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Questioning the War on Terrorism

http://www.communitycurrency.org/9-11.html

San Francisco Tea Party for 9/11 Truth- December 16, 2006- 1 pm- 3 pm

Film Screenings at SFSU, Thursday, January 14th, 4:30 pm
& at SF Library, Koret Auditorium, Wednesday, January 20th, 5:45 pm. Free.

September 11- Unanswered Questions (good overview with links!)

www.911Truth.org

Contents

9-11 Truth Art Contest Winners Announced

 
 

Demanding a Congressional Inquiry of 9-11
Questions with links to key articles

January 8th, 2002
People Gathered and Marched to Senator Feinstein's office

  • What are Bush's, Cheney's and Rice's connections to the oil industry?

  • What are Bush's and Cheney's connections to the drug industry?

  • Has the US government ever thought to mislead the public to justify a war against another country?

  • Who was responsible for the Anthrax attacks, and why were Democrats and the media the targets?

  • Why is the evidence being destroyed when an investigation of the World Trade Center collapse is needed?

  • Why seal Presidential records? Why intimidate professors from speaking out against this war?

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      Science" used in the engineering report by NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He gave a detailed analysis of the changing "official story" of the WTC collapses over the last five years as it has evolved in four separate official investigations to date, culminating in the NIST study of 2005. The NIST study abandons previous explanations such as the "pancake theory" and appears to rely on questionable "tweaking" of parameters in a computer simulation after reconstructed floor assemblies did not fail in physical testing. The computer simulation is not available to the public. Among the many problems with all four studies are changing explanations, conflicts of interest, destruction of evidence, and the withholding of evidence from the public.

      Steven Jones, PhD, internationally renowned physicist, further explored problematic aspects of the official story. It is universally acknowledged that office fires aren't hot enough to melt steel, yet molten metal was found in the rubble pile and observed streaming from windows of the buildings during the collapses. Laws of physics such as the conservation of momentum tell us that the 47 core columns and 240 perimeter columns in each of the twin towers would have slowed down the collapses considerably from their observed near-freefall speed of collapse, or caused toppling to one side or another, unless all vertical supports for the building were simultaneously eliminated as in a controlled demolition. Building 7 of the World Trade Center also collapsed at near-freefall speed, although it was not hit by a plane and had only small fires. Other phenomena that were ignored by the official explanations but exhibit the characteristics of controlled demolition are the explosive phenomena visible in video of the collapses and the presence of demolition accelerators such as sulfur, zinc, and managanese in the dust that coated Manhattan and in steel residue obtained from 9/11 memorials. Dr. Jones is calling for other scientists to review the contributions being published at journalof911studies.com and to join in the research effort. The current membership of Scholars for 9/11 Truth stands at approximately four hundred and they hope to have papers extensively peer-reviewed and published in major scientific journals in the future.

      We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the writings of the Scholars for 9/11 Truth at Journalof911Studies.com and in their recent book, "9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out" (Olive Branch Press). (Colorado 9/11 Visibility has this book available for sale at their monthly meetings.) Please share this important work with your friends and colleagues. While the implications of this research are devastating to those of us who have trusted our government to protect us, we must have to courage to follow the truth wherever it leads. As Dr. David Ray Griffin said in a recent speech, together we can do this, because "we have the truth, and we have each other."

    Kevin Ryan wrote this to the organizers:

      "Those of you in CO may not remember, but a Boulder Weekly article in October 2004 was instrumental in “pushing me to the edge”, so to speak. It was the NIST draft of that same month, along with the courageous example provided by your group (and some nonsense from Hyman Brown), that inspired my letter to NIST. Bob McFarland was kind enough to save an original copy for me."

    Every action by every local group inspires others, and I think the Colorado group has done us all a tremendous service in helping to raise consciousness. I am so grateful to them, as well as to the speakers for their work... it sure was great to be there last weekend!

    October 30, 2006

    After pouring so much effort into the Friday premiere, I must say that I was a bit disappointed to realize that I had scheduled the event- during the football game betwen rival Palo Alto High School and Gunn- so we just didn't get any of those students. I learned that there was also a rare progressive law conference happening that weekend at Stanford, plus the UN Film Festival. Still we had a respectable audience- between two and three hundred who appreciated the film, and Peter and Paul's discussion afterwards. We also had a couple members in the audience who had been at the White House on the morning of 9-11 and one woman shared how they were told that Bush Sr.and Barbara were there, that W would be arriving via helicopter shortly, and basically "la te da" business as usual... They didn't realize what was going on that day until they were well clear of the White House. (She's in the online video).

    I just found an article that appeared online in the Paly Voice- a student online newspaper entitled New film raises questions about 9/11. Peter found a 31 minute video posted online with the Q & A Unfortunately (for me), I did exceed the budget that I received from the group, and we probably lost several hundred dollars on the event- just because the theater and insurance alone cost $1270 and we only took in $900 from the sale of tickets, $1000 from tabling, but the publicity was an additional $1000.

    Brian used my car the next day to get to the anti-war rally, where activists did gather and table, which helped a bit- we received another $390 in donations. At least we are still in the black, so I hope the group will accept the loss and not force me to cover it all (though I will, if I have to).

    I didn't get to bed until 1 am that night and had to be up very early to get to the airport. Mike Berger and Chris Emery met Steven Jones and I in Denver and we had some great conversations and pizza on our way to the University where the "Research on 9/11: Why the Official Story Cannot Be True" event was held. About 300 people came to it, and the hall was quite full. Despite the lack of sleep, I was thrilled to be there, to meet the folks who organized it, and to see the Kevins and Dr. Jones, and the others again. It was a great weekend!!!! We had a fabulous Middle Eastern dinner together prepared by a wonderful family in a little restaurant, not far from where I was staying with Fran Shure, one of the main organizers.

    It was a joyous luxury to be able to sleep in, and actually feel coherent and intelligent on Sunday when we went to Boulder. An article had been published in the Style Section of the Denver Post that morning- 9/11 theorists are either silly or shrewd and another article appeared later in the Denver Post: Backers hail 9/11 theorist's speech. It's so strange to see the coverage, after having spent some time with Jones and hearing all the lectures twice- noting how much the attack article failed to say.

    I have the deepest respect, admiration and love for Kevin Barrett, Kevin Ryan and Steven Jones for their intellect, their work, their integrity, their courage, their sense of humor, their dedication to truth and the common good. They each gave brilliant talks and with the exception of the reporter fro the Denver Post, I don't see how they could have failed to win over any honest, intelligent person to their position on 9-11, when all their lectures were combined.

    Actually our biggest problem was the sound system, the michrophones, and I just hope that the sound and the DVD will come out ok (but I have my worries).

    In Boulder Ellen Mariani and Joseph Calhoun (Whose running on the Green Party ticket in that District) came. Actually, the only problem with the event, was not being able to meet everyone who was there- there were hundreds of people in Boulder, too, including a guy who is walking from Denver to DC to wake up evangelical Christians to the truth of 9-11 (and doing a documentary, too).

