The 9/11 Truth Movement

“The climax arrives this week!” That’s the way the New York 9/11 Truth web site announced a series of events examining the unanswered questions of 9/11 that kicked off today at Manhattan’s Symphony Space. More events are planned, leading up to a major panel discussion at the Manhattan Ballroom on Saturday, Sept. 11 (for more info see the Summer of Truth web site).

Dubbed “The Omission Hearings,” today’s panel was hosted by former Congresswoman and fulltime rebel rouser Cynthia McKinney. McKinney opened by saying, “I’m finally on a commission where it’s alright to ask questions.” She added, “We have no political ideology but the truth. The truth about America’s tragedy belongs to all of us.”

Today’s panel also included John Judge, co-founder of 9/11 Citizens Watch and chief author of the coming “9/11 Omissions Report,” a detailed of counter-narrative to the best-selling official 9/11 Commission report. As Judge explained, the official report was more than just a cover-up, it was an “exoneration” – each chapter draft was sent to the White House to be vetted before it was set to print. There are no redacted passages in the final report, he said, because it had, in a sense, been pre-redacted. Judge told the audience of about 300 that the report could be considered to be at least partially written by the very people it was investigating.

Also testifying were:

- Jenna Orkin, a member of the World Trade Center Environmental Organization, a group investigating the environmental disaster of Sept. 11 and subsequent cover-up.

- Barrie Zwicker, Vision TV, Canada, who discussed the history of false provocations and pretexts for war.

- Nicholas Levis from 911Truth.org, who presented an overview of findings by the 9/11 research community as compiled online in the ongoing 9/11 Omissions Dossier.

- Michael Ruppert, the former LAPD Narcotics Investigator, and publisher of www.fromthewilderness.com, and author of the coming book, Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil.

- Paul Thompson, author of The Complete 9/11 Timeline, the leading online resource for 9/11 research, whose new book from Harper Collins, The Terror Timeline: A Comprehensive Chronicle of the Road to 9/11, represents the antidote to the official report.

Was 9/11 a U.S. government plot? Did Bush know and just do nothing to stop it? They may sound like crazy conspiracy theories (and they may turn out to be), but GNN invites our readers to investigate the facts themselves. The above sources are the best places to start (also see Chapter 3 of our new book True Lies).

Earlier this summer, GNN asked writer and INN correspondent Sander Hicks to give us an overview of the growing movement. Here is what he found:

The 9/11 Truth Movement

When GNN asked me to report on the “9/11 Truth Movement,” I shuddered. How can one attempt to describe this fractious, nation-wide phenomenon of disparate researchers and activists, spread far and wide, but tied umbillically on the web? This amorphous network of folks has only recently become known as “The 9/11 Truth Movement” and even that general term is sort of a stretch. The “movement” has displayed a tendency to stop its work, fragment into sharp sects and bitter rivalries. Can loner net junkies unify into truth warriors and turn the tide of history?

At its worst moments, the 9/11 Truth Movement gives one insight why the term “conspiracy theorist” came to be shorthand for “discredited whacko” in the invisible guidebook of mainstream media. Suddenly, it’s not hard to understand why the obvious anomalies in the JFK assassination never received proper attention in accepted media channels. If you have just as many nutty theories about the driver of the limo turning around and shooting JFK as you have honest scientific inquiries about the real probability of multiple shooters, the wheat drowns in the chaff.

Similarly, the 9/11 Truth Movement bears the seeds of its own destruction. At times, the serious questions seem threatened to be drowned by the theories about “pods” being attached to the bottom of the planes, “napalm” being planted in the World Trade Center explosions, or the real ringer, “Flight 77 didn’t hit the Pentagon at all.”

This reporter attended the movement’s first national conference in San Francisco in late March. Anyone who still believed that Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon was instantly labeled an agent of “limited hangout.” In the movement, this term (coined by President Nixon while trying to limit disclosure on Watergate) is always pronounced with a sneer.

But let’s start first with the issues that unite the movement. Fortunately, the Bush Administration’s architects of death have provided a wealth of subjects. It seems they do everything under a veil of secrecy. Theories to explain their obvious collusion and conspiracies naturally follow. To try and get a pulse on the concerns of the movement, in May, I composed a poll and began to circulate it online. My questions were as follows:
1. If you could ask the entire 9/11 Commission one question, in open session, what would it be?
2. What has been the 9/11 Commission’s biggest sin of omission?
3. If you could replace the 9/11 Commission with a three member panel, who would be on the panel?
4. What’s your background before becoming a 9/11 Truth Activist?
5. What other causes are related to 9/11 Truth Activism?

