9/11 Truth BREAKTHROUGH!!!

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Zogby Poll: Over 70 Million American Adults Support New 9/11 Investigation Mon May 22, 8:00 AM ET



(PRWEB) - Utica, NY (PRWEB) May 22, 2006 -- Although the Bush administration continues to exploit September 11 to justify domestic spying, unprecedented spending and a permanent state of war, a new Zogby poll reveals that less than half of the American public trusts the official 9/11 story or believes the attacks were adequately investigated.

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The poll is the first scientific survey of Americans' belief in a 9/11 cover up or the need to investigate possible US government complicity, and was commissioned to inform deliberations at the June 2~4 "9/11: Revealing the Truth, Reclaiming Our Future" conference in Chicago. Poll results indicate 42% believe there has indeed been a cover up (with 10% unsure) and 45% think "Congress or an International Tribunal should re-investigate the attacks, including whether any US government officials consciously allowed or helped facilitate their success" (with 8% unsure). The poll of American residents was conducted from Friday, May 12 through Tuesday, May 16, 2004. Overall results have a margin of sampling error of +/- 2.9. All inquiries about questions, responses and demographics should be directed to Zogby International.

According to Janice Matthews, executive director of 911truth.org, "To those who have followed the mounting evidence for US government involvement in 9/11, these results are both heartening and frankly quite amazing, given the mainstream media's ongoing refusal to cover the most critical questions of that day. Our August 2004 Zogby poll of New Yorkers showed nearly half believe certain US officials 'consciously' allowed the attacks to happen and 66% want a fresh investigation, but these were people closest to the tragedy and most familiar with facts refuting the official account. This revelation that so many millions nationwide now also recognize a 9/11 cover up and the need for a new inquiry should be a wake up call for all 2006 political candidates hoping to turn this country around. We think it also indicates Americans are awakening to the larger pattern of deceit that led us into Constitutional twilight and endless war, and that our independent media may have finally come of age."

Poll co-author, W. David Kubiak concurs, saying: "Despite years of relentless media promotion, whitewash and 9/11 Commission propaganda, the official 9/11 story still can't even muster 50% popular support. Since this myth has been the administration's primary source of political and war-making power, this level of distrust has revolutionary implications for everyone working for peace, justice and civil liberties. If we ever hope to reclaim this country, end aggression and restore international respect, we all must finally scrutinize that day when things started to go so terribly wrong. The media and movement leaders ignore this call at their peril, because tens of millions are clearly telling us here they are ready for 9/11 truth."

SCOPE: The poll covered five related areas: 1) Iraq - do Americans think the Bush administration exploited 9/11 to attack Iraq? (44% do, 44% don't); 2) Cover up - did the government and its 9/11 Commission conceal or refuse to investigate evidence that contradicts their official story? (only 48% said no); 3) the collapse of WTC 7, which was not even mentioned by the 9/11 Commission and has seldom been reported in the media---had respondents been aware of this collapse and, if so, did they think it should be investigated (only 52% had known about it, but over 70% of this group believe it should have been investigated); 4) new investigation of official complicity - do respondents think we need one? (only 48% said no); and 5) mass media - how do people rate its performance, including its coverage of alternative 9/11 theories, unanswered questions and inquiry issues? (43% rate it positively, 55% negatively).

(The poll sponsors see knowledge of the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 as a bellwether issue, because if people do not know this elementary fact, they have probably not been exposed to any independent 9/11 research at all. Because the number of respondents who support a new investigation of 9/11 (45%)) is roughly the same as the number who knew about the collapse of Building 7 (52%), it can reasonably be extrapolated that if the entire public were exposed to independent 9/11 research, about 90 percent would support a new investigation of the events of that fateful day.)

SPONSOR: 911truth.org is a coalition of researchers, journalists and victim family members working to expose and answer the hundreds of still unresolved questions concerning 9/11, especially the nearly 400 questions that the Family Steering Committee filed with the 9/11 Commission. Initially welcomed by the commissioners as their "road map," these queries cut to the heart of 9/11 crimes and accountability, specifically raising the central issues of motive, means and cui bono (who profited?). The Commission ultimately ignored 80% of these issues, however, opting only to explore system failures, miscommunications and incompetence. The victim families' most incisive questions remain unaddressed to this day.

For more information on the Chicago "9/11: Revealing the Truth, Reclaiming our Future" conference and other developments, see http://www.911truth.org and http://911revealingthetruth.org or contact our media coordinator, Michael Berger, at 314-308-4893.

