Then “Muhammed” says, “Wow!That’s great.”Then after a short pause he goes, “So who did you send the CDs to?”That was the end of my short relationship with “Muhammed.”
Regarding #3.
In Kansas City, Jan Hoyer, Janice Matthews, and some other dedicated volunteers helped stage on of the first mass 9/11 truth events in the world in Kansas City.When we brought 9/11 widow Ellen Mariani, and her attorney former Deputy Atty General of Pennsylvania, Phil Berg to Kansas City to talk about their RICO Racketeering Suit vs. Bush and many members of his administration for the attacks of 9/11/2001.We got them speaking engagements at four major area churches, the last appearance bringing in almost 1,000 people, and we got them interviews with the Kansas City Star, all local network affiliates, etc.Just to show you how much attention this garnered, at the first church event the Kansas City Police showed up saying they’d been monitoring our website and were disturbed by the high activity, and felt they should shadow us all day.They did.We had police escorts throughout the entire day.
From those events we raised some money for Ellen and had some left to create what would become the iconoclastic symbols of the 9/11 truth movement, the now famous “Stop the 9/11 Cover Up” signs.See:
Jan Hoyer of digital style designs designed the signs on the same computer I’m typing this oped on.We then pitched Janice Matthews on using our 9/11 event funds after sending a check to Ellen, on buying several thousand signs to send to the mass anti-war protests mainly in San Francisco and New York.We organized with New York and San Francisco 9/11 truth activists to have them sent to, and then distributed at the front of the protests, so that media would see them.It was a massive success, and New York Newsday and the Los Angeles Times had front page large photos of the events with captions reading, “Tens of thousands march to stop the war and stop the 9/11 cover up.”At that time Ted Koppel’s Nightline was a hugely watched show, and that night a network cameraman who’d filmed our signs, centering on it, until it filled the entire TV screen, aired on Nightline.The entire nation saw, many for the first time, “Stop the 9/11 Cover Up,” in living rooms across America.
You’d think that after that, we’d have been given a lot of credit in 9/11 truth circles, and don’t get me wrong, we did get a lot of pats on the back.HOWEVER, the attacks on our work became relentless.Rumors were spread that we were funded by liberal icon George Soros meant to cover up the fact that 9/11 was an inside job.We knew 9/11 was an inside job, but we also knew that at that point in those early days we’d reach more people by calling their attention to Bush’s obvious 9/11 cover up, because he was blocking the 9/11 investigations. The 9/11 family members, except for a few, were staying at arms length from the 9/11 truth movement because they wanted an investigation but couldn’t stretch beyond what they could prove, or the media would tear them apart.We needed the families to join our struggle, because they were the only ones the media would talk to.
We were called FBI agents, etc. etc. by so called “9/11 truth activists” trying to get other activists to be suspicious of us and not work with us in the future.
Regarding #4.
A day or so after this success with the national distribution of the “Stop the 9/11 Cover Up” signs, and the mass media coverage, a coalition of 9/11 truth powerhouse organizers from all across the country met one another for the first time at the first national 9/11 truth event organized by Carol Brouilett in San Francisco.After that event this group got together in San Francisco to form a national and international movement for 9/11 truth.This would soon be dubbed 911Truth.org.
Today if you google 9/11, you get 166 MILLION related websites.911Truth.org is #3.911Truth.org has been seen worldwide, even one of South Park’s characters wore a 911Truth.org t-shirt in an episode.911Truth.org has permeated the mass mind of the world and moved a mountain of valuable information.
So, by now I’m sure you realize it goes without saying that instantly upon its formation, 911Truth.org was attacked mercilessly by so called “9/11 truth activists.”They attacked 911Truth because we wouldn’t deny the holocaust, or because we wanted to only use facts that were provable, rather than baseless accusations.We wanted an organization of credibility, that was an unimpeachable source of 9/11 information.Makes sense right?Yeah, if you really were a 9/11 truth activist who really wanted to get truth out to the mainstream public, it was great.However, if you were only pretending to be a 9/11 truth activist and part of some COINTELPRO operation meant to discredit the movement . . . well then you became hysterical every time 911Truth.org attempted to organize anything of significance, lashing out at anyone connected with them, and urging the 9/11 community NOT to cooperate with 911Truth.org.
Today, 911Truth.org remains the most respected 9/11 truth organization, who have aided countless other respected 9/11 truth organizations form worldwide.
Regarding #5.
Before the Republican Convention in New York City in 2004, we became aware of Sibel Edmonds, the former FBI whistleblower, who’d been gagged by John Ashcroft.She was unable to tell anything that she knew.However, she was able to say that if she could tell what she knew, some people at the top of our government would likely be in prison.
So we worked to get Sibel Edmonds to a podium at the mass anti-war rallies in New York City for the GOP Convention.We arranged to bring her in and speak at the National Organization for Women’s rally in Central Park, and also at a 9/11 truth gathering in Manhattan.By now you get the patterns . . . the attacks become shrill and furious.You can imagine, by now what an event like this would cause in terms of some squirming gyrations by those who want no truth to get out.