The number of answers I received was not overwhelming, so what follows can’t be considered a scientific survey. But among the twenty or so responses, a pattern emerged. And the quality of the answers was a refreshing surprise. Respondents described themselves as business people, mothers, environmental activists, musicians, professors of English, writers, and one described their background tersely, with a simple, “IT.” (Is the “IT” career “information technology” or just a neutered pronoun?) Their answers were intelligent, free-thinking, and fearlessly reasoning outside the box of the official story.

“Damn,” the reporter thought, “maybe these Don Quixotes will some day be a potent threat, a historical force.”

Multiple respondents said the 9/11 Commission’s biggest sin of omission was the failure to grill Bush and Cheney under oath, using their power of Subpoena. Musician and prolific member of a group of New York-based 9/11 activists Michael Kane said the one question he’d most have liked to ask the commission is, “What explanation did George Bush give to you in closed session for his incomprehensible actions on the morning of 9/11?” Derek Davidson pointed out, that the Commission has “the power to force officials to testify in public, but instead they have been begging officials.” Davidson’s burning question to the commission is, “Why do you keep avoiding questions about the actual day of 9/11/01 as relates to the stand down of U.S. military jets?”

Other questions: “Why did World Trade Center Seven collapse?”

World Trade Center 7 was never hit by any planes. Yet after an explosive sound, the building collapsed into its own footprint around 5:20 PM on the day of 9/11. Building owner Larry Silverstein gave an interview to PBS’s Frontline, in which he talked of making the decision “to pull building seven.” Many have pointed out that “pull” in construction terms usually means to demolish a building by blowing up its structural columns. But others have pointed out that he could have been referring to “pulling” the firemen inside the building to prevent a further loss of life. The official story from FEMA is that a small fire in the upper reaches of the building probably spread down to fuel tanks in the basement and blew up the whole thing. But even FEMA is not sure that they can back that one up. On May 1, 2002, FEMA wrote in their report, “The specifics of the fires in WTC 7 and how they caused the building to collapse remain unknown at this time.” Thanks. Meanwhile, the public is left with the image of the WTC 7 collapsing into its own foundation, and an official story that insults our intelligence.

“Why the fast clean-up of a crime scene?”

All the wreckage and steel from Ground Zero was sold to recyclers and shipped out to China and India, thanks to a quick deal New York City made with two New Jersery companies: Metal Management Northeast and Hugo Neu Schnitzer East, (one of the largest scrap recyclers in the nation) of Jersey City.

“What about the war games being conducted on 9/11?”

English professor Dr. Jamie Hecht summarizes why the recent revelations about military drills that were taking place on and around 9/11 are important to understanding what happened that day. “Several simultaneous war games were being run, having been scheduled months in advance. These included Northern Guardian, which tied up so many U.S. fighter aircraft that there were only 8 left to protect the entire northeastern United States that morning. Another two war games run on the morning of September 11th were Vigilant Warrior (NORAD) and Vigilant Guardian (Joint Chiefs); the first a live-fly ‘hijacked aircraft’ drill using real planes, the second a virtual drill of the same kind. These made it impossible for NORAD and FAA controllers to discern the genuinely hijacked planes and intercept them.”

The scheduling of three simultaneous war games on 9/11 certainly explains how the NORAD and FAA could have been caught off guard. But then the question becomes—how did the terrorists know to strike on 9/11? These are some well-connected terrorists!

Back to Dr. Hect: “When the planes hit, I knew the Air Force had been somehow neutralized. Now we know how and by whom.” On that day, Hecht “felt a loss begin…it has continued with an urgency and momentum that I attribute to the scope of what was lost: three thousand New Yorkers, half the Constitution, and most of the Republic.”

When asked to propose members for a new 9/11 Commission, respondents suggested: South African President Nelson Mandela, Populist Super-Attorney Gerry Spence, former Bush I Assistant Secretary of Housing Catherine Austin Fitts, and 9/11 Widow Kristin Breitweiser. Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, & Independent Researcher Mike Ruppert both received multiple nominations. Other suggestions included “pitbull progressive” Congressman Henry Waxman, Senator Ron Paul, and David Ray Griffin, author of the 9/11 “Truth Movement’s” big publishing hit The New Pearl Harbor.

