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(Originally published by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth)

Seeking Justice for 9/11 Heroes: An Interview with New York Area Fire Commissioner Christopher Gioia

Andrew Steele: On July 24, 2019, the Franklin Square and Munson Fire District, which oversees a volunteer fire department that serves a hamlet of 30,000 residents, just outside of Queens, New York, made history by unanimously passing a resolution that supports a new investigation into the events of September 11, 2001, becoming the first legislative body in the country to do so.

Today, we’re joined by the man who introduced that resolution, Christopher Gioia. He’s a former firefighter and chief of the Franklin Square and Munson Fire Department, and now a commissioner that oversees that department. Mr. Gioia, welcome to the show.

Christopher Gioia: Thank you very much, Mr. Steele.

Steele: Before we get into the big news that everybody is talking about in the movement, and all throughout alternative media, we want to get to know you a little bit more, so please tell us about yourself and your career.

Gioia: Well, let’s see. I am presently in the construction industry. Franklin Square Fire Department is a volunteer fire department. We’re comprised of people from all walks and all trades. I’ve been in Franklin Square, I guess, for most of my life. I grew up maybe a block away from the firehouse, so when I was growing up, I used to sit on the curb and watch the firetrucks go by. I always wanted to be a fireman.

In the meantime, I completed high school, and I had joined the Marine Corps. When I had gotten out of the Marine Corps, I came back to town, and I wanted to continue my service, because the fire department is a paramilitary organization, so I went to the fire department, and I joined the local fire department. I’ve been with the Franklin Square/Munson Fire Department now for 32 years. I rose through the ranks, lieutenant and captain. I went through the chief’s office. We have three chiefs, second assistant, first assistant, and then you become chief of department. Those are two-year terms.

Then some years went by. We also have the fire district, which is comprised of five fire commissioners, who are responsible for the buildings and the grounds, the maintenance of the equipment, uniforms, and such. Pretty much, it’s administrative, and you pay the bills, but it is an elected position, and you have to submit a petition and run for office, and there are other people out there that you have to run against, so you actually have to mount a campaign. Then whatever monies, because it’s public money, everything has to be done according to state law. Everything has to be voted on, and there’s policies and procedures, and everything has to be on the up and up and above board.

We are audited by the state. We have our own internal auditors. Every penny is accounted for, and we do run a tight ship over here. I’ve been a commissioner now for about, I guess, three years. They’re five-year terms, so I’m probably about halfway through. You lose track of time. When you get older, things have a tendency to blur a little bit.

Steele: Is it just one term that you have or are allowed, or are you allowed to run again, when the five years are up?

Gioia: You can run again for another five-year term. You could actually stay in office. The other four commissioners have been in office 10, 15, maybe 20 years, so I’m pretty much the new kid on the block. The other members… We have another ex-chief, who’s sitting on the board, as well. He was chief of the department back in the late ’80s or the early ’90s. That would actually be Commissioner Malloy. Then you have Commissioner Saltzman, who is a member of Engine Company Number Three. You have Commissioner Lyons, who is a member of Engine Company Number Two. Commissioner Joseph Torregrossa, he’s the chairman, and he’s also a member of Engine Company Number Two.

You can run again. Five-year terms is a long time, but if you’re in there, and you like what you’re doing, it’s pretty procedural after… For me, personally, after being chief and being commissioner, coming into the district, it’s actually a less hectic pace. When you’re chief, you respond to every call, and you’re out there on the front lines. Pretty much, the commissioners are the ones in the background, just paying all the bills. It’s a lot less hectic. It’s more relaxed. When you get a little older, you want to be a little bit more relaxed.

Steele: I understand that myself, as I’m getting older. Believe me. Now, please tell us about your 9/11 story. Where were you on the day of September 11th, and how did you first hear the news?

Gioia: On 9/11, I was working… As I said, I do construction for a living. I’m a construction surveyor. I work for a large construction company. I was working on new construction of a small power plant on the river, the East River in Brooklyn, just north of the Williamsburg Bridge. I was working with a gentleman, who works in Upstate New York. We were working. We’re less than two miles from the Trade Center, and you have a spectacular view of Manhattan from the Brooklyn side of the river.

We heard this explosion, me and my partner, and he remarked something like, “Is somebody blasting around here?” Because he knew what the sound was. It didn’t register, so we looked around, and somebody said, “Hey, look! The Trade Center, the Twin Towers, is on fire.” We were looking at it, and we’re like… We pretty much knew right away. We’re like, okay, a plane hit it or a helicopter hit it. It was up high, and there was enough smoke and fire that we could see.

