The Use of Bullhorns and Belligerence Against the Left
One of the ways that I think we will really lose ground is by actions with bullhorns where people scream at other people who are behind podiums who are well-liked by the audience. There are many occassions when it is important to do this -- standing up behind Rumsfeld with a banner during his hearings, disrupting a talk by Cheney, blowing a whistle at the Commissioners touting their report -- but alienating the darlings of the left isn't going to get us anywhere except to be locked out from the left.
I think a problem with 911blogger is that if you read through the comments you see a lot of people support this kind of thing, and trash people like Amy Goodman. Goodman isn't going to ever respond to someone screaming at her through a bullhorn and all that does it turn that entire audience against 9/11 truth. She is stuck in her ways and we don't know what they are. We've tried to reach her and cannot. There are a million and one things you can do to expose her without alienating all of us from the left.
Bob Bowman wrote about a recent event where this happened -
"The young man in Melbourne yelled at Amy, "You know 9/11 was an inside job. Why won't you say it? Say it now! '9/11 was an inside job!'" Then he just kept yelling the same thing. This convinces no one of anything except that we're a bunch of rude, obnoxious, nuts. Instead, he could have waited for a Q&A and asked something like, "Kean and Hamilton say they were lied to by NORAD about 9/11. The government's story doesn't add up. Will you support a new, independent investigation of 9/11 so the American people can learn the truth?" or "There is a mountain of evidence that World Trade Center 7 was 'pulled' in a classic demolition, and it wasn't even hit by an airplane. Will you support a new, independent investigation to find out what really happened on 9/11?""
http://www.911blogger.com/node/6168
But the readers on 911blogger mostly cut him down, support Mike and his bullhorn, or comment things like "Fuck Amy Goodman." They say they're angry and this is how it should be.
Stuff like this helps no one. It's sad that Rosie apparently thinks it's great that someone is going around disrupting classrooms and events with a bullhorn to get the word out, but it's an easy way to turn off hundreds of people simultaneously in about 30 sec to ever considering 9/11 truth.
It's one thing if you're at the commission hearings, but another if you're in an auditorium filled with fans of Amy Goodman, or students at a university who are learning from their instructor, a person who then has to say he's going to call security to get the bullhorn out. These actions will only hurt us with people who care about credibility.
The video is here -
http://www.911blogger.com/node/6306