[Mb-civic] Halftime Report On Jimmy Walter 9/11 Eurotour

[Bahram Maskanian]

HALFTIME REPORT ON JIMMY WALTER 9/11 EUROTOUR

- By Webster G. Tarpley - Madrid 29 May 2005

The Re-Open 9/11 European Tour organized and publicized by American 
philanthropist Jimmy Walter - now approaching its halfway mark - has 
already scored a significant success in moving world public opinion on 
this issue. The tour, which kicked off in Amsterdam on May 18 and will 
end in Rome on June 9, takes two international teams of speakers, plus a 
documentary film program, to eight European cities in seven countries. 
Among the participants are Canadian television producer and media critic 
Barrie Zwicker, French activist Thierry Meyssan, the president of the 
Réseau Voltaire, and leading Dutch 9/11 researcher Daan DeWit, who 
maintains the daanspeak.com website.

Joining them from the US are Twin Towers hero William Rodriguez, 
filmmaker Penny Little, lawyer Philip Berg (who is suing the Bush 
administration under the RICO statute), Kennedy assassination author 
Lisa Pease, 9/11 victim Rachel Hughes, and writers Chris Bollyn, Eric 
Hufschmidt, and Webster Tarpley.

In the kickoff press conference in Amsterdam on May 18, Jimmy Walter 
forecast that, because of the increasing political crisis of the Bush 
administration, as well as of the looming bankruptcy of the US 
government as well as of leading US companies like General Motors and 
Ford, we must reckon with new terrorist actions, prepared with the 
connivance of US government circles, before the end of this year. 
Dismissing the official 9/11 commission report as misleading and 
worthless, Walter called for the 9/11 investigation to be re-opened, 
with Europe playing a leading role in the creation of an International 
Truth Commission on the Events of September 11, 2001. Walter urged that 
every effort be made to get the International Truth Commission up and 
running this year.

Two evenings of intensive discussion in Amsterdam turned out a total of 
about 800 people. Dutch national radio and one of the main commercial 
television networks broadcast interviews with Jimmy Walter, with many 
press articles also being generated, in addition to the paid advertising 
which is going out in every city on the tour schedule. Daniel DeWit, the 
most prominent Dutch 9/11 critic, endorsed the International Commission 
and urged the Dutch public to join this effort.

The Berlin events drew about 200, with a strong presence of leading 
journalists like Juergen Elsaesser, along with 9/11 activists, many of 
whom committed to the organizing process for the International Truth 
Commission. The Berlin events were held at the Urania, the world's 
oldest institution for popular scientific education. After the meetings, 
a group of veteran German activists set up an ad hoc Berlin committee to 
help organize the International Truth Commission.

The two Paris events drew about 550 people. The master of ceremonies for 
these events was Thierry Meyssan, who shortly after 9/11 published his 
landmark analysis that no commercial airliner had hit then Pentagon. 
Meyssan pointed out that as of now, the only countries in where the 
official Bush regime account of 9/11 is untouchable by the mass media 
are the US, UK, Israel, and France. He compared French intellectuals who 
refuse to challenge Bush's 9/11 lies to the members of a French 
anti-fascist committee of 1936 who refused to accept clear evidence that 
the burning of the Berlin Reichstag in 1933 had been a provocation 
organized by the Nazis themselves. It was only around 1960 that 
academics accepted the truth about the Reichstag fire. Meyssan paid 
tribute to Jimmy Walter for helping to "free the world" from the likes 
of 9/11 with his worldwide public education campaigns.

Thierry Meyssan announced a conference to be sponsored by the Réseau 
Voltaire in Paris on November 4-5 of this year for the purpose of 
defending the concepts of international law and national sovereignty 
against the neocon unilateralist campaign, spearheaded by such figures 
as John Bolton, to destroy the United Nations. Meyssan expressed the 
hope that this conference would be attended by a broad range of 
intellectuals from 40 countries, for all of whom the real history of 
9/11 remains an open question. "Résistons aux mensonges - n'acceptons 
pas les mensonges," said Meyssan in concluding - "Let us fight the lies, 
don't accept the lies." The 9/11 story is false, Bush was never elected, 
the invasion of Afghanistan was a crime, there never were any weapons of 
mass destruction in Iraq, he stressed.

The attendance at the Paris events was all the more remarkable because 
it coincided with the final phase of the binding French referendum on 
the draft European Union constitution, a repugnant document which would 
make oligarchy, free trade, and globalization the basic law of 25 
countries. Mass mobilization in Paris is on the side of rejecting this 
document, while big money and big media are attempting to secure its 
approval in today's vote. A June 1 advisory referendum in the 
Netherlands, also intersected by the tour, is also likely to reject the 
constitution.

In Madrid, Jimmy Walter is scheduled to meet on Tuesday May 31 with 
families of the victims of the March 11, 2004 train bombings in this 
city, which led to a mass mobilization of the Spanish people and against 
the politicians who sought to profit from these tragic events. Then the 
tour will move on the Vienna, a nodal point for European relations with 
the Middle East.

In London and Manchester, the events are being built with the help of 
the main UK 9/11 activist groups, including Simon Aronowitz of Thought 
Crime News. The Rome meetings will be addressed by Maurizio Blondet, the 
Milan journalist who is the author of the main critical study 9/11 in 
Italian.

During 2004, Jimmy Walter spent $4.5 million on advertising critical of 
the official US 9/11 story, including over 2,000 TV spots in New York 
City. He commissioned the famous Zogby International poll of August 2004 
which showed about half of New York City residents rejecting the 
official story. Walter's DVD of the Manhattan Center 9/11 truth rally of 
September 11, 2004 is being offered free of charge through the HYPERLINK 
"http://www.reopen911.org " www.reopen911.org website. A quarter million 
of these DVDs are being distributed. Walter has announced another 
100,000 DVDs in the form of subtitled versions in French, German, 
Italian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese.


Gabriel Day -  Wireless: 831-325-3135 9-11 Truth movement links and 
resources for awareness building, education and fundraising at 
www.911sharethetruth.com "...it does not require a majority to prevail, 
but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in 
people's minds.." - Samuel Adams

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