Then somebody ran out of one of the trailers and said that a plane had hit the North Tower. It was a spectacularly beautiful day. It was just this beautiful blue sky. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky, and it was this perfect day. I’m thinking to myself, I’m like, this guy, whoever was flying the plane, how could you hit the building? It’s just absolutely perfect flying weather.

I have survey equipment, which is pretty much like a telescope, so we focused the instruments on the North Tower, and I could see the imprint of the plane. I could actually see everything. Just looking at it, it was registering that we all thought it was maybe a small propeller plane, like a Piper Cub or something like that, but just from looking at the damage, it was like you knew that it was something larger.

In the meantime, then, the person… People were running around, scurrying, and they didn’t know what was going on, and then all of a sudden, we were watching. Then from our vantage point, we couldn’t see the plane coming from the other side, because the second plane that hit the South Tower came from the Statue of Liberty side, which is the New Jersey side, and the building exploded, and it blew out on the side, and then all hell broke loose. We were like, we’re under attack, you know?

People just wanted to leave the job. Me and my partner, we were transfixed on what we were seeing, because we had the instruments set up, and people wanted to see what was going on. We actually could see people waving for help. I could see people waving their clothes from the windows. I actually saw the lady who was perched at the bottom of the impact hole in the North Tower. I believe she was identified, and she ultimately wound up being killed, but I saw her.

Then it got even worse, because then you saw people jumping out of the building, and then that was it. I couldn’t watch it anymore, and I had to get home to my wife and my kids. My son was just about a year old. I told my boss. I said, “Listen, I’m out of here,” so I jumped in my truck, and we’re about… From Brooklyn to my house is probably about 20 miles, and it’s about maybe five or six miles to get to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway.

When I had driven about five miles to get on the expressway, when I got up to the expressway, I looked in the rear view mirror, and the whole sky of Manhattan down by the Trade Centers was just blacked out by this cloud. I guess the North Tower had collapsed, but I didn’t know it yet. People had just stopped on the highway, and everybody was just staring. I turned on the radio, and then all kinds of reports were coming in. I just, I flew home, and I made it home in record time. It must’ve taken me 15-20 minutes, because I was literally doing 90 miles an hour down the highway to get home.

I got home, and I threw open the door. My wife looked at me, and she goes, the South Tower just collapsed. I couldn’t understand. I said to her, I go, “What do you mean the South Tower just collapsed?” I go, “What happened to the North Tower?” She said, “That one collapsed 15 minutes ago.” I just sat back down on the couch with my wife, and we just sat there, and we watched TV. We were just in shock, because it was just too much to take in. We just sat there, and we just watched, watched the TV, and we just watched everything, as it unfolded.

Steele: It was horrible enough to watch it on television from Florida, where I was at the time. I can’t imagine standing there watching what you just described through your equipment that day, and seeing that. I know for New Yorkers, it had, of course, a more profound impact, because they actually lived it, people in New York and in the surrounding areas. It happened right in front of them. I understand that you had friends that died on September 11th. Do you want to tell us about them, and the lives that they lived?

Gioia: Yes, that’s correct, Andrew. I lost three of my friends, who were city firemen. One of them, Thomas Hetzel, was in the department here in Franklin Square. The other two lived in Franklin Square, and I was friends with them. I grew up with firefighter, Robert Evans. We used to pretty much hang out, maybe down at the park. He was a friend from school. Then the other firefighter, Michael Kiefer, he was one of these kids who used to come around the firehouse on his bicycle, and he was a… We’d call him a buff. He would have his scanner, and he would follow the trucks around. He grew up, and he joined the fire department.

He went into the towers. He responded. They never found him. I think they found little bits and pieces of Bobby. I was speaking to his sister the other day. They actually recovered some more parts or bone fragments. Tom they found in a stairwell. He was on his way out of the building. I was really good friends with Tom. I pretty much grew up with him. I went to his wedding. We did things together, and he was a good friend. They were all good people.

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Americans Observe History Day.

The peace pipe is sacred for Native Americans.

s Americans observe the national holiday of Columbus Day on October 14, it seems proper to take some moments for remembering the nation’s original people. A short documentary titled “A Healing Journey” shares one Native American tribe’s successful effort to regain an essential aspect of its unique history and long-ago traditional nature-based system of living.

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Is it possible that now, in October 2019, represents that prophesied decisive historical point where humanity finds it impossible to perpetuate the harms it has essentially done to itself, all life and the Earth itself – through ill-considered, reckless and violent actions taken for the purpose of increasing wealth and power and control at the expense of others in the human family?

