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Kevin Barrett Congratulates Ron Kind,
Paul Stark
Press release issued by Barrett for Congress, November 5th, 2008
3rd District Libertarian candidate Kevin Barrett congratulated Democratic victor Ron Kind and Republican challenger Paul Stark, and announced that he would "take a break from politics to focus on family and spirituality."
"I think Ron Kind is a decent guy who wants to do the right thing," Barrett said. "Like most Americans, he has so far failed to stand up to the criminals behind the 9/11 wars and the trashing of our Constitution. But he did have the courage to show up for a debate in which he knew I was going to rake him over the coals. (Watch it here: http://www.radiodujour.com/people/barrett_kevin/index.shtml) He would have won just as big if he'd ducked that debate. It took guts to show up and take what he knew was coming. I hope he'll show even more guts by considering some of the points I made, and then standing up more for what's right, and less for what's expedient."
Barrett called on Kind to support fellow Democratic Representative Dennis Kucinich's call for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission for 9/11 and the 9/11 wars. He also urged Kind to support Richard Cook's proposals for currency reform, including phasing out the Federal Reserve and treating currency as a public utility, not the world-conquest weapon of a private monopoly of international bankers.
Barrett also said: "I would like to thank Paul Stark for his lively, provocative campaign. The real reason I ran was to raise important issues and ideas, and Paul Stark also did that by banging the drums for the elimination of the income tax and its replacement by the Fair Tax. I think the Fair Tax proposal deserves a fair hearing, and I congratulate Paul Stark for successfully drawing attention to this important proposal."
Barrett said his campaign had been a success. "Those who followed it from all over the world know that this was one of the most exciting political campaigns ever, with more truth, humor, and creativity than a thousand ordinary campaigns put together. Unfortunately it wasn't a good year for third parties. Given that, I did pretty well. I understand that I got about double the votes of the other major Wisconsin Libertarian congressional candidate, Joe Kexel; seven times the votes of Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr; and about the same as Mike Munger, the biggest non-presidential Libertarian candidate in the country, who ran for Governor of North Carolina. Additionally, I got more total votes than Jeff Zastrow, who ran in my district in 2002 on the coattails of Ed Thompson, the all-time record-breaking Libertarian vote-getter. So it looks like mine was the most successful Libertarian campaign in the country."
He added: "I taught college from 1991 through 2006, and hope to return to my career of teaching and scholarship. Now that my campaign is over, I will be applying for teaching positions in hopes that the neo-McCarthy era will soon end, and academic freedom will return to these shores."
Barrett urged those interested in his ideas to visit his website, which will stay up at http://www.barrettforcongress.us
Finally, the Great Debate!
Kevin
Barrett Spanks Ron Kind on Banker Bailout, War, Campaign Contributions
Bribes
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National
Poll: 79% Prefer Bailing Out the People Rather than the Bankers
For Immediate Release – October, 17, 2008 – Kevin Barrett for Congress
79% of the registered voters in the United States believe it would be a better idea to spend $30 billion dollars to bail out most homeowners who can’t pay their mortgages, rather than to spend $700 billion to bail out bankers, according to a scientific poll released today. The poll was conducted by Voice Broadcasting, Inc. out of Arlington, Texas, and was commissioned by the Kevin Barrett for congress campaign. The poll was conducted on October 14 and 15, 2008.
The exact wording of the poll question was:
“It will cost the taxpayers more than 700 billion dollars to bail out the bankers. But for only 30 billion dollars, we could bail out most of the people who can't pay their mortgages. Who would you rather bail out, the bankers or the people?”
The statistical margin of error for the poll question was 3.7%.
Kevin Barrett says:
“This poll proves that the republicrats are out of touch with the people. It’s time to elect Libertarians, Independents, and Third party candidates to congress.”
Other Key
Poll Findings
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59% oppose
the bailout.
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33%
believe that the World Trade Center was blown up with explosives or that
an investigation should be conducted to find out.
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76% favor
term limits for the U.S. congress.
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76% say
that third party and independent candidates should be invited to
televised presidential debates.
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79%
believe that ballot access should be made easier for third party and
independent candidates.
