This fact, plus Professor Jones’ physics analysis of the World Trade Center debris and collapse narrative, eventually inspired another equally mild mannered man of logic and science to examine 9/11.
Richard Gage, would eventually become the founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth involving about 230 professional architects and engineers who believe we’ve been lied to about the events on 9/11, and that in fact NIST is involved in a cover up of facts that point to controlled demolition as the only reasonable reason for the WTC’s global collapses on 9/11/2001. Learn more at http://www.ae911truth.org.
Here is where the story of these three men coincides with experiences I’ve had as an almost full time 9/11 truth activist working in support of the 9/11 family members struggle for a new independent 9/11 investigation, and most of the other good solid activists as well.
When the 9/11 truth movement first began I and many other good citizens eventually started asking questions and demanding answers, and we came to call ourselves “9/11 truth activists.”We became 9/11 truth activists because of early research that indicated elements of our government, if not made the attacks of 9/11 happen, certainly criminally allowed them to, at the least.Now, building evidence and the bizarre lengths government agencies have gone to to covere up facts, point to the government, or at least some in government, having a large hand in actually engineering the events of 9/11.
But what I found as an activist from the beginning was that some odd and strange people I’d never known began to attack my character relentlessly because I wanted to stick to disturbing FACTS around the events of 9/11 and not embrace their crazy “Jews did it!” or "no planes hit the WTC" religions regarding the 9/11 attacks. I and other good solid researchers were harassed, endlessly, again from that small and noisy group "claiming" to want 9/11 truth.
For a while we just thought these were random nuts, but then patterns began to form that harkens back to the now publicly known cointelpro operations of the Vietnam War era, where agents pretended to be activists, in order to rip apart a movement that had much valuable information for Americans.
I began to suspect something rotten was occurring when a 9/11 truth activist, whom I respect greatly, approached MSNBC’s Chris Matthews at a book signing event, and handed him a packet of information about disturbing questions regarding the events of 9/11.Matthews, according to my friend, looked up and sneered at my friend, “What, are you going to tell me the Jews did it?”My friend was obviously stunned.
His mind was spinning with the same question my mind was spinning with as he told me this story, “Where the hell did that come from?”
The same people, the same small group of people, who’d mercilessly attacked us, the mainstream 9/11 truth movement, for months and years, had also poisoned the media’s mind so that Matthews would not ever LOOK at REAL and DISTURBING 9/11 related facts.This small group of so called 9/11 activists, had poisoned the chances of real 9/11 truth activists exposing the American public and media to real and important research being revealed by good solid people.
What does this have to do with Richard Gage of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth (ae911Truth.org)?About a month ago, a spokesperson from the famed Simon Wiesenthal Center (which I've always been a supporter of. See below), dedicated to tolerance, testified before Jane Harmon’s Congressional Committee on Homeland Security.Something VERY bizarre happened on that day.Mark Weitzman, of the Wiesenthal Center presented a slideshow to the Congressional Committee, showing them slides of jihadist terrorist websites and organization, and while he spoke of them . . . sandwiched between these violence advocating sites, Mr. Weitzman oddly inserted a slide of the website for “Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth”?!ae911truth.org, a site involving men of science, who had no political agenda whatsoever, but a burning desire to get to the truth of why the three WTC’s had defied the laws of physics on 9/11, if the official explanation was to be believed . . . were smeared as anti-Semitic violent jihadists!
When I called Mr. Weitzman as a long time supporter of ae911truth.org, he insisted that he wasn’t talking about ae911truth.org when he was talking over the slide show about dangerous organizations.I told him that then he should make a public statement and issue a press release saying so.He hung up on me.
When I called back to the Center and complained, I was apologized to by others and promised an explanation, which never came.I contacted every Wiesenthal Center worldwide explaining that I support ae911truth.org’s work and they are not violent, or anti-Semitic, and that in fact my father was one of the first GIs to enter and liberate the Dachau concentration camp, and my father didn’t have an anti-Semitic bone in his body, nor would he allow such thought in his home.I was apologized to for Weitzman’s actions, and promised return phone calls. None came.
I am still a huge supporter of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's work, but as I told them, Weitzman who claimed to be speaking for the center performed a reprehensible disservice, not only to the fine people at ae911truth.org but to all Americans who care about a search for truth. His actions were beneath the dignity of the Center.