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(Thank you to Earthjustice.org)

In Case You And Everyone Else On Earth Missed It.

Why is this not the #1 reported and talked about story on Earth?

World Trade Center Building 7 – moments before the 47-story skyscraper collapsed into its own footprint on September 11, 2001.

Four Hours Toward World Peace.

by Jerry Alatalo

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“If we are not able to prevent a third world war, we shall go down in history – if history should survive – as the guilty generation, the generation which did nothing to prevent the annihilation of mankind itself.”

– U THANT (1909-1974) Burmese Secretary General, United Nations

Reverend Audette Fulbright started the powerful 9/11 Memorial in New York City with a prayer. (September 7, 2019)

he four-hour 9/11 Memorial event in New York City on Saturday September 7, 2019 will become remembered, forever, – as the precise turning point where humanity shifted in maximally powerful, unstoppable fashion toward creating, for the first time, true peace on Earth.

Some will perceive such a statement as overly dramatic and/or drenched with hyperbole based on impractical wishful thinking, perhaps even telling themselves such a sentiment is total nonsense. Some will, depending on their base of knowledge regarding events which occurred on September 11, 2001, understand that finally revealing the truth does indeed offer a genuine chance of a better (read: more peaceful) future for the human race.

Why is this a valid stance? Because the broadest perception of 9/11 Truth and Justice become manifest and part of universally-recognized Earthly reality is this: such an end represents arguably the greatest moral confession of war criminality in the history of the world.

The names and ages of 412 firefighters, police officers, first responders and volunteers killed on 9/11 were read at the September 7 Memorial event. In a solemn centuries-old deep spiritual tradition, a tribute in memory to the fallen heroes took place with the “Pipe and Drums”.

One might suggest that those in the cynical camp have little to no awareness of facts and circumstances associated with the 9/11 event. One might further suggest, specifically to the doubting and uninformed group, taking four hours of their time to learn about the event – by watching and studying the video (below) of the New York City 9/11 Memorial observed on September 7.

The Memorial’s host and major facilitator, Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, provided the following biographical information about the event’s invited speakers:

David R. Meiswinkle, Esq. President, is a criminal defense attorney, retired police officer of 23 years, and former U.S. Army veteran.

David founded the New Brunswick Taxpayers and Tenants Association and the New Brunswick Reporter, a community newspaper. His activism and articles outlining municipal corruption brought federal authorities into New Brunswick New Jersey which led to major criminal investigations,and arrests, indictments and convictions of prominent local politicians.

After leaving New Brunswick, David served as Secretary of the New Jersey Reform Party and was a national delegate to the Reform Party convention in Long Beach, CA., and body guard for Patrick Buchanan when he campaigned in New Jersey.

David was an independent for Governor against Chris Christie in 2009 with the designation “Middle Class Empowerment”. He also ran as an independent candidate candidate for Congress against Chris Smith in 2010 with the designation, “American Renaissance Movement.

David is founder and President of New Jersey 9/11 Aware, a non-profit organization founded in order to educate the public of the need for a new unbiased investigation.

David is co- host of Quantum Matrix Radio and co-founder of Quantum Matrix Alternative Media, LLC

Mr. Meiswinkle is also a Board of Director member of Lawyers Committee For 9/11 Inquiry and was a panelist at the unprecedented 9/11 Justice in Focus Conference.

He holds a B.A. from Rutgers College, a M.A. from New York University, and a J.D. from Seton Hall University Law School.

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Christopher Gioia

Date of Event: September 7, 2019, NYC

New York Area Fire Commissioners Make History, Call for New 9/11 Investigation by Ted Walter July 27, 2019

They started off by saying the Pledge of Allegiance. Ten minutes later, they were reading the text of a resolution claiming the existence of “overwhelming evidence” that “pre-planted explosives . . . caused the destruction of the three World Trade Center buildings.”

And so it was, on July 24, 2019 — nearly 18 years after the horrific attacks that traumatized a nation and changed the world forever — the Franklin Square and Munson Fire District, which oversees a volunteer fire department serving a hamlet of 30,000 residents just outside of Queens, New York, became the first legislative body in the country to officially support a new investigation into the events of 9/11.

The resolution, drafted and introduced by Commissioner Christopher Gioia, was unanimously approved by the five commissioners. Members of the audience — including the families of fallen firefighters Thomas J. Hetzel and Robert Evans, both Franklin Square natives — joined in solemn but celebratory applause after the fifth “ay” was spoken.