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In a
four-way poll of the major alternative candidates for president, Ralph
Nader leads with 54%.
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Only 4%
know that Philip Zelikow was the executive director of the 9/11
Commission.
- Only 17% appear to have heard of World Trade Center Building 7.
Complete Poll Results
Do you support the $700 billion dollar banker bailout?
Yes 41%
No 59% [Barrett’s position]
It will cost the taxpayers more than 700 billion dollars to bail out the bankers. But for only 30 billion dollars, we could bail out most of the people who can't pay their mortgages. Who would you rather bail out, the bankers or the people?
Bail out the bankers 21%
Bail out the people 79% [Barrett’s preference]
Do you support the 9/11 family members' call for a new, independent investigation of 9/11?
I support the call for a new investigation 29% [Barrett’s position]
I do not support the call for a new investigation 71%
Governor Jesse Ventura is a trained military demolitions expert. He and hundreds of engineers, scientists, and architects think the World Trade Center skyscrapers were probably taken down with explosives. Do you agree?
I agree that these were probably controlled demolitions 19% [Barrett’s position]
I disagree. These were not controlled demolitions 67%
I don't know, but we need an investigation to find out 14%
Where do you get most of your news from?
The Internet 12% [Barrett]
Radio, TV, magazines, or newspapers 88%
If the election for president of the United States were held today, and your choices were Libertarian party candidate Bob Barr, Green party candidate Cynthia McKinney, Constitution party candidate Chuck Baldwin, or Independent candidate Ralph Nader, who would you vote for?
Libertarian party candidate Bob Barr 18% [Rolf Lindgren’s choice]
Green party candidate Cynthia McKinney 21% [Barrett’s choice]
Constitution party candidate Chuck Baldwin 7%
Independent candidate Ralph Nader 54%
How many giant skyscrapers fell at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001?
One 5%
Two 65%
Three 17% [correct answer]
Four 13%
Do you favor term limits for members of the United States congress?
Yes 76% [Barrett’s position]
No 24%
Should medical marijuana be re-legalized?
Yes 53% [Barrett’s position]
No 47%
Should Third party or Independent candidates for president be invited to televised debates?
Yes 76% [Barrett’s position]
No 24%
Should ballot access be made easier for Third party or Independent candidates?
Yes 79% [Barrett’s position]
No 21%
Does the so-called war on drugs endanger civil liberties or our United States constitution?
Yes 43% [Barrett’s position]
No 57%
Does the so-called war on terror endanger civil liberties or our United States constitution?
Yes 39% [Barrett’s position]
No 61%
How many days went by before the 9/11 Commission was created?
4 days 2%
41 days 12%
441 days 25% [correct answer]
Don't know 61%
Who was the executive director of the 9/11 Commission?
Henry Kissinger 6%
Thomas Kean 27%
Philip Zelikow 4% [correct answer]
Don't know 63%
Polling Company:
Voice Broadcasting, Inc.
1527 S Cooper
St.
Arlington, TX 76010
Telephone: 817-462-0717
Mr. Madison’s War Versus Mr. Bush’s War
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Barrett to Introduce
Election Fraud Expert
in Madison Thursday, October 16
Public Forum and Book Signing
ELECTION FRAUD IN OHIO 2004
Richard Hayes Phillips will present findings from his new book “Witness to a Crime: A Citizens’ Audit of an American Election.”
The book comes with a CD containing 1200 photographs of actual forensic evidence: ballots, poll books, voter signature books, and other election records from Ohio.
“Richard Hayes Phillips worked day and night for three years compiling irrefutable evidence of how the Republicans stole the 2004 presidential race in Ohio. This landmark investigation is a testament to what private citizens can accomplish when government officials fail to protect our right to vote and to count those votes as cast. Every American – Republican and Democrat – should read this book, and join the fight for democracy’s most fundamental right.”
-- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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Kevin Barrett Unveils Campaign Reform Plan to End Legalized Bribery
For Immediate Release – September 29, 2008 – Kevin Barrett for Congress
www.barrettforcongress.us
Contact: Dr. Kevin Barrett; Libertarian candidate, Third Congressional
District, Wisconsin715-333-7319;
kbarrett@merr.com
Rolf Lindgren; Barrett Campaign Manager608-279-5889;
rolfusaugustusadolphus@yahoo.com
Remember the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law? Well, we haven’t heard much about it lately even though John McCain is running for president. The McCain-Feingold law is not talked about because it doesn’t work.
