The Bottom Line

The Bottom Line

by James Hufferd, Ph.D., Coordinator, 911 Truth Grassroots Organization

     There is abundant evidence that our movement’s unique raison-d’être – which is the propagation of truth regarding the discernable facts of 9/11 and their inescapable implications – is more or less rapidly flourishing. It’s not that our numbers of activists are growing at anywhere near the rate they should be. But, in our principle objective of increasing public awareness and receptiveness, in the face of rigid and sustained official and media denial, I find we are steadily gaining ground, aided by circumstances in the country.

     Locally, in the process of promoting and attending to matters of venue and leveraging precious little money to do big things in connection with our imminent Richard Gage speaking event strategically placed a mile from a major technical university campus, we’ve been experiencing a striking dichotomy of stances and attitudes among the people we’ve needed to try to enlist to achieve our purposes.

     First, we got turned down flat in our in-person attempt to get the event scheduled in a technical department auditorium – or any auditorium -- on campus. Those people sure know which side their bread’s buttered on! (Now, we’re hoping these same swell-head, upward-bound folk will come and lay in wait with their best quivers of questions for poor Richard – because I’m confident he can eviscerate them and turn very many of them around).

     When it finally occurred to me, vexed for a solution, to go a short distance off-campus and contact the director of the giant City Auditorium – practically a coliseum by comparison – I unexpectedly found not a denier and obstructionist, but an extremely receptive and helpful ally.

     Likewise, the (dare I say) stodgy city daily paper, once they learned what our event was about, required that my personal name and phone number, as the lead rogue, would have to be printed in the ad – something I’d never heard of – as a condition for running it. (I told them I didn’t mind being associated with the ad’s purpose if that’s what it would take). At the university’s student paper, by contrast, they not only welcomed the same ad for a three-day run, but also threw in some great-looking graphics of the WTC.

     And at The Des Moines Register, where placing a free announcement in the venerable Thursday Datebook section usually requires almost a client-vassal insider relationship, the young employ I asked – once I had read the description of the topic as “Controlled Demolition of the WTC”, said immediately, “I can get that in for you!” And so it went, the dichotomy of those who knew and those who merely thought they knew, and reacted with resistance and barriers.

     My friend Dave, a prominent member of our group, regularly rents a table at a giant three-day gun show on the state fairgrounds every two months, to give away DVDs, show dramatic, looping footage on a monitor of Building 7 coming down, and talk to people about 9/11. When he first started going, almost a year ago, I feared for his safety. And he met with a lot of hostility and derision the first time. But, since, many of the same individuals stop by multiple times to talk and see what new DVDs he has, of which they can pick up armloads to share with their friends. And, when he does still run into a sour customer occasionally, someone or other who formerly passed him by usually comes to help him in deflecting the verbal darts.

     And from the many reports I receive from unsung 911 Truth heroes in correspondence from across the continent and around the world, I’ve learned of many similar experiences and observations in lots of places. There is a strong undercurrent of impatience that we are progressing so slowly. But, progressing against all odds, we are – which is a wonder to be noted!

     And to me, the minor buzz being circulated that 9/11 “was and was not an inside job” is patent, numb-scull, Orwellian doublespeak. And likewise, the claim (presumably serious) that the only real crime to concentrate on is not the blatant act on 9/11, but its cover-up, is also nonsense, because neither aspect would remain a heinous, un-redressed crime at all without the other.

     So, what is our bottom line? I believe it is justice (utterly dependent on truth). Because, the health and well-being of a nation whose ideal is personal freedom and the political partnership of everyone can never return while the adverse agents who caused the cancer of which 9/11 was more than symptomatic still lurk, plot, and pull all the strings. And by no means – remarkably – is everyone, even now, aware that there is a struggle. Meaning we have lots of basic work left to do.

     And so, rest occasionally, my friends; but don’t yield ground to oppression – ever!

   

3/30/11