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."
Re: The Shell Game" is Rattling Some Powerful Nerves
Mr. Douglas:
Do you plan on being at the Anthony Wayne movie theater this Tuesday evening? I have informed several people who did not know about either OpEdNews, or the event on Tuesday evening. They now know about both and plan to attend.
It should be quite an interesting event.
by
Munich (0 articles, 52 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 726 comments)
on Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 1:34:27 PM
Also, PLEASE make an announcement about "The Shell Game" and
Also, PLEASE make an announcement about "The Shell Game" and how it could expand the issues of 9/11 truth into mainstream media . . .
the movement is big enough to drive "The Shell Game" to #1 and when it hits #1 on the NY Times list the media will be FORCED to talk about it and what it implies regarding the lies of 9/11.
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Bill Douglas (68 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments)
on Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 3:33:33 PM
Sibel Edmonds is the most gagged person in US history. The government has repeatedly invoked the State Secrets Privilege in her case - not for reasons of 'national security' but to hide ongoing criminal activity. Please call Waxman and Conyers' offices and demand public open hearings into Edmonds' case and the State Secrets Privilege. Links to their contact pages on the right of the blog.
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Bill Douglas (68 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments)
on Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 4:05:13 PM
on 911Blogger, the folks who did the attacked immediately moved from my mental 'unnoticed' bin into the possible-to-probable 'pentagon operation information roadmap employees' 'bin'.
I agree completely with your rationale regarding cointelpro activity being tied to 911 truth phenomena that might 'have an effect' at promoting truth and examination of (elements of) the government's behavior on 11-01-01 and following. There is now so much information about the government's and the elites' machinations before and since 911 that no other explanation that actually connects the dots, seems ludicrous (although, the gatekeeper Chomsky will, of course -- since he keeps pushing the now discredited 'blowback' thesis).
Anyway, good luck. A while back, I did get one of the last two copies of the book on Amazon. If I had had more money, I would have purchased both. One to give to another.
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richard (0 articles, 4 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 733 comments)
on Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 9:42:47 PM
on 911Blogger, the folks who did the attacked immediately moved from my mental 'unnoticed' bin into the possible-to-probable 'pentagon operation information roadmap employees' 'bin'."
Typical truther paranoia. label every one who disagrees with you as a "enemy agent."
by
Roark Howard (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 351 comments)
on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 8:14:04 AM
Cedar Fort, Inc. is marketing this LDS publication under its business name - Sweetwater Books. Remember, with the Apocolypse there's always the possibility of Redemption.
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Tom Murphy (3 articles, 3 quicklinks, 9 diaries, 1488 comments)
on Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 10:30:25 PM
And why isn't that link being promotoed - with the rest?
While it could be argued that "consciousness" or "conscience" could be used, I find it interesting the your term involves the use of a capital.
Are you suggesting, and the choice of publisher confirming, that the Truther movement is a cause that would be or is endorsed by a Higher Power, as you understand that term to be?
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Tom Murphy (3 articles, 3 quicklinks, 9 diaries, 1488 comments)
on Monday, January 28, 2008 at 5:46:01 AM
Tom, "the movement" is people who want truth about 9/11
Tom, "the movement" is people who want truth about 9/11. We are agnostics, athiests, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and probably a whole bunch of other things.
Truth is a universal desire in all people who haven't bent themselves into pretzels and still thirst for authenticity in life.
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Bill Douglas (68 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments)
on Monday, January 28, 2008 at 9:20:14 AM
I do not doubt that the religious backgrounds of Truthers are diverse. I might even accept that the premise is "truth" that unites these people under the common theme of "9/11 Truth", although politics plays a heavy role here, as well.
I am wondering why, though, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (a/k/a the Mormon church) is the only recognized religion that has endorsed (albeit most quitely) the 9/11 Truth Movement's basic supposition that the events of 9/11 were an "inside job".
You, Mr. Douglas, never reference the video and book links to Cedar Fort (a/k/a Sweetwater Books) on "The Shell Game". Instead, you only reference the resources at www.theshellgame.net or on YouTube, which are legitimate but yet another step removed from the Mormon church sources. The web site that you reference tracks vistors' information but does not tell the visitor what it does with such information. The owner of the web site is a mystery, although www.911blogger.com appears to have posted a "whois" query on the URL prior to its cloaking in annonymity.
I find the fact noteworthy that the "The Shell Game" and Mormon church link is obscured and never referenced by you, Mr. Douglas, or even Mr. Alten. The book was bankrolled by the Mormon publisher at considerable cost (i.e., $50,000) to it in the form of an advance to Mr. Alten. Only one other book (i.e., discussing the Mormon faith) from the publisher has received such an advance.
My concern with this obscuring is that a distinctly religious body (i.e., the Mormon church) is supporting distinctly secular yet controversial organizations (i.e., 9/11 Truth groups) that reflect the "inside job" perspective. The Mormon church has always been under the microscope for varying reasons. I'm at a loss as to why it would want itself under that view again on a topic that is hugely controversial - especially when one of its faith is running for the highest elected office in America this year.