* Numerical computations conservatively based on 2000 Census data citing 174 million Americans between the ages of 18 and 64.

Survey Methodology: Zogby America, 5/12/06 through 5/16/06

This is a telephone survey of adults nationwide conducted by Zogby International. The target sample is 1,200 interviews with approximately 81 questions asked. Samples are randomly drawn from telephone cd’s of national listed sample. Zogby International surveys employ sampling strategies in which selection probabilities are proportional to population size within area codes and exchanges. As many as six calls are made to reach a sampled phone number. Cooperation rates are calculated using one of AAPOR’s approved methodologies1 and are comparable to other professional public-opinion surveys conducted using similar sampling strategies.2 Weighting by region, party, age, race, religion, and gender is used to adjust for non-response. The margin of error is +/- 2.9 percentage points. Margins of error are higher in sub-groups.

Zogby International’s sampling and weighting procedures also have been validated through its political polling: more than 95% of the firm’s polls have come within 1% of actual election-day outcomes.



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[flamesong]

That is quite a breakthrough.

I remember thinking that the original Zogby poll was flawed by only asking New Yorkers. What is really impressive is the margin of error on this sample, +/-2.9% and the conclusion that those people who are exposed to 9/11 evidence which contradicts the official story tend to support a new inquiry.

[ian neal]

For a few thousand we could organise our own poll

[TRUTH]

You mean a 9/11 british poll...Now that would be a great idea...

[Leiff]

Do you think enough people have heard about the doubts over the 9/11 evidence yet? Seems to me like the media have a blackout on the story, so the Great British Public is still too ignorant of the facts to be polled.

[freddie]

From people I've spoken to and the reactions I see I don't think a UK poll would show much positive response - It is refreshing when you randomly come accross somebody who is turned on by the issue, by they seem mighty few and far between. I have no doubt that more and more UK residents are at least coming across some of the movement's arguements, but I think we're a long way behind the US.

Of course the results of a poll isn't always the most important thing. Say you conduct a 1000 sample survey, that's 1000 people who will be introduced to the idea - big MNCs use market research as partly a tool to gather information and partly to plant ideas.

[flamesong]

As well as getting a sample of skepticism, it might be useful to get a general level of ignorance by asking a few questions which are uncontested.

Last year, my friend Ian and I went into a local town with a camera and a microphone and asked people questions such as, 'how many buildings collapsed on 9/11?' and 'how many aircraft were involved?'. (Whether or not Flight 77 was replaced by something else, it was involved).

The answers we got were startling. If my memory serves me well, nobody got any questions right - yet, when presented with the correct answers, several people became defensive or even slightly aggressive about our motives.

And as the Zogby poll shows, the inclusion of such questions allows for a little more analysis - such as the conclusion that 90% of the people who were aware of the collapse of WTC7 thought that there should be a new inquiry - indicating that this might be a 'killer fact'.

Of course, any poll carried out by truth activists would not be accepted and would probably never get published outside these four walls but before shelling out a grand, it could be helpful to design a poll and test it ourselves to see whether it would be worth acquiring a scientificly acceptable one.

[brian]

I would like to see what percentage of those presented with the photo linked below produced.

http://www.plaguepuppy.net/public_html/collapse%20update/site1085.jpg

If this was cropped and presented to people as it is - ie totally removed from any September 11 connotations and a multi choice answer to the question - what are you seeing here?

With explosion being one of the multi choice answers I am absolutely convinced that would be the overwhelming response, this regardless of what other possible answers were available.

Obviously to be signifcant it could only be presented to those not familiar with the presenters bias or even aware that Sepember 11 was the issue.

[TRUTH]

or present them with this pic

[orestes]

I really worry about this picture. I've seen the video it comes from and the feature on the face on the right seems to just fade in rather than burst out of the building. It looks fake to me.

[Leiff]

This is the picture I find most compelling.

The molten metal residue on the central vertical box section girder indicates that the girder has definately been cut. If you look closely you can see that the cut on the left side dosn't reach to the corners yet the top has snapped off. This suggests to me that it wasn't cut after the collapse.

Does anybody know the timeframe that this image was taken?

[johnnyhotshots]

I could only guess a couple of days after the collapse judging by the lack of dust around. I hope that those fire-fighters are ok and have not succumed to any breathing difficulties due to inhillation.