Griffin’s book also came up in a discussion with respondent Eric Douglas, a downtown Manhattan-based architectural designer. Douglas said we wanted some sort of “matrix, or spreadsheet” to map out the different 9/11 authors and researchers. “I don’t have enough time to research and critique every book and website on 911, so I have to rely on other researchers and determine their credibility. How to figure out who believes what.” I suggested he also read Daniel Hopsicker’s Welcome to Terrorland: Mohamed Atta and the 9/11 Cover Up in Florida. Douglas compared the book to The New Harbor Pearl by saying, “They are at fairly opposite ends of the investigative spectrum. Griffin is a big-picture academic clearinghouse of unofficial 911 thinking, and Hopsicker is a relatively single-focused bulldog gumshoe who tenaciously tracks down the off-odors he finds along the way. There are also many books that deal with the motivations for U.S. Middle East involvement. But there still seems to be a dearth of specific 911-related findings in print. Griffin is good, but it’s not his stuff. Hopsicker is good, but too narrow.”

II. Relating to the World

After the first set of questions, I posed a new batch, aiming to be more provocative. Here’s what I sent out:
I wanted to ask you about the so-called 9/11 Truth Movement in your town. Does it exist? Has it become an actual movement or is it just a bunch of folks with shaky credibility? Or is that credibility gone recently from nothing to something? What about the media in your town? Does talk radio talk about it? Is there an Indy Media Center and do they talk about it? What about the “Left” in your area? Do they discuss stuff about 9/11?

These answers were much more reflective. Several times, the answers seem to consider, if we truly have a movement here, what will it take to gain mass support?

While doing background research for my story on FBI/ATF informant Randy Glass, I happened to speak with Mr. Jon Vincent, who retired from the FBI only last year. Vincent had been the partner of FBI Special Agent Robert Wright, who gave a tear-filled press conference after 9/11 apologizing to victims’ families. He described being stymied and punished by higher-ups at the FBI for trying to investigate Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists. Yet, Mr. Vincent is not willing to consider the implications of his former partner’s story. Given a quick five-minute summary of the evidence that the Bush White House knew of the 9/11 attacks, did not prevent them, and is trying to cover up the trail, Vincent doesn’t deny that the facts seem to damning. Yet he’s not willing to entertain any anti-Bush theories. Vincent would “rather go play golf on Saturday and be able to sleep at night,” rather than think that the government is complicit in mass murder.

Perhaps you need to be on a different plane to be able to perceive the truth. Demitria Monde Thraam, a San Francisco artist and web designer, says that “Being part of/peripherally connected to the drug subculture for half my life has caused me to already know that our government can and does murder its own…The belief that GWB Co. allowed the attacks is not a belief that many people can literally stand having and still be able to sleep at night…I think this is the major problem we have to deal with, much more important than proving particulars about the event itself (i.e. whether there was or was not a plane hitting the Pentagon, et cetera.)”

The movement is also having a hard time getting the broader “Left” in America interested. Fred Schlange in Chicago wrote, “It is a non-issue in Chicago Media…though the student papers at University of Illinois show some interest. The Left in Chicago is still very cautious. Many of us were burned by the Chicago Police Red Squad in the sixties, and we still carry the scars. Literally.”

But hope springs eternal in small-city Peoria, Illinois. E-list administrator and truth activist Connie Cook Smith writes, “When I presented my two years of research in Peoria on the second anniversary of 9/11, 50 people came to the talk. That’s a small number, but for conservative Peoria, it was considerably more than I expected, out of a population of 112,000—especially since my promos stressed that I would focus on the deceptive aspects of it.”

Kezia Jauron connects with a community of over 50 fellow progressive activists in the San Fernando Valley, outside of L.A. She reports, that “When trying to discuss these issues with mainstream progressives not often caught deep in thought, the attitude toward 9/11 has been ‘but regardless…millions of lives have been lost and the whole world is forever changed.’ Even though it’s thousands, not millions, and probably four-fifths of the world could not give a shit.” Other Valley voices have quiped to Jauron, “If you can’t get beyond the politics of 9/11, I don’t understand your involvement in politics.”

But what are the theories inside the 9/11 Truth Movement(s) that Jauron herself finds incredible? “Use of remote control [to pilot the planes.] Individual interviews with rescue workers and debris removal crews proving the results of explosives [referring to the work of the otherwise excellent Christopher Bollyn]…The report that San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown was told not to fly as of 9/10.” Jauron’s got a point there. Many have heard that Brown was warned not to fly. It’s true, but he didn’t take the warning seriously until he saw the disaster taking place on 9/11 en route to the airport.

