"Granny D" Quote

"Never be discouraged from being an activist because people tell you that you'll not succeed. You have already succeeded if you're out there representing truth or justice or compassion or fairness or love.

You already have your victory because you have changed the world; you have changed the status quo by one; you have changed the chemistry of things, and changes will spread from you, will be easier to happen again in others because of you, because, believe it or not, you are the center of the world."

Doris "Granny D" Haddock in Pecos, Texas May 14, 1999 in her walk across the country for Campaign Finance Reform

National Icon "Granny D" dies at 100

“You have the power of one,” she said. “And if you use it for something that’s bigger than you are, people will come.” Doris "Granny D" Haddock



Granny D also understood and supported our efforts to spread the Truth of 9/11.

Doris “Granny D” Haddock died peacefully today in her Dublin, New Hampshire family home at 7:18 p.m. Tuesday, March 9, 2010. She was 100 years old. Born in 1910 in Laconia, New Hampshire, she attended Emerson College and lived through two world wars and the Great Depression.

She was an activist for her community and for her country, remaining active until the return of chronic respiratory problems four days ago.

She walked across the United States at the age of 90 in the year 2000, in a successful effort to promote the passage of the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act.

In 2004, Granny D decided to challenge incumbent Senator Judd Gregg for his US Senate seat. She hoped to demonstrate that ordinary people can run for office and win with the support of small donations from individuals.

Despite a shortened, grassroots campaign without the benefit of any advertising dollars, Granny D garnered an impressive 34% of the vote. During the past year five years, Granny D has traveled the country speaking about campaign finance reform and working on behalf of legislation for publicly-funded elections in New Hampshire.

In the 1960s, she and her husband, James Haddock, Sr., were instrumental in halting planned nuclear tests that would have destroyed a native fishing village and region in Alaska.

The following was written in The Keene Sentinel. Wednesday, March 10, 2010:

DUBLIN, NH — Doris Haddock of Dublin, who walked across the country at age 90 to promote campaign finance reform and later waged a quixotic campaign for U.S. Senate, has died. She was 100.

Haddock died Tuesday of chronic respiratory illness at her home in Dublin, said spokeswoman and family friend Maude Salinger. She was surrounded by her son, daughter-in-law, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

In 2000, Haddock walked 3,200 miles to draw attention to campaign finance reform. In 2004, at age 94 and bolstered by her new notoriety, she ran for the U.S. Senate against Republican Judd Gregg.

The subtitle of her autobiography, written with Dennis Burke, was “You’re Never Too Old to Raise a Little Hell.”

“Her age wasn’t a factor in what she did,” Salinger said. “She never gave up. Until the end, she advocated for public funding. She would have wanted people to know that democracy and government belongs to us.”

Haddock was true to her cause right up until her death.

When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in January to ease limits on corporate campaign contributions, she fired back:

“The Supreme Court, representing a radical fringe that does not share the despair of the grand majority of Americans, has today made things considerably worse by undoing the modest reforms I walked for and went to jail for, and that tens of thousands of other Americans fought very hard to see enacted. ...

“The Supreme Court now opens the floodgates to usher in a new tsunami of corporate money into politics.”

In an interview with The Sentinel near the time of her 100th birthday, in January, Haddock said every month she continued to get hundreds of e-mails and letters from supporters around the world.

The HBO documentary “Run Granny Run,” which chronicled her cross-country walk, helped to fuel her cause and her legend.

Many told her she inspired them to stand up for something they believe in.

She printed the e-mails and kept them in a thick folder in her bedroom, she said.

She spent several hours a day on her computer, tracking campaign finance reform measures across the country, writing speeches and newspaper columns editorials on the subject and responding to e-mails from her fans.

She walked regularly — a mile or two several days a week — a practice she credited for helping to keep her young.

Haddock said her passion for taking big money out of politics at the state and federal levels helped her to keep going.

Doing so, she said, would bring true democracy to the country. That’s a legacy she longed to leave behind for her 16 great-grandchildren.

