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March 13, 2008

Naivete is Killing the 9/11 Truth Movement's Hope for Media Breakthrough !

By Bill Douglas

Naivete is Killing the 9/11 Truth Movement's Hope for Media Breakthrough ! Naivete among those newer to 9/11 truth is crushing the life from the lungs of hope for our movement breaking through the media blockade.

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Naivete is Killing the 9/11 Truth Movement’s Hope for Media Breakthrough !

 

Naivete among those newer to 9/11 truth is crushing the life from the lungs of hope for our movement breaking through the media blockade.

When I first excitedly discovered that a New York Times best selling author had grabbed the horns of the 9/11 issue, I knew that finally we had a hope of breaking thru the censorship blockade of 9/11 issues.

There were several reasons for that. One was that an action novel is, by its nature, able to reach a much wider audience than non-fiction, especially 9/11 truth non-fiction. Coupled with the fact that a NY Times best selling novelist had written “The Shell Game,” gave us as a movement a POWERFUL opportunity to focus our gathering numbers and drive it to #1.

“The Shell Game”s narrative cleverly wove in real 9/11 facts by David Ray Griffin, and Michael C. Ruppert, that educated the fiction reader in a powerful stealth way, but more than that had the potential of exposing millions to names like “David Ray Griffin” and “Michael Ruppert.”

The gathering reviews of “The Shell Game” show that this indeed happened, many former GOP/Bush supporters even being awakened, and spurred on to google these 9/11 facts once they finished reading “The Shell Game” which they’d picked up as an action war novel. [The Shell Game has risen to as high as #1 in war fiction on amazon.com]

If “The Shell Game” had become a cause celeb in the 9/11 truth movement, and spidered out in a fever pitch campaign throughout all the facebook, meetup, and multitudinous 9/11 truth websites, with “permanent” ads running on the top of their home pages, to create a mass buying of “The Shell Game” we could have, and still could drive it to #1.

 The old veterans of the 9/11 truth movement recognized the potential of “The Shell Game” from the very get-go. An ad hoc coalition formed around it immediately by all those who had been in the 9/11 truth trenches from the beginning, as indicated by their joint statement:

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We, the undersigned, urge everyone seeking truth, peace and justice, to not only purchase this new novel, "The Shell Game," but also to email out this appeal to all you know who seek truth, peace and justice in the form of 9/11 truth coming out.  In turn, please urge them to do the same with all their contacts and urge them to do the same. 

We can break 9/11 truth open if we work together and focus on this project for the next 30 days.
 

Yours in 9/11 truth, peace and justice, 

Bill Douglas, 911 Visibility Project
Dr. Steven Jones – Physicist who discovered controlled demolition substances in WTC debris
Janice Matthews - 911Truth.org Executive Director
David Ray Griffin - 9/11 Researcher and Author
Kevin Ryan -former UL chemistry laboratory manager & NIST report whistle blower
Dr. Robert Bowman - Rtd. Colonel US Air Force, 9/11 truth leader; thepatriots.us/
Rob Balsamo – Pilots for 9/11 Truth
Carol Brouillet - Organizer of 1st National 9/11 Truth Conference in San Francisco
Mike Berger - "Improbable Collapse" Documentary Producer - 911Truth Spokesman
David Kubiak - 911Truth.org Board member
Kevin Barrett – Muslim/Christian/Jewish Alliance for 9/11 Truth
Michael Wolsey – Visibility911.com
Peter Dale Scott – Author of, “The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America,” (University of California Press., 2007)


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However, from the beginning, as always happens when a big breakthrough is about to occur for 9/11 truth . . . “The Shell Game” came under attack. The old familiar attacks:

* It didn’t blame the Jews enough
* It was anti-Moslem and blamed it on Arabs [not true, as The Shell Game’s false flag event was conducted out of the White House. The Muslims were only patsies.]
* It didn’t go far enough
* It didn’t get into space weapon beams blowing up the Towers
* It wasn’t this
* or It wasn’t that

Those of us, including most of the above names, who have been at this for many long years, have had similar attacks made on us. AND we all knew the extent of the media blockade, and therefore recognized “The Shell Game” as a way to break “around” that blockade.