Lisa De Witt of Tucson, Arizona, reports, “Most of the news that comes occasionally through the TV or radio about 9/11, I see first on the internet. One specific example I can think of right off hand is the story about the Saudi flights which took place after 9/11 while everyone else, including Clinton, etc., was grounded. I had read about it as far back as a year or more ago on the internet. And when the 9/11 commission finally got around to questioning Clarke, which I watched on CNN, they asked him if he was the one who gave permission for the Saudis to leave the country. Still, there is a lot of stuff that doesn’t make it into the mainstream news, like the Sibel Edmonds story.” DeWitt is making reference to the former FBI translator who is fast becoming a thorn in the side of Attorney General Ashcroft. Earlier this year, she was stopped from translating Al Qaeda-related documents at the FBI.

DeWitt recommends everyone read Edmonds in her own words here, from when this past June, Edmonds sued the Justice Department and desperately fought an eventual gag order. But before being silenced and having all her material re-classified, she accused the Attorney General Ashcroft of hiding “serious criminal activities…complicity in covering up.”

In Texas, Al Rogers reports that in the “People’s Republic of Austin,” “the left here seems to be disinterested in 9/11 truth-seeking. I’ve signed up for local “9/11 meetups,” but they get cancelled because they can’t even get the minimum 5 people to sign up. This is surprising to me, because the Austin Public Access TV schedule includes at least 5 weekly shows that discuss the 9/11 conspiracy on a regular basis. The hosts are intelligent & informative, but are mostly approaching the topic from a conservative/Christian perspective.”

Speaking of sketchy conservative 9/11 voices, a new documentary is advancing one of the more “out there” theories: that the planes that crashed into the WTC had “pods” attached to their underbellies. The cheaply produced, but well-packaged, “9/11 in Plane Sight” is atrociously reasoned and fact-free. It’s reliant on a few blurry photographs and a lot of enthusiasm. This is theorizing by right-leaning whackos who haven’t considered the effects of globalization, or the reality of rageful Islamic reaction to US Foreign policy.

Baltimore financial advisor Jim Funck also reports, “I had not heard of the 911 truth movement. A quick look up on the internet shows 3 people signed up in Baltimore.”

The news is better from Savannah, Georgia, where New York Green Party activist Mitchell Cohen helped organize a successful “People’s 9-11 Truth Commission” march and press conference at the G8 protests, reporting they got “Lots of radio and TV coverage.” Cohen opines that “marches in small towns across the country will garner much more publicity than trying to do splashy events in NY or San Francisco.”

Maybe Cohen’s right. When this reporter spoke alongside UN arms inspector Scott Ritter and 9/11 widow Ellen Mariani in late May at the Riverside Church, the leaders of New York 9/11 Truth had high expectations. They wanted to pack the gigantic hall and be able to say they had drawn 1,500 people. When a decent 600 attended, they took that as a sign of failure. Yet, the event got great press coverage in print and on radio, and helped legitimize the cause in the media capital of the USA.

Adam Hurter in Amherst, Massachusetts deserves an award for the most succinct, eloquent and inspirational bit of political prose in the entire poll:

“Most people, including Leftists, are scared of the notion of conspiracy. It’s hard and scary to swallow that an organized gang of powerful capitalists within our own country killed the President in 1963 and then organized September 11 four decades later. It happens to be true. And much of the Institutionalized Left is denying the reality. It’s the reality that has the potential to bring people together in recognition of our common enemy, the fascist/capitalist force that is dominating the world. The Truth is the force that has the most genuine revolutionary potential.”

Closer to home, he reports that there is a small organized 9/11 Truth Movement in the Northampton/Amherst, about a half-dozen folks. They have held a couple rallies, and are planning to bring 9/11 widow Ellen Mariani to town. Although no local media cover 9/11 questions in the area, copies of “The New Pearl Harbor” are flying out of the bookstores.

Back to Adam Hurter: “A big part of the problem is that there are countless ‘red herrings’ out there: false or distracting stories and information about 9/11. When people see information that was used against the official story turn out to be untrue, the credibility of the whole conspiracy stance is weakened in their minds. People should be encouraged to consider the implausibility of the official story itself.”

