by darkbeforedawn » Sun Sep 17, 2006 6:47 pm
Some people have said Alex Jones is wrecking the truth movement. I found this personal account very moving and revealing. Maybe he really is a hero?<br><br>Submitted by SCAFFOLDRIDER on Sat, 09/16/2006 - 11:20am. <br>Personal Story<br> <br>I posted this on Loose Change 2 Forum, but I wanted to share it here and thank the many members who have responded to my post in the past.<br><br>On Sunday I decided I wanted to go to Cooper Hall and make it a two day<br>thing. My girl and I got there a little early, about 11:00 and wasn't<br>sure if we had the right place. I figured many would get there early<br>figuring as I did, that there would be a tremendous crowd. I wanted to get<br>my tickets and stay for a few hours and then go to ground Zero, then return<br>for the evening showing of Loose Change and hear Alex Jones speak.<br><br>We didn't see any signs or banners on the entrance and didn't<br>know if we had the right building, then I noticed a truck parked on the<br>side walk with the words, "Louder Than Words."<br><br>We waited to 12:30, when they started selling tickets, to be honest I was<br>a little surprised there wasn't more people, but thought maybe they<br>might be waiting for the evening presentation of the Loose Change movie<br>and Alex Jones.<br><br>We stayed a few hours and listened to a few of the key speakers and then<br>headed off to Ground Zero. I wasn't there ten minutes and I see a<br>crowd around Alex Jones. I didn't know what was going on, but was<br>concerned with seeing Secret Service and police around the crowd. I worked<br>my way through the crowd and there was Alex in a debate with a young Black<br>American man. I don't recall what the young man said, but it enraged<br>me to open my mouth. I yelled something to the effect, "If the EPA<br>would lie to New Yorkers about the air safety from all the toxins in the<br>soot and ash of 9/11, what makes you believe that our government<br>couldn't be involved in 9/11."<br>It got a little heated there for a while between me and this young man. I<br>tried to tell him tens of thousands are now suffered from deathly<br>illnesses and many have died already. My temper was boiling at this time,<br>I started shouting at him about all the schools in the area that were<br>reopened based on Whitman's press release about the air being safe<br>and how the 400,000 residents that live within 1 mile of Ground Zero<br>returned to their homes and cleaned up that poisonous ash and soot with a<br>damp mop and rag. It became a shouting match, back and forward, when I<br>mentioned that Bush was responsible for those statements by the EPA. The<br>man couldn't response with any decent reply, so he made the comment<br>to the effect "suck my cock." He threw me off guard with the<br>statement for a second and especially with all the cameras facing me. I<br>could only response, "This is the level of intelligence you<br>have." I tried to tell him the White House altered and cleared all<br>staements from the EPA that was to be released to the public and finally<br>the cops started to break up the crowd.<br><br>Well, that's how I met Alex Jones and Dylan Avery for the first time.<br>Alex asked me to come with him and to give an interveiw. He wanted me to<br>tell all about the kids and schools that reopened based on the EPA's<br>statement, the air and water was safe in lower Manhattan. He was<br>interested in the 400,000 residents that live within one mile of Ground<br>Zero and how they were advised to clean up with a wet mop and rag.<br><br>We crossed the street and were in front of the Century 21 Building on the<br>sidewalk and Alex stopped there and wanted the interveiw right there in<br>front of the crowd. I couldn't believe it, I never figured that. I<br>was so nervous, but I told my story about being there on 9/11 and<br>returning to Ground Zero to work, plus all about the EPA and how many<br>thousands will die directly from the EPA's and White House's<br>statements. To be honest I was so nervous in from of the camera and the<br>crowd I don't remember everything I said. Alex was cool and said I<br>did a great job and we hung out together with Dylan and the crew till we<br>rode the train back uptown to Cooper Hall. We talked a little on the<br>train, he's one hell of a guy, he's for REAL and believes in his<br>heart what he says. I got to see the personal side of him and where<br>he's from and the events that brought him to where he is today.<br>He's a powerful speaker, his mind is so shape and his retention for<br>facts and names is unbelievable.<br><br>Back at Cooper Hall, the scene was totally different than it was when I<br>left hours before. There was a large crowd outside with everyone wearing<br>the Loose Change black T-shirts. I was even more shocked when I went<br>inside, the audoritorium was packed, cameras everywhere. The evening<br>presentation was fantastic, but the morning to come was the REAL STORY.<br><br>We got there early and everyone met in a little park in front of what I<br>learned was the PET GOAT's Bank, sorry can't remember the name.<br>Well as I walked up to the park I saw the NYPD brass going up to the guys<br>holding one of our banners. The owner of the property sent two of his<br>represntatives down and wanted our banner removed from the property. Dylan<br>and Alex wasn't there yet, Dylan was doing the Popular Mechanics<br>interview, so I asked the officer's what the problem was and why only<br>our banner and not the other banners that people were displaying. I was<br>informed it was the tall sticks that were holding the banner. with that I<br>told the guys holding the banner to take the banner off the sticks and<br>hold it like the others who had banners. Well, that didn't work<br>either, the two representatives pulled the NYPD brass to the side and they<br>returned saying now they wanted "THAT" banner off the property. I<br>tried to explain this wasn't right or legal, but to no avail. Then one<br>of the LTW guys showed up and they worked something out with the cops. They<br>put together a police escort in about a half hour and allowed us to march<br>of the sidewalk across from Ground Zero with all our banners and flyers.