Update on 5th Anniversary Events

[Annie]

Hi all

A few points about the 5th anniversary weekend:

1) The Met rang me again today to confirm that we have permission for the demo outside the US embassy at 12.30 for 2 hours on 11th September. The proviso is that the staff at the embassy are having a memorial service in the lobby of the embassy at 1pm for 30 minutes, and then will be laying wreaths at the memorial in Grosvenor Square. We are therefore allowed to use a loudspeaker if we wish from 12.30 until 1pm, and then after they have finished at the memorial. I explained that we also wanted to show respect to the victims of 9/11 and all the victims in the ensuing wars, so would not disrupt this. Instead, we shall hold a silent demo (with banners and placards) while this is going on.

2) If anyone is travelling down to London for the weekend and needs accommodation, please PM me and I shall sort out a bed for you. This should help to keep costs down for everyone.

3) And come on, London group - any more offers of beds?

Regards

Annie

[Keith Mothersson]

It is good we have permission, and thanks a lot to Annie for liasing to ensure this, it must have required a lot of persistence!

However I am concerned that our commitment re behaving 'respectfully' outside the US Embassy at 1.pm (for how long? - their ceremony could be drawn out, possibly deliberately?) doesn't colour the tone of our whole presence which is after all a protest. I know you don't suggest that we should be ultra cautious, Annie, but unless we are clear what we/you have promised and what you/we haven't promised then we could end up with mere juggling of flowers and muted protest which most onlookers and viewers don't understand. (White Rose is good so far as it goes, one wreath will do, but not please as any kind of substitute for the big black banner(s) with its in yer face message!)

Yes we could be silent for that say half and hour after 1 pm and maybe lay flowers, but IMO we simply must display our 911 banner Inside Job Frame Up with our website - I would say throughout our presence but certainly from 12.30 to 1.00 and after the American's 'commemoration'/denial.

IMO the best way to handle the 'commemorative decorum and sensitivity' requirement is not to tone ourselves down but to invoke the dead as deserving of the full truth. We could so this with a banner which says

9/11 LIES DISHONOUR THE DEAD,
libel Muslims, imperil us all.

I found that line met a good response prior to July7 anniversary, and personally I believe that it could even have shielded 7-7 activists if we had kept public and militant that week instead of backing off for fear of upsetting people and getting trashed by media (I know there were complicated additional reasons).

At all events this present 'commemoration' = denialation is 5 years later and the original event didn't happen in London, so the Upsetness factor will be much less and we needn't and musn't censor ourseves!

We will take no lectures from anybody about 'respecting the dead' and 'not upsetting people' when the media etc are disrespecting the dead by covering up the truth of the original false-flag terror op - which sure did upset the bereaved family members and the whole world a whole lot, n'est pas? Any anger at us needs to be deflected towards the perpetrators of 9-11 and those who run our Stalinist media, which won't even allow open debate on this vital issue. It isn't us who are 'using the dead' but BushCo who have constantly linked their deaths to the need to invade and poison Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.

We will be a big crowd and can support each other if the going gets tough. 9-11 is a lie. We demand the truth. And the media are disrespecting the dead while imperilling the living by going along with this RACIST BLOODLIBEL. Excuse the rant, Annie, I know you know all this!

What do others think?

(I'll also post this on the other discussion about the flowers, etc)