“I’ve been working on it for 10 years,” she said in January. “It will mean that anyone can run for office if they have the will and the guts.”

“But today, it costs so much to run for office, and it’s costing more and more all the time, and there are very few people who have the money to do it. They have to get it and they get it from special interests or from corporations.”

Haddock was born Jan. 24, 1910, in Laconia and attended Emerson College before marrying James Haddock. She later worked at a local shoe company for 20 years.

She spent a decade caring for her husband after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. He died in 1993.

After retiring in 1972, Haddock became more active in community affairs.

In 1997, Haddock began to get involved with the cause that would become her life’s mission. She became interested in campaign finance reform after the defeat of the first attempt of Sens. John McCain and Russ Feingold to remove unregulated “soft” money from campaigns in 1995.

She gathered more than 100,000 signatures for a petition in support of the McCain-Feingold bill.

But a year later, disappointed with the response from her local representatives, the 89-year-old decided to begin training for a walk across the country as a champion for the cause.

Inspiration for her cross-country trek came from the Tuesday Morning Academy, a group of women in Dublin who met every Tuesday at 8 a.m. to do ballet exercises and discuss world affairs.

Her walk began Jan. 1, 1999, in Los Angeles and, 3,200 miles later, she arrived in Washington D.C., trailed by a crowd of about 2,200 supporters.

Covering about 10 miles a day, Haddock walked through more than 1,000 miles of desert, climbed the Appalachian Range in blizzard conditions and even skied 100 miles after snowfall made roadside walking impossible. She started in near-obscurity, but soon was discovered by local and national media.

The response from people along the way was one of the things she’ll always remember from the walk, Haddock said. “I had no money,” she said. “I walked as a pilgrim across the states.

“I walked until given shelter. I fasted until given food.”

And she shared her message with anyone who would listen, Haddock said.

“I stopped at every dog fight, any place, just so that my name is known and my name means public funding of elections,” she said. “It’s got to come. It’s going to.”

Burke, who co-wrote Haddock’s memoir, met Haddock as she walked through Arizona on her way to Washington.

“Doris was one of the youngest people I have ever known. She was a little kid about her country — so in love she was with it and so excited for it always,” he said early today.

In 2004, Haddock jumped into the Senate race on the last day to file after the presumptive Democratic nominee dropped out when his campaign manager was accused of financial fraud. A few months before the election, she officially changed her name to “Granny D,” but stressed that the “D” stood for “Doris,” not her party affiliation.

On Election Day, Judd Gregg won. But Haddock still saw the 34 percent of the vote she captured as a victory.

“I wasn’t going to just let him have it without giving a fight,” she said.

Mark Fernald, a former state senator and a Sharon resident who practices law in Peterborough, said Granny D was a woman of remarkable poise and commitment, which made it easy for people to naturally be drawn to her.

“She was genuine,” Fernald said this morning. “She had a way about her, and people liked her. She was out to tell her story; she didn’t put people down, she didn’t lecture, she talked about what she believed in and why we needed this change (campaign finance reform) to change our country.”

In recent years, she founded a group that pushed the state Legislature to create the Citizen Funded Election Task Force and attended the task force’s weekly meetings. She was honored at a Statehouse ceremony in January to mark her 100th birthday.

She was working on a new book, “My Bohemian Century,” which focuses on her college days and her Senate campaign and is expected to be published this spring. Haddock had stayed with Burke’s family in Phoenix last month to complete work on it, he said.

“Two things that people might not know, but should,” Fernald said, “she was a marvelous writer and speaker, and she wrote all her own stuff. And it was good. She really thought very deeply about what it meant to be an American, to live in a democracy. She’d get up there, and make these speeches, at age 88, 90, 92, and she never wore reading glasses.

“In some ways, she seemed like she was ageless — the mind of a 25 year old, the eyes of a 35 year old ... and the legs of a 40 year old.”

In the book’s dedication, Haddock offers readers advice: “You have to keep the young adventurer inside your heart alive long enough for it to someday re-emerge. It may take some coaxing and some courage, but that person is in you always — never growing old.”