We propose a new, simple kind of campaign finance reform that will actually work. We propose that giving any publicly elected official more than $200 dollars in one calendar year be re-classified in the criminal codes as a legally presumed bribe. We also propose that the legal fiction of a difference between a public official and a campaign be eliminated. Giving money to a campaign is the same thing as giving money to a person. Giving large amounts of money to an elected official is not a “contribution”; it’s a bribe.
That’s it. Now let’s take a look at some possible objections, implications, and benefits of this reform.
Question: Wouldn’t the Supreme Court declare this reform an infringement of free speech rights?
Answer: No, the Supreme Court has never considered bribery of public officials to be free speech. Legal presumptions are common, especially in the co-called war on drugs, where a certain amount of drugs presumes you’re a drug dealer, rather than just a drug user.
Question: How would this affect candidates not currently holding public office?
Answer: You can’t bribe someone who doesn’t hold public office. The $200 contribution limit would not apply to those not in office. Non-public office holding challengers get an advantage under this reform to offset advantages of incumbency. Since incumbents are limited to $200 contributions, fewer would be elected, and fewer would accumulate million dollar war-chests.
Question: Would this reform promote the rotation in public office envisioned by our Founding Fathers?
Answer: Yes. This system would encourage a public office holder to leave office if they wanted to try for another office. There would be more open seats and more competitive elections.
Question: Would this reform make elected officials less beholden to special interest money?
Answer: Yes. Once in office, the flow of special interest money would be severely curtailed. Special interests might help someone get elected, but once elected, the special interests would lose control.
Question: How would this reform affect issue ads?
Answer: Issue ads are protected free speech. They’re already regulated and not allowed to be coordinated with political campaigns. It’s better for someone to spend money on their political cause with an issue ad, then to bribe public officials with the same money.
Question: Are there any other benefits?
Answer: Yes. Since incumbents are limited to $200 contributions, they will be spending less time raising money and more time doing the public’s business. No one can campaign full time and focus on their official duties at the same time. Good examples of that are John McCain and Barack Obama. They should either leave the Senate or pull back on campaigning.
Question: Is there a practical way to get this reform enacted?
Answer: Yes. The easiest first step would be for 38 state legislatures to pass a constitutional amendment that applied this reform to federal elections. The worst abuses of power seem to be occurring at the federal level. The reform would cause more open seats in the federal congress. State legislators might be more inclined to challenge for federal office, giving them an incentive to pass the amendment.
These simple reforms are constitutional and practical, and combined with clean Internet fundraising, will end legalized bribery of our public officials.
Poll:
22% in Ron Kind’s District Think 9/11 Might be an Inside Job
For Immediate Release – September 17, 2008 – Kevin Barrett for Congress
Contact:
Rolf Lindgren; Barrett Polling Director and Campaign Manager
608-279-5889; rolfusaugustusadolphus@yahoo.com
22% of the people living households with two registered voters in Ron Kind’s congressional district (3rd district, Wisconsin) think 9/11 might be an inside job, according to a scientific poll released today. The poll was conducted by Voice Broadcasting, Inc. out of Arlington, Texas, and was commissioned by the Kevin Barrett for Congress campaign.
22% of registered voters in Ron Kind’s district represents about 64,000 voters.
The exact wording of the poll question was:
“Do you think it’s possible the 9/11 terror arracks were an inside job?”
1400 people were polled with a statistical margin of error of about 2%. The sample size is almost three times the size of most standard polls.
Rolf Lindgren says:
“Households with two registered voters represent the heart of the American family. These are usually married couples that own a home and have a landline phone. They tend to be more conservative about controversial issues. The Barrett campaign believes a poll of all registered voters would show numbers even greater than 22%.”
The poll also found that 47% think that the Bush Administration might be telling significant lies about what happened on 9/11, and 24% think the Bush Administration may have known about the 9/11 attacks in advance, and let them happen on purpose.
