I'm posting this in the public forum now in order
to solicit a final round of suggestions. Keep in mind, there is such
thing as too much revision and self-consciousness. Let's try to get
this finished soon. Also, bringing more people into the editing process
might just complicate things more than necessary.

I'm going to email a link to this post out to certain people in the
movement. If you think someone should be involved, email them the link
or post their name here. I guess we're also asking for signatories at
this point (it would be nice if people were ready to sign off rather
than continue with more revisions according to their personal taste.

Keeping the above in mind, there is always (still) room for improvement. But we've been working on this for over a month.

2007 Truth Alliance Declaration

Standards And Strategies For 9/11 Truth

We, the signers of this declaration, agree to abide by the
guidelines herein. We offer this statement to the wider movement simply
as a guide. We remain open to reasonable debate and encourage others to
research and come to their own conclusions rather than relying on us or
any single authority.

We aim to foster reason and responsibility within the global movement for truth. We base this in the following values:

1. Awareness of public perception and the need for responsible promotion and presentation.

2. A commitment to building credibility and encouraging constructive alliances with the anti-war movement and other natural allies.

3. Adherence to the scientific method with a focus on facts and substance.

4. A dedication to respectful and nonviolent debate and activism.
   Fundamental respect for everyone, including government, military,
   journalists, and supposed "opponents."

5. A faith in the honest democratic process and our ability to come to meaningful and actionable conclusions (truths).

Conversely, we seek to counteract and minimize:

1. Promotion of speculative and unsubstantiated claims.

2. Disruptive, divisive, diversionary, and aggressive behavior.

3. Damaging and marginalizing associations.

4. Organized and intentional sabotage.

5. Highly partisan representation of the movement.

We will engage others in the movement who break these guidelines
with constructive dialog, raising awareness of these issues. Those who
are unresponsive to reason and have a clear history of disruption,
combativeness, or excessively poor judgment will not be engaged.

We recognize an important distinction between private speculation
and public promotion. Speculation, hypothesis, and experimentation are
the basis of the scientific method. However, the promotion of highly
speculative claims is irresponsible and damaging to our credibility.
Instead, verifiable fact-based research must be primary in our search
for and promotion of the truth.

Guidelines

1. Critique destructive behavior that can harm the movement (i.e.
   speculative theories without evidence, prominent leaders who engage in
   disruptive behavior, divisive incidents, etc). Challenge leaders who
   unreasonably continue to support and tolerate damaging behavior.

2. Critique and ignore unnecessary and unproductive antagonism
   (i.e. infighting, personal attacks, gossip, etc.) that wastes time and
   causes divisiveness.

3. Avoid the divisive labeling of individuals (i.e. MIHOP, LIHOP, Shill, planehugger, agent, etc.)

4. Refuse to debate debunked theories by simply referencing
   responsible websites, articles, and blogs which have already refuted
   such claims.

5. Be aware and vigilant concerning the presence of agent
   provocateurs within our movement. But do not engage in witch hunts or
   unsubstantiated accusations. Treat those who continually, and despite
   consultation, act in word and deed in the manner of agent provocateurs,
   as such. While these people can rarely be proven to be
   agents, they should be treated as counterproductive and untrustworthy.
   Such groups and individuals should not be engaged in unproductive ways,
   such as aggression, name-calling, personal attacks, etc. Instead, the
   substance of their destructive behavior should be detailed, after which
   they should be ignored as much as possible. If appropriate,
   exclusionary action (banning from forums, venues, etc.) or, in extreme
   cases, legal action, should be taken.

6. Do not allow the proliferation of irresponsible information or
   damaging behavior simply because the individuals or groups in question
   maintain a certain reputation or notoriety within the movement. The
   fact that someone may "have done good work in the past" is never a
   valid excuse to tolerate damaging participation in the present. Our
   movement must be about truth and justice rather than character and ego.

Unity is not achieved by ignoring divisiveness. It is
achieved through civil critique and a constructive response to the
disruptive behavior. Repeated and continuing behavior should result in
comment moderation, temporary, long-term, and if necessary permanent
bans from activist groups, removal of links from websites, cancellation
of speaking engagements, etc.

Below is a list of theories and claims which do not have a
convincing basis in verifiable facts. Such facts have served as a
distraction for many honest activists and have ultimately damaged the
credibility of our movement. This is a partial list, only meant to
demonstrate some of the more prominent examples:

• Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) or nuclear devices were used to demolish the towers.
  http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/theories/...

• A missile or something other than a 757 hit the Pentagon.
  http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/pentagon/index....

• "Plane pods," on the underside of the planes shot missiles into the towers before impact.
  http://www.oilempire.us/pod.html

• No planes hit the World Trade Center Towers
  http://www.questionsquestions.net/WTC/review.html

Below is a list of associations which are damaging and
marginalizing to our movement. Some are offensive and baseless, others
may simply be speculative or fringe. The common thread is that all of
these issues have negative connotations for the general public and they
should not be paired with concrete, fact-based research. This is only a
partial list:

• UFO and alien theories

• Holocaust denial/revisionism and Jewish conspiracy theories

• All forms of racism

• Moon Landing "Hoax"

• Anti-environmentalism (e.g. "global warming is a hoax" and "the
  environmental movement is part of the globalist agenda to eliminate 80%
  of the population").

Suggested reading concerning disinformation, misinformation, disruption, etc.:

• Trojan Horses 911research.com

• Disinformation Page TruthMove.org

• Arabesque's Blog

• Disinformation analsysis OilEmpire.us