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A New York Post column yesterday referred to 9/11 Truth action at Ground Zero as "pure obscenity" as it made a weak effort to call for draconian measures to drive-out "conspiracy-mongers" 'festering' on sacred ground. The piece is undoubtedly the end result of an NY Post photographer who recently followed around members of WeAreChange.org during one of their weekly street actions outside the remains of the World Trade Center complex. The Post's Steve Cuozzo makes a sleazy link between a handful of street vendors who apparently sell $10 pictures of the former Twin Towers and the dedicated group that tirelessly fights for a new 9/11 investigation on behalf of the 9/11 victim's family members, as well as the 50,000 rescue workers sick & dying from toxic dust. While the non-profit WeAreChange.org has never sold anything near ground zero, the NY Post flutters inadvertently between descriptions of the group and claims that "not the flimsiest justification exists for the rowdy, open-air bazaar of illegal junk-peddlers." The Post vehemently trashes the "Third World flea market" as an "indefensible rupture of civic order," while claiming to defend the right to free speech. Apparently, peaceful demonstrators, along with immigrant vendors are seen as nothing more than riffraff and bleeding 'eyesores' who should be dealt with. Who's xenophobic now? What's more-- Cuozzo is equally irritated by the 'indifference' and 'tolerance' of NYPD and Port Authority police who, the vicious rag protests, "fail to enforce their own rules." Somehow, Cuozzo's Post column continues to link alleged illegal vending with clearly protected free speech, free assembly and peaceful demonstration-- when there is no link between the individuals whatsoever. What the Cuozzo really objects to is that groups like WeAreChange.org have not only gotten out their message and made a stand for truth, but that they have won over many of the police officers in the process. It is all but obvious that the NY Post seeks to pressure police authorities to shut down free speech, run off the demonstrators and restore 'order' to the open wound at ground zero. While this call-to-action is disgusting-- it is perplexing and perhaps hideous to note that the moments of fascism are coming down from the press, not the police. The Post even decries a banner it reports as having read, "Do Something Because the Government Won't." However, the paper omitted the fact that the same banner also read, "50,000 911 Hero’s Are Dying," a reference to the rescue workers sick and dying from exposure to toxic dust who remain untreated and unaided. WeAreChange.org has held a number of benefits and fundraisers to help support 9/11 rescue workers, including an upcoming "money bomb" on February 16 that seeks to raise $1 million for first responders who desperately need health care, personal expenses, political lobbying and to spread further awareness.
WeAreChange.org has been one of the most prevalent groups demonstrating at Ground Zero. It is made up not only of activists and concerned citizens, but family members of those who died on 9/11 as well as first responders who stand to be forgotten in spite of their service to 9/11 victims. Despicable and potentially libelous portrayals like that of the New York Post seek to damage efforts to uncover the truth about 9/11-- to seek justice and give closure and comfort to the families and rescue workers left behind in the wake of the 9/11 cover-up. The Post would apparently rather see free speech stifled and full-bore fascism fully implemented-- with questions about obvious inconsistencies in the government's official story thrown out with the bums that 'sell' them. CLICK ON THE BANNER TO BUY TERRORSTORM IN |
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