    I was lobbying people for John Leonard's (Petition) World Peace Week idea- to expose state sponsored terrorism from November 5th to Veteran's Day, and I tossed that idea out with the other "what we can do suggestions" during announcements before the Q & A. One women later expressed how horrific the indoctrination of people was in the U.K. every Guy Fawkes Day- where people still haven't realized the truth about that world shaping event.

    I hope that Kevin Barrett will post his talk online. He went over false flag operations, but he did far more than that, looking at the paradigm shift needed to go from a culture where people and the earth are treated as "its" to be controlled and manipulated by very powerful interests to a Copernican sized revolution of spirit where people and the Earth are treated with respect in truthful dialogue for the benefit of all life.

    I still have a very warm feeling, and joy inside when I think of all of those in the 9/11 truth community who do share this deep committment towards this shift in consciousness and moving us from the war economy to a life serving system.

    I did get a book- A New America- An awakened future on our horizon, as a gift recently, which maps out the shift in human consciousness that is underway and strategies and hopes to help nurture a positive transformation. Mike Berger was complaining that the "9-11 Truth Movement wasn't doing anyone a favor by exposing the horror of our situation without offering positive steps, strategy and vision for a way out, but I think all of us are consciously moving in the direction towards global enlightenment, which I believe is our best hope.

    In Colorado, I did get to do a 10 minute intro to the events and Kevin Barrett, and put in my two cents. Here's my little speech (after "thanks to the organizers and volunteers"):

      I am deeply honored to be invited, given an opportunity to speak, and help introduce heroes of the 9/11 Truth Movement.

      When we marched on our legislators demanding an investigation of 9/11, Bush and Cheney asked Daschle to limit the investigations to the “failures of the Intelligence Agencies to prevent the attack.”

      Official statements, the destruction of evidence, the actions taken by the administration in the wake of 9/11, the absence of a genuine investigation are indications of a cover-up and criminality at the highest level of government.

      The first Senate/House Joint Inquiry was steered by CIA insiders, including Porter Goss and Bob Graham, both of whom should have been questioned for their breakfast meeting with the “money man” behind 9/11 (Pakistan ISI’s General Mahmoud Ahmed) on the morning of the attacks.

      There was great resistance to creating the 9/11 Commission. The initial appointment, of Henry Kissinger, to head it was another major red flag that a cover-up was taking place. Indeed, if the media had simply stated some of the basic facts about 9/11 years ago, the administration, the rubber-stamp Congress could not have gotten away with the “bogus war on terrorism” the invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, the attack on our Constitution, Bill of Rights, Habeus Corpus, the regression back to the pre-Magna Carta Era when “divine rights” permitted kings to judge, label, and execute people.

      The 9/11 Commission was directed by the author of the “Pre-Emptive War Doctrine,” a member of the Bush National Security Team, Philip Zelikow. Zelikow's area of expertise is the creation and management of "public myths" which he defines as "beliefs (1) thought to be true (although not necessarily known to be true with certainty), and (2) shared in common within the relevant political community." He has a special interest in what he has called "'searing' or 'molding' events [that] take on 'transcendent' importance and retain their power over time." In 1998, Zelikow co-authored “IMAGINING THE TRANSFORMING EVENT”

      Here are two excerpts:

        “…an act of catastrophic terrorism would be a watershed event in American history. It could involve loss of life and property unprecedented in peacetime and undermine America's fundamental sense of security, as did the Soviet atomic bomb test in 1949. Like Pearl Harbor, this event would divide our past and future into a before and after. The United States might respond with draconian measures, scaling back civil liberties, allowing wider surveillance of citizens, detention of suspects, and use of deadly force. More violence could follow, either further terrorist attacks or U.S. counterattacks. Belatedly, Americans would judge their leaders negligent for not addressing terrorism more urgently.

        “ The danger of weapons of mass destruction being used against America and its allies is greater now than at any time since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. It is a national security problem that deserves the kind of attention the Defense Department devotes to threats of military nuclear attack or regional aggression. The first obstacle to imagination is resignation.”

      If you haven’t actually read the 9/11 Report or heard Zelikow speak in person, in his talks and the report, he has the audacity to blame 9/11 on a “Failure of Imagination” and push the idea that the innocent Administration was taken utterly by surprise by the cunning evildoers. The report omits mention of the collapse of Building #7, the mulitple wargames being conducted on 9/11, Cheney's role in the command center where he was issuing orders that morning. It also states "who financed 9/11 was of little or no importance."

      At Stanford University, Zelikow was invited to speak by an Institute which had just been awarded a hefty contract to improve “counter-terrorism exercises.” We had been protesting all the 9-11 Commission members coming to the Bay Area, with the theme “Blow the Whistle on the 9-11 Cover-Up!” actually blowing whistles at them and shouting out the questions that they quietly ignored in a series of presentations where they lied outrageously and ignored any questions which fell into the “conspiracy theory category.”

      At Stanford, a friend of mine blew the whistle on Zelikow and was hustled out by security forces. That’s when I walked into the auditorium, forewarned by a security officer that if I blew a whistle I would be arrested. I assured him that I wouldn’t. However, I was offended to the core of my being that Zelikow could lie so blatantly, that I couldn’t sit quietly, but rose and challenged him verbally until Security took me away.

      The Commission's real job was to sell the official story, justify the creation of "Homeland Security" and the transformation of the military. Just as Pearl Harbor was used to justify the National Security State, 9/11 is being used to construct a Global police State/or Empire.

      The 9/11 Truth Movement has blossomed thanks to those who have questioned authority, the researchers, the activists, the artists, musicians, filmmakers, the courageous journalists, and those who have been forced to become the media to get out information to the public, despite the mainstream press.

      Unlike Professor Jones, Kevin Ryan or Kevin Barrett, I cannot be fired for my political views because I am a mother and do not work for a large prestigious institution or corporation. In Barrie Zwicker’s book- Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-Up of 9/11, Barrie noted that most 9/11 truth activists were self-employed. It is much harder to speak out when the truths we champion could shatter the system, which hangs onto legitimacy through the smoke and mirrors of the press and by atomizing resistance.

      I must admit that I studied the arts, rather than the sciences, and dropped out of college to write a book. To understand precisely the nature of the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings and the flaws in the NIST and other reports, the general public and I need the explanations of real scientists, those of integrity, who actually can study and understand the data, conduct experiments, explain the results. The contributions of Steven Jones and Kevin Ryan to our understanding of 9/11 are profound. Humanity is in their debt. I just wish that the institutions and corporation that they each worked for shared their courage and commitment to truth and supported them.

      One of my dearest friends teaches “Holistic Health”at San Francisco State University. He has invited me a few times to speak to his classes on various topics, but in the Spring of 2002 he allowed us to participate in a “Teach-In on 9/11” which nearly cost him his job.

      Since 9/11 it has been much harder for me, and activists in general, to organize at schools, as well as get permits for rallies, marches, although the barriers have simply slowed us down and not stopped our efforts. What has given us courage is the triumphs of other activists, in different states, to break through in their schools, on their campuses, in their local newspapers. Every voice, every act of courage, helps pull us all forward.

      Scholars for 9/11 Truth has helped to encourage everyone, and now there are new groups forming including- architects, engineers, and pilots for 9/11 Truth, each contributing their pieces to understanding a complex event.