Conversing with guests after the meeting, Commissioner Dennis Lyons remarked on the enormous and lasting toll that 9/11 has taken on the Franklin Square community. “We have a memorial — a piece of steel from the World Trade Center with 28 holes where the nuts and bolts used to go,” Lyons explained. “Every year on the 11th, we put a rose in each hole for the 24 Nassau County firefighters and four Franklin Square residents who died on 9/11.”

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Mick Harrison, Esq., Director of Litigation, is a Public Interest Attorney, graduate summa cum laude of the University of the District of Columbia School of law. Attorney Harrison has a national practice focused on cases that involve whistleblower protection, government accountability, corporate fraud and false claims, and dangers to public health or the environment.

Over the last 25 years he has worked in partnership on such cases with The Government Accountability Project (GAP); Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER); the Chemical Weapons Working Group (CWWG); the National Sierra Club; Greenpeace; and Vietnam veterans organizations, among others.

Attorney Harrison is licensed in Pennsylvania and admitted to practice before the U. S. Courts of Appeal for the 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, District of Columbia, and Federal Circuits, as well as the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.

The official explanation of the events on and surrounding 9/11 has not been established in a court of law or by an objective and thorough investigation by either Congress or the 9/11 Commission. Our overall mission is to develop and implement a detailed legal strategy to achieve transparency and accountability under the law, regarding the unprosecuted crimes of 9/11.

In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the Congress initiated the “Joint Inquiry” and the government eventually also created the 9/11 Commission to investigate and explain what had occurred. Almost immediately, and in the years thereafter, serious questions were raised about both the Joint House and Senate Intelligence Committees’ Inquiry and the 9/11 Commission’s version of the events surrounding 9/11. Many observers, including notably the families of the victims, criticized both inquiries for failing to address key questions.

The Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization of lawyers, investigators, scientists and concerned citizens created to promote transparency and accountability regarding the tragic events of September 11, 2001.

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Thank you for making the FBI Lawsuit possible – Bob McIlvaine

My Son Believed that ‘Knowledge Is Power’. Today, He Would Proudly Support Our Efforts

Dear Fellow 9/11 Truth Advocates,

Last night, we reached the fundraising goal for the FBI 9/11 Review Commission Lawsuit, of which I am proud to be a plaintiff along with AE911Truth, the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, and Barbara Krukowski-Rastelli, who lost her son, William, on 9/11.

On behalf of both organizations and Barbara, I would like to thank you for your generous donations to this most important lawsuit.

Growing up, my son Bobby had a poster on his wall that said “Knowledge Is Power.” He was an avid student who thought deeply about the social history of the U.S. and the world. His senior thesis, “Shadows Across the Snow: Blackness and the White Literary Mind,” dealt with the subtle and constant preoccupation with race in mainstream literature by white Americans. He had a tremendous ability to understand and empathize with others.

If Bobby were alive today, I know that he would proudly support the efforts of the 9/11 Truth Movement. That is because underlying everything we do for this cause is our belief that by expanding our knowledge — in particular, our knowledge of what happened on 9/11 and our knowledge of why it happened — we have the power to make the world a much better place.

Not everybody believes in the power of everyday people to change the world. But you do. I thank you for having that belief and for being part of this endeavor to uncover more about what actually took place on 9/11.

Yours truly,

Bob McIlvaine
Father of Bobby McIlvaine

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Dr. Gary Null

Throughout his career, Gary Null has made hundreds of radio and television broadcasts throughout the country as an environmentalist, consumer advocate, investigative reporter and nutrition educator. More than 28 different Gary Null television specials have appeared on PBS stations throughout the nation, inspiring and motivating millions of viewers.

He originated and completed more than one hundred major investigations on health issues resulting in the use of material by 20/20 and 60 Minutes. Dr. Null started this network to provide his followers with a media outlet for health and advocacy.

Gary takes on the real issues that the mainstream media is afraid to tackle.

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Mark Crispin Miller is professor of media studies at New York University, and the author of the book: Fooled Again, How the Right Stole the 2004 Elections. He is known for his writing on American media and for his activism on behalf of democratic media reform. His books include Boxed In: The Culture of TV, Seeing Through Movies, and Mad Scientists, a study of war propaganda.

He graduated from Northwestern University with a BA in 1971, Johns Hopkins University with an MA in 1973, and a Ph.D. in 1977. His parents, Jordan and Anita Miller, are the founders of Academy Chicago Publishers.

He is a signatory to the 9/11 Truth Statement. Interviewed by the New York Observer website, Miller said anyone using the conspiracy theory description “in a pejorative sense is a witting or unwitting CIA asset”.

