Actors and Artists want new, truly independent, investigation into what really happened on 9/11

Truthers is a word created Alinsky style to shut people up by labeling them with a word or phrase the media uses to: (*RULE 12:) “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.”

(This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)”

You can think of others like McCarthism, racists, birther, anti-Semite, conspiracy theorists, tea bagger, right wing nut job, etc., etc., etc., ad nauseam…

Sean Hannity is very adept at this tactic, you can hear the scowl in his voice and imagine him looking down his nose on his radio talk show as he confronts a caller as a ‘birther’ or a ‘truther’ and usually just hangs up on them calling them nut jobs. Sean Hannity is controlled opposition!

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Why are we, as actors and artists, speaking out for 9/11 truth?

People in our professions sometimes avoid expressing their views about controversial issues, because doing so might endanger their careers.

In some cases, however, the issue is so important, and the public discussion of it so distorted, that speaking out is morally mandated, regardless of the possible consequences.

We believe that the question of what really happened on September 11, 2001, commonly known as “9/11,” is such an issue.

The official account of 9/11 has been used:

· to increase military spending enormously and thereby to withhold needed spending for health, education, welfare, infrastructure, the environment, and the arts;

· to indict Islam as an inherently violent religion, to allow discrimination against Muslims, and to justify wars of occupation in Islamic countries---wars that have killed and maimed millions of innocent people; and

· to curtail human rights and even to justify torture, extraordinary rendition, and the indefinite detention of people without trial.

And yet independent investigations carried out by physicists, chemists, and professionals in many relevant fields — including architects, engineers, firefighters, intelligence officers, pilots, and former military officers — have shown virtually every part of the official story to be false, including the explanations of:

· why the airliners were not intercepted;

· why the World Trade Center buildings came down;

· what caused the damage and deaths at the Pentagon;

· what happened to United Flight 93.

These independent investigations have even undermined the claim, allegedly supported by phone calls from passengers and crew, that the airliners were taken over by Middle-Eastern hijackers.

Unlike these investigations, the official reports about 9/11 were not independent, in the sense of being free from the control of the Bush-Cheney administration. The 9/11 Commission was run by its executive director, Philip Zelikow, who was closely associated with the Bush-Cheney administration (as documented in New York Times reporter Philip Shenon’s book, The Commission). The official reports on the World Trade Center were produced by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which is an agency of the U.S. Commerce Department. These reports, therefore, were written by employees of the Bush-Cheney administration. 

The enormous contrast between the official account of 9/11 and the evidence provided by these independent scholars has thus far not been brought to the attention of the general public in the United States and allied countries. The mainstream media, like the governments of these countries, have failed to report this evidence. They have even implied that it can all be dismissed out of hand as “kooky conspiracy theory.”

The desire to help overcome this deplorable situation led us to form Actors and Artists for 9/11 Truth, partly because we have a special interest in exposing false interpretations of events that are employed to restrict civil liberties. Being aware that the freedom of artists to express themselves is the litmus test of free speech in any society, and that totalitarian societies always curtail this freedom, we are concerned to reverse the movement toward authoritarianism that began with the Bush-Cheney administration’s story about 9/11.

We have also formed this organization because of the special ability of actors and artists to cast light on issues that would otherwise remain in the shadows. This ability has been demonstrated in relation to 9/11 by a few members of our professions, who, when they publicly raised questions about 9/11, received considerable press coverage.

Thus far, however, this coverage has been almost entirely negative, implying that these people were aberrant members of their professions, whose idiosyncratic beliefs could be dismissed as ludicrous. This negative coverage has often been followed by pressure to recant.

The creation of Actors and Artists for 9/11 Truth is intended to dispel the illusion that the official account of 9/11 is rejected by only a few members of our professions, and to reveal, instead, that a significant percentage of the world’s actors and artists actually reject the official account as a false myth. With this organization behind us, we will no longer be speaking out as solitary individuals who can be dismissed as aberrations, but instead as representatives of an organization that includes some of the most respected members of our professions.

Membership in our organization is open to all professional actors, whether they have performed on stage, film, or television, and to professional artists of all types, including (but not necessarily limited to): musical composers and performers, dancers, painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, script writers, directors, film editors, and comedians.

Becoming a member entails no duties beyond the act of calling for a new investigation by signing our petition.

Petition

WHEREAS the Bush-Cheney administration’s public interpretation of the 9/11 attacks has had negative consequences for the USA and the world as a whole; and 

WHEREAS the official investigations of these attacks have been led by people closely aligned with, or even employed by, the Bush-Cheney administration; and

WHEREAS the reports based on these investigations differ radically from conclusions reached by independent researchers with relevant kinds of scientific and professional expertise; and

WHEREAS organizations of such researchers---including Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Firefighters for 9/11 Truth, Intelligence Officers for 9/11 Truth, Pilots for 9/11 Truth, Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice, and Veterans for 9/11 Truth---have called for a new investigation; and

WHEREAS still other professional organizations---including Lawyers for 9/11 Truth, Medical Professionals for 9/11 Truth, Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth, and Religious Leaders for 9/11 Truth---have called for a new investigation; and

WHEREAS we as actors and artists have an important role in guarding against false interpretations of events used as pretexts to restrict civil liberties;  

THEREFORE we, the undersigned members of Actors and Artists for 9/11 Truth, ask President Barack Obama to authorize a new, truly independent, investigation to determine what really happened on 9/11. We also ask the political leaders of other countries to authorize their own investigations.