So, Condoleezza Rice is doing a tour of the UK, as a guest of Jack Straw. First question I had to ask is… why? Apparently it's a visit to re-pay Jack Straw's visit to the United States last year. Costing the British public to provide security for this woman, costing over-time for police, and even transporting London Met police up here to cover her appearance tonight at the Liverpool Philharmonic, with democratic tax-payers money. Notably, in the news today she's quoted as saying how it's good for people to protest because it demonstrates a democratic society. I think it's fair to say that the majority of people in this 'democracy' don't want her here. And yet she's still here. Hmmm, one to ponder on.

So, I found out yesterday at about 1pm that her itinerary included a visit to the Philharmonic (after her appearance in Blackburn), so I rang the Phil and was told she'd be there around 7pm. I immediately got on the phone to Klara and told her and asked if she was up for some protesting, she was, as was my sister and even my dad. So we headed into town on the train and arrived shortly after at central station. We met up with my dad at the protest which was right outside the Phil, the atmosphere was really good. It was actually the first time any of us had actually gone to a protest, firsts all 'round. I didn't know what to expect (apart from a large police prescence). So we're standing there making observations about the crowd, reading all the placards stuff like that. The very first one I saw as we were walking up to the protest was a guy standing on a postbox with just the word 'Illuminati' written on it. minT! I went up to the guy and complimented him on his sign, he seemed chuffed. While we were standing around talking there were two guys standing next to us, we started talking with these two guys, I asked one of them whether he knew about 9/11, turns out he did, Alex Jones, WTC building 7 etc. Yey! Another awake person!

We were half an hour late getting to the protest so we were pretty much at the back of the crowd, and it was here at the back of the crowd where something interesting happened. I took some video which you can see below, just click play (Klara, if you're watching this at work on phase 3 make sure you click the mute button before pressing play).

So, there's a guy dressed as Spiderman who was there to protest for Fathers for Justice, go him! A very worthy cause in my opinion. I have no idea if he was intending to pull a 'stunt' as Fathers for Justice are 'known' for or if he was just there to protest with the rest of us. Regardless the police decided to search him. Despite the fact that he wasn't allowed to make his voice heard with the rest of us, and despite the fact the officer on the left is chewing gum (against regulations, tut tut tut) the 'police officer' with the digital camera is what got my attention. Since when did police officers start carrying high powered (and very expensive) digital cameras at protests? Ask yourself, why would they be doing that? As you can see from the video the 'officer' *cough*MI5*cough* even takes a close-up picture of the guy when he hadn't done anything illegal. Correct me if I'm wrong but it's after you've been arrested (which this guy wasn't) and taken down to a police station that they take your picture, prints and god knows what else. It seems that the police have decided to skip this little formaility and go straight to the picture taking. Ask yourself what happens to the pictures which they take? What possible purpose could they serve? Here's my opinion on what happens… they're entered into a database, run through face scanning technology and returns a result, that person is then flagged as being a known protestor and an opponent to the regime which is being protested. I'd love to hear what other purpose those images could serve. Anyone?

A few days ago I made 30 copies of the Loose Change DVD to hand out to people at work, to just provide them with the information that the mainstream media refuses to pay attention to (but not for much longer). I asked Klara to hand them out because I was on holiday, she had 5 left to hand so we decided to take these along to the protest to hand out to people. The two of us decided to move through the crowd and talk to a few people and see why people were there and what they thought about 9/11. It was amazing to see the diversity of the reasons why people were there. All the different perspectives but the one thing that got me the most was the way that people were open and willing to hear each others reasons for being there. We moved towards the front of the crowd and came across a group of people, I don't know whether or not they were there together or if they were strangers to each other. Anyway, we started talking to each other and I asked them if they knew about building seven of the world trade centre. They didn't have an idea. I asked them if they knew about the fact that eyewitnesses heard bombs going off in the twin towers on all floors before they collapsed. I asked them if they knew about whether or not they knew that no steel frame building has ever collapsed as a result of a fire, never in the history of construction, yet on Sept. 11th three steel frame buildings collapsed supposedly for this reason marking a first in history. And yet the official story as reported by the 9/11 commission was that they collapsed as a result of fire damage. These people had no idea. I asked them if they knew about Larry Silverstein buying the entire World Trade Centre complex just two months before 9/11 (after previously owning just building 7) and taking a record insurance policy out covering the complex specifically covering terrorist attacks. Then afterwards tries to claim double the insurance ($7 billion) by claiming that two planes hit which counted as two separate acts of terrorism. Remember how I just said that the 9/11 commission said that building seven collapsed due to due damage? Well, Larry Silverstein went on TV on a documentary aired by CBS called 'America Rebuilds' saying that he told the FDNY to 'pull' building 7. 'Pull' means demolish in the building trade. Just watch the video below, all you have to do is click 'Play'.

This group of people had no idea about any of this so we gave them copies of Loose Change (which you can also watch below). One guy in particular had trouble with these facts, especially when I mentioned the fact that NORAD for the first time in it's 50 year history stood down on the morning of 9/11. It was at this moment that a guy behind me who had been listening to what I was saying came in and backed me up on it saying that NORAD admitted a few months after 9/11 that they stood down. I was a bit surprised that this guy knew this and he became involved in the conversation too. I didn't have time to go into the war games that Dick Cheney was playing that morning which (co-incidentally) was a simulation involving four pretend hi-jacked aircraft being flown into the same prominent west-coast land marks as were actually hit. Nor did I have the time to remind people about the moment that the President was told of the attacks and he just sat there for another 30 minutes before leaving. Now if America truely was under a surprise attack from an (at that time) unknown enemy it would stand to reason that a President in a school would be a clear target and for every minute he sat there (unsurprised and seemingly unconcerned) he posed a threat to the people surrounding him, not only that school but that town because he would've been a very likely target. This amazed people even on the day of 9/11, why didn't the secret service stop the photo-op and whisk him away to a bunker or safe location? Once again this has been gradually erased from people's memories as they became distracted with Al-CIAdea / the 'war on terror'. I didn't have time to mention the fact that the days immediately following 9/11 Osama Bin Laden made several statements denying involvement in the attacks.

There was another woman who I started talking to (the woman in the red coat in the protest video). She was one of the main organisers of that demonstration, I asked her (as you can hear in the video) if she knew about 9/11, she didn't know either about the facts i mention above and what happened, we gave her a DVD too. Klara and I were saying later on about if she's organising protests now and she doesn't know about 9/11 then jeez, if that film wakes her up she's going to be protesting about a helluva lot more.

Thankfully though we were encouraged at the fact that we were not alone in the knowledge of this information. There were a lot of people there who already knew, one group of people were giving out altered £20 notes as you can see below, nearly every website that demands answers about 9/11 was on that note. I asked the guy if he knew about Alex Jones and people like him and he pointed to the infowars.com URL on the note with a knowing smile. Immense!

I think the notes pretty much sum it up. All-in-all it was a really good experience. I will without doubt be going to more protests in the future with a lot more DVD's and information to give people who don't already have it. Thankfully though people are waking up in record numbers. Go Team Truth!!

Here's the Loose Change video if you couldn't be arsed to click the link a few paragraphs up…

And here ends my longest blog entry to date.