Dr. David Ray Griffin speaking in Vancouver May 16, 2007

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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif]Dr. David Ray Griffin Speaking in Vancouver, B.C. on May 16th, 2007[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif]VANCOUVER, B.C. - March 15, 2007 - Dr. David Ray Griffin, internationally renowned philosopher and theologian and one of the leading proponents of the 9/11 truth movement, will be speaking on Wednesday May 16th at 7:30 pm in St. Andrew’s-Wesley Church, Nelson at Burrard on:[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif]9/11: Debunking the Debunkers
David Ray Griffin Answers Critics of the 9/11 Truth Movement[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif]This will be Dr. Griffin’s first speaking engagement on the topic of 9/11 in Canada. He has made appearances in relation to 9/11 on BBC, CBC, CSPAN, local US television and radio stations, and has given talks to many large audiences across the U.S. and Europe. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif]The purpose of Dr. Griffin’s talk is to introduce his new book, “Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory”, due out in May.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif]The defenders of the official 9/11 conspiracy theory have reacted to a May 2006 Zogby Poll which showed that 42% of Americans reject the official theory, and have responded by producing a variety of publications designed to debunk the evidence of the 9/11 truth movement.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif]Dr. Griffin, in turn, applies his logical and philosophical rigor to the shifting accounts from the U.S. Dept. of State, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and others, adeptly reversing their claims that the 9/11 truth movement (backed by many scholars and military and intelligence insiders) is irrational and unscientific. The inescapable proof from firemen, police and air traffic controllers is that 9/11 was an inside job. (Sample oral histories from the firemen are cited at http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20060118104223192)[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif]Dr. Griffin has written four earlier books meticulously analyzing 9/11 evidence: “The New Pearl Harbor” (2004), “The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions” (2005), “Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11” (2006) and, “9/11 and American Empire” (2006, with Peter Dale Scott). He received the Helios Foundation Award in 2006 for the first two of these books.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif]Author of over 30 books and 180 scholarly articles, Griffin is one of some 60 theologians worldwide included in the prestigious “Handbook of Christian Theologians” and received the Book Prize of the Scientific and Medical Network in 2000 for “Religion and Scientific Naturalism” (2000).[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif]Sponsored by Vancouver 9/11 Truth Society - www.v911truth.org[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif]Tickets are $5-20 sliding scale by donation available the door.
For advance ticket purchase please visit www.v911truth.org/drg.html[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif]Contact: Vancouver 9/11 Truth Office
Event info: www.v911truth.org/drg.html
Email: drgvancouver@yahoo.ca
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[tamarin]

There's the lunatic fringe and then there's this guy.

 

[L Gilbert]

There's the lunatic fringe and then there's this guy.

Well, don't just stop there, elaborate. :roll:

 

[Libra Girl]

Whether there was a conspiracy, or not, surrounding 9/11, 42 per cent is a helluva lot of people that don't accept the official version. Makes one think...

 

[DurkaDurka]

I wonder if that 42% is comprised of the same people who think Elvis is still alive...

 

[Libra Girl]

I wonder if that 42% is comprised of the same people who think Elvis is still alive...

lol, you have a good point! But, seriously...

 

[tamarin]

Gilbert, what's there to elaborate? It's the typical Santa Claus defence: do you believe the empiricists who have monitored ten thousand chimneys Christmas Eve or the Common Sense Brigade who deny the existence of the impossible?

 

[L Gilbert]

Gilbert, what's there to elaborate? It's the typical Santa Claus defence: do you believe the empiricists who have monitored ten thousand chimneys Christmas Eve or the Common Sense Brigade who deny the existence of the impossible?

I don't believe either the conspiracy nuts nor do I believe the official nuts. I think there's a whole buncha facts missing but I also think that no-one but the al Quaeda did it.
What I was wondering was why you judge the guy and what is would say before the fact. Have you enountered the dood before? Was he your neighbor once and felled his tree on your fence?

 

[tamarin]

I've read through the conspiracy sites before and he's a guru. What the uber-cadets refuse to acknowledge is the consequence for our culture if indeed their weird ruminations were true: western society as we know it on this side of the Atlantic would not survive the hit. For the nuts to be right on this one would mean one thing and one thing only: western society is rotten to the core and hopelessly disfigured. There would be riots on the streets as our way of life convulsed and then simply
disappeared. It'd be no different than discovering your mother was a cannibal.

 

[L Gilbert]

I've read through the conspiracy sites before and he's a guru.

Oh. Well, maybe you should quit and do like me, only pay attention to conspiracy nuts when they show up in forums. I never woulda thought to go looking for conspiracy sites.

 

[tamarin]

Gilbert, there's no place to hide these days. It'd be like working at Hershey's. How do you avoid the nuts?

 

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Bill Christison, former senior official of the CIA has this to say about Dr. Griffin's latest book about to released "Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory":

“David Ray Griffin’s Debunking 9/11 Debunking is a superb compendium of the strong body of evidence showing the official U.S. Government story of what happened on September 11, 2001 to be almost certainly a monstrous series of lies. Tragically, the entire course of U.S. foreign and domestic policies since that date has grown out of these almost certain falsehoods. This single book could (and should) provide the basis for the United Nations? International Court of Justice, or some specially constituted global body (independent of the U.S.) to investigate with highest priority, and publicly report its findings about, the charge that unknown elements within the U.S. Government, and possibly some individuals elsewhere closely allied to the U.S., caused or contributed to causing the events of September 11 to happen."

Dr. David Ray Griffin in Vancouver
Wednesday, May 16th
7:30 pm
St. Andrew’s-Wesley Church
Nelson at Burrard
Vancouver, BC

 

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Credibility

Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory

"Professor Griffin is the nemesis of the 9/11 cover-up. This new book destroys the credibility of the NIST and Popular Mechanics reports and annihilates his critics."---Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury during the Reagan administration

“Considering how the 9/11 tragedy has been used by the Bush administration to propel us into immoral wars again and again, I believe that David Ray Griffin's provocative questions about 9/11 deserve to be investigated and addressed.”—-Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States

The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions
“With this new book, David Ray Griffin establishes himself, alongside Seymour Hersh, as America’s number one bearer of unpleasant, yet necessary, public truths.”--Richard Falk, professor emeritus, Princeton University


“In this masterful sequel to The New Pearl Harbor, David Ray Griffin unveils a disparity between official 9/11 "spin" and independently researched 9/11 fact so glaring as to suggest the possibility of a constitutional crisis unlike anything our country has ever known."--Burns H. Weston, Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Iowa

The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11

“This is an important, extraordinarily well-reasoned and provocative book that should be widely read. Griffin raises disturbing questions that deserve thoughtful and truthful answers from our government.--Marcus Raskin, co-founder of the Institute for Policy Studies


“David Ray Griffin has written what America may most of all need - a dispassionate, balanced and exhaustively researched and documented account of the implausible gaps and misrepresentations of the Bush administration’s official story of 9/11. Sensitive to the “conspiracy theory” mind-stop that has disconnected his fellow Americans from the facts of this history-steering event, Griffin painstakingly marshals the evidence pro and con, and follows it where it leads. A courageously impeccable work.”--John McMurtry, author of Value Wars: The Global Market versus the Life Economy, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Professor of Philosophy, University of Guelph