      So here we are to hear brave souls who have risked their careers and livelihoods to share with us their research on 9/11, and why the official narrative cannot be true, looking at the evidence, the cover-up, and the attacks upon academic freedom. Our first speaker is one of my favorite 9-11 Truth heroes, the delightful, wickedly brazen, and humorous-Kevin Barrett. The greatest tools that we hold in face of the rise of the most terrifyingly powerful empire the world has ever seen are our sense of humor, courage and the truth. Besides being very courageous and funny, Kevin has mastered the art of doing his homework and putting those who attack him to shame with his grasp of history, the facts surrounding 9-11, and the larger context of this complex moment in human history. Kevin, in addition to earning his Ph.D. in African Literature and Arabic, holds M.A.s in English and French Literatures. He has taught English, French, Arabic, American Civilization, Humanities, African Literature, Folklore, and Islam at colleges and universities in the San Francisco Bay area, Paris, and Madison, Wisconsin.

      He grew up in a family of lapsed Unitarians and reverted to Islam in 1993, a move that gradually impressed upon him the gravity of the moral choices we make in this life.

      He is also the author and illustrator of the cult classic A Guide to Mysterious San Francisco, published under the pseudonym of “Dr. Weirde.”(Allah forgive him)

      He became a 9/11 Truth activist in 2004 after reading David Griffin¹s The New Pearl Harbor. That summer he founded 9/11 Truth Squad, a local group based in Madison, Wisconsin.

      In July, he rejected a plum post-doc at the University of California because it was funded by the 9/11-disinformation-sponsoring CIA-linked Ford Foundation.

      He has led several 9/11 Truth Teach-Ins at the University of Wisconsin. The lecture he organized with David Ray Griffin that was broadcasted on C-Span significantly helped to increase the visibility and strength of the 9-11 Truth Movement. A founder of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth, www.mujca.com, (a great website, which has been added to the latest, 9th edition of the Deception Dollar, along with Scholars for 9-11 Truth, and Journal of 9-11 Studies). He is co-editor of 9/11 and the American Empire: Christians, Jews and Muslims Speak Out published by Interlink, this year and author of Truth Jihad: My Epic Struggle Against the 9/11 Big Lie to be published by Progressive Press in 2007. Please join me in welcoming Kevin Barrett.

    I just wish there had been more time. We hurried out after the Q &A on Sunday, without even saying good-bye to everyone. The consoling grace was that Steven Jones and I had a whole hour after check-in, so we were able to have dinner together (my first and only meal of the day) before we flew home.

    I'm so glad that Colorado Visibility thought of inviting me- it was such a joy to be there and get to know some of my favorite people better.

    October 25, 2006

    It's been very hectic, trying to get out press releases, follow-up with the media, get ads placed, put up posters, flyers, give out postcards for the upcoming events, with some nice surprises, and a few disappointments along the way.

    We have also tried direct outreach to students, and Brian designed a huge 20' by 6' banner- which one kid thought was a pirate ship- because it is rigged like a sail and moves on wheels. My son, Daniel, had fun helping Brian with the grommets, drilling holes... while I mainly helped by painting the message-

      A film- 9-11
      PRESS FOR TRUTH
      Friday, October 27, 7 pm
      GUNN HIGH

    And on one side I added the quote-

    "They lied.
    They all lied."

    Patty, 9/11 widow

We tested it on El Camino during rush hour last night (as soon as I can post the photos we took- I will) and we drew quite a bit of attention - including that of a police officer, whom I invited to the show, and gave her cards to give out to her colleagues.

I also visited the local Fire Station and invited the firemen- and I told the police officer and the firemen- that our policy is to admit students, firemen, policemen for free to the event. We really do want the police and fireman to see this film.

I also received a copy of Mike Berger's new film- Improbable Collapse which I couldn't resist viewing. (And I also gave copies of 9-11 Press for Truth and Improbable Collapse to the Fireman to review and to pass on the review and invitation to other firemen.) Improbable Collapse includes a bonus piece on the failure of the radios- which are still in use and costing lives. If our film screening goes well on Friday, the next film I want to show is this one- it is very well done and focuses on the collapse of the buildings. I must admit, I wasn't too happy with the cut shown in Chicago last June, but it has been completely re-edited and is vastly improved.

Joe Wanzala, a longtime 9-11 truth activist has been very involved with the KPFA Elections. KPFA, despite being co-sponsors of some of our events, and producing that outstanding program last month on 9-11 and American Empire is very much divided internally over the issue of 9-11 and some programmers remain silent or attack those of us who have been raising questions and challenging the official story these many years. There is an election coming up, and we need to support candidates who will be forces, voices for 9-11 Truth, and truth in all matters. Joe sent me this:

The KPFA Local Station Board elections are underway. The candidates for the Alliance for a democratic KPFA ("AdKPFA") recognize that KPFA should encourage and embrace community involvement in the station in a meaningful way. A governance structure operating on the principle of genuine participatory democracy is the only way to ensure this. The challenge is to keep the station open and accesible to new ideas and voices and make sure it is not overtaken by the sort of insular careerism which cultivates hostility to community participation, resulting in the proliferation of public radio stations in which the public has no voice. KQED radio in San Francisco, for example, recently sent out ballots to its members asking them to vote to strip themselves of their right to vote to choose the board of directors.

Please consider voting for the following candidates from the Alliance for a democratic KPFA. Their names (below) are listed in alphabetical order. Please be aware that this election process employs a ranked voting method which is discussed in your election packet. You may refer to the candidate statements at www.allianceforademocratickpfa.org and at www.kpfa.org/elections/2006/ to inform your decisions about how to rank the candidates. All these candidates can make important contribitions to KPFA.

    Regina Carey
    Bob English
    Sasha Futran
    Dave Heller
    Henry Norr
    Vida Samiian (Independent)
    Akio Tanaka
    Dave Welsh (Independent)

There was a good write-up on Ken Jenkins upcoming premiere of 9/11 The Myth and the Reality in Southern Oregon's Mail Tribune. I need to make more phone calls- to get anything in our local papers beyond a few blurbs, and our ads. It has been a challenge.

I also have to get ready for my Weekly Listening Project, I'm not sure how Brian is going to navigate "the pirate ship downtown"- we had trouble with a tree and snapped the boom last night. Despite all the time and effort we put into this contraption- we had to admit we had an awful lot of fun.

I was also heartened to learn it is "activist week" at Gunn High School and there are political banners all over the place. I really appreciated one that the students made which said:

Bush + 9/11
- WMD = 1984

I also found the website which is monitoring the war games, exercises and drills, hopefully to help prevent another 9/11 (so many are deeply concerned over a fake attack in order to launch a nuclear strike on Iran) the website is- www.falseflagnews.com and for some reason or another I am told that I don't have permission to enter it now- although I could a few days ago.

