PRESS RELEASE: FOUNDERS OF STUDENT SCHOLARS FOR 9/11 TRUTH REACT TO FOX NEWS’ RON PAUL SMEAR CAMPAIGN

“That's an extraordinary statement, as someone who lived through the attack of September 11, that we invited the attack because we were attacking Iraq. I don't think I've heard that before, and I've heard some pretty absurd explanations for September 11th. (Applause, cheers.)"

That is how former New York Mayor, and GOP Presidential Candidate, Rudolph Giuliani responded to GOP Presidential Candidate Rep. Ron Paul’s opinion that we were not attacked on 9/11 because Islamic Fascists “hate our freedoms,” but rather, because of blowback from irresponsible U.S. foreign policy that has had America interfering in the affairs of middle eastern nations for years.

To most, Paul’s position would not be considered out of line. Anyone who has any semblance of understanding of the history of U.S. covert operations knows that the assertion that the U.S. has been interfering with Middle Eastern politics is true. Ever since the end of World War II, the United States has insisted upon being involved in the region’s affairs in order to remain friendly with oil rich nations and keep those nations from falling into the hands of individuals that won’t comply with western countries. In order to keep things that way, America has engaged in some unscrupulous behavior that has stirred hostility in the region. Ron Paul is merely expressing an understanding of that hostility, not excusing it. The neo-conservative candidates and their lapdogs are insisting that that the historical record is not important because they have “declared war on the west.” This mindset is ignorant and mind-blowing.

With that said, Student Scholars for 9/11 Truth has never entertained the notion that Islamic Fascists who want to harm Americans don’t exist. Clearly we are fighting these people in Afghanistan and Iraq; however, it is our stance that there is evidence to suggest that the events of 9/11 could not have been carried out by Al Qaeda operatives acting alone.

Last summer, Rex Tomb, Chief Investigative Spokesman for the FBI admitted that the FBI has NO HARD EVIDENCE linking Osama Bin Laden to 9/11. Additionally, when put on the spot, several government officials have admitted that there is no evidence connecting Saddam Hussein to 9/11. Well if it wasn’t either Bin Laden or Hussein, then don’t you want to know who it was?

That is the goal of our organization, to lobby for a new investigation that will clear up any questions as to who is responsible for the death of 3,000. This leads us to the discussion of our YouTube video that FOX has been spinning to create controversy, “Ron Paul Meets the Student Scholars for 9/11 Truth.”

Several members of our organization live in New Hampshire, which hosts the nation’s first presidential primaries. Accordingly, Student Scholars for 9/11 Truth attend political events and ask presidential hopefuls if they would support a new investigation into 9/11.

In February, Justin Martell, Mike Jackman, Eric Jackman, and Natalya Waye attended a house party in Pembroke, New Hampshire for Republican Presidential Candidate Ron Paul. While there, we approached Rep. Ron Paul, and, because we heard he had questioned the official story about 9/11, asked him if he would support a new investigation. To which he said that it would be “worth while.”

When Justin Martell approached him and asked him the question, he opened the door for Ron Paul to say whether or not he felt 9/11 was an “inside job,” and he did not say that. The video was edited and loaded to YouTube in late February.

Suddenly, three months later, the video is being used by FOX to connect Ron Paul to 9/11 conspiracy theories. FOX News "journalist," Michelle Malkin, first attempted to connect Ron Paul to 9/11 conspiracy theories on the John Gibson show, and then put the icing on the cake when she, while guest hosting the O'Reilly Factor on May 21st, unlawfully aired a clip from "Ron Paul Meets the Student Scholars for 9/11 Truth," and then proceeded to participate in a discussion about Ron Paul's alleged allegiance to 9/11 Truth (Oh my! A conspiracy, indeed!).

The efforts of neo-conservative attack poodles like Michelle Malkin to disparage Ron Paul with little to no evidence to support their claims is an obvious sign that they are frightened by a man who speaks the truth. Why would they be afraid of a man who speaks the truth? This is clearly because, in our opinion, the neo-conservatives have lost touched with what being a conservative is! Malkin claims that Ron Paul has no place in a Republican presidential debate! How exactly is a Republican who supports the 2nd Amendment, has NEVER voted to raise taxes, wants to increase border control, is against big government, advocates for states rights, refuses to support tax payer funded abortions, and believes in a Reagan-esque policy of non-intervention, not qualified to be in a Republican debate? He is clearly more qualified than his opponents, who, in this post 9/11 madness, have lost touch with what it means to be a true conservative.

Also, there is one person who has been involved in this whole Joseph McCarthy like, 9/11 "Truther," witch hunt who appears to have contracted a strain of the 9/11 Truth Virus, and it's not Ron Paul. In 2002, Michelle Malkin wrote an article called "Just Wondering," in which she entertained the idea that Flight 93 was either shot down or blown up by a bomb, that an editing error that suggested that there was a gun on board Flight 11 was not an actual error, but that it was called an editing error in order to cover up what happened on Flight 11, and lastly, that Katherine Smith's death was not an accident, but possibly a murder! This excerpt is particularly interesting:

"The eight-mile-wide debris field seems to bolster claims of an on board explosion. So did the discovery of a one-ton chunk of the plane's engine far from the rest of the crash site - which some say points to evidence that a heat-seeking missile targeted the flight. Then there's the eight-minute gap from the time all cell phone calls from the plane ceased and the time it crashed."

Compare that passage with Ron Paul's statement from our video that Malkin cites as "evidence" that Paul is a "secret truther":

"The investigation was an investigation in which there were government cover-ups"

So did Michelle Malkin forget she wrote this article, or think that no one would be astute enough to find it? We have sent several messages to Malkin to ask her to comment on this, and she has, so far, failed to reply. This whole fiasco only shows how flimsy and transparent FOX's so called "journalists" actually are. Malkin was right when she said that she was "stirring the hornets nest" by bringing up Student Scholars for 9/11 Truth, and if she wants to continue to slander us on national television then we ask her to bring us on the air to defend our stance and discuss her 2002 article. On behalf of the Student Scholars for 9/11 Truth, we ask Michelle Malkin to either show up or shut up, and stop trying to discredit America's last honest politician, Congressman Ron Paul.

Justin A. Martell
Founder – Student Scholars for 9/11 Truth

Michael Jackman
Co-Founder – Student Scholars for 9/11 Truth

Mark Peters
Webmaster – Student Scholars for 9/11 Truth

Postscript: We've sent another email to Malkin that says, even though she is not a student, we would be pleased to induct her into Student Scholars for 9/11 Truth as an honorary member, because she is clearly a 9/11 "Truther."