Mark’s Blog: http://markcrispinmiller.com/

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Other speakers included:

Building 7 on September 11, 2001, shortly before the 47-story skyscraper collapsed straight down into its own footprint.

Richard Gage The founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Mr. Gage spoke on the recently published University of Alaska-Fairbanks Building 7 study led by engineering Professor Leroy Hulsey, which concluded – contrary to the report on Building 7 by the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) – that fires did not bring down the 47-story structure on 9/11.

Millions of men and women around the world recognize Building 7 as the “9/11 smoking gun”.

Ansgar Schneider A mathematician/physicist from Germany, Mr. Schneider shared his research into the collapse of The North Tower on 9/11, concluding that additional as-yet-unidentified factors are the explanation for aspects of the collapse, but this was not investigated by the 9/11 Commission.

Kirk Wiebe A National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower, Mr. Wiebe discussed his experience as a high-level technology expert with the NSA of his superiors’ rejection of a $1.9 million software program which could likely have prevented 9/11.

Rachel Hughes As a 9/11 First Responder, Ms. Hughes discussed her long, difficult series of health problems associated with toxic dust around the 9/11 destruction area, and her efforts to help others similarly stricken with extremely challenging medical conditions, due to their close proximity to the World Trade Center rescue sites.

Much more could be said here about this truly historic event. We would just ask readers to consider sharing the 4-hour video with all of your family, friends, associates, your local fire and police departments, email contacts, media, etc.. In other words, please do what you can to share this profoundly important information with as much of humanity on Earth as possible, for the obvious reasons. Thank you.

The 9/11 Deception (2001-2019) Is Dead.

by Jerry Alatalo

Future generations around the Earth will remember true American hero Christopher Gioia.

elentlessly persistent heroes have successfully created the equivalent to a world-record level earthquake with an immense, colossal resultant tsunami, and have both metaphorically – and literally – drowned the 9/11 deception to death.

Until this point in history, many people mark September 11, 2001 as the day “which changed everything”. After September 7, 2019 and powerful developments in the long 18-year search for 9/11 Justice, those same people will experience perhaps the most profound alteration of their perceptions as humanly possible, – for the ill-formed foundations of their previously held beliefs about 9/11 will soon become shattered.

That Earth-encompassing, world-changing shattering of false perceptions is the closest-to-perfect and best outcome for humanity. One of the leading heroes in this epic journey – joined with millions around the Earth – is New York City-area fire service veteran Christopher Gioia. Selected statements from his soon-to become historic address of September 7, 2019 in New York are in italics, followed by the entire address recorded on video.

It is 100% safe to say that September 11, 2001 has, now and forever, been replaced by September 7, 2019 as the most significant “day which changed everything”. The viewed-by-many as the greatest deception in the history of planet Earth is dead.

“On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was working on the Brooklyn side of the East River just north of the Williamsburg Bridge, and I had a spectacular view of Manhattan and the Twin Towers.”

“Now, almost eighteen years later, life is somewhat normal. The country is still at war with that faceless nameless enemy that knows no territorial boundaries yet manages to provoke this country into attacking sovereign nations, without a formal declaration of war from Congress, or without any independently corroborated intelligence, or information as to why a military intervention is justified or needed.”

“The bottom line here is that the American public has not been told the complete truth about the events of that fateful autumn morning almost 18 years ago.”

“But equally important is the way the 9/11 cover-up signifies an absence of democratic, transparent and accountable government. Establishing the truth is, in part, about restoring honesty, trust and confidence in the American political system. That is why on July 24th of this year, the Franklin Square-Munson Fire Department voted unanimously to adopt a legal resolution of support for the special federal grand jury investigation before the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.”

“I demand to know, as should everyone: Why was this important testimony limited, and in some cases not even recorded? Why was crucial evidence suppressed or not even considered and looked at, or worse yet, destroyed? That is not justice.”

“Confucius said: The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

Mr. David Meiswinkle of the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry introduces former U.S. Marine and Franklin Square-Munson Fire commissioner Mr. Christopher Gioia.

Christopher Gioia is a man of legendary honor, and his name will become forever associated with true men and women heroes of humanity. Thanks to Mr. Gioia and his friends in the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth and millions of their supporters around the Earth, the winds of good change have begun.

Humanity has been dealt severe and traumatic wounds, which only the most cynical among us have professed were beyond repair. On the contrary … The healing of humanity now begins.

(Thank you to Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry – YouTube)