In the end, I'm forced to ask, "What's up?"
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Tom Murphy (3 articles, 3 quicklinks, 9 diaries, 1488 comments)
on Monday, January 28, 2008 at 11:06:58 AM
Oh, I get it Tommy . . . you are trying to intimidate this M
Oh, I get it Tommy . . . you are trying to intimidate this Mormon publisher. Sorry, I thought you had an authentic interest in truth there for a moment.
My bad.
Yes, Tommy, like the COINTELPRO of the past, there are efforts any time anyone tries to do something that spreads inconvenient truths about the official 9/11 story . . . that they are attacked . . .
Yes, I see where your pretzled pathetic little sinister thread is leading now.
By Tommy. For those truly interested in truth, go to the publisher's website of "The Shell Game" or go to YouTube's 911 and Oil Trailers of "The Shell Game" or go to www.TheShellGame.net . . . it doesn't matter.
Just get this information on this book out . . . and make the Tommy's of the world squirm a bit, while doing a whole lotta good for our country and our world before the neocons can pull of another false flag 9-11 to terrify Americans into more illegal wars, and stripping our liberty at home.
I am NOT trying to intimidate the publisher in any way, shape, or form. The connection between the author, publisher, and Mormon church are there for anyone to see; you just have to do a little digging, but nothing is outright hidden (well, except for the owner of www.theshellgame.net is hidden).
I have viewed the trailers, read the excerpt (commented on a deficiency or two in the narrative in a past comment), and had already visited most of the links at the web site. I have not bought the book, though, nor will I until the price drops or it becomes available as an e-book. Regardless, I am genuinely interested in why the Mormon church would be interested in associating itself with 9/11 Truth.
Where you, Mr. Douglas, have been unable to provide an answer and seem to consistently redirect any attention away from it, I have written Cedar Fort, Inc. for clarification on Mr. Alten's novel and its alignment to or endorsement by the LDS leadership. I'll keep you posted on the response I receive, if any.
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Tom Murphy (3 articles, 3 quicklinks, 9 diaries, 1488 comments)
on Monday, January 28, 2008 at 1:59:09 PM
Whoa, now! You think that my questioning why a solely religious publisher would carry a novel about the secular 9/11 conspiracy theories is pathetic? And yet you, Mr. Douglas, and Mr. Alten can question the government - no, that's too lenient - accuse the government of being liars and murderers due to its false flag operation of 9/11. But what you're doing isn't - pathetic!?! Why not?
If you stick to yours as being the moral "high ground" here, then I'll call you a hypocrite, Mr. Douglas. You cannot lay claim to that just as I can't. If you insist on owning it, then you're only fooling yourself.
I do not have a "distaste" for all things progressive, although I do disagree with the harshly biased focus that the Truthers have espoused with regard to 9/11. Admittedly, also, I am conservative in my overall thinking but claim NO relationship with the neo-conservative agenda. I align my thinking much more so with that of a classical conservative.
I work for myself as an American citizen who has served his country faithfully and knows the full measure of what the term "service" means. I do NOT just talk about what it means to be of service but have lived it, as well. And I take exception to those people that elect to promote America as solely an "evil" and "uncaring" nation to both its people's and the world.
My "mission", if that is what you choose to label it because it fits nicely with your "cointelpro" label that you folks toss around here like butter squares in a college cafetaria, with regard to 9/11 is to provide balance to the severely (and perhaps fatally-flawed) biased positions espoused by many on the progressive side of politics. What good would I do if I discussed issues solely with people of like mind? Much more is accomplished by discussing the same issues with people of differing thoughts.
You, Mr. Douglas, are one of those people. You reiterate the same script continuously. Yet, the meat on the bones of your script is lean and the logic is questionable - at best. And once I see that there's a link of sorts between religion and 9/11 that is not mentioned - AT ALL - in your script, I AM concerned. It's one thing for the people to question the events of 9/11. But it's an entirely different matter if an organized religion like the Morman church is attempting to influence and direct the people in their discussion of 9/11.
Why would a religion want to do that, Mr. Douglas - for the "truth"? No offense to you if you believe in a Higher Power (which I DO), but I sincerely doubt the church's interest is solely "truth". There's something not quite right, and it seems to involve power or at least the influence of it.
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Tom Murphy (3 articles, 3 quicklinks, 9 diaries, 1488 comments)
on Monday, January 28, 2008 at 4:33:41 PM
FACTS point to not only an Air Force stand down, but a controlled demolition of the WTC buildings.
Bush/Cheney fought a 9/11 investigation. They work for US. They OWE us ALL THE FACTS.
Your slimey equation that you have the right to cast aspersions on anyone who questions the government is thin at best, and a creepy kind of fascism at worst.
You wear a uniform, but your twisted form of logic seems very UN-American to me.
By the way. Anyone out there who wants a new 9/11 investigation . . . URGE EVERYONE TO READ "THE SHELL GAME" AND SHARE THE RESOURCES AT WWW.THESHELLGAME.NET
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Bill Douglas (68 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments)
on Monday, January 28, 2008 at 5:01:49 PM