In February, “Sources of Strength: Granny D at 100” was published. The book focuses on how she’s managed to live such a long and active life and includes the text of several of her speeches.

Both Democrats and Republicans offered condolences Tuesday night.

“Her commitment to fair and open democracy should inspire us all to work even harder for reform,” state Democratic Party Chairman Ray Buckley.

“We are always saddened when someone with a genuine commitment to their values and principles passes away,” said Republican Party Chairman John H. Sununu. “Granny D was an unwavering advocate for her beliefs, and her tireless efforts inspired many Granite Staters to participate in our political process,” he said.

Haddock told The Sentinel in January that she hopes her legacy will transcend politics.

“You have the power of one,” she said. “And if you use it for something that’s bigger than you are, people will come.”

An Appeal to Firefighters, Present and Past from Retired FDNY Lieutenant Anton Vodvarka

20 August 2008

"Fellow Firefighters, A great tragedy befell our community on September 11, 2001, an unprecedented 343 deaths in the line of duty.

As horrible as that toll is, if there were a rational explanation for it, we could accept it and mourn. We all understood the risk we accepted when we took the oath of office, that chance might cut short our lives when we placed ourselves in harm’s way in the public’s service. This is what we are paid for and it is our honor.

However, in short, the official explanation of the events of that day are not only insufficient, they are fantastic and cannot bear rational examination. We are asked to believe that on that day three structural steel buildings, which have never before in history collapsed because of fire, fell neatly into their basements at the speed of gravity, their concrete reduced to dust.

We are asked to believe that jet fuel (kerosene) can melt steel. We are asked to believe that the most sophisticated air defense system in the world, that responded to sixty-eight emergencies in the year prior to 9-11 in less than twenty minutes allowed aircraft to wander about for up to an hour and a half. We are asked to believe that the steel and titanium components of an aircraft that supposedly hit the Pentagon “evaporated”.

There is much, much more if anyone cares to look into it. Trade Tower #7 by itself is the “smoking gun”. Not hit by an aircraft, with only a few relatively small fires, it came down in a classic crimp and implosion, going straight into its basement, something only very precise demolition can accomplish, which takes days if not weeks to prepare.

The 9-11 Commission didn’t even mention it, and F.E.M.A. actually stated they DIDN’T KNOW WHY IT COLLAPSED AND LEFT IT AT THAT. Brothers, I know that the implications of the above are hard, almost unthinkable, but the official explanation is utter nonsense, and three hundred and forty three murdered brothers are crying out for justice.

Demand a genuine investigation into the events of September 11!"

-Anton Vodvarka, Lt. FDNY (ret)

Note that Lt. Vodvarka served on FDNY Ladder Co 26, Rescue Co. 3, Rescue Co. 1, Engine Co. 92, Ladder 82 and Ladder 101. He was awarded the Merit Class 1 award, the Prentice Medal.

WAYS TO HELP: Sign the petition here.

Firefighters for 9/11 Truth: Erik Lawyer speaks at the Architects and Engineers 9/11 Conference:

The Three Phases of Truth

Truth passes through three phases:

First it is ridiculed.
Second it is fiercely and violently opposed.
Third, it becomes self-evident.
— Arthur Schopenhauer

When a new way is suggested, people often criticize it as strange, outlandish, or even at odds with how the laws of the universe. It is lambasted and laughed at.

When momentum begins to build for change, ridicule gives way to concerted opposition. The forces that benefit from the way things are currently arranged feel affronted. They defend the status quo with whatever means necessary.

When this momentum builds into an undeniable force, it creates an incentive for the power-holders to move off their adamant position. Now the impossible is not only possible, it becomes the new standard. It becomes self-evident.

This three-part progression does not happen, however, automatically or magically. As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, duration is not enough: the mere passage of time does not create change. It requires ordinary people envisioning, acting and constructing the future.

Each of us can help bring this progression into being – often, in part, by being “phase three” people in a “phase one and phase two” world.

