Today, Sunday 7 September 2008, two courageous individuals, Julez Edward and Olivier Galand, organised a demonstration in Brussels to "Reopen 9/11 Investigation, Stop Big Brother, Stop War & Capitalism, Go Think For Yourself". (http://www.unitedfortruth.org/)

A first demonstration  on these themes was already held in Brussels last year, although you may not have heard about it. This year, a number of associations supported the demonstration. Among these were the Belgian chapter of the Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions to Aid the Citizen (ATTAC) (NOTE: see additional information and correction at the end of this page !),  and the Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt (CADTM) .

News about the "United for truth"-demonstration are not yet available (at the time of writing).

In the USA,  the break-through  of the 9/11 truth movement happened years ago. Today, seven years after 11 September, 2001, the movement for truth about what really happened on that day  is broader than ever. 

Earlier this year, professor David Ray Griffin, a leading American independent researcher on the issue,  published a long open letter to the US Congress and the American press.[1] His message:  congressmen and journalists need to inquire into  the self-contradictions of the US authorities.  Griffin meticulously documents 25 cases, thus producing a most compelling proof of the need to re-open the official investigation of the 9/11 crimes.  Those who have been caught  stating "P" and "not P" on 25 different occasions can no longer expect to be believed on their word!

The movement of the truth-seekers about 9/11 now includes hundreds of architects, engineers, pilots, firemen, military officers, members of the intelligence community and other professionals, who find  the official story, or certain parts of it,  to be  incompatible with their professional experience.

Then we have scientists for 9/11 truth and justice, who scrutinize what we have been told  in the light of the available empirical evidence and their knowledge of the laws of nature.  Earlier this year, physicist Steven E. Jones and his co-authors offered their colleagues at the National Institute for Science and Technology (NIST) to continue the discussion about the collapses at the WTC  "in a civil manner as a matter of scientific and engineering courtesy and civic duty". The conclusion of their article highlights some of the key questions, which have been left open:

"We have enumerated fourteen areas where we are in
agreement with FEMA and NIST in their investigations of
the tragic and shocking destruction of the World Trade Cen-
ter. We agree that the Towers fell at near free-fall speed and
that is an important starting point. We agree that several
popular myths have been shown to be wrong, such as the
idea that steel in the buildings melted due to the fires, or that
the Towers were hollow tubes, or that floors “pancaked” to
account for total Tower collapses. We agree that the collapse
of the 47-story WTC 7 (which was not hit by a jet) is hard to
explain from the point of view of a fire-induced mechanism
and that NIST has refused (so far) to look for residues of
explosives [...]. Our investigative team would like to
build from this foundation and correspond with the NIST
investigation team, especially since they have candidly con-
ceded (in a reply to some of us in September 2007):
“...we are unable to provide a full explanation of the total
collapse” [2]


Thus two seemingly different and contrary images have emerged.  The first shows a gang of Eastern fanatics, armed with ancient religious dogma and box-cutters,  launching a devastating surprise attack against Western civilization in a way that military defense and intelligence were not able to foresee and avert.  It shows the victory of primitive brutality and shrewdness over sophisticated technology and modern bureaucratic rationality.
In the second picture we see advanced science applications  and cynical psychological operations at work. Planes are being controlled and guided remotely.  Nanotechnology offers new ways to demolish steel structures. Stunning!  Incredible?  Not if you remember that Hiroshima and Nagasaki could be, and actually had been, annihilated in a few moments years before George W. Bush and yourself had grown up.

What is decisive in the final analysis -- because we believe in free speech and democracy --  is the judgment of the people. Millions of ordinary American citizens continue to doubt the official 9/11 conspiracy story which has been uncritically adopted and repeated by the mass media. Now, when the number of Europeans who demand a new investigation is also growing, it is essential to start a discussion about the direction in which the "9/11 truth" should be leading us. Where do we go from here? The two organizers of today's demonstration call for "a ReLovution". That is a funny word, and I like it, because it speaks of Love. However, is it not enough , in this case, to unite for truth and against war? Is it necessary to stand united against Capitalism in order to be a reLovutionist?
 
Correction 8 September: A spokesperson of Attac Belgium has notified me that  only one of the two local Attac groups in Brussels (Attac Bruxelles-1) did in fact support the United for truth-demonstration in Brussels yesterday. -MB

Footnotes:

[1] Griffin, D.R.: 9/11 Contradictions. An Open Letter to Congress and the Press. The Olive Branch Press 2008.

[2] Steven E. Jones, Frank M. Legge, Kevin R. Ryan, Anthony F. Szamboti, James R. Gourley: "Fourteen Points of Agreement with Official Government Reports on the World Trade Center Destruction", In Open Civil Engineering Journal 2008:2, pp.35-40.
(http://www.bentham-open.org/pages/gen.php?file=35TOCIEJ.pdf)