Why in the world would I want to do that on a Saturday??
Well, for one, to see a talk by William Rodriguez, the last man out of the WTC North Tower, a janitor with the only master key who led firefighters up the stairs and unlocked the firedoors to the stairways (they were locked, hmm that’s odd)… also seeing a 9/11 debate and a film festival.
Minus the cold and 7 hours of driving, should be an exciting day!
In case you’re not totally obsessed with the 9/11 Truth movement like I am (it’s okay if you don’t read 911Blogger every day) here’s the news:
Rosie O’Donnell is all over 9/11 Truth.
And she’s been getting plenty of s—t for it too. Yet she keeps on keepin’ on! It’s been very reassuring to see it in the news, bad press and all, because the fact remains that it’s getting out there in the mainstream media. On The View for crying out loud! Middle-aged soccer moms who maybe never realized a third building fell on September 11th are going “what the he— is she talking about? What’s building 7?”
She’s had a prominent link to 9/11 Scholars on her website/blog for a while now, and has just added WTC7 to that list (of only 17 external links.)
…a false flag operation carried out by the U.S. government under President Johnson, i.e. another inside job, to provide a pretext for escalating U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
…You know, the building that wasn’t hit by a plane but collapsed perfectly and was never mentioned in the 9/11 Commission Report?
Really, just subscribe to the RSS feed for a week and you’ll be amazed.
The way she does it is beautiful though. She doesn’t flood the blog with an overload of information or tell readers what to think about that information. She just gives brief bits of history in the hopes her fans/viewers/readers will figure it out and come to their own conclusions. Which is exactly the approach that Columbus 9/11 Truth is trying to take. She doesn’t argue one theory or another, she just points people in the right direction so they may do their own research.
She doesn’t just speak about 9/11 Truth either, she’s also spoken up about the need for IMPEACHMENT and the obvious ridiculousness of the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed “I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z” confession. Not to mention the links on her website for Iraq For Sale, Impeach 07, the recent March on the Pentagon, and Cost of War. And she uses Flickr, how much cooler can she get?!
Sometimes it’s just cooler to see a real article vs. the online version. Plus then you get to see the page placement, and it’s the main article on page 4!
And as it turns out, even though none of our quotes got in, they decided to put a picture of me in there, random huh? But it’s a great thing only because it got them to print “Columbus 9/11 Truth“!! HA! The moonbats made it in!
Since then we have lost over 3,218 US soldiers, over 23,785 have been maimed and injured, anywhere from 100,000-655,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed, over 2 MILLION Iraqis fortunate enough to get out alive are now refugees, and over $408 BILLION has been spent.
AND FOR WHAT?
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“I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z”
Turns out I was wrong about that silly 9/11 Truth thing! CNN’s got the whole story, check it out for yourself. Or if you’d rather not read it all, I’ll highlight the good parts:
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has admitted responsibility for the 9/11 attacks and a catalog of other terrorist acts, according to an edited transcript of a tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
“I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z,” Mohammed said Saturday through a U.S. military representative at the American base.
Mohammed takes responsibility for 29 operations, the transcript shows.
I get the feeling that the only source this story is using is an “edited transcript released by the Pentagon.” But it’s from the Pentagon, and they always tell the truth! Plus it was a closed and unconstitutional hearing at Guantanamo with no due and transparent process, now that’s the American Way!
“The three-member military panel hearings … were closed to the media and to the detainees’ lawyers because of fears the detainees might divulge classified information, according to Pentagon officials.”
Okay, so no lawyer representation and as a detainee he doesn’t get to see the evidence held against him — that’s ok, f–k the Bill of Rights, we’re in a time of war! I’m sure the military panel had the courtesy to speak in Arabic so he could actually understand them. And as we all know, the U.S. does not torture so he must have willingly admitted all of these things. Okay. Fine. Spoon feed it please, I’ll take it!
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Gwynne Dyer, a UK journalist, basically tries to discredit the entire 9/11 Truth Movement based on the theories proposed in Loose Change. One source. Don’t you learn about the importance of using primary, secondary, and multiple sources in journalism school?
“…the argument is pure paranoid fantasy, and it is rotting people’s brains.”
Oh, here I thought I just had a caffeine headache.
It’s pretty hilarious actually. I think it’s safe to say that not many of us in the movement believe every idea proposed by Dylan Avery. We all agree it’s one of the more extreme films in the 9/11 Truth world, but it’s also that extremism that has gotten us this far. It was Loose Change that I watched 3 years ago that got the gears going in my head. The gears that cranked open my eyes.