October 20, 2006

It's heartening to realize how much is going on simultaneously all over the country right now. It's a little frustrating to battle with the media in my own backyard and do outreach to students at the local high schools and Stanford and Foothill College. It's been such a busy day with highs and lows, a minor migraine when I saw the ad I put in the Palo Alto Weekly buried on the last page of the Sports Page, and the one placed on the local Palo Alto High website cleverly omitting the when, where, critical details of the event. There is so much to do, and I just can't do it all. Brian has been heroically carting around a TV showing trailers of 9-11 Press for Truth, making posters, passing out cards in a guerrilla manner. I've been walking in the front door, doing things the "traditional, legitimate way" hoping to win over the officials at the schools and libraries, and at the local businesses to support our endeavor and help us get the word out. Sometimes the doors slam in my face and sometimes I am politely encouraged, but don't know what will happen when I walk out the door or look the other way.

The sound on the 14th District Congressional candidate's Forum taped by Saratoga Community Access TV was the worst I've ever heard, and I doubt if even the local stations will play it or whether anyone will watch it.

At last night's meeting much happened-

And I sent this out to the discussion list this morning-

    We had a productive meeting last night and voted $1500 to support the 11/11 Scientific 9-11 Conference in Berkeley (www.liftingthefog.org), and $650 to film the October 27th event (Palo Alto Premiere), and to endorse the Halloween Impeachment rally at Nancy Pelosi's office. ..

    The weekend of the 28th/29th is a very busy one for many of us- and Ken Jenkins and I will be out of town completely. I had hoped that someone would volunteer to table and hold a 9-11 presence at the antiwar rally at UN Plaza in SF on the 28th. We are generally most visible and do our best public outreach at anti-war events.

    This morning I had an idea of how to solve this problem, somewhat, (it would help if someone moves forward to take on tabling and responsibility for at least one banner).

    We are doing all we can to fill the Spangenberg Theater on October 27th with our Press for Truth screening and following discussion with Paul Thompson and Peter Dale Scott. We're only charging $5- and it is free to students with ID and we're doing outreach to local high schools, and colleges. Hopefully this will inspire people to action.

    We can set up an ACTION table- providing our Picket signs, packets of Deception Dollars and or handouts and details of the Anti-war rally and the Pelosi impeachment action (as well as other upcoming educational/organizing events- encouraging people to get on our mailing list- participate in our 9-11 Truth Activist Directory.)

    It would mean- getting the picket signs we have left to the event- fixing the ones that don't have backs. Volunteers to man the activist table.

The good thing is more and more people are catching on to 9-11 Truth, but there is more obvious pressure being put on activists to frighten them and shut them up. These next few weeks are going to be a roller coaster ride.

October 18, 2006

I've had my hands full with my family (My son home visiting from College- who likes to eat LOTS of food) and the details of organizing, press, and the regular weekly Listening Project. Mike Berger from www.911Truth.org (who just finished his film- Improbable Collapse and is even busier than me, probably) helped me post some of my films online. He posted a 35 second edited statement/commercial that I gave one day in Downtown Palo Alto/and from earlier video shot by my friend Fiske at Google video- http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3357947368410206809&pr=goog-sl. I still need to watch the 45 minute candidate's forum and get it to the local community access TV stations and posted online.

Ken Jenkins just returned from a successful trip to Austin Texas where he presented his new film 9-11 The Myth and the Reality featuring David Ray Griffin, and Ken was interviewed on the Alex Jones show.

Don Paul was interviewed by Bob Feldman recently, and the interview posted on Towards Freedom.

I also ran across a fascinating article with Captain Eric H. May, Founder of Ghost Troop, and Kay Lucas, Crawford Peace House, posted at The Lone Star Iconoclast Online. I've received emails from Captain May and know that many in the 9-11 Truth movement are very concerned about another 9-11 and are trying to keep an eye on government exercises, hoping that by shining light on them- they won't go "live." and result in another false flag attack upon us.

I often publish Webster's warnings, but it is hard to stay in "panic mode" all the time, so I just refuse to be scared and keep pushing relentlessly to get out the truth ASAP...

I've also joined with 40 candidates in the Longhouse Coalition which is very progressive, and we are voting to add a real 9-11 investigation to the current platform.

So much depends upon the press and the battle for credibility in the public's eyebut it is so "Earth shattering" to many people's worldviews, that there is still great fear to say, "Hey, the emperor has no clothes..."

October 15, 2006

We've been showing the trailers for 9/11 Press for Truth on a TV that Brian has rigged up outside of local film screenings- including the showing of Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers followed by a discussion led by journalist- Dahr Jamail who expanded upon the film's narrow focus on the tragedy that befell the mercenaries who were kiled's families, and the ripoff of the American people by the war profiteers, and looked at the enormous human toll upon over 600,000 Iraqis who have died as a result of the occupation. He also discussed the "fake elections" in Iraq which in many ways are as fake as the elections in this country.

Tonight's film- Stealing America: Vote by Vote was an excellent overview of the stolen election in 2004, and a spur to activate people. It made the cover of the Palo Alto Weekly, along with another local film on the stolen elections which will premiere next weekend (I've been told that I'm featured in that one). To me this issue is almost as powerful a catalyst to waking up the country as 9-11, but also psychologically challenging- people have to overcome the incredible media cover-up, and figure out what actions to take to fix the problem which seems so staggeringly enormous. The film is very heartening in that it does show how people have organized and what they can do and recognizes a vital, growing movement to try to "obtain real democracy" and not just the trappings. I think that I'll start tabling the DVDs, along with my other 9/11 stuff. I also posted more petitions on this site and an article on Indymedia announcing the debut of the new Deception Dollar. October 11, 2006

If I can get 2% of the things that I'd like to do finished in my lifetime- I will have lived a good life. There just aren't enough hours in the day to get half the stuff that I hope to accomplish done in the normal course of a day. Yvonne fixed up a database that works for my campaign website (Unfortunately, I have lost all the previous volunteer data when my computer ate/destroyed 30,000 emails and my campaign manager who quit to run for mayor of Berkeley last April has not resent any of the data.) So my strategy now, is to continue the 9-11 Truth activism work, and if the country wakes up, before the election, informed voters will vote for me. I worked on the campaign website and did a 3 minute speech for local television which will go out on community access and also be posted on the internet.

We passed out hundreds of postcards on the upcoming 9/11 Press for Truth screening at Spangenberg on Saturday night, when Cindy Sheehan and Amy Goodman spoke. I also asked Cindy (afterwards when she visited my table) if she would endorse me as a candidate and gave her a copy of Behind Every Terrorist- There is a Bush (which was also filmed there).

Tim Boyle called me to invite me to MC two events in Colorado on October 28th & 29th with Steven Jones, Kevin Barrett, and Kevin Ryan I was honored to be invited- those three are true heroes! Tim got me an airline ticket and I'll be there for sure.

I've been so busy with the paperwork, contracts, post office, bank, all that stuff that makes it possible to have events, print Deception Dollars, move forward. What I haven't done is make campaign literature or signage, it just always gets postponed, oh well. I also never did get out the newsletter (or a fundraising letter) to my friends and family to let them know that I'm running for Congress, so I've only received about $1000 in unsolicited donations, which doesn't really go very far,

I probably get more press as a 9-11 truth activist than I would as a candidate anyway. I just found the article 9/11 Truth Alliance Gets Word Out Through March and Rally posted by the UCSF student journalist who covered our 5th Annual 9-11 Truth Rally and March.

