. . . from near the beginning of “Demolition of Truth: Psychologists Examine 9/11,” a documentary produced a year or so ago and available in DVD through Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.

“The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.” — Rollo May, American existential psychologist

“Fifteen years have passed. . . . There is substantial NEW evidence that the government didn’t address in their 9/11 reports . . . and hasn’t acknowledged since. Why has public debate become taboo?” — William Woodward, PhD, experimental psychologist

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Note: Activity on this blog will pick up. Although we — Bruce Henry and Mark Miller — completed our walk from Provincetown on Cape Cod to the New York State line, there is much to be said about it that is not boring. We learned a lot that we didn’t get down in pixels here and will make up for it.

— Mark

. . . in a play to be performed off-Broadway.

This just in from Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth:

“It may have taken almost 17 years, but the truth about what happened in Lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001, is finally finding its way onto the New York City stage.

“A Blanket of Dust, a new play by Richard Squires, will run from June 6th until June 30th at the Flea Theater, just blocks away from where the tragic events depicted in the play actually took place.

“The play tells the story of Diane Crane, a modern-day Antigone and U.S. Senator’s daughter, whose husband is killed in the attacks. Diane rushes to the scene and stands helplessly in the dust of the fallen Twin Towers as she watches the stunning collapse of World Trade Center Building 7.

“Her skepticism of the quickly forming official narrative, born instantly from her visceral experience of the destruction, launches her on a quest for justice that drives her to the outer fringes of society and leads ultimately to a harrowing act of sacrificial tragedy.

“Learn more about this trailblazing theatrical production and purchase your tickets now at ABlankeofDust.com. Also, hear what 9/11 family member Bob McIlvaine has to say about the play. We’ll see you at the theater!

“On the morning of 9/11, Diana Crane, the daughter of a ranking US Senator, gets a farewell phone call from her husband trapped in Tower 1, just as it collapses. She is tortured by the evidence that the Towers seemed to fall identically, with their remains suggesting they were intentionally demolished.

“Follow Diana as she pursues the most powerful people in Washington for answers to her husband’s death, only to learn that the government for the people, by the people, . . . may not actually be for the people.”

— Mark

It’s approaching 6 p.m. without an entry specifically about the walk having been written, so here is another excerpt from Melanie Challenger’s article, “Fear Itself,” in the latest issue of Orion:

“Most animals tend to fear what they’re justified in fearing. But if you can think about fear, you can distort or invent it. In one of the many strange reversals in our seminatural world, humans have somehow managed to make being afraid more important than whether or not there’s any reason to be so.”

The whole article may be found at https://orionmagazine.org/article/fear-itself/ .

— Mark

New York State and Massachusetts are divided by a line of low hills running roughly north-south, the Taconic Range. U.S. Route 20 traverses a gap in them and the actual NYS-MA border at US20 runs close to the ridge on the west slope. On Monday, May 14, Mark and I walked up and over the gap to the state line, thus completing the trans-Massachusetts 9/11 Truth Walk.

True to form, on the final leg we were stopped twice by curious motorists: first by young Brady Hanford who lives hard by Hancock Shaker Village right on US20; later by videographer Jason Velazquez, who interviewed us with his smartphone for a blog post or a podcast on The Greylock Glass. Before Velazquez we were passed by two friends,Christopher Gruener and Al Magaletta from Boston 9/11 Truth, who wanted to witness the end of the walk and were driving ahead to the border. My wife Ellen Gillespie and Velazquez also met us there.

Ample photographs and videos were recorded on smart phones. An agreeable surprise was a bottle of Brut (like Champagne) brought by Al and Chris, duly quaffed at the state line.

Walk completed, documented (endpoint), and celebrated, and Al and Chisneeding to get back to eastern Mass, a Honda Civic and a Toyota Prius Cwith a total of five people headed a few miles east. Velazguez headed elsewhere.

The party stopped for a hearty lunch at Hancock Shaker Village then split in the HSV parking lot; Al and Chris bound for Boston and north; Mark, Bruce, and Ellen to Pittsfield and home, agreeing to meet anon to discuss how to follow up The Walk.

— Bruce H.

Orion, an increasingly known magazine published Great Barrington here in Berkshire County, concentrates “on nature, the environment, and culture, addressing environmental and social issues,” according to its official website.

The latest issue carries a long article by Melanie Challenger entitled “Fear Itself.” Here’s  a passage from it:

“When there is a well of anxiety under the surface of human life, the stories we tell matter deeply because, when it comes to our fears, we have always been poor storytellers of fact. Stories occupy the working core of our outlook and rationality. We can tell stories that trigger our biases or we can tell stories that steady our arm.”

The whole article is at https://orionmagazine.org/article/fear-itself/ . With permission from the people at Orion, we may cite other passages in “Fear Itself” in the future.

