Dr. David Ray Griffin

Letter: David Ray Griffin to 9/9 Brussels Truth March

Dear 9/11 Truth Seekers,

I regret that, due to the fact that I'm addressing an audience in
Oslo, I am unable to attend your United for Truth March here
in Brussels. Nevertheless, I wish, by means of this written
statement, to say a few words of encouragement and appreciation for
your efforts.

The attacks in New York and Washington six years ago left the
American people stunned and ready to agree to almost anything the
Bush-Cheney administration proposed. At home, this has meant severe
restrictions on civil liberties in the name of the so-called PATRIOT
Act.

Abroad, we have had a so-called war on terror, which has really been
a war of aggression against Muslims and a war for oil and domination
in Muslim nations. This has meant six years of torture, humiliation,
and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in Afghanistan and
Iraq, people who were either innocent civilians or soldiers fighting
against an immoral and even illegal occupation.

During this period, we have also seen an unprecedented media cover-up
in the United States and allied countries. Such cover-ups have
happened before. But in this case, the crime was more enormous, the
consequences were more catastrophic, and the evidence was more
obvious. (For example, just by looking at the collapse of Building 7
of the World Trade Center, anyone who knows anything about these
matters can see that it was brought down by explosives, as Danny
Jowenko of Holland has illustrated.) The failure of the media to
expose the lies of the official story threatens the continued
existence of democracy, which simply cannot function without an
independent media, dedicated to revealing crimes of state.

The truth is, of course, that the War on Terror is bogus. The 9/11
Truth Movement is driven by a desire to find out the truth about what
really happened on 9/11 and who is really behind these attacks. In 6
years, the movement has made a lot of headway. More and more people
are starting to realise that the attacks of 9/11 were an inside job,
orchestrated by the United States government as a pretext to carry
out its pre-established policies.

David Griffin: Spread INSIDE JOB in Public Sphere to Prevent New 9/11

I emailed David Griffin about the INSIDE JOB plastic roll banner project:
http://www.911blogger.com/node/10077
He wrote back:

There are ominous signs that the Bush-Cheney administration is planning another false-flag attack---the warnings that al-Qaeda has regained its strength and is determined to strike America again, Chertoff’s “gut feeling” that another strike is coming, and National Security Presidential Directive 51, according to which President Bush will assume virtually dictatorial powers if if the United States, in his judgment, has suffered a “catastrophic emergency.” The best way to prevent this eventuality is is getting the idea that 9/11 was an inside job into the public sphere, thereby making them fear they will not get away with another one.

David Ray Griffin

Ed Asner and Michelle Phillips Endorse Action on the Eleventh

At a recent David Ray Griffin speaking engagement in Los Angeles, Activist and Actor Ed Asner and Michelle Phillips of The Mamas and The Papas both endorsed the campaign for Action on the Eleventh Day of Every Month until Justice. At the same event, Johnny Wave of Marines For 9/11 Truth called for the court martial of the Commander-in-Chief.

Take Action July 11

TAKE ACTION JULY 11TH

Are you going to be taking action for 9/11 Truth and Justice this Wednesday July 11th, the 70th month since 9/11? Well I hope so and so does David Ray Griffen, Michelle Phillips, Ed Asner and Johnny Wave. There is nothing more important than exposing the lie that 9/11 is. So on Wednesday July 11th spread the truth, wear a shirt, freeway blog, pass out fliers, stand up with signs and take pictures of your action and share it at TRUTHACTION.ORG. Link up with truthers and bring the truth revolution to your community..

Michael Wolsey Guest Hosts Words of Freedom, part 5



In this special broadcast of Visibility 9-11, Michael guest hosts the fifth and final episode of a series of interviews for the radio program Words of Freedom with George Flynn. Words of Freedom is aired on KRFC, 88.9 FM in Fort Collins, Colorado on Monday nights at 5:30 - 6:00 pm mountain time (no commercials).  This opportunity provides a valuable window to introduce 9-11 truth to an audience who rarely hear our message.  Many thanks to George for the honor of sitting in for him while he is away on business.

'The prima facie case remains unrefuted.' --Dr. Griffin

The prima facie case remains unrefuted.

“If raising disturbing questions about the official account would be seen as both unpatriotic and sacrilegious, it is not surprising that, as both Rena Golden and Dan Rather admit, the mainline press in America has not raised these questions. It is also not surprising that right-wing and even middle-of-the-road commentators on political affairs have not raised serious questions about the official account. It is not even surprising that some of them – including Jean Bethke Elshtain, a professor of social and political ethics –have declared that the accusation of official complicity is beyond the pale of reasonable debate, so that any arguments on its behalf can simply be ignored. Elshtain, calling the suggestion that American officials, including the President, were complicit in the attacks “preposterous”, adds: “This sort of inflammatory madness exists outside the boundary of political debate” and therefore does not even “deserve a hearing”. From this perspective, it is not necessary to examine the evidence put forward by critics of the official account, even though some of these critics are fellow intellectuals teaching in neighboring universities – such as two well-respected Canadian academics, economist Michel Chossudovsky and social philosopher John McMurtry [see below for relevant links]. Although Elshtain points out that “if we get our description of events wrong, our analyses and our ethics will be wrong too”, she evidently thinks it unnecessary to consider the possibility that the official description about the events of 9/11 might be wrong. Although this attitude is unfortunate, especially when it is expressed within the intellectual community, it is not surprising. What is surprising, however, is that America’s leftist critics of US policy, who are seldom worried about being called unpatriotic or sacrilegious, have for the most part not explored, at least in public discourse, the possibility of official complicity.”