Dr. Barrett is targeting the 22% who think 9/11 might be an inside job for their votes. In a three-way race for Congress, you can theoretically win with 34% of the vote and are likely to win with 40% of the vote.
Lindgren says:
“It seems inconceivable that anyone who thinks 9/11 might be an inside job would vote for Ron Kind. He has done nothing to find the truth about 9/11 nor has done anything to stop the war in Iraq.”
Dr. Barrett will also target those voters who think the Bush Administration might be telling significant lies about 9/11.
Lindgren says:
“25% think Bush may be telling lies about 9/11, but don’t think it’s an inside job. If Barrett can capture one-half of those voters, Kevin Barrett has a chance to win. If he can capture three-fourth, he will win.”
Dr. Kevin Barrett says:
“If you think 9/11 might be an inside job, speak up! You have strength in numbers.”
Please contact the Barrett campaign for additional details on the methodology of the poll.
Polling Company:
Voice Broadcasting, Inc.
1527 S Cooper St.
Arlington, TX 76010
Telephone: 817-462-0717
Truth in Politics is NOT an Oxymoron
By Kevin Barrett, http://www.barrettforcongress.us
When I tell people that I'm running for Congress and my motto is "truth in politics, what a concept" they tell me I'm crazy. "Truth in politics," one said, "is an oxymoron, just like 'military intelligence' and 'jumbo shrimp.' You don't win elections by telling the truth. You win by telling people the lies they want to hear."
I beg to disagree. Our nation is drowning in a sewer of lies, and voters in Wisconsin's 3rd District Libertarian congressional primary just signaled they're about ready to come up for air.
I beat popular long-time Libertarian Ben Olson by telling the voters the cold, hard truth: The war in Iraq is a criminal war of aggression that has wrecked our economy. 9/11 was an inside job. And universal, single-payer health care is the best available solution to our current health-care disaster. Oddly, of those three inconvenient truths, it was single-payer health care that Libertarian voters had the most trouble with.
To understand why, you need to grasp the deep, healthy skepticism of government that is at the core of the Libertarian Party's identity. To a party-line Libertarian like Ben Olson, the notion that top government officials could botch a murderous false-flag operation and get us into a disastrous war is unpleasant but not especially outrageous. Libertarians know that governments have two main occupations: killing people and taking away their freedom. Seen in that light, 9/11 and what followed are pretty much par for the course.
The power of government to murder human beings, and murder freedom, ultimately stems from its power to make war. As Randolph Bourne put it, "war is the health of the state." Unfortunately, the Libertarian aversion to big government often focuses on the relatively benign things governments do, such as maintaining infrastructure and taking care of the less fortunate among us.
While I agree that government spending, and government involvement in people's lives, needs to be kept under control in all areas, I believe that there are certain things that governments sometimes do better than the private sector. Antitrust enforcement, acting as referee in the free market game, maintaining roads and dams and bridges, developing and maintaining energy-saving means of transit, providing a social safety net in tough times, keeping agricultural commodity price swings under control, regulating international trade to benefit American workers, and making sure that all Americans have access to education and basic health care are areas where government can sometimes play a constructive role.
To Libertarians, the fact that single-payer health care systems work better for roughly half the price is an inconvenient truth. But a simple comparison of Americans to citizens of all other advanced industrial nations, who pay on average just over half what we do for health care yet live longer, healthier lives, is proof that Libertarian ideology should be applied very cautiously to the health care sector.
As Don McCanne, MD said of me: "At least one Libertarian who distrusts government has looked at the options and has decided that, if his fellow Americans are going to receive the health care that they need, and the government will have to be involved, then we might as well go ahead and chose the option that is the most efficient and most effective: 'a single payer health care system run by the government.'
"Now that's a man who cares about the rest of us."
Sometimes your true friend--the one who really cares about you--is the one who has the guts to look you in the eye and tell you the truth, however inconvenient it may be.
Kevin Barrett is the peace-and-truth candidate for Congress in Wisconsin's 3rd District
Thanks to all of you who contributed time, energy, money, and votes to this effort! Now we're heading for the big time...