I got this from Sibel Edmonds-

We definitely need to applaud whistleblowers, support them and encourage more whistle-blowing, as well as the courage that Steven Jones, Kevin Barrett and Kevin Ryan have shown. Those three have all had their jobs threatened by their courageous stands for the truth about 9-11.

I'm in a fortunate position- I can't get fired for speaking out.

Time to load up the car and get to my weekly Listening Project!

October 7, 2006

We got great coverage on Channel 2 of our Green Party event Tuesday night, I will try to get the footage uploaded onto the internet. Wednesday, I held the Listening Project and did media work for our upcoming Palo Alto Premiere of 9/11 Press for Truth with Paul Thompson and Peter Dale Scott. Thursday, October 5th, the day was not looking too promising and rain was forecasted, so I left some stuff in the car, but brought awning, chairs, a sound system for the World Can't Wait- Drive Out the Bush Regime- Day of protest, march, rally, vigil.

I stopped at Hatcher Press to pick up some of the new Deception Dollars and 9/11 Fact Sheets to pass out at the rally and march. Rain makes it so challenging, but a friend of mine, Jerry, Peacemonger, had set up three large awnings, side by side and let us use one of them. We put up the banners, fixed up signs to pass out, put up our little awning, to give us more protection. Quite a few people came, so we were able to carry four banners and pass out lots of signs, though we didn't dare to use the sound system in the rain. I didn't see how large the march was until we got to Market Street, even then it was hard to judge, there must have been at least 5000 people, and I'm sure the numbers swelled, and ebbed and flowed as it was a long three hour march all the way to the Civic Center and back. There were lots of young people and it was very high spirited. It was fun- I love being in the march, and usually get stuck tabling. (Brian minded the table, Scott had planned on it, but sadly got his vehicle towed while we were marching).

About 4 pm when we returned to Justin Herman Plaza, someone told me that they didn't have a sound system. I took mine (the one that George from Veteran's for Peace has let me use) to the stage. It turned out they didn't have a permit, but my system was a legal musician's 9 watt one, so that helped tremendously (and even got mentioned in the SF Chronicle). As it is Fleet Week, the Blue Angels saluted the march, and made a helluva lot of noise as they buzzed by overhead. There were lots of excellent speakers. This is the text of my speech:

    Aung Sung Suu Kyi, wrote: "It is not power that corrupts, but fear— fear of losing power and fear of the scourge of those who wield it.”

    At the roots of violence is fear, like a wounded child, trying to protect his self image and worldview by imposing it upon others. Fear, is the tool wielded to force others into submission, compliance, or silence. Despite their swagger, bullies are cowards; they use violence, but are afraid of those whom they cannot control.

    Humanity is being threatened by physical violence—- weapons, torture, cutting off water, food, and economic aid. This is compounded by the verbal violence of the press, which repeats the lies of those wielding economic and military might. There is also the psychological violence from the threat of losing one’s job, and from legislation which that negates the Bill of Rights and, habeas corpus, and gives the world’s biggest thugs authorization to declare anyone a “terrorist.”

    A velvet glove masks an iron fist, that demands obedience, maintains the fiction of legitimacy, and permits the few to rule over the many.

    Global outrage is growing against fascism, militarism, transnational corporations, American hegemony, the IMF, and the World Bank, is matched by growing assaults against people and the planet.

    Throughout history, people have risen to challenge the forces that would annihilate them. Ya Basta! Enough Already! is one rallying cry. The antidote to “fear” is courage. Every drop of courage nurtures the seeds of hope. One passionate voice, speaking truth, can birth a movement. With a world on fire, more people are reaching out to one another, joining in solidarity, weaving a web of cooperation and respect.

    The American press has ignored mass mobilizations outside the U.S. Only in Seattle, at the end of 1999, when tens of thousands joined in protest against the W.T.O., literally shutting it down, did the existence of a global justice movement, make a blip on the press radar screen. Agent Although agent provocateurs were deployed to discredit it, the movement made a difference. The frightened few in the WTO were faced by the courageous many, and the world took notice.

    9/11 was an act of fear by a global elite that who were afraid of losing power, and tried to bully the world into going along with a gambit for world supremacy. Whether The three possibilities are that the Administration (1) failed to foresee 9/11, (2) allowed 9/11 to happen, or (3) made it happen on purpose. There is the possibility that they are incompetent, stupid, and evil—- by botching the special operation, by thinking that they could get away with it, and by using it to wage war. They deceived large numbers of people, looted the public treasury, and clouded humanity’s reason and ability to effectively react to their crimes. I think that they are all three- incompetent, stupid and evil. We know that the official story is a lie, a hoax. The most outrageous conspiracy theory was the one Cheney used to sell the war on Iraq, by claiming Saddam Hussein was involved with 9/11.

    There are multiple ways to that we can counter the “Big Lies.” Each of us must get to the point where we recognize our the predicament we are in and courageously side with truth, and courage, justice, rejecting the mantra that dominates the mainstream fabricated reality.

    The World Can’t Wait has helped us by creating opportunities for us to speak-out, to join in coalition, to do something powerful, historic, and to redirect the course of human events— to becominge catalysts for an unstoppable wave of opposition to the current regime.

    We should recognize that we are becoming the majority, reflecting world opinion. We are becoming a rival superpower, challenging entrenched elite interests. We, who condemn killing, torture, and violence, must not become drunk with power or paralyzed with fear.

    We must speak truth, respect all people, and welcome the alliance of the ninety-eight percent of humanity who share the deeply held values which that this regime blatantly violates. As Americans, we hold a greater responsibility to curtail the crimes of our government; regime change should begin at home. We should match process with purpose. We must be non-violent, peaceful, truthful, transparent, and not open the door to war, or to civil war, that which can occur when other nations intercede.

    When the people lead, leaders must follow. We must create the parade, we must choose the path, we must offer a vision of the world that we want to create— a world without war, torture, and oppression—- a world where humanity’s resources are not squandered on killing and controlling. Resources should be directed towards real needs, such as education, and the healing of people and the planet.

    The world has been burning now for years. Many of us, have been hard at work, trying to douse the flames. Let us banish fear and, war, with truth, love, and courage. We need many more people, to join us, to support us, in the streets, with their voices, their prayers, their time, their gifts, and their actions. We have become a wave. We will become large enough to quench the fire, to begin the joyous task of healing, of nurturing life, peace, justice, hope, and a better world for all.

The numbers ebbed and flowed through the evening, and I had varying amounts of help tabling. Kai and I went out to eat and sit down a bit. My sound system helped again for the night vigil when people gathered to talk where the tents were rigged up. A woman spoke about her experience as a Kurd and the situation in Iraq, the MiddleEast and her treatment in the US, since 9/11. The discussion was quite lively, and then about 11:30 pm, I had a chance to speak about 9/11, and another lively discussion followed. it was well past midnight when I decided to try to get some sleep, so that I could be functional the next day (and not get sick). Jerry gave me a lift to a hotel. I slept til almost 7 am and rose to be back at the vigil, in time for the sunrise ceremony. Some people stayed awake the whole night, and some slept on the hard ground. About 50 of us formed the morning prayer circle.