“No one has a right to sit down and feel helpless, there”s too much to do.”
-- Dorothy Day

“The world will change because of your smile… to sit, to smile, to look at things and really see them”
-- Thich Nhat Hanh

“One cannot level one's moral lance at every evil in the universe. There are just too many of them. But you can do something, and the difference between doing something and doing nothing is everything.”
-- Daniel Berrigan

“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.”
-- Theodore Roosevelt, on April 19, 1906

“As I have walked among the desperate, rejected and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems, maintaining my convictions that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But, they asked, and rightly so, what about Vietnam? They asked if our own nation wasn”t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their question hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against violence on the oppressed in the ghettos without first having spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - our own government.”
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. NYC April 4, 1967

A journey of A thousand miles must begin with A single step.
-- Lao Tzu

“It may well be that the greatest tragedy of this period of social change is not the glaring noisiness of the so-called bad people, but the silence of the so-called good people.”
-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

“One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better.”
-- Daniel Berrigan

“There must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.”
-- Frederick Douglas 1857

“If you see injustice and say nothing, you have taken the side of the oppressor.”
-- Desmund Tutu

* Original material here.

Mainstream Corporate Media vs. The Founding Fathers

If Thomas Jefferson could see us now....

"In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy.

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell."

Justice Black. NYT v. US. 403 US 713

So what happened to the "free press?" Any honest discussion of the facts of 9/11 is censored in the media. These are dark times for democracy.

Need Some Inspiration?

We're not alone in calling for the Truth of 9/11. Here are some good political quotes to inspire our cause:

Government should not be made an end in itself; it is a means only - a means to be freely adapted to advance the best interests of the social organism. The State exists for the sake of Society, not society for the sake of the State.
-Woodrow Wilson

The mere possession of intelligence and attainment of high political office does not automatically instill in one the desire to provide for the common good of all citizens.
-Ray Gattavara

Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided: more often it is a crisis invited.
-Henry Kissinger

The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as Government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that have any right in it.
-Thomas Paine

To kill time, a committee meeting is the perfect weapon.
-Fred Allen

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
-John Gardner

Example moves the world more than doctrine.
-Henry Miller

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
-George Bernard Shaw

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
-Henry Clay

The level of dysfunction exhibited by any nation's political process is greatly influenced by the ethical and moral values observed and practiced by society as a whole.
-Ray Gattavara

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
-Elie Wiesel

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

There's none so blind as they that won't see.
-Jonathan Swift

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-Abraham Lincoln

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.
-Louis Kronenberger

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
-Joaquin Setanti

The ideals of liberty cannot be fixed from generation to generation; only its conception can be, the large image of what it is. Liberty fixed in unalterable law would be[and is] no liberty at all.
-Woodrow Wilson

A man's[or woman's] intelligence does not increase as he aquires power. What does increase is the difficulty in telling him so.
-D. Sutherland

Under democracy one party always devotes its energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed and are right.
-H.L. Mencken

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
-Aristotle

Neither the clamor of the mob nor the voice of power will ever turn me by the breadth of a hair from the course I made out for myself guided by such knowledge as I can obtain and controlled and directed by a solemn conviction of right and duty.
-Robert La Follette

If everyone is thinking alike then someone isn't thinking.
-Gen. George S. Patton Jr.

Individual liberty and positive social evolution gradually erode within societies that remain fixated on governmental structures that were never intended to last for all of eternity.
-Ray Gattavara

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
-Samuel Johnson

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
-Thomas Jefferson

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction.
-John F. Kennedy

The final test of a leader is that he[or she] leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
-Walter Lippman

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey established government.
-George Washington

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.
-John F. Kennedy

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.
-Henry David Thoreau

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end...I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
-Abraham Lincoln

Creativity always dies a quick death in rooms that house conference tables.
-Bruce Hershensohn

I believe in the color-blind society - but it has been and remains an aspiration.
-Thurgood Marshall