<br>It was a beautiful site, the line was easily a few blocks long and we all<br>showed the utmost respect. We marched silently and respectfully, it was a<br>site to see with all of us in black T-Shirts.<br><br>When I later met up with Dylan, he was pumped up, people were coming up to<br>him saying they did a great job with the interview with Popular Mechanics.<br>Dylan and I hung out all day together, we put some miles on that day.<br>Dylan wanted to do an interview with me and he wanted it in a quiet area,<br>so we decided to go over to the Winter Garden where the World Financial<br>Center Buildings are.<br><br>Once we finally got across the West Side Highway and in front of WFC where<br>they had that beautiful giant American flag, we had to take a few pictures<br>of how gorgerous the flag was bellowing in the wind. Jason, Dylan's<br>camera man got some great shots of the flag and so did I. Once inside the<br>Winter Garden, which is very beautiful, we decided to go to the park<br>behind it because there was so many people there. We found a quiet spot by<br>the water with the Statute of Liberty in the back ground and we were all<br>just talking, my girl, Dylan, Jason, and myself.<br><br>We were just enjoying the moment, when a man starts walking towards us and<br>wants to ask a question. He has a NYDP pin on his jacket and wants to know<br>what why and what we are doing. It starts off in a pleasant matter and<br>turns into a debate. Jason is quietly recording the conversation, then the<br>shit begins.<br><br>Another guy comes walking over, a stock broke, and wants to say something.<br>He says we have no respect and why today, there's 364 other days for<br>this shit. Well, I try to keep my calm, especially when he says, "We<br>believe that no plane hit the WTC!" I argue with him over that and he<br>responded, "One of OUR people was preaching it to him earlier." I<br>try to be respectful and tell him that's not my beliefs or that of 99%<br>of the Truth Movement. Well, you guessed it, it got a little ugly! The<br>stock broker, the second guy tells us to get the "f*ck OUT OF<br>THERE" and something to the effect I wasn't there and don't<br>know what I'm talking about. I see "RED" and I start walking<br>after him, I tell the so called respectfully BASTARD who cares so much that<br>He couldn't even take a day off work out of respect, that I was there<br>that day and I worked Ground Zero. He says, "sure you did", I<br>got crazy, yelling at him my photos are in the Library of Congress and I<br>donated over a dozen artifacts to the 9/11 Memorial. The guy now knows he<br>picked the wrong guy and just keeps on walking, while the other guy, the<br>retired cop, holds me back. I didn't know jason filmed the whole<br>thing. Dylan thought the footage was going to be great.<br><br>Well we finally find a little spot where a small pond and some ducks were<br>and I gave Dylan his interveiw. Again, I was a nervous wreck, there was so<br>many things I wanted to say but I couldn't say them. Dylan, like Alex,<br>was kind and said the interview was great, but I know I was a nerous wreck<br>and couldn't express all the things I wanted.<br><br>We stopped for lunch in a little pizza shop on the way back to GZ, the TV<br>was on Channel 1 and we saw coverage of Our guys protesting, we were all<br>so excited to see it. I told Dylan, it would be on every News station in<br>the world, he was so pleased that the media might finally cover this in<br>the right light. Only later that night I would learn how wrong I was and<br>thought about how upset Dylan must have been sitting in his New Yorker<br>Hotel later that night going from channel to channel learning the media<br>had screwed the MOVEMENT once again!<br><br>After eating, we returned to Ground Zero and the little park where it all<br>began, that's where I finally met Jason Berma, I really like this guy<br>he's a character. as we sat in the park for a minute we heard that<br>undenable sound, which could only be started by one person, "IT WAS<br>AN INSIDE JOB." It was Alex Jones and gang around the block in front<br>of Spitzer office. Naturally we headed toward the sound, as we reached<br>Broadway, we saw a large crowd in the street. The cops had to close half<br>the street for them, it was beautiful, The Movement and Alex Jones had<br>closed down a section of Broadway.<br><br>Then it was off to Police Head Quarters, at first I thought it was a<br>terrible idea to protest there, especially in light of how the cops<br>treated us that day. But I quickly realized that the gentleman, I"m<br>sorry I don't know his name, was speaking to the crowd was thanking<br>New York's Finest and Bravest and that we understand how the<br>government failed all their sick who went to Ground Zero to help! I<br>watched the faces of the cops as the speech focused on them, it was clear<br>they were with us, yes silently for most part but totally in HEART! They<br>know what happened that terrible day and they want the TRUTH also.<br><br>Dylan and I finally sitting on the train heading for his hotel, the New<br>Yorker. It was a time of reflection, he was proud of what the day turned<br>out to be, respectfully! The video that Louder Than Words had put together<br>had touched people around the globe and with prayer and hope the Truth<br>would one day come to light.<br><br>As we said our good byes in front of the hotel, I gave him a little slap<br>on the cheek and told him, "Stay Strong, KId!" To each and<br>everyone who was there in body and those that were there in spirt, I thank<br>all of you from the bottom of my heart.<br><br>STAY STRONG! Louie<br><br>SCAFFOLD RIDER<br> <p></p><i></i>