The most noticable spirit was one of respect, cooperation, peace and love to counter a violent, vicious fear-mongering regime. Despite all the police with their gear and the presence of "vans to haul everyone away"... I don't think there was any violence or violent confrontations. The worst thing that happened was they didn't give us the sound permit and threatened to take away the good sound system if we used it during the scheduled main rally. The three headed Bush Statue rose and was chained, without a hitch.

The SF Chronicle did a good write-up with some great photos- and our "Neo-Con Jobs- Iraq, 9/11" was clearly visible in the picture of the march.

The people who gathered inspired one another, and I think we all agreed that it was worth the effort and that the resistance movement was growing, and would inspire others.

Brian and I were both pretty exhausted afterwards. We got some great Thai food before heading home.

I returned a phone call from the San Mateo Times and did a quick interview, then I tried to take a nap, and get stuff together for the evening and weekend. It took me half an hour to get the 9/11 Press for Truth event postcards from the local copy store- who had trouble getting the art and understanding that I needed them done by Friday.

Despite the fact that I was an hour late, forgot my speech (a shortened version of what I said to the Green Party), didn't have time for dinner, I think I did ok at the candidate's forum (except I should have said something when Anna was asked about supporting the pro-Israel resolution, in the wake of the attack on Lebanon). The question was directed at Anna, and she tried to dodge it. I figured that I was already on the record as far as condemning Congress for supporting these wars, and not impeaching the Adinistration, but I should have said something in opposition to the US giving the "Green Light" to Israel to take over the Middle-East.

I did mention that I was a bit fuzzy because of the big protest event the night before in San Francisco.

The forum was taped and I hope to get a copy of it and post it on the internet. Anna was still pushing the 9-11 Commission's recommendations, and said that the family members backed them. I gave her a copy of 9/11 Press for Truth.

October 3, 2006

A busy day, I spoke with Peter Dale Scott and he agreed to participate in our October 27th event- the screening of 9/11 Press for Truth, which will be followed by a discussion with Peter and Paul Thompson on the merits of the film and its omissions. I barely got 100 postcards (in black and white) made in time for the Green Party event tonight, which went well, although the hall wasn't packed and Peter Camejo didn't make it. Channel 2 was there and interviewed me and other candidates (I don't know if it will air or not).

I put a lot of effort into handouts, but I don't think many of them were taken- my table was off in the patio, and most people stayed inside with the food and the music. Brian Wallace played and sang.

Here's my 5 minute speech for the Green Party, basically a call for impeachment, a real 9-11 investigation, peace...

October 2, 2006

On Saturday night, Brian and I attended a World Can't Wait meeting, and I got hooked into helping on the program, and will probably help funneling volunteers into the right direction at the event. More phone calls, e-mails, and time. I worked all Sunday and today on speeches, checked the proofs for the new Deception Dollar, and took care of other vital logistics. It's good to see that so many are speaking out, not only on 9-11, but on a number of scandals, all of which put the Administration and Congress under pressure to change course.

Kevin Barret and James Fetzer drew great attention to the 9/11 issue with a lecture last weekend that was taped by the BBC.

I really enjoyed reading Kevin's opening talk entitled A Folklorist Looks at 9/11 ‘Conspiracy Theories”

He's a very good writer, and I was honored to read what he said about the Deception Dollar which I publish, and I believe has really nourished a genuine 9/11 Truth Movement (a term that I coined at our San Francisco International Inquiry into 9-11). Here's an excerpt from his talk (click here for the whole talk- with footnotes):

    In their efforts to annihilate what they see as a whole matrix of engineered hallucination, TMMs are forced to exercise great creativity, which makes their expressive cultural productions that much more interesting from a folklorist’s perspective. Consider the Deception Dollar. (Deception dollars distributed to audience.) The Deception Dollar is one of the most interesting and arguably one of the most effective political pamphlets ever produced. Political pamphlets and posters have been called “instant litter,” and there is even a book by that title collecting and reproducing them. The 9/ll Deception Dollar is rather an “instant classic” that recipients usually want to save and show their friends.

    The Deception Dollar is a clever and realistic parody of the most heavily-cathected piece of paper on the planet, the US Federal Reserve Note. Those who have “taken the red pill” believe that actual Federal Reserve Notes are just green pieces of paper, backed by nothing, produced in great abundance by a private consortium of banks controlled by a relatively small number of immensely powerful families. They believe that actual Federal Reserve Notes are in themselves worthless except for such purposes as elementary toilet functions and the lining of birdcages—tasks for which they are in fact far worse suited than the much larger pieces of worthless paper produced in even greater quantity by monopoly newspaper corporations. But in “matrix reality”—the consensus hallucination of our psychotic society, according to those who have “taken the red pill”—these little scraps of green paper, if and only if they are produced by the Federal Reserve, are unimaginably powerful magical objects. The Matrix-dwellers, when they are handed these powerful magical green scraps of paper, are overcome with astonishment or greed or gratitude. Then they notice that the bill doesn’t look quite right.

    The Matrix-dwellers usually react with a smile or laughter. This is amazing, since 9/11 truth messages typically provoke fear, horror or revulsion in the uninitiated. What makes the Deception Dollar humorous? Folklorist Elliot Oring would say that the humor is based on a perceived incongruity between the heavily-cathected real dollar and the parody. More specifically, Oring writes: “Jokes are forms par excellence that deal with situations of unspeakability, because they may conjoin an unspeakable, and hence incongruous, universe of discourse to a speakable one.” Oring famously analyzed space shuttle disaster jokes like these: “What does NASA stand for? Need another seven astronauts. Where are the astronauts spending their next vacation? All over Florida. What color was Christa McAulif’s eyes? Blue. One blew this way, the other blew that way.”

    Oring concluded that such jokes, usually deplored as tasteless or explained away as therapeutic, are actually a way that people—the folk—talk back to the media. He writes: “Public disasters are media triumphs. They are what make the news. Indeed, our awareness of national or international disasters is dependent upon the media—particularly television news broadcasting. Furthermore, the frame for communication of information about the disaster is established by the media. In doing so, they establish canons of speakability and unspeakability (or viewability and unviewability).” Oring argues that space shuttle Challenger disaster jokes were “a rebellion against a world defined by the media. Much of the world that we have come to know and about which we worry is a media construction. Were it not for the media, our disasters would be far fewer.”

    Especially our terrorist-induced disasters. Even if we assume 9/11 to be the work of foreign terrorists, and still there were no airport security whatsoever, your chances of dying in a hijacked plane would almost certainly be lower than your odds of dying in a car crash on the way to or from the airport. Thus the airport security de-shoeings and purse-dumpings and fluid-confiscatings and pat-down assaults by bored, uniformed thugs that are now an accepted part of air travel have very little to do with reality. They are a response to media disaster images, not to any actual threat.

