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Movie Goers Get Popcorn and a Dose of Doubt About 9/11

by Claudette Langley
Event at historic Grand Lake Theatre asks serious questions about what really happened on Sept. 11, 2001
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For the approximately 500 people who streamed into the Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland last Thursday it was at night at the movies with a twist.

The requisite popcorn, soda and hot dogs were there as usual but so too were the unexpected—the activists selling books, videos and stickers questioning the official story of 9/11, and hundreds of curious truth seekers leafing through them, chatting and buying the items.

This night out at the movies was offering a lot more than just a Hollywood laugh or cry, it was offering a uniquely Bay Area-style of entertainment—films and speakers questioning a key ingredient in the administration’s War on Terror—911, and a call for people to educate themselves and take action.

The crowd that packed the art deco jewel in Oakland came to see a film from Dutch television called “9/11: Attack or Godsend?” and a video titled “World Premier: Flights 11, 175, 77 and 93: The 9/11 Commission’s Incredible Tales”, featuring David Ray Griffith. Both films carefully picked apart the official story of what happened on Sept. 11, 2001 in New York City.

Oakland/New York Resident Janette MacKinlay, who experienced firsthand the attacks on the World Trade Center, organized the evening titled “Question 9/11 A Call To Activism”. She was home in her New York apartment when the planes hit the towers.

"I am a survivor of 9/11,"she said as she began to narrate her slideshow of personal pictures from the attacks. A picture of her holding a wet towel over her face as she left her apartment building came up on the screen. She said that they had to cover their faces with the towels in order to breath because of the ash and dust.

"It became a completely altered reality," she said of the area around Ground Zero.

MacKinlay told the crowd that her first reaction to 9/11 was one of deep patriotism and need for vengeance.

"I wanted to join the Army and kill Osama bin Laden," said the pleasant-looking MacKinlay with her neat bobbed haircut and oversized glasses.

"I started going to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco," said MacKinlay. "I went to hear some of the commissioners from the 9/11 Inquiry Committee.

"I thought when the report came out that everything was going to be all right," she said. "But when I heard them, they convinced me there was a cover up. The commissioners evaded answering important questions.”

So driven by a need to know the truth about what happened that day, she become a member of the local 9/11 Truth chapter in Oakland and decided to organize something that would help others who might have questions about 9/11 learn more.

The films brought to the crowd some chilling concepts. The two experts in the Dutch film, European politicians Michael Meacher and Andreas von Bulow, matter-of-factly proposed that 9/11 was actually the new "Pearl Harbor", as described by the think tank Project for a New American Century, that allowed the Bush administration to enter into war and consequently begin to get a foothold in Middle East.

Meacher was a former member of Prime Minister Tony Blair administration. He said the 9/11 Commission Report answered nothing.

"It was a 580-page avoidance," said Meecher. "What 9/11 did was provide a trigger that put in place a geopolitical strategy.

The Griffin video took a close look at the 9/11 Commission’s reason why no military aircraft intercepted any of the hijacked planes on Sept. 11, 2001.

Step-by-step Dr. David Ray Griffin, author of the “New Pearl Harbor” and “The 9/11 Commission Report, Omissions and Distortions”, showed not only the implausibility of the official report’s findings but presented what would have been totally laughable had it not been such a tragedy: in the case of all four un-intercepted jetliners, the commission offered the answer that it was all due to the incompetence on the part of the Federal Aviation Agency.

Among the commissions explanations were air traffic controllers who actually heard over the airwaves that flight 93 had crashed and didn’t bother reporting it to a superior.

One of the more stunning revelations came when Griffith presented information that Secretary of Transportation Norman Minetta testified that Vice President Dick Cheney not only knew about the looming attack on the Pentagon but that Minetta had heard Cheney confirm what Minetta believed to be a stand down order. In effect, telling his soldiers not to shoot down the incoming jetliner.

After the films, the audience heard from several 9/11 Truth activists who sounded the call for immediate action.

"Tonight many of you have taken the first step," said MacKinlay. "The 9/11 Truth Movement is the most important mass movement our country has ever seen."

Carol Brouillet, a major mover and shaker in the Bay Area 9/11 Truth movement encouraged the crowd to not be afraid to take action.
"It is a time for courage," she said. "The most horrendous lie we have been told is that we are helpless."

She said that each person coming forward and refusing to be silenced is already making a difference and helping to exposed the coverup.

The majority of the attendees at the Feb. 23 event left with a packet of information that would enable them to start their own activism around the issue of 9/11. MacKinlay provided sample letters and the addresses of the entire Congress and Senate and encouraged the crowd to send letters to every one of them calling for pulling the veil off of the truth about the attacks on the World Trade Center, Sept. 11, 2001.
§Janette in front of the Question 911 poster
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§David W. Kubiak
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§Almost a packed theater
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§Janette MacKinlay
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by Thor
When it comes to 911 truth theories I have one problem, the publishers of many of theories will claim no plane hit the pentagon, yet claim Cheney gave a stand down order against destroying the flight, was there a plane or not?
by b
Almost a packed theater... nice photo with a light gathering lens. If it had been taken showing faces... (looks to be only second generation)
by dick burden (dburden166 [at] hammondvillage.net)
i have been trying to get people interested in 9/11 since it started most people are so brainwashed that they close their eyes and cling to the official story . ''it looks a little suspect but the usa is not the evil empire you say it is ' well i think it is from the ww1 to 9/11 there are examples of evil that have been perpetrated by the usa too numerous to mention .the most frustrating is that the 'bastard media ' refuse to print any letters to the editor on this subject so much for the 'free press '
by Joe Lopisi, webmaster (bushstol [at] bushstole04.com)
I am a member of a 9/11 truth group in Massachusetts. We are planning a similar event in late April in Newton, Massachusetts. It will also be at a movie theater. It is encouraging to see that these types of talks are being given. I think it is most important that the Bush administration be exposed as the traitors and killers that they are. Please check out my web site, www.bushguiltyof911.com. I have many articles, streaming videos and links to other web sites about the Bush administration planning and orchestrating 9/11. Three Part 9-11 Talk by Webmaster

