I have nothing negative to share about any of the signs specifically. In general I wish that there had been more large signs. I've always felt that people in this country don't take adequate advantage of this medium. Look at a protest march from anywhere else in the world, and the message is clear from blocks away. Of course, its very challenging to think of a summary statement that is both powerful, and as short as possible, allowing the words to be large. Adding a bit of candor is the hardest part.

Some part of me wanted our sign to say, "Don't be brainwashed by the fascist death machine." But then how might that reflect poorly on the movement? We put "9/11 was an inside job." on one side of our banner because we feel that this is a statement of solidarity within the movement, and hits our common purpose without getting too specific. On the other side, "The lies will not stand!" was meant to draw upon the appeal being made by many other political and religious groups at Ground Zero that day. I wonder what others were thinking as they made their signs.

International Truth Movement
http://www.truthmove.org

While this topic better suits the Rigorous Intuition blog, I too have felt at times that my internet service was being intentionally compromised. I have had serious connection issues for over a year. Yet other people in our building, with the same service, have no problems. Everytime we call Verizon, we get the same run around. We've had people out to check the lines three times. Most often it just starts working again for no apparent reason. However, recently our service has completely shut down, and the guys at Verizon appear to have no explanation. We've started surfing on local remote networks instead. This all makes me wonder how many others have this experience, and if the majority are from one demographic or political group. Paranoid, yes. Unreasonable, no.

We shouldn't be concerned at all about being tracked on the internet. Obviously it's gonna happen. All it shows it how big of a problem we're seen to be. The worse things get in terms of damage control, it just means we're doing more damage.

Did anyone watch Chavez' speech at the UN? (I liked when he said it still smelled of sulfer from yesterday) Chavez said that the entire world is waking up to the imperialist agenda. Of course TV tells me that Chavez is a dangerous communist, who is so evil that he even threatened economic retribution if we attack his allies (how dare he!). My favorite part of the speech was when he said that Bush would live in a nightmare for the rest of his days. Karma is unstoppable. This is true of not just Bush but all those who see their grip on world power slipping away. We cannot hope or expect that ALL the September Criminals will be caught, surely some will slip away to live their wretched existance out in hiding, but they will all be subject to a unique brand of punishment. When the powerful become powerless and weak, exiled and hated, the psychological torment on their unique type of personality will be hard to fathom. After all, the higher you are, the harder you fall.

We've all had secrets, big ones and small ones, good ones and bad ones, and they all weigh on your mind proportionate to their percieved importance. The lives of those who hold the biggest secrets are full of misery. All men have concience and empathy, some are just better at hiding it from themselves those around them than other people. Imagine the weight of guilt on our enemies, and rejoice that our weight has been lifted by the truth, while the secrets of our enemies bend them to the ground like beggars.