    The Deception Dollar talks back to the media and to media-constructed reality, just as Oring’s Challenger jokes challenged the media and its matrix. The Deception Dollar tells us that the media’s version of 9/11 is “false currency.” Unable to transmit this message through the media itself, the makers of the Deception Dollar have circumvented the media by creating this amazing little leaflet. Its message is not just that 9/11 was counterfeit, but that green paper depicting a dead president—or a brain-dead president—is itself of questionable value...especially in an era in which the Federal Reserve’s monopoly control of the planet’s currency seems about to implode. Humor makes the message palatable, as it shreds the red-white-and-blue shroud of pious shock-and-awe that the media have draped over the whole subject of 9/11.

    Though a paper artifact, the Deception Dollar advertises websites put up by TMMs. This leads us out of the study of the Truth Movement proper, into a broader consideration of the radical change in folk communications media brought by the internet and digital video. Marshall McLuhan’s famous line “the medium is the message” could describe the way the 9/11 truth movement is an artifact of the internet, and the radically-enhanced folk-communications it has brought. Thanks to digital audiovisuals, email and the world-wide web, the folk are now a leg up on their would-be manipulators, those well-paid professionals in corporate media, public relations, marketing, and psychological warfare or psy-ops, whose collective job is to reify and manipulate their fellow human beings.

    It is one thing for the content of informal, non-institutional, “folk” communication to subvert institutional authority. It is another and more significant thing for the very medium of folk communication to radically shift in a way that empowers the folk and disempowers the institutions. And that is what has happened. The world has been turned upside-down as the old oral-transmission grapevine has gone digital.

    Informal, orally-transmitted skepticism about the official version of events has always been powerful but lacking in precision. It often got the theme right but the details wrong, as Patricia Turner shows in I Heard It Through the Grapevine. Turner shows that when the black community buzzed with rumors about Church’s fried chicken dispensing chemical sterilizers to African-Americans, the message of those rumors—that the white American power structure shows such a lack of consideration for the value of African-American dignity, autonomy, and life that wildly unethical “scientific” programs and experiments could be expected—is basically accurate. Exhibit A would be the infamous Tuskogee experiments, in which black Americans were meticulously observed by scientists as they slowly died of untreated syphilis.

    Today’s digitally-enhanced subversives and skeptics can spread large numbers of copies of audio, video and photographic evidence, along with an unlimited amount of writing, for pennies. This digital awakening may turn out to be our second post-Gutenberg revolution in half a century. Its importance may rival the emergence of writing, which created hierarchical societies of kings, priests and scribes; with the invention of the printing press, which created the kind of mass-literate societies we call “democratic”; and with the invention of television, which McLuhan suggests created a global village of creeping Orwellian fascism. 9/11, in this view, was the last gasp of television as a means of mind-control via mass hypnosis, while the 9/11 truth controversies may represent the birth pangs of the new, digitally-enhanced democracy.

    Whether this prognosis turns out to be right, or a tad over-optimistic, it is entirely appropriate that a university dedicated to fearless sifting and winnowing in pursuit of the truth that will set you free should be a place for reflection on these profoundly important social changes, beginning with the 9/11-related crisis of confidence in our institutions. And it is necessary that folklorists and others in the human sciences think about the way the many-to-many medium of digitally-enhanced folk communication is overthrowing the old one-to-many media of elite-generated social control that have dominated more and more of this planet over the past five thousand years. To study the 9/11 truth movement is to study what may turn out to be the cutting edge of the most significant social-structural change in the history of humanity.

    Then again, it may not. The debate is unresolved. Is the internet’s ability to magnify falsehood as well as truth simply confusing us with garbage in, garbage out? If the most internet-savvy people are the most likely to doubt the official 9/11 myth, is that because they’re discovering the truth—or is the internet just driving internet-savvy people crazy? To answer these questions, we will need the empirical facts about what really happened on 9/11...

I am still working on finalizing the contract for the theater and found a contact at Stanford, whom I hope will help us to show 9/11 Press for Truth there as well. Paul Thompson is a Stanford grad, the star of the film, and coming- so I hope she will help.

I didn't get the press releases out this morning, but Cres got them out this afternoon:

His said:

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
    Monday, October 2, 2006
    For more info: www.cagreens.org/sclara

    ATTN: Assignment Desk/Daybook

    Real ‘terrorists' live in the White House,
    Green Party state, federal, local slate to charge
    Tuesday at major campaign event in Mountain View

    MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. ­ The President and Congress have failed to protect the American people ­ and have made the threat of terror worse according to recent report of U.S. spy agencies ­ claim state, national and local Green Party candidates who will attend a major public event here Tuesday.

    The event is being held from Tuesday 6:45 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Historic Adobe House, 157 Moffett Boulevard, in Mountain View, sponsored by the Green Party of Santa Clara County.

    There will be media availability at 6:30 p.m. A reception begins at 6:45 pm, candidates will speak at 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

    The Green Party ­ which calls itself the true "opposition party" for peace, justice and Democracy ­ has come out strongly against the PATRIOT Act, torture, and in favor of impeachment, immigrants rights, electoral reform, and an end to War on Iraq.

    The candidates who will be speaking include- Todd Chretien for U.S. Senator, Peter Miguel Camejo for Governor, Forrest Hill for Secretary of State, Mehul Thakker for Treasurer, Michael Wyman for Attorney General, Laura Wells for Controller, Larry Cafiero for Insurance Commissioner, Carol Brouillet for the 14th District U.S. House of Representatives and Tian Harter for the Mountain View City Council (nonpartisan).

    "Congress failed in its duty to protect the Constitution, the American people, any pretense of justice or moral high ground, by passing a law denying habeas corpus to ‘terror suspects,'" said Bay Area Green Party congressional candidate Brouillet.

    "‘Fighting terrorism' is a mask for extending U.S. power abroad and curtailing our liberties at home. We must rein in the terrorists occupying the White House, who are the real threat to our liberties, and a threat to all those who stand in the path of their global domination project," she added.

He'll blast it again tomorrow morning.

September 30, 2006

It has been totally hectic trying to finalize the art, websites, financing of the latest Deception Dollar. I wanted to include printing 9-11 fact sheets, at the same time- to bring down the price. The cards are great, but they cost a dime each- and it gets expensive to pass out a thousand or two of them. We're going to print just over 500,000 Deception Dollars and about 40,000 9/11 fact sheets.

When I had just about given up on getting a theater to show 9/11 Press for Truth, I got a call from the local High School and was told that the auditorium (which holds 900) was available. It's pricey and insurance is very expensive, but I think we'll go for it. I called up Paul George of the local Peace and Justice Center to see if they would like to be a co-sponsor which would make it easier for us (and less expensive to get insurance)... and I think it would be good if we could work together, although Paul has consistently turned me down for all the other film screenings that I have organized for the past decade or so- I still try to work with him.

I had hoped to get out press advisories for the Meet and Greet the Green Party Candidates October 3rd event, since Tuesday, but I was so swamped that I barely got a few out on Friday, and posted something on Indymedia (including on their calendar). Flyers weren't made til Friday, and I improvised a backside and printed 400 to pass out locally. I was in such a rush that I made some horrendous typos (embarrassing since it is my first official campaign literature and I misspelled the word "planet," oh well- it's just a flyer and hits the main points of my campaign, plus the October 5th World Can't Wait event, and the film screening of 9-11 Press for Truth, the details of which I will figure out by Monday.

