PCR states far more eloquently than I that the way to keep truth alive is NOT to start from the top down because they are all rigged, but instead, start from the bottom up by informing the populace and creating and sustaining alternative information seeking and delivery systems.

Coming to know the truth offers at least some stability to "the governed masses" when compared to the unsurity of propaganda and lies, and thusly, truth seeking emotionally benefits the people. Truth seeking and knowledge DOES give people hope that someday some things might change.

Without understanding the truth about what PCR is saying here, that the game is completely corrupted for the seemingly endless benefit of a few, the public is hopelessly cornered. But they need not be for too much longer. I try to make the point whenever I can that the single BIGGEST contribution that the 9/11 truth Movement brings to the USofA, if not the world because of our national arrogance, is that the 9/11 Truth Movement re-legitimizes truth seeking in face of all adversaries...IE: we are taking on the world's largest police organization...talk about town hall? Truth seeking, and hopefully truth DEMANDING, will spread out to all other issues well beyond the events of 9/11. With that statement, I do not mean to diminish the events of, or the victims of the awful self-inflicted attacks of 9/11, nor the hundreds of thousands of lives lost, lives damaged or injured, or lives displaced forever. Its just that over he longhaul, truth seeking is the larger "healing" deal here.

PCR is concerned about the veracity of the truth seeking process becoming compromised as many movements become, and it is a very good concern. Since Cindy Sheehan made her way to the top of the peace movements located in WDC and found out that indeed the "fish head was rotted" we can now openly talk about the failures and deep compromising that has taken over the peace movements themselves. And its because a few at the top were coerced into taking positions that benefitted the establishment such as the Democratic Party and the Military Industrial Complex et al, and therefore, became a tool of self-defeat. I sense that PCR is noting this historical compromising of a once prideful attempt at societal change. But there is great hope.

Perhaps Paul Craig Roberts has not been to some of our 9/11 Truth Conferences, or very close to all the "dust-ups" that we have as we "vett" each other's works and thoughts on almost a daily, if not hourly basis. The 9/11 truth Movement's "truth seeking process" is amazing in its originality, its veracity, it's creativity, its REFUSAL to accept any more lies from politicians, corporations, major media operations, and of course above all else, the US Military.

The Pentagon will expend any resources required to put down any insurrection that threatens its 500 BILLION dollar slush fund that it gets EVERY YEAR to develop its latest round of killing devices that IRONICALLY, are now designed to operate in "grown-up" sand boxes in the middle east. The little boys of yesteryear playing toy soldier in their daddy's sandboxes has matured into their wildest dreams...their dreams that are just as disconnected now from the real deaths of human beings as they were disconnected decades earlier when the little lads positioned their toy tanks and plastic soldiers into a better position get a better arrangement to shoot at each other.

Perhaps PCR does not understand that the strength of the 9/11 Truth Movement comes from the very strengths and individuality of the citizens within the 9/11 Truth Movement who fiercly dig in their heels, refuse to lower their standards, and steadfastly avoid getting under one organizational authority. This 9/11 Truth Movement is such that if one head is sliced off, a few more will replace it. Just take a look at what Wayne Prante helped start in Vancouver, BC not even 12 months ago when there were just a few whisperings about establishing formal 9/11 Truth organizations in Canada. Now, 15 or 20 strong, they spread across Canada from coast to coast reminding me of the NORAD radar sites and systems north of the US border that had protected us well until they were compromised for the attacks on 9/11/2001. Somehow there is a significance to this continuity in all of this.

So, I ask 9/11 Truthers once again, do you want to do as the activists did in the 60s and 70s and CONFRONT AUTHORITY and yell at the yet-to-be informed "sheeple", thus repeating the downfall of the peace movements of that era, or, do you want to become our own media, to become our own educators, to become the force that brings people's power back closer to their homes and farther away from all the corrupted governments, organizations, authors and bastions of militarism all of which comprise John Perkins' "corporatocracy"? What do you want to become in this looming change?