A couple of months before this disturbing Congressional hearing, I was watching a documentary on anti-Semitism, called “Protocols of Zion.”I stayed up past my bed time to watch it, because I thought it was an important issue, and was glad such a documentary on intolerance had been made.But as the documentary progressed something very disturbing appeared.A bunch of activists in New York City carrying red and white signs with black letters reading, “Stop the 9/11 Cover Up” were marching at ground zero where the WTC towers had been.Those iconoclastic “Stop the 9/11 Cover Up” signs were designed by myself and Jan another woman who’d joined me in working for a new 9/11 investigation.
Using these particular signs, which had become a symbol for 9/11 truth worldwide, in this documentary on anti-Semitism and racism was to me yet another obvious attempt to put a stake in the heart of the 9/11 truth movement.And by using signs I HAD CREATED.We’d designed them here at my home on my computer, and we’d raised funds to send them to cities across the country to help other good people working for truth about 9/11 to hold up in their cities.
In fact I went to NYC to work with some of those good people, and marched with them at Ground Zero where this documentary clip was shot.Many of the 9/11 truth activist organizers in NYC I had met, worked with, and became friend with WERE JEWISH, themselves.Yet, for some bizarre reason, this documentary shows people carrying our “Stop the 9/11 Cover Up” signs at ground zero while a dark voice over talks of the growing forces of hateful anti-Semitic groups worldwide.I was outraged.
By William E. Douglas, Jr., who is author of "The Amateur Parent – A Book on Life, Death, War & Peace, and Everything Else in the Universe." Bill has been a guest columnist for the Kansas City Star, The Business Journal, and other media worldwide. His past essays include, "Exposing the 9/11 Conspiracy Wingnuts," "The Explosion of the 9-11 Truth Movement -- US Media's Dirty Little Secret," "Good Night, and Good Luck - WMD, NIST, Popular Mechanics, 9/11 and Media Crimes" and also "Why the Jewish Community Should Demand 9/11 Truth."
Maybe Kevin's collecting names and addresses of his enimies for that day when the truthers sieze power. I think he plans to go out and round up all his critics and enemies for a little "necktie" party.
BWAHH HAA HAAAH HAA.
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Roark Howard (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 289 comments)
on Friday, January 11, 2008 at 5:09:26 AM
Where a Public Official Who Lied Us Into War Lives, is diffe
Where a Public Official Who Lied Us Into War Lives, is different than an individual citizen's personal info being tapped and aired.
If you can't see the difference, that's sad.
Also, Alten's personal email was somehow accessed. Barrett never suggested hacking into public officials computers.
What's your point here . . . is it that anyone who questions this govt. is fair game for anything? I don't think most readers here would agree with you on that?
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Bill Douglas (68 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments)
on Friday, January 11, 2008 at 9:40:07 AM
Public posting of private info without consent is wrong
Firstly, I think is TRULY sad and disturbing that Mr. Alten has experienced such attacks upon his person. And certainly I CONDEMN such attacks. And yet, Mr. Alten (and probably yourself Mr. Douglas) should be aware that when you compress the lines of fiction and reality together, there probably will be some "friction" in the form of public attacks. However, this certainly doesn't justify what's occurred or is occurring to either of you.
Secondly, it's my belief that at no point should a private citizen's or public official's private information be posted on the Internet, unless it's been processed in accordance with acceptable use laws or has received permission from the citizen or official themselves. I really don't see why it's "okay" that a public official's residence information can be posted – especially when it's posted by (a) someone(s) with neutral or negative opinions of the official. The "lied about the war" qualifier that you reference is immaterial because it represents an opinion and not established fact or legal truth.
And thirdly, the point made with regard Mr. Barrett's web site is that he appears to believe in a quid pro quo when it comes to "friction". The tasing of Mr. Meyer, while public, did not require the public posting of address information on the officers involved in securing him. But Mr. Barrett appeared to follow your suggestion that it's "okay" to post information on the officers. I honestly believe that' such action is just plain wrong and will only provoke a "retribution" attack in like kind.
I believe the irony of such an action, in light of Mr. Barrett's published support of Mr. Alten and his forthcoming book, borders on the edge of hypocrisy. This is the point being made by the comments.