The nation behaves well if it treats its natural resources as assets, which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.
-Theodore Roosevelt

Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as liberty without freedom of speech.
-Benjamin Franklin

There is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unkown to the world.
-Thomas Jefferson

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
-Elie Wiesel

Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable.
-Thomas Jefferson

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
-Thomas Jefferson

A just society would be one in which liberty for one person is constrained only by the demands created by equal liberty for another.
-Ivan Illich

No man is justified in doing evil on the grounds of expediency.
-Theodore Roosevelt

The law must be stable but it must not stand still.
-Roscoe Pound

A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth.
-Thomas Jefferson

Simply exercising power over others in a social and/or political environment does not equal greatness.
-Ray Gattavara

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain (what I consider the most enviable of all titles) the character of an "Honest Man."
-George Washington

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely, that I inspired a nation....It was the nation and the race dwelling round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar. I also hope that I sometimes suggested to the lion the right place to use his claws.
-Winston Churchill

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
-Thucydides

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
-J.K. Galbraith

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
-Edmund Burke

These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the scriptural parable, the bland lead the bland.
-J.K. Galbraith

Mankind has probably done more damage to the earth in the 20th century than in all of previous history.
-Jacques Cousteau

Let us teach ourselves and others that politics can be not only the art of the possible, especially if this means the art of speculation, calculation, intrigue, secret deals, and pragmatic maneuvering, but that it can even be the art of the impossible, namely, the art of improving ourselves and the world.
-Vaclev Havel

It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results.
-Walter Bagehot

The true character of a politician, and many others as well, is revealed more by his/her statements that prompt a quick apology and/or explanation, rather than by routine comments made during the course of day-to-day activities.
-Ray Gattavara

Governments that apply complexity instead of simplicity to their domestic governing process often do so in an attempt to conceal inaction, or dysfunction.
-Ray Gattavara

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
-Sigmund Freud

A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
-Charles F. Kettering

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
-John Locke

Be wary of the elected public official or branch of government that spends any energies on partisan political issues, for its reflective of a dysfunctional unwillingness to introduce or advance ideas that would foster much needed political and social evolution, and at the same time reveals an intense interest on the part of politicians to create an illusion for the general populace that something positive is being done when the opposite is true.
-Ray Gattavara

If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
-Arthur Goldberg

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.
-Henry Adams

The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.
-John Steinbeck

Learn to expect more from your elected governmental representatives. Deliberately ignore what they say, diligently watch what they do. You may discover that little or nothing is accomplished that has the potential to restore common sense and hope for the future to our social fabric.
-Ray Gattavara

Activist Group Posts 573,000 '9/11 Pager Messages'

HERE'S THE GOOD NEWS: This was intended to be a virtual re-enactment of 9/11. A few minutes after the first hijacked airplane slammed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, text pager services in New York and Washington DC lit up with thousands of messages from people trying to contact loved ones. While internet servers and cell phone networks crashed across New York City, text pagers continued to function.

An archive containing the contents of more than half a million pager messages sent on 11 September 2001 was published by the internet site Wikileaks. It provided an uncensored and sometimes deeply moving first-hand account of the attacks on New York and the Pentagon.

HERE'S THE BAD NEWS: The half million 9/11 messages are no longer to be found at: http://911.wikileaks.org/ and they cannot be found anywhere online.

AND HERE'S THE LATEST NEWS: Concerned about the release of 500,000 intercepted pager messages from Sept. 11, 2001, Rep. Peter King said he plans to have his Washington staff begin a preliminary investigation. "It does raise security issues, and we will look into it in Washington," King (R-Seaford), the ranking Republican on the House Committee on Homeland Security, said Friday.

PLEASE CONTACT US: if you know where these documents can be found as we would like to examine them.

