So ya know, I wasn't around in 2008. I became involved in 2009. I want to say I never met Les Jamieson. Unfortunately, that would be a lie. I did. Ted wanted me to help out with preparing the petition books so one Sunday afternoon I was sent over to his house to help out with numbering the petition books. He lives in a Brooklyn Brownstone and the place was a mess.
He's old, he's slow, if something takes a normal person a minute to do, it will take him ten minutes. He has really big ears. He's Left wing fringe dude, probably green, thus explaining his silly associations like Carl Person and all the other idiots that he associates with. And worst of all, he entertains every stupid idiotic theory in relation to 9/11 that comes down the pike and spreads it like its gospel.
Personally, I think the whole thing is cute. Its so idealistic and lovely and people should appreciate his idealism and love for anything and everything 9/11 "truth." Unfortunately though, we work in the real world and in the real world, when people hear about hologram planes hitting the towers they spontaneously hit the floor and the sound of something that sounds very clearly like giggles comes out of practically no where. That, in my opinion, is the problem with Les, he's too idealistic. He's too. . . i dunno. . . stupid.
Later that week I was there when they delivered the petitions to the city clerk and I went to the Cindy Sheehan thing that week. and when the court date happened in front of Judge Lehrer, I was there too, but had to leave early because it was the same day as a runoff election in nyc and I was working as a canvasser for one of the candidates. That would mark the four times I saw Les. To put it another way, he had little if anything to do with the petition effort in 2009 aside from slowly bumbling his way through scanning some of the petitions.
On whether Les "Set this up to fail" I have a hard time buying it. I honestly, wholeheartedly think that in Les's mind, he truly felt this would be a success. But based on a conversation I had with someone, Les also thought volunteers would come out of the woodwork after hearing the truth as broadcast by every 9/11 theorists under the sun and soon thousands upon thousands, and later millions, would be signing this thing and soon it would become, what, like 80,000,000 to one. Or whatever crap he was saying. To put it another way, Les couldn't set this up to fail because he was too stupid to set this thing up.