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Tom Murphy (2 articles, 2 quicklinks, 8 diaries, 1175 comments)
on Friday, January 11, 2008 at 1:21:53 PM
Can you link us to the site where the private e-mail was posted so that we can see for ourselves? Not that I don't believe you, but . . . well actually I want to see proof of your claims
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Roark Howard (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 289 comments)
on Friday, January 11, 2008 at 2:08:27 PM
Apparently attention to detail isn't your strong suit...
There's a difference between someone vested with government "authority" engaged in what appears to be abuse of that authority, and someone, e.g., the author, expressing a personal opinion about an important topic, as he has a right to do.
Alas such nuance has no place in the "mind" of a pathetic statist drone such as yourself.
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Harold Smith (0 articles, 2 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 297 comments)
on Friday, January 11, 2008 at 1:01:09 PM
This is a very nice discussion of some the issue we face as seekers for justice. The peace movement and the anti-globalization movement, in short, any group questioning the elite, get the same treatment. In Canada, some activists captured quite clearly agents provacateur on video at Montebello in Quebec. An activist must assume that at some point, the movement will be infiltrated.
I think that the stress of dealing with this damaged Ruppert's health, and eventually led to his abandonment of 9-11 truth work.
We still have the issue of understanding who is actively shilling, or conducting disinformation campaigns by infiltrating activist groups. We can have our suspicians, but unless we see the paychecks, I am not sure how we can distinguish infiltrators from people with ideas that are misguided, perhaps more than a little bit 'cranky'. Of course, we are regarded as 'cranks' ourselves by many, incuding frequent commentators on this site.
It is so good to see you, and 'George Washington' posting routinely on this site.
I make the following suggestion with all due respect and in an attempt to be helpful: please find an editor to go through your article. It needs to be edited in a number of areas. One example is that you use the sentence "Personally, I have read it, and I know exactly what it is that threatens the powers that be" twice at the end of the article (if that was intentional, it doesn't work).
Considering that your article is being being linked to from theshellgame.net, I thought you might want to make your article to be as tightened-up and polished as possible.
Best,
AC
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Alex Carson (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments)
on Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 9:38:13 PM
I think you let the Weisenthal Centre off way too easily. They should be required to put up or shut up. Are you afraid of them? Poor guy, get some backbone for Pete's sake!
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Archie (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 724 comments)
on Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 9:58:23 PM
Very good timing, Bill, especially with the recent attempt to (with complicity of the MSM) further propagandize Americans with the recent Iranian gunboat 'provocation' sham.
When people react with emotions such as fear, instead of cold hard reason & rational thinking, blind faith rather than evidence, they become sheep ready for slaughter by the unscrupulous. We have seen it too many times in history, but I still believe it possible (somehow) to break this vicious cycle. Keep up the good work; you have more people on your side now than even you are aware of.
For humans to survive & thrive as more than mere slaves 'we' have no choice but to specifically identify the elusive individuals in the 'they'. Just as the enemies of truth repeat their lies until they are believed to be true, so too must we repeatedly name the names of the criminals whose intent is to enslave humanity. Only then can an intentionally dumbed-down, ignorant, ill-informed, propagandized public have any hope of seeing the light of truth.
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Paul Magill Smith (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 16 comments)
on Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 10:05:43 PM
Congratulations on a well-written, insightful and comprehensive piece. The chronology of major figures like Jones and Gage is valuable in and of itself. The added layer of cointelpro is made even more effective because of that solid work.
You probably know this, but Michael Wolsey at Visibility 9/11 also investigates the cointelpro aspect and has done a series on it: http://visibility911.com/
Again, congrats and thanks for this important article.
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David Taylor (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 4 comments)
on Friday, January 11, 2008 at 6:33:08 AM
“However, some of the transcripts are highly redacted. What information did the New York Times redact? You guessed it... supporting evidence for Directed Energy Weapons! This was confirmed by a later interview with one of the First Responders!
So, the media is nothing more than a propaganda machine. Anyone promoting controlled demolitions instead of directed energy weapons is playing right into the 9/11 perpetrators' hands.”
So is CB_Brooklyn one of those you denounce as Disinfo?
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Roark Howard (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 289 comments)
on Friday, January 11, 2008 at 11:37:27 AM
BUT, if you want to turn off everyone from the 9/11 truth movement, a sure way to do it is to tell them that there were no planes hitting the WTC buildings on 9/11, and they only saw some fantastic holographic illusion.
They'll laugh at you and never look at real 9/11 facts again.
