I couldn't have done what you did... Hat's off to you.

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FYI, my dodgy-quality YouTube viddy of Johnson is sitting at 9,600 (now over 11,000 since this morning) hits in just over one day of viewing. I have updated the video with clickable annotations to all of Blair's YouTube videos now, and Kucinich's impeachment articles;

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3lgEpaLVjgo

Any webmasters out there who can link up the video, please do.

Higher quality video here: http://911blogger.com/node/16064

This was a real landmark on the road to 9/11 TRUTH!
My appreciation and thanks to everyone involved!! This helps to save lives.

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"IT IS ONLY THE CITIZEN WHICH CAN RAISE FREEDOM AND LIBERTY IN THIS LAND." ---William Pepper
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If one does not thoroughly LOOK, the TRUTH is not visible.

You are an American hero. So is Karen Johnson. My hats off to you both. The real truth will come out. They can't lie about everything forever! Again, thanks for your courage. A long time ago i read a book called 'The miracle of fasting'. I forget the author's name. You may, or nay not want to look it up.

Awesome courageous job! Your brave actions have brought us closer to the truth and justice we demand.

Truth Will Prevail

Thank you Blair. You have done a beautiful thing.

Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Thanks Blair. I'm greatly relieved you're calling a halt on it now. Your strength of spirit is truly inspiring and I wish a speedy return to your physical strength.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0612montini0612.h...

Thin man hungers for meaty answers

The Arizona Republic
Jun. 12, 2008 12:00 AM
The thin man who has been starving himself outside the Phoenix office of U.S. Sen. John McCain bugs us.

You can tell by some of the things people shout as they pass in cars on 16th Street. You can tell by some of the remarks left online about the article about the man earlier this week by The Republic's Richard Ruelas.

The idea of this now-skinny guy sitting on a lawn chair in the shade just south of Missouri Avenue gets on our nerves.

And it is not only because this particular man believes that the U.S. government was complicit or perhaps even responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

It's more than that.

Reasonable people can question 45-year-old Blair Gadsby's judgment. We can question his objectivity. We can even question his sanity. What we cannot question, however, is his commitment.

And that bugs us.

After all, here is a man who, until he stopped eating and started parking himself outside on office building on a busy street, appeared for all the world to be perfectly normal. He's intelligent and articulate. He teaches at a community college. He's married.

But, for over two weeks, he sat in 100-degree heat holding up a sign about 9/11 conspiracies and not eating.

I stopped by to see him on Tuesday after he had been to the state Capitol as a guest of state Sen. Karen Johnson, who has her own doubts about what happened on 9/11.

"It was very discouraging to be up in the balcony (at the Capitol) and to see people rolling their eyes and scoffing at what we represent," Gadsby told me.

I told Gadsby that it isn't just his conspiracy theories that cause people to roll their eyes. It is the fact that he is willing to put everything on the line for something he believes in.

Those of us who never would do such a thing - meaning, most of us - need to believe that Gadsby is crazy.

It allows us to hide our self-doubt in ridicule.

"We'll accept that the leaders of Sudan will do terrible things to their own people and that Saddam (in Iraq) would do terrible things to his people," Gadsby said. "Why wouldn't there be a few rotten apples among our people who would do such things?"

On Wednesday afternoon, some of the people in what Gadsby calls the "movement" were scheduled to gather with him. It was the 11th of the month, a day of protest for 9/11 conspiracy believers. It also was the day that Gadsby said he expected to end his fast.

McCain's office promised to respond to some of his questions, and he felt that his hunger strike had raised public awareness. Still, he wonders why the media is dismissive of the questions he asks. For instance, he said, why put quotations around the word truth in the headline of The Republic's first article about him. It read: "Hungry for 'truth' about 9/11."

The quotations send a subtle message that he isn't seeking the real truth, he said, adding, "I understand the literary technique."

Maybe. But while we dismiss him for his beliefs, we also dismiss him for his dedication.

The thin man sitting outside the office of a U.S. senator isn't simply raising questions about 9/11, he's raising a question about us.

By fasting for all those days in public he is, by example, asking this question : For what cause or belief would you go hungry, risk your livelihood, your health, your reputation?

What bugs us and causes many of us to treat someone like Gadsby with disdain is that we have no good answer to that question.

Reach Montini at ed.montini@arizonarepublic.com

...expressing your disgust. All the information necessary for sending a free fax over the internet and sample letter to Senator McCain are available at: http://www.faxfortruth.com

"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government." -The Declaration of Independence