Yesterday was Jeremy's brithday; he turned 16, and we all celebrated- went out to dinner, played, opened presents and ate cake. My husband and the kids are going to Yosemite this weekend with the Boy Scouts, normally I would go, but I'm just too swamped with work.

This morning Fred, Brian and I passed out flyers for the Green Party candidates forum which was mentioned in the San Jose Mercury News the other day and perhaps the Mountain View paper. I'm just sorry that I can't keep up with all that needs to be done, and I need to contact my volunteers and mobilize them. Unfortunately, I haven't had time- even to catch up with the woman who is fixing my database for the campaign website.

On Thursday when I went to Oakland to do the 5 minute candidate statement for Channel 2, I was delighted to hear Caroline Casey speak very highly of 9-11 Press for Truth and Paul Thompson. She also spoke of the need for a new story and the need to "Unmask War" which I was glad to hear since the theme of the new Deception Dollar is to "Unmask State Sponsored Terrorism."

I just got a call from Kris Millegan (publisher of Trine Day Press), too and it looks like the tide has turned so dramatically against the Bush Regime that even the military and intelligence agencies are out to oust them. The sexual misconduct of Republicans and Democrats is coming to the surface and should get rid of quite a few of the entrenched power-holders.

Of course the stronger the 9-11 Truth movement, the stronger the attacks against us. Now we're under fire from the Rolling Stone magazine. As Gandhi said: "First they ignore you, then they fight you, and then you win."

Sadly the Congress's vote to set us back 800 years and destroy Habeus Corpus, to legitimatize torture, and give the Administration the ability to define anyone opposed to them as a "terrorist," is more evidence of the "elite's"corruption and fear of real democracy, dissent, and truth.

September 27, 2006

Another very busy day, I was glad dz posted my plea for feedback on the art on his website, and I got some good feedback and suggestions which I passed on to Blaine, who has been working on two new bills- regular and the billion dollar note-

  
  
If the art gets to the printer tomorrow morning, we could possibly get bills in time for the big October 5th World Can't Wait Day of action in San Francisco, and my subsequent October 6th debate/forum with the incumbent Democrat, aspiring Republican, Libertarian candidates for CA Congessional District 14. That's why I'm in a rush to print- I had hoped we'd have had them by September 11th, but we keep waiting for the art...

So, I'm not sure if we will go with these or not. If John Leonard is not happy with the art for the Billion Dollar note- we will not publish it, and just stick with the regular version/with and without graffiti, and print fewer bills.

I still haven't found a Theater for the event I had hoped to hold. Lots of people came to the Listening Project today- it almost felt like a meeting, enough people to take a vote! I didn't get to write and fax press releases for our big Green Party event next Tuesday, and tomorrow I get to give a 5 minute speech for broadcast on local television.

I wish there were more hours in the day and that people would return phone calls and emails, but then who am I to criticize, when I can't respond to all the communications that I get, either.

I do wish that I could get Blaine to slip in a few more sites on the new bill. 911andamericanempire is supposed to link to the new book- volume 1, and include a link to the DVD of the same title, and volume 2 will be appearing soon...I think the book will help us to win over the public and raise consciousness- which is why I featured it and asked the publisher to get the domain name and develop a site for it- traditionally we highlight the best books on 9-11 to help the movement forward... I have gotten some criticism for including it. And plenty of criticism for excluding other sites- particularly the ones that attack me.

One other idea I had was to print the 11 Remarkable Facts about 9/11 on the same paper, instead of two bills- which would mean that we would have colorful, informative, fact sheets to pass out, which would be much cheaper than the heavier ten cent cards. I understand the Deception Dollars are too subtle for some people to use, but I think we need multiple devices to communicate our message- music, film, art, literature, fact sheets, websites, T-shirts...banners, plays, rock operas, whatever it takes to "wake the folk up"...

September 26, 2006

A very challenging day, still no luck with securing a theater. Lauro has been busy doing interviews and defending himself and it's all over the internet. I updated his original letter (Erasing references to where he worked and the phone number- I hope he doesn't get fired. Adding links to print articles, the radio interview and his response to the heaviest questions about his statements.)

I sent off the speech to Channel 2, and talked with Blaine about the new Deception Dollar. I must admit that I have been hovering between despair and hope the past two days between major disappointments and deeply held hopes. I think what I am trying to do is impossible and that I have to just "let go of" the things that I simply can not get done in a timely fashion. It's hard to let go. I do believe that in some ways I fit that joking description of a fanatic- "When they realize what they are trying to do is impossible, they redouble their efforts."

I'm giving up on Blaine getting the Conception Dollar (which was my hope for my Congressional Campaign) done before the election. If I can't get a theater by Thursday- I will give up on trying to hold a big 9-11 Truth event in Palo Alto this October.

If I don't get any feedback on the new bill, I might give up on printing them in large quantities:

Draft of Issue #9-










We will cease to publish the Media Deception and the Election Deception bills. At this point, it looks like we will only print half a million (if that) and maybe half regular, half Billion Dollar notes, which feature 9/11 Synthetic Terror- Made in the USA.

If anyone wants to be a distributor, and wants them in large quantity, they should contact me ASAP. Of course tomorrow I have a demo, and need to get out the press release for the Green Party event next week. It will be midnight before I get to bed- I still need to buy groceries, milk and other necessities for the kids.

September 25, 2006

Last night I was up til 1 am at the great 9-11 and American Empire event in Berkeley. Unfortunately, I didn't get enough sleep, and I am very tired so I'm going to be very succinct. I spoke with Lauro Chavez, and I think he is genuine, and hope to get him out for an event this October, but still need to secure a venue. I was able to review 9-11 Mysteries and it is excellent. The filmmaker is also willing to come out for a screening. I got clips from NBC and ABC from the Cheney Protest and Premiere of 9/11 Press for Truth... very disappointing and depressing, now I remember why I stopped watching TV. They didn't include what I said about Cheney's actions on 9/11 or the wargames after all... We have a very, very, long way to go... one of the clips had Boxer on saying we should go after Bin Laden, selling the bogus war on terror... like the Dems would do it better...

I love Blaine's new Deception Dollar design, but it still isn't finished, and no sign of a Conception Dollar, with time running out. One hopeful email from someone who might volunteer as a campaign manager... I hope so- I need help! I spoke with the Channel 2 person who is organizing the candidate statements, about the 5 minutes I have as a candidate (There is a laundry list of dos and don'ts), and she said I could nail the Administration (just don't attack the person I'm challenging in the Election- Congress is fair game as well for passing the PATRIOT Act), but I'm sure to regular FOX viewers, I'll sound like someone from a distant galaxy...

The nice thing about being a mom is I can't get fired.

September 22, 2006, 11:15 pm

I was going to go to sleep earlier, but just happened to catch this posting at 911blogger.com that is so significant that I just mirrored it in its entirety on this website Sergeant Lauro "LJ" Chavez, 9/11 Whistle Blower Speaks Out in Cincinnati Post. </