Aside from only using one source to come to his conclusion, Dyer also does not address the scientific arguments against the official 9/11 story, the ones that are far easier to understand than the political underpinnings. The fact that the buildings fell at near-freefall speed in the exact manner of a controlled demolition. The fact that 40 STEEL support columns magically disappeared. The fact that no steel-framed skyscraper has ever collapsed from fire, not before or after 9/11. The fact that there is NO PLANE to be found at the Pentagon “crash” site. The fact that even if there was a plane, the hole in the Pentagon was TINY and a 757 would never have fit. The list goes on. He did not research anything. He just says “I don’t believe that happened.” WOW what a smashing argument! Forget all that stuff I said about physics and science, what was I thinking?!
“I don’t believe that happened because I don’t think that Tenet, Rice, Powell et al. would have plotted the deaths of thousands of Americans. I don’t believe even Cheney would have done that.”
Oh and we mustn’t forget:
“…by linking their fantasies about 9/11 to the Bush administration’s deliberate deception of the American people in order to gain support for the invasion of Iraq, they bring discredit on the truth and the nonsense alike.”
Discredit on the truth? Seriously? Sort of a hypocritical statement considering he made no effort to research the truth himself. He goes by what has been spoon fed into his mouth and that was enough to satisfy him. To his credit, he did mention the Project for a New American Century, something many Americans have probably never heard of, even though it is the foundation of the Bush Administration’s war-profiteering and fear-mongering agenda.
But again, this is a classic case of dismissal for illogical reasons. Laziness really. Some people see two plates in front of them: one has the official story from the U.S. government with some avocado and what looks to be pesto on the side, though the avocado is a little too brown and they really don’t like pesto and can’t understand what people see in it. The other plate has some experimental dishes by the losers from Top Chef, the display is horrible, they forgot the parsley, and there’s dried food bits stuck on the spoon. Instead of demanding something else because neither looks very pleasing, they shrug and take the brown avocado plate. Since when have Americans been bad at demanding things? Why do we have Wal-Marts filled with millions of choices for consumption but here it’s one choice or the other? Why does it have to be the official story or the Loose Change story and that’s it? What ever happened to the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
“The greater conspiracy theory, on the other hand, is just plain loony, and yet more and more people are falling for it in the West, where it was once the exclusive domain of people with counter-rotating eyeballs and poor hygiene.”
If this article bothers you, I suggest responding to the Dispatch by way of a Letter to the Editor, and copy Dyer on that too. We need to FLOOD them with letters in opposition to Dyer’s ridiculous dismissal of truth. The same way the Towers were flooded with jet fuel hot enough to melt steel. What– – you didn’t know you could melt steel with jet fuel / a.k.a. refined kerosene?
To end on a good note, yes— the article isn’t in favor of the Truth movement. At least not overtly. However, it is still mainstream media coverage and as a friend said to me this morning, hopefully people will see through the illogical points that Dyer tries to make and it will actually end up benefiting the movement. Perhaps they’ll put the paper down, go to the computer, and Google “Loose Change”. They’ll watch it, disagree with parts, but move on to other films like “Press for Truth” or “In Plane Site” or “9/11 Mysteries.” Maybe they’ll get so ambitious as to READ A BOOK, like “New Pearl Harbor” or “9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions” or “9/11 and American Empire.” My point is, there are SO many resources out there, it is sheer laziness to make up your mind after considering only one viewpoint.
THINK FOR YOURSELF and look at ALL sides of this hegemonic hexagonal helium-filled balloon they’re trying to shove up— okay you get my point.
We all know how important the media’s role is for the advancement of the 9/11 Truth movement (as well as most progressive movements.) We know that their failure in doing their job is largely responsible for the cluelessness that plagues our fellow citizens. While advances in and increased accessibility to technology have enabled US/WE/THE PEOPLE to become the media, it is still hugely important to continue to hold mainstream media accountable to the responsibilities entrusted in them.
For this reason, the FCC Commissioners’ visit to Columbus is a very special opportunity that I hope some of you can take advantage of. It’s been promoted on-air on WCBE (NPR) like crazy so there should be a great turnout. If you’re not very familiar with the FCC, I recommend this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission
Town Meeting on the Future of Media
Federal Communications Commissioners Jonathan Adelstein, Michael Copps and Robert McDowell will attend the Town Meeting on the Future of the Media in Columbus on Wednesday, March 7.
WHEN: Wednesday, March 7, 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Broad Street Presbyterian Church, 760 E. Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio
WHO: FCC Commissioners Jonathan Adelstein, Michael Copps and Robert McDowell, local leaders and media representatives, concerned citizens.
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