Recall that Monde in San Francisco laid out the core problem: He effectively said, that in a movement obsessed with making a scientific, unassailable, meticulous argument, we get ourselves caught in a maze. If we can’t relate to people where they are, with more than just cerebral data, we’re not going to be able to create a massive paradigm shift. Fahrenheit 9/11 touches the same nerve here—the point at which people have to decide whether they will allow themselves to make Bush a suspect in mass murder. To Monde, and this reporter, this is more of a challenge than “proving particulars about the event itself (i.e. whether there was or was not a plane hitting the Pentagon, et cetera.)”

III. Red Herrings

The No-Plane-Hit-the-Pentagon theory was first advanced by Thierry Meyssan, in two books he first published in France, The Big Lie, and then in the follow-up, Pentagate. Due to the lack of evidence left by the wreckage, the flight pattern of the plane, and the lack of security video footage, the theory goes: American Airlines Flight 77 did not hit the Pentagon. Instead, it was probably a smaller plane or a cruise missile.

On the other side of the argument are people like John Judge, director of 9/11 Citizens Watch, and Penny Schoner. The former personally knows a female flight attendant who was regularly on flight 77. Visiting the wreckage, she was shocked to find a bracelet that once belonged to her friend. (Which is not the only odd coincidence in 9/11 information: Kristen Breitweiser was unable to recover any of her late husband’s Ron’s remains from the WTC, except for his ring finger, still wearing their wedding ring.) In a widely-read piece entitled “Not all conspiracies are created equal,” Judge lashed out at the No Plane posse, writing, “Rumor is not research, and we only sully the truth by jumping to believe the sensational. Cynicism is healthy, but informed cynicism is the only way to avoid paranoia and confusion. Not all conspiracies’ are created equal. The government did kill JFK, and they lied about it. That does not mean there was never a Holocaust, or that the world is run by the Illuminati.”

Penny Schoner is a colleague of Judge’s and published a booklet called “American Airlines #77 Hit the Pentagon on 9/11/01.” Spiral bound and self-published, the book includes 86 eyewitnesses, most of whom saw the American flight actually make impact with the Pentagon. This reporter bought a copy from Schoner at the conference in San Francisco. Even though she charged me $20, the full color photos made it totally worth it.

Part of Meysan’s theory is that the nose cone of the plane could not have penetrated 3 layers of the Pentagon, and have made such a small distinct hole on the third. At the street level, most proponents of the theory (most of whom obviously haven’t read Meysan’s book) believe that his theory is that the original hole on the outside of the Pentagon was too small for a 757 to have caused it. After reading Schoner’s booklett and viewing her pictures, I realize something. Part of the problem is the image that has come to be associated with Pentagate, and Meyssan’s entire theory is this one:

Yet that photo is admittedly inside, on the third layer of the Pentagon (and on the front cover of Pentagate.)

There is a wealth of other photos that should be weighed in the balance with this theory, such as:

This photo, and countless others like it don’t appear on the most “out-there” 9/11 Conspiracy websites. Because there’s a over-imaginative, ultra-radical, element in this movement that believes the more outlandish the theory, the better. Anything is possible. Nothing is true.

Poison for something that aspires to be a “movement.”

Professor Jim Fetzer teaches the Science of Logic at the University of Minnesota in Duluth. He’s an expert on the murder of JFK, having edited and written three books. We’re working together on a new book about the death of Senator Wellstone. I asked him about the use of “red herrings” in the cover-up on the JFK hit. How have independent researchers been deliberately thrown off the trail in the past?

“Setting up Oswald as a pro-Castro communist sympathizer was a major red herring, intended to send investigators off in the wrong direction. The FBI, the Warren Commission, Naval Officers, Agents of the Secret Service, members of the press, were all used to disseminate disinformation.”

Thierry Meyssan is a President of Reseau Voltaire, a left wing activist network and think tank, and is also National Secretary of the “Radical Left” Party (PRG). I don’t mean to imply here that Meyssan is fomenting disinformation on behalf of the US National Security State. Perhaps his Pentagon theory was just a notion from gauche-field that Meyssan happened to put on paper. But it certainly has found an audience in the movement. At the San Francisco conference, the “No Plane” theory was discussed by organizers as if it were a proven fact. There didn’t seem to be any dissent, and if there was, no organizer gave it a forum.

But for the sake of argument here, let’s consider that John Judge and Peggy Schoner are correct, that No Plane theory is just a distraction. It certainly is an effective way to discredit the movement. How can I prove it? My mom.

Mom’s a right-leaning “independent” who voted for Bush I, Reagan and Bush II. She’s vocal, and stubborn and fiercely anti-abortion. But after the London Daily Mail favorably reviewed David Ray Griffin’s New Pearl Harbor, and after she saw Fahrenheit 9/11, things began to change. She swiftly withdrew her support for Bush, and (temporarily) planned to vote for Kerry/Edwards. But what about 9/11? Are the theories that she once dismissed as “kooky” now more considerable?