However, too many of those new to 9/11 truth movement actions, although very effective at what they are doing, hadn’t been beaten up by the six long years of public protest, petitions, lobbying Congress, media, etc. etc. . . . enough to know that something new, fresh, and unusual was our only hope at breaking the 9/11 corporate media blockade.

Also, too many of those new to 9/11 truth action had not been around long enough to know that all of us who’ve worked on big breakthrough aspects of 9/11 truth action . . . get attacked from the same old circles, in slightly different ways.

From my years of 9/11 action, I’m convinced that most of the attacks on all of us, have begun with infiltrators in the movement.  It would be naïve to believe for a moment that this movement isn’t more infiltrated than any movement in history.

However, the infiltrators are not the problem.  The problem lies in the naivete of 9/11 truth seekers . . . who believe the planted smears that always come out at real 9/11 truth breakthroughs.

I just read a post by a supposed 9/11 truther who said “The Shell Game” shouldn’t need our support, if it’s a good novel.  This is dangerous naivete, or worse.

All of us know that any artist who touches the 9/11 truth live wire, automatically loses the all important mainstream media support necessary to make a mainstream breakthrough. “The Shell Game”s author who had been a successful author, and had no trouble getting on national mainstream media, found himself . . . all alone . . . and abandoned by that media.

HOWEVER, had, if, the 9/11 truth movement had put permanent ads for “The Shell Game” on every 9/11 truth website, and every 9/11 truth communication had had a short blurb at the bottom for “The Shell Game” and if every 9/11 truth meetup, or facebook burned with a fever pitch campaign to drive “The Shell Game” to #1 on the New York Times Best Seller List . . . it would have, will happen.

By doing that, it would be impossible for the corporate media to suppress the 9/11 truth information it and its author spread. The NY Times list goes into every book store nationwide, and determines what is splashed across the windows of airport, gas station, and book store book shelves.

It determines who gets on talk shows.  Talk shows have popular best selling books on their shows.

9/11 truth could be on major talk shows.  It is within our grasp as a movement to make this happen.

Some say, well we should get David Ray Griffin’s book to #1. Yes, that is the plan.  BUT, action fiction is more widely read. It has a larger audience. “The Shell Game”s success would open the flood gates for non-fiction research works.  Everyone who reads “The Shell Game” sees quotes from David Ray Griffin.

If 9/11 truth activists can be less naïve about believing the smear campaigns that infiltrators spread through the movement . . . and pay attention to what the seasoned movement researchers and activist leaders have to share with them . . . we could do something historic together.

”The Shell Game” is a profound opportunity. Spread the word ceaselessly.  Urge all the major 9/11 truth action websites to put a PERMANENT AD PLACEMENT WITH A LINK TO AMAZON.COM FOR “THE SHELL GAME” ON THEIR SITES. 

 

Why? Because the webmasters and leaders of these organizations are being hit with many attacks, when they back “The Shell Game”.  You can count on it.  Why? Because the powers that be know that “The Shell Game”s stealth ability to break through the media blockade is one of the biggest threats they face.

It is not too late. Do all you can, to get the word out, “The Shell Game.”

 

Last week on CBS National Radio carried on about 200 radio stations, Steve Alten, Author of “The Shell Game” demanded answers to WTC Building 7’s collapse, and to the destruction of WTC steel before an investigation occurred, and to the War Games on 9/11 that pulled the Air Force away from DC and NY. Millions learned of WTC 7 for the first time due to Steve Alten.

 

We cannot let this opportunity slip.  Corporate media is for the most part ignoring “The Shell Game,” except for that fortunate CBS interview.  We can FORCE mainstream media to do more on 9/11, by driving “The Shell Game” to #1.

 

www.TheShellGame.net


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Authors Bio:
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."

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