— Mark

We had decided arbitrarily (but not without tacit approval by spouses) to telephone home for pickup daily once we had crossed the Connecticut River.

Wanting to visit Olive Branch Press in Northampton, publisher of David Ray Griffin’s 9/11 books, we stayed an extra night at a motel in Hadley in order to cross the river into Hamp on a weekday, Monday May 07. Arriving after 9:00 AM, we found the Olive Branch warehouse not yet open.

Proceding through “metro” Northampton we visited a bookstore in Thornes Marketplace (formerly a department store), which had two copies of DRG’s latest opus.

Outside, we spoke in succession to: 1) octogenarian who was not too sure but generally with us, then 2) college freshman or sophomore Ethan on the same page as we, who estimated 40% to 60% of his age cohort think likewise.

Moving uphill out of Northampton, we gained the village of Florence and stopped for lunch at the Miss Florence Diner, where a pair of workers in another booth indicated approval of our signs and a “Why the Truth about 9/11 Still Matters” folder and thanked us.

On into the Leeds section of Williamsburg … where a woman from a hilltown further west approached us, apparently starved for 9/11 conversation. We jawed with her for a half hour, then had to break away. I referred her to Jonathan Mark, a Valleyite, and his FlybyNews.

The chat touched on the Bonnie Prudden Institute (of which she is an alumna), which I am proud to have honored with a limerick from circa 1968 and recited it:

There was a young woman called Tina
Who loved to eat creamed wheat farina [Andrea Shalit]
She blew up like a blimp,
Took a look and went limp,
Bonnie Prudden gave her a subpoena. [B. Henry]

In metropolitan Williamsburg a pair of high school students stopped us briefly looking for our perspective on 2001-09-11, when they were toddlers.

The Brewmaster’s Tavern at the upper end of downtown Williamsburg provided a welcome beer-and-sandwich stop and we telephoned Ellen, who soon enough rolled up in the Gillespie-Henry Honda Civic to wing us to Pittsfield for the night, marking the end of our walking with heavy backpacks.

Dropped off there by Ellen the next morning (T, MY 08), we met two post office patrons successively: a knowledgeable man and a woman identifying herself as the wife of a third-generation ironworker who had said the World Trade Center demolitions could not have happened as in the official account.

MA route 9 runs between Pittsfield and Boston. Milage from the center of Pittsfield is posted every half mile much of the way. The marker near the pick-up point in Williamsburg read 35.0 miles (to Pittsfield). Two days’ march? Three?

We started the climb to the summit in Goshen … then (after three separate conversations) down into Cummington where (after two conversations) we “ran out of gas” at mile 19 from Pittsfield.

Having picked us up there, Ellen delivered us back Wednesday morning to the 19-mile mark, and we began the climb out of West Cummington and over into Windsor (and a bite and a beer at a picnic table outside Friendly Fred’s Citgo), thence down into and through Dalton and into Pittsfield.

The western terminus of MA9 is Park Square, about two miles west of our respective houses, so our milages MY 09 were on the order of 17-18 miles, covered gratefully leaving for another day undetermined to reassemble at intersection of South Street and US route 20 for a final ~10 mile leg to the New York State line.

— Bruce

A supporter of the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry wrote the following letter to all members of the Senate Intelligence Committee as the confirmation hearings for President Trump’s nominee for CIA director, Gina Haspel, got under way:

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Dear Senator _______:

Thank you for your service to our country.

I am writing to inform you of evidence regarding 9/11 events that has just been presented to U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman of the Southern District Court of New York.

On April 10, 2018, the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry presented a 54 page Petition requesting that a Special Grand Jury be convened to investigate the scientific forensic evidence that pre-placed explosives caused the freefall symetrical global collapses of World Trade Center Buildings 1, 2, and 7.

The entire Petition and Index of Exhibits is available online at www.lcfor911.org

I am providing to you the Committee’s Executive Summary of this Petition in the attached file.

I am an independent advocate for a new investigation of the 9/11 events.  The truth is becoming known now.

Would you please ask Ms. Haspel if she had knowledge of those pre-placed explosives?

Thank you, Senator.

Ann Hendricks

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Ms. Hendricks is a resident of Grand Portage, Minnesota.

Deputy Director of the CIA since February2017, Ms. Haspel is currently the agency’s Acting Director.

Bill Jacoby of the 9/11 Truth Action Project (https://www.911tap.org/) commented yesterday:

“Regardless of whether her request gets any traction among the senators, I think this is stunning example of an American citizen standing up to power–something not one of those senators will do as courageously.”

(See the entry below, for May 7, for an article about the Lawyers’ petition to the Justice Department.)

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We realized recently that our names, Bruce Henry and Mark Miller, haven’t appeared in this blog recently as earlier entries no longer appear.

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