According to the Wayback Machine, This is what Wikileaks looked like before it was pulled. The quote below was copied from that page:

"The action I am taking is no more than a radical measure to hasten the explosion of truth and justice. I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul. Let them dare, then, to bring me before a court of law and let the enquiry take place in broad daylight!"
Emile Zola, J'accuse! (1898)

Quotes

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
Desmond Tutu

"The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear."
Jim Bishop (1907-1987)

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
Alice Walker

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS.
Mahatma Gandhi

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
Albert Einstein

"The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief"
Gustave LeBon

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788 - 1860)

Quotes

When writing Letters To The Editor (LTE's) or talking with people, adding a quote from a traditional authority may help reframe our views from"disloyal extremist" to "conservative defender of the Constitution."

Here is a list of relevant quotes and a brief description of what each of their authors was famous for:

Information is the currency of democracy.
Thomas Jefferson, writer of the U.S. Constitution and President

We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.
Thomas Jefferson, writer of the U.S. Constitution and President

He is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson, writer of the U.S. Constitution and President

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson, writer of the U.S. Constitution and President

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams, contributor to the Declaration of Independence and President

Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it.
John F. Kennedy, President

The truth shall make you free.
John 8:32

Science is the search for truth -- it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.
Linus Pauling, chemist, winner of two Nobel Prizes

Truth may sometimes be improbable.
Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux, French writer

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom -- they are the pillars of society.
Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright

Ridicule is the best test of truth.
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield, British statesman

Truth is the basis of moral authority.
Henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss poet and philosopher

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Josh Billings, humorist

Time discovers truth.
Seneca, Roman philosopher

We seek the truth, and will endure the consequences.
Charles Seymour, president of Yale University

In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives.
Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court justice

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison, contributor to the Constitution and President

We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth.
Patrick Henry, leader in the American Revolution

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
Patrick Henry, leader in the American Revolution

The entire passage from which the above is taken: It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
Patrick Henry, leader in the American Revolution

MOVIE: 9/11 Mysteries

When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
- Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.

911 Mysteries, demolishes the 'official' 911 conspiracy theory more graphically than any movie previously released. See for yourself what really happened in the 3 demolished buildings in the weeks before 9/11.



Since 9-11 the American public has shown a remarkable indifference to being deceived."
- George Soros

"The world is waking up. It's waking up all over. And people are standing up."
- Hugo Chavez

Millions around the world are realizing that they are being lied to - not in a small, lazy way, but in a big way. This movie has helped many "wake up."

POSTER: For Movie Events

Frequent movie screenings can be a good way to introduce people to the 9/11 Truth movement.



"Scientists have now discovered explosive residues in the WTC dust which the government repeatedly refused to test for. This might be the final nail in the coffin of the official theory."
— Richard Gage, AIA

“Richard Gage presents an interesting theory, backed by thorough research and analysis.”
— FBI’s Michael J. Heimbach, Assistant Director, Counterterrorism Division

“I think we were all shocked when the buildings came down; it just didn’t seem right. Richard Gage, AIA, does an excellent job uncovering the problems with the official explanation in a scientific, non-partisan way.”
— Chris Mungenast, AIA

Quotes about Osama bin Laden

"I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent attacks.”
—Usama bin Laden, CNN, "Bin Laden says he wasn't behind attacks," September 17, 2001

"He also had former dealings with Omar Sheikh, the man who murdered Osama Bin Laden."
--Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Frost over the World, 2 Nov 07 (6 weeks before her assassination in Pakistan)

"We've never made the case, or argued the case that somehow Osama bin Laden was directly involved in 9/11. That evidence has never been forthcoming."
—Dick Cheney, "Interview of the Vice President by Tony Snow", March 29, 2006

QUESTION: "Mr President, in your speeches, you rarely mention Osama Bin Laden. Why is that?"
GEORGE BUSH JR: "I don't know where he is. I just don't spend that much time on him."

"9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page. He has not been formally indicted and charged in connection with 9/11 because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.”
—FBI agent Rex Tomb, June 6, 2006

"The goal has never been to get Bin Laden."
—General Richard Myers, chairman, US Joint Chiefs of Staff




OPERATION NORTHWOODS - the signed confession by US Govt for perping terrorist attacks in USA