-Kevin
PS Keep those contributions coming - money gets the message out, and my peace-and-truth message can WIN in a three-way race with the other two guys splitting the pro-war vote.
3rd District Winner Kevin Barrett Thanks Olson, Targets "Pro-War" Kind
Kevin Barrett, the apparent winner of the 3rd District Libertarian congressional primary with over 60% of the vote, thanked opponent Ben Olson for what he called "a terrific campaign." "Ben Olson is a wonderful guy, and I'm glad this campaign gave me a chance to get to know him," Barrett said. "Our debate on Captain Soma's riverboat was a memorable experience. I have nothing but good things to say about him. I hope to stay in touch with him, and I will continue to work with him and his supporters in an attempt to rein in this out-of-control government."
Barrett also thanked Governor Jesse Ventura for his last-minute endorsement. "Next time I take on Hannity and O'Reilly, I want Jesse Ventura on my tag-team," Barrett said. "Seriously, Jesse Ventura is the only true statesman I see anywhere on today's political landscape, and I'm honored by his endorsement. I hope he'll run for president and win in 2012."
Barrett cited the popular Libertarian mayor of Tomah, Ed Thompson, a regular guest on Barrett's radio shows. "Ed Thompson said this primary was a referendum on 9/11. I don't know if I'd go that far...but any landslide victory for the 'conspiracy professor' Hannity and O'Reilly and the rest of the controlled media love to beat up on is very good news for the 9/11 truth movement."
Barrett added that he planned to hold incumbent Ron Kind responsible for "consistently voting for a criminal war of aggression that has wrecked our economy," and added that he had just sent the following email to Kind:
Dear Congressman Kind,
Now that I have won the Libertarian primary, I am writing to request that you ask one of your staffers to schedule the debate to which you agreed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_dCg_QYEeA
I hope you will be prepared to truthfully defend your pro-war votes, in light of the recent announcement that thousands of Wisconsin guardsmen will soon be sent to Iraq in the biggest call-up since World War II.
Sincerely
Kevin Barrett
The Peace and Truth Candidate
Wisconsin's District 3
http://www.barrettforcongress.us
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Listen to Jesse Ventura endorsing Kevin Barrett on the eve of the
primary election -- recorded Monday, September 8th on Kevin's
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Governor Jesse Ventura
Endorses Kevin Barrett for Congress
For Immediate Release - September 4, 2008
'At least he's not boring'
By Patrick Marley
Friday, Aug 29 2008, 11:06 AM
Madison -- As part of his unusual campaign for Congress, Libertarian Kevin Barrett is planning to robo-call 30,000 people to talk about how annoying robo-calls are.
While he's at it, he's asking for their vote in the Sept. 9 primary. And he's reminding them he believes the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were orchestrated by the U.S. government.
"I've had it up to here with the boring, cowardly, mealy mouthed, lying scalawags that call themselves politicians," Barrett says in the calls that will go out Tuesday. "If they call me one more time, I'm going...to tell them: 'You dirty, lying, thieving jackals of Washington, D.C., wasted $5 trillion on that idiotic war in Iraq and you destroyed our economy.'"
He asks people to visit FireCongress.org, a site that urges people to vote against incumbents.
Barrett also claims 9/11 was an inside job. Barrett was enmeshed in controversy when he taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for his views on those terrorist attacks.
Barrett slips into a falsetto voice during the recording so he can sound like a second person urging them to vote for Barrett. The call ends with: "At least he's not boring."
In a second round of calls that will go out Sept. 8, the day before the primary, Barrett accuses U.S. Rep. Ron Kind (D-La Crosse) of lying about his views on the war, saying Kind is "100% pro war."
Barrett faces fellow Libertarian Ben Olson III in the primary. The winner will face Kind and Republican Paul Stark, an Eau Claire home builder, in the Nov. 4 general election for the western Wisconsin district.
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http://blogs.jsonline.com/allpoliticswatch/archive/2008/08/29/at-least-he-s-not-boring.aspx
Wisconsin
Public Radio Listeners Support Barrett's "Peace and Truth" Candidacy!
