- MADRID -- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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 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.
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