 

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by Shari Pet (slpeterson [at] sbcglobal.net)
The stand-down order as I understood it was for the flight that went down in Pennsylvania.
by Vincent Sauve
Many in the 9/11 Truth Movement who think that FL77, a 757, was not what hit the Pentagon are saying this because they have seen presentations that are poorly researched or are produced by disinformation agents. An excellent foil to the disinformation or poor research is the web page and accompaning links at http://911review.com/disinfo/index.html I hope everyone can spend some time there getting things straitened out.
by repost
Also see:
http://www.communitycurrency.org/events.html


1) Film Premiere - 911 Guilt: The Proof is in Your Hands
by Don Paul and Jim Hoffman

March 9, 2006, 7 p.m.

New College 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco
$5-$10 sliding scale
For Information, 415-887-437-3460
http://wtc7.net/store/videos/proof/index.html


2) Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance Meeting

Thursday, March 16, 2005, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00p.m.

at The Grand Lake Neighborhood Center 530 Lake Park Avenue,(between Lakeshore Avenue and Grand Avenue) in Oakland
http://www.communitycurrency.org/Feb23.html


3) 9/11 The Myth & the Reality: A Talk by David Ray Griffin

Thursday, March 30, 2006, 7:00 p.m.

Grand Lake Theater
3200 Grand Avenue, Oakland
Price: $10. No one turned away at the door for lack of funds
Ticket Purchase: Tickets on sale beginning early March, 2006.
For more information,contact 510-368-0013
http://www.pdeastbay.org/911MythReality

by jazzgarage580
I was working in Tysons Corner not too far from Pentagon and the smoke and fire was out in less than 2 days-the damage was suspicious by the time it hit NEWSWEEK the next issue...showed a 13 foot hole-Get real you dis-info agents.
Smart people can tell thats no damage from a massive airliner-but a smaller Military aircraft if anything-thats why the worlds best AA batteries didn't function on 9/11-I sensed the MIL beacon and didn't fire-either that or high-ups ordered the batteries to be shut down, an act of TREASON:and all the top brass has been PROMOTED!-no matter what 'theory' you except as fact the cards aren't falling in place 'correctly' American government looks to be at a milestone of collapse-just not as fast as WTCs rigged with HMX/SYNTEX/or RDX. (look for yourself you 'disinfo' patriots-those beams are CUT not MELTED.)
by SEAN SHEA
WAKE UP AND GET OFF YOUR POLITICAL AGENDA. THAT WOMEN WAS NOT A VICTIM THE PEOPLE IN THE TOWERS, PENTEGON AND ON THE PLANE THAT CRASHED WERE THE VICTIMS AND THE FAMILY MEMBERS OF THE PEOPLE WHO DIED. IF YOU BELIEVE THIS WAS A COVER UP THEN YOU WILL BELIEVE ANYTHING. IT WOULD HAVE TO PASS THE TEST OF BEING LOOKED AT BY THE VERY BEST NEWS MEDIA IN THE WORLD. WHO ARE ALREADY LOOKING FOR A REASON TO MAKE THE PRESIDENT LOOK BAD. WHAT ARE WE GAINING BY FORCING A FIGHT IN THE MIDDLE EAST. YOU GUYS NEED TO GET YOURSELF RIGHT WITH GOD AND SERVE HIM AND NOT BE SO WORRIED ABOUT COVER UPS. THE TERROSIST ARE VERY REAL AND THEY REALLY WANT TO KILL EVERY ONE IN THIS COUNTRY, IF WE DO NOT GIVE IN TO THEM AND LET THEM BE IN CHARGE. IF YOU WANT THAT THEN PLEASE LEAVE OUR COUNTRY AND GO AND LIVE WITH THEM AND SEE HOW OFTEN THEY LET YOU PLAY A MOVIE AND HAND OUT PAPERS THAT MAKE THE GOVERNMENT OR THEM LOOK BAD. IF YOU ARE BRAVE ENOUGH TO DO IT. PEOPLE TRIED THAT IN IRAQ WITH HUSSEIN THERE AND WELL THE GOT GASED, BUT NOW IN THAT COUNTRY MEN AND WOMEN VOTE FREELY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 30 YEARS. THEY HAVE ELECTED THERE OWN GOVERNMENT AND WILL SOON COMPLETLY RUN THERE OWN MILITARY. WE HAVE BEEN THERE FOR OVER THREE YEARS NOW AND IF IRAN AND SYRIA WOULD STAY OUT OF THERE IT WOULD SETTLE DOWN AND BE PEACEFULL. FOR THE SAKE OF MY CHILDREN YOUR CHILDREN AND EVERYONE IN THIS COUNTRY. I HOPE WE ALL UNITE TO DEFEAT THIS THREAT OR WE WILL SURELY BE FIGHTING THEM IN OUR BACKYARD NEXT AND IF THAT DOES HAPPEN I HOPE YOU HAVE THE COURAGE TO ADMIT THAT YOUR WERE WRONG AND THAT YOU WILL DEFEND YOUR COUNTRY. GOD BLESS YOU AND GOD BLESS AMERICA.
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