If you want to move ahead, then lets modify our public conduct and hit the streets in our and nearby towns with information and hope on a routine basis. Lets NOT buy into what the peace movements did...creating the occasional big march and rallies in distant places that albeit, are wonderful to attend, but are a vast waste of time, energy, resurces and enthusiasm. CI...Civil Informationing is FUN, REWARDING, EFFECTIVE, and very, very patriotic. The one thing that I will say about the old folks from the 60s and the 70s who did spend some time in the streets, but have sinced gone on vacation thinking that their mission was accomplished [to borrow famous and applicable phrase] thinking that they had been completely successful, they are ones who DO walk up to us and express their appreciation that someone is out in the streets keeping the rust off of the first amendment...THAT knowledge, they do understand. Not dressing up like a "Cat-in-theHat on stilts" and chanting the same old words that nobody hears and that there is a NEW reality in town, is something that they have yet to learn...and why these folks are not out on their own streets corners simply baffles me.

Mr. Roberts, perhaps you too will come to have more hope for this country should you look into the growth and development of CI...Civil Informationing. CI has come about from the 9/11 Truth Movement's dedication to truth seeking and to being our own media by reaching out to citizens one-on-one, or in localized smaller street actions. If you become interested in this new millenium mechanism, you can find some information at www.911civilinfo.blogspot.com to get just a few examples about what some of us are doing to take our democracies back one person at a time. For example, take a look at what the 9/11 Truthers in Dallas are up to...flying 9/11 truth seeking banners overhead Dallas with HUGE banners towed behind airplanes. And after that, look out because we are so very, very creative in how to reach the people. and very determined to do so. We all know what the corporatocracy looks like, and they don't really know what truth seekers look like...and when they do figure it out inorder to stop us, we will change up yet again.

Its time to decentraize and reclaim the power that we have erroniously assigned politicians and the fourth estate. Its time to REcentralize power and responsibility back into our homes via laptops...and back into our lives by becoming more informed...and back into our local communities by performing acts of CI...Civil Informationing...and back into our lives by changing our governments by voting all the corrupted people out and replacing them with some good people who will do the "people's work"...instead of doing the work of the corporatocracy. I call this recentralization the "98% Solution".

Its 2008, not 1968...and the current 12-20 year olds have our backs because they have grown up with skills to reach, and access to the webworld. That the kids have our backs is only because so many of the old folks from the 60s and 70s are simply looking in the wrong direction...for now. Lets hope that Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young retool their song "Teach Your Children Well", to "Teach Your Parents and Grandparents Well"!

CI...Civil Informatioing puts a PERSON at the end of the keyboards to the world...THAT'S why it is so rewarding...we are meeting each other again as we behave CIVILY and are in place to be INFORMATIVE.

Love, Peace and Progress with:

PUBLICALLY FUNDED ELECTIONS using HAND COUNTED PAPER BALLOTS on a NEW PAID FEDERAL VOTING HOLIDAY...just for starters!

Robin Hordon

Ironic -- and, I suppose, admirable -- that Roberts manages to praise Justin Raimondo and Lew Rockwell on the one hand, yet to decry how physicists and engineers are effectively extorted not to question the 9/11 OTC.

Yet Raimondo and Rockwell themselves, on their respective popular websites, systematically black out all and any material calling into doubt the OTC.

Yes, both websites pay Creators Syndicate to reprint Roberts's syndicated column. (The commentary quoted above was specially written for International Clearing House.) But, as I've carefully researched and described elsewhere, all Roberts's columns that even allude to how 9/11 was a false flag operation are killed on both websites, not even maintained in their archives of his past Creators Syndicate columns.

So far as I'm concerned, Roberts has the patience of a saint respecting those two weasels who pretend, on the one hand, to be radical opponents of the Afghan and Iraq wars, yet won't allow so much of a hint of discussion, by Roberts or anyone else, about what paved the way for those invasions. (Indeed, someone relying solely on antiwar.com or lewrockwell.com for their news wouldn't know that a 9/11 truth movement even exists.)

Up with the courageous and insightful Paul Craig Roberts.

Down with the cowardly and hypocritical Justin Raimondo and Lew Rockwell.