A new thread to restate your strawman? Really?
Since your ideas are based on a masochistic misunderstanding of events, the questions that follow are not grounded in reality (obviously).
The facts of that day are not merely a set of superficial rhetorical points to be viewed according to personal bias. There are certain things we must accept, and others we cannot know for certain and must treat as estimates or guesses.
Facts which should not be in dispute (but apparently truthers cannot accept)
- WTC 7 was somewhat damaged in the lobby area by the collapse of
WTC 2.
- Fire alarms were set off, probably due to dust and smoke from the collapse.
- Jennings and Hess arrived at the OEM sometime after it had been evacuated. This points to a time somewhere between 9:30am and 10:am. According to NIST NCSTAR 1A the evacuation of the OEM was ordered at 9:45am. Using that figure then it is likely they arrived closer to 10:am.
- WTC 7 was not completely evacuated when the South Tower collapsed at 9:59am. The EMS Triage operations were still functioning right up to that point, in WTC 7 - so there were a lot of personnel and injured people still.
If there had been some kind of giant explosion in the building, these people would not only have been witnesses to it, but victims also.
- After the collapse of WTC 2, EMS personnel were assigned to make sure WTC 7 was evacuated. There were no reports of collapsed stairwells by any of those personnel. The only damage reported was broken glass along with very thick dust from the tower collapse.
This info is available here
- Michael Hess reported that power went out while they were in the OEM. This happened when WTC 2 collapsed according to independent reports. It establishes that Jennings and Hess were still in the OEM at 9:59am.
- A security officer is sent up into WTC 7 after the collapse of WTC 2 to ensure that the building has been fully evacuated. He ascends stairwells as far as the 40th floors and then descends. Around the time he reaches the 30th floor WTC 7 shakes and everything goes black, due to the collapse of the North Tower WTC 1. He continues down to the 23rd floor and finds the OEM empty and filled with smoke. He is eventually rescued and escorted out of the building, as were Jennings and Hess.
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a959securityofficer#a959securityofficer
- By the time Jennings and Hess break a window to call for help, both towers have collapsed, as evidenced by their observation of scores of burning vehicles on Barclay St. Neither man could see either the North or South tower from this location, even if they had been still standing, so their assumptions were not based on direct observation. Neither man realized that the towers had collapsed at that point.
It was not uncommon for witnesses to misunderstand the nature of the tower collapses. Many, including EMS Division Chief John Peruggia, do not understand this until they actually see the rubble first hand.
In his words, even after running to escape the collapse - 'We didnít know that, but it was the south tower that was down.' 'I thought that part of the building or the facade of the building had collapsed. You know, it was too dusty to see outside, so we didnít know what
happened..'
This shows that even professionals who were outside, but not in direct view of the towers, did not comprehend that there was complete collapse. It is therefore not surprising that neither Jennings nor Hess, from their vantage point deep inside WTC 7, also did not realize what had happened.
Nor can either Jennings or Hess be expected to know exactly what time it was. It is unrealistic to treat their estimates and assumptions as some kind of absolute fact which overrides all others. But unfortunately this is exactly what 9/11 Truth does - it refuses to corroborate this information with known and established facts, and thus amplifies the errors instead of minimizing them.
The actions of 9/11 Truthers then focus on defending those accumulating errors against all facts and logic, creating a massively incorrect narrative which runs almost entirely counter to what actually happened.
The Barry Jennings mythology, which includes his alleged assassination by an unknown conspiracy for speaking about his experiences, is just one of a legion of 9/11 conspiracy myths which persist.
