Report on Stop the War March, London, Sat
March 18th 2006
I got the train
down from Derby to London and arrived just before 10am. I met Belinda and
Penny at Belinda's house in Highgate and then we made our way down to
Parliament Square. Due to a busy underground, I got separated from Belinda and
so ended up at Embankment and had to walk half a mile back up to meet them in
Parliament Square (trying to ring 3 people resulted in no response from any of
them, so I had to hunt for them!). But after a short search, I found Belinda,
Kenny, Colin, Keith, Neil, Ian N and Nick K.
Keith's fantastic
911 banner was unfurled in the centre of Parliament Square (see slideshow) and
we got some attention.
I was talking to
one American woman who totally supported the official story and we did not
seem to make much on an impression, but it was a civilised debate
nevertheless. We talked to another couple of people who were a bit more
receptive and they took a disk. One guy I talked to was interested in
what we were saying about 7-7 and he had already seen "Power of
Nightmares" and so seemed to connect the dots when I showed him the
"bombs under the train" accounts of Bruce Lait and others in my
folder.
We then had to
"queue" for the start of the March and it didn't start moving until
about 1:30pm (it was supposed to start at 12). With Brigit and Ant and 2
teenage girls (whom I did not get the names of) we held Keith's 7-7 Banner
("Who Really Bombed London? - Release the 7-7 Evidence"). The March
was slow to start and it was quite cold. I was glad I had brought some
provisions! Another lady, Frankie, also joined us and helped carry the
banner and she did a sterling job distributing leaflets.
The march took us
out of Parliament square and (not surprisingly) away from Whitehall and
Buckingham Palace (round the back of St Jame's Park). We walked up piccadiliy
and then into Trafalgar Square. This was a distance of about 3 miles. The
weather was kind to us, apart from the cold. The atmosphere of the
demonstration was peaceful, but very assertive of dissent, with some chanting
of slogans.
Things slowed
down again as we got near Tragalgar Square. There was quite a large crowd in
Trafalgar Square (though not as big as I had expected). We got there about
3:30 and speeches from a podium had been underway for some time. Fortunately,
I was able to catch Ben Griffin's speech (see below). Apologies for rubbish
camera work, but there were people waving banners in front of me and I was
tired, having walked a total of about 5 miles, 3 of those helping to
carry the banner.
Belinda, Steve,
Kenny and others had already set up a stall in Trafalgar square, from where we
distributed books, DVDs and leaflets. I spoke to a few people and I was
surprised in that several people I spoke to had already either seen Loose
Change or something similar, or were at least partly aware of the 9-11 Truth
Movement. I encouraged those people to join us on the UK forum.
I got speaking to
one chap who was homeless and I gave him a booklet which I had printed (from www.tyrannyalert.com).
This was a very good conversation as he could immediately grasp what I was
saying and could see how ridiculous the Official Story was, once I had pointed
out a few facts to him. I asked him to share the information with others.
We had to pack up
about 4:30 - there was quite a lot to carry back - bags of DVDs, leaflets and
books.I was quite cold and tired, so Belinda, Penny and me headed back to
Belinda's house.
Overall, it was a
very good day - Neil did some awesome work and distributed 148 disks. He was
also stopped by the police and searched!! (See slideshow). I caught the train
back to Derby at about 8:30 and got home just after 11pm. Total walking for
the day - probably about 8 miles!!!
I saw no obvious media coverage of the event and could find nothing on the
BBC Website this morning (Sun 19th) when I looked. I did find this
report on ITV's website.
Slideshow and video links below.
If you see no
images, try this:
Ben Griffin's
Speech
Short video (55
seconds!) of the march.