Hi David, Chris, and Terri,
In the last two days we have spoken with at least 15 people in four towns in conversations ranging from a minute to half an hour. They ranged from an 85-year-old fixer of stringed instruments to three high schoolers (one in one town, two in the next). They included a local police chief in his cruiser who couldn’t have been nicer, a general store clerk who sold us a sandwich which she cut in half and a Coke, a man raking in his front yard, a woman who had seen us hours before and had parked her car and walked from it to talk with us, and a man and a woman (separately) exiting from the same post office each with a parcel.
Two were a pair of Seventh Day Adventists with their tracts (though they could have been FBI agents) who asked us nicely what we were doing. We told them, and I added that if I weren’t a follower of Jesus I wouldn’t be doing it. True. They continued smiling. This was the one-minute conversation.
One was a Cuban-American whose first birthday on U.S. soil was on Sept. 11, 2001, which ruined everything.
Another was a construction worker who stopped in his pickup after a day’s work.
Most of these people have researched 9/11 online and elsewhere, some much further than either of us have. If they’re FBI agents they’re really good at pretending to be something they’re not — earnest citizens relieved to talk with someone as concerned about the mass murders of September 2001, the wars they enabled warmongers to wage, the apparent gagging of the news media that might otherwise not be parroting the government line or doing nothing … and so on.
As on previous days, all them got “Why the Truth about 9/11 Still Matters” brochures on which one of us had written our blog’s address in a margin. As on previous days, we suggested to them, when we remembered, that they go to www.911TAP.org and sign the petition:
I hereby petition for, and demand, an independent, comprehensive investigation, satisfying all standards specified by the 9/11 Truth Action Project, including subpoena power, testimony under oath, and study of all relevant evidence, leading to transparency and accountability for the crimes of September 11, 2001 and justice for its victims. My name, city, and state will be publicly presented to Congress at www.911TAP.org. My other information will remain private and not released to third parties.
By the way … motorists’ toots, waves, smiles and thumbs-up continue to outnumber negative reactions to seeing us walking along by about 20 to 1.
— Mark
Great post Mark. So glad to know you and Bruce are fit and hale, or hale enough, and back in action, doing the mainstream media’s job for it, which is to say getting important news out to the people of the country, something media giants like NBC- and CBS-TV and the mighty New York Times and Washington and their like have, for some reason, forgotten to do touching 9/11, to their permanent disgrace. Oh well, at least they’re overpaid and enjoying a comfortable lifestyle and receiving honors and awards every other week for their valuable service to the country, the fact that they have plunged great segments of the citizenry into a vicious and interminable nightmare of information insufficiency on one of the supreme issues of American notwithstanding. But of course the Establishment always has noble reasons for the things it does, since it’s members, many with hundred dollar bills from their grandmothers falling out of their pockets, know what’s best for the rest of us.
But you and Bruce are counteracting all that. Dei gratiae there are still some responsible people in this country.
Bon courage, mates, may the wind be at your back every step of the remaining way. Must feel good to know you’re getting close. What an accomplishment!
*Washington Post