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Bill Douglas (68 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments)
on Friday, January 11, 2008 at 6:29:40 PM
First of all, government plants like Steven Jones have brainwashed the "truth movement" into thinking directed energy weapons and Tv-Fakery are "crazy disinfo". He did that for a purpose: to hide the real truth.
Second, there are people who have the brains to apply basic physics to an event, such as Newton's Laws of Motion to the cartoon airplanes. The videos are fake.
Third, your claim that people will "laugh at you" is silly and unfounded. The TRUTH is that most people see the TRUTH of 9/11 from the directed energy weapon / TV-Fakery evidence, especially when coupled with attorney Jerry Leaphart's two court cases in the US District Court, Southern New York.
Even Peter Jennings knew the 9/11 airplane video was fake. Note his nervousness and word fumbling when ABC plays the clip back in slow motion. Click here for video.Show it to people and gauge their reaction.
If people laugh at the idea of holograms/projections, show them the analysis of the WTC Task Force Interviews that were published in the New York Times. Prove to them that a very small percentage of the First Responders who reported seeing airplanes also reported hearing them. In other words, most of the First Responders did NOT report hearing commercial aircraft. However, they had no trouble hearing the fighter jets later on!Click here for analysis. Show it to people and gauge their reaction.
The perpetrators are controlling the "truth movement"! Can't you see that?
Lenin, the first Communist dictator after the takeover of Russia in 1917, is widely credited with the following quotation, "The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves."
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CB Brooklyn (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 353 comments)
on Friday, January 11, 2008 at 10:51:31 PM
How do we know that Steven Jones found anything? I mean, has anyone even heard of this guy before 9/11? I haven't, but others have. He was the one who discredited free energy Cold Fusion research back in 1989. (See my blog here for information.)
Take a look at this 1993 news video clip of Dr Eugene Mallove. He certainly seems confident in the future of Cold Fusion heating devices in homes, doesn't he? Note that he blames the Dept of Energy report in 1989 for erasing all funding for Cold Fusion.
See Dr Mallove's 1993 book "Fire from Ice" and you'll learn the techniques that Steven Jones used to discedit Cold Fusion. Then apply it to 9/11 and you'll see it's the same thing!
As far as the dancing Israelis, it may have actually happened. But the way I see things these days... if it was published in the media, it was for the purpose of distracting people from other issues. Why else would they publish it???
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CB Brooklyn (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 353 comments)
on Saturday, January 12, 2008 at 8:47:57 PM
I am sure you are well aware CB that you would not know a fact if it saved your life. However please keep posting as you are a prime example of how disinformation propagators work.
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Steve Lane (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments)
on Sunday, January 13, 2008 at 6:30:07 AM
People would be more willing and less fearful of adopting the views of 911 Truth activists if they felt they were calling for forgiveness rather than retribution and punishment.
The peace movement should call for granting amnesty from prosecution and guarantee of an ample, lifetime pension to anyone who agrees to testify on their roles in the events of 9/11, extending this offer to any members of the US government, foreign governments and/or terrorist groups involved in the planning or execution of the attacks of that day.
Additionally, individuals should step forward and volunteer to spend time working with those who give testimony on crimes they have committed so that they might be reintegrated into society.
Instead of executing Nazi war criminals we should have devoted all the human resources available to us to rehabilitating them, awakening in them awareness of the nature of their actions so that they could have come to understand that they must make amends. If they had remained alive they would have been a living testament to the transformative powers of forgiveness.
Historians and psychologists especially should come out in favor of preserving invaluable study material in the form of the opportunity to converse with the authors of unfortunate historical deeds.
A declaration of willingness to forgive would force the government's hand. If it were to arrest or make attempts to discredit someone calling for 911 truth plus forgiveness, that would be a tacit acknowledgement by the government of its complicity in the 9/11 attacks. Imagine the impact of footage on YouTube of police arresting demonstrators carrying signs reading: "I forgive you George Bush for 9/11." Perhaps even the passively complicit mainstream media could be convinced to show someone carrying a sign calling for amnesty for the perpetrators of 9/11.
If we consider ourselves morally superior to the government, we should propose actions and attitudes that are more humanitarian with respect to them than their actions have been with respect to us.
I strongly suspect that the white apartheid government in South Africa did not agree to fair elections until assured that they would not be executed or imprisoned by the black majority government when it came to power.
