Week fo Twoof, May 9 - 16 Keene, NH

[BigAl]

The usual suspects but heavy on the families of the victims.

www.weekoftruth.org

[Stellafane]

HA! The Truther Travelling Road Show, right here in my back yard. I'd love to drop by and push a couple of Bermas' hair-trigger buttons and watch that self-satisfied smirk (think Frank Drebin in Naked Gun) disappear from his face. But I'm not sure how much I'd like to deal with victim families. How do you tell someone that you fully sympathize with their grief, but think the way they are responding to it is completely wrong? I suspect they'll be too much appealing to emotion for my tastes.

I'm not sure how much Keene is a hotbed of truther activity. Nearby Brattleboro, VT (home of the "indictment" for George Bush) does seem to have a bit of a CTer presence, basically aging leftists who just can't seen to disagree with someone without demonizing them. I think it makes them feel heroic or something by elevating the evilness of the opposition, so they can tell themselves they're brave freedom fighters, saving American democracy from latter-day fascists. Gives them something to talk about over the brie and white wine, I suppose.

[PugsOnAPlane]

HA! The Truther Travelling Road Show, right here in my back yard. I'd love to drop by and push a couple of Bermas' hair-trigger buttons and watch that self-satisfied smirk (think Frank Drebin in Naked Gun) disappear from his face. But I'm not sure how much I'd like to deal with victim families. How do you tell someone that you fully sympathize with their grief, but think the way they are responding to it is completely wrong? I suspect they'll be too much appealing to emotion for my tastes.

I'm not sure how much Keene is a hotbed of truther activity. Nearby Brattleboro, VT (home of the "indictment" for George Bush) does seem to have a bit of a CTer presence, basically aging leftists who just can't seen to disagree with someone without demonizing them. I think it makes them feel heroic or something by elevating the evilness of the opposition, so they can tell themselves they're brave freedom fighters, saving American democracy from latter-day fascists. Gives them something to talk about over the brie and white wine, I suppose.

I'm a Keene State student, and I am embarrassed that there's such a Truther presence here. Justin Martell, the founder of Student Scholars for 9/11 Truth goes to nearby Franklin Pierce College, and co-founder Mike Jackman goes here.

Since I transferred here in the fall of 2006, there have been appearances by Richard Gage, Dave Von Kleist, the guy who founded Scholars for 9/11 Truth whose name escapes me, and showings of Zeitgeist, Improbable Collapse, Loose Change, 9/11 Mysteries, and The Reflecting Pool. Oh, and remember when Truthers yelled obscenities at Bill Clinton while he was campaigning for his wife? That happened here, too.

I'm not sure what the turnout will be like for this event. When I attended the showing of The Reflecting Pool (I mistakenly thought the director would be attending,) even though this is a college town, I was probably the youngest person there. The 72-seat auditorium wasn't even half full. Then again, Richard Gage got almost 300 people to show up when he was here; however, both of those events were free, while the 9/11 Symposium tickets cost $15 each.