So here we are in year zero plus eight, and time keeps slipping into yesterday. What shape are we in? Where have we gotten? What, if anything, is our goal? How are we going to agree on a goal, and who will carry it out, and through what means will it be accomplished? It's really incredible, if you think about it. In fact, the more you think about it, the more incredible it becomes: despite all of our progress, the world is still operating under the same demonstrably false paradigm.

Unfortunately, human beings are spectacularly adaptable to a fault. We adjust to new macro-level realities before we have a chance to decide whether we should. The millions of people across the country who know and/or believe that the events of Tuesday morning, September the eleventh, two thousand-and-one could only have been planned and executed by some internal American element are no exception; we, too, have adjusted to the new reality. Granted, we're all doing our best to resist and to sound the alarm that, no, this new reality isn't real, and everything which has since occured in the name of responding to the event and/or protecting against future attacks is based upon a deliberately false premise. But 9-11 truth isn't picking up seem, it's losing the race against time - and losing badly.

In 2006 I was fortunate enough to have worked as the assistant field director for the United States Congressional campaign of Lt. Colonel Robert Bowman, in the Flolrida fifteenth. With barely more than a hundred thousand dollars, Dr. Bowman still managed to get over 43% of the vote in a heavily Republican district. To his credit, Dr. Bowman hasn't given up the fight; he travels around the country and speaks to group after group. But wouldn't it be nice if Bowman's relentless good work, and that of many others, were part of a coordinated effort - a plan of action?

Herein lies the problem: a coordinated effort is wholly antithetical to what 911 truth is all about. Coordinated efforts lead to hierarchical structures of command and control, providing for the perfect target of corruption and infiltration. And who among us are willing to become subservient to a leader, or group of leaders, in furtherance of this noble agenda? Certainly not I. Still, everything has a flip side, and the obvious drawback is that nothing is getting done precisely because there is no coordinated effort. Individuals are doing terrific work on many levels but, as a whole, we still haven't gotten our shit together. No-one and everyone is to blame.

So where do we go from here? There must be a better way. Here in DC, there is a 911-truth group but, I am sorry to say, it doesn't do much of anything. Granted, two of the main participants have gotten a newspaper off the ground called the Rock Creek Free Press which can be found all over town and which is doing terrific work disseminating critical information about September the eleventh, and related materials. But the group, itself, doesn't really do a whole lot: meetings happen only twice a month, one of which is normally devoted to preparing the paper for monthly circulation. Rarely if ever do we discuss larger themes of where are we going, and what are we doing, and what happens next. Sure, we march in local parades, and hand out fliers, and set up booths on the national mall from time to time. But this is Washington, DC, the belly of the beast, the seat of power [like it or not] and one of two journalistic hubs, and we aren't doing anything here which couldn't also be done in any town, in any state. I ran into the same problem on the Bowman campaign, where one of my jobs was to coordinate the activities of volunteers. Some people wanted to do this, and some people wanted to that. Some wanted to stuff envelopes, and nothing more. Some were only comfortable knocking on doors. One way of looking at this state of affairs is with forgiveness: if people are volunteering their time, why not just let them do what they feel most comfortable doing? It's better than not having them on the board at all. Still, another perspective is that volunteers have signed up for a cause, and it's better for the cause if they could do what's needed, instead of merely what they want. At the end of the day, the cause will either succeed or fail, and people should, perhaps, be more concerned about achieving success and avoiding failure than with their own catharsis. Maybe the truth lies somewhere in-between.

My purpose is not to disparage anyone, or any group, but I know that it will be taken that way by some, both here and elsewhere. I can't help that. But isn't it about time that we take a critical look at ourselves, and our efforts? We certainly haven't done everything right. Maybe it's time to turn the page and figure out what needs to change. The questions of who will do the changing, and where it will take place, and when, and how, are critical yet secondary: the first question is whether or not a new direction is needed. From my perspective, the answer is flagrantly self-evident, but there are other voices which need to be heard.