Robert Fisk in London, Bristol

[Belinda]

As listed in the Events section, celebrated journalist & Middle East specialist Robert Fisk is once again doing the rounds of the country to have a Conversation with the British public on topical issues. He has an easy, ‘armchair’ approach to audience participation and allows a lot of spontaneous questions, so once again this is an opportunity to raise 9/11 truth before a serious/large audience.

Here’s what I asked him this time last year in London venue (audience of 800) and how he replied:

BM: “Mr Fisk thank you for alluding to the importance of 911 in your talk, I'm busy campaigning for 911 truth outside this venue so you've made my job a lot easier, thank you! Now, as regards 911, I want to ask you how long you believe it will take for the truth about what happened on September 11th to come out? Given that it's taken the best part of 60 years for the US government's complicity in the attack on Pearl Harbour to come to light, that the US government had information that the Japanese were about to launch an attack on the fleet and allowed that to happen. Do we have to wait 60 years for the truth about 911 to come out, namely, that the US administration may have been complicit in that too, can't we speed things up a bit? since two dreadful wars have already happened as a direct result of 911 and more may be to come?”
RF: “I'm actually a specialist on the Middle East rather than on America but of course like most journalists I've been sent all kinds of films and books on 911, there seems to be a never-ending supply of these, you can get very bogged down in this issue, it’s obviously very complex. So in answer to your question I guess it will probably take at least 20 years for the truth to come out...”

That should give us our cue - "20 years for the truth to come out", the bit I remember most clearly in his reply, indicates that he KNOWS that the official version is wrong but HE/FISK is not going to be the one to spill the beans; it's going to be a very gradual process of revelation and by the time it's through it’ll be way too late to indict the culprits...

(That's always the strategy, to spin things out for as long as possible so that most of the original gang are either dead or too geriatric to face questioning. Then journalists such as Fisk and Pilger albeit privately wise to 911 Truth probably think that it would be so appalling and incredible to most ordinary folk and that there will be such resistance to it that it’ll take at least two decades for it to come out and in the meantime they’re not going to risk their reputations, or worse!!)

Ie., most intelligent people are ‘in the know’ and so it’s mainly MASS IGNORANCE, CONFUSION & EMOTIONAL REVULSION that are holding back the truth, Fisk obliquely confirmed this last year. So this year’s comment/question could be: “Mr Fisk we’re in the 5th anniversary year since the September 11 attacks and the Truth about what happened on that day is coming out as you know, much sooner in fact than you predicted last year at your Evening event in London, you gave it 20 years if you remember. One year on extremely senior figures in the US establishment are banding together in challenge the official account (www.patriotsquestion911.org) as well as a whole range of scientists, engineers and academics, they are telling us that even Bin Laden can’t have changed the basic laws of physics! and the Twin Towers and the 3rd building WTC7 that suddenly collapsed at about 5 oclock on the same day were brought down by demolition, not aeroplanes or fires!! As you may have heard, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela is offering to host a reopened 911 Inquiry and so it really isn’t going to be much longer before the truth is out.
So how do you think that universal realisation that 911 was an Inside Job and that the War on Terror is therefore totally bogus too will affect the situation in the Middle East?”

or some such version of the same.

Any takers to go along and ask the question to Fisk tonight in London?? Or in Bristol tomorrow??

Will anyone at least join me leafleting outside the London venue? PLEEASE? Noel and I did the Evening with Tony Benn last night too (I asked Benn a Question - report to follow) could use a bit of help tonight, sorry for the short notice but....

Belinda

[andyb]

Belinda,

I can try and come down to leaflet with you. Was going to try and get a ticket for this but £35 seemed a bit steep. He actually had a talk in the Frontline club yesterday at lunchtime which I only read about afterwards. Where is the talk tonight? What time are you getting down?

Andy

[Andrew Johnson]

Good luck everyone! And Great work!

[brian]

It sounds to me that Fisk's reply to Belinda puts him in the Chomsky camp only he was being a bit more subtle by saying the issue is complex and truth will come out in 20 years.

In this weeks Independent he is not only claiming he had predicted September 11 he is forecasting another one in the near future.

".... I had walked into that Bosnian mosque, watched by Serb policemen, on 11 September 1993. My warning was exactly eight years too early."

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article1814843.ece

Fisk is one of the few who highlights the hypocrisy and brutality of the Middle East situation but does little to shine a light on the true nature of this imperialistic driven agenda. If some pay the £35 - along with Belinda's suggested questions maybe raising the FBI "no hard evidence for Bin Laden" and the number of still living highjackers which no mainstream journalists have investigated would also be worth a shot.

[Belinda]

Dang, just checked and tickets sold out for tonight's event (at Sharfield Hall, Imperial College in Kensington - tube Gloucester Road 7 pm) so won't be stumping up another £35 at least.

I'm preparing a leaflet highlighting Fisk's statement last year so thanks Andy, if you can join me at around 6.15 outside the venue (will help with tube-fare) we can at least leaflet the whole meeting - and maybe someone in the audience will raise the issue on our behalf, always hopeful!

It'll also be another opportunity to flag up Ian H's talk on Monday, I'll try and get the points Brian mentioned into leaflet, thanks.

[andyb]

See you there Belinda. No worries on the tube fair as I've got my weekly.