No.

Why not Mom?

“I know two people who saw the PLANE (not a missile) go into the Pentagon.”

The entire 9/11 Truth Movement can be dismissed by the dismissal of its most outlandish theory. The 9/11 argument is a chain of logic, but in any chain, with a big weakest link. Mom happens to live within ten miles from the Pentagon. She knows a priest and a friend’s daughter who saw the plane hit. Neither want to talk about it much.

Perhaps the more seasoned activists, like John Judge and Penny Schoner are right. Schoner is a former Maoist partisan, and Judge is a veteran of the Washington Peace Center. He is also active in the Committee on Political Assassinations. Are the “Pods” and the “No-plane-into-Pentagon” theory just the red herrings of the movement? The Lee-Harvery-Oswald-Castro connection that discredits the Truth Movement as a whole? Disinformation has been a successful strategy in the past.

How can this movement advance when people who are skeptical and smart find an unacceptably illogical theory? They will be turned off, and run from the entire inquiry. If there’s one theory out there that is obviously false, the masses can be kept in intellectual submission, because the official story will represent safety, validation, freedom from ridicule. The 9/11 Commission report acts as a kind of co-dependent parent, offering the promise of comfort and delivering more addiction to a big family lie. The architects of disinformation take it as given that people fear ridicule.

Back to Demitria Monde Thraam in San Francisco: “The ‘Pentagon missile’ issue cannot be directly proven – I used to believe it but realized it didn’t matter as much as the fact that whatEVER hit the Pentagon hit it in that one little sector being renovated at the time. I am also beginning to see the wtc7 issue as being a possible distraction – most folks would easily accept demolition of a nearby building as a safety measure, whether it was actually done so for that reason or not. We need to focus on what is known, obvious and impossible to refute.”

IV. Epilogue

Jan Hoyer of 9/11 Visibility made a silent movie about handing out 9/11 pamphlets, rambling the workingclass sections of Kansas City, outside punk shows and bodegas. The camera catches the different reactions to a dedicated activist handing out information. There’s something oddly poetic and wistful about a silent movie on trying to inform the entire public in a big city in the breadbasket. Something about Kansas and wheat strikes this reporter as pure and hopeful and admirable.

Kansas City 9/11 Visibility holds protest vigils every Saturday. If KC is indicative of what’s going on in the rest of the country, the movement certainly goes through a lot. Jan Hoyer and his friends have been shoved by the manager at the local Barnes&Noble, attacked by 25 year old “Rush Limbaughites”, and highly monitored by police after attending church services in a minority neighborhood. In February, they braved subzero cold to hand candidate John Edwards the famous “deception dollar,” a flyer with key 9/11 websites, dressed up to look like an oversized greenback. In Edwards case, he accepted the deception dollar and in exchange gave his “trademark boyish smile on command.”

When the amped-up right-wing twenty-five year-old started screaming in their face at a protest vigil, Kansas City Bob simply sang a little hymn, in response. “Let There Be Peace On Earth and let it begin with me.” Finally an African-American police officer arrived and talked to the lad about the Constitution. It took an hour. Then, the boy came back to the protestors, apologized for earlier saying, “America will never be safe until you are removed from the streets”, and walked away.

Down in Southern Maryland, the “Undiscovered Suburb,” twenty miles south of DC, lives Evan West, an old friend of mine from high school. He now teaches freshman English in a small town where he lives with his wife and two children. I asked Evan, How is the 9/11 Truth Movement doing in Bryans Road Maryland?

“The liberal fringe and most of the black community have no problem believing that Bush could have had something to do with 9/11. To them, it is just another bi-product of the corrupt, white male machine that has conspired to oppress for hundreds of years.”

“I know that Bush and his cronies are liars. I know that they use a far right religious ideology to justify their amoral actions. I’m just not quite ready to say that they had a hand in killing 3000 innocent people.”

Just you wait, Evan. Once this 9/11 Truth Movement works out a few kinks, it’s going to be unstoppable. The Truth is the force that has the most genuine revolutionary potential.

When I asked Green party Brooklynite Mitchell Cohen, “Is there any one theory or branch of the 9/11 Truth Movement you find more credible than others? Any that are less credible?”

He said, “No comment. We are all working extremely hard to unearth the truth.”

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