of media sound-bites,
- to think for
themselves, consciously and critically. Blair is an educator and to me
this is what the great
educators do. Thousands of people all over the country and actually around
the world have been
watching on the internet as this Hunger Strike progresses here in Phoenix.
I want Blair to know
that I am his biggest fan and that good people everywhere admire him for
his courage and
determine. Please give a warm welcome to Blair Gadsby and the Phoenix 9/11
Truth movement. (STOP)
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(FLOOR SPEECH) Last month, I started speaking publicly regarding my
concerns about the attacks
of Sept. 11, 2001, which brought down the Twin Towers of the World Trade
Center, as well as
Building 7. If you’ve watched the media coverage since I first began to
speak out, you know how
vicious and irrational it has been toward me. The media have worked hard
to try to make it seem
silly to even question the 9/11 Commission Re****t, even though some of its
own authors have
done so, including both of the Commission Co-Chairmen – Mr. Hamilton and
Keane.
Actually, the 9/11 Commission Re****t represents just one theory – the
theory that fire and the
damage from the airplane impacts brought down the three buildings. This
theory explains none of
the features of the destruction that we all witnessed that day and which
we can still observe
on hundreds of videos. It explains nothing about how in four out of four
cases, no hijacking
code was transmitted by the hijacked airliners, and in four of four cases,
no fighter jets
managed to get alongside any of the hijacked airliners. The military
officers who lied to
Congress about their failure to protect America would have been referred
for prosecution by
some of the 9/11 Commissioners, but those Commissioners were told that
they did not have that
authority. The events of that day were a heinous crime against our nation
and our citizens, and
the sense of justice that exists in each one of us demands to know what
really happened and how
all the perpetrators will be caught and punished. The speculation and
theorizing won’t end
until a thorough, transparent investigation, free of conflicts of
interest, takes place.
Among the many theories that you can find on the Internet is one that
rises above all the rest.
It is rock-solid, confirmed by hard evidence, and sup****ted by hundreds of
scholars,
architects, engineers and other professionals who have the education,
training, and expertise
to know what they’re talking about. This is the theory that explosive
demolitions brought down
the Twin Towers and Building 7. I’ve placed a handout on each of your
desks which has a photo
of one of the towers as it begins to collapse. I’d like you to take a look
at that photo, if
you will. Notice in the picture that you see steel beams being flung
outward from the building,
and great huge clouds of dust that is actually pulverized concrete. A
building that falls down,
doesn’t pulverize itself into dust as it drops. Imagine dropping a chunk
of concrete 30 feet or
more. Is it going to fall apart into dust? No. Yet, the concrete in the
towers was blasted into
powder that covered all of Manhattan. You can see that powder already
being formed long before
that upper section has fallen more than a few floors. As you look at that
photo, ask yourself,
“Is this a picture of a building collapsing or is this a picture of a
building exploding?” Does
a building that collapses have the ability to fling its own steel beams
sideways up to 600
feet? Does a building that is just starting to collapse blast its contents
outwards in a
massive cloud of dust? What do you see in that photo? I see an explosion.
And so do millions of
other people who are demanding a real investigation.
More im****tant than simply looking at a photo -- engineers, architects,
and scientists have
evaluated the rubble at Ground Zero and other aspects of the buildings
,and they have found
evidence of at least 15 different characteristics of explosion. These 15
characteristics are
listed on the handout as well.
Despite the media’s outragious attacks on my sanity, intelligence, and
patriotism, the emails
and phone calls to my office have been 95 percent sup****tive of my request
for a new
investigation. I’ve been amazed, really, to see just how overwhelmingly
the public rejects the
official re****ts, not only of the 9/11 Commission but also those by FEMA
and NIST (National
Institute of Science and Technology). I assumed that expressing skepticism
about the official
story of 9/11 would be a puni****ng issue for an elected official, but I’m
finding that it’s
quite the opposite. The public wants its leaders to stand up and be
counted when it appears
that something is wrong. "The truth will set you free." Blair Gadsby and
my guests today want
the the truth about 9/11. The American PEOPLE want the truth about 9/11 –
they want a new
investigation, and so do I.
I have provided each of you with a DVD entitled, "Improbable Collapse."
I’m hopeful that you
will watch it with an open mind and that you’ll also study some of the
wonderful,
well-researched articles on the internet. I’ve included a list of the most
credible websites
with your handout.
You don’t have to embrace every theory about 9/11. Indeed, there are some
that should be
soundly rejected. But if you believe, as these scientists, architects and
engineers do, that
the buildings were brought down by explosive demolition – then you must
also agree that we need
a new investigation. I have no preconceived notions about who did it and I
am not pointing the
finger of blame at anyone. But I do think that the worst attack on U.S.
soil in American
history deserves the best investigation possible, AND THAT IS NOT GOING TO
HAPPEN UNTIL PEOPLE
LIKE US BEGIN TO SPEAK OUT. The families of the nearly three thousand
people who died on Sept.
11 – and the families of those who have been poisoned and died from the
toxic residue that hung
in the air for weeks afterward during the clean-up operation -- deserve to
know what killed
their loved ones. If anyone else was involved in the planning and
implementation of the
attacks, then they need to be brought to justice. I ask you to study the
material I have given
you and then join me in the call for a new investigation.
Thank you, Mr. President.
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