Truthers,

There will be a great temptation to use the "IN-YO-FACE" tactics at the conventions in Denver and Minneapolis...and the HI PERPS have already established holding pens for protesters, one of which I was in while doing some protesting in Boston in 04'.

Should this happen, the 9/11 Truth Movement will be thrown in with all the "other" groups doing the "same-old same-old" from four decades past. This is not fitting of the 9/11 Truth Movement.

None of those groups and organizations have had the powerful growth and net effect in the last 40 years as has the 9/11 Truth Movement had in the last seven years when one considers the "message". So, might as well go with their "dated" tactics AYE?

NYET!...I suggest that we think very differently.

I write this is support of GW's post about how close we may be to some significant breakthroughs...

It's my position that the single best step that we can make at this time is to build bridges to the "people of peace" who inhabit the peace movements by joining some meetings and using the skill sets and informational tools that we have developed to expose them to 9-11 Truth. If this happens, we get lotsa help in the streets to expand our CI...Civil Informationing and we get some savvy activists who should be encouraged NOT to repeat failed tactics from last century...confrontation. However, lets not stop being out in public and sharing wat we know to those who are open to our messaging.

The following is a rewrite of a short piece that I was asked to present for the June 2007 Vancouver Truth Conference. It was to be included in my presentation named:

"ITS THE CIVILIANS STUPID: An Air Traffic Controller's View of the 'Institutional Stand Down of NORAD Interceptors on 9/11/2001'.

But, due to time restraints I was not able to include it at that time.

Some background:

Most of us have heard Dr. Bob Bowman when he made the point that had the governement done nothing, the airliners would have been intercepted, the buildings would not have been struck, and thousands of people would stll be alive. In Bob's statement he points out that existing NORAD scramble protocol "preferences" that were in place BEFORE the subtle "reference and reorganizational" change made in the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction CJCSI 3610.01A organizational made in June, 2001, would have served to have the airliners intercepted and shot down BEFORE they reached their targets.

Dr. Bowman makes this point because he is fully aware about scramble protocols from the pilot's point of view, and I fully agree with him, but from an air traffic controller's point of view. In fact, I have worked with the Military in writing air traffic control procedures, have worked one "hijacking" personally, assisted with another, and have scrambled military assets to "intercept" an aircraft suffering an IN FLIGHT EMERGENCY in which we worked the lost aircraft to a safe landing in bad weather. For this I, along with the entire team of FAA and Military personnel involved, received a commondation.

I listened with great interest to Alex Jones' interview with Ray McGovern just posted on this site, and two things jumped out to me.

First, Ray McGovern noted that the head of the US Military fish is rotted.

These are soild words to one who believes that the USofA has been subject to a "creeping white collar military coup" that started just after the US Military was shamed and began to SHRINK due to the Vietnam War. A war in which they even lost control of their own soldiers [See: "Sir!, No Sir"].

The USofA has a militarized congress, a militarized White House, a militarized Attorney General, many militarized "think tanks", a militarized economy, and some of those considered the top VP selections for Obama are generals and admirals, and of course, a militarized presidential candidate in McCain who is a poster child for PTSD.

That Scott McLellan writes a book asking "How did this happen...", and admits publicly that there was an ethos of lying and manipulation during the Bush Crime Family's [Malloy] tenure at the White House, exposes nothing to the average 9/11 Truth Seeker. However, from my own perspective of activism of over 40 years, my observations of corrupt US governments [most] and with my understandings of the events of 9/11 from my FAA air traffic controller-NORAD-piloting background, McLellan's book is desperately trying to set the brackets for dissecting the Bush Administration's track record. NOTHING happens in the reign of Karl Rove, (still the executor of electoral and other malfeasances), without a purpose that will serve all of that corrupt cabal down the road as they get exposed and perhaps indicted. They know that the cat is out of the bag, and believe it or not, McLellan's book is bracketing DAMAGE CONTROL and not any new admissions. This is because it's all been discovered already. What little Scotty is trying to do is to keep the investigations AWAY FROM 9/11.

I have just heard that a new poll establishes that the US citizenry doubts the veracity of our government by a ratio of three to one...75% of the populace believes the government lies.

Since the 9/11TM is all over the biggest lie that this, or perhaps any other government has ever manufactured in world history, it seems that now is the time to be very, very thoughtful before Truthers confront anything that moves, and stalks our streets yelling at these very same citizens that they should "Wake Up Sheeple". It appears, as my own weekly experiences on the streets has informed me, that they ARE AWAKE more than one would perceive, and that they CARE about which direction this government is headed. They just don't talk much about it in public...its the "your a terrorist" thing spouted by The Bush Regime. Again, the populace is all over this...no outrage...but PLENTY of inrage...its there.

..."And a little later on, someone [the unidentified military assistant in the PEOC] said, "Mr. Vice President, there's a plane 50 miles out." So, I [Norman Mineta] was talking to Monte Belger, the Deputy Director of the FAA, and I said, "Monte, what do you have 50 miles out?"

For the longest time I have been wondering about the "radar source, or sources" of the flight following of the UNIDENTIFIED target that was inbound to WDC, the one some folks think hit the Pentagon, the one some think flew over the Pentagon, the one some think is a A$, the one some think is a B737, the one some think is a cruise missle, the one some think is a commuter plane...you know the one I talking about. Well, things just didn't compute in my air traffic controller's mind about the sources of radar information...still don't.