“If a significant portion of the evidence summarized here holds up, the conclusion that the attacks of 9/11 succeeded because of official complicity would become virtually inescapable.”

"Debunking 9/11 Debunking" at Barnes & Noble website needs more positive reviews!

A new edition has supposedly been published and the online advertisement page for it at the B&N website is virtually without any reviews (mine is the only one -- and yes, it's positive).

Link to new edition: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9781566566865&itm=2

Link to old edition: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9781844370696&itm=3

Reviews for the new edition are sorely needed!

Truths and conspiracies

Source: http://www.sdcitybeat.com/article.php?id=5828

EDITOR'S NOTE

Truths and conspiracies

by David Rolland

Peter Holmes had given up on waiting for me to return from a delicious chicken taco lunch last Wednesday and was walking down the hall when I got back. He'd been waiting in CityBeat's office lobby for the better part of an hour. I was about 20 strides from him when he asked, "Are you David Rolland?" When strung together like that, those have become four of the scariest words in the English language. And I've become so terrified of unannounced visitors that I probably formed my answer more like a question than a firm declaration: "Yes?"

DEBUNKING 9/11 DEBUNKING - a short review

DEBUNKING 9/11 DEBUNKING
David Ray Griffin
Olive Branch Press, 2007, 392 pages

David Ray Griffin only has one setting on his blender: "Annihilate".

With DEBUNKING 9/11 DEBUNKING, Griffin puts the "Official Conspiracy Theory" (OCT) into the blender, along with the reports and publications that shore it up.

It turns out that the defenders of the OCT don't have a monopoly on the facts, but they do have a lot of time on their hands when it comes to putting makeup on the pig that is the Grade-A Government Approved ballad of Osama bin Laden and the 19 hijackers. For some reason, however, they are absent where their critical skills could be very useful, like casting a spotlight on the incompatible stories that NORAD told to the 9/11 Commission, (and the world), regarding their reactions to the hijacked planes on 9/11.

"They lied to the American people, they lied to Congress and they lied to your 9/11 Commission to create a false impression of competence, communication, coordination and protection of the American people." - Senator Mark Dayton, July 31, 2004.

"We to this day don't know why NORAD [the North American Aerospace Command] told us what they told us," said Thomas H. Kean, the former New Jersey Republican governor who led the commission. "It was just so far from the truth. . . . It's one of those loose ends that never got tied." - Thomas H. Kean, August, 2006.

Apparently, NORAD's lies are no big deal to "debunkers". Well, they are a big deal to a growing number of people, and after the thorough dissection that the shifting NORAD 9/11 timeline gets from Griffin, via the utter shredding of Michael Bronner's Vanity Fair piece entitled, 9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes... you have to wonder how honest the intent of the average debunker truly is.

A Blizzard of Canadian Truth

It's all Barrie Zwicker's fault. He was the first media professional on the planet to start poking holes in the Bush administration's "Official Conspiracy Theory", on cable TV. He's Canadian, so, it must be his fault!

From Toronto to Vancouver, Canadians are wondering just what the hell went down on 9/11, and Zwicker is egging them on. This past week saw Zwicker roll into Winnipeg with architect Richard Gage and launched a three-day whirlwind of public presentations and appearances on Winnipeg's local cable television, with a big supporting role from Winnipeg's www.stoplying.ca ;

Zwicker and Stop Lyings's Dr. Joe Hawkins on CITY TV;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_obODlqMgU

Zwicker on SHAW cable;

Part One:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-u7vRoyQVs

Part Two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHegCopSG28

It's funny... these TV anchors are so... different compared to say, Hannity & Colmes, for instance.

Guns and Butter 1pm Today - David Ray Griffin: Debunking 9/11 Debunking

NOTE: This is the full 1hr interview, re-airing because we had to interrupt the original broadcast to fund raise.

Guns & Butter

Debunking 9/11 Debunking

Interview with author and theologian, Dr. David Ray Griffin, on his new book, Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory. Dr. Griffin takes on four major semi-official publications: The Popular Mechanics book, Debunking 9/11 Myths; the Kean/Hamilton book, Without Precedent; Vanity Fair's, "9/11 Live the NORAD Tapes"; and NIST's "Answers to Frequently Asked Questions", as well as recent articles in The Progressive, Counterpunch, The Nation, etc. Rational conspiracy theories versus irrational conspiracy theories; good science versus bad science; the stand down; psychological resistance to the evidence. KPFA fundraiser with Bonnie Faulkner and Tod Fletcher.

KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley 1pm PST, and streaming and archived at www.kpfa.org

www.gunsandbutter.net

DRG on Rich Lang's "Living Faith Now!" 5-18-2007

http://livingfaithnow.org/index.php?v=1&p=2

Dr. David Ray Griffin Author of The New Pearl Harbor, The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions, Christian Faith and the Truth of 9/11, and Debunking the Debunkers.
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We will have a conversation on the theories surrounding who masterminded the 9/11 events. We will also explore the continual anti-empire narrative woven throughout the Bible.

Putfile stream:
http://media.putfile.com/David-Ray-Griffin-interview---5182007

Living Faith archive, with MP3 D/L:
http://livingfaithnow.org/index.php?v=1&p=2

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