Don't miss my recent
Wisconsin Public Radio interview with Joy Cardin. Joy did an extremely
fair-minded interview, and every single caller was supportive. She even said
she had to turn away calls and emails because they were only calling to say
they agree with me! The interview was broadcast statewide on 29 affiliates
blanketing the whole state of Wisconsin. Check it out at: http://www.radiodujour.com/people/barrett_kevin/
(You can hear her earlier interview with my Libertarian primary opponent,
Ben Olson
here.)
Arson in WTC 6
By Rolf Lindgren and Dr. Kevin Barrett, http://www.barrettforcongress.us
9/11 skeptics harp on the obvious controlled demolition of Word Trade Center Building 7, the biggest smoking gun of 9/11. And they often discuss the only slightly less obvious demolitions of the Twin Towers. But they rarely discuss evidence for bombs and arson in other buildings of the World Trade Center complex.
According to the testimony of John Peruggia: "I saw 6 World Trade Center fully involved with fire." Peruggia describes a fire after the South Tower, WTC 2, falls at 9:59 a.m., but before the North Tower, WTC 1 falls at 10:28 a.m. The fire in WTC 6 was ostensibly started by flying debris from WTC 2. Based on Peruggia’s timeline, WTC 6 was "fully involved with fire" by the midway point between the Twin Tower collapses. So WTC 6 was "fully involved with fire" by 10:15 AM. [Note to no-plane shills, on page 6, Peruggia describes airplane parts he sees from the first plane crash.]
Also testifying about fire, smoke, and explosions in WTC 6 is EMP Patricia Ondrovic. She describes fleeing immediately after the collapse of WTC 2 and running into a building on Vesey Street (WTC-6) where "there was smoke, there was debris, there was everything flying around" and where "stuff's blowing up." Suspiciously, her testimony is redacted on pages 9, 12, and 13.
Despite the censorship of the official oral history, you can get her full story here about the explosions in WTC-6 she witnessed as she was fleeing the destruction of the first collapsing Tower: "I tried to run into the lobby of 6 World Trade, but there were federal police -- maybe 4 to 6 of them -- standing in the open doorways. As I tried to run in, they wouldn't let me, waving me out, telling me 'you can't come in here, keep running.' As I turned to start running west again, I saw a series of flashes around the ceiling of the lobby all going off one-by-one like the X-mass lights that 'chase' in pattern."
WTC 6 was about 400 feet from WTC 2 and mostly screened by WTC 1. It supposedly caught fire from the flying debris. Yet WTC 1, which is only a little over 100 feet away from WTC 2 and not screened, did not catch on fire from flying debris. The only fires in WTC 1 were above the 95th floor of where the plane hit.
We know the intensity of the flying debris decreases with the inverse cube of the distance, so the blast that hit WTC 1 was 50 times greater than the blast that hit WTC 6, when WTC 2 fell.
This chart shows how little of WTC 6 was exposed to flying debris from WTC 2. Chart of locations of WTC 1, WTC 2, and WTC 6
Assuming that debris from building collapses cause fires, WTC 1 should have caught on fire, and WTC 6 should not have caught on fire. If WTC 6 did catch on fire, only a small part of it should have been in flames by 10:15.
The eyewitnesses to arson and/or explosives in WTC 6 complement the eyewitnesses of explosives in WTC 7 (Barry Jennings and Michael Hess) and WTC 1 (William Rodriguez and others).
Other Suspicious WTC 6 Facts
* No steel or rubble from WTC 6 was preserved for scientific analysis.
* NIST has not done a study of WTC 6.
The arson hypothesis for WTC 6 has been tested for accuracy at the JREF "debunker" forums:
Arson in WTC 6?
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=117389
The JREFers are the most able and informed "debunkers" (not saying much), yet even the JREF army of debunkers could not muster a single good rebuttal of the arson in WTC 6 hypothesis.
Because WTC 6 was on fire, it provided a smokescreen for other events on 9/11. The smoke from WTC 6 obscured explosions on the lower floors of WTC 1, and obscured the south face of WTC 7.
The fires in WTC 5 are suspicious as well, and worthy of further investigation.
"We're getting ready to PULL building 6!"
Pulling WTC 6
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6227966981786417824&ei=V5u0SLHtFo32-gHdr